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The European Space Agency’s Earth Observation for Sustainable Development (EO4SD) Climate Resilience Cluster is hosting a free webinar to provide insight about the potential of Earth Observation (EO) to support climate-resilient decision making at the regional and national scale.
The International Water Management Institute (IWMI) and Digital Earth Africa (DEA) have partnered to develop tools and applications that will support water resource management and water security in Africa. The applications will use remote-sensing and machine learning technologies and will produce measurements that can improve the understanding of Africa’s changing landscape and provide African governments, communities, and companies with insights, knowledge, and analysis to make more informed and strategic decisions.
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The meeting aims to attract researchers, academics and practitioners actively involved in improving our understanding of urban water systems and flood events.
FRIAR 2020 will generate an improved understanding of emerging flood risk management and urban water management challenges, drawing on the expertise of numerous disciplines and considering a range of responses. The conference provides a rich forum for the development of innovative solutions that can help bring about multiple benefits toward achieving integrated flood risk and urban water management strategies and policy.
The National Water Authority (ANA), is an autonomous constitutional body of Peru. It is attached to the Ministry of Agriculture and is responsible for carrying out the necessary actions for the multisectorial and sustainable use of water resources by river basins. It is the Governing Body of the National System of Water Resources Management.
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In the frame of the EO Science for Society Programme Element, the European Space Agency is organising the 2nd Mapping Water Bodies from Space Conference.
The purpose of this conference is to provide scientists and data users with the opportunity to present first-hand and up-to-date results from their on-going research and application development activities by using data from past and current Satellites.
The Conference will be held at ESA-ESRIN (Frascati, Italy) on 27-28 March 2018.
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Geospatial technologies and remote sensing offer a crucial location element to the monitoring of Sustainable Development Goals and their corresponding targets and indicators.
IWMI has been inducted as the 16th Regional Support Office (RSO) for UN-SPIDER. An Memorandum of Understanding to this effect was signed with the United Nations Office for Outer Space Affairs (UNOOSA) on the sidelines of the 6th RSO Meeting in Vienna, Austria on 5 and 6 February 2015. The UN-SPIDER RSO will be housed in IWMI’s Water Availability, Risk and Resilience (WR) Theme, which promotes the use of spaced-based information and GIS on water-related disaster risk management to promote innovative solutions to address the challenge of disaster risk in Asia and Africa.
Available expertise:
IWMI employs nearly 330 staff. IWMI’s research focuses on the key water challenges poor communities face-issues that affect people’s livelihoods and health, as well as the integrity of the environmental services on which they depend. Research thus examines the “water-food-environment nexus”, adopting a multi-disciplinary approach and balancing efficiency and productivity objectives with equity and sustainability concerns. Seven key Research Themes help IWMI to more effectively produce impact for the benefit of poor farmers, whose livelihoods depend on agriculture and for whom access to water for productive purposes is a key constraint. IWMI recognizes the scope for a more proactive role in knowledge application to increase impact-particularly by interacting closely with other research institutes, policymakers, donors, partners and user communities. IWMI’s scientist cover wide-range of disciplines – water management specialist, hydrologist, economist, water resource engineer, irrigation specialist, GIS and RS Specialist, Software developer, Geospatial Programmer, information management specialist, communication specialist, monitoring and evaluation specialist and Uptake coordinator.
Available databases and space-based information:
The GIS, Remote Sensing and Data Management Unit is responsible for development of geospatial databases for research themes including Water-related disaster risk management and are served using Water Data Portal. The portal provides information of satellite images, maps and information products.
About the host institution:
The International Water Management Institute (IWMI) is a non-profit, scientific research organization focusing on the sustainable use of water and land resources in developing countries. It is headquartered in Colombo, Sri Lanka, with regional offices across Asia and Africa. IWMI works in partnership with governments, civil society and the private sector to develop scalable agricultural water management solutions that have a real impact on poverty reduction, food security and ecosystem health. IWMI is a member of CGIAR, a global research partnership for a food-secure future.
Through research, policy development, capacity building and knowledge sharing, IWMI:
provides an insight into water and land management from field to basin scales;
analyzes biophysical and socioeconomic processes;
assesses trade-offs of alternative development scenarios, taking a nexus perspective;
incorporates ecosystem approaches into agricultural systems;
assesses performance and identify solutions for agricultural water management – large- and small-scale;
improves resilience to climate shocks - provide flood and drought analysis for planning and response, and analysis of big data in real time;
identifies groundwater solutions – reducing overuse and recharging for resilience; and
promotes recovery and the safe reuse of organic waste and wastewater in agriculture.
<p><strong>Main Contact</strong><br />
<em>Giriraj Amarnath, Ph.D.</em><br />
Senior Researcher – Remote Sensing and Water Resources
Phone +94-11-2880000<br/> Fax +94-11-2786854<br/> Mobile +94-773295303<br/>
<a href="http://www.iwmi.cgiar.org/" target="_blank">www.iwmi.cgiar.org</a> <br />
<p><strong>Address</strong><br />
127, Sunil Mawatha, Pelawatte
Colombo, Sri Lanka<br/>
International Water Management Institute (IWMI)</p>
The International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development (ICIMOD), UN-SPIDER's Regional Support Office in Nepal, is co-organising a workshop with the Pakistan Council of Research in Water Resources (PCRWR) on using satellite imagery to better manage freshwater resources
Kenya's Water Resources Management Authority (WRMA) is a state corporation under the Ministry of Water and Irrigation established under the Water Act 2002 and charged with being the lead agency in water resources management in the country.
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The United Nations Office for Outer Space Affairs (OOSA), the Government of Morocco and the Prince Sultan bin Abdulaziz International Prize for Water (PSIPW) are jointly co-organizing the above Conference to promote the use of space technology for benefits of the developing countries.
The Conference will be held in Rabat, Morocco, from 1 to 4 April 2014. It will be hosted by the Royal Center for Remote Sensing (CRTS) on behalf of the Government of Morocco and cosponsored by European Space Agency (ESA) and the Inter-Islamic Network on Space Sciences and Technology (ISNET).
United Nations Office for Outer Space Affairs (OOSA), Government of Morocco, European Space Agency (ESA) and Prince Sultan bin Abdulaziz International Prize for Water (PSIPW)
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