Symposium - Addis Ababa - 16 to 18 April 2013
The Africa Regional Club organized a session on Capacity Building during the Africa 2013 conference held in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia: Water storage and Hydropower Development for Africa. The President of ICOLD opened the session: paper/presentation. Three papers were invited from the following countries: Ethiopia, Morocco and Mozambique. The invited presentations can be viewed here: Ethiopia, Morocco and Mozambique.
Half-day Training Seminar on Dam Safety Monday 15 April 2013: 14:00 – 17:00
Topics included:
- International dam safety practice, and applicability to developing countries of Africa;
- Options for dam safety frameworks to ensure safe and efficient dam design, construction, operation and maintenance, so that downstream property and the environment are protected;
- Options for addressing shared river dam safety issues;
- Dam safety guidelines, PFMA and risk-informed approaches; and,
- Capacity building options for dam safety programs in Africa.
Presentation files (2 zip files with 13 pdf files) can be downloaded here and here
Acknowledgement to conference organizer Aqua~Media International in partnership with ICOLD and the Ethiopian Electric Power Company.
