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Progress and Prospects on Water: For a Clean and Healty World
with Special Focus on Sanitation
Building Capacity
Promoting Partnership
Reviewing Implementation
World Water Week in Stockholm
Transboundary Aquifers in Africa: Management and Protection of Under Cover Resources
Convenors: African Ministers’ Council on Water (AMCOW), Federal Institute for Geosciences and Natural Resources, Germany (BGR), International Association of Hydrogeologists (IAH), Stockholm International Water Institute (SIWI), United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) and United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO)
In Cooperation With: UN-Water Decade Programme on Capacity Development (UNW-DPC)
Sunday 17 August, 13:30-17:00 Room K24
13:30 Welcome and Introduction• Prof. Jan Lundqvist, Stockholm International Water Institute (SIWI), Sweden• Mr. Christoph Merdes, Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ), Germany• Dr. Willi Struckmeier / Dr. Friedrich Hetzel, Federal Institute for Geosciences and Natural Resources (BGR), Germany
Transboundary Aquifers in Africa: Management and Protection of Under Cover Resources
Sunday 17 August, 13:30-17:00 Room K24
Session 1 - Updates on Current Initiatives Chair: Ms. Raya Stephan, United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural
Organization (UNESCO) 14:00 Outcome of Tripoli-3: “3rd International Conference on Managing
Shared Aquifer Resources in Africa” Regional Center on Shared Aquifer Resources Management in Africa (RCSARM)Mr. Holger Treidel, UNESCO-IHP
14:15 Outcome of Kampala: “Groundwater and Climate in Africa”Dr. Callist Tindimugaya, Ministry of Water and Environment (MWE), Uganda
Transboundary Aquifers in Africa: Management and Protection of Under Cover Resources
Sunday 17 August, 13:30-17:00 Room K24
14:30 Status and Roadmap of the African Groundwater Commission (AGWC) Under AMCOW Dr. Willi Struckmeier, Federal Institute for Geosciences and Natural
Resources (BGR), Germany 14:45 Coffee Break Session 2 - Regional and Local Approaches to TBA Assessments and Management Chair: Dr. Willi Struckmeier, Federal Institute for Geosciences and Natural
Resources (BGR), Germany
Transboundary Aquifers in Africa: Management and Protection of Under Cover Resources
Sunday 17 August, 13:30-17:00 Room K24
15:15 Regional Cooperation in the IGAD Sub-Region: Using Science to Secure Political Commitment and Financial Support for Joint Management of Transboundary Water Resources Dr. Ousmane S. Diallo, Observatory of Sahara and Sahel (OSS),
Tunisia 15:45 The Kilimanjaro Aquifer, Situation Assessment and Transboundary
Cooperation: What Can We Learn from Local Scale Experiences for the Approaches to Regional Aquifer Systems?Dr. Malte Grossmann, Technical University Berlin, Germany
Transboundary Aquifers in Africa: Management and Protection of Under Cover Resources
Sunday 17 August, 13:30-17:00 Room K24
Session 3 - Discussion and Panel Debate Chair/Moderator: Dr. Reza Ardakanian, UN - Water Decade Programme on
Capacity Development (UNW-DPC) 16:15 What Can African Mechanisms and Institutions like AGWC and
RCSARM Contribute to Institutional Capacity Development for Transboundary Aquifer Management in African Basin Organisations? What Are the Bottlenecks and How Can We Overcome Them?
17:00 Close of Seminar
Transboundary Aquifers in Africa: Management and Protection of Under Cover Resources