Despite the progress achieved, challenges persist in the water, sanitation, and hygiene (WASH) sector across Sub-Saharan Africa, including a lack of technical, managerial, and innovative capacities among water operators, regulators, and decision-makers as well as a notable gender gap in training within the water sector. Since 2009, the European Commission's DG INTPA and JRC have been actively involved in supporting Water Centres of Excellence, working closely with key stakeholders such as AMCOW, AMCOST, and AUDA-NEPAD to drive progress in the African water sector. Water Regional Centres of Excellence lead scientific research in the African water sector, focusing on critical challenges such as integrated water resources management, sustainable water supply, sanitation, WASH, water for food, and water for energy in alignment with the AU and African Development Bank's Water Strategy for 2021-2025.
Regional Centres of Excellence
The University of Stellenbosch, supported by DG-JRC and the other programme stakeholders, coordinates a wide group of universities and research institutions operating in the water domain across Sus-Saharan Africa.
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Monitoring of sea surface temperature (SST) provides fundamental information on the global climate system and for the study of marine ecosystems. For example, it helps estimating heat stress conducive...
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Africa’s extraordinary richness in biodiversity and ecosystem services comprises a strategic asset for sustainable development. Yet the decline and loss of biodiversity hampers the sustainable social ...
Africa’s extraordinary richness in biodiversity and ecosystem services comprises a strategic asset for sustainable development. Yet the decline and loss of biodiversity hampers the sustainable social ...
Africa’s extraordinary richness in biodiversity and ecosystem services comprises a strategic asset for sustainable development. Yet the decline and loss of biodiversity hampers the sustainable social ...
Africa’s extraordinary richness in biodiversity and ecosystem services comprises a strategic asset for sustainable development. Yet the decline and loss of biodiversity hampers the sustainable social ...
