Capacity Development
Decentralisation has shifted roles and responsibilities to local governments and stakeholders. Many of these actors struggle with their newly assigned roles for which they are not fully 'equipped' in terms of financial resources, knowledge, methodologies, tools and experiences. Strengthening these intermediate actors is crucial to achieving good governance.
Southern Youth Zone Programme
A PSO-funded Southern Youth Zone Programme is running from 2010 to 2012. The programme aims to strengthen the knowledge and skills of eight young professionals involved in Water, Sanitation and Hygiene Resource Centre Networks.
Strengthening the capacities of local organisations and people
The key question of this session at the Fifth World Water Forum in Istanbul is: "What organisational and individual capacity development is necessary to enhance the performance of service delivery and how do we ensure that capacity development reflects local needs?"
Symposium 2006
Capacity development at the intermediate level is crucial to achieving the MDGs. Local service providers and users cannot efficiently build and ensure a sustained performance of water supply and sanitation systems in the developing world without a suitable enabling environment, good governance, adequate support and competent staff. These issues were addressed during the symposium held in 26-28 September 2006, in Delft, the Netherlands.
