Category: Outcome/Impact Story
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Green Roads for Water- New World Bank Guide
Roads and water are generally seen as enemies, with water responsible for most of the damage to roads, and roads being a major cause of problems such as erosion, waterlogging, flooding, and dust storms. This tension, however, can be reversed. The concept of Green Roads for Water (also known as “Green Roads” or “roads for…
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UPGro Science: Links between groundwater access and poverty are complex and sensitive to context [S2]
The links between groundwater access and poverty are generally indirect, complex and context specific.
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UPGro Science: Groundwater can de-risk economic growth [S3]
Although localised groundwater depletion is evident, particularly beneath growing urban centres, there has been no substantial declines in groundwater storage at a basin scale in Africa over the last 15 years and in some areas, there are substantial unused or under-used groundwater resources. Investment in detailed hydrogeological studies can highlight potential areas for groundwater development…
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UPGro Science: The programme has made a substantial contribution to evidence and data on African groundwater, its use and potential [S1]
As of mid July 2020, UPGro researchers have published more than 100 peer-reviewed papers directly, and used elements of UPGro work or partnerships to publish a further 60. 1 paper published in Nature and 2 in Nature Communications. Substantial interdisciplinary primary data collected from across 7 African countries and will be made available through the…
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Groundwater information for Africa: The Chronicles Consortium – finding and making long term groundwater records available [K5]
The Chronicles Consortium – part-funded by UPGro – has collated long-term groundwater records from across Africa. This is allowing an assessment of the impacts of groundwater use, climate variability, and climate and land use change on groundwater storage. This data is all freely available to download from the International Groundwater Resource Assessment Centre (IGRAC). This…
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AMCOW Pan African Groundwater Program (APAGroP): A new pan-African initiative promises to open peer-to-peer learning between national governments and increase groundwater data sharing and research collaboration [K4]
UPGro and its partners have played a key role in raising the profile of groundwater among high-level policy-makers in Africa. The UPGro Programme, along with other African and International groundwater partners, supported the AMCOW Pan-African Groundwater Programme (APAGroP) under its remit to support and strengthen the capacity of Member States and regional and international organisations…
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Groundwater information for Africa: the Africa Groundwater Atlas – the main online information portal for groundwater for all African countries [K3]
Groundwater has a critical role to play in securing safe water supplies, economic growth and food security in Africa. Groundwater is widespread on the continent, generally of high natural quality, and more resilient to climate variability than surface water. It therefore has potential to provide secure water supplies for domestic, agricultural and industrial use in…
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UPGro website archive – legacy supported by Skat Foundation through RWSN [K2]
During the programme, the UPGro website has been the central information portal for the programme. The final activity of the programme will be to re-organise the website to make the key outputs and synthesis available, illustrated by a short film. After the UPGro funding has ended the basic website costs will be covered by Skat…
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Global focus on groundwater: Groundwater is increased visibility on the global water agenda and will be the focus of the 2022 UN-Water World Water Development Report [K1]
“Globally, invisible groundwater resources are under increasing pressure due to human activities and climate change. Our response to this pressure is often not adequate, also due to limited awareness of the importance of groundwater resources.” – UN-Water Dr Neno Kukric, IGRAC (GroFutures) led the compilation of a UN-Water report on groundwater activities across UN-Water organisations.…
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Citizen engagement: Arena groups using Transition Management to increase safe use of urban shallow groundwater and to have a voice with authorities [C12]
Transition Management and Learning Alliances are proving to be valuable mechanisms for mobilising residents of slums areas, building trust between them and with authorities and NGOs. Residents in the three slum areas investigated are heavily reliant on self-supply from shallow groundwater and UPGro has strengthened the evidence base around those risks, and identified both new…
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