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IWMI at Africa Water Week 2024

IWMI at Africa Water Week 2024

When

October 13, 2024 - October 17, 2024    
9:00 am - 5:30 pm

Where

Triumph Hotel
19 Katameya Heights Road, Cairo

Africa Water Week is an AMCOW flagship initiative to facilitate dissemination, sharing, networking and brokering of knowledge and information on water management and WASH services provision in Africa. The event will be held jointly with Cairo Water Week 2024.

More information: https://africawaterweek.amcow-online.org/

Time zone: UTC+3

Oct 13, SundayOct 14, MondayOct 15, TuesdayOct 16, Wednesday

Time Session info Location
15:00-16:30 2nd Governing Board meeting of the AWARE initiative

Convenor

Monaco AB
15:00-16:30

Boosting transitions for water security through integrated adaptation actions for water resilience

Convenor

Iceland

Time Session info Location
14:00-15:30

Advancing water system transformation for the Africa we want

Henry Roman (panelist)

Picasso 1
16:00-17:30 Advancing gender equality in water, energy, food, and ecosystems

Convenor

Louvre 5
16:00-17:30 Harnessing the potential of small-scale irrigation: Need assessments, business models, and the enabling environment 

Muluken Adamseged (host)

Picasso 1

Time Session info Location

08:00-09:30

The African transboundary management benchmarking workshop: Promoting sustainable transboundary cooperation to strengthen African development

Henry Roman (panelist)

Louvre 4

9:30-11:00

High level panel on innovation and financing resilient solutions for water security

Convenor

Monaco AB
9:30-11:00

Achieving sustainable waste water management and sanitation provision in Africa

Olufunke Cofie (panelist)

Picasso 1
09:30-11:00

Empowering climate action: The Water Resilience Tracker’s role in national adaptation planning 

Olufunke Cofie (speaker)

Louvre 4
16:00-17:30

Launch of the One CGIAR water systems integration roadmap 2024-2030

Convenor

Picasso 2

Time Session info Location
9:30-11:00

Empowering climate action: The Water Resilience Tracker’s role in national adaptation planning 

Convenor

Monaco C
09:30-11:00

Irrigation policy post-Malabo: Insights for investments

Olufunke Cofie (panelist)

Louvre 3

Olufunke Cofie

Olufunke Cofie

Africa Director for Research Impact
Muluken Adamseged

Muluken Adamseged

Researcher – Innovation Scaling, Deputy Country Representative – Ethiopia
Henry Roman

Henry Roman

Country Representative – South Africa
Abdulkarim Seid

Abdulkarim Seid

Country Representative – Ethiopia, Regional Representative – East Africa (Rotational CR)