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During Cairo Water Week 2022, the JCAR project participated on the 18th of October with three sessions for the project research activities. The sessions focused specifically on adapting impact-based research around water security and protecting the deltas in light of the climate crisis. 

Prof. Dr. Hani Sewilam participated in the activities of the JCAR sessions. In his speech, Dr. Sewilam praised the long history of cooperation between Egypt and the Netherlands in the field of water since the seventies of the last century, which culminated in the signing of the "Joint Cooperation Agreement in the Applied Research Program" Water-JCAR, with the aim of coordination and cooperation between the National Water research center (NWRC),  Soil, Water and Environmental Research Institute (SWERI), the Wageningen University and Research, the Dutch Environmental Assessment Committee (CMER), and Deltars, where the Dutch side provided support to the Ministry of Water Resources and Irrigation to deal with water challenges in the future by promoting planning, development and integrated management of water resources, and developing strategies. More support to continue developing the capacities of specialists and researchers in the field of water through strengthening the partnership between the Egyptian and Dutch institutes.

His Excellency explained that the Egyptian state had developed a future vision to increase water security based on the concept of integrated water resources management, which promotes the development and coordinated management of water, land, and related resources, including multiple elements such as quantity and quality of water, surface, and groundwater, and all water uses.

Dr. Swailem indicated Egypt's desire to cooperate with the Dutch side in a number of research fields, such as farming at the field level, rehabilitation of canals, modern irrigation, and covered drainage.

On the other hand, the Dutch Envoy for international water affairs, Mr. Henk Ovink, attend the JCAR session in the presence of Dr. Sewilam and he praised the bilateral relationship that has lasted for more than 45 years and the importance of the JCAR project. He explained knowledge cooperation and preparing for future water challenges are the main pillars of the JCAR project, and the importance of understanding way better what relates to our global security challenges and perhaps the food security first and also the relationship that comes from our real understanding of research that can be applied in the project program and pipelines to get a water secured world for all

 

Mr. Henk raised questions for the attendees about who is a water person and who is a food person, meaning these questions stressing out the importance of these two factors for the whole world. He also mentioned that as long as the water is seen as a sector and a silo from only the technical perspective we will not get to food security and climate security and this perhaps also be the core of the JCAR project and to know the critical role water play as a real liver and catalysts for actions across sectors.

He concluded his speech by asking the JCAR project team to help in two things; first, to prevent them as governors to focus on the pilots but help them to focus on the programmatic comprehensive approach where the first step leads to scale and replication and second, Become the benchmark when it comes to applied research, we have to apply the projects on the ground and bring them to the next UN conference and this can inspire the world to do the right thing for water security.

 

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Over View 

During Cairo Water Week 2022, the JCAR project participated on the 18th of October with three sessions for the project research activities. The sessions focused specifically on adapting impact-based research around water security and protecting the deltas in light of the climate crisis. 

Prof. Dr. Hani Sewilam participated in the activities of the JCAR sessions. In his speech, Dr. Sewilam praised the long history of cooperation between Egypt and the Netherlands in the field of water since the seventies of the last century, which culminated in the signing of the "Joint Cooperation Agreement in the Applied Research Program" Water-JCAR, with the aim of coordination and cooperation between the National Water research center (NWRC),  Soil, Water and Environmental Research Institute (SWERI), the Wageningen University and Research, the Dutch Environmental Assessment Committee (CMER), and Deltars, where the Dutch side provided support to the Ministry of Water Resources and Irrigation to deal with water challenges in the future by promoting planning, development and integrated management of water resources, and developing strategies. More support to continue developing the capacities of specialists and researchers in the field of water through strengthening the partnership between the Egyptian and Dutch institutes.

His Excellency explained that the Egyptian state had developed a future vision to increase water security based on the concept of integrated water resources management, which promotes the development and coordinated management of water, land, and related resources, including multiple elements such as quantity and quality of water, surface, and groundwater, and all water uses.

Dr. Swailem indicated Egypt's desire to cooperate with the Dutch side in a number of research fields, such as farming at the field level, rehabilitation of canals, modern irrigation, and covered drainage.

On the other hand, the Dutch Envoy for international water affairs, Mr. Henk Ovink, attend the JCAR session in the presence of Dr. Sewilam and he praised the bilateral relationship that has lasted for more than 45 years and the importance of the JCAR project. He explained knowledge cooperation and preparing for future water challenges are the main pillars of the JCAR project, and the importance of understanding way better what relates to our global security challenges and perhaps the food security first and also the relationship that comes from our real understanding of research that can be applied in the project program and pipelines to get a water secured world for all

 

Mr. Henk raised questions for the attendees about who is a water person and who is a food person, meaning these questions stressing out the importance of these two factors for the whole world. He also mentioned that as long as the water is seen as a sector and a silo from only the technical perspective we will not get to food security and climate security and this perhaps also be the core of the JCAR project and to know the critical role water play as a real liver and catalysts for actions across sectors.

He concluded his speech by asking the JCAR project team to help in two things; first, to prevent them as governors to focus on the pilots but help them to focus on the programmatic comprehensive approach where the first step leads to scale and replication and second, Become the benchmark when it comes to applied research, we have to apply the projects on the ground and bring them to the next UN conference and this can inspire the world to do the right thing for water security.

 

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