1st Edition

Competences in context Knowledge and capacity development in public water management in Indonesia and The Netherlands; UNESCO-IHE PhD Thesis

By Judith Kaspersma Copyright 2013
204 Pages
by CRC Press

226 Pages
by CRC Press

International cooperation for reaching development goals has expanded gradually since the 1950s. The effectiveness of the Overseas Development Aid (ODA) has become a topic of great public interest. A growing body of experience exists to demonstrate that finance alone is not sufficient for development, and capacity and knowledge are increasingly seen as the constraints to proper decision making,... Read more

1 KCD in public water management: an initial conceptual model
2 Research strategy and methods
3 An institutional analysis of the DGWR
4 Readiness for future challenges: organic vs. mechanistic organisational structure in the DGWR
5 Competence formation and post-graduate education in the DGWR
6 ‘God created the Dutch, and the Dutch created the Netherlands...’ - KCD in the Rijkswaterstaat of the Netherlands
7 Connecting the dots – Discussion and conclusions

Biography

Judith Kaspersma has 12 years experience in institutional development and capacity development in the water sector, with experience in the public sector, consultancy, non-governmental organizations and academia. She has worked in a variety of water management projects in the Middle East, South and South East Asia and Africa.
She holds a Master Degree in irrigation and water engineering from Wageningen University and with the publication of this book she completed her PhD studies on knowledge and capacity development in the water sector at Unesco-IHE.