The Central African Republic Country Water Partnership (GWP-CAR) in collaboration with the country's Ministry of Energy Development and Water Resources, launched the Global Water Leadership in a Changing Climate (GWL) Program during a national multi-stakeholder workshop held in Bangui from June 22nd – 24th 2022.
GWL is a global initiative that aims to support emerging countries, including CAR to improve their, Water, Sanitation, and Hygiene services and strengthen climate resilience while bridging the gap between IWRM and WASH.
A two-day regional meeting to present the floods and drought risk maps and climate scenarios for the Volta Basin was held in Abidjan, Côte d’Ivoire on 20 and 22 December 2021 to get useful feedbacks from national and regional stakeholders for their final improvement and finalization.
Global Water Partnership West Africa and the Country Water Partnership of Ghana (CWP-Ghana) jointly with the ECOWAS Water Resources Management Center (WRMC), the World Bank (WB) and the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) organized on October 4, 2022, the regional dissemination workshop on the EPIC Response Framework: innovative governance for flood and drought risk management.
The 2022 GWP annual Network Meeting of Partners will take place on 25 May, building on last year’s theme of “Leading Change and Innovation through our Partners”.
The Government of Eswatini says the private sector needs to get involved in climate action to protect their own as well as the nation’s investments from the impacts of climate change. Government data shows that 80 percent of surveyed private sector enterprises reported that their businesses had been impacted by climate-related events, most of which had involved extreme and erratic rainfall and drought.
The Niger Basin Authority (NBA) organized the meeting of its Technical Experts Committee to analyze and examine the various concerns facing the NBA in its functioning, its relations with its partners, the Executive Secretariat and the Member States and made recommendations and orientations to enable the Ministers of the 9 Member States to take decisions for the good functioning of the Authority.
World Toilet Day celebrates toilets and raises awareness of the 3.6 billion people living without access to safely managed sanitation. Every year, UN-Water - the United Nation's coordination mechanism on water and sanitation - sets the theme for 19 November, the day of the celebration. In 2021, the theme is 'valuing toilets'.
