This document announces a training course on knowledge management and capacity development for environmental and water resource management. The course will take place from February 2nd to 6th, 2015 at the KCB Training Centre in Karen, Kenya. The course aims to help participants develop a knowledge management action plan for their organization. It will combine lectures, exercises, group work and discussions. The training materials and exercises are designed to help participants apply the knowledge management concepts to their local work contexts.

1. Course Announcement
www.watercap.org
www.kewi.or.ke
Dates:
2nd
February – 6th
February 2015
Venue:
KCB Training Centre, Karen
KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT AND CAPACITY DEVELOPMENT FOR
ENVIRONMENT AND WATER RESOURCES MANAGEMENT
Conducted in English
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Background
Knowledge management has recently
attracted much attention towards
achieving sustainable water resource
management. Knowledge
Management comprises a range of
practices used by organisations to
identify, create, represent, and
distribute knowledge for productive
gain. Knowledge management is the
capabilities by which organization and
players within defined localities
capture the knowledge that is critical to
them, constantly improve it and make
it available in the most effective
manner to those who need it, so that
they can exploit it creatively to add
value as a normal part of their routine
work.
Proper management of water
resources - as a prerequisite of
sustainable development - includes the
ability to build and apply a water
knowledge management strategy, in
order to deliver demand driven
services and to accommodate
innovation. In the globalising
knowledge economy, proper water
management is much dependent on
the ability to develop, share, apply and
disseminate knowledge in an effective
and efficient way.
Water knowledge management is less
about the flow of water, but more
about the flow of knowledge (storage,
access, retrieval, re-use). Participants
learn to apply modern concepts of
water knowledge management
empowering them to contribute to
building an environment for improved
knowledge services.

2. Kenya water sector is endowed with
knowledge that is needed to be
captured shared, captured and
transferred. Although practiced,
knowledge management is not well
understood by organizations as they
are faced with the challenged on how
to create and implement knowledge
management practices as part of their
organizational strategy, leadership and
culture. Organizations do not engage
in measure of knowledge management
practices. This course targets at
developing a (first) knowledge
management action plan, to be
presented at the end of the course.
After the course the participants are
invited to keep in contact to share their
experiences with the implementation of
the action plan.
Training Objectives
To co-create a knowledge management action plan on the basis of managerial
interventions in the knowledge value chain, evaluated gaps and priority areas.
Specific Objectives:
 To learn to analyse knowledge processes
 To improve personal & organisational knowledge management
 To developing skills in choosing appropriate IT tools
 To be able to form knowledge networking
 To develop team and attitude building skills
 To develop a KM oriented action plan
Training Target and Approach:
The training will be a combination of short lectures, practical exercises, group work
and discussion.
The training is supported with training material set on Knowledge Management and
practical exercises and case studies, structured so as to incorporate participants’
relevant experience and lessons application to their local context.
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For more information contact:
Eric K Wamiti
ewamiti@yahoo.com
0722477771
Esther Wambui
esther.wambui@watercap.org
0721122136