9th FRIEND-Water Global Conference 2023 | Université Cheikh Anta Diop, Dakar

25 Sept 2023, 09:00 → 29 Sept 2023, 15:00 Africa/Dakar

Faculté de Médecine, Université Cheikh Anta Diop, Dakar, Senegal

As a flagship initiative of IHP IX (2022-2029) which puts science to action for a Water Secure World, FRIEND-Water contributes to research on: regional water resources, hydrological extremes (drought and floods), climate resilient water adaption, as well as water education and capacity building.

Every four years, a global conference is held to bring together all the scientists involved to discuss the challenges of research on these issue

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Monday 25 September

09:00 → 17:00 Registration desk

Tuesday 26 September

08:00 → 09:00 Registration desk & Welcome

09:00 → 10:00 Plenary session: Opening ceremony

10:00 → 11:00 Plenary session: Keynote presentations

10:00 Keynote

Speaker: Prof. Cheikh Bécaye Gaye

10:30 Keynote

Speaker: Prof. Maciej Zalewski

11:00 → 11:30 Coffee break

11:30 → 13:00 ST1 | Ecohydrology: Dual regulation

Conveners: Didier ORANGE (IRD), Ernest AMOUSSOU (Université Parakou), Maciej ZALEWSKI (European Regional Centre for Ecohydrology), Oula AMROUNI (National Institute of Marine Sciences and Technologies of Tunisia), Pascal BREIL (INRAE)

11:45 Quantifying Environmental Water Use

Speaker: Robert MILHOUS (Retired U.S. Geological Survey)

12:00 Two ecohydrological solutions to reduce urban runoff: examples from Lyon (France) and Quérétaro (Mexico)

Speaker: Pascal BREIL (INRAE)

12:15 Do the water stable isotopes (δ 18 O and δ 2 H) give insight into the hydrological impact of agroforestry systems? The case of Faidherbia albida parklands in the Senegalese Groundnut basin

Speaker: Djim M L DIONGUE (UCAD)

12:30 The effect of soil moisture on the physiological parameters of millet and groundnut during a period of water deficit at the beginning of rainy season.

Speaker: Mame Balla NDIAYE (UCAD)

12:45 The augmented biodiversity to improve the domestic waste water cleaning through Nature Based Solutions

Speaker: Didier ORANGE (IRD)

11:30 → 13:00 ST2 | Climate change & Water resources resilience: Hazards data treatment & mapping

Conveners: Alain DEZETTER, Amadou Thierno GAYE, Aminata NDIAYE, Bastien DIEPPOIS, Luc DESCROIX (IRD), Mohammed MEDDI (Higher National School of Hydraulics), Soussou SAMBOU, Telesphore BROU

11:45 Characterization of extreme high water hydroclimatic events in the complex of lower mono-couffo valley

Speaker: Domiho Japhet KODJA (LACEEDE/EDP/UAC)

12:00 Spatio-temporal evolution of rainfall extremes in the city of dakar

Speaker: Franck-Evrard KOFFI (UNIVERSITE FELIX HOUPHOUËT-BOIGNY)

12:15 Flood risk zone mapping of the Bonoumin-palmeraie watershed using analytic hierarchy process (AHP) and sensitivity tests methods

Speaker: Jean DANUMAH (Centre Universitaire de Recherche et d'Application en Télédétection (CURAT))

12:30 Urban sprawl process in Dakar: impact on runoff and flooding

Speaker: Laurent Pascal M. DIEME (Université Gaston Berger Saint-Louis)

12:45 Rainfall risks and hydro-agricultural developments in the Aga-Foua-Djilas watershed.

