Water Policy Special Issue on:
Knowledge and Capacity Development to an Implementation Science
This Special Issue of Water Policy is dedicated to knowledge and capacity development (KCD). It offers selected contributions – analytical and review papers, and case studies – to the sixth International Symposium on Knowledge and Capacity Development held in May 2020.
With large challenges to the global water system arising in the next few decades – due to demographic and economic development, land use changes and climate change – knowledge and capacity stand to gain in prominence. With most countries now disposing of reasonably well-articulated policies, their effective implementation is the new challenge. Knowledge and capacity to underpin a new ‘implementation science’ are being called for.
The papers in this Special Issue reflect recent work by scholars and professionals in their endeavour to understand how to effectively strengthen the capacity. While in the 1990s work on capacity mostly focused on understanding and exploring the very concept, and on ‘training’, in the early 2000s the initiatives appeared increasingly geared to more ambitious broad governance questions and the capacity of government administrations. The work in the current Special Issue, however, is reflecting a shared concern to enhance the effectiveness of KCD interventions in general, or of existing programmes.
Water Policy (2022) 24 (5): v–x.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.2166/wp.2022.002
G. J. Alaerts, J. M. Kaspersma
Water Policy (1 May 2022) 24 (5): 685–707.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.2166/wp.2022.301
Social change innovations, citizen science, miniSASS and the SDGs
Jim Taylor, Mark Graham, Adrienne Louw, Ayanda Lepheana, Bonani Madikizela, Chris Dickens, Deborah V. Chapman, Stuart Warner
Water Policy (1 May 2022) 24 (5): 708–717.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.2166/wp.2021.264
Eshwer Kale, Marcella D'Souza, Sarita Chemburkar
Water Policy (1 May 2022) 24 (5): 718–728.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.2166/wp.2022.210
Md Shibly Sadik, Leon M. Hermans, Jaap Evers, Hong Quan Nguyen, Malik Fida A. Khan, Sadiq Ahmed
Water Policy (1 May 2022) 24 (5): 729–746.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.2166/wp.2021.255
Water Policy (1 May 2022) 24 (5): 747–762.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.2166/wp.2021.248
Maria del Pozo, Judith Gulikers, Erik van Slobbe, Perry den Brok, Fulco Ludwig
Water Policy (1 May 2022) 24 (5): 763–777.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.2166/wp.2022.235
Governing river rehabilitation projects for transformative capacity development
Patrick Martel, Catherine Sutherland, Sylvia Hannan
Water Policy (1 May 2022) 24 (5): 778–796.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.2166/wp.2021.071
Ashraful Kabir, Abu Syed, Chris Zevenbergen, Jannatul Ferdous, Assela Pathirana
Water Policy (1 May 2022) 24 (5): 797–813.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.2166/wp.2022.229
Capacity development for SDG 6.5 on IWRM and transboundary cooperation: opportunities and barriers
Water Policy (1 May 2022) 24 (5): 814–826.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.2166/wp.2022.225
Supporting evidence-based decision-making: Capacity Building through Research
John Conallin, Nora Van Cauwenbergh, Nicolette Duncan, Win Win Zin, Zau Lunn, Htike Htike, Greg Martin, Thom Bogaard, Mário J. Franca
Water Policy (1 May 2022) 24 (5): 827–838.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.2166/wp.2022.265
Sruthi Pillai, N. C. Narayanan
Water Policy (1 May 2022) 24 (5): 839–855.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.2166/wp.2021.094
Benbella Dektar, Scott McConnell, Allan Kasekende
Water Policy (1 May 2022) 24 (5): 856–866.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.2166/wp.2021.263