TAILOR-MADETRAINING<strong>UNESCO</strong>-<strong>IHE</strong> tailor-made training is designedfor clients whose staff require tuitionon specific topics or seek to develop a commonknowledge base to address challengesahead. The focus of the courses can be technical,managerial, strategic or operational,depending on the client’s priorities.12
Tailor-made training caters directly to clientneeds. This means they can be organized forgroups of various sizes, from one or multipleorganizations, sectors or regions. They can bedesigned to upgrade knowledge <strong>and</strong> skills, introducingnew technologies, or strengthen sectorperformance, to name but a few options. Thetrainings can vary in length <strong>and</strong> depth, rangingfrom a course lasting several days, to a tailoredMSc programme in which regular componentsare mixed with case studies <strong>and</strong> modules requestedby the client.Tailor-made training can be delivered on-siteor using <strong>UNESCO</strong>-<strong>IHE</strong> in Delft as a base, or acombination of the two. A mixture of traininginstruments are utilised in creating tailor-madetrainings, including lectures, workshops, groupwork, presentations, role-plays, case studies <strong>and</strong>study tours to project sites throughout Europe orthe region where the training takes place.A few examples of tailor-made training are presentedhere. For more examples, please see thewebsite (link below). If you request informationon how <strong>UNESCO</strong>-<strong>IHE</strong> could be of service to yourorganization, please contact <strong>UNESCO</strong>-<strong>IHE</strong>’sproject office. Their contact information is alsoavailable from the website.www.unesco-ihe.org/tailormadeTailor-made MSc programmeon DecisionSupport Systems forthe Nile River basinThe Water Resources Planning<strong>and</strong> Management Projectof the Nile Basin Initiative(NBI-WRPMP), asked<strong>UNESCO</strong>-<strong>IHE</strong> to provide atailor-made MSc programmefor participants from Nile Basincountries. Since NBI-WRPMPwas actively engaged in thedevelopment of a Nile BasinDecision Support System(DSS) envisaged as a common<strong>and</strong> shared tool for waterresources planning <strong>and</strong> management,they requested thatthis tailor-made programmecovered the area of DSSdevelopment for River BasinManagement. <strong>UNESCO</strong>-<strong>IHE</strong>offered an adaptation of itsHydroinformatics specialization,which covered manyrelevant aspects, such as modelling<strong>and</strong> data integration, aswell as software engineering<strong>and</strong> information management.Additional tailor-made subjectstaught were directly relatedto DSS development, suchas decision making theory, systemanalysis <strong>and</strong> decision support,<strong>and</strong> software integrationtechnologies. MSc researchwas carried out on Nile Basincase studies - always relatedto modelling <strong>and</strong> decisionsupport applications. Eighteenparticipants from Nile basincountries attended this tailormadeprogramme over thetwo years it was given. As theNile Basin DSS developmentalso progressed during thisperiod - aspects of this realworldproject were incorporatedin the programme. Thegraduates developed a commonunderst<strong>and</strong>ing of DSSrelatedtopics <strong>and</strong> can promotethe local adoption <strong>and</strong> uptakeof the Nile basin DSS <strong>and</strong>related tools in the region.Multiple <strong>Training</strong>sfor K-WaterK-Water, the Korea WaterResources Corporation has along st<strong>and</strong>ing tradition of professionallyeducating its staffat <strong>UNESCO</strong>-<strong>IHE</strong>. Deliveredtailor-made trainings include‘Dissolved Air Flotation <strong>and</strong>Water Purification,’ ‘WaterSupply <strong>and</strong> MembraneTechnology,’ ‘Design<strong>and</strong> Modelling of WaterTransport <strong>and</strong> Distribution,’<strong>and</strong> ‘Wastewater TreatmentProcess Design <strong>and</strong>Modelling’. Courses combineregular modules of <strong>UNESCO</strong>-<strong>IHE</strong> Master Programmeon Municipal Water <strong>and</strong>Infrastructure with tailoredcomponents consisting ofexposure to Dutch <strong>and</strong> EUpractice in the field, laboratorysessions, design <strong>and</strong> modellingworkshops <strong>and</strong> presentationof state-of-the-art toolsfor optimisation of the design<strong>and</strong> operation of systems.Cleaner ProductionTechnologies in EcuadorIn Ecuador, <strong>UNESCO</strong>-<strong>IHE</strong>conducted a series of workshopsfor staff of industries, tostimulate the incorporation ofcleaner production technologiesat their workplace. Thesetup of each of these tailormadetrainings was similar:after participants wereintroduced to the generalconcepts of cleaner production<strong>and</strong> analysis thereof, theywere guided in the process ofwriting a 'research proposal'.They returned to their workplaceto collect information<strong>and</strong> data relevant to theirresearch question. <strong>Guide</strong>d bythe Institute’s staff, they cameup with concrete proposalsfor improving their company’senvironmental st<strong>and</strong>ing.Later on, best practiceswere exchanged <strong>and</strong> furtherimproved. Some of the resultscould be applied immediatelyto the work floor.(Waste)water Sector<strong>Training</strong> for DecisionMakers from IranThe water <strong>and</strong> wastewatersector in Iran is facing amultitude of problems. Inrural areas there is practicallyno provision of wastewaterservices (0.5%), while inurban areas 20% has accessto wastewater services.The government of Iran hasacknowledged this <strong>and</strong> hasembarked on an ambitiousplan to improve the water<strong>and</strong> wastewater provision inthe coming years. Within theproject 'training <strong>and</strong> capacitybuilding for the water <strong>and</strong>wastewater sector in Iran,'<strong>UNESCO</strong>-<strong>IHE</strong> - togetherwith its Iranian partner thePower <strong>and</strong> Water Universityof Technology - provided3500 technical <strong>and</strong> financialspecialists <strong>and</strong> general managerswith a total of 60 differentone-week tailor-madetraining courses on the water<strong>and</strong> wastewater servicessector, covering themes ofgeneral <strong>and</strong> financial management,technical innovations,improved operation<strong>and</strong> maintenance, <strong>and</strong> ruralsanitation. Also, during studytours to dozens of water <strong>and</strong>wastewater utilities in France,Germany, Luxemburg,Belgium <strong>and</strong> the Netherl<strong>and</strong>s,close to 400 senior sectorstaff members were exposedto West European practices.13