Institute for Water and Sanitation Development (IWSD) is committed to empowering professionals in the water and sanitation sector with the knowledge and skills needed to address the evolving challenges of our time. Our diverse range of short professional courses, carefully categorized into four key areas, is designed to enhance your expertise and drive meaningful change in the field:
Enhancing Service Delivery for WASH Service Providers: This category focuses on optimizing the efficiency and effectiveness of water and sanitation service delivery. Courses cover topics such as non-revenue water management, customer care, community engagement, and infrastructure operation and maintenance. By mastering these skills, you'll be equipped to improve service quality, ensure equitable access to water and sanitation, and build stronger relationships with the communities you serve.
Integrated Catchment and Water Resources Management: Recognizing the interconnectedness of water resources and environmental systems, this category delves into holistic approaches to water management. Courses explore topics like integrated water resources management (IWRM), climate change adaptation, water governance, and conflict management. By gaining expertise in these areas, you'll be able to develop sustainable water management strategies that balance the needs of people and the environment.
Water, Sanitation, and Hygiene (WASH) Development Programming: This category focuses on the development and implementation of comprehensive WASH programs. Courses cover topics such as WASH needs assessment, program design, monitoring and evaluation, and behavior change communication. By understanding the intricacies of WASH programming, you'll be able to design and implement effective interventions that improve hygiene practices, reduce waterborne diseases, and promote overall well-being.
Enhancing Project Efficiency and Effectiveness: Recognizing the importance of project management in achieving sustainable outcomes, this category equips professionals with essential project management skills. Courses cover topics such as project planning, budgeting, monitoring and evaluation, and risk management. By mastering these skills, you'll be able to efficiently and effectively manage water and sanitation projects, ensuring that they achieve their intended goals and make a lasting impact.
Across all our short professional courses, we emphasize the integration of cross-cutting themes that are critical to sustainable water and sanitation development. These themes include climate resilience, hygiene promotion, social inclusion, and gender equality. By incorporating these considerations into your work, you'll be able to create more equitable, inclusive, and sustainable solutions that benefit all members of society.
| Name of Short Course | Course overview | Who should attend |
|---|---|---|
| Environmental, climate and Social safeguards in Water resources, supply and sanitation management (A guide for WASH Project Managers) | The course aims at raising awareness of the importance of environmental, climate and social issues that affect service delivery and sustainability. The course will assist project managers and officers to identify negative environmental, climate and social issues and how to mitigate them based on international best practices as well as positive factors so that they may be enhanced during implementation. Turning a blind eye to these issues can negatively affect any programme thereby outing huge investments to waste. | WASH practitioners across the board |
| Groundwater Surveillance, Borehole Drilling and Supervision: Theory and Practice | Several communities in Zimbabwe (both urban and rural) depend on ground water for potable water supply. However, in the context of climate change, food security, population growth and urbanisation the use of groundwater is now on the increase. IWSD is offering this course to enhance the knowledge and skills for proper groundwater management. In particular proper siting, professional construction and supervision of boreholes | WASH personnel in Civil societies, drilling companies, Local authorities, government, private sectors, and consultants |
| Operation and Maintenance of Solar Powered Water Supply Systems | In recent years solar technology has been introduced in Zimbabwe’s urban and rural water supply programmes. In order to ensure a successful adoption and uptake of a technology there should be a deliberate, systematic and continuous process of skills building and strengthening for the practitioners. Institute of Water and Sanitation Development is offering this course on Operation and maintenance of solar powered water supply systems with the aim to re-skill public and private water technicians to plan, design, install, test, operate and maintain Solar Powered Water Systems in different contexts. | WASH personnel and Engineers in Civil societies, drilling companies, Local authorities, government, private sectors, and consultants |
| GIS and Remote sensing in Water Resources Management and WASH | IWSD offers this training to provide GIS skills to various WASH stakeholders to enable them monitor WASH and related activities at ease. Examples include monitoring of infrastructure such as water distribution pipes and wastewater conveyance pipes, and activities taking place at each length and breadth of the utility service area. | All WASH practitioners, Policy makers, all departmental managers and supervisors, all District Office staff, support staff (billing officers, finance and procurement officers) and technical operational staff. |
