Abstract Capacity development (CD) is acknowledged as a driver of effective implementation integrated water resources management (IWRM) (SDG 6.5.1) and transboundary 6.5.2). This paper explores the factors that facilitate or hinder CD for these agendas, to describe roles organisations play in support SDGs at country level suggest potential pathways leverage their work. A survey was conducted an...

The ideas of good governance through integrated water resources management (IWRM) are predicated on bringing together our understanding of water from many domains, thus the provision of knowledge and information is an important part of any enabling environment. Strategies put forward so far have been based on developing systems to integrate existing data from many sources then using different a...

FOREWORD This is the second policy report from the Resilience and Freshwater Initiative (RFI). The ambition of the initiative is to make emerging scientific theories of resilience operational for policy making that concerns integrated water management. The initiative includes a wide scope of network partners such as Institute (SIWI). The findings from this report are however, the sole responsib...

A review of material flow analysis (MFA) tools, comparison of case studies and analysis of approximately 20 MFA tools (static, semi-empirical models) are performed. The evaluation of the quantification procedures revealed several deficits in the approaches. The following principal complications for a reliable quantification of inputs from the urban water system are identified: (1) frequently in...