GEF CReW+ Project develops Water Information Management System (WIMS) in six Caribbean countries

By UNEP Cartagena Convention Secretariat - The GEF CReW+ project is currently developing a Water Information Management System (WIMS) to help countries in the Caribbean with innovative water and wastewater management solutions. Costa Rica, Grenada, Jamaica, Saint Lucia, St. Vincent and the Grenadines, and Trinidad and Tobago are the six pioneer countries to benefit from WIMS. What is WIMS? WIMS is an easy-to-use and cost-effective web open data portal in which water-related data and information can be discovered and analysed across multiple domains and users. WIMS enables water sector stakeholders to store, manage, find, access, and use spatial and non-spatial water-related data and information. WIMS will also enable sharing of information between national agencies to facilitate reporting on regional and global commitments, helping the six Caribbean countries to achieve SDG 6 and SDG 14. Alongside creating a WIMS in each of the six partner countries, other activities include developing a basic Data Governance Framework that the collaborators of the WIMS can adopt. In addition, knowledge transfer will be ensured through the establishment of a community of practice and capacity trainings to analyse and manage spatial water-related data. WIMS is being developed by United Nations University Institute for Water Environment and Health (UNUINWEH), a long-standing collaboration partner of UNEP.