The Ministry of the Environment, Water and Sanitation is organising the 4th National Water and Sanitation Forum from 22 to 24 April 2024 under the theme "Water: Factor of Resilience, Peace and Development".
GWP hosted a special side-event on "Source-to-Sea action for Healthy Rivers & a Clean & Healthy Ocean" at the 9th 'Our Ocean' Conference in Athens, Greece on 16 April 2024, moderated by Dimitris Faloutsos, Deputy Regional Coordinator of GWP Mediterranean and Deputy Coordinator, Transboundary water cooperation theme, and co-organised with distinguished partners, Hellenic Ministry of Environment and Energy, Global Environment Facility (GEF), FAO, UNESCO’s Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission (IOC-UNESCO), and SIWI.
Project: Reversing Ecosystem and Water Degradation in the Volta River Basin (REWarD-Volta River Basin)
Title: Mission for the ‘‘Establishment and Capacity Building of National and Regional Coordination of the Users of the Volta Basin’s Natural resources’’
Duration: Two hundred and thirty (230) Man-day (MD) over a calendar period of six (06) months
Publication date: 18/04/2024
Closing date: 18/05/2024
Project : Reversing Ecosystem and Water Degradation in the Volta River Basin (REWarD – Volta River Basin)
Title : Mission for the elaboration of the detailed project document on the integrated management of aquatic invasive species in the Volta basin
Duration : Forty (40) Man-Days (MD) spread over a calendar period of ninety (90) days Publication Date : 18/04/2024
Closing Date : 18/05/2024
Project : Reversing Ecosystem and Water Degradation in the Volta River Basin (REWarD – Volta River Basin)
Title : Mission for the elaboration of a detailed project document on the management of shallow groundwater (water table) in the Volta basin
Duration : Forty (40) Man-Days (MD) over a calendar period of ninety (90) days
Publication Date : 18/04/2024
Closing Date : 18/05/2024
Chad is the first African country to join the Water Convention in 2018. Aware that a large part of its water resources is shared, its accession to this convention will enable the country to better manage the resource in a concerted manner which adequately meets the growing needs of the population in a context where water security is increasingly threatened by climate change.
An evaluation of portfolio project proposals of the National Designated Authority (NDA) in the Central African Republic revealed that gender was not adequately considered in climate project proposals submitted to Climate funds most especially, the Green Climate Fund. This meant that the project proposals did not meet the GCF requirements for the inclusion of gender and the NDA did not have the capacity to verify gender inclusion. To address this, the GWL-led GCF Country Readiness project in the country coordinated the development of a Gender and Social Inclusion Assessment Framework.
22 April is Earth Day. Celebrated since 1970, Earth Day has evolved into one of the largest civic events on Earth, activating billions of people across 192 countries to safeguard our planet and fight for a brighter future. The 2024 theme, Planet vs. Plastics, revolves around the idea of building a plastic-free planet for generations to come.
