Water & Sanitation

EU intervention in water and sanitation covers basic infrastructure, support to water and sanitation policy development, capacity building and integrated water resource management. This topic covers a wide range of issues relevant to the sector, such as water and climate change, integrated water resource management, river basins development, sector policies, financing water and sanitation and other challenges.

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Basic drinking water supply - Basic Sanitation - Education and training in water supply and sanitation - Infrastructure for Watershed and basins management - Integrated Water Resource Management - Irrigation & agro hydro infrastructures - Sanitation - large systems - Supply and sanitation - Transboundary water management - WASH - Waste management - Water basins management - Water conservation - Water geopolitics - Water information - Water policies - Water scarcity - Water supply - large systems

WASH and Climate Resilient Development (CRD)

Peter J. Bury posted Information | 1 November 2014

Dear all I do not come here regularly enough to know about the culture in this group and the width of topics we are comfortable with, hence my questions below: Would working on integrating Climate Resilient Development (CRD) into WASH strategic planning and sector management fall within the scope...

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Group: Environment, Climate Change and Green Economy
Water Thematic Regional Seminar - Astana, Kazakhstan

Capacity4dev Team created a new event | 20 October 2014

13 Oct

From 13 October 2014 to 16 October 2014
in Astana (Kazakhstan)

Target audience: This seminar is aimed at staff and contractual agents from Delegations working directly in the water and sanitation and energy sectors, representatives of national water administrations (NWA), ministries responsible for water supply and sanitation issues, national water agencies...

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Group: Public Group on Water and Sanitation
Assessing the Costs of Climate Change and Adaptation in South Asia

Laura Giappichelli uploaded a new Document | 8 October 2014

assessing-costs-climate-change-and-adaptation-south-asia.pdf 5.26 MB

More information available here: http://www.adb.org/publications/assessing-costs-climate-change-and-adaptation-south-asia

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Group: Environment, Climate Change and Green Economy
Living Planet Report 2014

Emilie Van der Henst uploaded a new Document | 30 September 2014

living_planet_report_2014_-_compressed.pdf 12.8 MB

A continuously rising demand for natural resources and increasing levels of CO2 in the atmosphere by a growing population are putting tremendous pressures on our planet’s biodiversity, and are threatening our future security, health and well-being, reveals the 2014 edition of WWF’s Living Planet...

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Group: Environment, Climate Change and Green Economy
REPORT: IPCC’s Fifth Assessment Report – What’s in it for Small Island Developing States?

Laura Giappichelli posted Information | 5 September 2014

CDKN Report IPCC SIDS From CDKN website: " Elizabeth Carabine of Overseas Development Institute and Mairi Dupar of CDKN introduce the latest in the series of guides to the IPCC’s Fifth Assessment Report, which looks at the findings for Small Island Developing States. The Intergovernmental Panel on...

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Group: Environment, Climate Change and Green Economy
IPCC-AR5-Whats-in-it-for-SIDS

Laura Giappichelli uploaded a new Document | 5 September 2014

ipcc-ar5-whats-in-it-for-sids_web.pdf 4.88 MB

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Group: Environment, Climate Change and Green Economy
Interesting briefings and infographics on Climate change impacts in various sectors based on IPCC AR5

Laura Giappichelli posted Information | 29 August 2014

Briefings and infographics on climate change impacts recently released by the University of Cambidge Sectors covered: Agriculture, Building, Cities, Defence, Employment, Energy, Extractive industries, Finance, Fisheries, Tourism and Transport Website: http://www.cisl.cam.ac.uk/Resources/Climate-and...

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Group: Environment, Climate Change and Green Economy
Diane KELECOM commented on an article | 8 July 2014

Improving Water and Sanitation Conditions for Slum Dwellers in Kenya

Despite the revenue generated by its cut-flower industry (7% of exports), Kenya suffers from the ecological footprint caused to its water resources, resulting in pollution, sanitation issues... A very interesting study underlines the issues around the Naivasha Basin, a freshwater lake North West of...
Mitigating the Water Footprint of Export Cut Flowers from the Lake Naivasha Basin, Kenya

Diane KELECOM uploaded a new Document | 8 July 2014

kenya_water_footprint.pdf 321.39 KB

Published in Water Resources Management, in October 2012, Volume 26, Issue 13, pp 3725-3742 / ISSN: 0920-4741 (Print) 1573-1650 (Online). Authors : M. M. Mekonnen, A. Y. Hoekstra, R. Becht Abstract Kenya’s cut-flower industry has been praised as an economic success as it contributed an annual...

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Group: Public Group on Water and Sanitation
PAGE Academy on the Green Economy

Nadia Lamhandaz created a new event | 17 June 2014

06 Oct

From 6 October 2014 to 17 October 2014
in Turin (Italy)

Organised by PAGE UN partners i.e. UNEP, ILO, UNIDO, UNITAR and UNDP

The ILO, UNEP, UNIDO, UNITAR, and UNDP are very pleased to announce the upcoming first *global Academy on the Green Economy*, an inter-regional learning and knowledge sharing event to support countries’ transition towards inclusive, resource and energy efficient, greener economies. Hosted by the...

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Group: Environment, Climate Change and Green Economy

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