The Ethiopian Climate Change Working Group (ECCWG) lunching workshop was held here in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, at the International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI), on January 26, 2023. The event was organized by the African Center of Excellence for Water Management (ACEWM), Addis Ababa University, and supported by ILRI-Ethiopia. The goal of the workshop was to officially commence and establish successful partnerships with the key stakeholder institutions to enable the ECCWG to realize its vision, mission, objectives, and implementation plans through a strong and collaborative approach.

In his PhD dissertation research defended on November, 29, 2022,Lusanjo Henery Mfwango showed how to dissect and study the impact of Climate and Land use/cover change on the water balance components of Ruvu River (main Ruvu) at Kibungo Sub-catchment of Upper Ruvu catchment in eastern Tanzania”. Concomitantly, He also explored the factors affecting water availability by influencing the hydrological processes of the catchments, eventually impacting environmental and socioeconomic activities.

Muluwork Maru comes up with the idea of Scenedesmus-based water desalination approach to remove salt through the natural photosynthetic process powered by sunlight. This technology is expected to deliver low-cost desalted water. Along the way, she dives into showing recovered algal biomass use and its benefit as an excellent feedstock for biodiesel production.

PURPOSE: The purpose of this National Mobility Program for PhD Candidates is to enhance AAU PhD candidates’ research capability, promote partnerships with National Universities and institutes, and enhance collaboration. It is expected that PhD candidates conduct research, use specific instruments, and work on publications. This exchange visit is believed to enhance this process and to accelerate the write-up process of the dissertation in a new environment at closer contact with the candidates’ advisors/co-advisors and other researchers in the study area at host University.

On December 2021, the Africa Centre of Excellence for Water Management received conditional accreditation from AQAS for its three PhD and Five MSc Programs. AQAS announced its conditional accreditation when the Agency issued Quality Assurance Accreditation Certificate Award to ACEWM last year.