January 2015 - Swiss Water Partnership

Stockholm World Water Week 2015

Next year’s World Water Week is themed water for development and will take place August 23-28th in the city center of Stockholm. Like previously SWP coordinates Swiss presence and has submitted jointly with interested members thematic proposals on.

How to implement the “hidden” SDG water resilience/DRR component?
Implementing and monitoring SDG water targets in the MENA region
Mistakes to successes: learning from errors
Discovering new water partnerships to catalyse innovations & funding

Interested to join forces? Please contact the SWP Secretariat. We will inform our members about a possible Swiss booth in due course.

SWP Welcome & Information Package

The new swp welcomepackage is out now. In this short and sharp publication is designed for new members and members who want to get more involved. The document informs about:

SWP’s objectives and values
SWP’s value proposition and key activities
SWP’s organisational structure

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SWP meets World Bank

At the end of January SWP Chair Olga Darazs travels to Washington in order to meet with senior water experts and high level decision makers (including the Swiss executive director and members of the management board of the Bank’s WSP) to promote our member’s expertise and explore future avenues of collaboration. In the next infomail you will hear about the outcomes and next steps.

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Water identified as largest risk in WEF Global Risk Report 2015

For four years, World Economic Forum (WEF) Global Risk Reports have identified water as one of the three most important challenges worldwide; this year, for the first time, it has moved to the top. Water is perceived as the biggest societal and economic risk for the next ten years.
Read the full report here: http://reports.weforum.org/global-risks-2015/

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Associate WASH Officer (JPO) at UNHCR, Geneva, Switzerland

One new Junior Professional Officer (JPO) positions sponsored by the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC) has been advertised.
Swiss young professionals with two to three years of professional experience and an interest in starting a career in the United Nations are invited to apply for the following position:

Associate WASH Officer (JPO)
Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees UNHCR, Geneva, Switzerland

Application deadline: 18 January 2015

For more information, please consult cinfo’s website.

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