CPWF’s Ganges Basin Development Challenge (GBDC) is to “reduce poverty and strengthen livelihood resilience through improved water governance and management in coastal areas of the Ganges basin”. Its G4 project helps to contribute towards this goal by attempting to assess the impacts of external drivers of change on coastal water resources. External drivers are the [...]
Read moreOver 50 LBDC project team members and stakeholders gathered for a week of reflection in Bulawayo Zimbabwe at the half way point of the LBDC. The group included researchers, senior government officials, development partners and young professionals, whom together took stock of progress to date, emerging findings and mapped the way forward. Two days of [...]
Read moreWater resources management constitutes a priority area in Burkina Faso’s efforts to achieve the Millennium Development Goals in general, and food security and poverty reduction in particular. In May 2011, during the Volta Basin Development Challenge (VBDC)’s inception workshop, stakeholder consultative meetings were conducted. The event provided the VBDC research team a window of opportunity [...]
Read moreThis past March I had the pleasure of participating in a field trip to two of the dozen or so Andes Basin Development Challenge field sites. I had visited other sites on previous trips. The first site was in the water-rich municipality of Coello, near Ibague in Colombia. In Coello there are several groups seeking water-related benefits. [...]
Read moreConventional planning and decision-making often fail to address what are inherently inter-linked and inter-dependent processes. If the future needs of the global population are to be met, particularly the needs of the poor who do not have access to basic services, a more inter-linked approach to tackling water, food and energy issues is necessary. The [...]
Read moreLire la version française. Communication activities do not always form a coherent whole for the Volta Basin Development Challenge (VBDC). Integration, guidance and ongoing collective documentation and reflection can significantly enhance the good efforts undertaken by all in the Volta so far. In a two-day workshop (27-28 March), representatives from all individual Volta projects came together to [...]
Read more“I was conducting surveys, when I realized that I had missed a lot of important information because I hadn’t designed my survey to take into account gender issues—I felt ignorant.” (Male) “In another job, my assistant was a male older than me. When we went to meetings together, many times people thought that he was [...]
Read moreThe World Water Day (WWD) comes right after the High Level Panel on Water, Food and Energy Nexus (WFE) we co-convened at the 6th World Water Forum in Marseilles, France. This year’s WWD highlights food security. The WFE nexus is an approach to balance development priorities in a more integrated manner. The approach supports a [...]
Read moreOn March 16th, CPWF and the EDF Group will convene a High Level Panel on the Water, Food and Energy Nexus (WFE) at the World Water Forum in Marseilles, France. The WFE Panel will bring together experts from various sectors to join in a stimulating and interactive discussion on the importance of promoting a ‘nexus’ approach to [...]
Read moreBelow are brief synopses of eight case studies that support the ideas promoted at the High Level Panel on the Water, Food & Energy Nexus, an event co-convened by CPWF at the 6th World Water Forum. Visit our landing page to learn more about CPWF’s involvement in this event and download the complete case study [...]
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