Capacity Building

Water resource management requires a minimal level of capacity at all levels, including that of decentralized local governments. Functional community-level capacity builds resilience to hazards, and facilitates the use of knowledge and technologies, innovation, and education, thereby creating a culture of safety and resilience at all levels. Local capacity development and training priorities should be expressed as a regional agenda, to enable many partners along the research-to-development continuum, and to form collaborations where consortia, alliances, networks, and individual organizations may all find their place to funds and benefit from it.