Org. Setting and Reporting

The United Nations Environment Programme or UNEP is the leading global environmental authority that sets the global environmental agenda, promotes the coherent implementation of the environmental dimension of sustainable development within the United Nations system and serves as an authoritative advocate for the global environment.

This position is based in the Regional Office for Asia and the Pacific (ROAP), Bangkok duty station.

IWA’s strategic plan (2014-2018) has added a new strategic priority area that is focused on IWA as a facilitator Towards learning and professional development. Its main goal is to have water and environment professionals improve their knowledge and skills by using the IWA learning and professional updating mechanisms. This also means that the sector’s organisations need support in becoming learning organisations on their own. We are in the initial stages, this requires scoping on key principles for effective capacity development for IWA’s and its member organisations, developing a larger water sector competencies framework, and a water sector’s career development framework.

IWA’s strategic plan (2014-2018) has added a new strategic priority area that is focused on IWA as a facilitator towards learning and professional development. Its main goal is to have water and environment professionals improve their knowledge and skills by using the IWA learning and professional updating mechanisms. We are in the initial stages, and require thus a lot of scoping work on what learning and professional updating mechanism the IWA can provide.