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Women smallholders replanting rice in the irrigated area around the Bagré dam in Burkina Faso (Photo: Barbara Adolph/IIED)
Water and land rights – hand-in-hand for sustainable development
… This was my second time at World Water Week . As regional coordinator of the Global Water Initiative … and partners from Mali and Senegal. 'Water for development', the theme that set the scene for this year's conference, made the link with … integrated into the expected climate agreement . This year's theme fitted particularly well with our GWI work in West Africa on how …
Insight, 25 September 2015
A group of young people, men and women, walk in line holding protest signs (saying things such as "fight for our future") as part of a march
Stockholm+50: priorities for re-energising global action
Insight, 07 June 2022
Rural communities in Kenya are increasingly being affected by climate change, limiting opportunities for development. (Photo: Robin Wyatt)
Development and Climate Days 2018
Event, 08 December 2018
GWI West Africa at World Water Week 2015 (Photo: Lucile Robinson/GWI)
Towards socially just and economically viable dams in West Africa: World Water Week 2015
… The annual World Water Week in Stockholm focuses on a wide range of issues relating to water across the globe. This year's theme was 'Water for development'. The five-day conference culminated … Water … Global Water Initiative – West Africa … socially just and economically viable dams in West Africa: World Water Week 2015 …
Event, 23 August 2015
Cover for G04317.pdf
Pocket Guide to Gender Equality Under the UNFCCC
… knowledge, and managing natural resources such as firewood and water. Women also tend to be key decision-makers in choosing, using, and …
Publication, 01 January 2018
A woman wearing a mask pours chemicals into a bottle.
Addressing gendered and other inequalities will be central to COVID-19 recovery
Article, 11 September 2020
Millions of Kenyans depend on the Ewaso Ngiro river and its tributaries, but over-abstraction and changing weather patterns are reducing river flows (Photo: Denis Onyodi/Kenya Red Cross Society, Creative Commons via Flickr)
Building research capacity for sustainable water and food security in drylands of sub-Saharan Africa (BRECcIA)
Project, 27 July 2018
The journey to fetch fresh water for a resident of the Dharavi slum in Mumbai, India (Photo: Meena Kadri, Creative Commons via Flickr)
World Water Week 2016: key resources
… The annual World Water Week  in Stockholm, Sweden, from 28 August to 2 September focuses on a wide range of issues relating to water across the globe. This year's theme is 'Water for Sustainable Growth', with water seen as central to … Water … Global Water Initiative – West Africa … World Water Week 2016: key resources …
Article, 24 August 2016
Maurice Strong at the High Level Dialogue on Global Sustainability, Rio de Janeiro, June 2012 (Photo: Sergio Greif, Creative Commons via Flickr)
Remembering Maurice Strong, pioneering environmental champion
… shifting the Stockholm agenda from the Northern concerns of air and water pollution to what we now regard as the major environmental … challenges of the South: desertification, lack of adequate water and sanitation, growth of urban shantytowns and the bias of the … Conference on Human Settlements in 1976. She wrote 'Home of Man', the theme book for the conference and the catalyst for IIED's established …
Insight, 04 December 2015
Woman walking through a vegetable garden. A pond behind her.
D&C Days 2021: five pathways for adaptation, resilience and action
Article, 12 November 2021