WORKING
GROUP ON CAPACITY BUILDING, TRAINING AND EDUCATION (WG-CBTE)
(Established : 1995)
MANDATE
Compile
a set of selected cases to describe the current situation, draw lessons
from these cases and prepare guidelines for best practices in land and
water management on (i) the creation and establishment of an enabling
environment, (ii) the institutional setting including beneficiary participation,
and (iii) the development and strengthening of human resources and managerial
systems.
Compile the status of training and educational programmes offered in different
regions, identify the training and education requirements, identify gaps
and prepare guidelines for development and appropriate modification of
education and training programmes and strengthening of education and training
institutions to meet the changing requirements of the sector.
Facilitate the process of balancing education and training requirements,
and provision and training services.
ACTIVITIES
Current activities
The Working Group is now winding up its activities. Its final meeting will be in Sacramento in September 2007 at the next IEC meeting (http://www.icid2007.org).
It is widely accepted that capacity building remains an important process for the development of the irrigation and drainage sector. Therefore members of the Working Group, and others, are invited to consider follow-on activities which ICID might put in place. These should be tabled at the Sacramento meeting.
To mark the finalisation of its activities and mandate, the Working Group is preparing an issue focusing on capacity development of the journal Irrigation and Drainage (link). This issue will mark the end of the Working Group's activities and will build on the outcomes of the recent series of workshops organised by WG-CBTE and IPTRID (see below). Contributions of articles for this issue are invited - please see the accompanying letter for details.
Capacity-Building
Workshops
Kuala
Lumpur, Beijing, Moscow & Montpellier
The
Working Group, in collaboration with IPTRID, held the last in its series
of workshops in Kuala Lumpur on September 14th 2006. The theme of the
workshops was Monitoring and Evaluation of Capacity Development Programmes,
to round off the cycle of workshops that have been held since 2003. Six
papers were presented round this theme, and a lively discussion followed,
identifying a range of issues to be addressed when undertaking M&E
of capacity development. The proceedings are being published by IPTRID,
and can be seen in draft form at:
ftp://ftp.fao.org/agl/iptrid/DraftProceedings.pdf
The Beijing
workshop in 2005 focussed on Strategies for Planning and Implementing
Capacity-Building and featured a keynote paper, together with 7 case studies
from around the world. In addition there was a keynote presentation from
UNESCO-IHE on the baseline document Capacity-Building and Social Learning.
The proceedings can be found at:
ftp://ftp.fao.org/agl/iptrid/Workshop_Beijing.pdf
The Moscow workshop in 2004 considered Capacity Needs Assessment in Agricultural
Water Management. It was co-sponsored by IPTRID. The workshop comprised
a methodological paper, three case studies (Egypt, Ukraine and Zambia),
and a strategy paper. An edited version of the papers is now available
at :
http://www.fao.org/iptrid/moscow_icid.pdf
The Montpellier
workshop in 2003 was entitled Capacity Development in Irrigation and Drainage:
Issues, Challenges and the Way Ahead. It resulted in FAO Water Report
No. 26, of the same title, which includes a synthesis paper, 3 keynote
papers, and six detailed case studies (Tunisia, Peru, Albania, Andhra
Pradesh, Zambia and West Africa). This paper can be found on-line at
http://www.fao.org/documents/show_cdr.asp?url_file=/docrep/007/y5524e/y5524e00.htm
Contribution to the Fourth World Water Forum, Mexico, March 2006
Topic Session
on FT
4.20 'Capacity Development Strategies and Social Learning among Stakeholders
for a Sustainable Irrigation and Drainage Sector' 20 March 2006
The Working Group was active in putting together this topic session, and several members of the Working Group participated. See (details) for a full report of the session and the key findings arising from the three presentations
For further
details on these or any other activities of the working group, please
contact the Chairman, Tom Franks, at tom.franks@btinternet.com
AGENDA : 58th IEC Meeting, September 2006, Sacramento, USA [In PDF format] [Previous Agendas]
MINUTES : 57th IEC Meeting, September 2006, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia [In PDF format] [Previous Minutes]
ABOUT
ICID
The International Commission on Irrigation and Drainage (ICID) was established
on 24 June, 1950 as a Scientific, Technical and Voluntary Not-for-profit
Non-Governmental International Organization (NGO) with headquarters in
New Delhi, India.
The Commission is dedicated to enhancing the worldwide supply of food and fibre for all people by improving water and land management and the productivity of irrigated and drained lands through appropriate management of water, environment and application of irrigation, drainage and flood management techniques. [For more information contact http://www.icid.org
Design : Madhu Mohanan, ICID Central Office