Capacity Development For Improved Water Management

Author : Maarten Blokland
Publisher : CRC Press
ISBN 13 : 1136954414
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.12/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Capacity Development for Improved Water Management written by Maarten Blokland and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2019-04-30 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of papers explains how knowledge and capacity development can contribute to improved, effective water management with a digest of lessons learned in the areas of development of tools and techniques, field applications and evaluation. The authors are prominent practitioners, capacity builders and academics within the water and capacity development sectors. Capacity Development for Improved Water Management starts with an introduction and overview of progress and challenges in knowledge and capacity development in the water sector. The next part presents tools and techniques that are being used in knowledge and capacity development in response to the prevailing challenges in the water sector, and a review of experience with capacity change in other sectors. In the third part a number of cases are presented that cover knowledge and capacity development experiences in the water resources and water services sectors. This part also presents experiences on water education for children and on developing gender equity. The fourth part provides experiences with the monitoring and evaluation of knowledge and capacity building.

Author : Maarten Blokland
Publisher : CRC Press
ISBN 13 : 9780415573986
Total Pages : 408 pages
Book Rating : 4.8X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Capacity Development for Improved Water Management written by Maarten Blokland and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2010-02-01 with total page 408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of papers explains how knowledge and capacity development can contribute to improved, effective water management with a digest of lessons learned in the areas of development of tools and techniques, field applications and evaluation. The authors are prominent practitioners, capacity builders and academics within the water and capacity development sectors. Capacity Development for Improved Water Management starts with an introduction and overview of progress and challenges in knowledge and capacity development in the water sector. The next part presents tools and techniques that are being used in knowledge and capacity development in response to the prevailing challenges in the water sector, and a review of experience with capacity change in other sectors. In the third part a number of cases are presented that cover knowledge and capacity development experiences in the water resources and water services sectors. This part also presents experiences on water education for children and on developing gender equity. The fourth part provides experiences with the monitoring and evaluation of knowledge and capacity building.

Author : National Research Council
Publisher : National Academies Press
ISBN 13 : 0309164346
Total Pages : 154 pages
Book Rating : 4.44/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Increasing Capacity for Stewardship of Oceans and Coasts written by National Research Council and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 2008-02-04 with total page 154 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Marine environments support the livelihoods, economies, and quality of life for communities around the world. But growth of coastal populations and increasing demands on marine resources are putting the future of ocean and coastal resources at risk through impacts such as overfishing, wetland drainage, climate change, and pollution of coastal waters. Given these demands, it is vital to build capacity-the people, the institutions, and technology and tools-needed to manage ocean resources. Unfortunately, many capacity building efforts focus on specific projects rather than on capacity building as goal unto itself, resulting in activities that are not funded or sustained past the typically short project lifetime. This book finds that the most successful capacity-building efforts meet the needs of a specific locale or region based on periodic assessments and include plans to maintain and expand capacity after the project ends. The report recommends ways that governments and organizations can help strengthen marine protection and management capacity, including conducting periodic program assessments, making plans to sustain funding, and developing leadership and political will. The book was produced at the request of Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation, the President's Circle of the National Academies, the David and Lucile Packard Foundation, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, the National Science Foundation, the Marisla Foundation, and the Curtis and Edith Munson Foundation.

Author : Uganda. Ministry of Water and Environment
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 128 pages
Book Rating : 4.11/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Water and Environment Sector Capacity Development Strategy 2012-2017 written by Uganda. Ministry of Water and Environment and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Reza Ardakanian
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 190 pages
Book Rating : 4.59/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Water and the Green Economy written by Reza Ardakanian and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The aim of this book is to give special attention to the needs related to capacity development for water resources management, including water supply and sanitation, in the context of the green economy. This is done by showcasing theoretical and practical approaches which have proved to be successful. Most of the contributions come from members and partners within the interagency mechanism known as UN-Water. As such, the book is in line with the mandates of UN-Water and the UN-Water Decade Programme on Capacity Development, which are to strengthen coordination and coherence among UN entities within UN-Water as they deal with issues related to all aspects of freshwater and sanitation. Along these lines, UNW-DPC aims to support not only capacity development related to water, but also education, training and institutional development. The 11 case studies in this book cover the entire range from innovative design and delivery of CD programmes related to water in the green economy, market mechanisms, and quality control procedures supporting CD success towards the practical implementation of programmes to enhance individual and institutional capacity." --P. iii

