Entebbe

TRANS-BOUNDARY WATER CONFERENCE
UGANDA FEB 2010 : Part 1

TRANS-BOUNDARY WATER CONFERENCE
UGANDA FEB 2010 : Part 2

A Stronger G8-Africa Partnership on Water and Sanitation
A committment to increase access to water and sanitation based on the principles of shared responsibility and mutual accountability.
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Decisions, Declarations, Tribute and Resolution
Sharm el Sheikh Committments for Accelerating the Achievement of Water and Sanitation Goals in Africa.
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EWA Entebbe Project
In this clip, Margaret Tuhumwire, Director of Environmental Women in Action for Development (Entebbe Women Association) is describing the integrated community environmental project funded by the Small Grants Program of the Global Environment Facility (GEF). This site visit to the project in Kigungu was part of the workshop Building and Managing Sustainable Transboundary Water Institutions in Africa and Beyond organized by the UBC project in February 2010. Al Duda, Director of the International Waters program of the GEF is telling the community that their project will become a model for the Lake Victoria region.
EWA Entebbe Project from IWRP on Vimeo.

First African Water Week March 26-28, 2008
African Ministers’ Council of Water (AMCOW) Ministerial Declaration on “Accelerating Water Security for Africa’s Socio-Economic Development.”
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Incomaputo Agreement
A tripartite agreement between Mozambique, South Africa and Swaziland, for the protection and sustainable utilisation of the Incomati and Maputo watercourses.
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Johannesburg Ministerial Statement
The African Ministers of Water met in November 2009 to reaffirm their committment to the Africa Water Vision 2025 and the Sharm el Sheikh Committments on Water and Sanitation.
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Outcomes and Recommendations of the Pan-African Implementation and Partnership Conference on Water (PANAFCON)
The Pan-African Implementation and Partnership Conference on Water was the groundbreaking platform where African countries, the international community, and the United Nations agencies were provided an opportunity to reaffirm their committment to solving the African water crisis. This document is a compendium of actions, deliberations, committments and outcomes of the Conference.
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Protocol of the Court of Justice of the African Union
Agreement establishing the Court of Justice of the African Union.
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Protocol on the Statute of the African Court of Justice and Human Rights
Protocol merging the African Court of Human and Peoples’ Rights and the Court of Justice of the African Union.
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UNEP/GEF Volta River Basin Project
The UNEP/GEF Volta River Basin Project for “Addressing Transboundary Concerns in the Volta River Basin and its Downstream Coastal Area” is a regional initiative designed to facilitate the integrated management, sustainable development and protection of natural resources of the Volta River Basin within the six riparian countries of Benin, Burkina Faso, Côte d’Ivoire, Ghana, Mali and Togo. For more information, please follow this link.

Water Security for Development: Insights from African Partnerships in Action
This report draws on the experience of the Global Water Partnership (GWP) in Africa to demonstrate the potential of partnerships in rising to new developement challenges. Stakeholder partnerships have supported several countries in moving towards water security, through the development of national Integrated Water Resources Management (IWRM) plans.
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