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This collaborative project with the African Research Universities Alliance (ARUA) Water Centre of Excellence (led by Rhodes University, South Africa, ) applies a novel transformative, transdisciplinary, community-engaged research approach to shift water development outcomes towards achieving the UN Sustainable Development Goals.  Nine leading African universities support case study sites for catchment research in Senegal, Tanzania and Ethiopia, plus urban water research in Nigeria and Uganda, with learning sites and cross-cutting biodiversity research in South Africa and Rwanda.  

Partners:  Rhodes University (South Africa), Lancaster University (UK), University of Cape Town (S Africa), Addis Ababa University, (Ethiopia), University of Rwanda, (Rwanda), University Cheikh Anta Diop, (Senegal), Dar es Salaam University, (Tanzania), Makerere University, (Uganda), University of Lagos, Nigeria

Funded by , Apr 2020 – Mar 2022

Professor Vanessa Speight

Professor of Integrated Water Systems
School of Mechanical, Aerospace and Civil Engineering

Email

v.speight@sheffield.ac.uk

Telephone

+44 114 222 0259

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