ARUA Water Centre of Excellence Development: "Water for African SDGs"

其中：SDGs（可持续发展目标），U（大学），CoE（卓越中心），CSES（复杂社会生态系统）和景观/流域/流域：同义词。“非洲可持续发展目标的水”项目将建立和发展ARUA水CoE，使其成为一个由8所非洲大学的研究人员和研究生组成的有效、高性能的枢纽和网络。CoE研究的发展将建立在理解人类生活在地球上作为社会与自然世界的复杂耦合- CSESs的基础上。我们将推动社区参与和知识共享，促进可持续发展。我们将利用研究促进社会和生态正义与可持续性的变革，关注非洲社区的水和卫生需求。水资源CoE已经形成了可持续发展目标作为规划、实践和评估工具的系统形象。该图像以可持续发展目标6“清洁水和卫生”为中心，连接两个主要水循环：i)集水区的水（降雨、径流、地下水补给、蒸发蒸腾、蒸发）；& ii)供水服务-供应和卫生（来自自然资源的原水，通常通过水坝、管道和泵输送到水处理厂，经处理的饮用水输送到家庭，废水输送到处理厂并排放到自然资源中）。一些节点将其水研究置于气候变化背景下（可持续发展目标13），并承认水是可持续发展目标15（陆地生命）、11（可持续城市和社区）和12（负责任的消费和生产）的组成部分。有效的水资源管理、供应和卫生需要强有力的机构进行良好的水治理（可持续发展目标16）。水资源CoE本身体现了可持续发展目标17（实现目标的伙伴关系）、4（优质教育）和5（性别平等）。每个CoE节点在这些循环的不同部分都具有优势。本项目集思广益，各节点可灵活对接、创新应对科研经费需求，有效应用科研成果。能力建设、交流和指导将主要通过每个节点为来自3-5个其他节点的14名参与者开发和交付为期3天的课程来解决。参与者将是博士生，早期，中期职业生涯和建立的研究人员。节点将以其主要优势举办课程，节点将以其次要优势共同开发课程。在第一年，该中心（罗兹大学）将为每个节点的3名代表（共21人）提供一门核心基础课程，内容是自适应综合水资源管理（a - iwrm），包括CSES概念、跨学科和水治理。节点课程将在一年级和二年级进行，课程领域的早期识别是：景观恢复和集水区用水（埃塞俄比亚首都亚的斯亚贝巴），水资源综合管理的水文、地质水文和水力机制（坦桑尼亚首都达累斯萨拉姆），大坝效益优化（塞内加尔首都谢赫安塔迪奥乌），生物多样性，自然资源管理，水-能源-食物关系（卢旺达），城市水污染（尼日利亚首都拉各斯），城市水质设计（南非首都开普敦），以及未来城市用水（乌干达首都马卡雷雷乌）。课程日将包括研究建议的时间。在第三年，活动将集中在拨款申请和水务CoE代表团参加相关的国际会议，以介绍整个项目的成果。在三年的时间里，每个节点将有一次机会邀请/访问一位国际专家，到第三年年底，将至少开展3个合作研究项目，每个项目将推进一个可持续发展目标挑战领域。水和卫生设施领域的衍生公司可能会出现，每个节点都将取得基于社区的水和/或卫生设施影响成功。至少24名早期职业研究人员和24名博士生将通过CoE得到指导。我们将展示非洲水资源研究队列的明确出现，解决与水资源相关的可持续发展目标，并取得积极成果和影响。

Where: SDGs (Sustainable Development Goals), U (university), CoE (Centre of Excellence), CSES(Complex Social-Ecological System) & landscape/catchment/watershed: synonymous. The "Water for African SDGs" project will establish & develop the ARUA Water CoE as an effective, high-performance, hub & network of 8 African Universities' researchers & post graduate students. CoE research development will be based on understanding humans living on earth as the intricate coupling of society with the natural world - CSESs. We will forefront community engagement & knowledge sharing for sustainability. We will use research to catalyse change towards social and ecological justice and sustainability, paying attention to African community water and sanitation needs. The Water CoE has developed a systemic image of the SDGs as a planning, practice & evaluation tool. The image has SDG 6, Clean water & sanitation, at the centre, linking two primary water cycles: i) Water in a Catchment (rainfall, run-off, ground water recharge, evapo-transpiration, evaporation); & ii) Water Services - supply & sanitation (raw water from the natural resource, often in dams, pipes & pumps to water treatment works, treated potable water to households, waste water to treatment works & discharge into the natural resource). Several nodes place their water research in a climate change context (SDG 13), and acknowledge that water is integral to SDG 15 (life on land), 11 (sustainable cities & communities), & 12 (responsible consumption & production), Effective water resource management, supply and sanitation requires good water governance by strong institutions (SDG 16). The Water CoE itself embodies SDGs 17 (partnerships to reach goals), 4 (quality education) & 5 (gender equality). Each CoE node has strengths in different parts of these cycles. This project brings together strengths, so nodes can flexibly link & respond innovatively to research funding calls, & effectively apply research. Capacity-building, exchanges and mentorship will mainly be addressed through the development & delivery of a 3-day course by each node, to 14 participants from 3-5 other nodes. Participants will be doctoral students, early-, mid-career & established researchers. Nodes will host a course on their primary strength, nodes will co-develop courses out of secondary strengths. In Year 1, the hub (Rhodes U), will deliver a core foundation course to 3 delegates from each node (total 21), on Adaptive Integrated Water Resources Management (A-IWRM), including the CSES concept, transdisciplinarity and water governance. Node courses will run over Years 1 & 2, and an early identification of course areas is: Landscape restoration & catchment water use (Addis Ababa U, Ethiopia), hydrology, geohydrology & hydraulic regimes for IWRM (U Dar es Salaam, Tanzania), optimising benefit from dams (Cheikh Anta Dio U, Senegal), biodiversity, natural resource management, water-energy-food nexus (U Rwanda), urban water pollution (U Lagos, Nigeria), urban water quality design (U Cape Town, South Africa), & water in future cities (Makarere U, Uganda). Course days will include time to work on research proposals. In Year 3, activities will focus on grant applications and a Water CoE delegation attending a relevant international conference to present the outcomes of the whole project. Over the 3-year period, each node will have one opportunity to invite/visit an international specialist, & by the end of year 3 at least 3 collaborative research projects will be running, each progressing an SDG challenge-area. Spin-off companies in water & sanitation could be emerging, and each node will have community-based water and/or sanitation impact successes. At least 24 early career researchers and 24 doctoral students will be mentored through the CoE. We will demonstrate the clear emergence of an African water research cohort, addressing water-related SDGs, with positive outcomes and impact.