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Within the activities of the TEMPUS project, which is funded by the European Union, Eng. Jumana Abu Sada and Eng. Jamal Numan attended a ‘Continuing Professional Development (CPD)’ training course for GIS in Newcastle University. The Tempus project aims to build capacity in GIS applications in the field of water, environment and urban planning, This CPD training course consisted of Intermediate GIS and Spatial Analysis training using ArcGIS and was followed by discussions, development and preparation of the material for the 5th training course for the Tempus project, which is entitled “GIS applications in Urban Planning”. This course will be conducted in November 2008.

Areas of work

HWE works closely with Newcastle University (UK) and many other international institutions and funding agencies such as UNESCO, ESCWA, CEDARE, UNU, USAID, DFID, AFD, GTZ, GWP, EUWI, JICA, ACSAD, BGR, EU, etc.

Main Goals

HWE offers a wide variety of services in water, sanitation and environmental engineering and science from the needs identification stage to the elaboration of tender documents, supervision of works and technical assistance.


The House of Water and Environment (HWE) is a Palestinian not-for-profit NGO that was established in the year 2004. HWE aims to promote practical research into the current and future state of water resources and the environment in Palestine and across the region.


HWE is a Palestinian not-for-profit NGO that was established in the year 2004. HWE aims to promote practical research into the current and future state of water resources and the environment in Palestine and across the region. There is a need to combine different notions of social, technical and economic sustainability in order to achieve development outcomes that both provide for national development and help to achieve poverty reduction. HWE aims to address this need through mobilizing local and international networks and partnerships to promote a broader analysis of sustainable water resource development and better ‘governance’ of the resource.

Areas of work and scope of activities

HWE is working in three areas (with regard to water and environment):
     1- Development.
     2- Research.
     3- Capacity Building and Training.

 

HWE is particularly strong in the fields of: Water Resources, Sewage and Sanitation, Conflict Resolution, Food and Agriculture, Water supply, Engineering Aspects, ...

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