Speaker: Philippe Malick DIONE (Université Assane Seck de Ziguinchor)

11:30 → 13:00 ST5 | Large rivers management: Supporting shared water uses in large & transboundary basins

Conveners: Alioune KANE, Andrew Ogilvie, Ansoumana BODIAN (Université Gaston Berger Saint-Louis), Awa Niang FALL

11:45 Use of reanalysis data to estimate water requirements of major crops in the Senegal River Delta

Speaker: Adja Salamata GASSAMA (Université Gaston Berger Saint-Louis)

12:00 Vulnerability of surface water bodies and development of irrigated agriculture: assessment of the ecological quality of the Guiers lake (Senegal)

Speaker: Hikimat SAADI (UCAD/EDEQUE)

12:15 Exploring the “Water-Energy-Food-Ecosystems” nexus in the Senegal river basin: an approach combining participatory workshops and hydroeconomic modelling

Speaker: Laura SEGUIN (BRGM)

12:30 Assessing hydrological processes and water uses beyond official data in Africa: examples from the Senegal River Basin

Speaker: Laurent BRUCKMANN (Université Laval)

12:45 Availability of water resources in the Bango reserve under the anti-salt dam of Diama in the Senegal River delta

Speaker: Madina BA (UCAD)

13:00 → 14:30 Lunch break

14:30 → 16:00 ST1 | Ecohydrology: Dual regulation

Conveners: Didier ORANGE (IRD), Ernest AMOUSSOU (AcTNAO interdisciplinary team), Oula AMROUNI (National Institute of Marine Sciences and Technologies of Tunisia), Pascal BREIL (INRAE)

14:30 Monitoring of shoreline changes using aerial drone photogrammetry in Mediterranean coast

Speaker: Abderraouf HZAMI (National Institute of Marine Sciences and Technologies)

14:45 Impacts of the spatial evolution of salinity conductivity and hydrogen potential (ph) in the fisheries of Lake Nokoue (southern Benin).

Speaker: Florentin TOTIN (Laboratoire Pierre PAGNEY Climat Eau Écosystème et Développement - LACEEDE)

15:00 Caracterizing soil hydraulic properties using best method in a semi-arid agrosysteme parc land (the peanut basin of senegal)

Speaker: Waly FAYE (UCAD)

15:15 Smartcleangarden concept to provide a value to domestic waste waters in saving waters in tropical cities

Speaker: Didier ORANGE (IRD)

15:30 Quantifying Environmental Water Use

Speaker: Robert MILHOUS (Retired U.S. Geological Survey)

14:30 → 16:00 ST2 | Climate change & Water resources resilience: WRR in basins and littoral environments

Conveners: Alain DEZETTER, Amadou Thierno GAYE, Aminata NDIAYE, Bastien DIEPPOIS, Luc DESCROIX (IRD), Mohammed MEDDI (Higher National School of Hydraulics), Soussou SAMBOU (UCAD), Telesphore BROU

14:30 Assessment of the hydrological resilience of the n’zi river basin in Côte d'Ivoire using the Budyko framework.

Speaker: Gneneyougou SORO (Université NANGUI ABROGOUA)

14:45 Floods on the Ouémé River basin in Benin: A holistic approach of management

Speaker: Henri Sourou TOTIN VODOUNON (University of Parakou)

15:00 Trend Analysis of Low Flows in North Algeria

Speaker: Hind MEDDI (Higher National School of Hydraulics)

15:15 Updating of the intensity-duration-frequency curves (IDF) in the District of Abidjan (Côte d’Ivoire).

Speaker: Kouakou Christian Junior YAO (Laboratoire de Science de la Matière de l’Environnement et de l’Energie Solaire (LASMES) - Université Félix Houphouët Boigny)

15:30 Impacts of climate variability on the resources of the Gambia River watershed

Speaker: Mamadou NDIONE (UCAD)

15:45 Projected water accounts under climate change in the transboundary Volta River Basin

Speaker: Moctar DEMBELE (University of Oxford)

14:30 → 16:00 ST5 | Large rivers management: Supporting shared water uses in large & transboundary basins

Conveners: Alioune KANE, Andrew Ogilvie, Ansoumana BODIAN (Université Gaston Berger Saint-Louis), Awa Niang FALL

14:30 Opportunities for the Agrarian Dynamics in the West African Floodplains

Speaker: Aymar BOSSA (University of Abomey-Calavi)

14:45 Impact of infrastructures on inland water presence within the senegal river basin using gis techniques

Speaker: Mbayang THIAM (UCAD)

15:00 Women in transboundary water conflict resolution in the nile basin: a comparative study between migingo islands in kenya and kagera river in rwanda.

