Participants and mentors at the Chronicles Training Workshop at Sokoine University of Agriculture, Morogoro, Tanzania
AfriWatSan, supported by the UPGro programme and ESPRC, conducted a pan-African capacity-strengthening and knowledge co-production workshop at Sokoine University of Agriculture in Morogoro, Tanzania from the 10th to 12th of February 2017. Fourty (40) participants from 12 countries in Africa took part and analyzed multi-decadal, groundwater-level data (“chronicles”) from 9 countries including Benin, Burkina Faso, Ghana, Niger, Sénégal, South Africa, Tanzania, Uganda and Zimbabwe. Participants comprised PhD students and more experienced researchers (mentors & supervisors) as well as representatives from government ministries and the private sector. Training focused on the application of the water-table fluctuation method for analyzing groundwater-level records and was led by The Chronicles Consortium, an international consortium of scientists from across Africa and beyond collating and analyzing multi-decadal records of groundwater levels in order to assess the impacts of groundwater use, climate variability and change, and land-use change on groundwater storage across Africa. In addition to addressing key capacity-strengthening goals, the workshop provided a platform for the co-production of knowledge. As a result, a collaborative, pan-African analysis of multi-decadal groundwater-level records is in preparation and a number of participants is expected to contribute their national-scale analyses to an upcoming special section of Hydrogeology Journal.
Participants at the Chronicles Training Workshop analyzing groundwater-level records in groups and presenting their modelling results
Workshop Participants:
