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Title: Africa Regional Centres of Excellence - ArcX: Water Component. 

Main Objective: Strengthen water governance and resilience in Sub-Saharan Africa through research, capacity building, and inclusive solutions for sustainable water resource management and equitable access to WASH services.

Specific Objectives:

  1. Conduct research on climate, hydrology, and the Water–Energy–Food–Ecosystem (WEFE) nexus;
  2. Provide science-based recommendations for water management and environmental risk reduction;
  3. Develop human capacity through training and mobility programmes for young professionals.

Starting Year: 2024
Implementation Duration: 48 months

Areas of Impact:

  1. Hydrology and Climate: Studies on surface and groundwater under changing climatic conditions;
  2. Water Management: Policy and decision-support for transboundary basin management;
  3. WEFE Nexus: Cross-sectoral linkages among water, energy, food, and ecosystems;
  4. WASH: Equitable access to water, sanitation, and hygiene services with gender-sensitive delivery mechanisms.

Target Groups: AUDA-NEPAD Networks of Water Centres of Excellence, regional organisations, river basin authorities, policy stakeholders, service providers, young professionals, and end-users.

ArcX Partners: See ArcX Partners card and the ArcX Partnership Map.

Component Coordinator: University of Stellenbosch.

Leading Regional Centre of Excellence (RCoE): University of Stellenbosh

Scientific and Technical Support from EC - DG JRC: JRC Unit D2 (Ocean & Water).

Available Resources
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Priority Areas: Water Access & Nutrition
Priority areas are identified using local coefficients estimated through Geographically Weighted Regression (GWR), which measures the spatially varying relationship between access to piped water and f...
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Sep

ArcX Programme Regional Workshop: East Africa

The Eastern Africa Regional Workshop, which will take place in Nairobi from 22 to 24 September 2026, will focus on the need for integrated approaches that connect terrestrial and marine s...
  • Nairobi, Kenya
Transversal Component Biodiversity & Forest Water Agroecology Ocean Climate Change Resilience
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Jun

ArcX Programme Regional Workshop: West Africa

The West Africa Regional Workshop takes place in Lomé, Togo, from 22 to 24 June 2026.
  • Lomé, Togo
Transversal Component Biodiversity & Forest Water Agroecology Ocean Climate Change Resilience
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Jul

ArcX Programme Regional Workshop: Southern Africa

The Southern Africa Regional Workshop will take place in Johannesburg, South Africa, from 7 to 9 July 2026.
  • Johannesburg, South Africa
Transversal Component Biodiversity & Forest Water Agroecology Ocean Climate Change Resilience
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Blue Africa Summit

The upcoming meeting of the four expert colleges aims to develop a strategic document that will serve as a compass for the continent.
  • Tangier, Morocco
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Sep

International Conference on River Basin Hydrology and Watershed Planning (ICRBHWP)

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  • Antwerp, Belgium
Water
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Dec

2026 UN Water Conference

The Conference, co-hosted by Senegal and the UAE, aims to accelerate the implementation of Sustainable Development Goal 6 (SDG 6), enhance global water governance, and further elevate wat...
  • United Arab Emirates
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Access to improved sanitation facilities
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Access to piped water
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Refugee Settlements
All known formal and informal settlements of forcibly displaced and stateless people in Africa from UNHCR’s GIS database as of November 2025. Population in the settlement. It may include several cate...
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Nov

Toward Dignity: WASH in the Circular Economy

The Namibia University of Science and Technology (NUST) Research and Postgraduate Development Office, Directorate
  • Online
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COP30: UN Climate Change Conference

UN Climate Change Conference - Belém, November 2025 | UNFCCC
  • Belém, Brazil
Biodiversity & Forest Water Agroecology Ocean
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