WORKSHOP
Building Capacity for Future Challenges
Wednesday 15 August
09:00-16:00, Folkets Hus, Room 204
Convenor: Stockholm International Water Institute (SIWI)
Co-Convenors: Capacity Building for Integrated Water Resources Management (Cap-Net), United Nations University Bonn (UNU), Centre for Science and Environment (CSE)
With an increasing complexity in society, human resources need to be mobilised and strengthened. Governments and institutions cannot do it all. Challenges have to be dealt with through advances in knowledge, technologies and social organisation. The uneven distribution of water and other life-support resources will be an even greater threat to livelihoods wherever human capacity to cope with hazards is neglected.
Which human resources need to be strengthened?
Ingenuity is a characteristic feature among humans. But there is also inertia to adapt to changing circumstances. What are the basic preconditions to develop knowledge and promote attitudes to meet ever changing development challenges? Who are or could be the owners of knowledge; girls, boys, other females and men?
Tools and technological systems
Technologies play a crucial role in any society. For the individual, various tools make it possible to handle daily duties and problems. For communities, there is a need for technologies at another level, e.g. for water supply. What kinds of technologies are missing or malfunctioning at various levels in the communities and which ones facilitate an improvement in livelihoods?
Local and external support mechanisms
No society can be, or should be, independent of external contacts and influences. Disadvantaged communities need support for their betterment and to play a more constructive role in the development of the entire society. What support mechanisms are effective in this regard? For instance, what is the potential of micro credits, market outlets, training facilities?
Workshop Programme, 09:00-16:00 Folkets Hus, Room 204
Chair: Prof. Janos Bogardi, United Nations University
Commentator: Mr. Albert Diphoorn, Chief of the Branch, UN-HABITAT
Rapporteur: Prof. Saburo Matsui, Global Environmental Studies, Kyoto University, Japan
09:00 Introduction
09:05 Distributed Water for Distributive Growth: How Do We Make This Work? Ms. Sunita Narain, Director, Centre for Science and Environment (CSE), India (Invited Speaker)
09:30 Progress with Capacity Development for Implementing IWRM. Dr. Paul Taylor Director, Cap-Net, South Africa (Invited Speaker)
09:55 Commentator’s Questions and Clarifications
Session 1: What Support in Kind to Communities?
10:05 Disappearing Lands: Supporting Communities Affected By River Erosion. Mr. Nazmul Islam Chowdhury, Practical Action (former ITDG), Bangladesh
10:20 Guardians del Riachuelo: River Keepers for Buenos Aires. Ms. Andrea Ferrazzo, Fundacion Ciudad, Argentina
10:35 Coffee Break
Session 2: What Can Institutions Do?
11:00 Building Capacity of Local Governments and Communities in Disaster Management. Ms. Yolanda Gomez, Miriam College, The Philippines
11:15 Middle East and North Africa: Approaching Water Scarcity Problems by Developing Capacity of Experts and Organisations. Dr. Olli Varis, Helsinki University of Technology, Finland
11:30 Discussion: What Can Money and Institutions, Respectively, Do?
12:00 Lunch
13:30 Can ‘Integrated River Basin Management’ be Taught at Schools? Yes and the DANUBE BOX Shows How! Ms. Jasmine Bachmann, International Commission for the Protection of the Danube River, Austria
13:45 Building Local Capacity to Deliver Regional, National and International Strategies, Prof. Peter Batey, Mersey Basin Campaign, UK
14:00 Problems and Potential Failures in Recent Ecological Sanitation Projects – Four Cases from China. Mr. Xiao Jun, Stockholm Environment Institute
14:15 What Can Education & Training Do? Discussion and Conclusions
16:00 Close of Workshop
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