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meetings among representatives of each activity to draw outlines

for their next actions.

The Korea Water Forum is continuously developing the APYPW

programmes to make them more helpful in enabling youths to gain

the knowledge and experiences to contribute to better water in the

future. Harmonious cooperation with international partners on

youth water education is a key focus of these endeavours.

Korea Junior Water Prize

The Korea Junior Water Prize (KJWP) was born in 2009 as an

annual national water essay competition co-organized by the

Korean Government and the Korea Water Forum. Every year

around 50 teams compete with their ideas on solutions for water

challenges. The essays mainly cover unique and creative solu-

tions for resolving local or global water challenges. The quality

of resolutions researched by the participants improves every year

and evaluators have a hard time selecting the best ones. Winners

receive a minister’s award as well as the opportunity to be a Korean

delegate at the Stockholm Junior Water Prize. This gives them

a precious chance to discuss common interests and share their

ideas and experiences with future water sector leaders during

the Stockholm World Water Week. KJWP participants also have

a close link to participating in the APYPW through the social

networks that APYPW parliamentarians have set up as part of their

follow-up actions.

Project Water Education for Teachers

As a close partner organization of the Project Water Education for

Teachers (WET) Foundation, the Korea Water Forum carries out

regular and irregular water training for teachers with customized

text and toolkits. The aim of the education is to build

capacity for sustainable development by disseminat-

ing proper tools for water education and raising public

awareness on water issues so that more people get

involved in actions to improve water and the water

environment. The Korea Water Forum aims to train

more than 100 facilitators and educators in a year.

Co-organizing international water education

In September 2013, the Korea Water Forum with the

Korean Government and the United Nations Environment

Programme (UNEP) Regional Office for Asia-Pacific

(ROAP)will workwith theKoreanMinistry of Environment

and Andong City, Republic of Korea to co-organize

Training for Trainers. Using the newly introduced UNEP-

International Institute for Sustainable Development

EcosystemManagement Manual, water experts and public

officials from different countries in the Asia-Pacific region

will be trained for local-scale implementation.

The cooperation with UNEP ROAP is a trigger for

expanding the scope of the Korea Water Forum’s water

education, with the goal of finding firm and effective chan-

nels to establish partnerships on regional water education.

Youth initiative in the World Water Forum

On the basis of youth activities in the various water educa-

tion programmes above, the Korea Water Forum and the

national committee for the 7th World Water Forum are

seeking to find the right place and time for youth to get

involved in the processes of the World Water Forum in

KJWP winners are given the opportunity to be a Korean delegate at the

Stockholm Junior Water Prize

Image: Korea Water Forum

Around 50 teams compete every year in the KJWP, creating solutions

to resolve global water challenges