/ 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
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)
/ Eastern Africa
Tackling Water and Food Security Nexus: GWPEA Facilitated the National Consultation on Water, Food Security and Nutrition in Ethiopia
In order to examine and internalize the High Level Panel of Experts (HLPE)’s report on Water for Food Security and Nutrition (FSN), GWPEA facilitated on 11th August, the Ethiopian national consultation group workshop.