Afrialliance Advisory Board meeting
The AfriAlliance advisory board met in Paris at the International River Basins Organisation (INBO) offices the 24th of April 2018. The advisory board provides advices on directions to be followed during the implementation of the project, taking the perspective of complementary expertises of the stakeholders involved (Joint Research Center, Water JPI, Suez Environnement, African Ministerial Council on Water, NET WERC H20, EURAQUA / KIC Climate, UNDP / Cap-Net).
The main objective was to exchange on the main progress done during the 2nd year of the project and discuss the work plan for the upcoming months. Out of the main achievements:
the development of the five action groups launched the first year of the project, four dealing with irrigation and harvesting, one on integrated water resources management and ethics;
the policy brief entitled ‘Strengthening the capacity of African stakeholders to achieve Sustainable Development Goal 6 amidst Climate Change’, published after consultation of 35 citizens organisations;
a synthesis of the constraints and opportunities for using/collocate monitoring technologies (from satellite observations to surface station observations and newly citizen water point observatories.