AfriAlliance Workshop at COP22
9 November 2016 AfriAlliance was delighted to have organized a workshop yesterday, dealing with “Social innovation needs in water and climate: regional priorities within Africa” at the twenty-second ...
Fostering inclusive and sustainable economic growth, employment and decent work through ICT job creation tools for ensuring water security
19 October 2016 On 30 September, the workshop “Fostering inclusive and sustainable economic growth, employment and decent work (SDG#8) through ICT job creation tools for ensuring water security (SDG#6 ...
EC proposes first research partnership in the Mediterranean to increase food and water sustainability
19 October 2016 On October 18th, the Commission has presented a proposal for a Partnership for Research and Innovation in the Mediterranean Area - PRIMA. The first partnership of its kind in the ...
AfriAlliance presentation at ANBO General Assembly
14 October 2016 From 19 to 22 September, the General Assembly of the African Network of Basin Organizations (ANBO) took place in Kigali, Rwanda. AfriAlliance was also represented. AfriAlliance ...
Central African nations to set up Regional Climate Centre
5 October 2016 A new Regional Centre to better record, predict and utilise weather and climate information will be set up in Cameroon after ECCAS member states signed the Kigali Declaration on the ...
Porto wins hosting of major EU water innovation conference
5 October 2016 The 4th EIP Water conference will be held in Porto, Portugal, in September 2017. After Brussels, Barcelona and Leeuwarden, Porto successfully outbid several other applications. The ...
Launch of the AfriAlliance Action Groups
14 September 2016 AfriAlliance has selected the first 5 Action Groups that will begin their activities this month. The Action Groups that have been chosen are the top 5 out of the 125 applications ...
AfriAlliance in CAAST-Net Plus Magazine
8 August 2016 The Q&A covers how and why AfriAlliance came about. Furthermore, project director Uta Wehn explains the AfriAlliance objectives, impact and structure. CAAST-Net Plus is a network of 26 ...
AfriAlliance Conference: March 2017
7 June 2016 AfriAlliance is pleased to announce that its first Conference will take place in March 2017 in South-Africa, hosted by the LoCS4 Africa congress. The AfriAlliance conference serves as the ...
Kick-off meeting African Centres of Excellence
26 May 2016 In Cape Town, South Africa, the European Commission (EC) & NEPAD are convening to kick-off the second phase of the African Centres of Excellence (CoE) in Water Science and Technology ...
New World Bank report: High and Dry
18 May 2016 In a new report, the World Bank argues that water scarcity could cost some regions up to 6% of their GDP by 2050. The new report “High and Dry: Climate Change, Water and the Economy” by ...
New World Bank book on Water Management
10 May 2016 The World Bank recently published a new book on water management “Earth Observation for Water Resources Management: Current Use and Future Opportunities for the Water Sector”. The scope of ...
World Water Day 2016 – No water, no jobs!
22 March 2016 The connection between water and jobs is not necessarily an obvious one. This year’s World Water Development Report (WWDR 2016) is dedicated to examining this relationship. It analyses ...
AfriAlliance kick-off meeting in Delft (NL)
8 March 2016 Delft, The Netherlands – The ambitious five year project ‘AfriAlliance’, officially started with the kick-off meeting hosted by UNESCO-IHE on 2 and 3 March. All 16 consortium partners ...
Africa – EU links on Water and Climate
10 Feb. 2016 The ambitious AfriAlliance project aims to prepare Africa for future climate change challenges by having African and European stakeholders work together in the areas of water innovation ...
AfriAlliance and Rural Water Supply Network (RWSN) sharing knowledge
4 December 2018 Action to improve access to clean, safe water supplies must bring sustainable solutions to poor rural communities. Approximately 80% of people without access to an improved water ...
AfriAlliance and CitSAf working together to encourage citizen science!
4 December 2018 Citizen science encourages the public to get involved and to contribute data and local knowledge to addressing important issues, such as climate change and water management ...
Blog: First AfriAlliance Roadshow Event
The first AfriAlliance Roadshow event was held on 7 May 2018 in Ouagadougou Burkina Faso, by AfriAlliance partner 2iE (International Institute for Water and Environmental Engineering). The theme of ...
