Capacity Development for Improved Water Management

Guy Alaerts
is lead water resources specialist at the World Bank, and professor of knowledge and
capacity building at UNESCO-IHE Institute for Water Education. He is involved in
research on knowledge and capacity development of public water management
organisations, and is working on large-scale water sector reform processes in Asia and
South Eastern Europe.
Maarten Blokland
is an Associate Professor in Water Services Management at UNESCO-IHE Institute
for Water Education, a position he took up again in 2007, after working fulltime as the
Institute's Deputy Director and Acting Director from August 2002 to October 2007.
He has worked in the water supply and sanitation sector since 1975, and worked in
more than 25 developing and newly industrialized countries.
Matt Hare
is senior programme officer at the UN-Water Decade Programme on Capacity
Development (UNW-DPC), in Bonn, Germany. His specializes in the areas of
curriculum development and training-of-trainers programmes, and on the themes of
participatory integrated water resources management and adaptation to climate change.
Judith Kaspersma
is working on her PhD research in knowledge and capacity development at UNESCOIHE
Institute for Water Education. She has been previously involved
in consultancy activities in the field of institutional and organisational development of
public organisations in the water sector in Asia and the Middle East.