Online Training on Water Sensitive Urban Design & Planning - Approach, Challenges & Potential

Dates: September 07 – 20, 2021
Last Date to Apply : September 5, 2021
Course Duration: 16 hours (self-paced – 8 hours and virtual sessions – 8 hours)
Learning Platforms: Moodle and Zoom
Course Type: Online
Inaugural Session: 11.00am -11.45am IST on September 7, 2021

Participation by Invitation only.

Background 

Cities are confronted with significantly changing conditions due to rapid urbanization and inadequate infrastructure increasing water demand–supply gap, loss of impervious surfaces and overexploitation of aquifers and broken water cycle. These concerns are further aggravated due to increasing incidences of flooding that is attributed to increasing built environment as well as impact of climate change. All this impacts river health / flows.  

Water-Sensitive Urban Design and Planning (WSUDP) is a new approach contributes to sustainability and liveability. It involves intervention at different scales – city, ward/neighbourhood or individual buildings. 

This online training is a part of series of activities envisaged under newly launched 3-year duration CSE programme – ‘Capacity building initiative focusing on ‘Making Ganga basin cities water sensitive’. Under this initiative series of – webinars, workshops trainings (both online and residential), field exposure visits, knowledge conclaves aimed at engaging 1,300+ number state / municipal functionaries and other sector players. The programme is supported by National Mission Clean Ganga and is part of the series of ongoing efforts by NMCG aimed to ensuring convergence of Namami Gange Mission with national flagship urban missions (AMRUT, Smart Cities, Swachh Bharat Mission, HRIDAY, NULM) and other missions (Atal Bhujal Yojana, Jal Jeewan Mission, Jal Shakti Mission) at state /city level across Ganga basin states.

About the training

The training will focus on Water-Sensitive Urban Design and Planning (WSUDP) approach which integrates the urban water cycle, water supply, wastewater and storm water and groundwater management.

Aim

Capacity building of State / Municipal functionaries and other sector players involved in city planning and urban infrastructure development.    

Training Highlights

• Understanding of the concept and approach of Water Sensitive Urban Design and Planning (WSUDP)
• Potential and opportunities for connecting water, urban planning/development in the Ganga basin cities\
• WSUDP features at different scales of intervention
• Key tools and approaches for plan, policy, programme and projects
• Best Management Practices (BMPs), state of art knowledge in the area of WSUDP
• Case studies of successfully implemented WSUDP projects
• Community of practice in WSUDP sector

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Academic Director

Dr. Suresh Kumar Rohilla
Senior Director, CSE
Academic Director, 
School of Water & Waste, AAETI
Email: srohilla@cseindia.org

Training Coordinator

Ms. Nupur Srivastava 
Programme Manager
Water Programme
Mobile: +91-7506843420
Email: nupur.srivastava@cseindia.org