Capacity Development and Cultural Heritage: Toward a New “Culture of Water”

In 2020 UN Water, the entity coordinating the United Nations’ work on water and sanitation, identified capacity development as one of the five accelerators required to achieve the Sustainable Development Goal on Clean Water and Sanitation (SDG 6). In today’s practical application, capacity developm...

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Main Author: Eddy Moors
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Stichting OpenAccess 2023-03-01
Series:Blue Papers
Online Access:https://bluepapers.nl/index.php/bp/article/view/63
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description In 2020 UN Water, the entity coordinating the United Nations’ work on water and sanitation, identified capacity development as one of the five accelerators required to achieve the Sustainable Development Goal on Clean Water and Sanitation (SDG 6). In today’s practical application, capacity development is mostly financed to deliver a product specified in advance, not to arrange a longer time frame and process to structurally learn from various activities and discover sustainable development paths (Alaerts and Zevenbergen 2022). The inclusion of traditional knowledge and cultural heritage in our joint-learning efforts will help us enlarge capacity for a more sustainable culture of water.
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spelling doaj.art-cb3576e35e3d44b49eec0ef7c8efc1bf2024-03-01T15:41:13ZengStichting OpenAccessBlue Papers2950-14232023-03-012110.58981/bluepapers.2023.1.03Capacity Development and Cultural Heritage: Toward a New “Culture of Water”Eddy Moors0IHE Delft Institute for Water Education In 2020 UN Water, the entity coordinating the United Nations’ work on water and sanitation, identified capacity development as one of the five accelerators required to achieve the Sustainable Development Goal on Clean Water and Sanitation (SDG 6). In today’s practical application, capacity development is mostly financed to deliver a product specified in advance, not to arrange a longer time frame and process to structurally learn from various activities and discover sustainable development paths (Alaerts and Zevenbergen 2022). The inclusion of traditional knowledge and cultural heritage in our joint-learning efforts will help us enlarge capacity for a more sustainable culture of water. https://bluepapers.nl/index.php/bp/article/view/63
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