The GEF IW:LEARN project, whose latest phase became active in 2016 and runs through 2020, has as one of its primary activities, the organization of regional workshops for GEF IW projects in three GEF regions: Latin America & the Caribbean, Asia & the Pacific, and Africa. The workshops are also about transferring management approaches, tools and best practices amongst GEF projects and partners. Together with project-project twinning exchanges and the GEF Biennial International Waters Conference, these face-to-face training activities are part of a cycle of learning and partnership building across the portfolio and its partners.

Cap-Net is an international network for capacity development for sustainable water management. It is made up of an association of international, regional and national institutions and of networks committed to the development of capacities in the water sector. Cap-Net is part of the United Nations Development Program (UNDP). Each year, since 2002, there is an annual meeting of affiliate network managers and international partners.

The overall aim of the workshop will be to raise capacity among GEF IW projects and partners on aspects of private sector partnership building, conjunctive management water and gender mainstreaming. 

Workshop objectives: 

• Disseminate tested approaches & methodologies to address private sector partnership building, conjunctive management water and gender mainstreaming and incorporate them into the management of water projects.

• Discuss ongoing cross-cutting developments and priorities in the GEF IW portfolio. 

Workshop Outputs:

• Collection of learning resource guides, presentations and other materials added as guidance on iwlearn.net, particularly through the IW project manager’s manual on the workshop topics. 

• Brief synopsis of applied methodologies & specific examples. 

See Workshop Agenda