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The Water-Energy-Food Nexus Toolkit (WEF-Tools) is developed to support sustainable socio-economic development in the Southern African Development Community (SADC) and Middle East and North Africa (MENA) regions. The project is focused on five case studies and follows an approach that proceeds from conceptual mapping of the nexus system to the development of quantitative tools such […]
Members from WEF Nexus in Africa consortium participated in a recent Water Innovations Lab Global (WIL Global 2020), a program designed and delivered by Canadian non-profit, Waterlution. Waterlution provides young adults, across 5 continents, an exceptional training and leadership skill-building opportunity to collaborate around two overarching themes, Coastal Community Resilience and Water Energy Food Nexus. Sixteen […]
Future Earth hosted a workshop for early career researchers (ECRs) from Africa to discuss collaborative research ideas in preparation for a Belmont Forum Collaborative Research Action (CRA) on Transdisciplinary ResearchPathways to Sustainability. The objective of the Belmont CRA is to address interactions and cross-cutting issues in the sustainable development goals. One of the key topics is […]
Details Application deadline: August 25, 2020 Full solicitation: view here About The Office of Public Diplomacy and Public Affairs (AF/PDPA), Africa Regional Services, of the U.S. Department of State’s Bureau of African Affairs announces an open competition for organizations to submit applications to carry out a regional Idea-a-thon in May 2021, which would be previewed by a series of online trainings. The […]
Details Interested early career researchers from francophone and anglophone Africa are now invited to submit their application through this form. The deadline for applications is 17 August 2020, successful applicants will be notified by 27 August 2020. About Future Earth is pleased to launch a call for applications for the virtual capacity building workshop on 9 & 10 September […]
About Question and Answer Session #1: 16 July, 4 p.m. EAT Expressions of Interest Deadline: 1 August 2020 Question and Answer Session #2: 20 August, 4 p.m. EAT Proposal Deadline: 30 August 2020 Anticipated that 9-12 awards will be made under this request for proposals with a maximum award amount of $450,000. In order to encourage […]
About Title: Examining the pandemic’s impact on the irrigation and drainage sector and opportunities for recovery Authors: Peiter Waalewijn, Karin Krchnak, Ijsbrand Harko de Jong, Sventlana Valieva Published: 22 June 2020 “Every industry, sector, and economy has suffered from the devastating effects of COVID-19. The irrigation and drainage (I&D) sector is no exception, as the […]
About EASME (Executive Agency for Small and Medium-sized Enterprises) and the Nexus Project Cluster jointly organized a session during eDNC2020, the Dresden Nexus Conference, which was held June 3-5. The session was entitled ‘Towards a nexus knowledge agenda’ and some 170 people participated. The purpose of the session was to identify knowledge gaps with a […]
About The Nexus Regional Dialogues Programme has produced The Water-Energy-Food security Nexus Principles guide towards the application, implementation and operationalisation of the Water-Energy-Food security Nexus (WEF Nexus) approach in different contexts. The Principles were developed by practitioners based on their experience and grounded in research. The WEF Nexus Principles are based on the human rights and the […]