DATE / TIME:

2017/11/10    18:30 - 20:00

Co-organised by the following UN Water Members: FAO, GWP UNECE, UNESCO-IHP, and UNU-FLORES

Introduction by Mr. Torgny Holmgren (SIWI Executive Director (Moderator))
Welcome Video Message from Mr. Gilbert F. Houngbo (UN-Water Chair)

Keynote

• Ms. Safaa Bahije (Head of Cooperation and Communication Division, Secretary of State in Charge of Water, Kingdom of Morocco)

Panel Speakers

• Mr. Alex Simalabwi (Global Water Partnership)
• Mr. Jorge Cifuentes (University of San Carlos of Guatemala City).
• Dr Victor Hugo Alcocer Yamanaka (CONAGUA)
• Ms Maria Weitz (GIZ)
• Dr. Anne Schulte-Wuelwer-Leidig (International Commission for the Protection of the Rhine)

Water is a key component of ensuring climate action, and is an SDG accelerator for multiple other goals such as SDG 2 “Zero Hunger” and SDG 6 “Clean Water & Sanitation.” Water is thereby crucial in achieving several climate sensitive targets.