To: Foro Interredes <interredes@...>
Date: Wed, 14 Dec 2005 16:33:09 -0600
Subject: [interredes] Integrated water resources management /
Decentralization, public participation and empowerment


From: Alfredo Ponce <taiaualpa@...>
Date: Wed, 14 Dec 2005 00:51:03 +0000
To: redanahuak@...
Subject: FW: <alfredoponce>: Capacity building for IWRM





From: water@...
To: taiaualpa@...
Subject: dgWater: Capacity building for IWRM
Date: Thu, 1 Dec 2005 19:00:35 -0500 (EST)
dgWater December 1st, 2005
http://topics.developmentgateway.org/water?intcmp=927

Dear member, in this edition you will find:

1. New Highlight: Capacity building for IWRM
2. Five Most Popular Resources in November 2005
3. Development Gateway Initiatives Announced at WSIS
4. Did you know?

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1. New Highlight: Capacity building for IWRM
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If responsibilities for integrated water resources management (IWRM) are to
be further shifted toward local actors, there is a need to develop their
capacities accordingly.

Decentralization, public participation and empowerment should be accompanied
by significant capacity-building efforts for crafting robust institutions
tailored to specific conditions and responsibilities. When knowledge and
opportunities to influence decision-making are vested among stakeholders, a
virtuous cycle of social learning can be triggered. Finding mechanisms to
implement level-field communication and constant interaction among
stakeholders is important to increase their capacity to engage in successful
local actions for water sector management and development.

Read related resources at:
http://topics.developmentgateway.org/water/highlights/viewHighlight.do~activ
eHighlightId=107481?intcmp=927

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2. Five Most Popular Resources in November 2005
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Community & Participatory Mapping Toolbox
http://topics.developmentgateway.org/water/rc/ItemDetail.do~1049787?intcmp=9
27

Jetted Wells: Low-Cost Water Supply in Record Time
http://topics.developmentgateway.org/water/rc/ItemDetail.do~1043968?intcmp=9
27

Participatory Groundwater Management
http://topics.developmentgateway.org/water/rc/ItemDetail.do~1051741?intcmp=9
27

Call for Proposals for the 2006 Global Development Marketplace (October 3rd,
2005 to November 30th, 2005)
http://topics.developmentgateway.org/water/rc/ItemDetail.do~1049348\?intcmp=
927

Opportunities in the Water Supply and Sanitation Sector of the World Bank
http://topics.developmentgateway.org/water/rc/ItemDetail.do~1051154?intcmp=9
27

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3. Development Gateway Initiatives Announced at WSIS
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Three initiatives announced at the World Summit for the Information Society
on 16-18 November in Tunisia will bring new communities of practice to the
Development Gateway. The new Open Educational Resources dgCommunity,
supported by The William & Flora Hewlett Foundation, was launched with
African Virtual University and Utah State University's Center for Open and
Sustainable Learning serving as co-Guides; a new partnership with Egypt's
Bibliotheca Alexandrina that will provide Arabic translations of Development
Gateway resources was announced; and a new e-government task force for Latin
America and the Caribbean was launched. Results from WSIS will be available
in mid-December as an update for the current Information Society Special
Report
http://topics.developmentgateway.org/special/informationsociety?intcmp=921&i
ntcmp=927
sponsored by Intel.

For more information please visit:
http://topics.developmentgateway.org/openeducation?intcmp=921&intcmp=927
http://topics.developmentgateway.org/culture?intcmp=921&intcmp=927
http://topics.developmentgateway.org/egovernment?intcmp=921&intcmp=927

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4. Did you know?
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invite your colleagues and friends to submit their comments and feedback.
Simply click on "Add content here" hyperlink on dgWater at:
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After editorial review, posted submissions will appear on the portal and the
entire community and visitors will be able to read and benefit from them.

Thank you!

Denise Senmartin
Editor, Content Coordinator
dgWater
e-mail: dsenmartin@...
http://topics.developmentgateway.org/environment?intcmp=927

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