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Gender and empowerment will be explained in an inclusive way, applicable not only to relations between women and men, but also to minorities and vulnerable groups. The session will be interactive with participants contributing with their own opinion about gender. After this introduction, the framework will be applied to sanitation and waste management, to enable practitioners to mainstream gender in their implementing work, and to enable politicians to integrate social aspects in their documents. 

Participants will experience a hands-on activity and learn through experience how to model this activity with a group of students or community leaders. Each pariticpant may receive a copy of this activity.

Education, training and awareness-raising have been identified as key elements in forging a worldwide strategy to prepare the cities for the challenges of the 21st century. With this in mind, the main training objectives aim to enhance knowledge and skills on integrated urban water management required for a paradigm shift in terms of improved urban water governance, which is fundamental in bringing about a
positive change in the way water is used and managed in the cities. “How To” Skills Development:
Skill 1: Participants will obtain knowledge on how to address urban
water issues in an integrated and sustainable way, linking waterrelated
issues with wider social, economic and institutional factors
relating to urban water management.
Skill 2: Participants will learn how to improve urban water governance
through more effective institutional and economic approaches based
on different types of decentralization and partnerships. Centralization
versus decentralization solutions are analyzed in the context of socioeconomic
conditions and urban planning and development.
Skill 3: Participants will learn how to provide appropriate solutions to
urban water problems by adopting innovative approaches such as
demand management and replacing supply driven concepts by
approaches to efficient water use, water saving, environmental
sustainability, and integrated solutions.
Finally, participants will gain insight into new directions in urban water
management, as outlined in Paris-2007 Statement on urban water.

1-Environmental Education Methodology from the Permanent Learning Circles conceived in order to streengh environmental education in the transbordering territories
2-Case study of the Permanent Learning Circles methodology used in the program Cultivating Good Water in the Parana (Brazil) and Carapa (Paraguay) Basins, as a socio-environmental capacity matrix process which is being implemented in the La Plata Basin (Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Paraguay  and Uruguay)
3-Guidelines: water as the integration subject; the La Plata Basin as the operational territory; the environmental thought as the conceptual landmark of action; the environmental education as the social mobilizer; the collective building of knowledge, actions; and organization
4-The Permanent Learning Circles are composed by representatives from government, civil society, university, media and traditional knowledge from the five La Plata Basin countries
5-The Permanent Learning Circles network intends to prepare 4.500 educators in the La Plata Basin area by the end of 2011

An open source software solution has recently been developed by the World Bank for Yemen to help local officials assess the flood risk to the capital city, Sana'a.  The software was developed to be transferrable to other countries interested in conducting risk assessments.  This demonstration would show the data required, the methodology, and the outputs and applications.  Tsunami and cyclone components will be added later this year.  

This workshop is modeled on a successful training of government delegates to the UNFCCC during the UN Climate Change Conference in Poland.  Participants will learn methods for bringing a human and gender dimension to each of the major areas of climate change, including adaptation, mitigation, technology, and finance, as well as tools that are applicable to global negotiations, national programs, or local projects. A multi-media and interactive approach is used that allows for participants to actively participate and explore how to apply the new skills to their own context. Special emphasis will be given to the linkages between gender, water, and climate change.

The purpose of this course is to provide training for creating and
managing a project website using the freely available
IW:LEARN Toolkit. The Toolkit is based on the popular
opensource Plone content managemetn system. In addition,
related ICT subjects such as GIS and content syndication will be
discussed. All participants will need to bring their own wifienabled
computer.

Participants will experience a hands-on activity and learn through experience how to model this activity with a group of students or community leaders. Each pariticpant may receive a copy of this activity which is in both Spanish and English.

The purpose of this course is to provide training for creating and managing a project website using the freely available
IW:LEARN Toolkit. The Toolkit is based on the popular
opensource Plone content managemetn system. In addition,
related ICT subjects such as GIS and content syndication will be
discussed. All participants will need to bring their own wifienabled
computer.

The participants will learn from the experience of the International Hydroinformatics Centre (ICH), a UNESCO Category 2 water centre. ICH works with the development of management tools for the integrated management of river basin as well as with capacity building and communication. One of its main strategies is the  use of a Multiple Purpose Cadastre as a basis for basin management, allowing for detailed information at the farm level and aggregating this information at various basin-level scales. This robust database allows policy makers and managers of water resources to have a detailed knowledge of the environmental, social and economical situation of the basin area. The audience will be exposed to this methodology as applied to the São Francisco Verdadeiro River basin, a HELP Basin located in Southern Brazil. 

The SWITCH Training Kit will be the result of a large range of research and demonstration activities carried out by a global Learning Alliance of more than 30 universities, capacity-building organisations and local governments to develop an innovative approach to managing water in the City of the Future.
This workshop will bring together training specialists and potential future training participants to share their expertise on four fundamental questions in training on IUWM:
- What are the key institutions and organisations at local level that can initiate and drive the transition from conventional to integrated urban water management?
- What kinds of changes are necessary within these institutions to facilitate a more integrated approach to urban water management?
- How can training assist in building the necessary capacities to support these institutional changes? (Looking into, e.g., specific relationships between training organisers and ‘clients’, specific target groups within the relevant institutions, etc.)
- What form should training take and how should it be delivered to realise its maximum potential? (E.g. regional adaptation, delivery format, expertise of organisers, etc.)
Participants of this workshop will be invited to partner up with SWITCH in the development of the IUWM Training Kit, to use the future training materials to produce nationally or regionally adapted versions and to incorporate these into their own training curricula.