The Regional Environmental Center (REC) Is Contributing to World Water Week 2016 and The
Stockholm, Sweden | August 29, 2016
PRESS RELEASE
WORLD WATER WEEK2016 KICKS OFF TODAY –DEDICATED SESSIONS WILL PUT THE SPOTLIGHT ON THE MIDDLE EAST AND NORTH AFRICA (MENA) REGION
The Regional Environmental Center (REC) is contributing to World Water Week 2016 and the
MENA Focus through the WATER SUM project and the Water, Growth and Stability Initiative (WGSIni)
World Water Week in Stockholm is the annual focal point for global water issuesorganised by SIWI. Experts, practitioners, decision makers, business innovators and young professionals from a range of sectors and countries gather in Stockholm to network, exchange ideas, foster new thinking and develop solutions to the most pressing water-related challenges of today.
The Regional Environmental Center (REC) will be attending this year’s World Water Week and, with selected partners from the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region, will actively engage in and host a cluster of activities within the scope of the MENA Focus 2016.
The MENA Focus 2016 aims to enhance experience and knowledge sharing as well as to promote MENA priority issues on the global water agenda. Within the thematic scope of this year’s World Water Week,Water for Sustainable Growth,participants will address key issues that hinder sustainable growth and, at the same time, will contribute to the global water agenda by showcasing replicable good practices and lessons learnt.
An active contribution to a successfulWorld Water Week 2016is one of the milestones of the Water, Growth and Stability Initiative (WGSIni). The WGSIniwas createdwithin the framework of the WATER SUM project, implemented by the REC and funded by the Government of Sweden.
The REC will host three eventsonTuesday August 30 and Wednesday August 31, 2016, in the Folkets Hus building within the Stockholm City Conference Centre:
SIWI Sofa — Water, Growth and Stability Initiative (WGSIni); World Café 2016;and SIWI Sofa — Local Water Security Action Planning (LWSAP).
The WATER SUM/WGSIni exhibition stand, locatedin the Norra Latin conference area, will be open to visitorsfrom August 28 to September 1, 2016.
Detailed information about all eventsand the exhibition stand can be found here.
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About the REC
The Regional Environmental Center for Central and Eastern Europe (REC) is an independent international organisation, which was established in 1990 by Hungary, the United States and the European Commission. Today, this non-advocacy, not-for-profit organisation is legally based on a charter signed by the governments of 32 countries and the European Commission. The REC works in various fields of sustainable development, building bridges between solutions and stakeholders on topic areas such as biodiversity; capacity building for SDG implementation; climate change and clean energy; education for sustainable development; environmental financing; health and environment; law development, enforcement and compliance; local governance; participatory governance; smart cities and mobility; sustainable resource use and water management.
The regional project Sustainable Use of Transboundary Water Resources and Water Security Management (WATER SUM) promotes the more sustainable use of water resources in the MENA region. Donor: Government of Sweden.
The Water, Growth and Stability Initiative (#WGSIni) is a framework for the creation of a knowledge-based platform; a dynamic network of water experts; and an e-learning tool for capacity building and the dissemination of lessons learned. The WGSIni was launched in April 2016 as an output of the multi-stakeholder conference “Water, Growth and Stability: Transboundary Water Cooperation for Sustainable Growth and Stability in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA)" under the framework of the WATER SUMproject.
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