The Joint Technical Secretariat of the Joint Water-Agriculture Council of the League of Arab States organized on 26 October 2021, with support from AODA, ESCWA and FAO-RNE, the Third Meeting of High-Level Joint Water-Agriculture Technical Committee (HLJTC) and that will take place virtually on the sidelines of 2021 Cairo Water Week.

Capacity Development and Related Services for an Integrated Sustainable Development and Management of the Water Sector in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia in the framework of the VISION 2030

The project aims to develop and accelerate the adoption of off-grid solar pumping for irrigation by providing demonstration units, technical capacity building, a quality-assurance mechanism, and a financing mechanism.

The goal of this project, "Building Resilience in the Agriculture and Water Sectors to the Adverse Impacts of Climate Change in Sudan", is to contribute to reduce the vulnerability and increase the adaptive capacity of Sudan's agriculture sector to climate change impacts.

The Federal Government of Somalia (FGS) requested a Drought Impact and Needs Assessment (DINA) and subsequent Resilience and Recovery Framework (RRF) in August 2017 to identify the root causes of recurrent drought and develop a strategy for medium term recovery and long-term resilience.

GoAL WaSH, implemented through UNDP Country Offices, was managed strategically by the UNDP-SIWI Water Governance Facility (WGF), housed by the Stockholm International Water Institute (SIWI). The GoAL WaSH country program designs were based on dialogue among different levels of government, the UNDP country offices, and the UNDP–SIWI WGF.

Towards Improving Water Quality and Expanding International Cooperation in Water and Sanitation Related Program, AWC has Launched an “Arab Non-Conventional Water Resources Initiative” (ANCWRI) to address water scarcity challenges in cooperation with UNESCO’s Bureau for Science and Technology for the Arab region in Cairo.

This document represents the third State of the Water Report for the Arab Region, and is hopefully intended to provide beneficial guidance to the water sector decision making process to support better water planning, management and development.

A rapidly changing climate, greater exposure to disaster risks, and trends of land degradation, food and water insecurity, present an unprecedented challenge for development in the Arab region.

The objective of the Project is to improve water resources and agricultural management and planning within and across the beneficiary Countries, based on qualitative and spatial-based decision making tools.