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Item Database on freshwater demand for electricity in Africa(Dataset, 2024-12) International Water Management Institute (IWMI)The database was developed as part of a research endeavor funded by the CGIAR Initiative on Foresight. This resulted in a paper analyzing freshwater demand for electricity in the year 2020. The paper is available from here: https://doi.org/10.1039/D4EW00246F.Item Watershed planning Tool for Natural Resource Management (WAT-NRM)(Manual, 2024-07-16) Alam, Mohammad Faiz; Malaiappan, Sudharsan; Sikka, AlokItem Nexus Capacity Scorecard (NCS) - Education and Research: guidance note and tool(Other, 2024-05-06) Khalid, Sidra; Elias, M.The Water–Energy–Food–Ecosystem (WEFE) nexus approach represents a holistic and interconnected perspective for addressing the complex interdependencies among water, energy, food, and ecosystems. This integrated perspective highlights the importance of managing WEFE resources collaboratively to achieve social, economic, and environmental sustainability. The ‘Nexus Capacity Scorecard (NCS) – Education and Research’ is intended to gauge capacities to adopt a WEFE nexus approach within and/or across academic institutions conducting research in or teaching courses related to the water, energy, food/agriculture, and environmental sectors (henceforth referred to as ‘WEFE academic institutions’). The purpose is to identify opportunities, possible gaps, and inform the planning of tailored WEFE nexus courses and research, and/or their monitoring over time. This version of the scorecard is part of a toolkit that includes the original Nexus Capacity Scorecard (NCS), which supports the self-assessment of nexus capacities within and/or across WEFE institutions or organizations in government, the private sector, or civil society.Item Nexus Capacity Scorecard (NCS): guidance note and tool(Other, 2024-05-06) Khalid, Sidra; Elias, M.The Water–Energy–Food–Ecosystem (WEFE) nexus approach represents a holistic and interconnected perspective for addressing the complex interdependencies among water, energy, food, and ecosystems. This integrated perspective highlights the importance of managing WEFE resources collaboratively to achieve social, economic, and environmental sustainability. The Nexus Capacity Scorecard (NCS) is part of a toolkit developed to gauge capacities to adopt a WEFE nexus approach within and/or across institutions working in the water, energy, food/agriculture, and environmental sectors (henceforth referred to as ‘WEFE institutions’). The NCS supports the self-assessment of institutional processes, readiness, and capacities in relation to WEFE approaches. The purpose is to identify opportunities, possible gaps, and inform the planning of tailored WEFE nexus capacity-building efforts, programs and interventions, and/or their monitoring over time. The scorecard can also be used as a launchpad for discussions, within and across organizations and sectors, for improving WEFE nexus practice and collaboration.Item UAV based survey on portions of the Crocodile, Sabie, and Olifants rivers at Kruger National Park, Limpopo, South Africa to obtain LiDAR, RGB and multispectral imagery(Dataset, 2024-01-03) Graham, P. M.; Pike, T.; Pattinson, N. B.; Singh, K.; Harvey, T.Digital terrain data, Image data, LiDAR point cloud, Elevation model, Uncompressed and CompressedItem Aquatic macroinvertebrate image dataset(Dataset, 2023-12-07) Koen, R. C. J.; Koen, F. J. K.Dataset contains approximately one thousand images of each of the thirteen mini stream assessment scoring system (miniSASS) aquatic macroinvertebrate groups. The dataset comprises approximately thirteen thousand photos.Item Water quality assessment(Dataset, 2009-08-01) Boelee, Eline; Senzanje, Aidan; Munamati, M.; Parron, L.; Rodrigues, L.; Laamrani, Hammou; Cecchi, P.One of the health risks of small reservoirs is the potential for increased transmission of water-related diseases, in particular, parasitic infections dependent on water-based “vectors”. The design, use, and management of reservoirs all influence their suitability as breeding grounds for disease vectors. This tool describes the use of selected methods to help stakeholders understand the ecological preferences of vector organisms in relation to small reservoirs. This is an important step in identifying management options for environmental disease control.Item Epidemiological survey(Dataset, 2009-08-01) Boelee, Eline; Laamrani, HammouThis tool uses standard biomedical methodologies to determine infection rates for key water-related (or “reservoir-related”) diseases including schistosomiasis and other intestinal parasites, and malaria. In any particular locale there may be a completely different set of priorities with regard to reservoir-related health issues. Therefore, it is always wise to check with local health personnel about priorities, and to sample local communities’ perceptions with respect to reservoir-related problems. For diseases and infections not described in this tool, local health professionals, literature, and the internet provide good starting points.Item Health questionnaires(Dataset, 2009-08-01) Boelee, Eline; Laamrani, HammouThis tool describes the use of school surveys, an important tool that supports both participatory and biomedical research. When epidemiological studies are carried out at the same time, a local quantitative relationship between measured and reported infection rates can be established and the questionnaire can be applied in a larger area to assess prevalence at the level of the reservoir cluster or river basin. Such questionnaires can be adapted for other diseases and to fit varying local circumstances.Item Participatory health impact assessment(Dataset, 2009-08-01) Boelee, Eline; Laamrani, HammouThis tool contains guidelines intended to reduce the health risks and increase the health benefits from small reservoirs. Guidelines are structured in a step-wise manner, beginning with the identification of relevant health issues and concluding with small reservoir design and operation for improved human health. The guidelines focus on: major water-related diseases