Tuesday August 30th 2016 A day full of sessions, facilitation and launching initiatives! With the white paper printed and ready for the launch the team headed straight into overlapping sessions Tuesday morning! Starting off Laura contributed to the Asian Development bank session Powering up the Region-Balancing Water and Energy Use in Asia talking about her work in […]
Call speakers and facilitators Young Scientist Platform @ Understanding Risk Conference- deadline 27 March
We are excited to announce the open call for speakers and facilitators at the Young Scientists Platform on DRR Focus day event at the Understanding Risk conference in Istanbul this May. This is a great opportunity for you to ...
Irrigation Special
From 20 to 22 January, the Asian Irrigation Forum took place. The Water Youth Network could be present, and we worked with the International Rice Research Institute (IRRI), Young Professionals for Agriculture Development (YPARD), Plan ...
First International Day of Women and Girls in Science
The 11th of February 2016 was the first International Day of Women and Girls in Science. The United Nations General Assembly decided to establish this International Day to recognize the contribution of women and girls ...
Call for participants ! Singapore International Water Week, an opportunities' incubator
Innovative, inspiring, connected, engaging – here are just few keywords that could define the experience of Singapore International Water Week (SIWW). Since 2008, the event has become a landmark for water professionals, gathering over 20,000 ...
Critical agents of change’ in the 2030 Agenda: Youth-inclusive governance indicators for national-level monitoring
Download here the document: Critical Agents of Change - Youth-Inclusive Governance Indicators for National-Level SDG Monitoring In September 2015, all 193 countries of the United Nations (UN) agreed on a new set of development goals that will ...Latest Blog Posts
WYN @ World Water Week – Day 2
September 21, 2016 in Heather Murdock
Monday August 29th 2016 Day 2 was another great and also busy day for the Water Youth Network team. The day started off with an inspiring plenary session with talks from the Swedish Minister of Foreign Affairs, Margot Wallstrom, OECD Secretary-General Angel Gurria, the 2016 Stockholm Water Prize Laureate Professor Joan B. Rose and […]
WYN @ World Water Week – Day 1
September 20, 2016 in Heather Murdock
The Water Youth Network team had a busy and successful first day at World Water Week in Stockholm. The team consisting of members from Palestine, Spain, Canada, Indonesia, the Netherlands, Serbia and Germany organized a number of activities for the YP Booth and attended multiple sessions related to the soon to be published white paper […]
6th meeting of the OECD Water Governance Initiative (WGI)
June 21, 2016 in Camilo Andrés Benítez Ávila
Once again the WGI, a multi-stakeholder platform of +100 organizations gathered together for sharing on-going reforms, projects, lessons and good practices in support of better governance in water sector. 2015 was a turning point for the WGI. The 34 Ministries of OECD countries backed the Principles on Water Governance developed by WGI members, in an […]
