Capacity Building in Integrated Water Resources Management

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Capacity Building in Integrated Water Resources
Management
Harnessing the Power of Networks
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Who are we?

• Cap-Net is a partnership of training
  institutions, knowledge centres and water
  managers around the world
• We seek effective capacity building for
  sustainable management of water resources.

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Our Partners

• Cap-Net is an associated programme of
• Agencies that support our work are
• Global and regional networks make up the Cap-Net
  network

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The Global Network
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What do we do?

• Help countries to build the human and
  institutional capacity in water management to
  reach Millenium Development Goals
• Use the power of networks to ensure relevance,
  sustainability and to scale up capacity building
  actions

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The power of networks

• Made up of 19 geographic and 3 thematic capacity
  building networks, Cap-Net helps

International development organizations and
research institutes to increase their outreach
and impacts on the ground, incorporate local
knowledge and ensure the relevance of their work
Local, national and regional organizations to
share tools and knowledge, access training and
other resources and better coordinate activities
Donors and multilateral agencies to scale-up
impacts and get the most from their capacity
building investment
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Advantages of the Network approach

• This approach
• triggers cascading impacts by training of
  trainers
• crosses disciplinary and national boundaries
• connects capacity-builders and implementers
• provides knowledge on demand
• integrates state-of-art knowledge
• Leverages significant financial support at local
  level.

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Cascading Impact Training of Trainers (ToT)
Cap-Net and partners develop and organize
international ToT courses that synthesize

• Best available research
• Local knowledge
• On-the-Ground experience

Then, adaptation and replication at local level
is done
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Some results

• 8 international courses have been designed and
  held in
• IWRM principles
• Institutional arrangements
• Legal and regulatory frameworks for IWRM
• Gender and water
• IWRM plans
• Local water management
• Negotiation skills

• Over 600 trainers have been trained
• Over 18 regional and national training events
  have been held.
• Such events have trained other trainers,
  educators, students, water managers, researchers
  and decision makers

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How participants are using the training

• The knowledge and skills acquired
• are being used to

• Adapt and broadcast
• Conducting regional and national training courses
• Customizing training material for local use
• Organizing in-house workshops for colleagues

• Develop new capacities
• Skills of water managers for day-to-day
  activities
• Refining post-graduate curricula
• Developing new courses
• Developing learning material

• Create awareness in decision-makers
• Providing training to government staff
• Raising awareness among high-level policy-makers

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Other resources

• Website www.cap-net.org
• IWRM tutorial and most other materials on CD
• Training materials and tools on IWRM
• E-groups in diverse subjects
• Workshops and conferences
• Management tools in order to establish and
  enhance the performance of networks
• Information is available in several languages

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Contact our associated networks

• Regional Networks

AFRICA
LATIN AMERICA
Central America www.redica.net Liliarrieta_at_hotmail
.com
REDICA
Southern Africa www.waternetonline.org Waternet_at_en
g.uz.ac.zw
WaterNet
Central America www.caragua.org Bethuned_at_ucalgary.
ca
CARA
West Africa Westafricanet_at_yahoo.com
WA-Net
Latin-America www.la-wetnet.org Dindij_at_sinectis.co
m.ar
LA-WETnet
Nile River Basin www.nbcbn.com
NBCBN-RE
Argentina www.argcapnet.org.ar Arcapnet_at_fich.unl.e
du.ar
Arg Cap-Net
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Contact our associated networks

• Regional Networks

ARAB REGION
Magdalini_at_un.org
Awarenet
ASIA
South Asia. www.saciwaters.org Capnet_southasia_at_sp
dindia.org
Malasya. Drfauzi_at_tm.net.my
MyCapNet
CapNet SA
VietCapNet
South East Asia. Inaseaunand_at_yahoo.com
Vietnam. Vietontran_at_yahoo.com
SeaCapNet
CapNet India
Pakistan. Daima_at_brain.net.pk
CapNet Pakistan
India. Smita_at_irma.ac.in
CapNet Bangladesh
CapNet Nepal
Nepal. Nwcf_at_wlink.comp.np
Bangladesh. Atiq_at_rahman_at_bcas.net
InaCapNet
CapNet Lanka
Sri Lanka. Nimalgun_at_pnd.ac.lk
Indonesia. Inaseaundand_at_yahoo.com
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Contact our associated networks

• Thematic Networks

www.genderandwateralliance.org Arce_at_irc.nl
www.streams.net Info_at_streams.net
International Waters Learning and Exchange
Network www.iwlearn.org Info_at_iwlearn.org