WSS Regulation Training Centre
Capacity Development
ESAWAS TRAINING COURSES
The Water Supply and Sanitation (WSS) Regulation training centre aims to enhance capacities for WSS regulation. We offer a wide range of courses with the purpose to disseminate the knowledge on WSS regulation globally, based on practical know-how with focus on good regulatory practices to inform decisions about what, whom, and how to regulate based on the local context.Our courses are designed to address different knowledge and capacity development needs of Africa WSS Regulators and stakeholders that include policy-makers, service providers and other partners.Combining both basic and fundamental knowledge in water supply and sanitation, our training programmes provide in-depth understanding of principles, rules and processes that govern regulatory decision-making and operations, as well as, deliver technical competences for practical execution of mandates.
SCHEDULED TRAINING
AVAILABLE COURSES
Browse ESAWAS training offerings in various dimensions of WSS regulation.
Basic notions about WSS service provision, the types of service models and their main characteristics, including social fundamentals for promoting equity in service provision.
BWS.1 | Characterization of WSS Provision |
BWS.2 | Technical Aspects |
BWS.3 | Legal-Institutional Aspects |
BWS.4 | Financial Aspects |
BWS.5 | Social Aspects |
BWS.6 | Water Resources Management Instruments and the WSS Sector |
BWS.7 | WSS Provision and Management |
BWS.8 | Sustainability, resilience, and safety planning of WSS Provision |
Fundamental knowledge on what regulation is for, and in particular as it relates to water supply and sanitation network infrastructure services and off-grid provision.
BR.1 | Foundations of Regulation Theory |
BR.2 | Legal and Institutional Aspects of Regulation |
BR.3 | Global and Continental Perspectives |
BR.4 | WSS Regulation Models |
BR.5 | Principles of Technical Regulation |
BR.6 | Principles of Economic Regulation |
BR.7 | Principles of Contractual Regulation |
BR.8 | Principles of Governance and Good Regulatory Practice |
BR.9 | Principles of Governance and Standardization |
Legal regimes used in the regulation of public services and legal and institutional aspects regarding WSS provision.
SF.1 | Pro-poor Approaches and Social Inclusion |
SF.2 | Citywide Inclusive Sanitation |
SF.3 | Hygiene and Sanitation Promotion |
SF.4 | Gender and Youth Sensitivity in Water Supply, Sanitation and Hygiene |
SF.5 | Ecology and Society |
Dimensions of regulatory governance and quality of regulation. Outlines principles and good practices of regulatory governance.
RG.1 | Regulatory Governance |
RG.2 | Regulatory Impact Assessment |
RG.3 | Ombudsman Services |
RG.4 | Ethics and Social Control |
RG.5 | Corporate Governance, Risks and Compliance |
RG.6 | Information, Education and Communication |
RG.7 | Alternative Dispute Resolution Methods |
RG.8 | Leadership and Strategic and Competency Management |
RG.9 | Guidelines, Regulations, Rules, and Standards |
Regulation of WSS networked service delivery and off-grid types of provision with respect to quality-of-service standards.
TR.1 | WSS Provision |
TR.2 | Monitoring, Reporting and Compliance Enforcement |
TR.3 | Benchmarking and Performance Indicators of WSS Provision |
TR.4 | Regulatory Data and Information Management |
TR.5 | Sunshine Regulation |
TR.6 | Water Resources Regulation |
TR.7 | Urban Sanitation Infrastructure Regulations (Sewered and Non-Sewered) |
TR.8 | Regulation of Rural WSS |
TR.9 | Regulation of Off-grid Water Supply (OgWS) and Non-sewered Sanitation (NSS) |
TR.10 | Planning |
TR.11 | Technology and Innovation |
Building sustainability of service provision through sufficient revenues to recover costs.
ER.1 | Economic Regulation Models |
ER.2 | Regulatory Asset Base (RAB) |
ER.3 | Regulatory Accounting |
ER.4 | Tariff Models, Tariff Revision and Update |
ER.5 | Subsidization Models |
ER.6 | Financial Structuring and Modeling |
ER.7 | Benchmarking Methods and Evaluation of Efficiency and Productivity |
ER.8 | Cost of Capital |
ER.9 | Financing Models |
ER.10 | Sanitation Service and Value Chain System |
Introduction to the structuring and legal modeling of WSS service provision contracts.
CR.1 | Legal Aspects of Contracts |
CR.2 | Hybrid Regulation (Contracts + Agency) |
CR.3 | Contract Design and Modeling |
CR.4 | Contract Management |
CR.5 | Renegotiation and Economic-Financial Rebalancing of Contracts |
CR.6 | Risk Matrix |
CR.7 | Project Finance |
CR.8 | Alternative Contractual Dispute Resolution Methods |
CR.9 | Public Bidding |
CR.10 | Tender Evaluation |
CR.11 | Product and/or Service Development Contractual Regulation |
Capacity Development
Tailored Training
ESAWAS uses a blend of approaches to strengthen the capacity of its members depending on the aspects and specific needs:
- Peer reviews: done through exchange visits among the association members to learn from each other about what works and can be adopted/adapted in their respective context
- Knowledge and learning exchanges with like-minded institutions: members are facilitated to conduct learning visits to similar institutions for knowledge exchange
- Mentorship program: where a member with notable knowledge and experience (mentor) in a specific area undertakes situation analysis for another member (mentee) to identify gaps and weaknesses and provide the required support. This involves periodic field visits.
- In-country capacity development for a requesting regulator and its stakeholders in a specific area
- Technical trainings: for key regulatory staff through workshops, webinar, online and physical trainings or a one to two-week understudy in expertise required at a particular regulator
- Certified trainings will be offered under the dedicated training centre for water and sanitation regulation
- Exposure through conferences and events: ESAWAS facilitates its members in participating at different events for session contributions as panelists or presenters.
- Documentation: publication preparation such as briefs, good practices, stories, research papers, documentaries etc.
- Research: support will be provided for both academic and institution level research in areas related to water and sanitation regulation
ESAWAS will use internal expertise and facilitate peer learning among its members. The Association will also collaborate with different partners to offer technical training and build the capacity of members in identified areas.
Interested institutions should contact Secretariat for specific needs for a tailor-made approach.
