Course Objective

Building capacity in the use of economic and financial instruments in IWRM among water researchers, trainers, policy makers and practitioners in the Nile Basin region.

Course Content

Day 1 – Principles and Concepts

• Basic principles of IWRM.
• Water as and economic and social good
• The role of economic and financing tools in water management for social development and poverty alleviation.
• Implementing IWRM: why are economic and financial tools needed?
• Identification of sector needs and challenges.

Day 2 – Water Value and Water Costs

• Nature and property of water.
• Water uses and water rights.
• Components of water value and estimation for different uses (agriculture, domestic, industrial)
• Components of full water costs: operation and maintenance, capital charges, opportunity cost, economic externalities, environmental externalities.
• Introduction to cost recovery and cost allocation.

Day 3 – Economic Instruments

• Review of major economic tools for water management: water pricing, water markets, water banks, others.
• Applying economic tools in different sectors.
• Review of experiences and lessons learnt.

Day 4 – Financing and Investment Instruments

• Water finance system.
• Water funding strategies.
• Investment in water management.
• Subsidies for the poor.
• Economic and financial instruments and the water cycle.

Day 5 – Planning for IWRM

• Public policies, governance and IWRM.
• Incorporating economic and financing instruments in IWRM plans.
• Water culture: is there public acceptance of the need for cost recovery and shared responsibility for equity?
• Strategic actions for implementation.
• Planning for capacity building.
• Closure

Expected outcome

The expected outcome is that water managers are able to manage water effectively, recover costs, where appropriate, and administer charges and subsidies effectively with a view to finance water investments and promote economic growth and social development, through increased access to and efficient use of water.

Target group

The course will mainly target participants with capacity building responsibilities in order to ensure replication and scaling-up of programmes and impacts. It will in particular target participants with knowledge and experience in capacity building and research in the broad field of economic instruments and their application. In this context, participants are expected to come from multidisciplinary backgrounds. Participants will be experienced practitioners (with experience in some aspects of economics and financial issues around water management) in a position that allows them to take this training forward at the local or regional level. A balance will be maintained between trainers, policy makers and practitioners. The course is aimed for 25, participants, with gender and geographic balance.

Methods

The workshop will use adult learning tools, focusing on participants sharing their own experiences, and guided by the introduction of new conceptual approaches and tools. There will be a combination of short lectures, practical exercises, group work and discussion. Forty percent (40%) of the workshop time will be allocated to theory/concepts and tools, another forty percent (40%) to group discussions and exercises, and ten percent (10%) to case studies. Since the course is aimed at participants with prior economics background, presentations on concepts and tools will only distil key points, whose application will be illustrated by presentation of case-studies. Group discussions will be aimed at allowing participants the opportunity to further share experiences in the discussed concepts and tools. The course will be supported by training materials developed by Cap-Net (www.cap-net.org), as well as those generated by facilitators and course participants. Participants will be encouraged (and expected) to bring in experiences with the application of economic and/or financing instruments for water resources management. Each module will be supported by specific cases to be brought in by the capacity building networks. Each participant will be given a CD containing all the material used/covered during the course.

Venue and Organization

The course will be coordinated, organized and hosted by the University of Dar es Salaam, UDSM (Department of Water Resources Engineering) which is a member of Nile – IWRM –Net and EU project. UDSM will be represented by Dr Richard Kimwaga. The venue will be in Dar es Salaam. The course is part of implementation activities of Nile – IWRM- Net. The duration of the course will be five days and it is proposed to take place from the 27^th April – 1^st May 2009 and will be offered in English Language.

Facilitation
Facilitators will be drawn from within the region to have good cross-fertilization of expertise.

Afterwards
Participants will be expected to return to their regions and networks with the training materials, knowledge and support to develop regional training for local authorities, CBOs, NGOs, researchers, consultants, etc., involved in water resources management and specifically interested in economic instruments. These follow up trainings by participating networks and organizations will be planned during the workshop.

Contacts:
1.       Dr Richard J. Kimwaga – Tanzania Chapter and Local Coordinator – rkimwaga2007@yahoo.com, +255754265636
2.       Dr Muna Mirgani – Nile IWRM Net Coordinator, munamirghani@yahoo.de