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WaPOR news

Here find all the latest news about the WaPOR project, from conferences and global events the project participates in, to country-specific news as well as new resources as they become available. 

Note that country pages offer a filtered view of the news if you wish to focus on news for a partner country of WaPOR phase 2 and the evolution of the project in the country.

 

MOOC on water productivity in practice
11/08/2022
WaterPIP is organizing a massive open online course on the different dimensions of water producitivity. In this MOOC you will learn what is water productivity as well as how to assess and...
Inception workshop in Kenya
29/07/2022
The inception workshop for the second phase of the WaPOR project took place in Nairobi, Kenya as well as online in a hybrid format on July 26, 2022. It was...
Workshops in Mali and Burkina Faso on the use of WaPOR data for pastoralism
20/07/2022
These workshops come as a follow-up to the series of workshops that took place last year (in August 2021) at the intersection of two FAO Multi-disciplinary Fund projects: “Improving land...
Inception workshop in Ethiopia
19/07/2022
Ethiopia is the 8th country to host an inception workshop marking the official launch of the new phase of the WaPOR project in the country. This workshop targeted newly appointed...
1st WA+ symposium held in Delft, Netherlands
15/07/2022
Water Accounting + (WA+) is a framework developed by IHE Delft and its partners, FAO and IWMI, to fill in demand of deriving information from open-access public-domain datasets to account...
Introductory training for Jordanian and Palestinian stakeholders
08/07/2022
A brief 3-day introductory training was held in Amman, Jordan, between the 3rd and 5th July 2022, to provide 32 Jordanian stakeholders and 6 Palestinian with the basic skills needed...
FAO DG QU Dongyu calls attention to the importance of leveraging innovation to optimize water use at the 2nd High Level International Conference in Dushanbe
09/06/2022
In his video message to governments and the international community at the plenary session of the 2nd High Level International Conference on the International Decade for Action “Water for Sustainable...
Training workshop on WaPOR database in Mali
06/06/2022
FAO in collaboration with IHE Delft organized a training workshop in Bamako, Mali from 31 May to 2 June 2022, to help government organizations increase water productivity in both irrigated...
"Introduction to remote sensing derived FAO WaPOR database" training in Baghdad
06/06/2022
Under the patronage of His Excellency Mr. Mahdi Rashid Al-Hamdani, Minister of Water Resources, the FAO Representation in Iraq held the training workshop “Introduction to remote sensing derived FAO WaPOR...
WaPOR at the 2022 Living Planet Symposium
31/05/2022
The WaPOR team attended the Living Planet Symposium which took place in Bonn, Germany from 23 to 27 May 2022 with the objective to further engage with the Earth Observation...
WaPOR 2 inception workshop in Tunisia
04/04/2022
On March 30th, a WaPOR phase 2 inception workshop was held in Tunis, Tunisia, welcoming 20 in-person participants and some online participants. Attendees came from a wide range of backgrounds...
WaPOR 2 inception workshop in Mozambique
01/04/2022
On March 29th, a WaPOR phase 2 inception workshop was held in Maputo, Mozambique, welcoming 31 participants, both in person and virtually, from a wide range of backgrounds and institutions...
WaPOR data for groundwater monitoring
16/03/2022
Several parts of the world rely on groundwater for different essential uses for society: agriculture, domestic use and services. In the Azraq groundwater basin, in Jordan, that is certainly the...
WaPOR, an "Initiative Dakar 2022" project at the World Water Forum
16/03/2022
From March 21 to 26, the 9th edition of the World Water Forum will take place in Dakar, Sénégal. This year's organising commitee seeks to make this of edition a...
WaPOR at the second Baghdad International Water Conference on March 5
02/03/2022
The city of Baghdad, capital of Iraq, a WaPOR 2 partner country, will host stakeholders of the water community from all over the world, and particularly from the MENA region...
WaPORACT: open-access tools to extract, interpret, analyze and visualize geodata to improve water productivity
14/02/2022
WaPORACT was created by FAO partner, eLEAF, to support the development of customized geodata services in Africa and the Near East. It is a suite of Python tools that permit...
WAFIRR (Water For IRRigation): a new mobile application in development in Jordan
20/01/2022
The Jordanian National Agricultural Research Center (NARC) and the FAO have formalized a partnership in the creation of an irrigation mobile application using WaPOR data. The letter of agreement was...
WaPOR 2 inception workshop in Iraq
16/12/2021
On December 14th, a WaPOR phase 2 inception workshop was held in Baghdad, Iraq, welcoming 50 in-person and 39 virtual participants from a wide range of backgrounds and institutions: the...
WaPOR phase 2 kick-off event “From satellites to fields. Innovations supporting farmers”, Q&A
29/11/2021
On the 22nd of November, the Land and Water Division at FAO hosted the webinar “From satellites to fields. Innovations supporting farmers” to officially kick-off the second phase of the...
WaPOR 2 inception workshop in Algeria
26/11/2021
On November 24th, a WaPOR phase 2 inception workshop was held in Alger, Algeria, welcoming 36 in-person participants from a wide range of backgrounds and institutions: the ministry of agriculture...