Speaker: Zipporah MUREITHI (Egerton University)

15:15 The impact of climate variability on water resources in the lac de guiers area

Speaker: Matar SYLLA (UCAD)

15:30 Pesticides residues accumulation in freshwater and fish in the Guiers Lake basin: Risks for Senegal's strategic water reservoir

Speaker: Alousseynou BAH (UCAD)

16:00 → 16:30 Coffee break

16:30 → 18:00 ST1 | Ecohydrology: Water related flux/ecosystem services estimation

Conveners: Didier ORANGE (IRD), Ernest AMOUSSOU (AcTNAO interdisciplinary team), Oula AMROUNI (National Institute of Marine Sciences and Technologies of Tunisia), Pascal BREIL (INRAE)

16:30 Study of the continental waters of the Republic of Djibouti: physico-chemical characteristics and biological (Biodiversity).

Speaker: Ibrahim SOULEIMAN ABDALLAH (University of Djibouti)

16:45 The impacts of competing freshwater resource uses on quality : case of the transboundary Falémé River (Sénégal)

Speaker: Ange Bouramanding DIEDHIOU (IRD)

17:00 Forest-Water Nexus: An Evapotranspiration assessment of the Kafue River Sub-Basin using remote sensing

Speaker: Muyaka KAMAMBA (University of Zambia)

16:30 → 18:00 ST2 | Climate change & Water resources resilience: WRR in basins and littoral environments

Conveners: Alain DEZETTER, Amadou Thierno GAYE, Aminata NDIAYE, Bastien DIEPPOIS, Luc DESCROIX (IRD), Mohammed MEDDI (Higher National School of Hydraulics), Soussou SAMBOU, Telesphore BROU

16:30 The resilience of the Saloum islands (Senegal) in the face of the challenges of access to drinking water: what contribution of the Notto-Diosmone-Palmarin (NDP) transfer system in the governance of water resources in an island environment?

Speaker: Mouhamadou Mansour NGUIRANE (UCAD/EDEQUE)

16:45 Influence of climate change on the water resources in the Central Andes of Argentina

Speaker: Rodolfo CHRISTIANSEN (Ruhr-Universität Bochum)

17:00 The role of fishponds in hydrologic regime

Speaker: Vaclav DAVID (Czech Technical University in Prague)

17:15 Adapting Multireservoir Operation to Long-term Climate Variability Under Climate Change

Speaker: Vahid ESPANMANESH (Laval University)

17:30 Wavelet analysis of spatio-temporal variability in surface soil moisture under different landuses in southwestern Nigeria

Speaker: Adedayo ADEWOLE (Obafemi Awolowo University - Ile-Ife -Osun State Nigeria)

17:40 Portrait of the Koular watershed (Central-Western Senegal) to facilitate effective development to curb saline intrusion.

Speaker: Cheikh Tidiane WADE (UCAD)

17:50 The contribution of the spatial distribution of rainfall for the understanding of the hydrological functioning of the Upper Oum Er-Rbia basin (upstream Machraa Edahk) - Morocco

Speaker: Nadia LAHLOU (University Mohamed V - Morocco)

16:30 → 18:00 ST5 | Large rivers management: Sediment presence & transport in large basins

Conveners: Alioune KANE, Andrew Ogilvie, Ansoumana BODIAN (Université Gaston Berger Saint-Louis), Awa Niang FALL

16:30 The International Sediment Initiative (ISI) and its Case Studies on Sediment Management in River Basins

Speaker: Cheng LIU (International Research and Training Center on Erosion and Sedimentation)

17:00 Evolution of rainfall maximum discharge and solid transport in northern Algeria

Speaker: Faiza HALLOUZ (Djilali BOUNAAMA University of Khemis Miliana)

17:15 First assessment of dissolved and particulate matter biogeochemistry of the Kasaï River

Speaker: José NLANDU WABAKANGHANZI (DEPARTMENT OF SOIL PHYSIC AND HYDROLOGY / CONGO ATOMIC ENERGY COMMISSION)

17:30 Risks of overflow and salinization of the marigot of Mbao (Senegal) and their impacts on socio-economic activities.

