{"id":3054,"date":"2026-01-23T12:41:19","date_gmt":"2026-01-23T11:41:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/smartcentregroup.com\/?p=3054"},"modified":"2026-01-23T12:49:36","modified_gmt":"2026-01-23T11:49:36","slug":"reflection-on-presence-at-the-stockholm-world-water-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/smartcentregroup.com\/index.php\/2026\/01\/23\/reflection-on-presence-at-the-stockholm-world-water-week\/","title":{"rendered":"Reflection on presence at the Stockholm World Water Week"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>At the 2025 Stockholm Water Week the GOPA MetaMeta \/ SMART Centre Group presented the new &#8220;Portable solar pump&#8221;&nbsp;that was developed&nbsp;in the last 5 years by the Jacana SMART Centre in Zambia based on input of farmers.&nbsp;It can pump 5 &#8211; 15 cubic meters per day and in Zambia is sold now at around $220.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We also presented about &#8220;supported self-supply&#8221; in the session &#8220;<strong>Restoring landscapes through innovative finance&#8221;&nbsp;<\/strong>together with&nbsp;TIARA -SIWI,&nbsp;Tiyeni and IRHA.&nbsp;With examples it was shown that&nbsp;SDG6.1 basic service in Africa is possible&nbsp;at a one-time support of $25\/ person in areas with &gt;200 mm rainfall \/ year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The supported self-supply model consists of:&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ol start=\"1\" class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Use innovative low-cost technologies,&nbsp;<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Focus on family-owned farm wells who share water with neighbors&nbsp;<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Productive uses so income generation to pay for pump maintenance<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n\n<p>The full recording of the session (and other sessions of the World Water Week) and can be seen at:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=VOmjZ9-s_RI&amp;list=PLI3myanJ6_jQwvqwypQEweFagFJ97h6Vy&amp;index=9\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\" noreferrer noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"829\" height=\"465\" src=\"https:\/\/smartcentregroup.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Screenshot_Recording.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3058\" srcset=\"https:\/\/smartcentregroup.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Screenshot_Recording.png 829w, https:\/\/smartcentregroup.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Screenshot_Recording-300x168.png 300w, https:\/\/smartcentregroup.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Screenshot_Recording-768x431.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 829px) 100vw, 829px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Summary of the session<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Make African landscapes more resilient to climate change. Examples on innovative finance for&nbsp;rainwater harvesting,&nbsp;recharge groundwater, improved soil fertility and biodiversity recovery including increasing&nbsp;rural water supply with&nbsp;farm water systems \/ supported self-supply. Results are resilient water resources, restored landscapes and&nbsp;vibrant, healthy communities.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The session included:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>TIARA<\/strong>; David Mingasson explained the Transforming Investment in Africa\u2019s Rainfed Agriculture program. (<a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/VOmjZ9-s_RI?si=D7qszpMI-hi_V195&amp;t=120\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Starts at minute 2:00<\/a>)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Deep Bed Farming<\/strong>; Isaac Chavula explained DBF and innovative finance (GIF)&nbsp; (Starts at&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/VOmjZ9-s_RI?si=76OKTUdkOP1IJPma&amp;t=756\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">12:36<\/a>)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Impacts:<\/strong>&nbsp;Maganizo Nyasulu presented on metrics for measuring watershed impacts of investments in enhanced rainfed agriculture. (Starts at&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/VOmjZ9-s_RI?si=PJ-gnbJf_Bt13LFN&amp;t=1757\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">29:17<\/a>)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>\u201cSupported self-supply\u201d:<\/strong>&nbsp;a model to finance SDG6.1 basic water service in rural areas. By Reinier Veldman GOPA \/MetaMeta. (Starts at&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/VOmjZ9-s_RI?si=Ehw8vdqoXPI08LBo&amp;t=3731\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">1:02:12<\/a>)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Rainwater harvesting<\/strong>, by Mr. Han Heijnen of IRHA&nbsp;(Starts at&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/VOmjZ9-s_RI?si=GgvE7p9oGsO3YCXr&amp;t=4392\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">1:13:12<\/a>)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Summary<\/strong>, by Alex Gerhard Director of Tiyeni (starts at&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/VOmjZ9-s_RI?si=jHaCvxi04DnGYwJf&amp;t=4973\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">1:22:53<\/a>)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At the 2025 Stockholm Water Week the GOPA MetaMeta \/ SMART Centre Group presented the new &#8220;Portable solar pump&#8221;&nbsp;that was developed&nbsp;in the last 5 years by the Jacana SMART Centre in Zambia based on input of farmers.&nbsp;It can pump 5 &#8211; 15 cubic meters per day and in Zambia is sold now at around $220.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[46],"tags":[129,128,117,114],"class_list":["post-3054","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-highlights","tag-siwi","tag-stockholm","tag-tiyeni","tag-webinar"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/smartcentregroup.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3054","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/smartcentregroup.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/smartcentregroup.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smartcentregroup.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smartcentregroup.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3054"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/smartcentregroup.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3054\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3059,"href":"https:\/\/smartcentregroup.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3054\/revisions\/3059"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/smartcentregroup.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3054"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smartcentregroup.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3054"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smartcentregroup.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3054"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}