This year’s World Water Week, entitled, Bridging Borders: Water for a Peaceful and Sustainable Future, asks us to connect regionally and globally to collaborate for a secure water future. For Water and Energy for Food, this theme resonates with the program’s work to connect the siloed industries of water, energy, and food to create an interconnected water-energy-food nexus. Especially for the hubs working with the innovators to help them reach more smallholder farmers and other end-users in countries that will feel the effects of climate change the most.
After four years of implementation and more than 160 innovators joining the program, WE4F has countless lessons learned and recommendations for organizations looking to develop their own water-energy-food nexus activities. Check out the sessions below to see how to connect with WE4F and learn from the program’s experiences.
Exploring Water-Saving Innovations with the Water and Energy for Food Grand Challenge
Date and time: August 26th, 2024 at 1pm GMT+2
Location: Netherlands Pavilion
During this event, attendees will be able to meet some of the water-saving innovators and program staff as well as learn about other innovations from around the world through an engaging video presentation that explores the results, the types of innovators supported, and how they have benefited from working with WE4F.
Deploying Water Accounting Tools for Climate Financing and Innovation Scaling
Date and time: August 27th, 2024 at 5pm GMT+2
Location: Online
This session walks attendees through Water and Energy for Food’s new water accounting tools, helping them understand opportunities for the tools’ use when making climate-related funding decisions and helps water-energy-food nexus public and private sector actors understand the need for caution when scaling innovations.
Four Years, Five Regions, Three Million End-users Impacted
Date and time: August 28th, 2024 at 11am GMT+2
Location: C1, Level 2 and Online
After four years, over 100 supported innovators across five regions reached three million end-users and were able to mobilize millions of dollars. The WE4F Initiative has lessons learned, successes and failures for future programs that unite different actors and regions of the world to improve the water-energy-food nexus.
Accelerating innovative Nature-Based Solutions for extreme weather events
Date and time: August 29th, 2024 at 11am GMT+2
Location: Room 27, Level 2
This session will introduce participants to a proven methodology to accelerate innovation in Nature-Based Solutions to improve resilience to extreme weather events such as flooding and drought, while supporting ecosystem recovery and improving biodiversity.
If you are unable to join us in person, the online registration is open to everyone and free. Register at https://www.worldwaterweek.org/attending. We hope to see you there!
