The Water and Land Resource Centre (WLRC) in collaboration with the Rift Valley Lakes Basin Administration Office of the Ministry of Water and Energy (MoWE) facilitated a three-day Training of Trainers (ToT) on Gender and Social Inclusion in Integrated Water Resources Management (IWRM) at Hawassa South Star Hotel.
Water and Land Resource Center (WLRC) in Collaboration with the Rift Valley Lakes Basin Administration Office (RVLBO) of the Ministry of Water and Energy (MoWE), under the BRIGHT project, launched a Training of Trainers (ToT) workshop, which was designed to strengthen participants’ capacity to identify/map actual as well as potential water-use related conflicts and embed cooperation-enhancing mechanisms in IWRM initiatives and practices.
A seminar titled “Water–Energy–Food (WEF) Nexus Modeling: Sharing Experience for Science-Based Planning for Ethiopia” was held on 9 December 2025 at the WLRC Meeting Hall.
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.
From 4th to 7th of Dec.2025, the WATDEV team organized productive back-to-back meetings: a Regional Meeting followed by a Local Feedback Meeting.
