/ Eastern Africa
GWPEA Commits towards the UN 2023 Water Action Agenda
Strengthening private sector participation in the SDG6 IWRM agenda as a tangible resource base.
/ Eastern Africa
DRESSEA project helping farmers and pastoralists adapt to climate change and drought through innovative technologies.
GWPEA is implementing the “Strengthening Drought Resilience for Smallholder Farmers and Pastoralists in the IGAD Region (DRESS-EA) Project in four Riparian countries of Djibouti, Kenya, Sudan, and Uganda. The project, which is undertaken in collaboration with the Sahara and Sahel Observatory (OSS) aims at increasing the resilience of smallholder farmers and pastoralists to climate change risks mainly those related to drought, through the establishment of appropriate early warning systems and implementation of drought adaptation actions in the IGAD region.
/ Eastern Africa
Happy International Women's Day 2023 from GWPEAf: Women, Water and Technology
DigitAll: Innovation and Technology for Gender Equality
/ Eastern Africa
NDA/Somalia GCF Program Develops Operational Manual and Readiness Needs Assessment Report for the Country's GCF Readiness
The Federal Government of Somalia has made a concerted effort to tackle climate change challenge through a number of policies, strategies and institutional response mechanisms including the establishment of the National Designated Authority (the Ministry of Environment and Climate Change) to officially liaison and communicate with the Green Climate Fund.
/ Eastern Africa
GWPEA appointed on the Intergovernmental Working Group of the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification- UNCCD
The IWG was established at the UNCCD’s 15th Session (COP15) during the triennium 2022-2024, building on the work of the first IWG that carried out its work from 2020-2022.
/ Eastern Africa
GWPEA conducts Business Case Study on training women as artisans.
#WACDEP-G in Gender Transformative drive-Training women artisans in the Victoria basin water catchments to harvest rainwater.
/ Eastern Africa
DRESS-EA PROJECTS HOLDS 3RD RSC MEETING, APPOINTS NEW CHAIR
The Third Regional Steering Committee for the DRESS-EA project took place on 12th October 2022, in Nairobi, Kenya. This meeting was attended by a cross section of representatives from the Governments of the four National Executing Entities of the project namely:Djibouti, Kenya, Sudan and Uganda; the Regional Executing Entity which is GWPEA and the representatives of Regional Implementing Entity, which is Sahara and Sahel Observatory (OSS)