Wednesday 23 August
Partnership for Capacity Development on Water, Sanitation, and Hygiene (WASH): Photo: David Dahmen
Building Commitment for Action Convenors: Cap-Net, Streams of Knowledge and IRC International Water and Sanitation Centre
One of the most important challenges of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) is to ensure that the water and sanitation service targets will be reached and result in sustainable access, especially for the poor. It is widely acknowledged that capacity development, especially at the intermediate and local levels, will be key in this. However it is also clear that more needs to be done to scale up and maximise the impact of capacity building activities. Questions we will address include: • What capacities are needed to achieve the MDGs in water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH)? • Are we reaching the right people? • Are we managing the knowledge base? • How can we build cooperation for capacity building action? The objectives of the seminar are to build commitment and cooperation to address capacity building needs for the MDGs on water supply, sanitation and hygiene, and to increase understanding of constraints, opportunities and priorities for moving forward into action.
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Programme
Wednesday 23 August, 13:30–17:00 Norra Latin, Room 351
13:30 Introduction – Facilitated by Cap-Net Presentations and Discussion: • What Capacities are Needed to Achieve the MDGs in WASH? Ms. Rory Villaluna, Streams of Knowledge, Philippines • Reaching the Right People Through Innovative Approaches. Ms. Erma Uijterwaal, IRC, The Netherlands • Working in Partnership for Capacity Building Action. Dr. Paul Taylor, Cap-Net, The Netherlands • Decentralised Water and Sanitation Systems: Knowledge Gaps and Capacity Building Needs to Meet the MDGs. Dr. Bekithemba Gumbo, WaterNet, Zimbabwe • Networking and Knowledge Management, Improving WASH Capacity Building. Dr. Cheick Tandia, CREPA, Burkina Faso 14:45 Open Space Discussions Discussion of Topics Around Capacity Development, Using ‘Open Space’* Methodology – Facilitated by IRC • The topics introduced above will be used to gather experience from participants and build commitment to cooperative action. The session will be creative and allow participants to contribute ideas, and raise additional areas for consideration by the group. 16:30 Synthesis of Outputs and Plans for Follow Up. • We will use a simplified Open Space methodology in which participants that want to bring in a topic will be asked to do a ‘poster session’, which the other participants can join on a voluntary basis to contribute to the ideas. 17:00 End of Seminar