Plenaries
Our four Plenary sessions present high-profile keynotes and expert panels to bring diverse insights and inspire discussion
NEXT STEPS IN BUILDING THE 2020 DELFT AGENDA ON WATER CAPACITY DEVELOPMENT
#CapDevSymp is just the start. You can contribute directly to the next steps here
Meet the experts
Nemanja Trifunovic
Associate Professor of Water Supply Engineering, IHE Delft Institute for Water Education
Guy Alaerts
Professor Knowledge and Capacity Development, IHE Delft Institute for Water Education
Raquel dos Santos
Education Facilitator (eLearning focus), IHE Delft Institute for Water Education
Track 4
Capacity in utilities and other institutions to achieve the “last mile” of the SDGs
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Capacity development and sustainability of the water resource
The beverage, food, mining, large hydroelectric projects . They must be more responsible with the use of water, and support in water treatment systems. Watershed management at the municipal, national, and regional levels in the public and private sectors
Acces to water.
The role of agrochemicals, extensive export crops such as sugar cane, oil palm, soybeans, and others in the intensive use of water, more than 75% of the water available in some countries. it only leaves populations, communities without rivers, aquifers, without water. or contaminated water
Track-7 follow up on Recommendations
Dear Track-7 contributorsWe would like to thank you all for the nice presentations today and for the fruitful discussion.Please use this conversation area to post further contributions to the Lessons Learned and Recommendations which will be part of the final document of the CapDevSymp to be shared with the international water professional community.The ppt with the lessons learned and recommendations discussed live today and the panel video recording will be shared with you soon here in the platform.Best wishes, Raquel and Emanuele
What are the capacity development needs when implementing a gender-sensitive approach?
Join us today - 14:00 to 16:00 - Track 9 Topic 2 - Gender Matters Registration for the interactive session is now extended to 12:00 CEST. Signup here!If you are unable to attend them please add your comments below.
Can vocational training institutes like WET Centres, SMART Centres be financially Self sustaining? Organisations like the World Bank expect water trainings institutes to become independent from donations but is that realistic?
Vocational skills like production, installation, repairing of WatSan technologies and infrastructure are essential to reach SDG6. Institutes like WET Centres, SMART Centres, EMAS centre build local WASH capacity in technical and business skills. To get funds from larger organisations like the World Bank, it is expected that they become financially self sustaining, meaning that they can operate without subsidies or donations.This maybe partly possible. For instance SMART Centres generate income by asking donors to fund scholarships to train welldrillers or do projects like 10 wells for a donor. They than subcontract drillers they have trained and so use these funds to do quality control. The entrepreneurs they train become 100% self sustaining. However like any vocational education, WASH trainings centres need structural funding from government or others to operate. The long term goal would be to get the specific skills and knowledge of these WASH trainings centres into the national vocational education. Would others agree? Henk Holtslag www.smartcentregroup.com
More cases?
I would like to know how to see more cases related to this track, does the website accommodates matching themes of the contributors? Thank you...
