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roads22 The Kunzila Integrated Landscape Management Project (Kunzila ILMWA) Project, which is being co-implemented by WLRC AAU and SNV Ethiopia in partnership with the concerned government organs in the Amhara Region, West Gojjam Zone, North Achefer Wereda and communities in six rural kebeles of Kunzila Watershed and Kunzila town, supported the construction of 23.29 km rural all-weather road networks connecting with the main road the six nursery sites that were established by WLRC,

DSC 0063 Water and Land Resource Centre, Addis Ababa University held a workshop aimed at reviewing the 2020/21 (2013 E.C.) annual performances and harmonise the 2021/22 (2014) annual plans of the different divisions and projects. While opening the one-day workshop that was held on the 29th July 2021 at Getfam Hotel, Addis Ababa, WLRC Director General Dr. Gete Zeleke underlined that the workshop was deemed important for “looking back and moving ahead!” It was conducted to serve the following purposes:

A platform for sharing results of Academy 2030 Project, to which Water and Land Resource Centre is party and collaborator, is launched online by Center for Development and Environment (CDE) of University of Bern, Switzerland. CDE announces that the Platform https://academy2030.org/ is now online with an entry on the CDE homepage/news and through social media channels (Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn).

20210814 102932 ICT staff of Water and Land Resource Centre, Addis Ababa University, facilitated training on Sustainable Land Management Programme Knowledge Management Information Systems (SLMP-KMIS) offline software, August 12 - 15/2021, in Hawassa.

University of Oxford-led REACH programme, which is funded by UK Aid Direct from the UK Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office, publishes its interdisciplinary Water Security for Climate Resilience Report
Findings include less visible climate change impacts, including gendered impacts and those on children, as well as the immediate impacts of droughts and floods
Report makes specific recommendations to increase resilience in water systems
Follows recent WHO and UNICEF warning that billions worldwide will be without safely managed household drinking water, sanitation and hygiene services in 2030, missing a UN sustainable development goal – unless the rate of progress quadruples