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)
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
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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