UNESCO-IHE and Women for Water Partnership
form alliance
UNESCO-IHE and the Women for Water Partnership (WfWP) have agreed to jointly enhance women's participation in achieving sustainable
With the launch of this strategic partnership, UNESCO-IHE and the WfWP will work on UNESCO-IHE’s Waters & Society Programme, on the World Water Development Report of the United Nations and on the follow-up of the outcomes of World Water Forum 5.
Co-convenors
WfWP and UNESCO-IHE were co-convenors of Topic 6.1 'Education and Capacity Development Strategies' at the World Water Forum, at which their creative approach in highlighting the issues drew many accolades. The strategic partnership is intended to broaden the joint efforts towards inclusion of gender issues and women's empowerment in the water and sanitation sectors.
Scholarship
Besides this, UNESCO-IHE will facilitate the WfWP's participation in technical and high-level events; a future scholarship and internship programme. This also will be aimed at enhancing women's participation and practice on the ground components in UNESCO-IHE's education programs and with its academic partners. The new partners will disseminate each others material at events and will fundraise together.
Women for Water Partnership
The Women for Water Partnership is an international network of women's organisations with presence in approximately 100 countries of the world. They contribute to women's empowerment and combating poverty taking water and sanitation as a point of entry.
UNESCO-IHE website
Women for Water Partnership website
Monday, 22 March 2010
World Water Day - 22nd March 2010
This is a United Nations Day.
The international observance of World Water Day is an initiative that grew out of the 1992 United Nations Conference on Environment and Development (UNCED) in Rio de Janeiro.
UN-Water has chosen ”Communicating Water Quality Challenges and Opportunities” as theme for World Water Day 2010. The overall goal of the World Water Day on 22 March 2010 campaign is to raise the profile of water quality at the political level so that water quality considerations are made alongside those of water quantity.
The 2010 World Water Day 's theme; ‘It’s a Water Celebration’. During the 2010 World Water Day Celebration there shall be the launch of the Community Health Education and School Sanitation (CHESS) Africa Project, which aims at not only at helping communities and schools understand the importance of water but actually working in collaboration with these communities and schools to provide them with clean/safe water and adequate sanitation.
Your guide to the world’s longest toilet Queue
World Water Day, 22 March 2010, is a crucial
moment in the fight to tackle the global
sanitation and water crisis.
Just one month later, politicians from across
the globe will gather to discuss what they need
to do to fulfil some of the most basic rights of
the world’s citizens - access to a safe toilet and
clean water. they must act, and so must we.
The world’s longest toilet Queue is a global
mobilisation bringing together thousands of
campaigners from across the world to demand
real change. we need your voice too.
Become part of a global movement this world
water day. this toolkit will tell you how.
EARTH HOUR - 27th March 2010
EARTH HOUR - 27th March 2010
Join thousands of people around the world in doing a little bit to help mitigate the effects of Climate Change.
SI/E has signed up - why don't you?
Go to http://www.earthhour.org/and add your name.
Don't forget - 8.30pm wherever you are in the world. Mmm... a candlelight dinner sounds nice!
Soroptimist International Incentive Prize
The Soroptimist International Incentive Prize was awarded at the International Women’s Day in Berlin.
The SI German Union hosted the event in the federal State building of Nordrhein-Westfalen.
This was the second time the German Union presented this prize.
The prizewinner Prof. Dr. Dagmar Schipanski received a cheque of € 20,000 for her project to which inspires and stimulates women and girls to study science and physics; to increase the number of women in the world of science.
State Secretary of the Ministry of Gender, Family, Women and Integration of the Federal State, Dr. Marion Gierden-Jülich and Union President Sibylle Lindenberg presented the prize to Prof. Schipanski
The prize giving ceremony which was was sponsored by the Federal State and Henkel was attended by many Soroptimists and guests.
The goals of Soroptimist International were clearly stated by IPP Mariet Verhoef-Cohen and Union President Sybille Lindenberg.
The prizewinner, Prof. Dr. Schipanski presented her winning project and emphasized how important it is for a sustainable future that women are interested in science and physics and how vital it is for them to enroll and complete these studies.
It was an uplifting ceremony of high-quality and brought home how active Soroptimist International of Europe really are in inspiring women in all fields.
Prof Schipanski in the middel and Union president Sybille on the left.
Tuesday, 16 March 2010
Anna Tibaijuka / Sanitation in the Urban Millennium / PART 6
Anna Tibaijuka talks about sanitation issues, at the Soroptimist International of Europe Water Congress, held in Amsterdam, 2009.
Water is Life, Sanitation is Dignity.
Anna Tibaijuka is the Under-Secretary-General and Executive Director of UN-HABITAT. (www.unhabitat.org)
http://www.soroptimisteurope.org
http://www.soroptimistsgoforwater.nl
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Sylvia Borren / So Much We Can Do / PART 4
Water is Life, Sanitation is Dignity
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Sylvia Borren is co-chair of the Worldconnectors and GCAP (the Global Call to Action against Poverty), chair of the EEN campaign, and Project leader of Quality Educators for All, a project of Education International labor union and Oxfam Novib.
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