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