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Doing FWEN: Codesigning a food-water-energy nexus training programme

Urban resource systems are under stress due to climate change and growing populations, and many urban and environmental experts would agree that conventional siloed approaches often miss opportunities to manage these resources more efficiently. Food-water-energy nexus is a powerful concept for showing the interdependencies between systems. It is clear that cities play an important role in managing resources, but are often unable to integrate different mandates or work across sectors.

The Understanding Innovative Governance for Food, Water, and Energy Nexus in Cities (IFWEN) project has been developing innovative governance tools to support cities to adopt nexus approaches that connect food, water, energy, waste and nature. As part of the outputs of this project, a training programme has been developed to share insights from the project and provide opportunities for city-to-city learning. The manner in which this training takes place is through co-learning, with guidance from specialists.

In this session, the IFWEN training program will be launched. The training program structure will be presented to participants, providing an opportunity for them to shape the key questions and content of the program. In addition, the session will provide an opportunity for participants to share relevant materials which should be included as resources for training participants. This process will ensure that the training program is fine-tuned and gread towards the actual needs of the cities in the context of FWEN, while offering a wide range of relevant materials to support cities.

The outcomes of this session will inform the finalization of the training programme, to which all participants will be invited.

May 24, 2021 05:00 PM in Johannesburg