Items tagged with "Capacity Building"

The UNESCO-IHE Institute for Water Education is established in 2003. It carries out research, education and capacity building activities in the fields of water, environment and infrastructure. UNESCO-IHE continues the work that began in 1957 when IHE first offered a postgraduate diploma course i...

This project concerns a detailed capacity needs assessment for the Indonesian water sector, in particular for the Ministry of Public Works. The project analyzes not only technical but also management, legal and socio-economic knowledge gaps of Indonesian institutions in the field of integrated water management. The project represents a first step towards a comprehensive capacity building strategy in the Indonesian water sector.

Specialised training in water and environmental engineering was not yet offered at Universities in Palestine prior to 1993. Though the Israeli Civil Administration was responsible for the water and environmental sectors in the Westbank and Gaza Strip, it was expected that as a result of the Multilateral Peace Negotiations these responsibilities would shift to the respective authorities in Palestine. Accordingly, a substantial demand for qualified water and sanitary engineers existed in pa...

In response to regional developments, a collaboration between Univalle, Delft University of Technology and IHE Delft was developed as a co-operative effort towards alleviating Latin America's water supply and sanitation problems.The "Cupertino in Education in Sanitary and Environmental Engineering" (ESEE) project established the postgraduate programme leading to an "Especialista" or a Master of Science (MSc) degree, including several activities directly related to and sup...

This project was a continuation of an already existing project and aimed to upgrade and develop the human resources, research and institutional capacity in Colombia, and the wider region in the water sector in general and in the sub-sector of Sanitary and Environmental Engineering (SEE) in particular. The approach was based on the development of a regional centre of knowledge in SEE education, training and research at Univalle, Cali, Colombia.

The Sana'a University Support Project (SUS) aimed at capacity building for the water sector of the Republic of Yemen through the establishment of postgraduate education and research in Water and Environmental Engineering at Sana'a University.

This project aimed to strengthen the Palestinian Water Sector through the establishment of education, training and research capacities at Birzeit University (BZU) in the fields of Water Supply, Waste Water Engineering and Groundwater Hydrology - through which the MSc programme in Water Engineering is set up and implemented to offer strategic and applied research in support of the Palestinian Community's development of its water sector policies.