Speaker: Saidou NDAO (Université de Thiès)

17:45 Evaluating the Impact of Climate Variability and Anthropogenic Activities on Streamflow Condition in Large River Basin using Budyko-based Functions

Speaker: Sabab Ali SHAH (Aror University of Art Architecture Design and Heritage Sindh)

18:00 → 18:30 Presenting NUNIEAU: free software for data rescue of hydrometeorological graphic records

Speaker: Frédéric PONS (CEREMA)

18:30 → 20:00 Social: Icebreaking Cocktail

Wednesday 27 September

08:30 → 09:00 Registration desk & Welcome

09:00 → 10:30 ST1 | Ecohydrology: Water quality relation to land use

Conveners: Didier ORANGE (IRD), Ernest AMOUSSOU (AcTNAO interdisciplinary team), Oula AMROUNI (National Institute of Marine Sciences and Technologies of Tunisia), Pascal BREIL (INRAE)

09:00 Groundwater quality and risk assessment of heavy metal pollution using water quality index as a communication tool: Evidence from Ejigbo (Lagos-Nigeria)

Speaker: Isaiah AKOTEYON (Lagos State University)

09:15 The characterization of groundwater and assessment of water quality of the Continental Terminal aquifer in Casamance (Senegal): hydrodynamic - multivariate statistic and hydrochemical approach

Speaker: Mouhamet Moustapha DIAW (UCAD/EDEQUE/ENIS)

09:30 Spatiotemporal variability of water quality parameters in the Niger River

Speaker: Moussa BOUBACAR MOUSSA (Université Toulouse 3 Paul Sabatier)

09:45 Monitoring Coastal Ecosystem Evolution for a Sustainable Blue food security

Speaker: Oula AMROUNI (National Institute of Marine Sciences and Technologies of Tunisia)

10:00 Linking fish assemblages to hydro-morphology and physico-chemical parameters in the Pendjari River (Benin - West Africa)

Speaker: Simon AHOUANSOU MONTCHO (School of Aquaculture - National University of Agriculture (UNA))

10:15 Application of principal component analysis (PCA) for the physicochemical and bacteriological characterization of a tropical hydro system waters: Case of n'djili river watershed (DRC).

Speaker: Zouera SANI BOUBACAR GOUBE GAOH (Centre de Recherche en Ressources en eaux du Bassin du Congo - Ecole Regionale de l'Eau - Universite de Kinshasa)

09:00 → 10:30 ST2 | Climate change & Water resources resilience: Hydrological modelling

Conveners: Alain DEZETTER, Amadou Thierno GAYE, Aminata NDIAYE, Bastien DIEPPOIS, Luc DESCROIX (IRD), Mohammed MEDDI (Higher National School of Hydraulics), Soussou SAMBOU, Telesphore BROU

09:00 Runoff Sensitivity to Climate Variability and Land Cover Change reveals a second Sahel Hydrological Paradox

Speaker: Elias NKIAKA (University of Sheffield)

09:15 Mise en place de modèles de prédétermination des débits dans les bassins non jaugés : cas du bassin versant transfrontalier de la Comoé (Côte d’Ivoire - Mali - Burkina - Ghana)

Speaker: Koffi Eugène KOUAKOU (INP-HB YAMOUSSOUKRO)

09:30 Past and future hydrological extremes analysis over the Senegal river basin

Speaker: Mamadou Lamine MBAYE (Université Assane SECK de Ziguinchor)

09:45 Application du modèle swat pour la modélisation de l’ecoulement dans un bassin versant peu jauge en zone soudano- sahélienne (burkina faso)

Speaker: Niang DIAL (Institut International d'Inginierie de l'Eau de l'Environnement (2iE))

10:00 Analysis of the start and end dates of the rainy season in the Kayanga/Geba and Koliba/Corubal river basins (Guinea - Senegal - Guinea-Bissau)

Speaker: Saly SAMBOU (UCAD)

10:15 Numerical modelling of flooding in sub-Saharan African cities: Insights from Ouagadougou Area - Burkina Faso

Speaker: Tazen FOWE (International Institute for Water and Environmental Engineering)

09:00 → 10:30 ST3 | Bridging the data-knowledge gaps in hydrology: Development of climate & hydro services

