Items tagged with: AfriAlliance Blog

Today I would like to bring you closer to the past, present and future challenges of water conflicts in the Réserve de Biosphere de l’Arganeraie (Morocco). To achieve this, I interviewed Mari Carmen ...

The AfriAlliance Knowledge Hub contains a range of information of use to water and development professionals working in Africa. The databases in the Knowledge Hub provide detailed insight into water ...

Southern Africa is faced with rapid population growth, economic growth and harsh effects of climate change, conditions that have all led to food and water insecurity. Capacity building and knowledge ...

World Toilet Day, celebrated on 19th November every year, is about inspiring action to tackle the global sanitation crisis and help achieve Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 6, which promises ...

What would you do if you were living in an (semi-arid) area where water is extremely precious, yet it continues to be extracted and polluted indiscriminately? Through pollution and water scarcity ...

Water Innovation Europe 2019 ‘Water meets Energy-Energy meets Water’ successfully concluded on the 13th of June in Brussels with about 230 participants present from the water & energy sector. The ...

The first AfriAlliance MOOC, “Water and Climate Change in Africa”, aimed at teaching participants to (1) define climate change implications for water resources and uses in Africa, (2) review case ...

AfriAlliance had launched its first MOOC “Water and Climate Change in Africa” on 5 May 2019. Having attracted around 600 participants, the MOOC has been a great success so far! ...

AfriAlliance seeks to foster the uptake of innovative solutions in the areas of water innovation, research, policy and capacity development in order to enhance the preparedness of Africa for future ...

This blog post was written by Julia Jaque Jiménez (Junior Consultant at WE&B). Surrounded by sea on all sides, Africa has 16 main rivers and more than 165 lakes that make it a continent that can ...

06 March 2019 On 14 February 2019, the IHE Delft Institute for Water Education hosted a workshop on Water Innovation in Africa, under the theme “Fostering water innovation in Africa: learning from ...

08 January 2019 In the 21st century, the use of data fundamentally transforms the way we communicate, do business and make decisions. The use of data fundamentally transforms the way we communicate ...

The first AfriAlliance Roadshow event was held on 7 May 2018 in Ouagadougou Burkina Faso, by AfriAlliance partner 2iE (International Institute for Water and Environmental Engineering). The theme of ...

Stakeholders in the water sector from all over the world convene once a year in Stockholm for the World Water Week. I had the opportunity to attend this year’s event as part of AfriAlliance. I ...

Stockholm World Water Week Between the 26th and 31st of August 2018, experts, practitioners, business innovators, young professionals, etc. from all over the world will come together in Stockholm to ...

Contemporary studies have shown that “water crisis is crisis of governance”, rather than simply perceiving it as a technical problem. The debate around water is not just about scarcity, pollution and ...

Smallholder farmers in Burkina Faso, confronted to a multitude of challenges, are among the most exposed to the risks associated with climate change (floods and severe droughts). These risks constrain ...

Southern African droughts are usually quantified with precipitation anomalies or the Standardized Precipitation Index (SPI), thereby neglecting the important roles of evapotranspiration in drought ...