Programme Officer, Integrated Water Resources Management – United Nations University, UN-Water Decade Programme on Capacity Development (Bonn, Germany)

Responsibilities:

• Support and enhance UNW-DPC's endeavours towards institutional capacity development worldwide;
• Support the conception of white papers on capacity development policy, including collection and analysis of good practice, policy papers from donors, national sector strategy papers. The approach should encompass the development of human resources, organizational processes, co-ordination and networks, as well as of systems and institutions, establishing a link to international development goals and issues, notably the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), the Johannesburg Joint Plan of Implementation (JPOI), climate change, et al;
• Support the development of procedure and implementation guidelines on the Integrated Water Resources Management (IWRM) by;
  1. cooperating with UN Water members and partners;
  2. collecting and analysing the existing guidelines and strategies for implementation making them available on line;
  3. supporting the creation of platforms for discussion and exchange for various actors;
  4. supporting the development and distribution of training modules for public/institutional and private sector actors;
  5. supporting the development of guidelines on how to integrate the approach in the pertinent policies and laws; and
  6. supporting the creation of IWRM curricula in Master studies and guidelines for other possible activities.

Closing Date: 14 November 2010.

Contact information	Ms. Beatrice O’Reilly, Personnel Administration Manager (email: hradmin@vie.unu.edu)
News type	Vacancies
File link	http://www.unu.edu/employment/files/20101114_unwdpc_ProgrammeOfficer_iwrm.pdf
File link local	20101114_unwdpc_ProgrammeOfficer_iwrm.pdf (PDF, 570 Kb)
Source of information	UNESCO Water Portal Newsletter No. 239: Istanbul
Keyword(s)	IWRM, MDGs
Subject(s)	HYDRAULICS - HYDROLOGY , INFORMATION - COMPUTER SCIENCES , METHTODOLOGY - STATISTICS - DECISION AID , POLICY-WATER POLICY AND WATER MANAGEMENT
Relation	http://www.unesco.org/water/news/newsletter/
Geographical coverage	Germany,
News date	20/10/2010
Working language(s)	ENGLISH