Conveners: Abdoulaye FATY (UCAD), Jean-Emmanuel PATUREL (IRD), Jérôme LE COZ (INRAE), Stephan DIETRICH (ICWRGC)

09:00 HAMR: drought monitoring system

Speaker: Adam VIZINA (T.G.Masaryk Water Research Institution)

09:15 Valorization of meteorological archives in Côte d’Ivoire

Speaker: Jean-Emmanuel PATUREL (IRD)

09:30 Hydrosos: Implementing a global Hydrological Status and Outlook System from the bottom up

Speaker: Lucy BARKER (UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology (UKCEH))

09:45 Innovative approaches in water resources status and forecasting – a global perspective

Speaker: Nathan RICKARDS (UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology)

10:00 Facilitating access to global runoff data: API and tools for GRDC data sets

Speaker: Thomas RECKNAGEL (Global Runoff Data Cenrte (GRDC))

10:15 A FRIEND-Water perspective on Bridging Data Knowledge Gaps in Hydrology

Speaker: Stephan DIETRICH (ICWRGC)

10:20 The Global Runoff Database – A unique archive for river discharge data

Speaker: Thomas RECKNAGEL (Global Runoff Data Centre (GRDC))

10:30 → 11:00 Coffee break

11:00 → 13:00 Joint ST1/ST2/ST3 session: Understanding and protecting Groundwater resources

Conveners: Aristide DOUAGUI (Université Nangui Abrogoua), Serigne FAYE (UCAD)

11:00 Approach of geophysical prospection (1D) to the knowledge of groundwater resources of the Sissili sub-catchment Burkina-Faso

Speaker: Moussa D. FAYE (Institut 2IE)

11:15 Assessment of the risk of pollution of an area suitable for the establishment of a water point: case of the department of Yamoussoukro (Central Côte d'Ivoire)

Speaker: Jules MANGOUA (Université Jean Lorougnon Guédé Daloa)

11:30 The marine intrusion in the Maghreb countries bordering the Mediterranean Sea.

Speaker: Larbi DJABRI (Laboratoire Ressource en Eau & Développement Durable. Université Badji Mokhtar Annaba)

11:45 Groundwater salinity in Senegal : geomorphological factors and spatialisation

Speaker: Luc DESCROIX (IRD)

12:00 Overexploitation of the Maastrichtian aquifer in Senegal

Speaker: Maria FAYE (UCAD)

12:15 Functional and statistical study for 3 cycles of the losses with high temporal resolution (1 hour) measured in the bed of the Gardon (France) downstream from Ners (Gard)

Speaker: Saliou KAMARA (Avignon université/UMR ESPACE/CNRS)

12:30 Rising groundwater levels and pollution in the thiaroye aquifer of Dakar Senegal: water management in a rapidly growing urban environment

Speaker: Seynabou Cisse FAYE (Geology Department Faculty of Sciences & Techniques - UCAD)

12:45 Assessment of climate extremes on groundwater in Africa and projection of their medium and long term impacts

Speaker: Komi Mawulom Claude AFAMONDJI (Laboratory of Geosciences Water and Environment of the Faculty of Sciences at the Mohammed V University in Rabat)

11:00 → 12:00 ST3 | Bridging the data-knowledge gaps in hydrology: Open science & open edu resources in hydrology

Conveners: Abdoulaye FATY (UCAD), Jean-Emmanuel PATUREL (IRD), Jérôme LE COZ (INRAE), Stephan DIETRICH (ICWRGC)

11:00 Quantifying the uncertainty of ADCP discharge measurements through inter-comparisons

Speaker: Jérôme LE COZ (INRAE)

11:15 Open and Free Datasets for Hydrology Research: Insights Challenges and Opportunities

Speaker: Michelle NEWCOMER (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory)

11:45 Socio-economic assessment of access and management of drinking water in island areas: case of the island of Niodior (Fatick-Senegal)

Speaker: Oumou NIANG (Institut des Sciences de l'Environnement/UCAD/DAKAR/SENEGAL)

11:00 → 13:15 ST5 | Large rivers management: Exploring hydroclimatic variability in large basins

