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Implementing Development Aid

The Water Supply and Sanitation Sector

DEVCO EuropeAid Development & Cooperation DGDead Sea March 2011

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Capacity4dev

The new EC Development thematic website

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What is capacity4dev? What is the utility of this tool?

•Capacity4dev is a tool that:•can support daily work of teams across the globe

through Secure collaboration spaces.

•Connects HQ and Delegations, enhances networking / sharing among delegations in an easy way

•Connects with the external world outside the EC by sharing information, allowing participation in discussions / forums

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EuropeAidCapacity4Dev : Water sector

- Key information IS in Delegation /countries

- HQ can contribute with reference documents, information from other donors

- per default all E.C. documents are public except if concerning personal information (CV, ..) and financial data

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Capacity4Dev : Water sector (2) proposed orientations

2 Groups : - Public Group on Water and Sanitation : open to external members (free consultation but membership required to contribute)

- Waternet internal EC staff only : restricted to internal staff (Del + HQ)

First focus on : - library : recover and improve the current WaterNet content

+ what YOU will bring to the system !!

- discussions / forum : to avoid multiples exchanges and chat under Outlook as today

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EuropeAidCapacity4dev : already done :

• Waternet wiki documents uploaded

• Workshops created as Events : related documents uploaded

• Search functionality through tags

• Now you can look for documents, start a discussion, put a comment or a blog post

and … upload documents !!

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EuropeAidCapacity4dev

• DEBATE :

•Useful for you ?

•How to use it ?

•How are you ready to contribute ?

•How to organise the facilitation/moderation ?

•Objective / Constraints

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• What do think would be important for this year’s seminar in Brussels?• What value do these brussels seminars give?• What value do the regional/national seminars give?• What do you expect or need from the thematic units of

DEVCO?

• Division of labour