The UN Institute for Training and Research (UNITAR) conducted a workshop focused on knowledge transfer and capacity building for water and sanitation services in Asia and the Pacific. The Local Development Programme (LDP) aims to enhance the capabilities of local authorities to implement development goals through training in various areas such as governance, urbanization, and sanitation management. UNITAR collaborates with multiple stakeholders, including governments and private sectors, to improve service delivery and promote local democracy.

1. UNITAR’s Local
Development Programme
Workshop on knowledge transfer and capacity building
for water and sanitation services in Asia and the Pacific
Bangkok, Thailand
18th February 2009

2. United Nations Institute
for Training and
Research (UNITAR)

3. UNITAR 3
Purpose
To enhance the effectiveness of the UN through appropriate
training and research
Vision
To be a centre of excellence for standard-setting
methodologies, high-quality training, research capacity and
knowledge systems
Historical Background
Established as an autonomous body within the United Nations
system in 1965

4. UNITAR 4
Thematic focal areas
Environment
Chemicals and Waste Management
Climate Change
Biodiversity
Environmental Governance and Law
Governance
E-Governance
Local Development
Public Finance and Trade
Peace, Security and Diplomacy
International Law
Multilateral Diplomacy
Peacemaking and Conflict Prevention
www.unitar.org
Peacekeeping Training
Research
Knowledge Systems Innovation
UNOSAT

5. Local Development Programme
(LDP)

6. LDP 6
Our mission
To provide training to local actors in order to enhance LDP’s Target
their capacity to implement locally the Millennium group:
Development Goals and other international conventions. Local authorities
Vision in partnerships with :
To become a hub for information, communication and • National Governments
training between United Nations Agencies, academic • Civil Society
• IGO’s
institutions, national stakeholders and local actors such • Private Sector
as local authorities, civil society and public and private
companies.
“If my neighbor
Activities can do it, then so
Undertake a participatory process (training workshops, can I!”
etc.) to support local authorities in their local development
Enable exchange of knowledge, expertise and best-practice Simon Compaoré,
experiences Mayor of
Ouagadougou,
Promote decentralized and city-to-city cooperation President of MDP,
Strengthen community and stakeholders’ involvement Burkina Faso
Promote local democracy and good governance through
capacity building

7. LDP 7
www.unitar.org/ldp

8. LDP 8
Areas of action
The training sessions for local authorities
focus on four major areas:
Sustainable Urbanization and Environment
Urban planning
Urban environment services (transport, water, waste, energy)
Climate Change
Local governance and Economic Development
Local governance (gender, public participation, e-Governance) The Unitar/UN-Habitat
initiative on «Access to
Local economic development (Income generation, PPP,
basic services for All»
employability, business skills and management)
highlights the rights and
Local Institutional Support responsibilities of the
stakeholders involved in
Building local capacities (accountability and transparency, local the provision of basic
leadership and municipal management, reform and services and aims at
decentralization support) improving the delivery of
these services to the
Health and Human Security poorest.
Human security (urban safety and social coexistence)
Local health management ( Urban management of HIV Aids,
local risk management of pandemics)

9. LDP 9
CIFAL
LDP implements its training programmes
through a network of 10 CIFAL centers :
Americas:
CIFAL Atlanta
CIFAL Curitiba
Africa:
CIFAL Durban CIFAL centers are
CIFAL Ouagadougou
established in
cooperation with local
Asia and Pacific authorities and other
CIFAL Kuala Lumpur stakeholders.
CIFAL Shanghai
The acronym CIFAL
Europe signifies "International
CIFAL Barcelona Training Centre for
CIFAL Bilbao Local
CIFAL Findhorn Authorities/Actors“
Authorities/Actors
CIFAL Plock

10. LDP 10
Description CIFAL Scope:
CIFAL Atlanta (USA): Americas (Western
hemisphere)
Economic Development, Environmental
Sustainability, Social Development and Quality
of Life, and Information Technology
CIFAL Barcelona (Spain): Mediterranean
area / Latin America
Security and Conviviality in Urban Spaces
Local governance: leadership development,
gender and public participation, local finance,
Health: HIV/AIDS
CIFAL Bilbao (Spain): Global (emphasis on
Latin America)
Digital Local Agenda and e-Governance
CIFAL Curitiba (Brazil): South America
Health: HIV/AIDS
Sustainable Urbanization and Environment

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CIFAL Durban (South Africa): Africa /
Anglophones countries
Sustainable urbanisation/Environment and Local
governance
Health: HIV/AIDS
CIFAL Findhorn (Scotland): Northern
Europe
Sustainable Urbanisation and Environment
CIFAL Kuala Lumpur (Malaysia): Asia-
Pacific
Sustainable Urbanisation and Environment
CIFAL Ouagadougou (Burkina Faso):
Africa /francophones countries
Sustainable urbanisation/Environment and Local
governance
CIFAL Plock (Poland): Central and Eastern Europe
Sustainable Urbanisation and Environment
CIFAL Shanghai (China): Asia-Pacific
Information society

