Dear Colleagues:

We have made a quick start on compiling a directory of WASH training events and resources. Please let us know of other resources to add to this list or if this type of directory already exists.

Links to each of the items listed below can be found on Sanitation Updates :

WASH Training Events and Resources (updated August 15, 2019)

Sources to check
- CAWST
- Coursera MOOCs
- International Water Centre
- IRC
- UNC Water Institute
- UNDP Cap-Net
- WEDC
- Globalwaters.org – training courses and resources.
- Others???

CENTRE FOR AFFORDABLE WATER AND SANITATION TECHNOLOGY (CAWST)

- Training Workshops – Delivered by CAWST and its local training partners. Designed for WASH managers, government staff, field workers and community workers.

COURSERA ONLINE COURSES

- Introduction to Faecal Sludge Management
- Water Supply and Sanitation Policy in Developing Countries Part 1: Understanding Complex Problems
- Water Supply and Sanitation Policy in Developing Countries Part 2: Developing Effective Interventions
- Planning & Design of Sanitation Systems and Technologies
- Introduction to Household Water Treatment and Safe Storage
- Water Resources Management and Policy

IRC

- WASH Systems Academy – A dynamic online platform to assist WASH sector professionals in applying a WASH systems strengthening approach. Interactive, engaging and free—the WASH Systems Academy makes driving for change for this human right fun and available to all.

WASH systems strengthening – From 16th September to 27th September 2019 the free basic course ‘WASH systems strengthening: the basics’ will be available on the WASH Systems Academy. The basic course takes on average 16 hours and is to be completed in 2 weeks. At the end of the course, you will understand the WASH systems strengthening approach. The course contains the key concepts of the approach and has cases and examples where the approach is used. This course is also available in October 2019 and November 2019.

International Water Centre – We were founded in 2005 with the vision of harnessing the diverse expertise of the world’s leading water professionals, to educate and empower individuals, communities and organizations, to build capacity to respond to water challenges in innovative ways. Some of its online courses include:

- Introduction to WASH for development, starts September 16, 2019 – This online course will provide those starting their career or preparing for project work in the WASH sector with the fundamental principles and approaches to better engage and support efforts to work towards achieving SDG6. Cost: $548.00

- Water reform and governance, starts August 20, 2020 – In this online course, we will explore these questions and draw on practical examples to demonstrate how water reform processes are successful when they are context driven, inclusive of direct and indirect users of water, take a whole-of-water-cycle approach to reform, and deeply consider multiple societal outcomes. Cost: $648.00

UNC Water Institute

- Water Safety Plans: An Online Distance Learning Program – The Water Institute at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (USA) is offering a 9-week online learning course on Water Safety Plans (WSPs) aimed at those in the water industry with management, engineering, or operational responsibilities.

UNDP Cap-Net Virtual Campus – The Virtual Campus is an innovative platform to support water capacity development.

- Water Integrity: Principles and Concepts, 2019 Edition – This online instructor-led course is meant to offer a “grain” of the needed knowledge required by water practitioners, public officials, NGO personnel, and anybody else who want to contribute to increase the efficiency and integrity of water management. This course will take place between September 30 and November 29, 2019. Interested participants may apply online until September 7. There is no course fee. Sponsored by a partnership of international development organizations, the course is free.

- An Introduction to WASH Climate Resilience Programming – This course aims to provide an introduction on how to effectively implement WASH climate resilience programming. The course will ultimately build the capacity of WASH sector professionals to improve existing programmes, making them more sustainable and climate-resilient. A certificate will be provided on completion of the course. There is no course fee. Sponsored by a partnership of international development organizations, the course is free. Interested participants must apply for this course before Wednesday, October 10, 2018.

WEDC

- Online courses in Water Management for Development – Some of the core modules are on: Management of Water and Environmental Sanitation Services; Management of Village Water Services; Water and the Natural Environment; Research Methods; Management and Operation of Water Utilities; Urban Sanitation Management

Dear Dan,
thanks for sharing

in my bookmarks I also have

IHE www.un-ihe.org/open-courseware
RedR UK www.redr.org.uk/ that runs some WASH courses
IECAH wash in emergency (in spanish) iecah.org

Regards,
Giacomo

Hi Giacomo:

Many thanks for these and I will add them to the list.

