Agenda
09 Oct 2017
Sunday 29 October
| From 5 p.m. | Participants arrive in Nairobi (Safari Club Hotel, Nairobi) Registration. Briefing Dinner will be announced upon arrival at hotel lobby InWEnt |
Monday 30 October - Conference Venue: UN Complex Gigiri, UNEP Conference Room Three
| 9.00 | 1. Official Opening and Welcome Representatives from UNEP, WBI, GEF-IW:LEARN, InWEnt [Statement by Ali Mohamed] |
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| 9.40 | Workshop Orientation: Facilitation team: objectives, expected outputs, agenda, methodol-ogy, participants introduction to each other | UNEP, GEF, WBI, InWEnt |
| 10.15 | Tea | |
| 10.35 | 2. Keynotes • GEF IW:LEARN activities to strengthen transboundary water resource management in Africa (GEF IW:LEARN) 20 min [Presentation - Janot] • IWRM principles (WBI) 20 min [Background Paper - Mei Xie] [Presentation] |
Janot Mendler de Suarez Mei Xie |
| 11.10 | 3. Effective Sharing of Experiences and Networking • Elements of Structured Learning (45 mins) [Workshop Plan] • Expectations for IW:LEARNing in Africa (30 mins) [Presentation Petermann] |
Plenary and buzz groups InWEnt team |
| 12.30 | Lunch | |
| 13.15 | 4. African Experiences and Key Lessons Learnt • Transboundary Water Management in Shared Aquifer Systems (20 mins) [Presentation Dodo] • Transboundary WRM in West Africa - Case presentation (NBA) (20 mins) [Niger Paper] [Niger Presentation] • Transboundary Cooperation – Case presentation Senegal River (OMVS) [Presentation - Baro] [Presentation au Francaise - Baro] |
Abdel Kader Dodo Ousmane Diallo Toumany Baro |
| 14.15 | Tea | |
| 14.40 | • Transboundary basins in Central & Northern Africa - Case presentation (Nile) (20 m) [Presentation - Omwenga] • Transboundary basins in East Africa – Towards Integration (GWP-East Africa) (20 m)[Presentation - Thuo] • Benguela Current LME [Presentation - Staegemann] • Guinea Current LME [GCLME Paper] [Presentation - Abe] [Presentation - Abohwey-ere] • Southwest Indian Ocean Fisheries Project [SWIOFP Presentation] • Lake Chad Basin Project [Presentation] |
John Omwenga Simon Thuo Lesley Staegemann Jaques Abe & Parcy Abohwey-ere Harrison Onganda Mohamed Bila |
| 18.00 | Evening Reception at the UNEP recreational centre, UN Complex Return to hotel by approx. 22 h (flexible) |
Tuesday 31 October
| 8.30 | 5. Implementing IWRM Principles in a Transboundary Context • Feedback form Day 1 (15 mins) • Introduction of Day 2 programme (5 mins) • Freshwater vulnerability in Africa (UNEP) (20 mins) [Presentation] [Presentation - Results] • Agulhas Somali Current LME (25 mins) [Presentation] [Presentation - Ribbink] [Presentation - Onganda] • Transboundary Cooperation in Southern Africa (UWC) (20 mins) [Presentation] • “Good Practices” from case studies in other parts of the world (WBI) (20 mins) • Lake Manzala Engineered Wetland (15 mins) [Presentation] |
Participants Salif Diop Anthony Ribbink & Peter Scheren Eberhard Braune Mei Xie Dia El Din El-Quosy |
| 10.10 | Tea | |
| 10.30 | • “Lessons learnt” from case studies (facilitators) : Introduction to a structured dis-cussion and reflection, add in points from the boards in plenary, buzz groups and introduction to group work. | InWEnt team Plenary, buzz groups |
| 12.30 | Lunch | |
| 13.30 | • Group-work task introduction: Development of strategies to address key issues in TWRM (e.g. stakeholder participation; water governance; shared water benefits; cross-cutting issues: environmental flow, health, HIV, etc.) | Group work; plenary discussion |
| 16.00 | • Presentations by groups (20 mins x 4 grps) [Presentation] |
Participants |
| 17.15 | • Introduction to the technical site visit (15 mins) | Facilitators |
| 17.30 | Return to hotel by bus | |
| 19.00 | Dinner at hotel at your leisure |
Wednesday 1 November
| 7.00 | 6. IWRM Technical site visits Objectives: Learn about conflicts and trade-offs in implementing IWRM at micro-basin level -Lake Naivasha: Water governance challenges towards implementing IWRM (organised by the Kenya Wildlife Service, KWS-Training Institute Naivasha [Rapporteur Report] [Naivasha Presentation] [Sector Reform Presentation] -Geothermal energy production in the Rift Valley (KenGen) [Presentation] [Nyambe Presentation] |
InWEnt with partners in Kenya |
| 21.00 | Dinner – Aangan Restaurant, Nairobi on the way back from Naivasha Return to hotel |
Thursday 2 November
| 8.30 | 7. Synthesis: Implementing Effective IW:LEARNing in Africa • Reflection and feed-back from field trip – buzz groups (30 mins) • Climate Change and its Implication for Water Resources Management (WBI) (30 mins) [Presentation] • Civil Society in Transboundary Water Management (by ANEW) [Presentation] • Introduction to www.iwlearn.org and support to projects (30 mins) [Presentation] |
Participants Habiba Gitay Kariuki Mugo Sean Khan |
| 10.15 | Tea | |
| 10.40 | • Opportunities for knowledge exchange leveraging synergies through cooperation, and collaboration among projects and in Africa – the IW:Learn perspective (15 mins) • Participants to discuss (in groups) mechanisms, commitments, Focal Points & respon-sibilities to promote the following potential avenues for learning & knowledge exchange: - Networking – e.g. calendar, website, e-dialogue, newsletter etc - Workshops - Informal consultations - Partnerships |
Janot Mendler de Suarez Group work |
| 12.30 | Lunch | |
| 13.30 | • Results form groups on recommendations, commitments and next steps • Response from GEF IW:Learn & InWEnt on the recommendations • Completion of workshop evaluation form |
Participants |
| 15.30 | 8. Closing remarks by the Executive Director UNEP and IW:LEARN | UNEP |
Friday 3 November
Departure
