NEPAD SANWATCE Secretariat Office Meeting
11.02.2013, Stellenbosch
Present:
Nico Elema (NE)
Nora Hanke (NH)
Dominique Mannel (DM)
Item |
Action |
1. OFFICE GENERAL
Office Absences |
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NE to go to workshop in Burkina Faso in the first week of April |
NE |
DM to work from home 15-30 April |
DM |
NH to go to Argentina to present her thesis from 19-24 March |
NH |
Library |
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Use the open library platform to catalogue all reports, books, etc. |
NH |
Finances |
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· Go to IT to install programme which makes out-of-office financial bookings possible |
NH/DM |
· DM and NH organised the binders and recommend that a copy machine is bought, quote on multipurpose machine is R7000 · Inga-Rae to be asked for her opinion on the quote · Buy to be proposed to Prof. Cloete |
DM DM/NE/NH |
2. NETWORK
Reminder to be send out about the Network Agreement |
NE |
Date for Steering Committee meeting to be discussed at the Train the Trainers, proposed date: June 2013 after/before AU workshop |
DM/NE |
3. JRC PROJECT
Country Workshops |
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Find out who are the AMCOW Tec members for SADC and write invitations |
DM/NH |
The Country Workshops JLP1.5, JLP1.6 and JLP 1.7 will be one report |
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Train the Trainers · Flights and hotel is booked and paid · DM to book shuttles · Email regarding preliminary budget to be send
· All further announcements regarding Country Profiles and booking to wait until after the TtT
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DM NH to draft |
Zambia CW · NH to book her flight now already |
NH |
SA CW Meeting on the 14th Feb with the CSIR and UWC for the Country Profile |
DM/NH |
E-conference |
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· Report to be finished · Andrea suggested to include ‘Lessons Learned’ in the report · Next e-conference to focus on ‘big issue’ · NH to work on background, confer with Wiida Marketing: · Prof. Cloete’s LinkedIn profile · Tie in with the UN World Water Day: s.uhlenbrook@unesco-ihe.org; m.werner@ unesco-ihe.org; and:
Dr Shamila Nair-Bedouelle (PhD, HDR) Tel: +33 1 44 37 14 59
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NH |
Progress / Reports |
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Outstanding tasks? Spreadsheet of status
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NH |
Outstanding reports? Especially JLP1.4 (Botswana)
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NH |
Details of Country Workshop report
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DM |
Format and content of the Contractual reports
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NE |
4. DG WORKSHOP
Hotel reservation: · Emporer’s Palace to send quote 11th · Bongani recommended Birchwood Hotel As the hotel reservations have to be finalized a month prior to the workshop, we need to follow up in February to find out BEFORE who can attend |
NH
NH/DM/NE |
5. 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: 7th March and in May · For the May workshop some network members might come to Stellenbosch · SANWATCE to organise a workshop |
NE |
6. OTHER
DFID proposal |
NE
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Murray Biedler’s contract to be expanded |
NE
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SASCOL network might fall under NEPAD SANWATCE administration; meeting planned for 12 Feb, 12pm |
NE/DM
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