‘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#
