Presentations

Reference Documents

- Summary of the 1^st African Water Cycle Symposium (pdf format)

- Summary of the 1^st Task Team meeting in preparation of the 2nd GEOSS African Water Cycle Symposium (pdf format)

- Executive Summary of the 2^nd African Water Cycle Symposium (pdf format)

- Summary of the 2^nd African Water Cycle Symposium (pdf format)

- AfWCCI document for Rio+20 (pdf format)

- Water Cycle Integrator - abstract for the Planet under Pressure Conference in London, April 2012. (pdf format)

List of Participants of the event

The list of participations in the both sessions of the workshop is available in the Excel Sheet format HERE. The email addresses have been excluded from the list as this website is a public place. If you wish to contact a particular person and do not have his/her contact email address, please let the workshop secretariat know. Thank you.

Presented Contributions

-> AfWCCI Session (GEO)

-> Capacity Development Session (UNESCO)

AfWCCI Session, 12 - 14 January 2012

- River Basin Background Document

- ORASECOM Flyer

Agenda	Presentation File
1. Opening Session
1.01 GEO-UNESCO Joint Workshop on Earth Observations and Capacity Development for IWRM for River Basins in Africa: Opening Douglas Cripe, GEO Secretariat
2. Workshop Background
2.01 GEO Progress Douglas Cripe, GEO Secretariat
2.02 Integrated Global Water Cycle Observations Richard Lawford, IGWCO
2.03 Regional Activities in Latin America Richard Lawford, IGWCO
2.03a Regional Activities in Africa Toshio Koike, University of Tokyo
2.04 Capacity Developement Session GEO_UNESCO Workshop Toshihiro Sonoda, UNESCO
3. Needs of Trans-boundary River Basins
3.01 Lake Chad Basin Mohammed Bila, Lake Chad Basin Commission
3.02 Medjerda Basin (in French) Abdessatar Ben Gsim, DGRE
3.03 Niger Basin Bachir Tanimoun, Dr. Abdou Ali, and Ibraheem A. Olomoda, Niger Basin Authority
3.04 Nile Basin Richard Nyanzi, Nile Basin Initiative
3.05 Okavango Basin Tracy Molefi, OKACOM
3.06 Orange-Senqu Basin Rapule Pule, ORASECOM Secretariat
3.07 Snegal Basin (in French) Alpha Oumar Balde, OMVS
3.08 Zambezi Basin Zvikomborero Manyangadze, ZAMCOM
4. Satellite Observations
4.01 NASRDA Ahmad Shaba Halilu, NASRDA
4.02 JAXA Osamu Ochiai, JAXA
4.03 NOAA Jacob Sutherlun, NOAA
4.04 NASA David Toll, NASA and Richard Lawford, IGWCO
4.05 ESA: TIGER Initiative Arno M. van Lieshout, ITC University of Twente
5. Experts’ Inputs
5.01 UNEP activities in Africa Norberto Fernandez, UNEP
5.02 GEWEX Overview Dennis Lettenmaier, GEWEX/GHP
5.03 Meteosat Climate Monitoring & River Flow Forecasting Andries Rosema, EARS Delft
5.04 Earth Observation and Water Resource Management Arno M. van Lieshout, ITC University of Twente
6. Introduction to Preliminary Demonstrations
6.01 Introduction to Preliminary Demonstrations Toshio Koike, University of Tokyo
6.02 Land – Atmosphere Coupled Data Assimilation Mohamed Rasmy, University of Tokyo
6.03 Development of the Hydrological Model in Volta River Basin, West Africa Yohei Sawada, University of Tokyo
6.04 Framework for Investigating regional climate change and its impacts at basin scale in East Africa Felix Mutua, University of Tokyo
7. Summary of Needs and Capability - Breakout session
7.00 Introductions to Breakout Sessions Richard Lawford,IGWCO
7.01 East and Southern Africa
7.02 West and Northern Africa
8. Demonstration Project Planning
8.01 Western, Central & Southern Africa
8.02 Eastern and Northern Africa
9. Demonstration Project Coordination
10. Coordination with ODA Agencies
10.01 Coordination with ODA agencies at UNECA Johnson Oguntola, UNECA
10.02 African Development Bank Support for River Basin Management Hikaru Shoji, Water and Sanitation Department of AfDB
10.04 JICA: What we are looking for through utilizing the global earth observation Yusuke Amano, JICA
11. Implementation Baseline
11.01 GEOSS African Water Cycle Coordination Initiative Toshio Koike, University of Tokyo

Capacity Development Session, 14 - 16 January 2012

Agenda	Presentation File
Opening Session
0.1 Perspectives and Challenges of Integrated Water Resources Management Soontak Lee, UNESCO IHP Intergovernmental Council
0.2 Capacity Development Session Toshihiro Sonoda, UNESCO/IHP
1. Keynote Speech and Workshop
1.1 What is Integrated Water Resources Management (IWRM) Shinsuke Ota, International Commission on Irrigation and Drainage
1.2 Climate Change and Water Toshio Koike, University of Tokyo
1.3 Satellite data and Water Management Osamu Ochiai, JAXA
1.4 GEO & IWRM Douglas Cripe, GEO Secretariat
2. Experiences of Africa and IWRM Spiral
2.1 Experiences of Africa and IWRM Spiral Tadashige Kawasaki, NARBO
2.2 Case study of Tone river, Japan Tadashige Kawasaki, NARBO
2.3 Case study - questions for discussion Tadashige Kawasaki, NARBO
3. Sector’s Perspective and Sharing IWRM Spirals
3.0 Major Discussion Points & Keywords in the discussion
3.1 The sustainable IWRM in Yoshino River Basin Tadashige Kawasaki, NARBO
3.2 Discussion Template Tadashige Kawasaki, NARBO
4. Key for Success of IWRM
4.1 Japan’s Technical Cooperation in Agricultural and rural development in Africa Overseas Land Improvement Cooperation Office, Rural Development Bureau, Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries, JAPAN
4.2 Experiences from Lake Naivasha Basin Rose Nyamori, WRMA, Kenya
4.3 IWRM Knowledge Management and Capacity Development: Making an Impact Through Regional and Local Networks Bekithemba Gumbo,CAP-NET
4.4 Overview of challenges on Water in Africa Abou Amani, UNESCO Nairobi
5. Discussion on Strategy for Capacity Development of IWRM in Africa
5.2 Introduction of Regional Centre (RC)-IRBM in Nigeria Timothy Olatunji, National Water Resources Institute
5.3 Introduction of NARBO Tadashige Kawasaki, NARBO
5.4 Discussion on strategy for Capacity Development of IWRM in Africa - questions
6. Wrap up
6.1 Wrap up of the Capacity Development for IWRM Session