Tag: Tanzania
-
Groundwater Game as an effective tool for stakeholder engagement and collaborative planning [C6]
Building consensus was done with the Groundwater Game in Tanzania to guide groundwater monitoring and management. In Tanzania, the GroFutures research team also engages regularly with users in the Great Ruaha River Sub-Catchment of the Rufiji Basin through it Learning Platform that includes collaborative workshops and field research. In April (2016) at a workshop held…
-
UPGro Science: Participatory, community-led approaches, such as Transition Management, can provide new and collaborative ways of using and managing urban groundwater [S13]
Transition Management has shown to enhance social learning, empower communities to develop solutions, and build trust between stakeholders.
-
Different perspectives on ways to make a living from groundwater, in Tanzania and Ethiopia
Lessons from the GroFutures Multi-stakeholder Workshops in the Great Ruaha Basin, Tanzania, and Upper Awash Basin, Ethiopia by John Thompson, Imogen Bellwood-Howard, Gebrehaweria, Gebregziabher, Mohammad Shamsudduha, Richard Taylor, Devotha Kilave, Andrew Tarimo and Japhet Kashaigili Identifying and characterising groundwater development pathways More than four years ago, an international group of collaborators embarked…
-
“Extreme floods to bring good tidings to Tanzania city” UPGro in The East African
Why heavy rainfall from El Niño is a key to the water supply of Tanzania’s growing capital city.
-
Avoiding the Mistakes of the Asian Green Revolution in Africa
DODOMA, Tanzania, Jul 11 2019 (IPS) – Research scientists are studying groundwater resources in three African countries in order to understand the renewability of the source and how people can use it sustainably towards a green revolution in Africa.
-
UPGro T-Group research finds cancer-causing viruses in Kampala and Arusha slum groundwater
by Isaiah Esipisu and Dr Jan Willem Foppen (T-GroUP) In Summary The study found that most groundwater in the two slums contains traces of herpes virus, poxvirus and papilloma virus. Cancer is one of the top killer diseases in East Africa, blamed for nearly 100,000 deaths every year. Watch EGU press-conference presentation by Dr Foppen…
-
New state-of-the-art research collection on groundwater sustainability across Sub-Saharan Africa
New collection of papers on long term groundwater records across Africa and the implications for groundwater management
-
:: New UPGro Paper :: Understanding process, power, and meaning in adaptive governance
Two new social science papers from Hidden Crisis Cleaver, F., and L. Whaley. 2018. Understanding process, power, and meaning in adaptive governance: a critical institutional reading. Ecology and Society23(2):49. https://doi.org/10.5751/ES-10212-230249 Whaley, L., (2018). The Critical Institutional Analysis and Development (CIAD) Framework. International Journal of the Commons. 12(2), p.None. DOI:http://doi.org/10.18352/ijc.848 Key Points from : Understanding process, power, and meaning…
-
Arena meeting participants visited a number of informal settlements in Arusha (Tanzania)
re-posted from Tgroups.science On May 30, 2018, the participants of the Transition Management process, multiple actors active in different organisations and sectors such as the government, NGOs and the University, visited different informal settlements in Arusha with the aim to learn about local challenges and opportunities (e.g. innovative projects and initiatives).
UPGro 