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GWP West
Africa meets in Abidjan
Accra, Jan. 24, Ghanadot/GNA- The regional
branch of the Global Water Partnership (GWP) in West Africa
is organizing its 3rd General Assembly from 27 to 28 January
in Abidjan, Cote d’Ivoire.
A statement issued in Accra on Saturday said the meeting
will a have a high level panel to discuss the session on
strategies of adaptation to climate change through
Integrated Water Resources Management (IWRM).
Under the theme: “IWRM in West Africa, strategies of
adaptation in a context of proven climate change”, the event
would also mark the ten years anniversary of GWP action in
West Africa.
The statement said the Chair and the five deputy-chairs of
the African Ministerial Council on Water (AMCOW), the Chair
of GWP, Chairs of the five GWP regions in Africa and the
Mediterranean in addition to the traditional regional
partners would attend the meeting.
The meeting would encourage close collaboration and
cooperation between GWP and AMCOW, as well as their regional
representations in Africa, in order to improve the
concretization of the political will around water and
climate change issues in and around the continent.
“The Abidjan meeting will be an opportunity to bring to an
operational level the GWP/AMCOW MOU for its effective
implementation in 2009 and generalize the cooperation
between their regional representations to the five regions
of the African continent”, the statement said.
The statement also said the GWP West Africa would also,
prior to the meeting hold a workshop on fundraising for
Country Water Partnerships (CWP) with the financial support
of ECOWAS (Economic Community of West African States)
IGWP/WA has since October 2007, started implementing the
Programme for the Improvement of Water Governance in West
Africa (PIWAG).
This programme three-year programme is financially supported
by the European Union and GWPO.
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