Daily updates - 13 November 2013

Discussion of the Advocacy and Leadership session from Yesterday

Innovative program for leadership, but not to be function as coachers

Martin Eduvie, introduced himself

Discussion

For every where it is leadership.  Any particular courses, there are unique modules for them, that cannot be applied to the water sector leadership blindly, So we should have some dedicated water leadership course that could support to the on-going capacity development work. It is not necessary to everyone to become manager or higher position, but what leadership means that everyone should have the capacity to manage resource and all other aspects to get done his/her job well. Are we going for the long term programs like few months? This needs  to be discussed.

Neena: Cap-Net has one week training program structure. It is important to see whether we really need such long term programs.  It will be helpful to have some long term programs specially for the areas which has trans-boundary issues.

Callist: This is a cross cutting area. It is more important how people read, so having many modules in a long term program it gives sense for well-coordinated and harmonized programs.

Dora: who are the target group for this? Youth? Some people have water resource management skills and knowledge but not the leadership skills to get the things done effectively.

Damian:  Private sector involved in the picture could be important.

Going forward we have to engage in different kinds of partners and institutional strengthening. Developing a module with UNESCO IHE, and looking into more long term and water diplomacy perspective.

Is there a need to innovate? What would it mean in practice?Which pending? 

New Initiative  Programs developed in the past year – Facilitator Damian Indij

Carribean WaterNet running the Climate change program in Gyuana. Can we use this webi

AGW Network focused primarily regarding to groundwater. Since 2011 we did needs assessment and raised profile for trans-boundary issues. We concern on practical application in river basin level, So we are really improving ourselves to reach it in broad view with the theme of groundwater

Cap-Net Lanka, Urban Lake Management workshop, is replicable to address urban pollution issues.

Aguajaring – Need assessment is necessary to make your pathway correctly. Water foot print as a new initiative.

Damian pointed out that we need the demand assessment together with monitoring of impacts. 

Kees: Meta Meta cooperation and Virtual campus for courses. Once this is developed it will be available to use by the networks. For ToT, when you have more people from other network in the region, the impact are bigger than the usual.

Callist: Are we using the Assessment to change ourselves and make decisions. Some repition is also important.

WaterNet (Jaen Marrie) have put together an long term strategy for get involved all the networks as a regional network. So it should be strengthen with the plans of the networks to keep the relevance.

Lilliana commented the innovations done to alligned with MDG indicators

Raising funds throughout the region (Africa) to implement IWRM on the ground taking examples from Latin America.

South East Asia, we have many lakes, Integrated Lake Management, there is a need to develop and document the knowledge on Integrated Lake Management and develop the capacity on the ground.

Amel Azab – Ecosystems, EO tools link these topics together because these topics as a cross-cutting issue. We are not repeating ourselves. Leadership training is also a support for more outreach.

There is a ground to collaborate among networks for more outreach.

JanYap, CK Net: Leaders are the one who gives directions, so this is very important area to address.  Identifying the organizations leading the sector and topics, and try to find out what kind of knowledge and attitude they need to do their job and derive the training based on that is a key thing to do.

There is a need to identify the different target group and tailor the material and training courses accordingly.

Virtual campus is planned to run the first course in Sep-Oct. Sharing and coordinate the networks already happening. Foot ball, we stop the ball and see what’s going on before kick the ball. This is a time to stop and see for the next planning.

Presentation by GEF IWRM project

-       Geo node tool ,  publications these tools linking to science and policy,

-       Case studies 

-       Community to Cabinet approach

How you learn from the project – when we work with the stakeholders all the lessons are incorporated into the publications case studies and publications.

Take advantages of some of the experiences to our programs.

Are country level networks and organizations aware on the specific things happening to cooperate for the project? To reach an effective collaboration, it would be difficult to at small scale level because the projects are huge and the practically how to collaborate for this for regions or country?

Kees commented that “not a structural collaboration now we have with GEF project, but the incidental few collaborative programs”.  Joakim was interested on how we could fit this into the Cap-Net ongoing program.  Tamiru commented that GEF involved in Africa in trans-boundary level. In network perspectives, we consider lots of potentials to collaborate to resolve capacity gaps in trans-boundary level. Callist commented that to be clear what role we could play it is important to lead from the secretariat for more planned collaborations in Africa.

Outcomes of the Delft Symposium

The objective is to mainstream outcomes of the Delft events into our work plans.

Element of leader ships, Collaboration among stakeholders in all level.  Awareness, Leadership, Partnership and Networking, Training.  Tailoring the training modules, sustainability of water and sanitation. Leadership in all different level of stakeholders like media, youth, etc.. Network Management tools training and Water Integrity Forum outcomes discussed in brief and how that can be linked to our programs and planning?

Themba and Damian suggested the papers to read in Delft symposium “Water Policy” special issue and get the important things out for the related themes and area of work of the network to improve the impacts on the ground.

Discussion on Outcome of the Symposium

Group 1 mentioned that Relevance of various tools related to IWRM and M&E partnership ways and means are very good to adapted and replicate. Need assessment and information dissemination required. Legal framework, good governance need for overcoming corruptions in the water sector. Media coverage and media capacity development is also important.

Group 2 mentioned that establishing and managing database is very important in managing the network plans. Each of water related institutions have training centers for their own training. These training centers should be capacitating with new thematic areas. This should be concerned in implementing network plans by each network. Scientific evidence based case studies should be developed and feedback into the system to improve. Tacit knowledge capturing and documenting should be also focused. MRV Measurable, Reportable and Verifiable information should be produced in reporting.

