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Capacity Building in Water Resource Management in Developing Countries

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Clean Water and Sanitation

Part of the book series: Encyclopedia of the UN Sustainable Development Goals ((ENUNSDG))

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Build capacities; Capacity-development; Empowerment; Enhanced capacity

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Capacity building is defined by the United Nations Development Program (UNDP) as an integral process for the mediation, strengthening, preservation, and further development of individual, organizational, and societal capabilities, in order to realize functions, solve problems, and set to achieve sustainable goals (UNDP 2009). Capacity building is within the borders or network of organizations within an entity, but is specified by the context. Ideally, capacity building does not exist in vacuum, but in a larger, dynamic institutional and social context. Therefore, the building of capacity is not an output or a program but a continuous cyclic process. According to Hofwegen (2004) Capacity building encompasses three major levels, i.e., Individual, Institutional, and Enabled Environment. At each level, Hofwegen (2004) has listed the goals, activities, and outputs which help in creating effective...

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  1. Manipal School of Architecture and Planning, Manipal Academy of Higher Education, Manipal, India

    Rama Devi Nandineni & Shanta Pragyan Dash

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  1. European School of Sustainability, Hamburg University of Applied Sciences, Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany

    Walter Leal Filho

  2. Center for Neuroscience & Cell Biology, University of Coimbra, Coimbra, Portugal

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  3. Faculty of Engineering and Architecture, Passo Fundo University Faculty of Engineering and Architecture, Passo Fundo, Brazil

    Luciana Brandli

  4. HAW Hamburg, Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany

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Nandineni, R.D., Dash, S.P. (2021). Capacity Building in Water Resource Management in Developing Countries. In: Leal Filho, W., Azul, A.M., Brandli, L., Lange Salvia, A., Wall, T. (eds) Clean Water and Sanitation. Encyclopedia of the UN Sustainable Development Goals. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-70061-8_176-1

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