Stockholm International Water Institute » Lake Victoria http://www.siwi.org Water Wise World Wed, 18 Sep 2013 12:00:33 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 New issue Stockholm Water Front Magazine out now! http://www.siwi.org/news/new-stockholm-water-front-magazine-out-now/ http://www.siwi.org/news/new-stockholm-water-front-magazine-out-now/#comments Tue, 11 Dec 2012 15:13:58 +0000 Nora http://www.siwi.org/?post_type=news&p=5151 New Stockholm Water Front Magazine is available to download now: Stockholm Water Front No. 4 2012, including the cover story “Drought Hits the Heartland of USA“.

Worldwide, 2012 has been the year of drought. From the Midwest of the USA to the granaries of the Black Sea, from South Asia to the Sahel region of Africa, producers the world over have had to find ways to farm their land in the face of ravaging droughts or feeble monsoons.

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]]> http://www.siwi.org/news/new-stockholm-water-front-magazine-out-now/feed/ 0 Integrated Water, Sanitation and Natural Resources Initiative in the Lake Victoria Region http://www.siwi.org/publication/integrated-water-sanitation-and-natural-resources-initiative-in-the-lake-victoria-region/ http://www.siwi.org/publication/integrated-water-sanitation-and-natural-resources-initiative-in-the-lake-victoria-region/#comments Thu, 15 Nov 2012 16:35:22 +0000 admin http://www.siwi.org/publication/integrated-water-sanitation-and-natural-resources-initiative-in-the-lake-victoria-region/ Through the Swedish regional Lake Victoria Initiative (LVI) Sida has made a long-term commitment to the Lake Victoria region. LVI aims at supporting activities that will contribute to integrating issues of poverty alleviation, development and sustainable resources management and enhance participatory management and democratic governance of natural resources. The purpose of this paper is to explore how Sweden can increase its support into water, sanitation and natural resources using primarily existing channels at national and local levels.

The 2005 regional fact-finding report with the same name, was used as a guiding document and can be accessed here.

]]> http://www.siwi.org/publication/integrated-water-sanitation-and-natural-resources-initiative-in-the-lake-victoria-region/feed/ 0 Water and Sustainable Development Around the Baltic Sea and Lake Victoria: Report from a Workshop on Environmental Journalism http://www.siwi.org/publication/water-and-sustainable-development-around-the-baltic-sea-and-lake-victoria-report-from-a-workshop-on-environmental-journalism/ http://www.siwi.org/publication/water-and-sustainable-development-around-the-baltic-sea-and-lake-victoria-report-from-a-workshop-on-environmental-journalism/#comments Thu, 15 Nov 2012 16:29:52 +0000 admin http://www.siwi.org/publication/water-and-sustainable-development-around-the-baltic-sea-and-lake-victoria-report-from-a-workshop-on-environmental-journalism/ This is a paper based on a workshop on environmental journalism during the World Water Week in 2001. The aim of the workshop was to highlight the importance of journalism in raising awareness about environmental and development issues to authorities, decision makers, NGO’s and the public, and to promote the exchange of experiences and contacts between journalist from Lake Victoria and the Baltic Sea regions and strengthen the position of the free press.

]]> http://www.siwi.org/publication/water-and-sustainable-development-around-the-baltic-sea-and-lake-victoria-report-from-a-workshop-on-environmental-journalism/feed/ 0 Networking Between Parties Around the Baltic Sea and Lake Victoria http://www.siwi.org/publication/networking-between-parties-around-the-baltic-sea-and-lake-victoria/ http://www.siwi.org/publication/networking-between-parties-around-the-baltic-sea-and-lake-victoria/#comments Thu, 15 Nov 2012 16:27:05 +0000 admin http://www.siwi.org/publication/networking-between-parties-around-the-baltic-sea-and-lake-victoria/ A workshop on cooperation between the Baltic Sea region and the Lake Victoria region, initiated by the Government of Uganda and the Ministry of Water, Lands and Environment is the background to this paper. The overall outcome of the workshop was that governmental and non-governmental organisations play an important role in the development of the Baltic Sea regional cooperation, that a similar potential exist in the Lake Victoria region, and that there is great potential to develop cooperation between the two regions.

]]> http://www.siwi.org/publication/networking-between-parties-around-the-baltic-sea-and-lake-victoria/feed/ 0 High Level Seminar on the Assessment of Initiatives for Environmental Co-operation on Lake Victoria http://www.siwi.org/publication/high-level-seminar-on-the-assessment-of-initiatives-for-environmental-co-operation-on-lake-victoria/ http://www.siwi.org/publication/high-level-seminar-on-the-assessment-of-initiatives-for-environmental-co-operation-on-lake-victoria/#comments Thu, 15 Nov 2012 16:25:35 +0000 admin http://www.siwi.org/publication/high-level-seminar-on-the-assessment-of-initiatives-for-environmental-co-operation-on-lake-victoria/ This paper was conducted due to the High-level Seminar on the Assessment of Initiatives for Environmental Co-operation on Lake Victoria. The objective of the seminar was to apply experience from the Baltic Sea region and the cooperation between neighbouring countries to cope with environmental problems, to the situation of environmental degradation in the region of Lake Victoria.

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