A UNESCO Regional Centre for Integrated River Basin Management in sub-Saharan Africa: NWRI Kaduna, Nigeria

摘要

In February 2006, in his Keynote Address at the International Conference on Water Security and Hydrological Extremes: Towards Sustainable Development in Africa and the first African Regional Consultative Meeting of the National Committees for UNESCO-IHP that took place in Abuja on 27 February 2006, the President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria urged UNESCO "not to leave Africa out of the initiative on establishing water-related centres worldwide as part of the implementation of a global water education and capacity-building agenda".