Author : OECD
Publisher : OECD Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9264167897
Total Pages : 103 pages
Book Rating : 4.96/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Greening Development Enhancing Capacity for Environmental Management and Governance written by OECD and published by OECD Publishing. This book was released on 2012-01-25 with total page 103 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This policy guidance outlines a number of steps to be considered when building capacity for greening national development planning, national budgetary processes and key economic sector strategies.

Author : Guy Alaerts
Publisher : CRC Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 328 pages
Book Rating : 4.47/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Water for a Changing World - Developing Local Knowledge and Capacity written by Guy Alaerts and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2009 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of papers represents the outcomes of the International Symposium held in Delft, The Netherlands, on June 13-15, 2007, at the occasion of the 50th anniversary of the UNESCO-IHE Institute for Water Education. The papers discuss how to contribute to the sustainability of effective international development and water management with a digest of lessons learned on local knowledge and capacity development. Authors expose recent research, strategies and policy positions. Water for a Changing World starts with an introduction and overview of the water resources and the water supply and sanitation sectors in developing countries and worldwide. Topics of these reviews are water security, environmental integrity, the newest earth system science technologies, integrated urban water management, and the global-local nexus of water governance. The second part presents positions on catalyzing and disseminating knowledge and capacity development in response to the current challenges and opportunities. It consists of a variety of papers on theory and analysis of capacity development, methods and case studies, and policy positions. The authors represent a diverse and representative group of prominent actors, practitioners and academics within the water, sanitation and development sectors.

Author : G.J. Alaerts
Publisher : CRC Press
ISBN 13 : 9789054104216
Total Pages : 574 pages
Book Rating : 4.1X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Water Sector Capacity Building: Concepts and Instruments written by G.J. Alaerts and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 1999-01-01 with total page 574 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Capacity building of institutions and of individuals is a key mechanism to improve public governance. In the water sector, which encompasses water management and water services such as water supply, sanitation and irrigated agriculture, capacity building is seen as the solution to the main weaknesses in the sector: weak institutional frameworks, poorly targeted organizations with inappropriate skills mixes, and, in general, no orientation to sustainable 'demand driven' management. This volume contains the papers and the outcome of workshops of the second UNDP Water Sector Capacity Building Symposium (Delft, The Netherlands, 1996). Whereas the First Symposium focused on the nature and broad strategic outlines of the capacity building concept, this book reviews the first field experiences and discusses the tools and approaches. The contributions make a specific attempt to discuss capacity building as a means to support and guide sector and policy reform.

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 512 pages
Book Rating : 4.98/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Water Reports written by and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 512 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Caroline Figueres
Publisher : Earthscan
ISBN 13 : 1849772401
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.02/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Rethinking Water Management written by Caroline Figueres and published by Earthscan. This book was released on 2012 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: If water resources are to be distributed efficiently, equitably and cost-effectively in this rapidly changing world, then it is clear that current water management practices are no longer feasible. Innovative approaches are required to meet the increasing water demands of a growing world population and economy and the needs of the ecosystems supporting them. New approaches have to be employed at global, national and local levels. In Rethinking Water Management, a new generation of water experts from around the world examine the critical challenges confronting the water profession, including rainwater and groundwater management, recycling and reuse, water rights, transboundary access to water and financing of water. They offer important new perspectives on the use, management and conservation of fresh water, in terms of both quantity and quality, for the domestic, agricultural and industrial sectors, and show how a new set of paradigms can be applied to successfully manage water for the future. Caroline Figueres is Head of the Urban Infrastructure Department at UNESCO-IHE Water Education Institute in The Netherlands.Cecilia Tortajada is Vice President of the Third World Centre for Water Management in Mexico and Vice President-elect of the International Water Resources Association. Johan Rockstr'm is Water Resources Expert at UNESCO-IHE.