The purpose of this regional consultation is to discuss prevailing challenges at national and regional levels in water quality data acquisition and sharing, monitoring, assessment and reporting and how the UN Environment Programme (UNEP) – Global Environment Monitoring System (GEMS) Water Programme can help to face those challenges. It will also address how to best reinvigorate and increase African participation in the GEMS/Water global network and the submission of raw data to the GEMStat database.  

dates: 16-17 April 2012   location: Johannesburg, South Africa   contact: Patrick M'mayi, Programme Officer   phone: +254-20 762 3905   e-mail: patric.mmayi@unep.org   www: http://www.gemswater.org