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Partnership

The capacity development (CD) programme was developed by a group of inter- national partners that each brought in a specific area of expertise. These partners comprised the UNESCO-IHE Institute for Water Education (water, sanitation and environmental management), the Federation of Canadian Municipalities (pro-poor governance), the Gender and Water Alliance (gender and vulnerable groups) and the SNV Netherlands Development Organisation (local economic development). The CD programme was delivered by NETWAS International, a regional capacity builder based in Nairobi. For the purpose of developing the project, a partnership agreement was signed between UN-HABITAT and each one of the four interna- tional partners by mid-2008. By the end of 2009, a contract for delivering the capacity-building activities was agreed between UN-HABITAT and NETWAS. The four international partners operated as a consortium from the beginning of 2008 when they jointly developed the project’s approach and technical proposal. NET- WAS joined the consortium at the end of 2009. The Partners Meeting was initiated as a platform for joint planning and decision making between the five partners.

5. Approach

The international partners implemented a systematic approach to the capacity- building assignment that consisted of eight steps.

Step 1: Initial inquiries were conducted in the 11 towns to find the specific issues in water, sanitation and environment, and to assess the various town actors and their capability to address these issues.
Step 2: On this basis a tentative programme of CD interventions (CDI) was de- veloped and the ability of the NETWAS facilitators to deliver this programme was assessed.
Step 3: Whilst finalizing the CD programme and its materials, a programme for enhancing the capacity of the facilitators was set up.
Step 4: A training of trainers workshop was organized with a specific focus on is- sues of content, training methodology and desired outputs.
Step 5: During the implementation of the CDIs further inquiries were conducted in the towns to examine the quality of CDI delivery and the status of implementation of the action plans.