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8 Mar 2019 CAPE TOWN, South Africa

Researchers Examine Human Impact On Climate Change In Africa

The BNP Paribas Foundation, under its Climate Initiative program, is funding new research at the University of Cape Town (UCT) to examine the human impact on global warming in the global South.The international, multidisciplinary team from UCT, Oxford University, and the Lawrence Berkley National Laboratory is working with experts and reseachers from Benin, Nigeria, Liberia and Kenya...

16 Nov 2017 Washington, DC

US Announces “Global Water Strategy”. Does Your Country Get a Mention? What, no Pakistan? No Yemen?

The aid agency of the USA has released a strategy document regarding the country’s vision of a “more water-secure world…where people and nations have the water they need to be healthy, prosperous, and resilient”.Full text of the Global Water Strategy can be found here.USAID and the US State Department (the aid body’s parent organization)’s document announces that the US government will work with partner countries and key stakeholders to achieve four interrelated objectives:Increasing access to sustainable safe drinking water and sanitation services, and promoting hygiene;Protecting freshwater resources;Promoting cooperation on shared waters;Strengthening water governance and financing...

10 Mar 2016 ROME, Italy

Drought, Floods, Conflict Leave 34 Countries in Need of Food Assistance: FAO

Drought, floods and civil conflicts have left 34 countries -- 27 of them in Africa and the rest in Asia -- in need of food assistance, according to a new report from the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO).The March 2016 Crop Prospects and Food Situation report, produced by the FAO’s Global Information and Early Warning System (GIEWS) and released this week, finds that drought associated with the El Niño weather phenomenon has “sharply reduced” 2016 crop production prospects in Southern Africa, as well as lowering estimates for harvests on the northern part of the continent...

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11 Mar 2015 BRUSSELS, Belgium

Liberia Launches $60 Million Appeal to Improve WASH in Schools

The Liberian government has launched a $60 million USD appeal to fund water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) facilities at schools throughout the country.Liberia’s schools have only just reopened after being closed last August due to the Ebola outbreak in the region.President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf launched the appeal in collaboration with anti-poverty NGO Oxfam GB during a one-day high-level Ebola summit in Brussels last week...

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14 Oct 2014 MONROVIA

WASH Groups Hold Conference in Liberia on Ebola Outbreak

Water, Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH) cluster partners have concluded a two-day workshop in Monrovia aimed at designing county-level strategies to interrupt the spread of the Ebola virus. The workshop, held under the theme, "Keep safe-Keep serving", brought together both local and international WASH partners to discuss waste management, hygiene promotion and water provision, amongst other topics...

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4 Sep 2014 STOCKHOLM

AMCOW Postpones Conference Due to Ebola Outbreak

You are all aware that the Government of Senegal took up the responsibility of hosting the 4th AfricaSan conference in Dakar from October 8-10, 2014. Since then, they have been working with the Secretariat of the African Ministers Council on Water (AMCOW) and several partners to make sure that we have one of the best AfricaSan conferences leading up to the Millennium Development Goals end date...

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25 Jul 2014 SAN SALVADOR, El Salvador

Central America’s Drought Expected to Continue Through October

Climatologists and meteorologists from Central America are predicting that drought conditions in the region will continue through August, September, and October.Following a recent Climate Forum in El Salvador, that country’s Ministry of Environment and Natural Resources issued a press release saying that after carrying out analyses of weather patterns, historical records of rainfall, ocean surface temperatures, rainfall probability scenarios, and other factors, experts have created a map of expected rainfall in the region over the next three months...

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15 Jan 2014 MONROVIA

Liberia Hosting International WASH Meeting

Delegates from Europe, America and Africa working in the WASH sector are holding a two day strategy WASH intervention meeting in Liberia. The meeting, according to a newsletter is intended to prepare and support organizations in the WASH Sector to carry out programs and projects in the WASH sector up to and beyond the United Nations 2015 set agenda of improving access to safe water, good sanitation facilities and hygiene practices for everyone...

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22 Aug 2013 ANKARA

Turkish Aid Foundations Supplied 20 Million Africans With Water

So far more than 20 million people in Africa and elsewhere have gained access to clean water thanks to the humanitarian work of Turkish aid foundations. Drought, a common occurrence in Africa, is one of the main causes of the continent's chronic shortage of potable water. According to the UN Development Programme, 4,900 children die every day worldwide due sanitation problems and contaminated water...

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12 Aug 2013 MONROVIA

Corruption Undermines Liberia's Water Sector

A week-long integrity training for stakeholders in the water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) sector--said to be rocked by rampant corruption--kicked off in Monrovia last week, bringing together about 30 participants from Gambia, Liberia and Nigeria. The Regional Water Integrity Capacity Building Program in Sub-Saharan Africa is sponsored by the Water Integrity Network and ECOWAS' Water Resource Coordination Center (WRC) among other international partners...

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