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IW:Science

Enhancing the Use of Science in International Waters Projects to Improve Project Results

The IW:Science Project aims to enhance - through knowledge integration and information sharing - the use of science in the International Waters projects of the Global Environment Facility (GEF). The project will help strengthen priority setting, knowledge sharing, and results-based, adaptive management in current and future projects. It has three broad objectives:

 
Understanding and documenting, for future analysis and reference, the scientific experience and scientific best practices from the IW project portfolio.
Undertaking and reporting a comparative, cross-sectoral assessment of science, identifying intended users and impacts, contemporary scientific challenges, research and science-policy gaps, emerging issues, and global-scale impacts.
Creating an IW scientific learning network for information sharing and mutual learning among IW projects and with the wider water science community.

The project is funded by the GEF. UNU-INWEH executes the project, with UNEP as the Implementing Agency.

 

Project Partners
This project opportunity has been realized through the commitment of a global project team, representative of the complexity and interconnectedness of systems and knowledge within the IW portfolio. Listed below, these project partners comprise a highly specialized and interdisciplinary team, each bringing thematic institutional expertise relevant to an ecosystem class within the IW portfolio; river basins, lake systems, groundwater aquifers, large marine ecosystems and the open ocean:
UNU-INWEH
UNEP Division of Early Warning and Assessment (UNEP-DEWA)
UNESCO
Scottish Association for Marine Science (SAMS)
Land-Ocean Interactions in the Coastal Zone (LOICZ)
European Lifestyles and Marine Ecosystems (ELME)
University of Plymouth
UNU-EHS
Canadian Water Network (CWN)

 

Stockholm World Water Week Presentation:

Science in Global Environment Facility International Waters: A Vast and Powerful Resource

 

Convened by UNU-INWEH, United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) and the Global Environment Facility (GEF) this event will describe the international IW:Science project; its aim to undertake an inventory and comparative analysis of science from the vast GEF International Waters portfolio (over USD 4 billion invested to date) and approach to knowledge management. A newly planned Science Learning Network for sharing integrated International Waters knowledge will also be discussed.

 

The event will be on the 16th August from 12:45 to 13:45. For more event details please see the World Water Week event website here.

 

For further information on the event please contact Andrew Dansie, dansie@inweh.unu.edu

Last updated: 21 November 2008