With the SDC support, this programme offers young entrepreneurs from low and middle income countries a support package that includes training, mentorship and seed funding opportunities to turn their water/sanitation initiative in a social business. The successful 2017 and 2018 editions have empowered already 19 entrepreneurs, distributed more than €84,000 in seed funding and benefited 15,000 people through their pilot projects. 

For its YWF 2019 Young Water Solutions will offer 10 young people (‘’Fellows’’) the possibility to participate in a one-month start-up training in Europe (delivered by our partner cewas). Fellows will also be assigned mentors, get the chance to exponentially increase their supporting networks in the water and entrepreneurship sectors, and apply for seed-funding for the first steps of implementation of their social enterprises. As we prioritize young people from disadvantaged contexts with great ideas but little access to resources, we need to double our communication efforts to make sure this call reaches as many young people and local youth groups as possible. 

Please find attached short communication guidelines with links to download different communication materials in English, French and Spanish and examples of emails and posts for social media. 

Links related to the call:

• Link to the application form: https://bit.ly/2BV7xdh

• Link to download the Terms of Reference: https://bit.ly/2TVZBiO

• Link to download the Application Guidelines: https://goo.gl/ZomMnn

• More information: www.youngwaterfellowship.org  

• Email for questions or technical problems: ywfellowship@youngwatersolutions.org 

The significant links and interdependencies between the targets of SDG 6 on water and sanitation and those of other goals highlight the central role of water within the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. Within SDG6, the SDG6.5 target on Integrated Water Resources Management (IWRM) is particularly well aligned with GWP’s mission. Together with UNEP/DHI, the custodian agency for SDG6.5, the GWP secretariat is currently scoping and designing a multi-year program that would empower GWP country water partnerships in mobilizing implementation action across relevant actors, ministries, and GWP partners – in the context of an ongoing dialogue about the assessment of progress towards SDG6.5.   The program will be at the core of the emerging new GWP strategy and is also one of the anchors for thought leadership on IWRM Implementation within country level realities and experiences.

The Sr. Water Resources Management Specialist/SDG6 Program is responsible for designing the program and for coordinating the range of direct SDG support initiatives being implemented under the program. This coordination involves (i) global support and creative design of worldwide activities on knowledge generation and exchange, (ii) working with regional GWP teams on the management of a range of country-level projects and initiatives, including on ensuring the latest thinking and insights on IWRM are being shared and infused into activities at the regional and local level, and (ii) liaising with appropriate funding partners as needed, both globally and, as appropriate, also advising regional and country teams in their fund-raising. The role requires close collaboration with GWP staff at country and regional levels as well as with colleagues from the GWPO Secretariat and key strategic partners, in particular at UNEP/DHI.  It requires good understanding of multi-stakeholder processes and ideally experience and talent in facilitating such processes.

The Sr. Water Resources Management Specialists/SDG6 Program will lead a small team directly, comprised of 1-3 other staff/interns, while mobilizing and coaching teams across the Network “from behind”.  The position is located within the GWP Secretariat’s Network Operations team, reports to the Head of Network Operations/COO and works closely with the GWP Executive Secretary in matters relating to the global positioning of GWP’s SDG6 work.

As part of the Belmont Forum-funded Food-Water-Energy for Urban Sustainable Environments (FUSE) project and the Austrian Development Agency-funded project ''Scaling resilient water and agricultural systems'' in East Africa (scaleWAys), the IIASA Water Program is offering a position for a research scholar (postdoctoral level) in Water Resource and Agricultural Economics. The successful candidate will work on further developing and implementing the in-house hydro-economic modeling framework (ECHO) and applying it in the framework of the FUSE project, as well as conducting research on up-scaling of agricultural water management practices within the framework of the scaleWAys project. This will include the development of interfaces for integrating ECHO and the in-house models such as the hydrological model, Community Water Model (CWatM), and crop model AquaCrop, and the development and application of modules for agricultural and energy sectors within ECHO. The development of these linkages will help to consistently evaluate the effects of implementing innovative food-water-energy solutions, including new agricultural practices, infrastructure, policies, or small-scale interventions, needed to address water scarcity.