The Water and Land Resource Centre (WLRC) and the Ministry of Water and Energy, together with key partners in the BRIGHT project (WP5.1) start auditing the current plans and preparing new ones for the BRIGHT target Basins.
Debre Birhan University’s wastewater treatment plant rehabilitation mission, one of the BRIGHT projects in the Abbay basin, has began.
Progress continues under the BRIGHT Project as preliminary and preparatory activities for upcoming hydrology and water supply interventions show positive momentum in Chencha Zuriya Woreda.
The BRIGHT Project has a significant progress in ongoing downstream infrastructure maintenance activities in the Hare catchment.
The Shama Kebele (Laka) project, Chencha Zurya Woreda —a combined water supply and irrigation using unattended flow—is now underway in the Hare Catchment hot spot.
The African Overview of Conservation Approaches and Technologies (AfriOCAT) platform was officially launched on 23rd October 2025 in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.
The Water and Land Resource Centre (WLRC), the Ministry of Water and Energy (MoWE) and local stakeholders held an Awareness Creation and Public Mobilization Planning Workshop on October 18, 2025, at Ezana Hotel, Arba Minch to expedite joint implementation of interventions supported by the BRIGHT Project.
The Water and Land Resource Centre (WLRC), in collaboration with the World Overview of Conservation Approaches and Technologies (WOCAT) and the African Union Development Agency (AUDA-NEPAD), launched the African Continental Network on Sustainable Land Management (AfrioCAT) at a regional training and launching workshop held at the Best Western Plus Hotel, Addis Ababa, 20th October 2025.
[Oct. 9, 2025]: MoWE experts that were trained with support by the BRIGHT Project graduated with MSC from the Deutch Delft Institute for Water Education. Their training in different fields related to IWRM and Basin Planning and Management is part of the deliverables under Work Package 3, Sub Work Package 3.1 of the BRIGHT Project, which aims to develop the technical capacity of MoWE and its component Basin Offices.
