“Since childhood, I was always in awe of everything related to the development sector. I had the ambition to help the disadvantaged populations in my country and in Africa”, says Félicité Vodounhessi, Programme Officer for GWP West Africa. In celebration of International Women’s Day (IWD2020) she shares her career story on becoming a Water and Rural Equipment Engineer.
The 16 members (including 9 women and 7 men) of the Sidwaya association of Ramitenga benefited from a training on Associative Life and the good keeping of administrative and accounting documents on 16, 17 and 18 December 2019.
Mekrou riparian population were alerted on the effects of climate change and the necessary protection of ecosystems at the head of the Mekrou catchment area.
Strengthening partnership with national stakeholders, the chair of the CWP Guinea with Mr. Ibrahima Sory Camara, Coordinator of the National Focal Structure of the Niger Basin Authority (NBA) in Conakry.
"Accelerate progress in the implementation of IWRM to achieve SWA commitments in Mali" is the topic of “parliamentary day” organized by the CWP Mali to involve the National Assembly.
Ghana Water Resources Commission (WRC) in collaboration with the Ghana Country Water Partnership (CWP Ghana) have organized in December the first workshops towards the review of the IWRM Plans for the Pra and Tano basins.
The Global Water Partnership- Nigeria members had a consultative meeting with some key players of the partnership on 12 December 2019 to brainstorm and drive the partnership forward.
The consortium implementing the Governance Component of the OmiDelta Programme organized on Friday 20 December 2019 a stakeholder information and awareness raising workshop on the charter for good governance in the water sector in Bohicon. The workshop brought together various stakeholders including communal stakeholders, NGOs, the Zou decentralized water service and the CWP partners.
In order to contribute to the reflections which should lead to the adoption of texts instituting the establishment and composition of Local Water Committees (LWCs):
