Daily updates - 15 November 2013

Amel Azab was the facilitator of the day

How can we use these recommendations to strengthen our networks and overcome our weaknesses.

Group 1:

To increase management effectiveness

Should  have Work plans who actually implementation level

Formal meeting in country level

MELP implementation

Communication is a key thing, have some documents that is in communicable level, manual and modules etc.

Visibility in the government programs

We must have the visibility in the country capacity to raise funding

Group 2

Governance: Have clear governance structure

Be Functional

Refer to cap-net operational guidelines

Allow rotation of leadership of the networ

For communication; functional websites, good  quality trainers

Diversifying funding: Partnership opportunities, and private sector engagement

Group 3

Auditing and accounting procedures should be in place to governece

Reporting and measuring impacts, communication –activity in regional and regular basis, local partners and river basin management level, marketing the network, quality control is entirely on governance,

Partners local level should be informed that and taken inputs for the trainings and materials as well.

Issue of training should be responsive, relevance, with partners, and get involved with partners

Group 4

Enhance the knowledge dissemination as an additional recommendation to the mentioned items. They mentional only the additional points Strategic planning and revised structures for good governance. To empower local partners; plan and make more practical trainings rather than more theoretical. Link with on-going programs, enhanced learning from each other. Partners that can potentially support our training. Make training more demanding, and more appealing.

Group 5

Governance: Leadership, independent Steering committee, clear responsibilities

Reporting and measuring the impact: continue and improve, measuring the impact is needed, emphasis on the reporting and format of reports

Visibility: Netrworks need to be more proactive, QC: part of the strategy, should be discussed on board

Communication:  website update and interactive, communicate through case studies and share thme

Empowering local institutions: focus on local institutions, identify the weaknenses and strengths to better collaborate

End of the session, Themba suggested that network should draft how to address the points mentioned and discussed by the network within next year. Damian suggested the MELP resources and network support can use as resource and it is really important to do.

Nimal suggested that this should be very important to come up with 10-12 pages document on the ways and means that network could address these recommendation. Then next management meeting you can review this and revisit how far you achieved.

Callist commented that it is good to have working group that document on how the network could properly functioned and help needy networks to improve the governance structure and address their weaknesses. Then networks can get help of the working group to address their weak points to improve and develop the network.

Work plan discussion

Damian: Managers in the country networks should be in the steering committee for the regional network. This is very productive way of achieving the goals of regional networks.

Consolidated work plan for Cap-Net 2014 has to be sent out at the end of the month, and Yasmina requested to submit the work plans early next week. It is important to try and stick to our plans.  

Asia Group

There are common issues and responses in the region for activities. New baby is borned for regional cooperation including West Asia as well. Water foot print, Private sector cooperation, MoU between ScAN and Aguajaring as Asian Initiative. 

Themba commented that the workplans needs to be fitted into the strategy and general category of the work plan of Cap-Net (Ex: Capacity development delivery, knowledge management). Joakim gave his final remarks of the meeting: the Cap-Net annual meeting this year has go more online and it is very good to see the serious discussion this year, as a believer of face to face meetings and networking, he is very happy about the outcomes of the meeting. Cap-Net as a very different approach to a normal project, so need to really concern on some of the ways and means of admin and financing things when we go for  implementation of some of the new initiave and recommendations.

Africa Group. 
One common programme on Climate Change Resilience with NBCBN, Joint activity at WaterNet Annual meeting.

NBCBN Journal dissemination – Themba commented that this is good to be stick into the general not much scientific journal level. Wangai replied that this is useful since we are making using an available journal

Share information and opportunities, meeting in March for more planning, suggested in the Africa water week.

Strengthen network delivery: Commitment to raise governance structure, joint delivery, hosting arrangement strengthening, joint visibility strategy,  and joint promotion.

Latin America Region

Regional integration, they have discussed the need of bringing the institutional strength up. Basically a desk study which can be done was suggested. Addressing the challenge of collaboration and anchoring; few universities collaborating right now. Knowledge management Case studies series of LA Wet Net, Communication in broad extent to promote s a network

Themba: There are complementarities than competition in the region which we appreciate very much, and also I encourage all to understand each other region in Cap-Net framework and values

Linking the Agriculture initiative to input to the manual and linking other training manual into the work that network is doing were suggested. Themba commented that yes, it is more open and flat structure that network can take lead and input for this. Water diplomacy, HRBA, Agriculture, water demand management, etc.

Few were asked in person about some things mentioned below (just to ensure not  loosing the points came up): Pollution training manual, Integrated Lake management training material for Asia, and Urban water management.

Recap of the meeting by Wangai

Low Kwai Sim facilitated electing members event – Beurocratic process.

Wangai was elected with 10 votes and Low Kwai Sim elected as alternate member with 5 votes.

Suggestion was came-up to elect one member from a region to keep the balance of representation from regions. Themba suggested that we should not really divide and make us with in a boundary, based on geographic and other criteria. Golam, Wangai and Damian, Lilliana commented that  there is no need of competition because elected members represent the Cap-Net global family.

“Election is not a process democratic. It is highly corrupted” Said by Tamiru. Finally it was came up with a good understanding and comments on the way that we should represent and open our mind to map the aerial lines among the members, partners, networks and with the global secretariat.

Closure

Themba talked about the democracy and working as a global family of Cap-Net. We have achieved our theme “strengthening networks and partnerships” during the meeting. It was a good experience that everything (outcome of the meeting) came online and shared by the midnight of each day, and all enjoyed the Bali, and with well organization of CK net team.