AN INFORMATION SYSTEM FOR INTEGRATED LAND AND WATER RESOURCES MANAGEMENT IN THE KARA RIVER BASIN (TOGO AND BENIN) Hèou Maléki BADJANA 1,2,3, Franziska ZANDER 3 , Sven KRALISCH 3,4 , Jörg HELMSCHROT 4,5 , Wolfgang-Albert FLÜGEL 3,4 1 West African Science Service Center on Climate Change and Adapted Land Use (WASCAL, www.wascal.org), Graduate Research Program – Climate Change and Water resources, University of Abomey-Calavi, Cotonou, Benin 2 Laboratory of Botany and Plant Ecology, Faculty of Sciences; University of Lome, Lome, Togo 3 Department of Geoinformatics, Hydrology and Modelling, Friedrich-Schiller University of Jena, Jena, Germany 4 Southern African Science Service Center for Climate Change and Adaptive Land Management (SASSCAL, www.sasscal.org ) 5 Biocentre Klein Flottbek and Botanical Garden, University of Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany ABSTRACT A prerequisite for integrated land and water resources management (ILWRM) is a holistic river basin a...