Advice

How to manage water resources? Is it just a matter of matching supplies to demands? Should water and its quality be recognised for its wider role in life? How to prepare public decisions on water, which are widely supported yet affordable? Questions without easy answers as interests, ideas and stakeholders diverge.

Kees Blok works on such questions and combines insights in technical aspects – and in socio-economic and institutional contexts – with experience in communication and participation.

Example 27

What role can Bangladesh's local elected councils play vis-à-vis water management, food security and reproductive rights?

Kees Blok identified and formulated a capacity building programme for local government in south-west Bangladesh which aims to enhance the councils' level of ambition in addressing complex challenges with respect to water, food and reproductive rights.