Capacity Development for Water: A step-by-step guide from individual to sector wide capacity development

This document is intended to provide water practitioners with a stepwise approach for intervening in capacity development programs. Practitioners are defined as water professionals implementing practical interventions in the sector, as opposed to performing academic or research work. Practitioners may play different roles in different stages of the process described in this guide: such as design the development of the intervention, support certain aspects of it, or facilitate some sections.

This guide is built both from literature review, consultation with experts and experiences on the ground. The design and testing of this guide drew upon specific examples from the Water, Sanitation, and Hygiene (WASH) and the Water Resources Management (WRM) fields.