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© European Communities, 2007 Science and Technology services for Supporting Water Management Policies in Developing Countries Dr. Cesar CARMONA-MORENO Contact person : [email protected] EC Support to the African Centres of Excellence in Water WATER – ACE Project DG Joint Research Centre Institute for Environment and Sustainability African Centres of Excellence in WATER Current African Centres Western Africa - UCAD Sénégal -2IE Burkina Faso Southern Africa - UWC South Africa - SU South Africa - UKZN South Africa, - CSIR - Universities from Malawi and Botswana
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Science and Technology services for Supporting Water Management Policies in Developing Countries
Dr. Cesar CARMONA-MORENO
Contact person : [email protected]
EC Support to the African Centres of Excellence in WaterWATER – ACE Project
DG Joint Research CentreInstitute for Environment and Sustainability
African Centres of Excellence in WATER
Current African Centres
Western Africa
- UCAD Sénégal-2IE Burkina Faso
Southern Africa
- UWC South Africa- SU South Africa- UKZN South Africa, - CSIR - Universities from Malawi and Botswana
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WATER – ACE ProjectScience and Technology services for
Supporting Water Management Policies in Developing Countries
Contact person : [email protected]
The mission of the JRC
• Providing a customer-driven scientific and technical support for the conception, development, implementation and monitoring of EU policies.
• Being a reference centre of science and technology for the Union as a service of the European Commission.
• Serving the common interest of the Member States, while being independent of special interests, whether private or national.
The WATER ACE Project
•To support the African Centres of Excellence in Water
•To foster integrated resources management and intergovernmental / inter-institutional cooperation in the Water Sector in Africa
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Water ACE : The framework
• The objective is to Build and Valorise the African Water Knowledge
• EC Contribution: AQUAKNOW Platform = Web-based information system for Virtual Communication, Knowledge Management and Training on-line.
www.aquaknow.net
WATER – ACE ProjectScience and Technology services for
Supporting Water Management Policies in Developing Countries
AXE 2 Guidelines, Data and Policy Dissemination
AXE 3 Water Knowledge Management Building
AXE 1 Supporting the development of regional networks
Framework will be based around 3 Big Axes or Land Marks of the Water – ACE
• Optimising competences and knowledge sharing in the frame of an open network (southern and West Africa)
• The network should address governance and policy issues:
=> being a technical and scientific adviser e.g in SWAPs, to AMCOW -TAC
• Information dissemination at Regional BUT also at Continental level• EC Contribution: EU Guidelines for Water Management that should become “a base for the African Water Guidelines”• EC - ESA Contribution: TIGER = Support through Call for Proposals – Capacity Building, Data, Software
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• How? This is not a shopping list
• Establishing a Medium – Long Term Strategy for the Centres of Excellence ( CoE)
• Identifying JOINT “Strong Points” and “Weaknesses” of the CoE
• Establishing COMMON priorities for JOINT activities
• Proposing a Stable BUT Open Structure = New members-institutions can be identified
WATER – ACE ProjectScience and Technology services for
Supporting Water Management Policies in Developing Countries
Water ACE : The framework
