News and Activities

Global Water Partnership-Caribbean (GWP-C) under its Water Climate and Development Programme (WACDEP) is currently supporting the revision of the Antigua and Barbuda Draft Integrated Water Resources Management (IWRM) Policy and Roadmap in conjunction with its network partner, the Antigua Public Utilities Authority (APUA).

The Engineering Institute in collaboration with the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering of The University of the West Indies (UWI), St. Augustine Campus are hosting a Dam Hydraulics Seminar on January 14^th and 15^th, 2015.

The Global Water Partnership-Caribbean (GWP-C) is seeking to recruit a suitable candidate for the position of Regional Coordinator of the organisation. The duty station for the position is in Trinidad.

Ms. Candi Hosein, Programme Assistant of the Water, Climate and Development Programme (WACDEP) of the Global Water Partnership-Caribbean (GWP-C) had the opportunity of being one of the participants chosen to deliver a technical presentation at the 2014 Caribbean Water and Wastewater Association (CWWA) Conference held in The Bahamas earlier this month.

The Global Water Partnership-Caribbean (GWP-C) has lost one of its Founding Fathers, Navin Chanderpal who passed away yesterday ending a long battle with stomach cancer.

The Global Water Partnership-Caribbean (GWP-C) under its Water, Climate and Development Programme (WACDEP), executed in partnership with the Caribbean Community Climate Change Centre (CCCCC) will be working with the Climate and Development Knowledge Network (CDKN) in 2015 to help climate proof water investment in the Caribbean.

The Global Water Partnership-Caribbean (GWP-C) under its Water, Climate and Development Programme (WACDEP) together with the Global Environment Facility (GEF) Amazon Project, the GEF International Waters Learning Exchange and Resource Network (IW:LEARN) and the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit GmbH (GIZ) under the Caribbean Public Health Agency (CARPHA)-GIZ Caribbean Aqua-Terrestrial Solutions Programme hosted a three-day Knowledge Exchange Workshop on Rainwater Harvesting (RWH) from October 21^st – 23^rd, 2014 in St. Lucia.

The Global Water Partnership-Caribbean (GWP-C) and the Antigua Public Utilities Authority (APUA) are seeking a Consultant to review and revise the Antigua and Barbuda Draft National Water Policy (Drafted in July 2011), with consideration of institutional changes to date, on-going processes and highlighting the evolving nature of the water sector due to climate change.

The Caribbean Water and Wastewater Association (CWWA), the Global Water Partnership-Caribbean (GWP-C) and the Global Environment Facility’s Caribbean Regional Fund for Wastewater Management (GEF-CReW) are collaborating to host the 10^th Annual High Level Session (HLS) Ministerial Forum in The Bahamas on October 9^th and 10^th, 2014.

Each year, the Global Water Partnership (GWP) holds its Regional Days and Annual Consulting Partners (CP) Meeting in Stockholm, Sweden home of the global Secretariat. The CP Meeting is a consultative approach in which Partners recommend actions to be taken, which is fundamental to the operation of the GWP network, which spans over 3000 partner organisations in more than 180 countries.