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Regional Studies on Existing Water Initiatives
Three regional studies have been commissioned to review the existing water initiatives for science and technology (S&T) content: learning, innovation, relevance of technology and skills transfer; poverty reduction; food security; and the attainment of the Millennium Development Goal (MDG) 7 and use this as a basis to advocate change and share best practices.
These studies are designed to cover the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS), Great Lakes and Horn of Africa, and the Southern Africa Development Community (SADC) regions.
The research teams were selected from different countries to encourage interregional knowledge sharing and exchange of country experiences in water policy-making, implementation and management.
The expected outcome of the review studies is a web-hosted interactive database resource with a comprehensive synthesis of national and regional water Acts and environmental policies in the continent to encourage interregional knowledge sharing for internal/interregional harmonization of water and environment (W&E) policies in Africa.
This web-hosted interactive database resource will be hosted and managed by the African Technology Policy Studies Network (ATPS). The regional analyses of the interrelationships/linkages amongst the existing water and environment acts, initiatives, policies and programmes with respect to their S&T content, relevance to poverty reduction and food security in the continent and recommendations on how to encourage good practice will also be published in the ATPS special paper series and as policy briefs.
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