Environment and Public Health Organization (ENPHO) has
been actively involved in promoting sustainable sanitation for over a decade,
through research, demonstration, promotion and capacity building programmes
such as trainings and orientations. ENPHO, at present, is executing different training
activities through different expertise associated with governmental and
non-governmental sectors. Recently, some efforts have been initiated for joint collaboration with
the government organizations for capacity building programmes. In this context
ENPHO and Central Human Resource Development Unit (CHRDU) of Department of
Water Supply and Sewerage (DWSS) jointly agreed to organize various capacity
building trainings on Nov, 2009.
The trainings and orientations on "Water
Supply and Sanitation Programmes" jointly conducted by ENPHO and CHRDU are
suitable for engineers and sub-engineers. They aim to help the trainees on providing new ideas and
methods that they may consider in their planning and designing; and to get the
ideas on type of gravity fed water supply systems, ground water and other
problems such as calcination, iron removal, arsenic etc. encountered during the
project implementation.
Besides,
ENPHO has supported
the Resource Centre of CHRDU, which regularly organizes various training programmes
and public awareness campaigns. Among all the conducted trainings, ENPHO
organized two major international trainings at CHRDU. This included "International
Engineers Training" on DEWATS organized from 3-8 October, 2010 that capacitated
participants from Nepal, Mongolia, Malaysia, Sri-Lanka, Pakistan and Bhutan.
Similarly, "Expert Training Course on Sustainable Sanitation and Water
Management (SSWM)" organized from 16 to 26 November, 2010 capacitated SSWM
professionals.
There
persists the challenge of meeting Millennium Development Goal (MDG) and National
Goal (NG), which cannot be completed without human resource development. In
this perspective, the programmes organized at CHRDU necessarily emphasize
developing the training capability of the stakeholders working in this sector. Hence,
with the
technical assistance and facilitation of ENPHO, CHRDU has organized series of
such relevant trainings.
ENPHO and CHRDU believe in further
strengthening and capacitating experts, professionals and interested
individuals on Water, Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH) in the coming future. It is
expected that the mutual collaboration will further result in wide and result
oriented integrated WASH trainings.
Article written by: Mr. Kashikant
Thakur, Project Officer, ENPHO
Edited by: Ms. Purnima Shakya, PME Officer, ENPHO
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