The meeting of the Coordination Group of the EU Water Initiative was held in Brussels on 23 January 2013.  

Following on the Multi-stakeholder Forum last August during World Water Week in Stockholm, which has celebrated the 10^th Anniversary of the launch of EUWI, and highlighted the key achievements within the different regional and thematic components, we would like to exchange information and discuss the way forward for the different components and Working Groups. 

NEPAD SANWATCE Secretariat Meeting

10.12.2012

Present:

Nico Elema (NE) – nicoelema@nepadwatercoe.org

Nora Hanke (NH) – norahanke@ nepadwatercoe.org

Dominique Mannel – dmannel@sun.ac.za

1. CETA

·         The project is for the Water Institute, maybe in the future NEPAD SANWATCE will be part of it

·         Supreme Sebata to lead the project with CETA

(Find the online publication here)

3 December 2012

Present: N Elema, D Mannel & N Hanke

10:00-11:00

Previous minutes from the meeting with Prof.Cloete on 30 November 2012 was approved.

NE was giving feedback on the SETA meeting which presented opportunities for NEPAD SANWATCE to collaborate with.

NH was presenting 3 quotes for the design of the business plan. It was agreed to use SUNMEDIA as they are the cheapest and affiliated with SU.

NEPAD SANWATCE Meeting with Prof. Cloete

30.11.2012

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: ACP and DFID Funding Proposals

·         NE started working on the funding proposals and will continue to do so over the Christmas break

2. NE: Network Agreement

(On-line Publication can be found here)

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

NEPAD SANWATCE Secretariat Meeting

12.11.2012

Present:

Nico Elema (NE) – nicoelema@nepadwatercoe.org

Nora Hanke (NH) – norahanke@ nepadwatercoe.org

Dominique Mannel – dmannel@sun.ac.za

1.      Office and General

·         NE to send DM stationary requirements

·         DM to order stationary from Walton’s

Overview on ways of financing Water Resource Management structures and procedures oriented by IWRM-principles. Author: M. Matz, June 2011

Documentation of all exchange meetings

Higher-order statistics, such as skewness and kurtosis, are useful measures to describe the shape of a probability distribution. In hydrology, the assessment of these parameters is an important step for representing precipitation frequencies and understanding rainfall variability. Because of restrictions related to data acquisition and methods of analysis, the global patterns of higher-order precipitation statistics are still poorly described.

NEPAD SANWATCE Secretariat Meeting

22.10.2012

Present:

Nico Elema (NE) – nicoelema@nepadwatercoe.org

Nora Hanke (NH) – norahanke@nepadwatercoe.org

Excused:

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

1. Office and General:

NEPAD SANWATCE needs a letterhead

NE needs more business cards

NH needs business cards

NH to ask DM about contact person for printing business cards

2. Financial

Through its global network of Centres of Excellence in Water Science and Technology, this event aimed at exchanging and disseminating good practises in water resources management among experts from Africa(African Union/NEPAD Networks of Water Centres of Excellence), Latin America (RALCEA), China (EU-China plateform) and  Europe (JRC and other experts).

The exchanging and disseminating of good practises in water resources management embraced the following specific objectives:

NEPAD SANWATCE Meeting with Prof. Cloete

28.09.2012

Present:

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

Nico Elema (NE) – nicoelema@nepadwatercoe.org

Nora Hanke (NH) – norahanke@ nepadwatercoe.org

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

1. SANWATCE

·         EC pushed for more endorsement of the nodes for the Business Plan to increase the NEPAD SANWATCE clout with funders

NEPAD SANWATCE Secretariat Meeting

25.09.2012

Present:

Nico Elema (NE) – nicoelema@nepadwatercoe.org

Nora Hanke (NH) – norahanke@ nepadwatercoe.org

Dominique Mannel – dmannel@sun.ac.za

NEPAD SANWATCE Meeting with Prof. Cloete

21.09.2012

Present:

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

Nico Elema (NE) – nicoelema@nepadwatercoe.org

Nora Hanke (NH) – norahanke@ nepadwatercoe.org

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

1. SANWATCE Secretariat

·         NE to send reminder about the Business Plan feedback

NEPAD SANWATCE Secretariat Meeting

17.09.2012

Present:

Nico Elema (NE) – nicoelema@nepadwatercoe.org

Nora Hanke (NH) – norahanke@ nepadwatercoe.org

Dominique Mannel – dmannel@sun.ac.za

1. Office and General

·         NH and NE update DM on meeting with Prof. Cloete

·         DM and NE to compile report on Johannesburg workshop; minutes of meeting, not business plan meeting

NEPAD SANWATCE Meeting with Prof. Cloete

12.09.2012

Present:

Nico Elema (NE) – nicoelema@nepadwatercoe.org

Nora Hanke (NH) – norahanke@ nepadwatercoe.org

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

Excused:

Dominique Mannel – dmannel@sun.ac.za

General Update :

·         EC : ERWAT financial support to the University and potential Shell money for research on fracking in the Karoo

NEPAD SANWATCE Secretariat Meeting

10.09.2012

Present:

Nico Elema (NE) – nicoelema@nepadwatercoe.org

Nora Hanke (NH) – norahanke@ nepadwatercoe.org

Dominique Mannel – dmannel@sun.ac.za

1. Office and General

·         DM to buy the missing SADC flags and two Africa maps for office décor

NEPAD SANWATCE Secretariat Meeting

03.09.2012

Present:

Nico Elema (NE) – nicoelema@nepadwatercoe.org

Nora Hanke (NH) – norahanke@ nepadwatercoe.org

Excused:

Dominique Mannel – dmannel@sun.ac.za

NEPAD SANWATCE Secretariat Meeting

27.08.2012

Present:

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

Nico Elema (NE) – nicoelema@nepadwatercoe.org

Nora Hanke (NH) – norahanke@ nepadwatercoe.org

1. Office and General

·         DM has started the process of getting a phone into room 2007

·         Room 2007 and 2006 will be cleaned and waxed on Wed, 29.08.

Dear colleaguess 

This report presents the Water and Energy Facilities Information System (WEIRS) project. It has been carried out in collaboration between the JRC Environment and Energy Institutes (IES and IE) and the Water and Energy Facility teams of DG DEVCO. Here we present the results for the Water Facility part of the project, referring sometimes to processes shared with the Energy Facility component.