In 2015, five ‘Consortium’ research projects began and concluded in late 2019 or 2020. Four the projects evolved from the UPGro Catalyst projects, but one (T-Group) made the cut when the open call for proposals was assessed. Each of the pages below gives a bit more detail on each project:
UPGro Consortium Projects
Gro for GooD: Groundwater Risk Management for Growth and Development
The overarching project aim is to design, test and transfer a novel, interdisciplinary and replicable Groundwater Risk Management tool to improve governance transformations to balance economic growth, groundwater sustainability and human development trade-offs.
Grofutures: Groundwater Futures in Sub-Saharan Africa
Groundwater Futures in Sub-Saharan Africa (GroFutures) will develop the scientific evidence and inclusive groundwater management processes by which groundwater resources can be used sustainably for poverty alleviation in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA).
Hidden Crisis: unravelling current failures for future success in rural groundwater supply
Millions of pounds of investment by water users, charities and tax-payers are wasted each year by water points failing soon after construction. Getting a more complete understanding of how to keep water flowing from boreholes will reduce waste and improve water services for Africa’s poorest communities.
T-GroUP: Experimenting with practical transition groundwater management strategies for the urban poor in Sub Saharan Africa
Improving access to safe water in slums is really complex and challenging. Transition Management theory embraces that complexity to find radically new and collaborative ways of using and managing urban groundwater.
BRAVE: Building understanding of climate variability into planning of groundwater supplies from low storage aquifers in Africa
The BRAVE project will provide an essential ingredient for evidence-based mitigation and adaptation policies in Sub-Saharan Africa. Through working directly with stakeholders through face-to-face meetings and the planned workshops in each country, we aim to develop water demand scenarios to inform the modelling, based on current domestic, agricultural and productive use needs, set within the context of the contemporaneous impacts on, for example, groundwater-based irrigation schemes in the River Volta Basin.
