Board Meeting SDG Climate Facility Project
The Arab Water Council participated in the SDG Climate facility project Virtual Board meeting in December 2020
The Arab Water Council participated in the SDG Climate facility project Virtual Board meeting in December 2020 to mainly demonstrate each partners’ progress under the project. AWC presented the progress of the main activities including the design to establish an SDG-Climate Facility for the Arab region to scale-up innovative finance 114 and partnerships to support achieving Agenda 2030 and its goals and targets, implement Paris 115 Agreement and the Sendai Framework that ensures coherence and integration, as relevant to those 116 agreements. AWC presented the results of the first step under this activity which was a comparative analysis study comparing platforms, facilities, and centers addressing SDGs, climate change, and disaster risk reduction. This study will raise awareness and inform about other similar facilities; systems, cultures, thinking and acting patterns, governance structures, financing frameworks, and many other areas in order to provide access to a wide range of alternative model options and other added components that can be used to design the SDG-Climate Facility.