The USAID Regional Water and Environment Project continues the WEFE Nexus lecture series for Central Asia. The next lecture will focus on the role of practitioner communities in advancing WEFE-Nexus implementation.
The number of practitioner communities (PCs) in the field of water resources management is steadily growing. Examples include:
- AquaRating PC, established by the International Water Association and the Inter-American Development Bank;
- Water-Energy-Food Nexus Community, created by the Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research;
- Water Resources and Open Government PC, founded by SIWI, the World Resources Institute, and WIN;
- Practitioner Community Platform, established by the USAID Regional Water and Environment Project in collaboration with the Regional Environmental Centre for Central Asia, hosted on the Eurasian River Basin Management Portal.
The Global Water Partnership (GWP) supports more than 20 practitioner communities on a wide range of topics related to integrated water resources management, including transboundary water cooperation, gender and social inclusion, and monitoring and implementation of SDG 6. Thus, developing collaboration through practitioner communities is becoming an important model for promoting sustainable water management.
However, practitioner communities are relatively new in the water sector, and there is not yet a standardized approach for making them sustainable, defining themes suitable for community objectives, or adapting them to local learning environments. Moreover, since practitioner communities are applied for various purposes beyond knowledge sharing and improving practice (e.g., policy reform, cross-sectoral collaboration, and interregional cooperation), there is a risk of overextending the concept and turning it into an ineffective tool.
This online lecture will discuss the role that practitioner communities can play in promoting social learning and advancing WEFE-Nexus implementation. It will cover some theory on what a Practitioner Community is, as well as lessons and challenges faced by practitioner communities, identified by GWP through its analysis of the WEFE4MED community experiences and lessons learned.
Lecture No. 24 is organized in collaboration with the WEFE4MED community as an interactive session, and we are pleased to introduce our esteemed speaker:
Mr. Laurent-Charles Tremblay-Lévesque, IWRM and Knowledge Management Specialist, Network Director for China and Southeast Asia
The lecture will be conducted online with simultaneous English-Russian interpretation.
To register and participate, please follow this link: https://zoom.us/meeting/register/tJEkde-vpj8uHtXrYfyrzI_ZFaHlhXWJlRjT