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Orientation<br />

For more than three decades, InWEnt, Capacity<br />

Building International, Germany <strong>and</strong> its predecessors,<br />

the German Foundation <strong>for</strong> International<br />

Development (DSE) <strong>and</strong> Carl Duisberg<br />

Society (CDG), respectively, have engaged in<br />

international dialogue <strong>and</strong> training programs <strong>for</strong><br />

experts from developing countries.<br />

Dialogue <strong>and</strong> training have at least two dimensions:<br />

the ‘What’ <strong>and</strong> the ‘How,’ meaning the<br />

technical subject matters <strong>and</strong> the methodological<br />

know-how.<br />

As a training hub concerned with ‘what’ professionals<br />

<strong>and</strong> executives from developing <strong>and</strong><br />

trans<strong>for</strong>mation countries need to know, InWEnt’s<br />

Department <strong>for</strong> the Environment, Natural<br />

Resources <strong>and</strong> Food relies on three professional<br />

divisions: Environment, Energy <strong>and</strong> Water in<br />

Berlin, Natural Resources <strong>and</strong> Biodiversity in<br />

Leipzig-Zschortau (Saxony), <strong>and</strong> Rural Development,<br />

Food <strong>and</strong> Consumer Protection in<br />

Feldafing (Bavaria). The field of global water<br />

resources - including integrated water-resource<br />

management, drinking-water supply <strong>and</strong> wastewater<br />

treatment <strong>and</strong> use, water use in agriculture,<br />

<strong>and</strong> organization, cooperation <strong>and</strong> conflict<br />

management in the use of scarce water resources<br />

– is one of the key competences of the division in<br />

Berlin.<br />

As a ‘learning organization,’ InWEnt realized<br />

that technical <strong>and</strong> professional expertise alone is<br />

not enough. Instead, it is equally important ‘how’<br />

the subject matters are conveyed. Professionals<br />

often feel a need to boost their methodological<br />

competence <strong>and</strong> to elevate their social <strong>and</strong><br />

analytical skills. To InWEnt, capacity building<br />

<strong>and</strong> human-resource development means<br />

cultivating the individual <strong>and</strong> institutional<br />

willingness <strong>and</strong> ability to learn.<br />

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Over the years, many resource persons <strong>and</strong><br />

moderators have joined InWEnt in this openended<br />

endeavour. A basic underst<strong>and</strong>ing<br />

emerged that, in a learning process, technical<br />

competence on the one h<strong>and</strong> <strong>and</strong> methodological<br />

competence on the other h<strong>and</strong> are two sides of<br />

the same coin.<br />

The remaining question was how to best link the<br />

‘What’ <strong>and</strong> the ‘How.’ And that is what this<br />

manual is all about.

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