Trilateral Agreement on National HRD Centre in Sana’a signed

On Wednesday, the 17th of June, H.E. the Minister of Water and Environment (MWE), the National Water and Sanitation Authority (NWSA) and the Yemeni-German Technical Cooperation / Water Sector Program signed a Trilateral Agreement on establishing a National Human Resources Development Centre (HRD Center). This agreement defines the role of MWE as supervising authority, of NWSA to provide the fully equipped building as well as seconding some professionals and of GTZ to support the operations through advisory services.
By constructing, furnishing and equipping a state of the art centre NWSA took the initiative to establish a completely new institution dedicated and committed to create the qualification in demand by the water and sanitation sector.

When fully operational, the national HRD Centre is expected to make a substantial contribution to overcome the severe shortages of qualified human resources in the sector, which is stated in the National Water Sector Strategy and Investment Program (NWSSIP) as a key impediment to improving the management of urban water supply and sanitation services and scarce water resources.
The national HRD Centre will be governed by a Board of Directors (trustees) with representatives of the Ministry of Water and Environment (chair), NWSA, urban utilities and other relevant stakeholders to provide demand oriented comprehensive services in the fields of Human Resources Development to all water utilities. Its main functions will include providing guidance, advice and coordination in all HRD matters, acting as a knowledge centre and developing and coordinating training. In its endeavours the national HRD Centre will operate in close cooperation with existing public and private training providers.

In its final stage the national HRD Centre will comprise five sections. For starting the operations of the Centre, however, the HRD section will be created first as a nucleus. It will concentrate on establishing the demand for qualification measures, coordinate and plan training services, assess results and impact of training and provide HRD related advisory services to water utilities.

June 2009

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