Issues of Capacity Building and Training in IWRM Implementation for Achieving Socio-Economic Stability Through Higher Productivities of Water and Land Use in the Region

摘要

The capacity building program for the joint management of transboundary water resources, according to the fundamental provisions of the regional water strategy, and developed from existing scientific, educational and financial capacities for the Aral Sea basin countries (Fundamental provisions of the regional water strategy for the Aral Sea basin and Tashkent 1996) includes: ·Institutional improvement of the regional organizations network and development of a legal framework for shared transboundary water management ·Implementation of integrated water resources management (IWRM) ·Development of a training system ·Creation of regional and national information systems ·Implementation of automated water control systems and communication net-works, including SCADA systems ·Development of modeling tools and decision support systems Training plays a key role in capacity building and is related directly to all other parts of capacity building that, in turn, influence the development and improvement of the training system itself (Fig. 1). An impact on any one capacity building factor automatically touches all others.