Aquaknow project

Knowledge management and capacity building are key elements to build a sustainable water management, implying a partnership approach.

The AQUAkNOW is a dynamic platform and aims at enhancing and sharing knowledge on water issues by gathering updated and relevant information and offering dynamic tools.

These tools give you powerful means to share YOUR documents, data, information, ideas, experiences, and to find help and work with other stakeholders involved in the WATER sector.

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The AquaKnow platform organises itself around two working axes:

• Classifying the information available

The general approach retained is to classify the information available through thematic indexes combined with customised search engines both internal and external within the following sections: News, events and the library storing in various formats documents or links; the capacity building section providing users with an inventory of trainings, workshops, seminars and methodological tools; the tools and data section, displaying links or directly various databases and supporting tools for the water sector. Complying with the philosophy of the website, these indexes are user fed and thus directly updated by members. The thematic sections point out the existing information, data or tools, without duplication however hosting capabilities are offered to make data available and accessible online if necessary.

• Building a community

It includes interactive and user friendly tools allowing building communities in order to capture the informal knowledge issued from single users through improving exchanges. The working group are specific space freely available in order to work collaboratively.

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Key partner organizations

European Commission, UNESCO Institute for Water Education, Agencia espanola de cooperacion internacional, Global Water Partnership, International Water and Sanitation Center, Joint Research Center, Office International de l'Eau: OIEau, Swedish International Development Agency, UN Water, Water Wiki.