Toroka study presented at the international conference on Groundwater: Key to the SDGs
Highlights from the NaBWIG-funded MSc thesis aiming to assess the recharge and storage potential of the Toroka sand river in Kenya were presented at the “Groundwater, Key to the Sustainable Development Goals” international conference organized at the Sorbonne University in Paris. The oral presentation was given by Michel Frem on the 18th of May 2022 […]
IHE Researchers in Kenya
After being unable to conduct in-person field work due to Corona-related travel restrictions, NaBWIG supported IHE researchers Pooja Prasad and Annelieke Duker were finally able to resume their field work in Kenya in January 2022! Pooja spent a week in the Toroka river basin, where IHE MSc student Davis Nyongesa was studying the use of […]
NaBWIG Partner workshop – Nairobi
On Jan 28, 2022, project NaBWIG held an internal partners’ workshop held at JKUAT campus. Partners from JKUAT, SEKU and IHE attended the all day event which was organized in a hybrid format. Unfortunately, our partners from Mekelle could not participate due to the ongoing war in Tigray. NaBWIG meeting agenda Jan 28 2022 is […]
A call for Adaptive Investment Pathways
A call for Adaptive Investment Pathways NaBWIG post-doc Pooja Prasad was invited at the UNESCO global conference on Climate-resilient Water Management Approaches: Application Towards Climate Action and Agenda 2030 held virtually Oct 26-28, 2021. In her response to how bottom-up approaches may be scaled up to address climate uncertainties, Pooja makes a call for Adaptive […]
Stakeholder workshops in Kajiado
The NaBWIG team organized two stakeholder workshops on historic and future adaptive pathways in the Olkeriai river basin. The goals of the workshop were (1) to build an understanding of the historic pathways taken by different groups in response to risks and opportunities faced by the communities and, (2) to discuss perceptions of future risks, […]
Socio-hydrology conference Delft 2021
NaBWIG team made two oral presentations at the 1st Socio-hydrology conference organized in Delft Sept 6- 8, 2021
Two new MSc graduates supported by NaBWIG
NaBWIG supported two more M.Sc. thesis research this year. The graduating students are Ms. Grace Edina Wani from Malawi and Mr. Sintayehu Fetene Demessie from Ethiopia, who both successfully defended their thesis! This brought the total number of completed Masters’ thesis under project NaBWIG to six. Both Grace and Sintayehu will return back to their […]
Sand river based irrigation activity in Kajiado Kenya
A video of booming irrigation in Olkeriai river basin. The video was shared in the “Farmer voices from sand rivers” special session at the Waternet Symposium 2021 https://youtu.be/yzeIK0r_-rE
Smallholder irrigation along sand rivers: Presentation by IHE alumnus
Smallholder irrigation along sand rivers: Presentation by IHE alumnus Watch IHE alumnus Benson Mutuma Karimba present the findings from his Masters’ research, supported by project NaBWIG: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JQRbYmL_dmA
Farmer voices from sand rivers
Farmer voices from sand rivers – special session at WaterNet Symposium 2020 As part of the online WaterNet symposium 2020, a special session on small holder farms and sand rivers titled “Farmer voices from sand rivers” on October 30 2020, 10:00 – 12:00 SAST. See below program for more details: