Promoting International activities of the Water and Wastewater Affairs Ministry of Energy, I.R. Iran
Date: February 2017- Ongoing Objectives/Outcomes: By expanding communication between communities and governments in the international arena and the need for engagement to increase mutual understanding and establish legal frameworks for the expansion of relations, transnational and multilateral arrangements gradually emerged as a means to facilitate negotiations and tools for promoting regional and international[...]
Technical Session: Urban River Restoration and Improvement on the occasion of Iran Hydraulic Conference
Date: 14-15 December 2016 Venue: Qazvin, Iran Co-organizers: RCUWM–Tehran, Iran Hydraulic Association, Qazvin University Participating Countries/Organizations: Iran Number of Participants: 60 Number of Female Participants: 23 (39%) Objectives/Outcomes: Providing the latest achievements in the field of hydraulic engineering, meeting the needs of the country's water industry, paying attention to sustainable development indicators and[...]
International Trainers Workshop: Capacity Building of Journalist Educators on Climate Change & Water Management using UNESCO Model Curricula
Date: 04 - 06 December 2016 Venue: Tehran, Iran Organizer: RCUWM-Tehran Participating Countries/Organizations: Journalists and Public Relations Experts Number of Participants: 56 Number of Female Participant: 26 (46%) Objectives/Outcomes: Helping to improve the capacity of the media in water journalism in Afghanistan, Iran, Pakistan, and Turkmenistan Raising public awareness about climate change in[...]
Technical Session: How to Improve Sanitation and Hygiene (Budapest Water Summit)
Date: 28 November 2016 Venue: Budapest, Hungary Co-organizers: RCUWM–Tehran, UNESCO, WHO Participating Countries/Organizations: France, Germany, Hungary, Iran, Kenya and USA Number of Participants: 150 Number of Female Participants: 45 (30%) Objectives/Outcomes: Discussion on developing, test innovative and low cost technologies such as water-free sanitation, to be applied in urban area. [...]
Development of a National Water Security Atlas to Support Sustainable Water Governance in Iran
Date: October 2016 – Ongoing Objectives/Outcomes: Water security is defined as sufficient, safe, affordable, and clean water to lead a healthy and productive life for all human beings, where communities are protected from floods, droughts, and water-borne diseases. This project aims at bringing the concept of water security into practice to support sustainable[...]
Technical Visit: Water and Wastewater Facilities, Public Relations Network
Date: 26 September – 2 October 2016 Venue: Singapore, Malaysia Co-organizers: NWWECR, CUWM- Tehran Participating Countries/Organizations: Iran, Singapore Number of Participants: 21 Number of Female Participants: 4 (19%) Description: The managers of the public relations offices of the Urban and Provincial Water and Wastewater Companies visited the water and sewage companies of Singapore[...]
Meeting: Fostering Collaboration between UNESCO in the Field and Networks towards the Agenda 2030
Date: 21-24 July 2016 Venue: Bali, Indonesia Organizer: UNESCO Jakarta Office Participating Countries/Organizations: UNESCO Natural Sciences Senior Managers, UNESCO Natural Sciences Programme Specialists, MAB National Committees and representatives from BR networks, IHP National committees and Water stakeholders including IFI and IDI, UNESCO Natural Sciences Category 2 Centres and Water Chairs, UNESCO Jakarta Sciences[...]
Development of a Grid-Based Precipitation Dataset for West Asia to Feed Climate Change Studies
Date: July 2016- On-going Objectives/Outcomes: Precipitation Estimation from Remotely Sensed Information using Artificial Neural Networks (PERSIANN) is one of the popular satellite-based precipitation estimations which has three products in different spatio-temporal resolutions. In majority of cases, these data are used in policy making and therefore the users normally don’t have necessary technical capacity[...]
Second Meeting: UNESCO World’s Large Rivers Initiative (WLRI) Working Group
Date: 27-28 June 2016 Venue: Vienna, Austria Organizer: University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences of Vienna Participating Countries/Organizations: River Experts from all over the world Number of Participations: 30 Number of Female Participations: 15 (50%) Objectives/Outcomes: To create the knowledge base required for a holistic scientific assessment of the state of the[...]
Fourth Governing Board Meeting: The International Centre for Water Resources and Global Change (ICWRGC)
Date: 21 June 2016 Venue: Federal Foreign Office- Berlin, Germany Organizer: ICWRGC Participating Countries/Organizations: ICWRGC, RCUWM-Tehran, ICWC- Sweden, ERCE- Poland and ICIWaRM Number of Participants: 85 Number of Female Participants: 12 (14%) Objectives/Outcomes: Adoption of the minutes of the third Governing Board meeting Thematic highlights of ICWRGC 2015/2016/1017 Regional Water Cooperation, Meeting IHP[...]
