SWP Newsletter | December 2019

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LEADERS NAMED TO SAHEL WATER SECURITY AND RESILIENCE EFFORT

Harvey Schartup and Patrice Beaujault have been named to lead the USAID-funded TerresEauVie activity in Niger and Burkina Faso.

A ROADMAP TO GREATER WATER SECURITY

Some takeaways from Tanzania, where SWP is facilitating a water allocation plan in the transboundary Mara River Basin. The lessons learned during this process are relevant for transboundary watersheds around the world.

COLLABORATION KEY TO S. AFRICAN SUSTAINABILITY

Achieving the U.N.'s Sustainable Development Goals for Southern Africa by 2030 will require cooperation and sharing of groundwater data by all countries involved.

RECENT NEWS

The Asia Foundation | Water, Gender, and Poverty in Cambodia's Stung Chinit Watershed
Winrock International, The Stockholm Environment Institute and The Asia Foundation are applying a multidimensional poverty analysis framework to better understand the interconnectedness of water, gender and poverty in Cambodia's Stung Chinit Watershed.

Devex | 5 Myths Drowning Out Progress on WASH
A recent report identified myths about water, sanitation and hygiene that are preventing investors and donors from allocating adequate resources to services across Africa and South Asia.
Rural Water Supply Network | Understanding the Invisible: Uganda's Efforts to Increase Access to Detailed Groundwater Data
Access to detailed and accurate groundwater information can greatly aid access to safe and adequate quantities of water as rural sub-Saharan Africa increasingly relies upon it as a resource. Uganda in particular has sought to increase access to groundwater data.

WHAT WE'RE READING

Overseas Development Institute | Linking Social Protection and Water Security to Empower Women and Girls
Social protection has the potential to support gender-sensitive improvements in water security. Programs need to explicitly acknowledge and address both water insecurity and its gendered effects in program objectives, targeting criteria, design features and monitoring mechanisms.

Alliance for Global Water Adaptation | Watering the NDCs: National Climate Planning for 2020 and Beyond
This brief provides evidence, examples, and tools to manage water as an asset for achieving the goals of the Paris Agreement, along with a set of principles and recommendations for parties to use during the process of updating and implementing their national climate plans.

Ambio | Refugees, Water Balance, and Water Stress: Lessons Learned From Lebanon
The Syrian crisis caused a massive influx of displaced people into neighboring countries, with Lebanon hosting the highest per capita number of refugees. A new GIS-based updated water balance and water scarcity analysis at the national and the watershed level in Lebanon shows an increase in water stress.

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