The road to confidence: IWRM Proficiency Certification and Accreditation. Kenneth Irvine, Wim Douven, Carel Keuls UNESCO-IHE, Delft, The Netherlands

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1 The road to confidence: IWRM Proficiency Certification and Accreditation Kenneth Irvine, Wim Douven, Carel Keuls UNESCO-IHE, Delft, The Netherlands

2 A simplified context of IWRM Pressures/Risks State Policies Socio-economics IWRM River Basin Org. Stakeholders

3 IWRM and certification Implementing IWRM IWRM proficiency Confidence organisations Global and Regional challenge Multidimensional Technical expertise, policy support River Basin Organisation, enabling environment Communities to River Basin and beyond From discipline to management Supporting individual to institutional Shared and comparable skills set Certified and accredited individuals and External review, education, assessment, audit.

4 IWRM individual certification evokes Professional domain formal learning experience attitude skills knowledgeable Individual professional: I want to get better! informal learning Continuous learning webcom munities Professional associations: a certified IWRM professional is able to. IWRM Competence Framework Disciplinary knowledge Participatory approach Multi-disciplinary teamwork The Professional Water organisation: do we have the right capacity? 4

5 Some Basic Concepts Basic concepts (edited from Wikepedia) Certification confirmation of certain characteristics of an object, person, or organization. Often provided by some form of external review, education, assessment, or audit. Accreditation is a specific organization's process of certification through formal and independent decision. Professional certification indicates ability complete a job or task competently. Proficiency refers to the state or quality of competence. A competence refers to the state or quality of being adequately or well qualified, in relation to a specific range of skills, knowledge, or abilities.

6 ADB certification project: Stage 1 Developing and testing competencies at the basin scale Guidance for proficiency certification

7 Key Issue 1: Defining competencies and levels Defining the competency framework Competencies for IWRM at basin (or other?) scale -IWRM professional career lines -Mix of education and experience - Assessment methods -Guidelines for identifying and assessing competencies -Dealing with the mix of competencies

8 Personal competencies Integrative knowledge competency Awareness and understanding of IWRM and issues Functional competency Skills to apply knowledge; reporting and presentation; project management Personal competency Confidence; empathy; critical thinking. Value/ethics Equity; values of IWRM; integrity; gender aware Adapted from Mekong River Commission: Module-based IWRM Competency Framework _25 May 2012

9 Example of possible career lines Professional Career line: Disciplinary/Sectoral/Thematic (PS) Professional Career line: Integrative (PI) Management Career line: Disciplinary/Sectoral/Thematic (MS) Management Career line: Integrative (MI) Executives/leaders (EL) International IWRM Counselor (IC)

10 Key Issue 2: Building the competence portfolio Possible credit system of formal education, continued professional development (CPD), experience and motivation Formal education: CPD: Experience Motivation capacity Diploma, degree Short courses, workshops IWRM projects Effecting change and building

11 Stage 2: who does the certifying? Options Option 1. Certification by RBO using IWRM certification guidelines Option 2. Certification by international institute Option 3. Certification by national institutes supported by international institute Potentially leading to International Standard, or adoption of such: See example of Brantas River Basin on quality management ISO-9001 (Jasa Tirta I Public Corporation, 2012)

12 Challenges Coherence and agreement on standards -NARBO pilot scheme? -Needs assessment -Successes and failures -Lessons learnt -Common principles and deviating details -sectoral cross linkages -stakeholder engagement Ambitions and common purpose

13 Self Assessment Competencies What are the key competencies required? Competence benchmarking How many levels? Progress through/across levels The enabling environment/policy framework River Basin Authority and Plan Assessment Pressures and impacts Monitoring, Reporting and Response Legislative basis and accountability

14 Defining competencies The road to Certification Accrediting the process Summary Accounting for commonality and differences across River Basins Common purpose Self assessment and progressing the process