GCRF Groundwater for Resilience in Africa Network (GRAN)

围绕落实全球水资源网的关键战略和框架是加强与地下水有关的研究-业务-政策轴心，并将其纳入更广泛的水资源管理和发展政策。这将通过以下主要活动来实现：1.开展初步的利益攸关方摸底和协商活动，确定七个潜在的网络主题，并通过加强协作、能力发展和解决方案的实施，进一步促使主要网络伙伴参与并承诺实现非洲地下水可持续开发和管理的共同愿景2。综合、翻译和传播研究成果（与研究人员和方案知识经纪人合作），为一系列非学术利益攸关方创建相关、可访问（在线）和可用的材料。这一步骤将侧重于研究成果，这些成果已经证明了具有显著扩大规模潜力的解决方案（技术、法律的、政策、体制/参与）。研究成果还将输入非洲重要的能力发展网络（如AGW-Net），以激发知识传播的多米诺骨牌效应。在非洲部长级水事理事会和南部非洲发展共同体-全球移徙倡议领导的现有活动期间举办两个大陆范围的讲习班，使学术界和非学术界受益者能够围绕每个网络主题交流经验;这些主题随后可能构成若干次级网络的基础4。支持小型（国家规模）活动和在线互动（如RWSN网络研讨会系列），以响应围绕地下水开展研究转化为使用的合作的明确需求5。在全球地下水资源保护伙伴关系的支持下，通过已确定的次级网络牵头人或支持者与网络伙伴持续接触，以锚定全球地下水资源网络以外的次级网络。拟议的全球地下水资源网络将通过两项重大国际活动，以现有地下水相关结构为基础，并加以扩大，同时辅之以小型活动、虚拟会议活动以及通过全球地下水资源保护伙伴关系和非洲地下水地图集等在线平台整理和传播材料。较大的活动，其中一个将在网络的头六个月内举行，将围绕已经计划的活动展开，一个侧重于政策制定，一个侧重于研究投入使用，而这两个活动都将针对决策者、研究人员和从业人员。第一个项目将由非洲部长级水事理事会（在西非）牵头，第二个项目将由南部非洲发展共同体-大湄公河次区域倡议（在南部非洲）牵头。这些会议的主要目标是交流关于地下水管理和发展潜力及风险的知识，以及如何通过吸收最近重大研究和技术、体制或政策解决方案的试点/实施的经验教训来应对这些问题，并对能力发展产生影响。这些会议将更新各区域从事地下水研究、管理和政策制定的主要机构的清单。这些活动将围绕可能最终支撑一系列子网络的关键挑战进行主题安排。

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.