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Building and Developing Capacities in Water and Land Resources Management in Central Asia

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Unger-Shayesteh,  Katy
CAWA Policy Briefs, External Organizations;
5.4 Hydrology, 5.0 Earth Surface Processes, Departments, GFZ Publication Database, Deutsches GeoForschungsZentrum;

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Teshebaeva,  Kanayim
CAWA Policy Briefs, External Organizations;
5.4 Hydrology, 5.0 Earth Surface Processes, Departments, GFZ Publication Database, Deutsches GeoForschungsZentrum;

Conrad,  Christopher
CAWA Policy Briefs, External Organizations;

Löw,  Fabian
CAWA Policy Briefs, External Organizations;

Janusz-Pawletta,  Barbara
CAWA Policy Briefs, External Organizations;

Knauft,  Falk-Juri
CAWA Policy Briefs, External Organizations;

Nurmamedova,  Mayya
CAWA Policy Briefs, External Organizations;

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Unger-Shayesteh, K., Teshebaeva, K., Conrad, C., Löw, F., Janusz-Pawletta, B., Knauft, F.-J., Nurmamedova, M. (2015): Building and Developing Capacities in Water and Land Resources Management in Central Asia, (Policy Briefs of the German Water Initiative for Central Asia ; 4), Potsdam : GFZ German Research Centre for Geosciences, 8 p.
https://doi.org/10.2312/5.4.2015.004e


Cite as: https://gfzpublic.gfz-potsdam.de/pubman/item/item_1410266
Abstract
The implementation of Integrated Water and Land Resources Management (IWLRM) in Central Asia is facing substantial challenges today. The most basic challenge among them, to which many other challenges can be traced back, is the building and development of capacities at the individual and organizational levels. This Policy Brief reviews the capacity building approaches taken by the German Water Initiative for Central Asia (“Berlin Process”), in particular: (1) short-term vocational trainings for water professionals offered by the CAWa research project, (2) regional master programme “Integrated Water Management” implemented at the German-Kazakh University in Almaty, (3) training module on river basin planning developed within the GIZ program “Transboundary Water Management in Central Asia”. These approaches address mainly the individual level of capacity building, but with the establishment of river basin commissions, the GIZ programme targeted also the institutional level. Key factors of success were the regional and trans-sectoral approach taken by all three programmes, the linking of science and practice, and the tailoring of the training contents to the practical needs of the participants.