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Education and Awareness

Implementation of any water policy, programme, project and plan comes down to the same common denominator - education and awareness building. Effective timely and targeted education and awareness lies at the core of operationalizing water actions, especially at the local level. There has been a changing vocabulary in water management - from 'simple' concepts such as community participation, to expanded issues such as capacity building, informed consent, public choice, decision-making, awareness building, governance, decentralization, local autonomy, and information disclosure.

Education and awareness building, therefore, is about understanding the causes and effects, of positive and negative aspects, of global and local issues, of immediate and long-term issues, and of direct and indirect impacts.

Sanicon: Promotion of Sanitation (Thematic page)
‘Demand’ is a term now commonly used in relation to sanitation that conceals a complex background of meanings and issues. For sanitation, a key issue is the need to actually create and stimulate demand through promotional campaigns.
http://www.sanicon.net/titles/topicintro.php3?topicId=21

UNEP-IETC: Aquashed (online e-course)
Aquashed is an online e-course designed to present the user with a step-by-step learning methodology to learn about water management issues.
http://www.emlearning.net/Tools/aquashed/

Sanicon: Participatory Approaches (Thematic pages)
Participation is a process through which stakeholders influence and share control over development initiatives and the decisions and resources which affect them. (World Bank) Unless the poor are given an opportunity to participate in the development of interventions designed to improve their livelihoods, they will continue to miss the benefits of any intervention.
http://www.sanicon.net/titles/topicintro.php3?topicId=23