WAHARA - Water Harvesting for Rainfed Africa
Introduction to the WAHARA project
In the variety of contexts in Africa – from arid to humid – the availability of water has become increasingly important, making an improved capture and usage of water essential. To ensure a continuous water supply for agricultural crops, water harvesting has been carried out in the earliest agricultural practices; however the environment has changed, as well as the number of people depending on it.
This is where the WAHARA project will make a difference: four countries, four pilot projects, one goal: increasing the potential of water harvesting.
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2013 Tunisia plenary meeting successful
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- Created on Thursday, 25 April 2013 09:50
- Written by Erik van den Elsen
During the week of 16-20 April 2013, the yearly plenary meeting of the WAHARA project was held in Djerba, Tunisia. The project teams discussed the progress of the latest project year, and made plans for the next project year.
Also, a meeting with the FP7 AfroMaison project was held.
AfroMaison focusses on proposing concrete strategies for integrated natural resources management in Africa in order to adapt to the consequences of climate change. Furthermore, AfroMaison will propose sustainable solutions for communities and authorities in their operational management and strategic policy of natural (water) resources, and help them in their fight against climate change.
The presentations of the WAHARA project can be found on the activities page of this meeting, or through the download section of this website.
The meeting notes are available by clicking HERE.
Africa Adaptation Knowledge Network
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- Created on Monday, 21 January 2013 14:40
- Written by Erik van den Elsen
AAKNet is a platform aimed at building a shared knowledge base intended to help build an innovative community of practice which enhances adaptive actions through sharing lessons, knowledge and information in adaptation. The platform functions as a knowledge hub on adaptation, promoting cooperation and collaboration in seeking robust solutions to climate change impacts using experiences and lessons learnt from the implementation of independent actions in different locations. Practitioners, policy makers, researchers and community members will be brought together through this so as to compare, contrast and collate the lessons learnt from their actions addressing climate risks. The Network will allow the various actors to collaborate and complement each other in concretizing and up-scaling solutions to a common problem.
Wageningen workshop successfully finished
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- Created on Monday, 24 September 2012 09:37
- Written by Erik van den Elsen
From Monday September 17th until Tuesday September 18th, the thrid WAHARA workshop was held. This 2-day workshop was dedicated to evaluating the work done until now, and to discuss the setup of the stakeholder workshops that are going to take place coming half year.The purpose of the planned stakeholder workshops was to involve these people in the study sites in deciding which most prominent problems should be tackled and which approach can be most successfully used for doing this. Involving local stakeholders, encourages necessary cooperation and involvement 'on the ground', which is a key issue for success of the project and future inmplementation of Water Harvesting measures.
The meeting notes can be downloaded soon.
A number of meeting presentations can be viewed on this page.
WAHARA meeting scheduled in Wageningen
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- Created on Thursday, 13 September 2012 10:13
- Written by Erik van den Elsen
The next coming WAHARA project meeting is scheduled to take place from Monday September 17th until Tuesday September 18th. This 2-day workshop is dedicated to evaluating the work done until now, and to discuss the setup of the stakeholder workshops that are going to take place coming half year.
The purpose of the planned stakeholder workshops is to involve these people in the study sites in deciding which most prominent problems should be tackled and which approach can be most successfully used for doing this. Involving local stakeholders, encourages necessary cooperation and involvement 'on the ground', which is a key issue for success of the project and future inmplementation of Water Harvesting measures.
Venue for the meeting is the 'Hof van Wageningen' hotel in Wageningen, the Netherlands. The meeting is organised by project coordinator Alterra.
The preliminary meeting program can be downloaded HERE.
[update 19SEP2012] a number of meeting presentations can be viewed on this page.
Deliverable 7.1 ready
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- Created on Monday, 23 April 2012 13:04
- Written by Erik van den Elsen
Deliverable 7.1 (report on the establishment of the WAHARA website) has been posted on the download website today. The report can be downloaded HERE.