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The Water Futures and Solutions Initiative engages with stakeholders from across the globe to support and codesign future development scenarios and possible options for the management of water resources. It provides important input that support mid- to long-term water management and planning based on informed decision making. After a global analysis undertaken in a first fast-track assessment, the initiative is now focusing on Eastern Africa with the Lake Victoria basin as a key research area. With funding from the Austrian Development Agency<\/a>, the Water Futures and Solutions Initiative formed an East Africa node. This corresponds with one of the priority regions of Austria\u2019s development cooperation policy.<\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][et_pb_divider admin_label=”Divider 15 px e.g. under 1 button” show_divider=”on” divider_weight=”0px” height=”10px” _builder_version=”3.0.106″ saved_tabs=”all” color=”#ffffff” global_module=”1055″ \/][et_pb_image src=”http:\/\/ar17.iiasa.ac.at\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2018\/03\/WFaS.jpg” show_in_lightbox=”on” show_bottom_space=”off” align=”center” force_fullwidth=”on” _builder_version=”3.0.106″ animation_style=”fade” animation_duration=”500ms” animation_starting_opacity=”20%” global_module=”2425″ saved_tabs=”all”]<\/p>\n <\/p>\n [\/et_pb_image][et_pb_divider admin_label=”Divider 15 px e.g. under 1 button” show_divider=”on” divider_weight=”0px” height=”10px” _builder_version=”3.0.106″ saved_tabs=”all” color=”#ffffff” global_module=”1055″ \/][et_pb_text admin_label=”CONTENT OF THE PAGE | EDIT HERE” _builder_version=”3.0.106″ custom_margin=”0px|0px|0px|0px” custom_padding=”0px|0px|0px|0px” animation_style=”fade” animation_direction=”bottom” animation_duration=”500ms” animation_starting_opacity=”20%” global_module=”272″ saved_tabs=”all” background_layout=”light”]<\/p>\n Key actors of the Lake Victoria basin like the Lake Victoria Basin Commission and its member countries, the Nile Basin Initiative, and the Global Water Partnership, among others, expressed interest to engage in mutual learning and participate in model development and the co-creation of scenarios of future water demand and regional water management options. Regional stakeholders worked with a team of four IIASA staff members to identify priorities, development pathways, and potential for investments and solutions. In light of the above, Uganda in collaboration with IIASA, co-hosted a three-day workshop in Entebbe, Uganda, on the issue of projecting future water demand and water availability in the Lake Victoria basin.<\/p>\n The workshop, which took place in December 2017, attracted more than 50 practitioners engaged in government, academia, business, and civil society in the East African community, to discuss mid- to long-term water resource management options towards 2050. For many of the participants, the workshop presented a first opportunity to discuss systems thinking approaches aimed at understanding future development scenarios and their implications for water management practices.<\/p>\n
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