Center for Water Informatics and Climate Resilience launched.

PESHAWAR -- The Center for Water Informatics and Climate Resilience was launched here at Institute of Management Sciences (IMScirnces) on Thursday.

The ceremony was held under a GIZ and BMZ funded project titled, 'Supporting Government of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa in Improving Climate Governance'.

Accordingly to a press release issued here, CWC is working in close collaboration with the Ministry of Climate Change (MoCC) at the National level and the Planning and Developing Department (P and DD) of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Province.

Various national and provincial government officers, experts from academia, the private sector, UN agencies, and NGOs attended the event.

The aim of the ceremony was the official launch of the Centre for Water Informatics and Climate Resilience (CWC), IMSciences.

Under the aforementioned project, IMSciences will extend support to GoKP in setting up a Climate Change Cell at the P and DD of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and operationalizing the Climate Finance Unit at the MoCC.

In addition, IMSciences is tasked to develop climate change-related curricula and implement a one-year diploma on climate change at the IMSciences for the relevant government officers and young professionals.

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