The press room

In the wake of Anti-corruption Day, a conference in the Middle East, North Africa and wider Mediterranean, co-organized by the UNDP-SIWI Water Governance Facility, calls for action to address corruption in the regions’ water sectors.

SIWI’s contribution highlights nature-based solutions as a cost-effective tool for addressing water challenges, however, changes in regulatory frameworks are needed before they can be fully mainstreamed.

Stiftelsen Runda Upp och World Water Week har inlett ett samarbete för att öka kunskapen om vatten. I samband med World Water Week, 25-30 augusti, kan Lindex kunder runda upp när de handlar och bidra till organisationen WaterAids arbete. Anna-Karin Dahlberg, Lindex hållbarhetschef, förklarar varför. Varför deltar ni i Runda upp? För att vattenfrågan är […]

2020 marks the final year of the Action Platform for Source-to-Sea Management’s (S2S Platform) current strategy and presents the opportunity to look ahead to the future of the platform and to the application of source-to-sea management. In the next phase, we will aim to build a strategy that better reflects the ambitions and work of […]

By 2030, 80 per cent of the world’s poorest people will live in ‘fragile’ states, where access to water, sanitation and hygiene services (WASH) tends to be limited. A new report from SIWI and UNICEF looks at what can be done to improve the efficiency and accountability of WASH services in such contexts.

Programme Officer, Pilar Avello, recently visited the Water Integrity HUB in Addis Ababa. Follow her journey to Ethiopia where she met with important partners and stakeholders working towards building integrity into programming and improving capacity building. 

Eman Mounir is an independent investigative journalist who focuses on climate and environmental issues in the Middle East and Northern Africa (MENA) region. She also recently won the Nile Basin Initiative’s Female Prize for journalism for her investigative story “Death in the Lake”.

The UNDP Water Governance Facility at SIWI invites you to mingle at the SIWI booth in the Exhibition Area, Tuesday 25 August at 17.30. Warmly welcome!

In his interview with WaterFront, Stephen McCaffrey, this year’s Stockholm Water Prize laureate, tells about everything from the origins of his environmental interest to why he is hopeful that we can peacefully share water. Read the whole interview in the latest issue of WaterFront.

SIWI’s online photo contest gathered more than 150 images of women from all over the globe.

Five years ago, international leaders could triumphantly announce the Paris Agreement to tackle the climate crisis. But to reach the goals, the world needs a new kind of climate policy, argues SIWI’s Maggie White ahead of the UN Climate Ambition Summit on 12 December.

Young people are often better equipped to solve global water challenges than their parents, according to Hayati Yarkadas from Xylem. But more should be done to unleash the potential of youth and programmes like the Stockholm Junior Water Prize can play a vital role.