Category: Consortium Project News

  • Agenda for Change: UPGro influencing systems thinking on WASH services
    Agenda for Change: UPGro influencing systems thinking on WASH services

    Agenda for Change is  a collaboration of organisations who recognise we can achieve more by working together. Launched in May 2015 by Aguaconsult, IRC, WaterAid, Water For People and Osprey Foundation, Agenda For Change sets out what we think we need to do and how we need to act so that everyone, everywhere has water,…

  • BRAVE update 3 (Jul/Aug)

    BRAVE Newsletter Don’t forget to check out the BRAVE Website for additional blog posts, research information and supporting documentation. ~Happy reading! N’oubliez pas de consulter le site Web de BRAVE pour obtenir des publications supplémentaires, des informations de recherche et des documents à l’appui. ~ Bonne lecture! Partner Updates British Geological Survey Students from 2iE and…

  • Africa Rocks! @WEDC 40
    Africa Rocks! @WEDC 40

    Over the last year, the UPGro Knowledge Broker and RWSN team has been on tour promoting the potential of Africa’s groundwater as a catalyst for tackling poverty and the practical challenges of improving scientific understand and professionalism of implementation. These “Africa Rocks!” sessions in Dar es Salaam (Tanzania), Abidjan (Cote d’Ivoire), Livingstone (Zambia) have showcased…

  • Groundwater monitoring established in the Upper Great Ruaha Basin, Tanzania
    Groundwater monitoring established in the Upper Great Ruaha Basin, Tanzania

    Re-posted from GroFutures.org The GroFutures team at Sokoine University of Agriculture (SUA, Tanzania), led by Japhet Kashaigili (SUA) with support from PhD students, Hezron Philipo (SUA) and David Seddon (UCL), established in July (2017) a groundwater-level monitoring network in the Upper Great Ruaha Basin Observatory in southern highlands of Tanzania.  This area is part of the Southern Agricultural…

  • Ethiopian farmers and households have their say on their groundwater needs
    Ethiopian farmers and households have their say on their groundwater needs

    re-posted from: Grofutures.org The GroFutures team in Ethiopia has recently completed a survey of 400 households from predominantly agricultural communities within the Becho and Koka Plains of the Upper Awash Basin of Ethiopia; there are the same communities where the GroFutures team recently constructed and deployed new groundwater monitoring infrastructure. The team of social scientists, led by Yohannes Aberra of…

  • Reaching out with Radio — BRAVE’s radio programmes for African farmers

    Radio is arguably one of the most important, cost-effective sources of information for the majority of rural farmers in Africa. Along with farmer field listening groups and multi-stakeholder groups agri-educational radio programming addresses the training needs of smallholders by establishing a dialogue directly with rural farming populations, delivering live, relevant and real-time updates on issues […]…

  • Professor Yahaya Nazoumou: Groundwater central to Niger’s climate change resilience
    Professor Yahaya Nazoumou: Groundwater central to Niger’s climate change resilience

    re-posted from GroFutures [INTERVIEWER] Dr. Mohammad Shamsudduha or “Shams”, GroFutures Project Manager: thank you Professor Nazoumou for taking the time to discuss your involvement in GroFutures and how your work in the Iullemmeden Basin is making an impact on the government policies and practices of the water resources development and management in Niger. [INTERVIEWEE] Professor…

  • New – Water point failure in sub-Saharan Africa: the value of a systems thinking approach
    New – Water point failure in sub-Saharan Africa: the value of a systems thinking approach

    The latest output from the UPGro programme comes from Cambridge University as part of the “Hidden Crisis; Unravelling past failures for future success in Rural Water Supply” and examines the role of system-based analysis in understanding the root causes of the success or failure of rural water points. The full open paper is available to…

  • BRAVE: New climate change forecasts for West Africa

    via BRAVE Represented at the 4th PRESASS Regional Climate Outlook Forum in Accra, Ghana, May 15-19 — BRAVE BRAVE team members Professor Ros Cornforth, Professor Aondover Tarhule, Dr Galine Yanon and Aaron Aduna attended the PRESASS Forum organised by Agrhymet Regional Centre of Niamey, the African Centre of Meteorological Applications for Development (ACMAD) and the Ghana…

  • Ethiopia Phase 2 – Survey Update

    Phase 2 of the Hidden Crisis fieldwork is underway – right on schedule. The work has started in Ejere, a Woreda about 100 km north of Addis in Ethiopia. In this major survey of 50 poorly functioning rural waterpoints, we spend two days dismantling and testing each water point to work out what the main […]…