Forums and Conferences

Regional Conference on Agricultural Water Management in Eastern & Southern Africa:"Investment in Agricultural Water Management Pays,"
Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, 15-19th September 2008

WBI is working with IMAWESA to showcase best practices. Partners of the conferences are ICRISAT, ASARECA, IFAD, IWMI.

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Executive Courses

Leading Change in Water Utilities (LCWU)

Through presentation by experts, roundtable discussions, interactive clinics, peer-to-peer dialogues, this 5-day course (in English) will address, among other issues, sector and utility governance, aggregation of markets, emerging markets, asset management, reducing non-revenue water, water pricing and tariffs, HR-systems, stakeholders engagement, decentralization and local governments, legal challenges, technologies for efficiency, water scarcity, water ethics, climate adaptation, working with financers and contractors, contract options, role of leaders and managers, and change management.

Executives, managers and leaders of Civil Society Organizations (CSOs) will be able to bring challenges from their respective utilities to be treated as a case for group work, which will assist the participants as they seek to:

• Diagnose performance gaps, develop and implement functional and organizational strategies or solutions in planning and development in the water sector;
• Lead integrated, multi-disciplinary and cross-functional initiatives, programs or projects by learning how to use holistic approaches in identifying problems;
• Enhance synergies within their respective utilities or organizations;
• Construct a change strategy and gain knowledge and develop confidence to develop a personal leadership style.

For more information, contact Atem Ramsundersingh

Water Governance in a Political Economy

This 5-day course (in English) will address Integrated Regional Water Management (IWRM) under old and new paradigms of "water in the political economy." This includes emerging challenges related to climate adaptation, virtual water trade, water economics, pricing and tariffs, new thinking in agricultural water development, environmental management, governance at local, regional, national and international levels.

In addition, this course will offer specific elective components in water negotiations, conflict prevention and water diplomacy for those dealing with trans-boundary water resources management.

Participants are expected to bring challenges from their respective organizations to be treated as a case for group work. In other words, we will applyknowledge and skills obtained during the course to make a root cause analysis of the performance gaps and develop a real-world strategy to take back to theorganization.

The course is specifically designed for:

• Executives from local, provincial and national water resources planning and management organizations, inter-state or international river basin organizations, public-political institutions (e.g. political leaders, council members, etc.) private companies (consulting firms, contractors, operators, media companies);
• Managers of departments of large water management agencies and authorities in client-countries of the World Bank and other Multilateral Agencies;
• Leaders (with a professional background) of Civic Society organizations.

For more information, contact Atem Ramsundersingh

WBI Learning Events

WBI Learning Events include expert lectures, forums, seminars, workshops and small-group projects, and peer mentoring. They take place in person and virtually through distance learning centers or over the Internet. In this section of the website, you will find the criteria for participation in WBI's more formal learning events, the Water Team's calendar of events and an archive of our previous activities.

In Focus

Indonesia's PDAMs Seek To Change the Tide
With the assistance of the Netherlands Government and WBI, state-owned water utilities embrace their role as agents of change with the launch of a new initiative.

Interactive Training

Anew interactive tool,
Basin IT, provides a unique opportunity to gauge the economic impact of various river basin scenarios.