Social Innovation Factsheet #2.5: Integrated Water Resources Management at river-basin scale
A River Basin is a hydrologic area with a common outlet for the flow of water. It often gathers a great diversity in terms of water availability (upstream, downstream), climates, water qualities and ...
Social Innovation Factsheet #2.4 Ecosystem based approaches & Ecosystem services
Integrated Water Resource Management (IWRM) aims to strike a balance between the use of resources for livelihoods and the conservation of resources to sustain their functions for future generations ...
Social Innovation Factsheet #2.3: Local knowledge & climate change adaptation
Based on a deep understanding of the local environments, local knowledge is a way of life and means of survival for many. It has been passed from generation to generation and is understood by local ...
Social Innovation Factsheet #2.2: Water Use Efficiency
Integrated Water Resources Management (IWRM) is a process which promotes the coordinated development and management of water, land and related resources in order to maximise economic and social ...
Social Innovation Factsheet #2.1: Innovation in water reuse and the potential of new water resources
In order to satisfy the increasing demands for water, communities in Africa and across the world are turning to non-traditional water resources, such as treated wastewater or agricultural drainage ...
Social Innovation Factsheet #3.2: Innovation delivered by AfriAlliance Actions Groups
This third series of Social Innovation Factsheet (SIF) delivered by AfriAlliance aims at presenting some of the innovation produced by the 5 Actions Groups (AG) that took place from 2016 to 2019. The ...
Social Innovation Factsheet #3.1: Reducing Knowledge Fragmentation by Setting up Communities of Practice across Africa and EU
A Community of Practice (CoP), or “Action Group” in AfriAlliance, are groups of volunteer participants that have a continued interaction around a shared objective. CoPs provide an environment (face-to ...
Social Innovation Factsheet #1.1: Monitoring drinking water quality for improved health in Africa
Access to safe and clean drinking water is a basic human right, as declared during the United Nations (UN) General Assembly in 2010. Moreover, an indicator and target on safe drinking-water was ...
Social Innovation Factsheet #1.2: Monitoring of water availability in terms of quality and quantity for food security
Sustainable development in Africa is reliant on increasing the viable use of water resources without significantly degrading ecosystem services, which are fundamental to human well-being. This is ...
Social Innovation Factsheet #1.3: Monitoring climate for early warning systems to prepare for extreme weather events
Climate change is expected to alter temperature, air movement, and precipitation in various ways and to varying degrees across Africa with consequences for human health, nutrition, agriculture (e.g ...
Social Innovation Factsheet #1.4: Monitoring groundwater quantity to ensure its sustainable use and to avoid water conflicts
Groundwater is a resource to be protected due to its high but fragile resilience to climate change, as it responds much more slowly to meteorological conditions than surface water and, as such ...
Social Innovation Factsheet #1.5: Monitoring water pollution from industries and urban areas to protect human health and ecosystems
On one hand, the extent of the water and sanitation challenges vary across the African continent depending on the levels of urbanisation, industrial activities and the effectiveness of waste ...
