Building capacities in Uganda for integrated water modelling
UN DESA | Development Policy and Analysis DivisonDPAD conducted the 2nd Training Workshop in the Water Evaluation and Planning System (WEAP) in Kampala, Uganda (31 October- 4 November). The WEAP model for Uganda, developed by experts from KTH, is one of the components of the climate, land-use, energy and water (CLEWS) integrated assessment of the country, prepared under the supervision of DESA staff as part of ongoing capacity development activities aiming to support countries in identifying interlinkages and trade-offs between strategic sectors through a nexus approach for sustainable development.
The workshop was attended by 12 technical government officials from the Ministry of Water and Environment (MWE), whom fully engaged in the calibration of the model and development of policy scenarios. Follow up exercises by participants will focus on the elaboration of policy briefs informed by the scenarios developed during the training, through which they will identify areas for improvement of both model and scenarios, as well as the data required to achieve precise and reliable model-based information for the policy issues that require attention, as requested by the Commissioner for Water Resources of the MWE.
Training was conducted by Francisco Flores, water modelling expert from the Stockholm Environment Institute in California (SEI-US), with support from researchers from the Royal Institute of Technology of Sweden (KTH) and DESA staff.
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