1. “The Anatomy of Grass root Capacity Building for Sustainable Management of Natural capital in the Nile Basin” -A Political Economy Approach
Donald Kasongi

2. Outline
Background
Capacity Building for inclusion in a compartmentalized world -The bolts and nuts
Emerging issues in the contemporary capacity building frameworks
Challenges in the capacity building for Integration& Inclusion
Lessons learned so far in transformative capacity building
Conclusions
Where do we go from here?
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Donald Kasongi

3. Background
Water drives development, and a common currency establishing linkages across SDGs…..
Most of the water basins are shared across territorial borders, frameworks for Capacity building are hardly shared
Water governance -Mainstream approach and the Critical approach
The Mainstream approach - The biggest challenges to trans-boundary water management are that, either many cross-border waters lack trans boundary water arrangements, or existing governing structured not function properly
The Critical approach -Importance of institutional arrangements ..in this case NBD,NBI,EAC , IGAD…….In country basins
Need convergence of the two approaches to inform capacity building for inclusion and integration
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Donald Kasongi

4. Capacity building Whose capacity ? Capacity for what ? 4/17/2019
Donald Kasongi

5. Capacity Building for inclusion & Integration –The wishes and realities
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Donald Kasongi

6. Capacity Building-The bolts and nuts
“Capacity” as an end-Ability to manage water affairs successfully
“Capacity development” -the process for creating strengthening, adapting and maintaining capacity over time
The conventional narrative : A Provider-Recipient relationship
But-CB should strive to facilitate moving from a vision to implementation of strategies, relating policies, institutions and for sustainability of water and related resources in the basin
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Donald Kasongi

7. What is at stake ?
Achieving the great ambition of the SDG 6 on water in the Nile hinges on cooperation across multiple institutional actors and levels  in partner states (riparian states, NBD,NBI,EAC,IGAD…) …even in the transition ……
A broad range of policies, institutions and practices including responses to climate change and its impacts
The Human vs institution intersection-Constraints and Opportunities
Is capacity building leading to promoting inclusion and participation of stakeholders towards integrated action
The unattended question is “how to architecture an inclusive capacity building framework ”
The cross-territorial Nile Basin provides an excellent candidate for shaping innovative and inclusive capacity building analysis in a complex ecosystem
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Donald Kasongi

8. Emerging issues in the contemporary capacity building frameworks
Context specificity in all aspects-Resonance to local realities
Inclusion of all stakeholders-Participatory design of the capacity development
Result oriented-outcome focusing on competence
Shared commitment to the conceptual and methodological aspects
Need for effective communication
Enabling mutual trust at various levels
Readily responsive to potential marginalization by gender, age, literacy
Leadership for defining the needs and tracking progress with locally defined indicators
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Donald Kasongi

9. Promising practices in transformative capacity building
Capacity needs assessments to respond effectively to emerging challenges - new climate normal through government, private sector and civil society collaboration
Rigorous context analyses be allowed to guide the appropriateness of the desired knowledge levels and processes
With the rapidly growing social media and decreasing cost of communication, micro-level knowledge building systems should be supported to enhance local outreach
Promote cross learning across communities in the basin beyond the technical exchanges
Allowing platforms for regular consultations on the capacity needs assessments within and across state borders
Outcome-based monitoring and periodic reviews of capacity pathways
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Donald Kasongi

10. Challenges in the capacity building discourse
Capacity to engage in strategies &processes
Capacity for reflection & learning
Capacity to navigate complexity
Project-Based capacity building with externally designed-only models
Predominantly supply driven capacity building
Conventional application of tools and methods without checking for appropriateness
Capacity building based on technical defaults-Too fast ..Too much .. Too new
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Donald Kasongi

11. Emerging lessons
Training has been the overarching standard for capacity building but knowledge demand at grass root levels and in institutions
Technical-only and technical-laden capacity building packages have continued to be the norm, disfranchising the participation of local communities
 Capacity building systems assume that communities in the basin are automatically incentivized
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Donald Kasongi

12. Are we or Should we be listening ?
Capacity needs assessments to respond effectively to evidently emerging challenges new climate normal through government, private sector and civil society collaboration
Rigorous context analyses be allowed to guide the appropriateness of the desired knowledge levels and processes
With the rapidly growing social media and decreasing cost of communication, micro-level knowledge building systems should be supported to enhance local outreach
Promote cross learning across communities in the basin beyond the technical exchanges
Allowing platforms for regular consultations on the capacity needs assessments within and across state borders
Outcome-based monitoring and periodic reviews of capacity pathways
4/17/2019
Donald Kasongi

13. Conclusions
Mobilize for increased institutional co-ordination, closer linkages across stakeholder groups ( governments, civil society and private sector) within and across states in the basin.
Align mandates(state) to visions(non-state )-eg NBD-NBI
Sharing lessons, innovative approaches and promising practices through various platforms have potential
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Donald Kasongi

14. Conclusions
Mobilize for increased institutional co-ordination, closer linkages across stakeholder groups ( governments, civil society and private sector) within and across states in the basin.
Sharing lessons, innovative approaches and promising practices through various platforms have potential
4/17/2019
Donald Kasongi

15. Where do we go from here?
Increase institutional co-ordination, establish closer linkages across stakeholder groups in governments, civil society and private sector within and across states in the basin.
Evidence for evidence-based Capacity development
Sharing -lessons, innovative approaches and promising practices through various platforms have potential for adding values and shortening capacity development trajectories
Capacity building to scale-in state ,trans boundary ,Basin-wide
Promote and nurture Citizen space in Capacity development
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Donald Kasongi