Governance, Technical, Finances, Communication The Nakanbé Pilot Project in Burkina Faso is a solution for the technical support of an Integrated Water Resources Management policy in a context economic development.
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1127 - Technical support for an Integrated Water Resources Management in Burkina: The Nakanbé pilot project
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Contributor(s) :
French Water Agency Loire Bretagne, International Office of Water
Associated to targets :
- 2.1.6 Guidelines to manage multiple resources and MUS systems
- AF9. Integrate water security and climate resilience into country national development plans, and African Water sector representation in the negotiation on climate change starting by COP 18 to ensure access to incremental funding by 2015.
1065 - Development of a Tool for managing groundwater resources in semi-arid hard rock regions. Application to a rural watershed in south India.
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Until recently, aquifers located in hard rock formations (granite, gneiss, schist) were considered as a highly heterogeneous media, and no adequate methodology for groundwater management was available. Recent research studies showed that when hard-rocks are exposed to regional and deep weathering processes and when the geology is relatively homogeneous, a typical hard rock aquifer is made of two main superimposed hydro-geological layers each characterized by quite homogeneous specific hydrodynamic properties: namely the saprolite and the fissured layers. Therefore, for these cases, hard rock aquifers can be considered as a multi-layered system.
Contributor(s) :
Dörfliger N. brgm Water division
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1134 - RIM – Network of Farmers in Mediterranean irrigated Systems: an innovative vocational approach
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The pilot project RIM – Network of Farmers in Mediterranean irrigated systems – enables to carry out vocational training in the Maghreb region on water savings in irrigation and the development of value chains, benefiting family farmers’ organisations (cooperatives and agricultural water users’ associations). Read more
Contributor(s) :
FARM - Foundation for World Agriculture and Rural Life, Raccord, Ecole Nationale d’Agriculture de Meknès, Ecole Nationale Supérieure Agronomique d’Alger, Cemagref, Cirad, Montpellier SupAgro- Institut des Régions Chaudes, UMR G-eau, Chambre d’Agriculture du Lot, Cap Rural, El Itkane, Lisode, FARM Foundation, Association Française pour l’Eau, l’Irrigation et le Drainage.
1055 - SODIS (Solar Water Disinfection) method
(1 votes, average: 5.00 out of 5) Loading ...SODIS (Solar Water Disinfection) method – is a simple and cheap procedure to disinfect drinking water at the household level. People of the South get access to safe drinking water and this can improve their health in the long term.
Contributor(s) :
SODIS/Eawag
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806 - Solution Sanitation Campaign-A Trigger Approach for generating demand
(1 votes, average: 5.00 out of 5) Loading ...The key objective of the sanitation campaign was to ensure that the 100% households toilets were in use by man,woman and children as well as the hygiene behaviours were practiced in sustained manner.
Contributor(s) :
Abhishek Mendiratta
Associated to targets :
- AP1 Reduce by half the number of people who do not have access to safe drinking water and basic sanitation in our region by 2015 and to reduce that number to achieve universal and sustainable targets by 2025. On sanitation, this includes the adoption of new and innovative sanitation systems that are not as water reliant as current methods.
- 1.3.1 Modular education programmes and communication strategies on links between water, sanitation, hygiene, food security and health
1053 - Affordability indicator
(2 votes, average: 5.00 out of 5) Loading ...The affordability index is the ratio of the price of 120 m3 of water used by a household of 3 (water supply and sanitation) to the income of that household. When the affordability index is too high, social measures may be required. In France and UK, an index of 3% is considered reasonable by official bodies. In France a bill has been proposed to alleviate water expenditures of those having to spend over 3% of their income for water bills.
Contributor(s) :
Smets Henri
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1028 - Diffusion of the key performance indicators for IWRM developed for the Africa region
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...Since 2007, the International Office for Water (IOWater) and the International Network of Basin Organizations (INBO) are developing performance indicators for the assessment of African Transboundary Basin Organizations (TBOs).
Contributor(s) :
International Network of Basin Organizations (INBO)
Associated to targets :
- 1.5.4 Transboundary basins and/or aquifer systems institutions for sustainable water management
- AF7. Develop harmonized national, basin and regional knowledge management and water information mechanisms to support a harmonized methodology of M & E for the water sector in Africa and a pan-Africa state of the water report by 2015.
1091 - The French Global Environment Facility support to the Volta Basin Authority: creation of an observatory of water resources and associated environments
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...Although 19 million people live in the Volta basin and largely depend on its resources for their livelihoods, no basin organization was in place to effectively manage its resources until January 2007. On that date, a convention was adopted by the riparian States, creating the Volta Basin Authority (VBA) and defining the legal status of the river.
Contributor(s) :
International Network of Basin Organzations
Associated to targets :
- 1.5.4 Transboundary basins and/or aquifer systems institutions for sustainable water management
- AF7. Develop harmonized national, basin and regional knowledge management and water information mechanisms to support a harmonized methodology of M & E for the water sector in Africa and a pan-Africa state of the water report by 2015.
1027 - ECOWAS initiatives for the sound development of dams
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...In Africa and West Africa in particular, there is a need of large hydraulic infrastructures for the development of irrigation, access to energy and more broadly the general improvement of incomes and way of life. Such infrastructures are crucial for economic development and integration of the region. However, they can also be destructive if their realization doesn’t take into account environmental and social aspects, and if it is made without concertation through transboundary basin organization in order not to jeopardize upstream/downstream relationship.
Contributor(s) :
International Network of Basin Organizations (INBO)
Associated to targets :
- 1.5.4 Transboundary basins and/or aquifer systems institutions for sustainable water management
- AF7. Develop harmonized national, basin and regional knowledge management and water information mechanisms to support a harmonized methodology of M & E for the water sector in Africa and a pan-Africa state of the water report by 2015.
1024 - Suggestion of the creation of an IPCC of water: the Intergovernmental Panel on Water (IPW)
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...This solution consists in replicating in the water sector a structure similar to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. It seems relevant since, as climate, water is both a global and local issue, characterized by long-term challenges concerning mankind as a whole.
Contributor(s) :
Office International de l'Eau, on a suggestion of the French Ministry of Ecology
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