The Water Research Centre, University of Khartoum, is organizing an online Training Course on Integrated Water Resources Management (IWRM).
Professor Gamal Abdo of the Water Resource Centre of the University of Khartoum, participated in the 2025 Cairo Water Week, in a session organised by ITT of Cologne University of Science and Technology, Germany. The session, themed “Empowering the Next Generation: Science-Based Collaboration and Capacity Building in the Nile Basin“
The session brought together experts and young voices from across Nile Basin countries to show how science, education, and capacity building can shape a resilient future. Professor Abdo gave a presentation on the key WRC activities, regional projects, and strategies for maintaining education amidst the ongoing war in Sudan. Professor Abdo highlighted the ACEWATER III project and its various activities as one of the major collaborative and capacity-building projects of WRC across the Nile Basin and Africa.
The research and capacity development activities are undertaken within the framework of the ACEWATER III project, which is funded by the European Commission.
This week, the University of Khartoum is presenting an online short course in river system modelling and planning as part of the Human Capacity Development activities of the ACEWATER-III project. The short-course span two hours a day over five days between 24 February 2025 and 28 February 2025.
The programme is designed to give the 26 participants an opportunity to systematically understand Water Resource Systems Modelling, an overview of WaterStrategy and why Pywr and WaterStrategy are useful tools, creating a new Projects and model Networks, adding reservoirs and basic operating rules, exploring a model file in JSON format, and creating and running a multi-objective optimization formulation in Pywr. Participants also have the opportunity to present their projects at the end of the training programme.
While 82 applications from 10 African countries were received, a maximum of 26 practitioners and decision-makers were selected for the course from Sudan, Zambia, Togo, Senegal, Uganda, South Sudan, Morocco, Egypt, Nigeria, and Ethiopia.
Continue readingAs part of the ACEWATER-III Project, the IGAD Climate Prediction & Applications Centre (ICPAC) in Nairobi, Kenya, hosted Dr. Mohammed Basheer from the University of Khartoum, Sudan between 17 to 21 Februray 2025. The visit fostered collaboration on climate data acquisition, downscaling and bias correction, while also exploring advanced water resources modelling.
Following the visit, Dr Basheer remarked: “I would like to thank Dr. Khalid Hassaballah and ICPAC for hosting me this past week. It has been a highly productive time, during which we laid the foundation for generating downscaled climate change data for East Africa, ensuring it accurately captures key hydrological characteristics. Thanks to ACEWATER III for making this exchange visit possible.”
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Between 27 November 2024 – 6 December 2024, partners in the ACEWATER III project participated in three events, as part of the GORILLA (Geographical Science for Resilient Communities, Ecosystems and Livelihoods under Global Environmental Change) conference in Kampala, Uganda. The events were hosted by Makerere University.
Continue readingBy Alberto Leny 25 October 2024
The African Union is partnering with 21 African universities to tackle and provide sustainable solutions for Africa’s water challenges and climate resilience. Discussions are under way for a new African water vision and policy framework.
Representatives of these academic institutions joined over 1,500 participants, including political leaders, technical experts and civil society members at the 9th Africa Water Week Conference in Cairo, Egypt, earlier in October 2024.
The event, organised by the African Ministers’ Council on Water, was themed ‘Placing water and sanitation at the heart of achieving the African Union’s Agenda 2063: The Africa we want’. Discussions at the conference form the foundation for the new African water vision and policy framework, emphasising inclusive water security.
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15 April 2024
The day arrived when we launched the 3rd phase of the ACEWATER project! After many months of engagements, the EURO 5mil. ACEWATER project, funded by the European Commission, will implement five main activities between 2024 and 2028.
The following activities will be implemented as part of the ACEWATER III project:
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