Preparations for the 17th WaterNet/WARFSA/GWPSA Symposium are currently underway. The event will be held in Gaborone, Botswana from the 26th – 28th October 2016 at the Gaborone International Convention Centre. The theme for this year’s symposium is Integrated Water Resources Management: Water Security, Sustainability and Development in Eastern and Africa Southern.
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The ESA-TIGER programme held its 7th biannual workshop in Addis Ababa on 1st and 2nd of February, at the conference centre of UNECA. The European Space Agency (ESA) launched the TIGER initiative in 2002 to promote the use of Earth Observations (EO) for improved IWRM in Africa. The overall objective of the initiative is to
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To encourage participatory peri-urban water management, the Shifting Grounds project has incorporated a series of workshops across two countries of South Asia: Kolkata, India and Khulna, Bangladesh. The workshop brought local people from different professional backgrounds along with water authorities to ensure better access to water resources across peri-urban areas.
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The Training of Trainers (ToT) on Sustainable Sanitation and Water was held from 23rd to 25th November 2015 in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. The course was jointly organized by Malaysian Capacity Development for Sustainable Water Management (MyCDNet) and Indah Water Konsortium Sdn. Bhd. (IWK), Malaysia’s national sewerage company. This is the first ToT on Sanitation and
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The Training of Trainers (ToT) on Water Security and Safety Planning was held on 8 – 9 December 2015 in the Function Hall of Akademi Sains Malaysia, 20th Floor, West Wing, MATRADE Tower. It was organised by Malaysian Capacity Development Network for Sustainable Water Management (MyCDNet) with the support of Cap-Net UNDP, in collaboration with
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As part of the ongoing CGIAR funded research project “Poverty squares and gender circles: unraveling agriculture gaps, challenges and opportunities in Eastern Gangetic Basin” – India, Nepal and Bangladesh, SaciWATERs with the support of UNDP Cap-Net, CGIAR WLE and SCaN carried out a two-days (16-17 Dec) training program on water rights, equity and gender at
Training for teachers of higher educational institutions of Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan on IWRM updated course was held on December 11, 2015 in Almaty, Kazakhstan by the Central Asian Regional Water Network CAR@WAN with the support of Cap-Net UNDP and UNESCO Cluster office in Almaty in partnership with Kazakh-German University.
The Dialogue on Water Governance (DWG) 2015 focused around two central issues in water governance: equity and water security, pertaining to semi-arid regions in both developed and developing countries. The aims were: To create robust dialogue related to water governance; To define and frame the level and context of issues in the local and international
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The Regional Training “Hydro-climatic disasters in water resources management” was held from 4 to 6 of November, 2015 in Kyzylorda, Kazakhstan by the Central Asian Regional Water Network CAR@WAN with the support of Cap-Net UNDP and UNDP Kazakhstan. The main purpose of the Training was to build capacity and raise awareness of decision-makers and the
