TAG: building resilience

Building resilience to climate change and disasters requires bottom-up, community-led response.

Creating the food systems that people want & need across Central Asia will depend in part on how water is managed under climate uncertainty.

Scientists at the International Water Management Institute (IWMI) were invited to contribute to a number of chapters in WWDR 2020, including chapter 4 (Water-related extremes and risk management).

This year’s World Water Day focuses on water and climate change – and how the two are inextricably linked. Throughout this year IWMI will, through its communications activities, focus on that link and the importance of how best to manage increasingly unpredictable water resources, particularly in the countries where we work.

Enabling rural communities to draw up action plans aimed at enhancing resilience to climate-related hazards through sustainable management of natural resources.

Read on to learn what we aim to achieve, how our researchers work and where we concentrate our collaborative efforts.