12. LDP 12
Partnerships
Private sector World and Regional Associations of Cities
VEOLIA ENVIRONNEMENT
United Cities and Local Governments (UCLG)
TOTAL
The Regional Network of Local Authorities for the Management of
Bolloré
Human Settlements (CITYNET)
Addax Petroleum
Federación Latinoamericana de Ciudades, Municipios y Asociaciones
State Governments (FLACMA)
Estonia Partenariat pour le Développement Municipal (PDM)
Spain
IT4ALL-Network of Local Authorities for the Information Society
France
Republic of Korea Foundations and NGOs
Switzerland
Fondation Albert II de Monaco
Principauté de Monaco
Global Ecovillage Network
Local Governments
The African Capacity Building Foundation (ACBF)
Basque region of Spain
Generalitat de Catalunya (Catalan Government of Spain)
City of Curitiba
City of Atlanta
City of Findhorn
City of Plock
City of Lyon
City of Tallinn
City of Ouagadougou
City of Durban
City of Kuala Lumpur
City of Shanghai
United Nations
United Nations Development Programme (UNDP)
United Nations Human Settlements Programme (UN-HABITAT)
World Bank Institute

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Methodology
LDP has been applying
Knowledge Management
In the seminars, traditional training methods, techniques to its
such as presentations by practitioners, are capacity-development
combined with interactive approaches based on activities since early 2003
knowledge management techniques and field
visits. This encourages cooperation between
the participating cities.
Workshops objectives:
City Share
methodology:
To assess current levels of competencies in each .
city • Self-assessment
exercise
•Discussions about good
To share experiences, knowledge, skills and and bad practises
innovative ideas with peer participants • Peer assist exercises
•Producing an Action Plan
To learn from experts’ lectures and discussions •Building cooperation
To see and experience best practices in the field
To find partner(s) for future city-to-city
cooperation

14. LDP and Water Sanitation

15. Water and Sanitation: LDP’ objectives 15
To strengthen the capacities of local authorities in order to improve in a
sustainable way, the standards and the quality of the services provided
to the populations, particularly to the most underprivileged sections. This
objective includes:
The strengthening of human capacities:
In order for municipal staff to be able to plan, develop, operate and evaluate water and
sanitation facilities
Development of efficient institutional frameworks
To facilitate resources mobilization and access to international financing
To facilitate inter-sectoral coordination of activities within the municipality and with other
development partners,
To improve accountability, transparency and optimal use of public resources (human
and financial resources)
Provision of efficient management tools
To encourage legal reforms in the sector
For operational follow up, environmental management, etc.
Provision of innovative, efficient solutions and mechanisms in
order to improve access to water and sanitation for the poor

16. Face-to-face workshops on water and sanitation 16
LDP conducted many training activites in water and sanitation in
CIFAL Durban, CIFAL Kuala Lumpur and CIFAL Ouagadougou on the
following issues:
Financing Municipal Water Services: the creditworthiness challenge
The water resource management
Water & Sanitation Infrastructure Development & Skills Mobilization
Water and sanitation: Access to international funds

17. LDP and E-learning on
“Governance in Urban
Sanitation”

18. E-learning course on water and sanitation: 18
Goal and Methodology
Goal
To enhance the capacity of local decision-makers to make the most efficient and
pro-poor choices and investments in urban sanitation. The course provides
analytical tools to understand the financial and institutional framework of the
sanitation sector, creating the ability to assess specific situations and make
recommendations to design and implement financial and institutional reforms in
the sector.
Methodology
The course will be delivered through UNITAR virtual learning environment.
The learning activities are based in sound adult learning pedagogical principles.
They include, among others:
self-assessment activities,
peer-to-peer review and evaluation,
and social elements.
The modules are structured in a non-linear way so as to provide learners with a
high degree of flexibility in choosing the learning path that is the most adequate
to them

19. E-learning course on sanitation 19

20. E-learning course on sanitation 20

21. E-learning course on sanitation: Approach 21
30 participants from Asia and the Pacific region will be
selected to participate in the first session of the course
“Governance in Urban Sanitation”.
20 participants with the most outstanding results will be
selected to participate in a face-to-face workshop to be
held in the Asia and Pacific region in June 2009. During this
workshop participants will deepen their knowledge in
sanitation issues and be trained as online facilitators so as
to be able to become tutors in future sessions of the
course.
Possibility of providing the course contents to a third party
for translation and eventually running the course

22. E-learning course on sanitation: Applications 22
Applications: 220 applications received as of 6th February
Beginning of the course: 23rd March
Duration of the course: 8 weeks; 23 March to 15 May 2009

23. Thank you
UNITAR
Local Development Programme
Maison Internationale de l'Environnement (MIE)
11, chemin des Anémones
1219 Genève - Châtelaine - SUISSE
Tél: +41 (0) 22 917 85 75
Fax: +41 (0) 22 917 80 47
www.unitar.org/ldp
ldp@unitar.org