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City Blueprints carried out for 45 cities in 27 countries
Climate change and urbanization are among the most significant trends of the 21st century, affecting global natural resources such as water, economic development, and human well-being.…
Continue reading »Short impressions of the Porto Water Innovation Week
Kees van Leeuwen and Stef Koop of KWR about their visit to Porto for Watershare.
Four busy days in Porto and ….with tempting weather outside. First of all compliments to the EIP secretariat and the city of Porto to turn this into such a nice event. With 1700 (!) registered …
Continue reading »The Governance Capacity Framework applied in Naivasha, Kenya
One of the tools within the City Blueprint Approach is the Governance Capacity Framework (GCF) that focuses on five water-related challenges: 1) flood risk, 2) water scarcity, 3) urban heat islands, 4) wastewater treatment, and 5) solid waste treatment. These are amongst the most recurring issues that will steadily increase …
Continue reading »Assessing the governance capacity for international collaboration for access to clean, sufficient and safe drinking water
Over the past two years, Melvin Gale worked with two water governance assessment tools, the ten building blocks framework by van Rijswick and the City Blueprint Approach. In this blog, he shares his results.
City Blueprint frameworkThe big difference between these two frameworks, which also became evident in my …
Continue reading »Case study of Water Governance Capacity in Bandung using the City Blueprint Approach
In a quest to compare the management of water-related challenges in Asian cities, Annisa Noyara Rahmasary, student at KWR, applied the City Blueprint Approach in Bandung (Indonesia). In this blog she shares her findings.
City Blueprint approachWater and urban management were something very new to me at that time. …
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