Conveners: Alioune KANE (UCAD), Andrew Ogilvie, Ansoumana BODIAN (Université Gaston Berger Saint-Louis), Awa Niang FALL (UCAD)

11:00 Variability of the Senegal River floodplain under climate change scenarios

Speaker: Andrew Ogilvie

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11:15 Sensitivity of the GR4J model to different estimating methods of potential evapotranspiration

Speaker: Ansoumana BODIAN (Université Gaston Berger Saint-Louis)

11:30 Satellite-based Rainfall Estimates to Simulate Daily Streamflow Using a Hydrological Model over Gambia Watershed

Speaker: Bakary FATY (Direction de la Gestion et de la Planification des Ressources en Eau)

11:45 Open earth observation data for water accounting in large river basins: case of the Volta River basin in West Africa

Speaker: Moctar DEMBELE (International Water Management Institute (IWMI))

12:00 The great Niaye of Pikine (Dakar): water management in chronic uncertainty

Speaker: Mouhamed DANGOURA (UCAD)

12:15 Projected changes in the rainfall annual cycle over the Senegal River Basin using CMIP5 bias-corrected simulations

Speaker: Moussa DIAKHATE (Université Amadou Mahtar MBOW)

12:30 Effect of the SWATPLUS input parameters on the modeling of the Senegal River flow at the Bafing - Bakoye - Faleme

Speaker: Mousse Landing SANE (UCAD)

12:45 First approaches for the development of the SWAT model in the Senegal River Basin

Speaker: Abou DIA (UCAD)

13:00 Transboundary basins: Governance and cooperation among African States

Speaker: Adeyemi OLUSOLA (York University)

12:00 → 13:00 ST3 | Bridging the data-knowledge gaps in hydrology: Scientific data mgmt & data exchange in hydrology

Conveners: Abdoulaye FATY (UCAD), Jean-Emmanuel PATUREL (IRD), Jérôme LE COZ (INRAE), Stephan DIETRICH (ICWRGC)

12:00 ROBIN - A Reference Observatory of Basins for international hydrological climate change detection

Speaker: Jamie HANNAFORD (UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology)

12:15 New time series of gridded climatic variables for Czechia and their potential for nationwide hydrology

Speaker: Ondrej LEDVINKA (Czech Hydrometeorological Institute)

12:30 The Global Terrestrial Network - Hydrology (GTN-H): a unique source of global hydrological observations

Speaker: Stephan DIETRICH (ICWRGC)

12:45 The International Soil Moisture Network (ISMN): A permanent service for delivering long-term in situ soil moisture data

Speaker: Wolfgang KORRES (Federal Institute of Hydrology)

13:00 → 14:30 Lunch break

14:30 → 16:20 Joint ST1/ST2/ST5 session: Advancing Interdisciplinarity & Science for water solutions

Conveners: Gil MAHE (IRD), Madiodio NIASSE, Rodric Merime NONKI (LEMAP - University of Yaoundé 1), Valerie BORRELL ESTUPINA (Université de Montpellier)

14:30 Urban flooding in West Africa: holistic approaches to urban management in West Africa - the case of the propagation of rainfall floods in Cotonou

Speaker: Ernest AMOUSSOU (AcTNAO interdisciplinary team)

14:45 Impacts of climate change on river sustainability in a semi-arid agricultural region of South Africa

Speaker: Jane TANNER (Rhodes University)

15:00 Identifying non water-related leverages to improve water security at the local scale

Speaker: Olivier BARRETEAU (INRAE)

15:15 Using the water footprint concept to understand the link between water scarcity and violent conflicts in the Central-West Africa sub-region.

