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Tag: Ghana
A BRAVE new approach to community climate resilience
re-posted from UPGro BRAVE The Fifth International Conference on Climate Services (ICCS 5) is the premier global event for Climate Services Partnership in Africa. This year’s conference will take place in Cape Town, from February 28 until March 2, 2017, and…
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a BRAVE new world…now online
The UPGro Consortium project, BRAVE has launched a brand new website to show case the fantastic work that the team - led by Reading University, in the UK is doing. BRAVE, or to use its more descriptive-but-not-so-catchy name: "Building understanding…
With no access to piped water, residents of Accra meet their own water needs. Here’s how.
re-blogged from SIWI: http://www.siwi.org/news/siwi-explores-complexities-of-groundwater-governance-in-peri-urban-accra-ghana/ Low accountability and complex governance landscape complicate understanding of reliance on groundwater in peri-urban Accra, Ghana, finds article by SIWI’s Dr. Jenny Grönwall. Poor urban dwellers tend to be disadvantaged in terms of public service delivery,…
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My experience of Life in Dodowa and the T-group Project
By: Alimamy Kolipha Kamara from T-group.science Yes, it was a period of intensive fieldwork which included the daunting task of collecting, transporting, and concentrating huge volumes of groundwater samples, inspecting sanitary facilities, etc., but life in Dodowa and the project…
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Finalising Obed’s fieldwork in Dodowa
By: Obed Minkah Final fieldwork activities in Dodowa included the establishment of monitoring network which consist of 40 wells to monitor groundwater fluctuation and to help us determine the groundwater flow direction. In order to know the groundwater flow direction, the…
Exploring cases of community participation in (ground)water governance in Dodowa
By: Shona Jenkins (from t-group.science) By the end of February, I will have spent 3 weeks conducting interviews with community members, community leaders and representatives from the local government across 11 communities in Dodowa. Throughout the interview process, I have…
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BRAVE project holds workshop on groundwater for the poor
Source: ISD (G.D. Zaney) on http://www.ghana.gov.gh There is the need to develop resilient agricultural water supplies as an essential first step to ensuring safe and reliable access to water by the rural poor, Ben Ampomah, Executive Secretary of the Water…
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Research: Is climate change making groundwater supplies in Sub-Saharan Africa less reliable?
source: University of Reading blog Over 500 million people in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) depend upon groundwater supplies, and this is set to rise dramatically. Safe and reliable access to water for the rural poor is a critical factor when reducing…
T-GRoUP kicks off
By Thloriso Morienyane and Jan Willem Foppen (reposted from: t-group.science) From 1-3 September, the T-GroUP kick off workshop took place at UNESCO-IHE in Delft. The main purpose of the workshop was to get to know each other, to learn more…
