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Consortium advocates for Capacity Building and Social Learning towards the World Water Forum IV, Mexico 2006

World Water Forum IV, Mexico 2006, Cross-Cutting Perspective C.

Capacity Building and Social Learning. Rationale for the need for capacity building, social learning and knowledge management *).

The need for capacity building and social learning is critical as they are at the crux of Vision 21:

  • Capacity building is about acquiring skills and the capacity to use them
  • Social learning combines information and knowledge as well as empowerment and motivation to change attitudes

Consolidate learning; sharing of knowledge and capacity building has often failed. Most projects include only limited “dissemination” and capacity building components, and often only at the end of the project. This fails to create ownership of the process and content of the innovations among the relevant regulation and implementation institutions that can scale up the innovations and ensure their sustainability.

 

*) The consortium contributing to this paper on capacity building and social learning include: UNESCO-IHE CapNet UNDP, IRC, STREAMS, WWC, Water Council and the Water and Climate Dialogue with contributions from the World Bank.

 

2005-WWF4-Capacity-Building.doc (120.5 kB)