Daily Updates - 11 November 2013

‘Effective partnerships for capacity development in sustainable water management’ (Themba)

Contextualizing effective partnership in relation to Cap-Net Membership: 24 partner regional and country networks and collaboration with over 30 international partners.

New members: WaterLex and RAIN Foundation

Partnerships: rules of engagement, shared values and objectives
Major Cap-Net achievements:

•  20 training materials and tools
• Outreach of over 12,00 participants (f2f)
• Four main languages (+9 others)
• In 2011, over 10,000 downloads and 60,000 visitors
• Over 1,300 water videos

Video: Making networks work for networking

Using other networks’ knowledge, expertise and tools to develop and expand - global insight;
Responding to demand – decentralization lies at the core of the network support;
The role of Cap-Net secretariat to ensure following of ground rules, adhering to certain standards and financial support for capacity development;

IWRM began as the core of Cap-Net networks – this has expanded to embrace new areas such as climate change, coastal zone management, agriculture, green zones and so forth;

Intention is to ensure partners have a voice in shaping Cap-Net’s agenda, not only in terms of strategy but also workplan for upcoming years.
Looking to continued and revitalized collaboration;

Enhanced collaboration through annual framework agreements;

Direct connection to regional and country partner networks

How are networks growing and how do we deal with current challenges?

(DHI)

- Identifying areas of common interest and where different organizations want to work

together

- Important to identify level of interests

- Challenges: certain level of critique among stakeholders when dealing with IWRM – era of

talking about plans only has passed, but generally there is a need for a new way to get the

message across – ways to promote ideas. Need to build on new paradigms and promoting

these new concepts

- Following through on SDGs and what we have to offer to support this work – this is an

opportunity for Cap-Net to influence and have an input on how they should look

(RAIN foundation)

- Can contribute their knowledge of rain water towards WASH, food security and so forth

- Hope to increase their outreach through Cap-Net and incorporate current wealth of training

materials through this partnership

(WaterLex)

- SDGs and involvement in their processes, especially with regard to the indicators of IWRM

formulation in these goals

- Human rights approach in IWRM is something the WaterLex can bring to the table, and

clarify aspects from a legal perspective, and what that means for governments and their

commitments to human rights laws

- Implementation of the right to water through Cap-Net’s activities – linking global capacities

with local expertise (using a cross-disciplinary manner)

(Water Governance Facility)

- Benefiting for the possibility to leverage funding and draw on expertise

- Networking has been exceedingly effective in connecting people

- Inclusion, reduction of poverty, gender and integrity are the cross-cutting approaches which

need to be developed further

- Important to cherish IWRM core, but strengthen cross-cutting issues (economy and equity)

- What approaches are working and which are failing – and build on those.

(GWP)

- Upcoming strategy has several areas which can be developed upon in partnership with Cap-
Net, especially in Africa, is the concept of institutional development, building capacity for

them to apply IWRM – need for concerted action

- Application of IWRM in relation to cross-cutting aspects and thematic areas

(MetaMeta)

- Communication has been key to collaboration – there are so many networks, and it becomes

increasingly important to know how is doing what in order to benefit with that knowledge.

Need to promote this and highlight it.

- How to promote and ‘sell’ IWRM

Group Discussion on strengthening partnerships:

What are effective partnerships? (Characteristics, criteria)

1. Define specific interests (climate change, groundwater) Know who is on the ground: who is

doing what

2. Trust and ownership: own strengths and weaknesses/ clear MoUs

3. Voluntary: commitment the drive to push networks forwards

4. Focus on collaboration rather than competition: clear understanding of distinctions & roles –

common interests

5. SMART Partnerships – be relevant and innovative (demand-driven & flexibility)

What can we (global network) do better? (Improve partnerships)

1. Improve Communication: need to have a balanced 2 way communication – beyond emails

(need feedback) timely responses – delayed communication affects performance

2. Ensure access of knowledge and material to everyone (partners on the ground) –

information sharing

3. Evaluate the partnership – measure effectiveness: outputs and results (purpose peer review

- critique)

4. Financial sustainability and management

5. Increase visibility – promoting the networks and their objectives/mandates

‘ If you want to go fast – go alone, If you want to go far, get a partner.’

New Collaborative Programmes developed in 2013 by Secretariat; Suggestions for 2014 (Indika)

IWA Water Safety Plan Network

HRBA with WGF and Waterlex

Rainwater Harvesting with RAIN

Waterfootprint tranining

Collaborative programmes by networks

LAWET-Net

- International Law training

- Water footprint Training Manual – WFN/RWH

- Develop Multimedia knowledge package: Case studies on water conflict

- Food security & Climate change in IWRM - GIZ

WA NET

- Modular/curriculum development for tertiary education of IWRM w/ NWRI and UNESCO

Waterlex

- Certification process with the hotel industry for compliance with human right to water

- Thinking of other sectors who also have high impact on access to water

- Water footprint training for compliance with human rights

CKNet

- IWRM Capacity development for education for ministry of agriculture Indonesia w/UNESCO-

IHE GWA

- Developing needs assessment techniques requiring what needs and expertise needed in

water sector

- Water governance – developed MoU with WIN

AGWNet

- Integration of groundwater in African RBOs and BOs w/IWMI, IGRAC, BGR, AMCOW, AMBO

- Developing training manual for Integration of groundwater in African RBOs and BOs

(Including groundwater and food)

Phil Cap-Net

Water safety plan ToT with IUFM

SCAN

Developed Climate change training manual

WASH ToT

Leadership and water security manual (in progress)

Agriculture and water demand management manual (in progress)

REDICA

Coastal zone training manual (Water and Oceans, UNEP-GPA, IPCC)

What is ahead for 2014?

