The third break-out session, which is part of Ambuja Cement Foundation’s event on World Water Day 2017, puts building capacities for water conservation at the centre of discussion. Considering that India sustains nearly 17 percent of the world’s population but is endowed with just four percent of global water resources, emphasizes the urgent call for water conservation.
While technological-based innovations contribute to mitigating risks of water scarcity, they should always be accompanied by capacity-building activities to achieve conservation targets. New-age methods and mobilisation strategies are yet to be explored and best practices are to be shared across the sector.
Thus, this break-out session aims to reflect on existing methods and to design new solutions along the different steps of the capacity process to improve water conservation. We build on the following framework to guide us through the workshop session:
Step 1 – WHO and WHY? As the first step, participants will jointly decide the two main stakeholders they would like to build capacities of for water conservation in a village/slum.
STEP 2 – WHERE and WHEN? In the next step, the groups will outline the kinds of capacities that need to be built.
STEP 3 – HOW (STATUS – QUO)? The discussion will then move to participants listing existing practices that can be used.
STEP 4 – WHAT MORE (OUTSIDE OF THE BOX)? They shall then brainstorm on two ideas to bring innovations and technology to existing capacity-building programmes. The ideas should ideally focus on innovations relating to increasing scale, reducing costs, or incorporating M&E.
This session is open to participants interested in developing capacity-building processes for water programmes. We are expecting influential development actors from the public, private and third sectors to jointly explore avenues of collaboration and share innovative solutions. In addition, we highly encourage students and professionals from other sectors to join us in the discussion to bring in views from different angles.
Please find the Event Snapshot here.
Thank you, Shriya Damnia, Co-Founder, WaterQuest, for being our knowledge lead in this session.
