The project encompasses the following work packages:
- Comparative
framework (WP 1)
- Outlining the impact and innovation potential of state of the art technologies and practices (WP2)
- Outlining
the impact and innovation potential of indigenous technologies and practices.
(WP3)
- Learning
from cross fertilization: Outlining the potential of combining state of the art
and indigenous technologies and practices (WP4)
- Knowledge
management (WP5)
- Developing
of innovative policy options and management strategies (WP6)
- Uptake and integration (WP7)
WP 1 will develop a comparative framework for the analysis across the whole project (institutional framework, polcies, etc.). WP 2 and 3 will provide an overview of both state of the art and indigenous technologies and practices currently used in the river basins, and will analyse their respective innovation potentials. WP 4 will try to develop learning spaces between traditional and state-of-the-art approaches to water management through a wide range of tools, including the organisation of stakeholder workshops. WP5 will support the whole project through the definition of appropriate knowledge management tools, and will develop information systems and decision support tools which shall be applied in a participatory context in WP 6. WP 6 will carry out a multi-stakeholder interaction for the identification and exploration of policy options and management strategies and ensure a strong link between technological (WP2,3) and management & policy research (WP4,5,6). WP7 will then take up the results of WP6 and will develop appropriate measures to facilitate the uptake and integration of the project results at different scales and among different audiences.
