Shopping for geospatial data products in the ‘supermarket of African spatial delights’
17 September 2018 During a lively session at Stockholm World Water Week, 12 organisations and start-ups pitched the latest versions of their geospatial data products. The session was convened jointly ...
Water for Africa session at EBC-VII & ISEB-2018 conference: finding new ways of cooperation
19 July 2018 AfriAlliance was one of the seven Horizon 2020 projects presented in the ‘Water for Africa’ session at the joint conference of the 7th European Bioremediation Conference (EBC-VII) and the ...
The 2018 High-Level Political Forum on Sustainable Development – Taking stock and looking forward
5 July 2018 Once again governments will meet this July at the UN Headquarters in New York for the High-Level Political Forum on Sustainable Development (HLPF), convened under the auspices of the ...
Report on the Action Plan to foster Digital Single Market for Water Services (ICT4Water)
13 June 2018 Developing advanced digital water treatment solutions will contribute dramatically to achieve good status of European water bodies. The water industry of the future will be smart and ...
AfriAlliance lunch seminar at IHE Delft – connect and cooperate!
7 June 2018 In April, the AfriAlliance team at IHE Delft organised an institute-wide lunch seminar for colleagues to learn about the project and to find concrete ways forward for cooperation. Project ...
Oman Humanitarian Desalination Challenge
MEDRC Water Research and The Research Council have recently announced the launch of a major new initiative in water research, the ‘Oman Humanitarian Desalination Challenge’. The challenge is a $700 ...
On a mission to solving water problems: AfriAlliance and WaterWindow sign MoU
13 March 2018 On 12 March 2018, AfriAlliance and WaterWindow signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU). The MoU focuses on exchanging knowledge on matching the water-related needs of the African ...
Involving your colleagues in what you do: lunch seminar about AfriAlliance at IHE Delft
12 February 2018 On 15 December 2017, IHE Delft organised a lunch seminar on AfriAlliance for the IHE country coordinators. Country coordinators are the focal points for activities in a particular ...
Foundations for research on the dynamics of water innovation
21 December 2017 The Special Volume of the Journal of Cleaner Production, published on 10 January 2018, focuses on the dynamics of water innovation. Together with my guest co-editors Carlos Montalvo ...
AfriAlliance Newsletter no. 4
8 December 2017 Dear reader, Welcome to the fourth AfriAlliance newsletter! We have a full and productive couple of months behind us, and with this newsletter, we would like to update you about our ...
Water and climate at COP23: The Water Action Day
16 November 2017 The United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP23) is being held in the city of Bonn (Germany) from the 6th to the 17th of November. Partners of AfriAlliance have participated in ...
AfriAlliance Workshop in Ghana: one step closer to finding solutions
25 September 2017 From 17 to 21 July 2017, the five AfriAlliance partners WE&B, AfWA, BothEnds, IHE Delft and OIEau organised the workshop ‘Identifying the needs and priorities of water managing ...
AfriAlliance in Stockholm
13 September 2017 The Stockholm World Water Week that took place from 27 August to 1 September 2017 was also a great opportunity for several of the AfriAlliance partners to meet again face-to-face ...
AfriAlliance Newsletter no. 3
7 July 2017 Dear reader, It’s been 3 months since our Launch Conference in South Africa. The dust has settled and our partners are back home to continue their work. Seeing each other in South Africa ...
Developing bankable transboundary climate change adaptation projects
3 July 2017 From 21-23 June in Dakar, Senegal, more than 30 people participated in the training 'How to prepare bankable projects for financing climate change adaptation in transboundary basins'. It ...
Meteo Rwanda and TAHMO sign MoU
29 June 2017 The Director General of Rwanda Meteorology Agency (MeteoRwanda), Mr John Ntaganda Semafara, has signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the Director of The Trans-African Hydro ...
Preliminary results of the PRIMA SRIA public consultation
20 June 2017 On 5 June, the preliminary results of the PRIMA Strategic Research and Innovation Agenda (SRIA) Public Consultation were presented during the PRIMA General Assembly in Rome. They can be ...
AfriAlliance and VIA Water sign MoU to increase cooperation
19 June 2017 AfriAlliance and VIA Water met today to sign a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU). The MoU signals a commitment by both initiatives to increased collaboration on innovation in the African ...
