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Action

Office Absences

NE to go to workshop in Burkina Faso in the fourth week of April

·         Waiting for Andrea to send letter of invitation

NE

NE to go to Paris for UNESCO HOPE Project, 13-17 May

DM to work from Germany 17th April-03 May

NH to go to Argentina to present her thesis from 19-24 March

NH graduation (congratulations welcome) on 11^th

DM birthday on the 8^th (presents welcome)

Website

Library

NE put sources into Mendeley but it only creates reading lists

Use the open library platform to catalogue all reports, books, etc.

NH

Resources

If we come across a relevant resources, put them on our website

ALL

Finances

·         Order printer/scanner/copy machine

DM

·         Order office furniture: chairs, tables

DM

·         Follow up DST payment in our account

NH

·         Ask Andrea about Milestone 2 upfront payment

NE

KM 2.3 Murray Task

·         Update Andrea

NE

·         Willem’s input – follow up

DM

·         Ball is in Murrays court – follow up

NE

JLP 1.5/1.6/1.7 Country Workshops

Reports:

The Country Workshops JLP1.5, JLP1.6 and JLP 1.7 will be summarised in one report

Papers coming out of the CWs:

·         Country Profiles pre-CW

·         JRC report (methodology, etc) post-CW

·         4 page policy brief (mix between country profile and report: recommendations coming out of the discussions) post-CW – prep template

All members

NH

Budget

·         Zambia payment to be followed up

·         Email to remind everyone about sending theirs in

·         Spreadsheet of CW costs for Secretariat

NH

NH

NH

SA CW

·         Meeting on Wednesday 11am

o   Discuss budget and proceedings

o   Invite Laurie

·         Collaboration with UNESCO’s GEF programme

o   Complement current programme

o   UNESCO will pay for their attendees

o   Meeting on Friday, 10^th May, Nico has to attend

o   Discuss with Laurie

DM/NE

NE

NE

AMCOW/SADC

·         Find out who the AMCOW TAC members are in SADC and write invitations

·         AMCOW contact details from Andrea:

Pheabe  Luwum pluwum@amcow-online.org

Dr. Salisu  Abdulmumin sabdulmumin@amcow-online.org

NH

KM 2.5 E-conference

NH

Communicate with:

·         GIZ for Lessons Learned from their SWISH programme (http://www.sadcwaterhub.org/):

Barbara Lopi (blopi@sadc.int) - SADC Water Division
Heinrich Gudenus (heinrich.gudenus@giz.de) - GIZ Transboundary Water Management in SADC Programme

·         Dr. Inga Jacobs and CSIR to arrange recording

·         Use Prof. Cloete’s LinkedIn profile

·         UN partners

 s.uhlenbrook@unesco-ihe.org; m.werner@ unesco-ihe.org; and:

Dr Shamila Nair-Bedouelle (PhD, HDR)
Head of OzonAction Branch
UNEP Division of Technology, Industry and Economics 
15 rue de Milan 
75441 Paris Cedex 09 
France 
Email: shamila.nair-bedouelle@unep.org

Tel: +33 1 44 37 14 59
Fax: +33 1 44 37 14 74
Web: www.unep.org/ozonaction

Progress / Reports

Outstanding:

·         JLP1.4 Piet’s report

·         KM2.4 Cosmo’s report still with JRC

NH

NE

Format and content of the Contractual Reports

NE

Network Agreement

NE

Being finalized

Making it easier for the network to expand

Steering Committee Meeting

To take place electronically

·         Provide three online conferencing platforms

NH

Preliminary date: 28 March

DG Workshop

·         Date unconfirmed

·         Contact Aggrey/DST for input

·         SADC Water Research Technical Committee meet in the first week of May, can we piggyback?

·         Contact Joyce at SADC Water to confirm date

·         Make sure we invite Science and Technology to the meeting

·         NEPAD to write official letter to SADC Water about date change

·         SANWATCE to write official letter to S&T for invitations

·         Botswana RSVP’ed

NE

NE

NE

OECD Workshop

The workshop is between Japan University and SU to find out how collaboration can be strengthened between developed and developing countries.

·         There are two workshops: 7^th March and in May

·         For the May workshop some network members might come to Stellenbosch

·         NE to manage expectations

NE

UNESCO HOPE

DFID Proposal

·         Contact person: Dr. Tim Short, University of Liverpool

·         UK institution has to apply

·         Researcher to researcher, complementary research

·         Deadline: 4^th April

NE

SASSCAL/ACCESS

Next meeting: 04.03.

·         Website

·         Bursaries

·         Possible workshop in June Better Water

NH

DM

Murray Biedler’s contract to be expanded

NE

Beginning of March: Members to formulate policy brief initiative and compile research