NEPAD SANWATCE Meeting with Prof. Cloete

19.11.2012

Present:

Nico Elema (NE) – nicoelema@nepadwatercoe.org

Nora Hanke (NH) – norahanke@ nepadwatercoe.org

Prof. Eugene Cloete (EC) – eugenecloete@sun.ac.za

Dominique Mannel (DM) – dmannel@sun.ac.za

1. NE : Funding

·         Exciting opportunities, especially three

·         NE to attend a workshop on funding applications

2. NE: DESALPOWER

·         Murray Biedler forwarded a possible working connection with DESALPOWER

·         NE to forward to Prof. Winkus van Niekerk who is an expert in that field

3. NE: DST contract

·         DST has principally agreed to extend funding for three years

·         DST wants to write an addendum to the current contract to minimize time, instead of writing a new contract altogether

·         Next payment will be in December and DM’s and NE’s contracts can be extended once the money has been received

4. NE: RRA MoU

·         NE wrote a generic, non-committal MoU for the RRA

·         EC asked NE to ask the RRA to write an MoU so the ball is in their court

5. NE: SETA

·         EC will meet with SETA this week to make sure it fits into our mandate or into the Water Institute’s mandate

6. NH: gave an update on the EC JRC project progress, specifically Deliverable 2 and 3