The meeting held on 10th July 2013 at LVBC’s premises; Kisumu, Kenya, was attended by two leaders from each institution, Dr Canisius Kanangire (LVBC) and Patrick Safari (GWP Eastern Africa), Telly Eugene Muramira, Deputy Executive Secretary (Programs and Projects) and Program Managers.
After each institution presented its mission and programmatic activities, the meeting identified and agreed to jointly work together in policy analysis, policy dialogue and policy influencing, capacity building and awareness, knowledge and information sharing, joint program development and implementation.
The cooperation will be guided by Memorandum of Understanding (MoU), spelling out each institution’s deliverables and inputs. The meeting resolved to designate focal persons, come up with clear, specific and measurable interventions in water resources management.
Mission of GWP Eastern Africa: to support the sustainable development and management of water resources at all levels in the Eastern Africa Region
Mission of LVBC: to promote, facilitate and coordinate activities of different actors towards sustainable development and poverty eradication of the Lake Victoria Basin.