{"id":2606,"date":"2020-12-04T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-12-04T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gwpo-gwp.org\/central-africa\/news\/gwp-sam-and-gwp-caf-co-organise-a-webinar-to-introduce-the-iwrm-toolbox-in-sao-tome-and-principe\/"},"modified":"2026-05-08T16:08:38","modified_gmt":"2026-05-08T15:08:38","slug":"gwp-sam-and-gwp-caf-co-organise-a-webinar-to-introduce-the-iwrm-toolbox-in-sao-tome-and-principe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gwpo-gwp.org\/central-africa\/news\/gwp-sam-and-gwp-caf-co-organise-a-webinar-to-introduce-the-iwrm-toolbox-in-sao-tome-and-principe\/","title":{"rendered":"GWP SAM and GWP-CAf Co-organise a Webinar to introduce the IWRM Toolbox in Sao Tome and Principe"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The webinar which brought together more than forty participants began with an opening session during which GWP SAM’s Regional Coordinator, Alejandra Mujica<\/strong> explained the origin of the collaboration between the two regions  saying, “This is an idea that came up in a conversation between Ligia, Hycinth, Saito and myself two years ago, and finally the cooperation between two regions twinned this time by language and always by the attitude of learning together and sharing our vision, becomes a reality.” <\/strong><\/p>\n

Speaking in the same session, GWP-CAf\u2019s Executive Secretary, Hycinth Banseka<\/strong> expressed appreciation to GWP SAM<\/a><\/strong> for the commitment to share knowledge with the network partners in Sao Tome and Principe.  <\/p>\n

\"GWP-CAf\u2019s<\/p>\n

He also highlighted the relevance of this webinar as a first step for Sao Tome towards identifying and documenting atleast two case studies on the implementation of IWRM<\/strong> in the country for the IWRM<\/strong> Toolbox<\/a>.<\/p>\n

In his opening speech, the Director of Water Resources, Chicher Diogo <\/b>said \u2018we\u2019re grateful for this webinar in our local language \u2013 Portuguese \u2013<\/i><\/b> <\/i><\/b>which will go a long way to assure a shared understanding on the IWRM Toolbox  and hopefully facilitate the learning\/teaching process of IWRM in Sao Tome and Principe\u2019<\/i><\/b>.<\/p>\n

\"Director<\/p>\n

The three main webinar speakers from Brasil; Carlos Saito, Gabriela Zamignan<\/strong> and Monise Terra<\/strong> were presented to the participants by Alejandra Mujica<\/strong>, Executive Secretary, GWP SAM. The main speaker, Carlos Saito presented the IWRM Toolbox, its objectives and how to capitalise it as an IWRM learning tool.<\/p>\n

His intervention was followed by that of Dr. Gabriela Zamignan, who gave a presentation on her doctorate degree topic  \u2018Integrated Water Resources Management: Tools, Challenges and Guidelines for Building a Systemic Vision on Water Management\u2019 <\/b>. Dr. Monise Terra made a presentation on “Integrated and sustainable Water Management in River basins: Tools, Challenges and Guidelines”.<\/strong><\/p>\n

\"Dr.<\/p>\n

The final presentation was by Dr. Carlos Saito , during which he gave  a step by step presentation on the IWRM Toolbox Teaching Manual<\/strong><\/a> for teachers to ensure the effective and efficient training of students on water issues. A question and answer session followed during which the different speakers provided responses to issues raised by participants.<\/p>\n

\"Chair<\/p>\n

At the end of the webinar, the Chair of the Sao Tome Country Water Partnership, Valdemira Tavares<\/strong> and the Chair of GWP South America, Leandro D\u00edaz<\/strong> took turns to thank the organising team and express hopes that this south-south knowledge sharing initiative will be the first of many to come.<\/p>\n

The IWRM ToolBox is being redeveloped in 2021 inorder to transform the ToolBox into a dynamic platform where practitioners, policy makers, government officials, academics, students, and other water actors will be able to learn and share IWRM knowledge as well as connect with each other. <\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

As part of Inter-Regional and South-South Cooperation within the GWP network, Global Water Partnership South America (GWP SAM) in collaboration with Global Water Partnership, Central Africa (GWP-CAf) organized a webinar in Portuguese on November 19, 2020 to introduce the Integrated Water Resource Management \u2013 IWRM Toolbox by GWP to partners in Sao Tome and Principe in a bid to find out their IWRM learning needs and preferences.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3922,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_uag_custom_page_level_css":"","site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"iawp_total_views":2,"footnotes":""},"categories":[57,55,4],"tags":[21,39],"class_list":["post-2606","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-archive","category-english","category-news","tag-central-africa","tag-iwrm"],"acf":[],"spectra_custom_meta":{"_sidebar_content":["field_69d4d421acab1"],"sidebar_content":["

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Webinar Powerpoint Presentation on the IWRM Toolbox<\/h1>\n <\/div>\n
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