- Water Integrity and Accountability, Water governance (South-East Asia networks)

- Requirement for institutional strengthening and advocacy

- Need replication

- Water Safety Planning

- Earth observation tools for IWRM – toolkit, manual and ToT (TIGER)

- Sustainable sanitation and water management– ToT & Toolkit (LatinAqua, Seecon GMBH)

- Human Rights Based Approach in IWRM (WASH or broader IWRM)

- Ecosystem approach in promoting IWRM (UNEP, GIZ, Awarenet)

- Serious gaming for capacity development (UNEP DHI)

- Gender and Water- tutorial revised, ToT planned, gender and water session (GWA,

WaterNet, DRFN, WRC)

- Water security framework and security (GWP/WACDEP)

- Central Asia Conflict Resolution training manual

- Need to have a strong impact assessment measuring results (MELP)

Open discussion – strengthening partnerships through impact assessment

Focus on organizational change through a larger group of organizations rather than lone partners –

need to be clear of goals and indicators – what can be measured and what can be described.

Goals should be designed based on objectives and not whether they can be measured, and thus

changed to make more sense in terms of indicators.

Change is a result of various actors and not single force

Impact can be measured as a result of long term institutional engagement – where challenges can

change from one moment to another (floods, finance etc… ) There is a need to respond to various

challenges over a long period of time to ensure impact is ensured.

Attribution – separate outcomes from outputs

Expectations and Contributions by Partners

1. UNEP - DHI

Global R&D organization (non-profit)

Core: support UNEP’s work in freshwater issues

Main focus areas: IWRM – Climate change – Coastal management

Management, resource monitoring

Drought Management training manual, IWRM and Climate Change, Pollution

Possible areas of collaboration: use technology for capacity development

Capacity development in SDGs – UN Water

Serious IWRM game (Aqua Republica – www.aquarepublica.com) : focus on highschool students to

promote and educate sustainable WRM, a supplementary curriculum material for schools

Climate change technology toolkit

2. Waterlex

Applying Human rights to improving water governance

Legal and technical support to ensure human rights approach in water and sanitation

Academic and legal side – evaluation of legal systems & rules of interpretation for compliance w/ HR

Developing legal database of all countries complying with human rights in WASH

Certification of hotels for standards of human rights and impacts on water

Deal with country mappings, National Action Plans and other trainings

RTWS and consequences for IWRM

Framework encompasses both users and provider rights and obligations

Toolkit – practical guidance, tools, good practices, (demand driven)

Training targeted at parliamentarians and national human rights commissions

3. Water Governance Facility – SIWI

Provides policy support & technical advice on water governance reform on developing country

request

Develop, promote & apply water governance tools/methodologies, including assessments & CD

WASH, transboundary water, IWRM: support national and regional training

Integrity/anti-corruption: transparency – accountability – participation (water integrity training

manual)

Water governance Assessment: process & stakeholder involvement (WIN, PACDE & Oslo Gov. Centre)

Capturing lessons learned & adapting them to realities: combining ‘soft’ (governance) w/ ‘hard’

infrastructure

Human rights based approaches and managing water resources (governance facility report N.1 –

www.watergovernance.org )

Practical ways of enhancing mutual rights and obligations of both users and providers

Working with indigenous people and their specific relations to resources and IWRM

4. METAMETA

Communications, research, management, games and circular economy all dealing with water

Groundwater, flood, rains (3R)

www.WaterChannel.tv , practical publications (cartoons, flyers) and offline communications

Integrate media components in ToTs

Strengthening cooperation with partner networks (outreach to audiences)

Need to explore making offline versions of videos

5. GWP

Regional based network: 2,800 partners – 13 regions

Training programme on international water legislation (w/university of Dundee) – adapted to Latin

America & SADC expressing interest

Integrated Urban Water Management – developing adequate training material on IUWM

Awareness-raising at regional levels

GWP Water and Climate programmes

Exploring innovative green solutions

Developed framework of Water Security & Climate Resilience development in Africa

Water, Climate Development Programme – CD in Africa: aim to assist institutions and integrate these

issues in their organizations and planning

Target groups: government planners, RECs and RBOs

CD at the Transboundary Level

Possible areas of collaboration:

Adapt learning materials to country contexts

Capture lessons learned from Catchment partnerships

Mentoring and on-the-job training

Climate change and IWRM

Associate Programme on Flood Management

Revising IFM training manual

IDMP + developing a 2-day training course

6. RAIN FOUNDATION

Rainwater harvesting implementation network for multiple uses beyond WASH (environment, climate

change, food security, bio-gas facilities)

Promote access to water by collecting and storing rainwater

1. implementation of rain water harvesting projects

2. capacity building

3. promotion and dissemination of knowledge

4. fundraising

6 focus countries: Nepal, Ethiopia, Mali, Burkina Faso, Uganda, Kenya

Hope to increase outreach and integrate knowledge into their work – expand knowledge base

Develop training module on rainwater harvesting

www.rainfoundation.org


#Note by Yasmina#