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Management of water in an urban context has an important effect on the general health status of the city’s population. Accra is one of these cities where the urban water system is far from optimal, and therefore a number of projects are underway to improve the situation. In the current situation, only a part of the expanding city has reliable access to drinking water.

Droughts endanger the water, food, and energy security of ecosystems. An effective drought preparedness strategy must focus on mitigating socioeconomic vulnerabilities to the phenomenon. Brazil has developed a Drought Monitor to analyze the multi-annual characteristic of droughts in the Northeast region.

This document used the risk assessment methodology of the GWP and UNICEF Strategic Framework for WASH Climate Resilient Development, which is based on a step-by-step participatory assessment procedure, aimed at involving government planners, decision-makers, and practitioners responsible for WASH service delivery in Uganda.

On February 13, 2023 at 15:00-17:00 CET an interactive global knowledge exchange on urban climate risk assessment will  was hosted for city officials and risk assessment practitioners to discuss and exchange knowledge on assessing and addressing informal settlements, and exchange knowledge of successes and challenges with implementation, after risk assessments.

In this third roundtable, hosted by GCA andBeijing Municipal Institute of City Planning and Design in March 2022, experts from experts from Beijing, Milan and New York presented their city's governance in pursuit of becoming climate resilient. Ede Ijjasz-Vasquez, senior advisor to the CEO, GCA chaired the meeting.

In this second roundtable, GCA brought together officials from Beijing and international experts to discuss the main objective of IWRM,  communication across sectors and methods of coordination, the responsibilty of the government for climate adaptation and disaster resilience through information and experience sharing between cities.

The poor in Pakistan who live in informal settlements are the first to be hit by climate change. But they cannot understand the link, says Mary James Gill, a human rights lawyer and activist based in Lahore, Pakistan, because available information is bookish and not easy to communicate.

Mainstreaming of water adaptation is necessary to accelerate a system-wide coherence on water across multiple agendas. These three videos are a call to action to mainstream water climate adaptation - targeting policy processes at international events such COP27, the UN 2023 Water Conference and COP28. 

Rapid urbanization and increased water related hazards call for more affordable and resilient housing. However, conventional construction account for 38% of the global CO2 emissions, 30% of all waste and 50% of all resource extraction. Carbon neutral and circular building is therefore important.

Africa needs $336 billion to adapt to climate change, says this video. The African Development Bank is doubling its climate fund to $25 billion by 2025. The focus will be on helping 40 million farmers produce 100 million tonnes of food. This will reduce hunger by 80%.

Water is central to the achievement of all the SDGs and should be viewed as crosscutting, not a sector. The water community should venture beyond its comfort zone and work with other water-related sectors. The SDG6 IWRM Support Program helps countries to use water as a connector between their SDG targets.