EU-INBO
EU-INBO
The International Network of Basin Organizations (INBO) has the following objectives:
- to develop lasting relations between the organizations interested in comprehensive water resource management at the river basin level, and favour exchanges of experiences and expertise among them,
- to promote the principles and means of sound water management in cooperation programs to reach sustainable development,
- to facilitate the implementation of tools suitable for institutional and financial management, programming, organization of data banks, and for models adapted to the needs,
- to promote information and training programs for basin organizations,
- to encourage education of the population,
- to evaluate ongoing actions and disseminate their results.
EU-INBO is the Group of European Basin Organizations for the implementation of the European Water Framework Directive.
More info: http://www.inbo-news.org/
 |
|
Gilles Neveu is engineer in Industrial Chemistry and Water. He is currently the Director for Innovation and Development at the International Office for Water. His expertise covers in particular:
- Water management: broad knowledge of Water Supply and Sanitation (WSS) and Integrated Water Resources Management (IWRM), including floods control, regarding both technical and management issues, and public participation.
- Human resources development: training of water professionals and local decision makers, creation and management of vocational training centres, training needs assessment, development of learning materials incl. eLearning (booklets, web based, CD-ROM).
- Information management: design and management of documentation centres, implementation of water-related data management infrastructure.
- Research & Development: dissemination of outcomes towards end-users, relaying needs from grass-roots users to researchers, analyse and assessment of programmes / projects ; he was the project director of the ERA-NET Coordination Action IWRM.Net, for coordinating Member-states research programmes in the field of water management.