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DAAD Alumni Summer School on Topics of Integrated Watershed Management
DAAD Alumni Summer School on Topics of Integrated Watershed Management
University of Siegen
12.4. – 25.4.2005
Aims of the Summer School
- Exchange of Ideas on IWM
- Comparison of modern (EU) Tools with Realities in Developing Countries
- Maintaining relations between Germany and Eastern Africa (Networking)
- Supporting German Development Co-operation
The programme was divided into the following main subject areas:
- Resource Management
- IWM Tools
- Monitoring and Evaluation
- Governance
- Conclusions and Workshop Evaluation
Each subject area was introduced through a presentation by an expert.
Working groups thoroughly worked on presented examples and issues. Parallel, each example was compared to the current status of the Sieg catchment area based on given documents and verified through excursions. The EU Water-Framework-Directive and the Sieg catchment area formed the basis of the summer school. Discussion groups on different topics took place in the evenings including external experts and students of the University.
Results as <media 544 - - "TEXT, SS2005 results, SS2005_results.pdf, 482 KB">download</media>
German institutions active in GAWN
- DWA - German Association for Water, Waste water and Waste
- Cologne University of Applied Sciences, ITT - Institute for Technology in the Tropics
- Hochschule Ostwestfalen-Lippe, Institute for Sanitary Engineering
- University of Siegen, Centre for International Capacity Development
- Frankfurt University of Applied Sciences - Urban water management
- Justus Liebig Universität Giessen - Center for international Development and Environmental Research
- Technische Universität Dresden, Institute of Hydraulic Engineering and Technical Hydrodynamics
- cewas - a Swiss non-profit association specialised in improving business practices in water and sanitation
- Weltweit – Gesellschaft zur Förderung lokaler Initiativen e. V.