Day One/MENARID #4
- Keynote speeches introducing the scope of meeting
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Andrea Merla, Senior Groundwater Expert, UNESCO-IHP
Aden Aw-Hassan, Director of the Social, Economics and Policy Research Program, ICARDA
- Session I: Highlights from previous learning workshops on groundwater
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Majid Labbaf, International Center on Qanats and Hydraulic Stractures (ICQHS) UNESCO centre
“Traditional Knowledge and ancient hydraulic structures”Ebel Smidt, IGRAC-TUD-WaterFocus – “Opportunities for Managed Aquifer Recharge”
Lhoussaine Bouchaou, University of Agadir, Morocco – “Groundwater economics”
- Session II: Overview of ICARDA-led MENARID initiative in sharing knowledge and strengthening monitoring and evaluation systems
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Hugo Remaury, ICARDA, Achievements of ICARDA in supporting Results Based M&E systems and knowledge sharing through the MENARID program
Michael Devlin, ICARDA, knowledge sharing achievements in MENARID. How to maintain efforts to sustain knowledge sharing and mainstream knowledge management in Integrated Natural Resources Management projects – MENARID videos
Dina Najjar, Gender specialist at ICARDA – Policy issues in mainstreaming gender into land and water management activities, and natural resources management right in the context of MENARID
- Session III: Groundwater Governance tools to fight land degradation and provide good frameworks for transboundary aquifers management
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Amin Shaban, CNRS of Lebanon
Nanor Momjian and Ralf Klingbeil, UN ESCWA “Legal Issues and the ESCWA-BGR Inventory on Shared Water Resources in Western Asia as a Knowledge Base for Transboundary Cooperation” Yussuf Al Mooji, Independent Senior Expert, “Groundwater Governance” Video projection from Regional Consultation in Arab States, Groundwater Governance Project
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