"Games for Urban Sustainability and Climate Resilience" knowledge sharing webinar (Case Study: Yangon Raincraft Program)

Today, as the planet Earth has faced the consequences of Global Warming, people living in both urbans and rural have experienced the effects of Climate change like flooding and drought. Same as in Yangon, the major city of Myanmar, also no stranger to the impacts of unconditional extreme weathe...

Orange Knowledge Programme Scholarship Opportunity for Round 1, 2022

Source : OKP Study in Holland The Orange Knowledge Programme (OKP) offers scholarships funded by the Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs available for a selection of short courses (duration 2 weeks to 12 months) and master's programmes (duration 12 to 24 months). Myanmar is also eligibl...

Virtual workshop: What will you do with water data?

Source: UN Water - The workshop 'What will you do with water data?' is hosted virtually on 23 February at 8 – 9 am ET. The World Bank works closely with partners to achieve its vision of "A Water-Secure World for All" centered on three interrelated pillars: sustain water resources, deliver...

Nature-Based Solutions for Wastewater Treatment: A Series of Factsheets and Case Studies

There are 2.4 billion people without improved sanitation and another 2.1 billion with inadequate sanitation (i.e. wastewater drains directly into surface waters), and despite improvements over the past decades, the unsafe management of fecal waste and wastewater continues to present a major risk to ...

A milestone of the ASEAN Young Climate Leaders Program 2022 (ASEAN YCLP)

The very first ASEAN Young Climate Leaders Program 2022 (ASEAN YCLP) is a leadership development program run by Common Purpose in partnership with ASEAN Foundation, SAP, and GIZ. The Challenge that the participants explored, ideate, and initiate projects on is: "How might we increase ...

To protect the world’s vital wetlands, we must invest in science

As the world prepares to celebrate World Wetlands Day, IWMI reflects on the transformative power of nature-based solutions to tackle climate change — and more. by Matthew McCartney and Lisa-Maria Rebelo, IWMI Source: IWMI - It is now widely accepted that nature-based solutions are imp...

Online Course on Gender and IWRM: Sign up until March 31

Source: Global Water Partnership - The online course on Gender and Integrated Water Resources Management (IWRM) is available until March 31, 2022. It is accessible on the Cap-Net virtual campus and was jointly developed by Cap-Net UNDP, GWP and the Gender and Water Alliance (GWA). Launched...

Over-extraction of Groundwater reacts to water level declination toward Yangon sinking

CASE STUDY: Over-exploration of Groundwater reacts to water level declination, Building settlement, and Ground Elevation lower in Thamine, Mayangon TS in Yangon. Myint Thein, Groundwater and Wells Consultant Email: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. January 2022 1. Object  Firstly, the realistic bu...

Webinar Announcement - Drought, COVID and multi-risk assessment

Source: UN-Water - Droughts cause deep and multi-faceted damage to ecosystems, (agro) economies and societies, particularly to vulnerable rural people in developing countries. A forthcoming webinar by the Global Framework on Water Scarcity in Agriculture (WASAG) group will examine the multiple ...

Global Wetland Outlook: Special Edition 2021

The Global Wetland Outlook: Special Edition 2021 has been launched to mark the Ramsar Convention's 50th anniversary. Drawing on more than 30 major global and regional assessments and other recent scientific findings, the Global Wetland Outlook's (GWO) headlines are that: Wetlands are being lost at a...

International Guidelines on Natural and Nature-Based Features for Flood Risk Management

Source: Engineering With Nature -  The application of natural and nature‑based features (NNBF) has grown steadily over the past 20 years, supported by calls for innovation in flood risk management (FRM) and nature‑based solutions from many different perspectives and organizations. Technica...

Online Course: Change in water-use efficiency over time

Source: FAO elearning Academy - The course provides guidance on the rationale and the main characteristics of Indicator 6.4.1, and on how to compute the two dimensions constituting the indicator: the hydrologic and the economic component. It also highlights possible challenges related to d...

Water Tech Spotlight: the latest technology developments in the water industry | December 2021

Source: International Water Association - By Chunyang (Sophie) Su - Technological solutions and innovations are essential to secure a water-wise future. Water Tech Spotlight is a monthly blog which aims to highlight the latest technology developments in the water industry globally.  1...

ရေနှင့်သက်ဆိုင်​သော ​နောက်ဆုံး​ပေါ် နည်းပညာများနှင့် ဆန်းသစ်တီထွင်မှုများ

နည်းပညာပိုင်းဆိုင်ရာ ဖြေရှင်းချက်များနဲ့ ဆန်းသစ်တီထွင်မှုများက အနာဂတ် ရေကဏ္ဍအတွက် မရှိမဖြစ် အရေးပါပါတယ်။ ဒီဆောင်းပါးမှာ ရေအခန်းကဏ္ဍအတွင်း ဖွံဖြိုးတိုးတက်လာတဲ့ နောက်ဆုံးပေါ်နည်းပညာများကို စုစည်းဖော်ပြထားပါတယ်။  တောင်အာဖရိကစျေးကွက်သို့ ဝင်ရောက်လာသော လျှပ်စစ်မီးမလိုသော မိလ္လာစနစ် South F...

SDG 6 Progress Reports

The monitoring of progress towards SDG 6 is a means to achieve the goal. High-quality data help policy- and decision-makers at all levels of government  to identify challenges and opportunities, to set priorities for more effective and efficient implementation, to communicate progress...

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