	Capacity Development for Improved Water Management
	Order Code: CL1134 ISBN Number: 9780415573986 Publisher: CRC Press No. of Pages: 408 Date of Publication: 2010 Price: £59.99
This collection of papers explains how knowledge and capacity development can contribute to improved, effective water management with a digest of lessons learned in the areas of development of tools and techniques, field applications and evaluation. The authors are prominent practitioners, capacity builders and academics within the water and capacity development sectors. Capacity Development for Improved Water Management starts with an introduction and overview of progress and challenges in knowledge and capacity development in the water sector. The next part presents tools and techniques that are being used in knowledge and capacity development in response to the prevailing challenges in the water sector, and a review of experience with capacity change in other sectors. In the third part a number of cases are presented that cover knowledge and capacity development experiences in the water resources and water services sectors. This part also presents experiences on water education for children and on developing gender equity. The fourth part provides experiences with the monitoring and evaluation of knowledge and capacity building. Contents Foreword Part 1 Setting the scene Progress and challenges in knowledge and capacity development Part 2 Tools and techniques E-learning for capacity development Learning systems for adaptive water management: experiences with the development of opencourseware and training of trainers Bridging the knowledge gap: the value of knowledge networks Knowledge management at the community level in colombia Developing capacity for conflict resolution applied to water issues Capacity change and performance: insights and implications for development cooperation european centre for development policy management (ecdpm) Part 3 Areas of application Capacity challenges in the indonesian water resources sector Institutional capacity development of water resources management in iran Practical approaches and lessons for capacity building: a case of the national water and sewerage corporation, uganda Lessons learned from capacity-building approaches in the un-habitat water for african cities programme Water education: bridging divides for future generations An overview of capacity building on gender equity in the water sector Knowledge and capacity development at river basin level Part 4 Evaluation and indicators The role of education in capacity development Capacity development in africa: lessons of the past decade Capacity enhancement indicators – a review of literature Subject index



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