Overview
Key facts
Participants in this Water and Sanitation in Urban Humanitarian Context course at the IHE Delft Institute for Water Education will be able to address the complexities and adopt a water and sanitation system approach in developing a water and sanitation response plan/project (long-term) for an urban humanitarian context.
This will be achieved through:
- an overview of crisis in urban humanitarian contexts and the complexities, aided by an urban competency framework
- water and sanitation system approach, with a technical focus on infrastructure(s) ‘beyond-households’, i.e. collection/distribution networks, storage, emptying and transport, treatment etc.
- a case study to develop a holistic water and sanitation response plan/project in an urban humanitarian context aligned with developmental needs
- Develop a water and sanitation response plan/project (long-term), incorporating humanitarian and developmental needs
- Discuss complexities in an urban humanitarian context
- Explain water and sanitation system and various options (technologies) at each component of the system, contextualised for an urban humanitarian context
- Outline the competencies and accompanying behaviours that underpin effective action in urban humanitarian context
Programme Structure
Topics include:- Urban humanitarian crisis and complexities
- Urban competency framework
- Good practices of response in urban humanitarian context
- Water and sanitation system
- Water supply system
- Sanitation system
- Water and sanitation stakeholders in urban humanitarian context
- Alternative energy supplies for water and sanitation in urban humanitarian context
- Planning for a water and sanitation response (long-term)
- Context analysis
- Need assessment
- Sustainability approach for urban water and sanitation
- Water and sanitation response plan
Key information
Duration
- Part-time
- 3 months
Start dates & application deadlines
- StartingApplication deadline not specified.
Language
Delivered
Disciplines
International Development Hydrology & Water Management View 30 other Short Courses in Hydrology & Water Management in NetherlandsAcademic requirements
We are not aware of any specific GRE, GMAT or GPA grading score requirements for this programme.
English requirements
Other requirements
General requirements
- You are required to complete Units 1 to 5 of the Building a Better Response online training (www.buildingabetterresponse.org) before the start of the course.
- This free training consists of 5 self-paced units covering (some of) the basic humanitarian system structures and should take between 8-10 hours to complete.