World Water Week 2022: Takeaway two On Gender and Social inclusion
Posted in : Videos on 10 October 2022
Watch our takeaway series video on the CIWA participation to World Water Week 2022 in Stockholm, Sweden.
SIWI World Water Week 2022: Recap and Highlights from CIWA Program Manager
Posted in : Blog on 16 September 2022
Anders Jagerskog, Program Manager for the CIWA Program and focal lead for transboundary waters issues at the World Bank, gives us his insights of the Water World event he participated in.
Green Homes for Sustainable Development: Creating Climate Change Resilience in Slum Communities of Kampala, Uganda
Posted in : Blog on 14 September 2022
In 2021, Nile Basin Discourse (NBD) with support from CIWA Program trained women and youth as Climate Change Resilience Champions; this training has created big impact. Asia Namusoke, one of the beneficiaries of the training shares her story
World Water Week: A Recap Video
Posted in : Videos on 7 September 2022
Experts from around the world came together at the SIWI World Water Week in Stockholm last week to discuss ways to transform innovation into implementation for a water-secure future. Missed the event? Watch a quick video recap, with an interview of our CIWA Program manager, Anders Jagerskog. Credit: World Bank
Remote sensing technology helps close the transboundary water data gap in Africa
Posted in : Blog on 1 September 2022
Credible and consistent data on the quantity and quality of water is vital in ensuring the equitable and efficient management, distribution, and usage of transboundary water – which is imperative in addressing major regional development challenges as well as contributing to a reduction in conflict and displacement.
Improved governance and increased investment needed to tackle world water crisis
Posted in : Blog on 29 August 2022
Climate crisis is water crisis. In this blog, Saroj Kumar Jha, Global Director at the Water Global Practice, talks about taking meaningful action to ensure this resource is managed sustainably. Join us at World Water Week to explore and understand different ways of valuing, managing, and governing water.
Invisible Bonds: Resilience Building in the Horn of Africa’s Borderlands
Posted in : Blog on 22 August 2022
Fostering stakeholder dialogue, embedding trust, and building relationships underpinned by equitable information and knowledge sharing, will be pivotal for the Horn of Africa to build back greener and develop resilient development pathways.
Conservation and Protection of the Cubango-Okavango Basin in Southern Africa
Posted in : Podcast on 5 June 2022
Listen to CIWA’s Senior Water Management Specialist, Aleix Capdevilla, to know more on this region of Southern Africa and discover how CIWA is supporting the transboundary water cooperation in Cubango/Okavango River Basin and to better understand the importance of preservation and conservation in that region.
Digital data can improve transboundary water management and cooperation
Posted in : Videos on 7 April 2022
Noosha Tayebi, Water Resources Management Specialist at the World Bank and the Cooperation in International Waters in Africa (CIWA), discusses some of the data challenges in Africa and the role of digital data for improved transboundary water management and cooperation at the 9th Water Forum in Dakar, Senegal, in March 2022.
Groundwater at the heart of the Water Security Equation
Posted in : Blog on 22 March 2022
In light of World Water Day (March 22), James Sauramba, Executive Director of the Southern Africa Development Community-Groundwater Management Institute (SADC-GMI), turns our attention to the important of groundwater.