Group 3: Training manual developed and program developed on new themes dealt from the ground is also help us to continue these programs. Among the networks partnerships and case sharing. Journal on special issue on capacity development, use media for communication.

Group 4: education training, Different communication strategy for different groups, collaboration between networks and sharing joint program among the networks need to be developed through Cap-Net.  Virtual learning, face to face to community methods and Case study publication.

Group Latin Power : Strengthening capacity and Awareness, Collaboration among networks, Seminar using Aqua Republica,  Corruption is a disvalue so work with School children.

Case studies should be coming from network. There are money allocated for that. This year we have received 13 case studies, so this trend should be continued. And what should we do with this case studies, this is also important to look at. It should be available to everyone. Lenneke pointed out that the case studies should be well captured in short and digestable way that can be taken the cream out to feed into the on-going programs.

Presentation by Lenneke

Lenneke Discussion:

How can network increase their visibility?

How can learn from and communicate each other?

-          Simple and user friendly intra net with access to all networks

-          Mobile Apps – Really needed? We should think what should be in Apps  rather than the website?

-          Teamwork knowledge sharing platform can be used as a intranet. Sharing and tracking information tools required.

-          Malasia water projects with schools is a good example. 

Is there any need to continue award as an incentive  mechanism for towards capacity building ?  question was raised by Kees.

To related to visibility approach they award a prize every year to participate to the SWW.

Aguajaring commented that some one needs to initiate communication and sharing activities among the networks. Lilliana commented that put together the related inputs from the network and start working on it.

Themba commented that Cap-Net as a flat structured organization it can also be initiated by the networks itself.

Presentation by Hong on website development and update.

He presented about the weaknesses had and recent development proposed, and the information from recent survey of the website and applications in plan.

E-Learning process is successful for youngsters like undergraduate. Easy browsing of information is required.

Website in French demanding, and website update who is going to do this when its done in French? We don’t have the capacity at the secretariat, but Network can take it over.

Link to the stakeholders and the development of website as innovative way, NBCBN commented that they are interested to support.

Method for quickly searching of information is required. Simple things like what’s cap-net doing in their region or country so on. Dora commented that Apps will be tedious process for networks but the website is more important to easily locating the information.

Internal Review - Peer Review of Networks Presentation

The key rule is not to pin point personal or sensitive things, but to learn from each other. (don’t shoot the messenger).

Total 22 reports received so far. The results are the evaluation presented by Prof. Nimal Gunawardana. Considerable Increasing of review exercise taken over from 2008 to 2013.

Strengths of the networks are interest of the meber ship, quality relevance and experience of delivering training, communication with members, recognition of the networks, other network characteristics like competence of steering committee, ability to deal ……

Weaknesses are financial constraints of networks and dependence of cap-net funding, poor communication, less number of capacity development activities, none or poor implementation of rate of annual work plan., Insufficient human resource at network secretariat etc.

Opportunities are Increasing need for capacity development, recognition and credibility behind them, political will of many government for water sector reports, need for community level interventions, network with established track record with potential donors for them.

Threats are Unavailability of continuous funding from CapNet, (diversifying funding sources is required), lack of understanding and appreciation, conflicts within networks, lack of good governance, political and financial instability.

Collaboration with Global partners

Benefits to global partners: provided access, sharing the resources, increased visibility, access to network of global partners, etc. Cap-Net also has benefitted by working with the partners in technical as well as financial support.

Strengths

Extended and international professional networks, reputation, extensive outreach, etc.. (refer to the report for detail)

Weakness ; no clear tangible results, potential limited by passive members, Cap-Net is network and network that open with no hidden agenda, and also there is a danger that Cap-Net rely on their affiliated network that rely on success and failure.

Opportunities

Link up to the exsisting content providers are link to the convening power to more impact.( For more details on each points refer to the reports).

Threats

Lack of feedback on the results, we need to really look in to the details how it can be improved etc.. Compared to 2008 many of the networks has good governance structure.

Workload of the secretariat ends up with insufficient inputs from the secretariat.

Recommendation to Networks

Enhance the effectiveness of network management. Increased visibility of networks, leverage additional funding from government, Better to diversify funding sources,

Recommendation to Cap-Net

Follow international dev elopement agenda,Synthesize reports would come end of January and there was a request to make it available for comments for the networks.

It was contradictory suggestions on the time of finalizing reports but the it was suggested to keep the deadline to publish at end of the year while keeping the opportunity to continue the peer review for learning purposes of the networks who still to be reviewed.

Damian suggested that it should not be end up as a report but really used to enrich the Cap-Net strategy concerning the needy areas to be addressed. The report will not be the same as individual reports but will reflects the follow-up actions. And Lilliana commented that some of the findings should not end up in the reports but need to taken the actions really by secretariat to make sure we are in the right path.

It would be really important to make networks work plan based on the discussion of reports with their steering committees, and secretariat would make the plan also based on the recommendations.

Networks has different characteristics, so we can’t put the blanket recommendations for all the networks, this should be addressed.

There was a question that ministries and political people engagement ways and means in network works. It can be done in partnership approach.

Jaen –Marrie ; Some networks which are not having a good governance structure, Cap-Net should help and act as a catalyzer . 

Themba: Cap-Net is not supposed to do the hierarchical advisor job. We don’t have a weight in network decisions.  That point supported by three other networks.

Few were commenting that the review process was very very useful for them to learn and also understand the weaknesses and strengths in their own networks.

Review was much easy when it has a good governanace structure