Final Report of the Seminar
Seminar on National and Trans-boundary Water Ressources Management in Africa, Dodowa (Ghana), 26-30 March 2012
The focus of the seminar was on tools for implementing Integrated Water Resources Management (IWRM) in national and trans-boundary river basins and aquifers.
Specifically, the seminar was intended to:
(a) present the main instruments (technological, financial, legal and economic) to support the implementation of IWRM at the country and basins/aquifers levels;
(b) present the procedure for taking into account the effects of climate change and other emerging threats on water resources;
(c) share experiences on the development of IWRM instruments in countries and river basins/aquifers in Africa and
(d) conduct a review of progress at regional, national and basins/trans-boundary aquifers in the use of instruments for IWRM in Africa.
Creator | Timothy Afful-Koomson, PhD. Environmental Policy Fellow United Nations University- Institute for Natural Resources in Africa International Programmes Building Annie Jiage Road Univ. of Ghana, Legon Campus Accra, Ghana // E.D.O. Ansa (email: koomson@inra.unu.edu ; edoansa@yahoo.com) |
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Publisher | Timothy Afful-Koomson, PhD. Environmental Policy Fellow United Nations University- Institute for Natural Resources in Africa International Programmes Building Annie Jiage Road Univ. of Ghana, Legon Campus Accra, Ghana // E.D.O. Ansa |
Type of document | Report |
Rights | Public |
File link | n/a |
File link local | Final Report_TransboundaryIWRM_GHANA.pdf (PDF, 2173 Kb) |
Source of information | Timothy Afful-Koomson, PhD. Environmental Policy Fellow United Nations University- Institute for Natural Resources in Africa |
Subject(s) | AGRICULTURE , ANALYSIS AND TESTS , CHARACTERISTICAL PARAMETERS OF WATERS AND SLUDGES , DRINKING WATER , DRINKING WATER AND SANITATION : COMMON PROCESSES OF PURIFICATION AND TREATMENT , ENERGY , FINANCE-ECONOMY , HEALTH - HYGIENE - PATHOGENIC MICROORGANISM , HYDRAULICS - HYDROLOGY , INDUSTRY , INFORMATION - COMPUTER SCIENCES , INFRASTRUCTURES , MEASUREMENTS AND INSTRUMENTATION , METHTODOLOGY - STATISTICS - DECISION AID , NATURAL MEDIUM , POLICY-WATER POLICY AND WATER MANAGEMENT , PREVENTION AND NUISANCES POLLUTION , RIGHT , RISKS AND CLIMATOLOGY , SANITATION -STRICT PURIFICATION PROCESSES , SLUDGES , TOOL TERMS , WATER DEMAND , WATER QUALITY |
Geographical coverage | Ghana |