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Included in the session. FT4.20
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| 1.CONTACT INFORMATION OF POTENTIAL CONVENER(S) |
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TS0310
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Convening Organization(s) |
UNESCO-IHE Institute for Water Education
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| Head of organization |
Prof. Richard A. Meganck, PhD |
| Position. |
Director |
| Contact person / people
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Peter Hollanders |
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Lecturer Integrated Land and Water Development |
| Address
POBox 3015 |
| Post / Zip code 2601 DA |
City
Delft |
| Country
Netherlands
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| Telephone
0031 15 2151824 |
Fax 0031 15 2122921 |
| E-mail |
p.hollanders@unesco-ihe.org |
| Website www.unesco-ihe.org |
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2.TYPE OF ORGANIZATION |
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Professional associations and academic institutions
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3.INFORMATION ON THE ORGANIZATION’S INCORPORATION
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| Year of incorporation
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| 1957
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| Objective of the organization
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The mandate given by UNESCO to IHE is to:
· strengthen and mobilise the global educational and knowledge base for integrated water resources management; and
· contribute to meeting the water-related capacity building needs of the developing countries and countries in transition.
Within this mandate the mission is defined as follows:
The mission of the Institute is to contribute to the education and training of professionals and to build the capacity of sector organisations, knowledge centres and other institutions active in the fields of water, the environment and infrastructure, in developing countries and countries in transition.
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Has the organization previously convened a session at a World Water Forum?
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Yes
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Which:
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During the 2nd WWF in the Hague the Institute was convening Special Subject on “Water Education and training” and on “Public Private Partnership”. Besides, during that Forum IHE-Delft played several active roles in co-ordinations, presentations, project secretarial with alumni, the fair etc.
During the 3th WWF in Japan, UNESCO-IHE was convening the session on “Integrated Flood Management” within the Theme “Flood”.
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| 4.CO-CONVENING ORGANIZATIONS |
| (1) Name of organization IPTRID |
| Contact person: Carlos Garces |
| Position: Programme Manager IPTRID-FAO |
| E-mail address: Carlos.Garces@fao.org |
| (2) Name of organization ICID |
| Contact person: Tom Franks |
| Position: Chairman Working Group on Capacity-Building, Training and Education |
| E-mail address: Tom.Franks@btinternet.com |
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5.FRAMEWORK THEME AND CROSSCUTTING PERSPECTIVE(S)
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Framework themes. |
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Water Management for Food and the Environment |
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Crosscutting Perspectives.
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Capacity-building and Social Learning
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6.GEOGRAPHIC FOCUS OF THE SESSION
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A.Please select whether the focus of the session is global or regional
Global |
B. Precise if it's specific to a country, city, area of a city or river basin.
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| Country
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| City, State, Province, etc. |
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| River Basin |
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| 7.TITLE OF THE PROPOSED SESSION |
| Title: The implementation of Capacity Development Strategies and the need for social learning to develop institutional and human capacity among local stakeholders for a viable and sustainable Irrigation and Drainage sector in developing countries and countries i |
8.OBJECTIVE
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In many locations in many countries actions are ongoing that improve agricultural productivity while taking care of the environment. These local actions are sometimes successful and sometimes they do fail due to different factors. Finding the proper incentives and mechanisms to implement field level communication and constant interaction among local stakeholders is important to increase the capacity of society to engage in successful local actions. The intention within the Fourth World Water Forum is (i) to get an impression and share experiences on local action by local actors on capacity building for water use and food production in an environmental context, (ii) to identify facilitating and constraining factors and measures, (iii) to remove these constraints and (iv) to see to what extend successful local actions can be scaled up.
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9.TITLE OR NAME OF LOCAL ACTION(S) TO BE PRESENTED DURING YOUR SESSION (At least one these acions should aleready be in the database of local actions on the 4th forum website, and should be the same name as on that website).
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“Water Sector Capacity Building in Palestine”.
Remark: Two more case studies / local actions will be determined at a later stage. The ICID, through its Working Group on Capacity Building, has been assembling a series of case studies of good practice in capacity development for managing water for food and the environment.
Possible additional local actions:
“Farmer-to-farmer initiatives for improved water management and productivity in East Africa”.(?)
“Capacity development for food security in Nicaragua” (?).
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10.EXTECTED OUTPUTS OF SESSION.
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To really address and further develop the issue of Social Learning. Already Capacity Building is often referred to as Capacity Development, in order to convey the sense of improving or utilizing what capacity already exists. Today, Social Learning may or has become an indissoluble key-issue, going simultaneously with Capacity Development in order to effectively strengthen local action.
During discussions and comments from the participants and audience, through experiences, cases of local actions and ideas, answers to the following questions will be looked for within an agricultural environment:
1. Where are the priorities for capacity building to enable and strengthen local stakeholders and their actions?
2. What are the key success factors for strengthening local; actions and do you have cases that illustrate this?
3. Who are the local capacity builders and do they have enough capacity themselves? Do they have the knowledge, skills, motivation and facilities to do effective capacity development
4. To what extend is capacity building focused on local level? Relatively much attention is given to the highest (policy and decision makers) and lowest (farmers) echelons of management whereas the field management (agency staff etc) is often not properly addressed – not only in knowledge and skill terms but
5. There is on all levels an obvious need for awareness raising, dialogue and development of capacity on the consequences of agricultural practices on the environment and the options available to mitigate the adverse effects especially in motivation terms.
6. To what extend is water and environment part of regular formal education and what is necessary to make this and effective part of strengthening local stakeholders.
7. Access to affordable technology and management systems are essential to strengthen local action. To what extend does local oriented research and dissemination of the results exists on technology and management practices
8. Empowered local stakeholders are decisive for successful local action. What are the experiences with empowerment of local water user groups and farmer collectivities in decentralisation processes and what cases can be presented to illustrate this.
9. What innovative financing mechanisms can be reported that stimulate local stakeholders to invest in development or modernisation of infrastructure and training of their managing staff.
10. There are many approaches to capacity building. The quality of future capacity building activities can be improved by learning from the lessons of the past. Monitoring of approaches and innovations in capacity building is essential to identify key factors for success and their constraints.
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11.USE OF LOCAL ACTIONS TO ACHIEVE THESE OUTPUTSCOMES OF YOUR SESSION
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One of the outcomes of the Water Sector Capacity Building project in Palestine was that it needs more than only the development of curricula, lectures and workshops to build capacity. It also needs commitments and awareness of people, empowerment and the improvement of communication. In other words, a set of actions to stimulate people and to create a positive impact.
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12.EXPECTED NUMER OF PARTICIPANTS (please note that around 10,000 participants are expected at the Forum, and that session rooms range from 80 to 1100 participants)
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150
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13.ACTIVITIES TOWARD PRIOR TO THE PROPOSED SESSION
(Comferences, workshops, meetings, virtual workshops, research, studies etc.)
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Through a number of direct and bilateral meetings between the 3 mentioned Institutions, a more detailed programming of the session will be formed.
Concerning the cross-cutting perspective on CB&SL two more workshops, Agua 2005 and the African Regional Workshop will be attended in which actively for input into the cross-cutting theme in relation to Water for Food and Environment will be looked for.
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14. ANY OTHER SUGGESTIONS OR COMMENTS
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0
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