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Feature.Sep 26, 2022

SIWI welcomes Barbara Pompili as new chair of OECD Water Governance Initiative

SIWI welcome the new chair of the OECD Water Governance Initiative, Barbara Pompili. We have enjoyed the productive decade of chairmanship from Peer Glas and look forward to continuing under Barbara’s leadership. SIWI is proud to be a founder and steering committee member of the Water Governance Initiative (WGI).

Feature.Sep 19, 2022

Ending hunger one drop at a time

As farmers in California are asked to stop a centuries old farming practice, farmers in the Zambezi are finding solutions to their unreliable water supply, which no longer readily falls from the sky.

News.Aug 31, 2022

Join the High-Level Panel on Climate and Peace

News.Aug 15, 2022

SIWI at World Water Week

SIWI’s experts will be sharing their knowledge, as well lessons learned from our projects and programmes throughout the Week. SIWI is involved in over 20 sessions this year.

News.Aug 11, 2022

Introducing resilient water, sanitation and hygiene to emergency planning in Honduras

Feature.Aug 8, 2022

The rivers are sick: Aboriginal Elders take action to protect their rivers

News.Jul 12, 2022

Government of the Netherlands & SIWI renew partnership to strengthen global goals

SIWI and the Government of the Netherlands signed a new four million Euro agreement for 2022-2026. Together the partners will push for stronger international commitment to water issues.

News.Jul 11, 2022

Piecing together the puzzle of a just blue economy from source to sea

Addressing upstream activities that impact ocean health, unlocking data sharing for ocean safety, and building collaborations on science are some of the markers on the path to securing a just, sustainable blue economy. This was one of the main messages from the side event held on 30 June at the UN Ocean Conference.

Feature.Jul 10, 2022

Looking upstream to achieve SDG 14

This year’s High-Level Political Forum focuses on five Sustainable Development Goals, one of which is SDG 14 – Life Below Water. Saving the ocean starts on land, freshwater ecosystems are crucial to preserving ocean health.

News.Jul 4, 2022

SIWI raises water perspectives at the High-Level Political Forum

SIWI will be attending the UN High-level Political Forum to show why freshwater is important for gender equality, education, life on land, and ocean health. Participating in New York are Tove Lexén, International Policy Programme Officer and Joshua Newton, International Policy Consultant.

Feature.Jun 28, 2022

Torgny Holmgren’s Address at the High-Level Symposium on Water

This speech was made SIWI s Executive Director, Torgny Holmgren, at the The High-Level Symposium on Water – on Monday 27 June in Lisbon – as part the UN Ocean Conference. It was one of the preparatory meetings leading up to the UN-Water Conference 2023.

News.Jun 23, 2022

SIWI brings a strong source-to-sea message to the UN Ocean Conference

SIWI is presenting the case for source-to-sea management at the United Nations Oceans Conference. Momentum is growing as more and more organizations are throwing their weight behind this novel approach to save the world’s threatened oceans.

News.Jun 17, 2022

Bonn climate meeting: The critical role of water in climate action explained

Limiting global warming to 1.5 degrees is still narrowly within reach, but only if we rethink climate action. Not least must countries understand the crucial role of freshwater in climate policies. This was the message at a side event on 13 June organized by SIWI and partners at the Bonn Climate Change Conference.

Feature.Jun 9, 2022

Speech | The role of good water governance in resilience

This speech was delivered by Tove Lexen at the second high level conference at an event during the 2nd High-Level International Conference on International Decade for Action “Water for Sustainable Development”, 2018-2028.