Set-up of the FIPAG Academy for Professional Development in Water and Sanitation

Sector

Water & Sanitation

Project budget

The maximum budget for this project is €1,700,000.

Organisations

The requesting organisation is FIPAG - National Urban Water Asset Holding and Investment Fund. Bidding has now closed and bids are being evaluated.

Project description

This project aims to strengthen the capacity of FIPAG to implement investment programmes in water and sanitation, thereby helping to ensure the provision of potable water and cost-effective sanitation to the population. The project also includes a gender and a labour market perspective.

FIPAG Academy

FIPAG wants to achieve this global objective through the establishment and consolidation of the FIPAG Academy for Professional Development in Water and Sanitation in response to the needs of the labour market and following a gender perspective. Its principal activity will be the development and implementation of investment programmes in water management to tackle sanitation issues.

FIPAG also aims to address sanitation issues by:

• developing qualifications for management and human resources
• developing curricula for the Academy in accordance with national parameters
• developing Academy policies, organisation & management service plans and investment programmes in the field of water management

Competence-based learning

Training and education programmes will be run on the basis of participatory competence-based learning. It is also recommended that the proposed budget includes a provision for improving the English proficiency of key people in the FIPAG project.