There is a challenge (and opportunity) for river basin level IWRM planning to include the reality of small-scale users’ needs especially the demands for clean and portable water for improved sanitation and hygiene. Likewise WASH planning should take into account the implications of water supply and sanitation services provision at the river basin scale. In response to this opportunity, WaterNet is convening a national course on The Interface between WASH and IWRM in Zimbabwe. The course will cover IWRM concepts, WASH sector challenges and opportunities for interfacing with IWRM, institutional arrangements for interfacing WASH and IWRM as well as the options for financing WASH. The specific objectives of are given below.

• Bring out the interrelationship between IWRM and WASH making this inter-relationship practical in the way water supply and sanitation services are planned, implemented and managed guided by IWRM principles
• To demonstrate the institutional relationship between the Water resource sector and the WASH sector in terms of planning and implementation.
• To understand the institutional arrangements required for
• coordination between WASH and IWRM.
• To address WASH from a planning and management perspective at national or regional level using the experience of the Sector Wide Approach (SWAP) as an entry point and
• To demonstrate the benefits of a sector wide approach specifically focusing on the methods and challenges to adopt such an approach.

Host and venue: Institute of Water and Sanitation Development, Harare, Zimbabwe
Target group: WASH-IWRM mid-level practitioners as well as mid-level urban and rural planners and water managers.

For more information contact WaterNet waternet@waternetonline.org or Sharon Murinda smurinda@waternetonline.org