Objective The WHaTeR project aims to contribute to the development of appropriate water harvesting techniques (WHTs). These WHTs should be sustainable under dynamic global and regional pressure, and strengthen rainfed agriculture, improve rural livelihood and increase food production and security in Sub-Saharan Africa. In total 3 European and 5 African organisations will be involved; namely VU University Amsterdam (The Netherlands), Newcastle University (United Kingdom), Stockholm Resilience Centre (Sweden), University of Kwazulu Natal (South Africa), Sokoine University (Tanzania), Southern and Eastern Africa Rainwater Network (Kenya), National Institute for Environment and Agricultural Research (Burkina Faso) and Arba Minch University (Ethiopia). Project activities will be divided over 14 Work Packages. The first Work Package covers project management and the second comprises a situation analysis - through revisits to water harvesting sites in 15 African countries studied previously by participating organisations . The next four Work Packages focus on detailed research and technology development activities on cross-cutting themes (environmental sustainability; technology development; livelihood improvement; uptake and upscaling; and global and regional impact) and will be conducted together with four country-based Work Packages (in Burkina Faso, Ethiopia, South Africa and Tanzania). One Work Package will concentrate on stakeholder communication and outreaching activities, and the final Work Packages consists of synthesis and dissemination of project results, inclduing production of guidelines for WHTs. The project will spend an estimated 74% of the budget on RTD, 13% on other costs related to stakeholder workshops and outreaching and 13% on project management. The expected impacts of the project comprise technology support for farmers, development of stakeholder communication networks, innovative water harvesting systems, tools for impact assessment, upstream-downstream land use, and policy support for integrated water management and adaptation to climate change to promote EU and African strategies on strengthening rainfed agriculture, food security and livelihoods. Fields of science medical and health scienceshealth sciencesnutritionagricultural sciencesagriculture, forestry, and fisheriesagriculturenatural sciencesearth and related environmental sciencesatmospheric sciencesclimatologyclimatic changesengineering and technologyenvironmental engineeringnatural resources managementwater management Programme(s) FP7-ENVIRONMENT - Specific Programme "Cooperation": Environment (including Climate Change) Topic(s) ENV.2010.3.1.1-4 - Water harvesting technologies in Africa Call for proposal FP7-AFRICA-2010 See other projects for this call Funding Scheme CP-FP-SICA - Small/medium-scale focused research project for specific cooperation actions dedicated to international cooperation partner countries(SICA) Coordinator STICHTING VU Address De boelelaan 1105 1081 HV Amsterdam Netherlands See on map Region West-Nederland Noord-Holland Groot-Amsterdam Activity type Higher or Secondary Education Establishments Administrative Contact Dia Eek (Mrs.) Links Contact the organisation Opens in new window Website Opens in new window EU contribution No data Participants (8) Sort alphabetically Sort by EU Contribution Expand all Collapse all UNIVERSITY OF KWAZULU-NATAL South Africa EU contribution € 269 640,00 Address University road, chiltern hills 3630 Westville See on map Activity type Higher or Secondary Education Establishments Administrative Contact Dlamini Sipho (Mr.) Links Contact the organisation Opens in new window Website Opens in new window Other funding No data UNIVERSITY OF NEWCASTLE UPON TYNE United Kingdom EU contribution € 268 917,00 Address Kings gate NE1 7RU Newcastle upon tyne See on map Region North East (England) Northumberland and Tyne and Wear Tyneside Activity type Higher or Secondary Education Establishments Administrative Contact Deborah Grieves (Ms.) Links Contact the organisation Opens in new window Website Opens in new window Other funding No data Sokoine University of Agriculture Tanzania EU contribution € 128 026,00 Address Sokoine university of agriculture Morogoro See on map Activity type Higher or Secondary Education Establishments Administrative Contact Filbert Rwehumbiza (Mr.) Links Contact the organisation Opens in new window Website Opens in new window Other funding No data STOCKHOLMS UNIVERSITET Sweden EU contribution € 285 636,00 Address Universitetsvagen 10 10691 Stockholm See on map Region Östra Sverige Stockholm Stockholms län Activity type Higher or Secondary Education Establishments Administrative Contact Stina Nieminen (Ms.) Links Contact the organisation Opens in new window Website Opens in new window Other funding No data INTERNATIONAL CENTRE FOR RESEARCH IN AGROFORESTRY Kenya EU contribution € 219 535,00 Address United nations avenue gigiri 00100 Nairobi See on map Activity type Research Organisations Administrative Contact Laksiri Abeysekera (Mr.) Links Contact the organisation Opens in new window Website Opens in new window Other funding No data INSTITUT DE L'ENVIRONNEMENT ET DE RECHERCHES AGRICOLES Burkina Faso EU contribution € 115 609,00 Address Gounghin 04 Ouagadougou See on map Activity type Research Organisations Administrative Contact Issaka Gansonre (Mr.) Links Contact the organisation Opens in new window Website Opens in new window Other funding No data ARBAMINCH UNIVERSITY*AMU Ethiopia EU contribution € 76 125,00 Address Po box 21 Arba minch See on map Activity type Higher or Secondary Education Establishments Administrative Contact Debalke Delcho Doyra (Mr.) Links Contact the organisation Opens in new window Website Opens in new window Other funding No data VERENIGING VOOR CHRISTELIJK HOGER ONDERWIJS WETENSCHAPPELIJK ONDERZOEK EN PATIENTENZORG Netherlands EU contribution € 0,00 Address De boelelaan 1105 1081 HV Amsterdam See on map Region West-Nederland Noord-Holland Groot-Amsterdam Activity type Higher or Secondary Education Establishments Administrative Contact Teun Jan Dorland (Mr.) Links Contact the organisation Opens in new window Website Opens in new window Other funding No data
