The following short courses are planned through the AUDA-NEPAD Centres of Excellence in the various countries. Once the dates of the short courses become available, it will also be published.
- Nigeria, University of Benin SHORT COURSE
- Geospatial Information System, Artificial Intelligence (AI), Machine/Deep learning in Water Resources Management
- Climate change issues and impacts on key sectors
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- Nigeria, National Water Resources Institute (NWRI)
- Climate resilience: Access to water supply and sanitation
- Hydrological modelling and field measurements
- Groundwater exploitation and management
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- Ghana, Kwame Nkrumah University for Sciences and Technology
- Modelling tools for climate change impact analysis
- Hydrologic modelling in a changing environment
- Isotope methods for management of transboundary aquifers in West Africa
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- Burkina Faso, 2iE
- Water resource management in transboundary basins in a context of climate change
- Strengthening the WASH resilience of displaced people and communities in transboundary basins
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- Senegal, Cheikh Anta Diop University
- Hydrodiplomacy and conflict resolution in shared watersheds (national and/or international)
- International “Doctoriales” of Water Sciences
- Allocation of water resources in transboundary river basins: Legal instruments, regulatory tools and mechanisms
- Geomatics and photogrammetry applied to the assessment and management of water resources
- Groundwater management and surface water/groundwater exchanges
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- Ethiopia, Addis Ababa University – Ethiopian Institute of Water Resources
- Emergency WASH
- Water allocation planning process at basin and sub-basin levels (WAP)
- Earth Observation (EO) products for transboundary water management
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- Kenya, IGAD-ICPAC
- Lake Tanganyika hydrological and water resources modelling
- Seasonal forecast of the Lake Victoria water resources and skills assessment
- Climate and early warning for which the training outline was developed in ACEWATER II
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- Uganda, Makerere University
- Geo-AI for water security
- Geospatial tools for water systems resilience
- Water diplomacy and negotiation
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- Sudan, University of Khartoum – The Water Research Centre
- Basic river system modelling and planning. Read more about the course which was presented in February 2025
- Integrated Water Resources Management (IWRM)
- Advanced river system modelling and planning
- Groundwater management using mathematical modelling
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- Mozambique, University Eduardo Mondlane
- Economic assessment of natural disasters
- Mapping areas at risk of flooding
- Territorial planning, climate change and climate resilience
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- Mauritius, University of Mauritius
- Climate change and vulnerability of infrastructures and cities
- Disaster risk reduction and management at cities level
- Geographical Information Systems
- Forecasting accumulated flow depth using hydraulic models
- Mainstreaming climate change in the design of infrastructure and in city planning
- National workshop to validate the proposed climate resilient framework for cities for adaptation to flood conditions
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- Zimbabwe, Zimbabwe National University of Science and Technology
- IWRM
- Using GIS and remote sensing in water resource quantification, timeline assessments, and monitoring, management and modelling
- Climate and environmental aspects on water management
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- South Africa, University of the Western Cape
- Hydro-climate extremes data analysis using R
- Crop water requirements modelling
- GIS and remote sensing applications in agriculture
- Water resources allocation models
- South Africa, Stellenbosch University
- Regional (Southern Africa) upscaling of COVE (Centres of Vocational Excellence)
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- Regional (Southern Africa) upscaling of COVE (Centres of Vocational Excellence)
- South Africa, University of Kwa-Zulu Natal
- Earth observation for hydrological analysis and water resources management
- Hydrological modelling for water resources management
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- Zambia, University of Zambia
- Well design, drilling and operations management
- Groundwater monitoring network optimisation
- Groundwater drilling supervision
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- Botswana, University of Botswana
- Applied and field hydrology for practitioners
- Climate change, disaster risk reduction and adaptation strategies for water resources management
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- Malawi, University of Malawi
- Application of various techniques in aquifer characterization processes: Geophysics techniques, hydraulics techniques, chemistry tests, aquifer delineation techniques, remote sensing techniques
- Practical short courses on various hydraulic tests
- Professionalization and standardization of groundwater data collection and data analysis for various uses in the groundwater sector
- Groundwater modeling; surface water-groundwater modeling at local and regional scales
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- South Africa, Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR)
- Integrated programmes (WEFE Nexus, Climate extremes, Green Transition, Nature-based solutions, Environmental Implementation Plan)
- AWTTO ( Africa Water Technology Transfer Office)
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- Namibia, Namibia University of Science and Technology
- Smart investments and technology transfer (Green hydrogen economics and market
- Smart basins (cities) and innovative product development and scouting techniques
- Green hydrogen technologies (production to application)/Green hydrogen water procurement
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