Speaker: Elias NKIAKA (University of Sheffield)

15:30 A teaching unit designed in innovative and active pedagogy to understand and meet the climate resilience transdisciplinary challenges that are facing our territories (south and north) labeled by the UNESCO ICIREWARD center

Speaker: Valerie BORRELL ESTUPINA (Université de Montpellier)

15:45 Charm-EU pilot capstone on climate resilience of farming communities

Speaker: Dimitri SORO (Université Félix Houphouet-Boigny)

14:30 → 16:00 ST2 | Climate change & Water resources resilience: Hydrometeorological variability & indices

Conveners: Alain DEZETTER, Amadou Thierno GAYE, Aminata NDIAYE, Bastien DIEPPOIS, Luc DESCROIX (IRD), Mohammed MEDDI (Higher National School of Hydraulics), Soussou SAMBOU, Telesphore BROU

14:30 Investigating past and future changes of hydroclimatic extremes in the Ouémé headwater catchment in West Africa

Speaker: Aymar BOSSA (University of Abomey-Calavi)

14:45 Study of climate variability in the Mountain District of Côte d'Ivoire (1961 to 2020).

Speaker: Coulibaly LEREYAHA (UnIversité de MAN)

15:00 Variabilite interannuelle de la pluviometrie de la zone forestiere aux savanes dans le sud-ouest centrafricain

Speaker: Jean Marie DJEBATA (École Normale Supérieure (ENS) de Bangui)

15:15 Large-Scale Climatic Drivers of Long-term variability in the Frequency of Flood Events across Sub-Saharan Africa

Speaker: Job EKOLU (Coventry University)

15:30 Water Resources Resilience of the « false » West African Water Tower

Speaker: Luc DESCROIX (IRD)

15:45 Dry spells in the Ichkeul lake basin (Tunisia): diagnosis of droughts using daily data

Speaker: Majid MATHLOUTHI (LRSTE)

14:30 → 16:00 ST4 | Spatial hydrology: Innovative observation technologies

Conveners: Fernand KOUAME (UVCI), Raphael TSHIMANGA (CRREBaC), Santiago YEPEZ (University of Concepción)

14:30 Apport des outils spatiaux dans la compréhension de paramètres hydrologiques dans le bassin versant Djiguimar

Speaker: Abdoulaye FATY (UCAD)

14:45 Application of remote sensing to water quality parameters over lakes using time series from Sentinel-2 and Landsat-8/9. Study case: laguna grande - bíobio - chile

Speaker: Santiago YEPEZ (University of Concepción)

15:00 Satellite-based monthly surface water storage database for the Congo basin from 1992-2015

Speaker: Benjamin KITAMBO (Laboratoire d'études en géophysique et océanographie spatiales (LEGOS))

15:15 Characterization of flooding in the Mono basin with the HEC RAS model

Speaker: Ernest AMOUSSOU (Université de Parakou)

15:30 Flood risk management and local development in the Dyonkoto - Boubon strip in Niger: remote sensing approach

Speaker: Hadiza KIARI FOUGOU (Université de Diffa - Niger)

15:45 Modeling freshwater discharge of poorly monitored African rivers using remote sensing-based land surface model

Speaker: Komlavi AKPOTI (International Water management Institute)

16:00 → 16:30 Coffee break

16:30 → 18:15 Joint ST1/ST2/ST5 session: Advancing Interdisciplinarity & Science for water solutions

Conveners: Gil MAHE (IRD), Madiodio NIASSE, Rodric Merime NONKI (LEMAP - University of Yaoundé 1), Valerie BORRELL ESTUPINA (Université de Montpellier)

16:30 Water balance of ponds and their place in the agropastoral society of the Patar commune (Senegal)

Speaker: Fatou DIOUF (UCAD)

16:45 Transdisciplinarity - a need for the education of people on the Climate Change: the example of GFS in Senegal

Speaker: Didier ORANGE (IRD)

17:00 Co-managing scarce water resources in agricultural areas: A stakeholder centred approach

Speaker: David GWAPEDZA (Rhodes University, South Africa)

17:15 Delegation of public drinking water service management - an alternative to the community management model for improving access to water in rural Senegal.

Speaker: Samba BA (UCAD/EDEQUE)

17:30 Integrated stormwater management in a context of major development of a new city: case of the urban pole of diamniadio (dakar/senegal)

Speaker: Bandiougou NDIAYE (UCAD)

17:40 Impacts of socio-economic activities on the quality of water resources in the commune of darou khoudoss.

