Updates from ESP’s sectoral working group 5 on ecosystem services in water management, including presentation at IAGLR 2018 on ‘Emerging Partnerships, Research, and Capacity in the African Great Lakes’ and a UNU INWEH workshop on ‘Africa2030WaterSecure Capacity Gaps and Needs for Water Security’:
SWG 5 co-lead Nidhi Nagabhatla attended the International Association for Great Lakes Research Annual Conference (IAGLR 2018) held at University of Toronto in Scarborough City, Canada. Her presentation entitled ‘Water Security Agenda as Research and Capacity Framework for Sustainable Water Futures’ included in the Session ‘Emerging Partnerships, Research, and Capacity in the African Great Lakes’ emphasized the need of capacity and reforms in the knowledge sector as pertinent to achieving water secure communities and countries and aligned with SDG 6 and 17 of 2030 Agenda for Transformation. She also featured in the panel discussion that followed, along with experts such Prof Robert Hecky, Dr Theodore Lawrence from African Center for Aquatic Research and Education (ACARE) and experts from Nigeria, Kenya, Malawi, Uganda and others countries.
Dr. Nagabhatla also hosted a multi-stakeholder workshop at UNU INWEH – Africa2030WaterSecure Capacity Gaps and Needs for Water Security and initiated discussions on how collaboration can add value for collective action to capacity building towards sustainable water management. Deliberating on models for collective action, different learning and knowledge tools and their application to capacity development of different stakeholder groups in the African context (details available here and here).