Last month in the city of Huaraz, Peru, the COMPANDES team held a scientific seminar to disseminate the project findings towards the Development of Benefit Sharing Mechanisms to improve management of water in the Santa river basin. The highly glaciated basin has a number of conflicts over water use and its dependence [...]
The second series of trainings on gender for the Ganges Basin Development Challenge program was held on the 23rd and 24th of January 2013 in Khulna, Bangladesh. The event enabled a lively exchange of field experiences as gender issues were brought forth and discussed in a participatory manner. Twenty participants [...]
On 12 November 2012, 26 participants attended a ‘symposium on modeling in the Blue Nile / Abay Basin‘. It was organized by one of the projects of the Nile Basin Development Challenge (NBDC) – the so-called N4 project on ‘Assessing and anticipating the consequences of innovation in rainwater management systems‘. [...]
From November 5th to the 7th the ‘International Conference on Fresh Water Governance for Sustainable Development’ will be held in Central Drakensburg, South Africa. Organized by the Water Research Commission and the South African Department of Water Affairs, the conference will bring together policy makers, scientists, water managers and civil society to [...]
The Mekong Environmental Symposium 2013 is the first event organized by the German Aerospace Center, DLR and the WISDOM Project, and it will serve as an international platform for governmental decision-makers, scientists, and other organizations active in the Mekong context. We are looking for contributions from all six Mekong riparian countries [...]
The CPWF Ganges Basin Development Challenge Program’s first gender training session proved to be an enlightening experience for the 13 participants in Dhaka, Bangladesh. Held on 11 – 12 September, the training session featured plenty of interactive discussions and debates, as participants from G1 to G5 related the concepts and [...]
CPWF works extensively on benefit-sharing mechanisms. In the context of our work, benefit-sharing mechanisms are tools by which the benefits and risks associated with natural resource management, or development, can be more equitably shared. It is powerful concept, but is often difficult to implement when dealing with numerous stakeholders with [...]
Many of this year’s Stockholm World Water Week water and food security discussions centered on a new concept: the water-food-energy (WFE) nexus. A new term is rapidly increasing in prominence in the world of agricultural water research: the water-food-energy (WFE) nexus. This year’s Stockholm World Water Week focal theme was ‘food [...]
The NBDC-supported national platform on land and water management has convened two meetings (in April and in December 2011). During the second meeting, it was agreed that the national platform should see to the establishment of thematic working groups that would flesh out a series of activities to fulfill the [...]
CONDESAN, CPWF’s lead partner organization in the Andes, will be contributing to the Rio+20 dialogue in a major way. From June 13th to the 24th, they will be actively involved in a Mountain Pavilion, which aims to engage stakeholders in a series of discussions around issues related to sustainable development in mountain [...]
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