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14 January 2019

Water: Addressing the global crisis - an open online course

Together with Alliance for Global Water Adaptation, UNESCO WWAP, Global Resilience Partnership and UNDP, SIWI have developed courses to...

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10 January 2019

IUCN launch publication on cooperative governance in the Meghna river basin

Governance based on ‘benefit sharing’ is more holistic than traditional governance, which has historically been about allocating water. ‘Benefit...

07 January 2019

Webinar on global and national synthesis reporting

To track progress towards the 2030 Agenda on Sustainable Development, United Nations Member States are meeting every year at...

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07 January 2019

UNESCO Atlas on the retreat of Andean glaciers and the reduction of glacial waters

These alarming data are from the Water Atlas launched by UNESCO during the COP24 in Katowice (Poland) in december...

03 January 2019

Nature Based Solutions as a method to help relieve the pressure on food security

Food and agricultural systems are under a set of pressures to feed an increasingly hungry population and to cope...

27 December 2018

Water catchment project in North Darfur

Funded by the European Union, and implemented by UN Environment in partnership with the government of Sudan, the state...

24 December 2018

Good life goals for a better planet

The Good Life Goals lay out 85 ways anyone can contribute towards the ambitious objectives that sit at the...

20 December 2018

Global Water Security & Sanitation Partnership launch annual report

Recently, the GWSP publishes its first-ever Annual Report ' Water’s Edge – Rising to the Challenge of a Changing...

17 December 2018

New guide on female-friendly toilets

The guide is designed primarily for use by local authorities in towns and cities who are in charge of...

13 December 2018

World Water Week 2019: Call for Engagement

The preparations for the week stared recently with the Call for Engagement. The call offers an overview of how...

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