📰 FEATURE: DATA SHARING IN DRIN RIVER BASIN |
Drin Information Management System: An innovative tool to enhance transboundary cooperation |
The first platform with harmonized data for the Drin River’s environment, societies and economies has just been launched. The Drin Information Management System (IMS) is a free online tool available to all, that allows regular information exchange among competent institutions in the Drin basin, facilitating effective transboundary cooperation. The IMS was developed in the frame of the GEF/UNDP/GWP-Med Drin Project, executed by GWP-Med. |
📌 Find out more about the Drin's largely unexplored groundwater network, indispensable for the well-being of communities, but, today, threatened by pollution. Read more |
📌 Advancing gender equality in the context of climate crisis and disaster risk reduction is one of the greatest challenges in the Drin River basin, as lack of equal representation persists at both national and local levels in almost all Riparians. Read more |
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Improving Water Management and Building Climate Resilience in the MENA Region through WEFE Nexus solutions |
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The project ‘Making Water Cooperation Happen in MENA: Piloting Tangibles’, which is funded by the Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency (Sida) through the Union for the Mediterranean (UfM) and is managed by the Global Water Partnership Mediterranean (GWP-Med), aims to provide Jordan and Palestine with concrete and scalable solutions in order to improve water management and enhance climate change resilience. Through the application of the Water-Energy-Food-Ecosystems Nexus approach, the project employs multi-stakeholder, multi-sectoral and gender mainstreaming approaches to capitalise on these interventions towards regional benefits for MENA countries. Capacity building activities are focusing on enhancing farmers' technical and business skills, allowing them to better select crops, reduce costs, and link them to markets. |
📝Related WEFE Nexus news: |
📌Taking Nexus modelling to the next level:Identifying long-term strategies for resilience through System Dynamics Modelling. In order to assist policymakers make the jump from Nexus Thinking to Nexus Doing, the Horizon 2020 REXUS project, in which GWP-Med is leading communication and dissemination, is developing novel tools that can predict and visualise future pathways in response to external shocks and policy changes. How do these innovative model tools work and how can they turn WEFE Nexus analysis into a practical tool for policymaking? Read more |
Malta’s water saving heritage: relic of the past or guide to the future? |
In Malta and Gozo, over the centuries thousands of reservoirs were constructed in order to collect and store rainwater. Gradually, this vast underground network of reservoirs was forsaken. For the past decade, the Alter Aqua project, a public-partnership between GWP-Med, Malta's Energy and Water Agency, The Coca-Cola Foundation and GSD Marketing Ltd. has been implementing non-conventional water resources (NCWR) applications, supporting the restoration of these reservoirs. Steve Mallia, a designer and photographer has photographically documented over 200 of them. A number of Maltese media have paid tribute to Alter Aqua and Mr. Mallia's work on these reservoirs. 👉🏽Read the articles by Times of Malta, Lovin Malta and Independent. |
Advancing gender equality in Tunisia through the AIP WACDEP-G Tunisia project |
The connecting aspects of gender, water, and climate change, as well as gender integration in various policies were discussed during the pilot launch workshop that took place in Beja, Tunisia in the framework of the Continental African Water Investment Programme "Water, Climate, Development and Gender Investments". Approximately 60 participants from the sectors of water, climate and gender representing Ministries, national and local public authorities, civil society and academia stated their commitment to advancing gender equality and redressing inequalities that disproportionately affect Tunisian women. AIP WACDEP-G is implemented under the leadership of the General Directorate of Water Resources, Ministry of Agriculture, Hydraulic Resources and Fisheries, Republic of Tunisia, while the first three years of implementation (2020-2022) are supported financially by the Austrian Development Agency (ADA). |
📌The Continental African Water Investment Programme "Water, Climate, Development and Gender Investments" programme aims to promote gender-transformative planning, decision-making, and institutional development for water secure and climate-resilient water investments and job creation interventions, in order to advance gender equality. Read more |
📝 Related News on Advancing Gender equality from GWP-Med's International Women's Day feature stories: |
📌Albania has made significant improvements in advancing the normative framework for gender equality in recent years. While in some areas progress is evident, along the water-energy-food-ecosystems Nexus references to gender are lacking. Read more |
📌Aiming to highlight the male perspective on gender, we asked seven of our male partners from the Mediterranean the following question: "Why is it essential to empower women in water cooperation settings?" Read more |
📌The 90-minutes, a series of regular interactive Q&A sessions with prominent diplomats and transboundary water cooperation experts, grew in 2021 from the Initiative on Empowering Women in Water Diplomacy in the MENA region. Read more |
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The new GWP In Action 2021 Annual Report is out! Discover how, with your help and support, GWP made an impact, here. |
Do you have solutions for managing water and climate extremes? GWP together with WMO and the Water and Climate Coalition have organised the MINIMAX competition that aims to collect and identify practical and innovative water and climate solutions contributing to improving drought and/or flood management. This is the final week to submit your solutions! Read more and apply |
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