INNOVATIVE WATER KNOWLEDGE TRAINING PROGRAM FOR SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT IN EGYPT

Innovative Water Knowledge training program is the engine for the process of achieving national water development proficiency. This paper assesses the Water Knowledge training needs for professionals in Egypt. Based on the national needs assessment, the writer constructs an intensive program for water development professionals. The program is designed to provide an overview of international best practice on sustainable development issues associated with national water development projects. The program introduces aims and objectives of sustainable development such as modifying and improving designs, ensuring efficient resource use, enhancing social aspects, avoiding damage to the environment and protecting human health and safety. The program addresses the environmental effects such as biophysical and resources use, social, cultural, health, safety, economic and fiscal, landscape and visual, indigenous peoples rights and traditional areas. The program concentrates on some core values such as integrity, utility, credible information for decision-making, sustainability and in environmental safeguards. In designing the program, the guiding principles are to be focused, adaptive, participative, transparent, accurate, practical, credible and efficient. The Paper concludes that the Water Knowledge training program has a good capacity building impact. After training, water professionals can propose and campaign practical solutions to water and sustainable development problems.