RWSN E-Discussion on Inclusive Rural Water Supply Management Innovation
6 November 2018 We all know that high rural water supply coverage figures tend to obscure serious service and sustainability issues in terms of continuity of water services, equal access to water...
Blog: WaterNet – Strengthening capacity to co-create regional water solutions in a changing environment
WaterNet’s success as a regional capacity building network is evident in increased capacity for Integrated Water Resources Management (IWRM) within the Southern Africa Development Community (SADC)...
Blog: Involving communities in water management and climate change adaptation
As an NGO working on environment and human rights, we see that there is a global push for large infrastructure under the guise of ‘national development’ and ‘climate adaptation’, with considerable...
Water Market Europe 2019
Water Market Europe 2019 Scope: Food & Drink Edition Water management is one of the greatest challenges facing the Food & Drink sector today, with far-reaching implications for society, as well as the...
AfriAlliance Workshop in Ghana: one step closer to finding solutions
25 September 2017 From 17 to 21 July 2017, the five AfriAlliance partners WE&B, AfWA, BothEnds, IHE Delft and OIEau organised the workshop ‘Identifying the needs and priorities of water managing...
Smart Solutions for Water and Climate
24 March 2017 This session during the AfriAlliance Conference was for the audience to learn about water monitoring and mapping with the help of mobile devices, tools and sensors, as well as how the...
The City Blueprint Approach – Improving Implementation Capacities of Cities and Regions by sharing best practices on Urban Water Cycle Services
23 April 2018 Approximately 80% of the world’s GDP is produced, and 75% of the global energy and material flows are consumed in cities. Cities are highly dependent on other cities and hinterlands to...
African Persepectives Conference +12
African Perspectives on Planning, Design and Construction for Inclusive, Fair and Sustainable Urbanisation The Faculty of Architecture and the Built Environment of the TU Delft (Bouwkunde) has a...
Global Talk: Architect & Activist
Walking the thin line between professional practice and social & environmental outreach There is a constant division of our cities into unequal parts, both in social and spatial terms. Our cities are...
Now available online: the AfriAlliance Handbook on Data Collection
How can you best develop a data collection project, ensure that high quality data is collected and achieve maximum impact? The AfriAlliance Handbook on Data Collection focusses on the development...
The 2018 High-Level Political Forum on Sustainable Development – Taking stock and looking forward
5 July 2018 Once again governments will meet this July at the UN Headquarters in New York for the High-Level Political Forum on Sustainable Development (HLPF), convened under the auspices of the...
Call for case studies – share your solutions on protected areas and gender/cities/water by 23 October!
Are you a solution provider? IUCN is currently looking for conservation success stories, which demonstrate how protected areas contribute to the Sustainable Development Goals on Gender equality (SDG5)...
Global Festival of Action for Sustainable Development 2019
The SDG Global Festival of Action will be attended by leaders from governments, local authorities, international organizations, civil society, the creative industry and the private sector, the...
OECD Water Security for Sustainable Development in Africa – Call for Stakeholder Contributions
On 21 March 2018, Angel Gurría, Secretary-General of the OECD, received the King Hassan II Great World Water Prize during the 8th World Water Forum (Brasilia). The Prize provides an impetus for the...
Hot off the press: New Water Europe publication 'Water in the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development'
Water Europe, one of the AfriAlliance partners, has launched its new publication 'Water in the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development: How can Europe Act' . The publication has been jointly designed...
Launch of the Global Center on Adaptation
17 October 2018 On 16 October 2018, the formal launch of the Global Center on Adaptation took place in The Hague, the Netherlands. Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon said that “the role of Global Center on...
MEP Water Group organizes public session on “Τhe role of Water in Adaptation to Climate Change”
21 December 2016 Under the theme ‘The role of water in Adaptation to Climate Change’, the MEP Water Group organised a well attended public session on the 6th of December at the European Parliament in...
WETPOL 2019
WETPOL is an international conference bringing together wetland scientists, engineers, and practitioners working on wetland ecosystem services, including water quality improvement, climate regulation,...
