GCRF Groundwater for Resilience in Africa Network (GRAN)

围绕GRAN实施的关键战略和框架是加强与地下水有关的研究-业务-政策轴，并将其纳入更广泛的水资源管理和发展政策。这将通过以下关键活动来实现：1.初步绘制利益攸关方地图和进行协商，确定七个潜在的网络主题，并通过加强合作、能力建设和解决方案的实施，进一步让主要网络合作伙伴参与并致力于非洲可持续地下水开发和管理的共同愿景2。(与研究人员和方案知识经纪人合作)综合、翻译和传播研究成果，为一系列非学术利益攸关方创造相关、(在线)和可使用的材料。这一步骤将侧重于研究成果，这些成果已经展示了具有显著扩展潜力的解决方案(基于技术、法律、政策、机构/参与)。研究成果还将提供给非洲重要的能力发展网络(例如非洲妇女网络)，以激发知识传播的多米诺骨牌效应。为配合AMCOW和SADC-GMI牵头的现有活动而组织的两个大陆范围的讲习班，将使学术和非学术受益者聚集在一起，围绕每个网络主题交流经验；然后，主题可能成为若干分网络的基础4。支持较小的(国家规模)活动和在线互动活动(如RWSN网络研讨会系列)，以回应对围绕地下水开展研究投入使用协作的明确需求5。拟议的GRAN网络将通过两次重大国际活动加强和扩大现有的与地下水有关的结构，并辅之以较小规模的活动、虚拟会议活动以及通过GRAP和非洲地下水地图集等在线平台编制和传播材料。较大的活动之一将在网络的头六个月内举行，将围绕已经计划好的活动展开，一个侧重于政策制定，另一个侧重于研究投入使用，而这两个活动都将针对政策制定者、研究人员和实践者。第一个将由AMCOW领导(在西非)，第二个将由SADC-GMI领导(在南部非洲)。这些会议的主要目标是交流关于地下水管理和发展潜力和风险的知识，以及如何通过吸收最近重大研究的经验教训以及试验/执行对能力发展有影响的技术、体制或政策解决办法来解决这些问题。会议将更新各地区从事地下水研究、管理和政策制定的主要机构的最新清单。这些活动将围绕关键挑战进行主题组织，这些挑战可能最终支撑一系列子网络。

The key strategy and framework around GRAN implementation is to strengthen the research-operation-policy axis related to groundwater and its integration into broader water resources management and development policies. This will be achieved through these key activities:1. An initial stakeholder mapping and consultation exercise, scoping out the seven potential network themes and further engaging and committing key network partners to a joint vision of sustainable groundwater development and management in Africa through enhanced collaboration, capacity development and solution implementation2. Synthesis, translation and dissemination of research outputs (in collaboration with researchers and programme knowledge brokers) to create relevant, accessible (online) and useable material to a range of non-academic stakeholders. This step will focus on research outputs, which have already demonstrated solutions (technical, legal, policy, institutional/engagement based) with significant outscaling potential. Research results will also feed into important capacity development networks in Africa (e.g. AGW-Net) to stimulate a domino effect of dissemination of knowledge.3. Two continental-scale workshops, organised to coincide with existing events led by AMCOW and SADC-GMI, which will bring together academic and non-academic beneficiaries to exchange experiences around each network theme; themes may then go on to form the basis of several sub-networks4. Support to smaller (national-scale) events and online interactions (such as the RWSN webinar series) responding to expressed demand for research-into-use collaboration around groundwater5. Ongoing engagement with network partners through identified sub-network leads or champions to anchor sub-networks beyond the GRAN, with support from GRIPP.The proposed network, GRAN, will build on and expand existing groundwater-related structures through two major international events, complemented by smaller events, virtual meeting activities and curation and dissemination of material through online platforms such as GRIPP and the Africa Groundwater Atlas. The larger events, one of which will be held within the first six months of the network, will evolve around already planned events, one with focus on policy development and one with focus on Research-into-Use, while both will target policy makers, researchers and practitioners. The first will be led by AMCOW (in Western Africa), and the second by SADC-GMI (in Southern Africa). The key objective of the meetings is to exchange knowledge on groundwater management and development potentials and risks and how to address these by incorporating lessons from recent significant research and piloting/implementation of technical, institutional or policy solutions, with implications for capacity development. The meetings will make updated inventory of key institutions in the regions engaged in groundwater research, management and policy development. The events will be thematically structured around key challenges that may ultimately underpin a series of sub-networks.