Best regards,
Dan

Hi Dan


Have a look at this paper...

www.researchgate.net/publication/2780416...nitarian_Emergencies

- focused on humanitarian but still useful.

assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/5...g_in_WASH_sector.pdf

Is another relevant report


Also Cranfield
www.cranfield.ac.uk/courses/taught/water...tion-for-development

And Leeds
courses.leeds.ac.uk/g062/water-sanitatio...engineering-msc-eng-

And Oklahoma!
www.ou.edu/coe/centers/water/education

And Bioforce
humanitaire.institutbioforce.fr/en/node/438

And 2iE
www.2ie-edu.org/index.php/en/training-pr.../bachelor-master-phd

And Amman
www.institutbioforce.fr/en/blog/middle-e...-sanitation-emerging


Hope that helps!

Brian

Hi Dan,
Thank you for kick-starting this thread.
I am involved in a capacity development program, the International Training Program on Sustainable Urban Water and Sanitation (ITP SUWAS). It is funded by Sida and it part of their long-running ITP series. It's run by Niras (a consulting firm) and WaterAid Sweden and has been ongoing since 2016. Every year, a total of 120 urban WASH professionals are trained in a 15-month program, with a special emphasis on inclusion, sustainability and integration. There's typically 12 participants from two urban areas in each of the countries of Bangladesh, Cambodia, Lao PDR, Myanmar and Nepal as well as Kenya, Rwanda, Tanzania, Uganda, and Zambia. More info about the program and how to be part of it (for those from the program countries) is available here: www.niras.com/development-consulting/int...nd-sanitation-suwas/

Regards,
Daniel

Many thanks Daniel

I added this to the list, https://docs.google.com/document/d/1xf5-UpMMwIwr9OHOva08G61TtzteMNJaX4-d_PjyLaE/edit

Best regards,
Dan

Many thanks Brian, I added these to the list,
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1xf5-UpMMwIwr9OHOva08G61TtzteMNJaX4-d_PjyLaE/edit

Best regards,
Dan

Dear Dan,

UNHCR are providing WASH training materials at wash.unhcr.org/wash-training-materials/ .

Also my colleagues at GIZ Jordan has an online courses related to the decentralized wastewater management which are available at: www.dwm-acc-jordan.net/capacity-developm...wm-training-courses/


Best regards,

Dear Heba,

I added these to the list.

Many thanks,
Dan

Dear Dan and all

Thanks for starting this thread and all the valuable contributions!
It’s interesting to me as lead of Working Group 1 (capacity development) to follow this thread and see all the interesting contributions...

Some years ago we had compiled a similar list in our working group factsheet ( www.susana.org/en/knowledge-hub/resource.../library/details/167 ).
We have also been working on getting more training resources into the SuSanA library and added an extra cateogiry which also includes a search function: (look out for "Filter by training resource" at the left side of the page). The category includes three types:

• Trainer manuals (adult learning)
• Games and activities (adult learning)
• Syllabus and course outlines (adult learning)

We are currently in the process of updating the factsheet and have been thinking how to best shape the section of "capacity resources".
It would be great we could incorporate your list there, either in a shortened version or just with a link. Maybe we could think of compiling a summarizing table of all the posts with a title, category, link, and short descirption of the resources? Could you move forward with this.

Next week we will post the draft outline of the new factsheet (no link yet, sorry). There we have for now plannend to have following section:
Capacity development resources for sustainable sanitation: (a) actors and SuSanA partners engaged in cap. dev. ; b) training courses; c) web-platforms. How could we better structure this section?

Meanwhile, I encourage everyone to keep telling Dan which WASH training events and resources ought to be included (I assume only recurring ones are of relevance for this, not the one-off type events).

Thank you so much!
Cheers, Dorothee

Hi Dorothee


can you add another category to your list. A section for capacity builders looking at the pedagogy behind training and curriculum development. There are some interesting papers on competencies and capacity assessments that should be included. This is an inward facing topic for those aiming to improve the quality of training. You could also include all the various standards to make them more widely known. Thus we would have a hierarchy of categories;

- activities
- training manuals
- course outlines
- theory and research

regards

Brian

Hi Brian
Great suggestion!
In the past we had the policy, that we only added categories to the library if we have resources to add
So could you share with us a list of what you would add in this category?
We can then forward this to the secretariat...
Thanks! Dorothee