Participants discussed the development of a roadmap for implementing a national Water Information System (WIS) for Afghanistan (Photo: Ayub Shinwari)

The team established the primary purpose of the WIS (to support water resource development and provide a centralized service to collect, analyse, and report quality-assured water data); determined objectives and requirements to meet those objectives; presented a preliminary analysis of key stakeholders (e.g. supporters, data providers, users); and identified skills required to operationalize such a system. The meeting outcomes will be compiled to inform the next step, which is the development of several implementation options to inform the final implementation roadmap.

Experts from CSIRO during the technical experts’ meeting in Kathmandu, 19–20 January 2019 (Photo: Ayub Shinwari)

The team worked through the following topics for completing the draft of the scoping requirements document:

Purpose and objectives

• Requirements to meet those objectives
• Existing infrastructure, systems, and gaps
• Stakeholder analysis (to identify key stakeholders and elicit their requirements and expectations)
• Current capabilities (baseline) and those required to operationalize a national WIS

The discussions were informed by lessons learnt in the implementation of Australia’s national WIS (AWRIS) with the BoM, a 10-year journey that is still ongoing.

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