Category: Consortium Project News
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Supporting community members to structure local problems and reflect upon them. The case of four communities in Bwaise area in Kampala.
by Giorgia Silvestri, re-posted from t-group.science In March 2018 the local transition team in Kampala organized the first three Transition Management arena meetings engaging participants from seven communities of an informal settlement area of the city. These first community meetings aimed at supporting the selected participants to structure the problems in their communities.
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The Transition Management process is underway in Dodowa (Ghana)
by Giorgia Silvestri, reposted from t-group.science The Dodowa local transition team organised the first Transition Management arena meetings, which took place on 28th and 29th of September 2017 in four different communities of the Dodowa peri-urban area. These first meetings represented the starting point of the overall Transition Arena process consisting of a series of monthly meetings.
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Disseminating T-GroUP research result findings in Dodowa (Ghana)
by Giorgia Silvestri, re-posted from t-group.science In February 2017, the Dodowa transition team organized several meetings with the inhabitants of four communities and the active members of two community based organisations (CBOs) in Dodowa (Ghana) with the purpose to disseminate the research results of the T-GroUP project and, more specifically, to inform all about the status…
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UPGro webinar today: Safe #water in towns and peri-urban areas: challenges of #self-supply and water quality monitoring
A quick reminder that today’s RWSN webinars feature presentations from UPGro research: “Safe water in towns and peri-urban areas – challenges of self-supply and water quality monitoring” Tuesday, 24th April 2.30 pm CEST (Paris)/ 1.30 pm BST (UK)/ 8.30 am EDT (Washington DC) Webinar in English: https://meetings.webex.com/collabs/#/meetings/detail?uuid=MEC5JM6L2PG15ELV2E4KRNLG40-BUDR “ La salubrité de l’eau dans les villes…
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Knowledge dissemination at community level in Kampala
by JW Foppen, IHE Delft/T-GroUP, re-posted from t-group.science Every first Sunday of the month, Kawaala zone holds community meetings in which various topics are discussed. The meetings are facilitated by mr. Wilberforce Sserwaniko, the local chairman, and his committee and are well attended. The T-GroUP team took advantage of this already existing communication vehicle and…
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Has Africa run out of water? | Prof. Alan MacDonald | TEDxHeriotWattUniversity
Professor Alan MacDonald (BGS/UPGro Hidden Crisis and GroFutures) gave a talk at a recent TEDx event at Heriot Watt University in Scotland. Watch it on YouTube:
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African governments acknowledging the Hidden Crisis
Survey results of rural water points in Uganda, Ethiopia and Malawi presented to government ministry chiefs ‘Functionality’ of a water point is more than a binary is water flow at the time of inspection? YES/NO Government partners see the value in how the research can improve monitoring and evaluation of rural water supplies
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Back to school: the future of water starts here
New educational resource developed by the Gro for GooD team launched for secondary schools in Kwale County, Kenya to increase understanding of water and the importance of the water cycle School Water Clubs teach girls about water science, policy and management Event held on 17th March to celebrate the collaboration between the UPGro team, the…
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GroFutures team bring rain to Niger in the dry season! (maybe…)
re-posted from GroFutures news Speed Read: Information collected through physical and social science methods was shared and discussed at the GroFutures Annual Workshop in Niger, with partners in and outside the study. Open-source modelling software under FREEWAT platform was successfully piloted for ‘stress testing’ the sustainability of Groundwater Development Pathways accounting for climate and land-use…
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Farmer field listening groups set up in Ghana
re-posted from UPGro BRAVE project In February, the Lorna Young Foundation, CARE International, Ura Radio presenters from Ghana Broadcasting Corporation (GBC) and the BRAVE team travelled to Jawani in East Mamprusi district and Tariganga in Garu Tempane to meet with the local Village Savings and Loans associations (VSLs) groups and to record the first programmes…
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