Competences in context: Knowledge and capacity development in public water management in Indonesia and...

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Judith Kaspersma

Competences in context

Knowledge and capacity development in public water management in Indonesia and The Netherlands;...

Judith Kaspersma

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CRC Press
23 April 2013

Water industries; Civil engineering, surveying & building; Environmental science, engineering & technology

Series: IHE Delft PhD Thesis Series

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, absorption of funds, and effective results on the ground.

This book presents the investigation into the role of Knowledge and Capacity Development (KCD) in public water resources management in Indonesia and the Netherlands.

The two cases indicate that the institutional environment is defining for the type of knowledge and capacity development that is prevailing in that period and it also determines the formal organisational structure and the KCD mechanisms in use. The cases further show the importance yet the low valuation of tacit knowledge, while the Indonesian case also suggests that tacit knowledge is among the most important assets gained from international post-graduate education.

The conceptual model introduced in this book allows to measure knowledge and capacity at three nested levels: the institutional, organisational and individual level. It provides insight in the numerous contextual factors that influence knowledge and capacity and KCD mechanisms.

By: Judith Kaspersma
Imprint: CRC Press
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 240mm, Width: 170mm, Spine: 13mm
Weight: 317g
ISBN: 9781138000971
ISBN 10: 1138000973
Series: IHE Delft PhD Thesis Series
Pages: 204
Publication Date: 23 April 2013
Audience: College/higher education , Primary
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

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

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.