A two-day national capacity building workshops on the development of flood and drought risk maps in the Volta Basin were held in each Volta basin country with the last one in Accra, Ghana on 5 and 6 July 2021.

GWP-WA together with IUCN-PACO and PREE project coordinating unit held an hybrid (part face to face and part virtually) Steering Committee meeting on 27 and 28 July, 2021.

GWP-WA sent its report on the first semester of implementation of the PREE project to the IUCN PREE project Coordination Unit in early July 2021.

The national reforestation campaign launched on July 12, 2021, in Koundara, one of the prefectures under threat of desertification, is supported by non-governmental organizations for the protection of natural resources.

The general objective of the meeting was to briefly present to the members of the technical committee the content of the draft report of the pre-feasibility study of the project in order to enable them to provide guidance to the consulting team in the formulation of the concept note and the finalization of the pre-feasibility study report.

Guiding principles for the stakeholder-led development of the AIP Water Investment Scorecard have now been adopted by the Core and Technical Groups of partners.

August 12 marks International Youth Day, and the 2021 edition has the theme, “Transforming Food Systems: Youth Innovation for Human and Planetary Health.” We spoke with youth in West and Southern Africa about their involvement in GWP activities around water and food. What are the challenges and how can youth contribute to securing the water-food chain?

Global Water Partnership West Africa (GWP-WA), as part of the celebration of 25 years of activities of the Global Water Partnership (GWP), is launching the sixth edition of the "Water and Environment" journalism contest.

Development of the AIP Water Investment Scorecard, which will mobilise water and sanitation investments in Africa through high-level political commitment, steamed ahead during July with partner meetings.