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High Level Expert Group Meeting on Climate Change Resilience Capacity Development

A high level expert Group Meeting was organized by the Environmental Governance programme to bring together a high level of regional experts from different agencies and backgrounds that are involved in Water, Agriculture, biodiversity, and Climate Change sectors in order to jointly develop a Capacity Building Program on “Resilience to Climate Change”. The Expert Group Meeting was supported by the GIZ.

Though SEARCH toolkit is the baseline of the meeting, the experts experience, contribution and knowledge sharing is the asset to meet the objective.

“Social Ecological and Agricultural Resilience in the face of Climate Change” National Policy workshop

SEARCH project has held its National Policy workshop at Fairmont Nile City Hotel, Cairo on June 27, 2013. The main objective of the workshop was to gather concerned policy makers and high level representatives from different parties, such as Governmental Ministries, Research centers, universities, civil society organizations and non-governmental organizations (NGOs). Specifically, the following organizations and institutions have participated in the workshop activities:

Water and Nature Conservation Knowledge sharing in MENA region

CEDARE represented by Dr. Amr AbdelMeguid, Environmental Governance Programme Manager, in collaboration with RKNOW partners held a regional workshop on Water and Nature Conservation Knowledge Sharing in the Arab Region in Sharm El Sheikh on 12-14 May 2015. H.E. Dr. Hossam Moghazy, Minister of Water Resources and Irrigation of Egypt, inaugurated the workshop emphasizing the importance of knowledge sharing between Arab countries to build on experiences and lessons learned. Dr. Moghazy also highlighted the Ministry’s activities in the fields of water governance, water technologies, and use of renewable energy in groundwater pumping for water and energy conservation.

Agriculture Food Security and Biotechnology Conference

CEDARE represented by the Environmental Governance Programme co-organized with ISESCO, IUCN, the National Research Center of Egypt, and COMSATS an International Conference on “Agriculture, Food Security and Bio-technology” on 8-9 June 2015, in Cairo. In the opening ceremony, Dr. Amr AbdelMeguid said that fresh water is continuously threatened by external factors that affect its sustainability. Available water is decreasing as a result of its pollution due to urbanization, industrialization, and other factors in addition to Climate Change. the consequences of water scarcity and pollution are very acute and that the first sector to suffer will be the agriculture sector.

Regional Knowledge Network on Water, Energy and Food Security Nexus (R-KNOW)

CEDARE is one of the main partners in the Regional Knowledge Network on Systemic Approaches to Water Resources Management (R-KNOW), lead by IUCN. R-Know is a regional project funded by the European Union (2013-2016). The project is being implemented in five countries (Lebanon, Jordan, Palestine, Morocco and Egypt). R-KNOW aims to influence policy and decision-making processes as a means to enhance good governance and policy coherence for sustainable development.

SEARCH Project

“Social, Ecological and Agricultural Resilience in the Face of Climate Change” (SEARCH) is a three years regional project funded by the EU and implemented in five countries (Lebanon, Egypt, Jordan, Palestine, and Morocco). SEARCH aims to develop and pilot a resilience framework for adaptation to climate change in watershed ecosystems. Implementation will be piloted in demonstration sites to enable joint learning with stakeholders, through local action planning and testing of interventions designed to increase climate change resilience.

Partners

EU
GIZ
Arab Water Council
IUCN Headquarters in Switzerland
IUCN Regional Office for West Asia
IUCN Med Office in Malaga
IUCN Office of the Global Gender Advisor
Centre for Development Innovation (CDI) – Wageningen UR in Netherlands
Earth Charter International
CARE-International
JOHUD – Jordan Hashemite Fund for Human Development
Arab Women Organization in Jordan
Ministry of Environment in Jordan
Badia Research and development Center in Jordan
Coptic Evangelic Organization for Social Services (CEOSS) in Egypt
Desert Research Center in Egypt
Ministry of Water Resources and Irrigation in Egypt
Ministry of Agriculture in Egypt
Ministry of Environment in Egypt
Union of Agricultural Work Committees (UAWC) in Ramallah, Palestine
Palestine Hydrological Group (PHG) in Palestine
Society for the Protection of Nature in Lebanon (SPNL) in Lebanon
MADA Association in Lebanon
Abdelmalek Essaadi / Tetouan University in Morocco