associated with small reservoirs in Africa, the added value of community participation in health impact assessment, opportunities to mitigate risks and improve human health through better planning and operation of small reservoirs, and improved planning, design, and management options.Item Rainfall-discharge relationships for monsoonal climates(Dataset, 2009) Steenhuis, T.; Taylor, J.; Collick, A.; Giesen, Nick van de; Liebe, J.; Andreini, Marc; Easton, Z.Methods for estimating runoff that have been developed for temperate climates may not be suitable for use in the monsoonal climates of Africa, where there is a distinct dry season in which soils dry out to a considerable depth. Water balance models have been shown to better predict river discharge in regions with monsoonal climates than alternative methods based on rainfall intensity, or on the USDA-SCS curve number. This tool can be used to develop a simple water balance model for predicting river discharge.Item Participatory impact pathways analysis (PIPA)(Dataset, 2009-08-01) Schuetz, Tonya; Douthwaite, Boru; Álvarez, S.This tool will assist those planning research on or interventions for small reservoirs systems to use Impact Pathways Analysis to develop a plan to better bring about desired outputs, outcomes and impacts. By helping make explicit the links between project activities or program interventions on the one hand, and partner roles and inter- relationships on the other. The likelihood of achieving greater better impacts may be improved. How the Impact Pathway Analysis was found useful in the Small Reservoirs Project is presented.Item Small reservoirs toolkit(Dataset, 2009-08-01) Andreini, Marc; Schuetz, Tonya; Harrington, Larry W.People living in arid areas often experience highly variable rainfall, droughts, floods and have insecure livelihoods. Small multi-purpose reservoirs are a widely used form of infrastructure for the provision of water. They supply water for domestic use, livestock watering, small scale irrigation, and other beneficial uses. Although clusters of reservoirs store significant quantities of water and effect on downstream flows, they have rarely been considered as systems, with synergies and tradeoffs resulting from their numbers and their density. Often reservoirs were constructed in a series of projects funded by different agencies, at different times, with little or no coordination among the implementing partners. That a significant number are functioning sub-optimally and/or are falling into disrepair indicates that there is room for improvement in the planning, management, operation, and maintenance of small reservoirs. This first version of the Small Reservoirs Toolkit was produced by the Small Reservoirs Project. It is a project of the Challenge Program for Water and Food, sponsored by the German Technical Cooperation (Gesellschaft fuer Technische Zusammenarbeit, GTZ), led by the International Water Management Institute (IWMI) with six partners: Empresa Brasileira de Pesquisa Agropecuaria (Embrapa), L’Institute de recherché pour le development (IRD), Stockholm Environment Institution (SEI), Delft University of Technology (TUD), University of Zimbabwe (UZ), Ghana Water Research Institution (WRI). In 2005 the project began with two paired objectives. The basin/watershed level objective is to promote and support the planning, development, and management of small reservoir ensembles. The local/community level objective is to support use of small multi-purpose reservoirs that are properly located, well designed, well maintained and operated to improve the livelihoods of the local residents. A multi-disciplinary team was assembled to develop a set of tools based on socio-economic and biophysical research. The hydrologic, economic, ecological, health, and institutional dimensions of small reservoirs were considered. By harmonizing the interests of individuals served by small multi-purpose reservoirs and other people living in the basin we will come closer to our paired goals: 1) to maintain water related ecosystem services, the long-term sustainability of local water supplies, and adequate downstream flows as we make use of small reservoirs and 2) to improve food security and increase sustainable livelihoods through the use of those small multi-purpose reservoirs. There are approximately 30 tools and techniques presented in four topic areas: i) Intervention Planning; ii) Storage and Hydrology; iii) Ecosystems and Health; iv) Institutions and Economics. This tool kit is intended for the use of NGOs, research institutes, universities, donor agencies, multilateral organizations, and government agencies. These tools are not meant to replace other methods of collecting, storing, and presenting knowledge. Information in journal articles, dissertations, theses, and other literature is often difficult to find and is seldom written for use by practitioners. The purpose of the tools is to make information more accessible and more useful to practitioners. In the tools, references are made to the original documents. And it is expected that the reader will refer to and make use of the original documents where necessary. Some of these tools are simple and applying them requires nothing more than the desire to try something new, and the drive to ‘get out and do it’. Undertaking them effectively requires, sometimes advanced, facilitation and communication skills. Here, we have aimed to provide comprehensive accounts of how to apply such techniques, with a focus on the requirements of potential facilitators. Some of the tools are more complex, and call for significant resources if they are to be used effectively. Here, we have attempted to provide an introduction and orientation to the topic at hand, as well as an introduction to resources that might prove useful to the reader The aim of this toolkit is to present entry points and references to the wide ranged topic of ‘Small Reservoirs’ and related research. This toolkit is a starting point. Other researchers will make additional contributions as part of the on-going process of expanding our knowledge of small reservoirs. References and contact persons are listed at the end of each tool.