Capacity sharing at IWMI and the case for CGIAR-wide coherence
Drawing on insights from IWMI, this piece examines why CGIAR needs stronger systems to document, measure, and connect capacity sharing, so existing good practice can become more coherent, visible, and impactful across the system.
- Capacity Sharing
- IWMI
- water systems
- Capacity development
The International Water Management Institute (IWMI) is not struggling to implement capacity development activities.
Across its work on solar irrigation, groundwater management, water accounting, policy engagement, and long-term collaboration with national agricultural research and extension systems, capacity sharing is already embedded in the way IWMI works. It takes many forms: training, peer learning, co-creation with partners, institutional collaboration, policy support, tools and knowledge products.
The challenge is that much of this work is often unevenly documented and measured. That was the central insight from an internal review and a recent dialogue between IWMI and the CGIAR Capacity Sharing Accelerator (CapSha).