Speaker: Vieux Malang DIATTA (UCAD)

17:50 Agriculture urbaine genre et résilience climatique à Korhogo (nord de la Côte d’Ivoire)

Speaker: Yéboué Stéphane Koissy KOFFI (UNIVERSITE PELEFORO GON COULIBALY DE KORHOGO)

16:30 → 18:00 ST2 | Climate change & Water resources resilience: Hydrometeorological variability & indices

Conveners: Alain DEZETTER, Amadou Thierno GAYE, Aminata NDIAYE, Bastien DIEPPOIS, Luc DESCROIX (IRD), Mohammed MEDDI (Higher National School of Hydraulics), Soussou SAMBOU, Telesphore BROU

16:30 Effects of climate change on water requirements of orange trees in the Mitidja plain in Algeria

Speaker: Mohammed MEDDI (Higher National School of Hydraulics)

16:45 Quantifying and partitioning the uncertainties of climate change impacts on hydrology and hydropower potential under 1.50C and 2.00C Global Warming Levels in the Headwaters of the Benue River Basin - Cameroon

Speaker: Rodric Merime NONKI (Laboratory for Environmental Modeling and Atmospheric Physics (LEMAP) - Department of Physics - Faculty of Sciences - University of Yaoundé 1)

17:15 Analyse spectrale des précipitations mensuelles dans les régions situées au Centre du Sénégal.

Speaker: Ibraima TOURE (UCAD)

17:30 Hydrological modelling with the SWAT tool of the Sandougou watershed in a context of climate change

Speaker: Ahmadou Bamba DIENG (UCAD)

17:45 Paradox of water security and governance in the mountain range of fouta djallon

Speaker: Coura KANE (Université Alioune Diop de Bambey)

16:30 → 18:00 ST4 | Spatial hydrology: Innovative observation technologies

Conveners: Fernand KOUAME (UVCI), Raphael TSHIMANGA (CRREBaC), Santiago YEPEZ (University of Concepción)

16:30 Harnessing spatial patterns of satellite data for multivariate hydrological model calibration

Speaker: Moctar DEMBELE (University of Oxford)

16:45 Contribution of remote sensing to flood hazard mapping in the Riviera-Bonoumin watershed in the District of Abidjan (Ivory Coast)

Speaker: Bi Vami Hermann N'GUESSAN (Centre Universitaire de Recherche et d'Application en Télédétection (CURAT) - Université Félix Houphouët-Boigny)

17:00 Evaluation of global gridded rainfall products in the main hydrosystems of Senegal: Casamance - Gambia - Senegal

Speaker: Omar GOUDIABY (Université Gaston Berger Saint-Louis)

17:15 Analysis of the performance of satellite products for estimating evapotranspiration in the Senegal River Delta

Speaker: Papa Malick NDIAYE (Université Gaston Berger Saint-Louis)

17:30 Groundwater Potential Zone mapping using Geographical informationsystem by Fuzzy- Analytic Hierarchy Process in humid area: case study ( Ghar El Melh (North Eastern of Tunisia))

Speaker: Amal KOUAIED (Université Tunis El Manar ( faculté des sciences de Tunis El Manar))

17:45 Groundwater Recharge Zone Mapping Using GIS-based Multi-Criteria Evaluation and Analytical Hierarchy Process: A Case Study of Trarza Aquifer (Mauritania)

Speaker: Aguibou BA (UCAD)

18:00 → 19:30 UNESCO IHP-IX: FIGCC internal meeting

Thursday 28 September

09:30 → 18:00 UNESCO IHP-IX: FRIEND-Water WORKSHOP

09:30 Presentation of UNESCO IHP-IX and FRIEND-Water

10:30 Coffee break

11:00 Brainstorming on FRIEND-Water activities for 2023-2029 (in groups)

13:00 Lunch break

14:30 Defining IHP-IX milestones for FRIEND-Water 2023-2029 (in groups)

16:00 Coffee break

16:30 Synthesis and next steps

19:00 → 21:30 Social: Gala dinner (Live music from Frères Guissé)

Friday 29 September

09:00 → 10:30 UNESCO IHP-IX: Presentation and discussion of 23 UPH in Africa & IAHS Africa Regional Committee

10:30 → 11:00 Coffee break

11:00 → 13:00 Plenary session: Closing ceremony

13:00 → 14:30 Lunch break