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Report
Session 6.1.3:
Strengthening the Capacities of
Local Organisations and People
24 Contributors:
Austrian Development Agency
RASHON (Honduras)
CREPA (Burkina Faso)
RCNN (Nepal)
Dr. Quassem (Bangladesh)
SaciWwaters (India)
Dr. Sutardi (Indonesia)
SAGUAPAC (Bolivia)
IWA (Netherlands)
SNV (Uganda)
IWMI (Ethiopia)
Social and Environmental Sense (Colombia)
JICA (Japan)
TREND (Ghana)
Netafim (Israel)
Tufts University (USA)
NETWAS (Uganda)
CINARA. Universidad Univalle (Colombia.)
NetWwater (Sri Lanka)
University of the West Indies (Trinidad &Tobago)
Pacific Institute (Canada)
WaterNet (SADCC region, Africa)
Practica Foundation (Netherlands)
WUR (Netherlands)
Questions:
What capacity development is necessary to
enhance water management and how do we
ensure that capacity development reflects local
needs?
Should capacity development be done differently if
we want to improve water management and
sustained service delivery in water and sanitation?
Conclusions .........................
• There is an increased attention for capacity
development.....
• Numerous efforts in the area of capacity development:
technical advice and training, exchange visits, networking and
partnership forming, development of data bases, information
systems, newsletters, documentation of good practices, e –platforms
• But yet an enormous gap in capacities at the local level
– Qualitative
– Quantitative
Partnerships
Need for evidence base of impact of partnerships/ networks for
promotion and enabling capacity enhancement of local actors and
improved local governance
Knowledge
management
and CD tools
Two-way participatory and interdisciplinary approach to define the
stakeholder , make them aware of their stake and together determine
their CD needs using a holistic perspective
Build trust, change attitude and assess local situation
Matching CD
demand and
supply
Investment in assessing demand and creating demand if necessary.
Develop and strengthen appropriate institutional mechanisms (like
Learning Alliances and local networks, etc) to match supply and
demand at the local level
Local
autonomy and
self sufficiency
Regulation should give sufficient space for own price setting of the
Water Utilities
Enable an effective and efficient participation of the beneficiaries in the
decision making of the WUO
Gender mainstreaming
To make gender mainstreaming effective, the learning process has to
be ‘touchable’ and visible.
Integrated program of women leadership across all sectors and at all
levels
Preparing for
Need of interdisciplinary and holistic approaches for adaptation to
climate change uncertain events
We need to know more.........
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Effectiveness of the different tools, mechanisms
(partnerships, IM and KM)
– The local context and the specific development
priorities
– The existing capacities and the present and future
demand ( disaggregated data)
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Learning cultures and learning style
We need to do things differently .......
• Invest in creation of a learning environment
– Sector collaboration (new combinations)
– Longer term focus and strategic dimension
– Based on a inclusive and reflective dialogue and two
way approach in finding local solutions
– Focused at changing attitudes of all actors
– Institutionalise facilitation of learning processes
Local institutional framework, organisations and people are
prepared to respond to their present and future challenges
(decentralisation, social and gender inequities, climate change)
Who is We ?
What is next?