Water Nexus

News and water events

European Première Brave Blue World Documentary online event (26 October 2020, 18:45 UTC+01-19:45 UTC+01)
"WASH: water, sanitation and hygiene” webinar (10:00 to ± 12:30 16 October 2020)
Water-Energy-Food Nexus participatory brokerage event
to strengthen the Belgian Water Strategy (10:00 ± 12:30 June 22 2020)

What?

Water Nexus is an interuniversity research platform whose goal is to support the Belgian Development cooperation in the design and implementation of an effective water strategy.

Project objectives

To map the Belgian expertise, main stakeholders (Belgian and international) and programs related with water in partner countries
To identify ways through which more coordinated and coherent actions can be implemented, and possible synergies between actors and programs
To synthesize the water-related opportunities, issues and challenges in partner countries
To customize a toolkit assessing the impact of cooperation actions on water at relevant spatial scale
To assess the potential of water dependent value chains, and identify opportunities and needs where private sector can/should engage for IWRM
To identify the role Belgian cooperation can play to contribute to SDG6 and provide with operational elements and expertise for designing a water strategy
To conduct applied research projects relevant to Belgian Development cooperation