IW:LEARN
Activity: Regional Learning in Africa
Strengthening Transboundary Water
Resources Management in Africa
1st Pan-African Structured Learning Workshop
30 Oct 2 Nov 2006, Nairobi, UNEP Complex
Organisation based in Germany
· Founded in 2002 as a merger of the DSE (German Foundation for
International Development) and CDG (Carl-Duisberg-Gesellschaft)
· Involved in international personnel development, advanced
professional training and international dialogue.
· Our shareholders are the German Federal Government, Federal
States, Business sector organisations
· We contribute to the implementation of the international
development policy of the German Ministry for Economic
Cooperation and Development (BMZ) worldwide and inside
Germany
· We have 8 Departments, with offices in 35 location in Germany and
9 abroad; our 800 staff members manage some 500 capacity
building projects per year in worldwide, with a budget of some 130
Mio Euro/year
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Natural Resources
Management
Department Environment, Natural Resources, Food
We support policy initiatives to guide and implement sustainable
development.
Our programmes aim to contribute to the implementation of
international development agendas, based on the fundamental
principles and values set out in the Johannesburg Declaration,
Agenda 21, International Conventions (UN-CBD, UN-CCD,
RAMSAR), African Water Vision, UN-Millennium goals, etc.
We assist our partners worldwide to strengthen capacities:
at local and global level
at institutional and organisational level
at individual level.
We conduct policy workshops, seminars, study tours, training courses,
and long-term advanced training in Germany, Africa, Asia and Latin
America.
We conduct worldwide 60 programmes per year with a volume of 13 Mio
Euro in the field of environment, natural resources and food/rural
development.
Water Resources
Management
We focus on the following areas:
Water policy: policy, legal and institutional frame
Integrated water resources management for
watersheds, river basins and coastal zones and
transboundary co-operation
Water Dialogue: Water for Food-Environment-
Health
Water management in agriculture
Water supply and sanitation (Water service
providers),
training of trainers (water sector training institutions)
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Integrated water resources
management
Our current programmes:
Water Sector Reform: Near East and North Africa
incl. "Water Dialogue": Water for Food and the Environment
Transboundary Water Resources management in SADC Region
Our partners:
· SADC Water Division
· River Basin Organisations, e.g. ORASECOM, Limpopo, Ruvuma, Pangani
· Waternet, GWP-SA
· GEF IW:LEARN (GEF, WBI, UNEP)
1995-2004 programmes:
Watershed management planning: Mekong region (SE-Asia)
Transboundary water resources management in Central Asia
Dialogue and Training - SWCI
Enabled implementing institutions depend on
· Tangible assets
Equipment
Plan
Infrastructure
· Softer critical assets
Budget
Resources
Information
Use of
Communication
networks
knowledge
Skills
Capacity to act
Negotiation skills to
resolve water disputes
Establishing multi-
stakeholder cross-
Knowledge on
border fora
international laws
Planning
and agreements
skills
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Watershed management in SE-Asia
Water dialogue in the Near East
River basin management in Germany
River basin management in SE-Asia
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Water Dialogue on Food and Environment
Regional Workshop in Tunis, 9-11 Jan 2004
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