CONFERENCE

THE IMPACTOF IHE DELFT

IN A CHANGINGLANDSCAPE.

Programme IHE Delft 60th Anniversary Conference24th April 2017

Welcome As a celebration of our 60 years of water research and education, this conference explores how the Institute has evolved and must further adapt to the changing global and regional landscape. IHE Delft’s main purpose is to contribute to the realization of sustainable development, with a clear focus on the Sustainable Development Goals. It does this primarily by equipping people and organizations to respond to water and development challenges worldwide.

As the geopolitical, environmental, economic and cultural global landscape constantly changes, IHE Delft must position itself confidently and retain its excellent standards. It must however be flexible enough to respond to change, to continue to be effective and have real

impact on water and development issues, making a difference to people’s lives and livelihoods.

The ideas of those participating today will be included when designing our future strategy, to ensure that IHE Delft is well prepared, as a world class, relevant education, research and capacity development organisation. So we hope that you will contribute, with questions and comments, to our diverse programme, which includes a variety of views from our speakers and panels.

Thank you for joining us in shaping our future. We hope you enjoy the day. Fritz Holzwarth, Rector a.i.Johan Aad van Dijk, Business Director

Morning Programme

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09.30 Welcome Fritz Holzwarth, Rector a.i.

Breaking news

AddressH.E. Sheikh Mohammed Belal, Ambassador of Bangladesh to the Netherlands

IntroductionMichael McClain, Professor of Ecohydrology

Water and delta: shared vision of Bangladesh and the Netherlands • Md. Abul Quassem, alumnus and former

DG MoWR • Shah Alam Khan, Professor at BUET

facilitated by Chris Zevenbergen, Professor of Flood Resilience of Urban Systems and Shahnoor Hasan, PhD Fellow

An evolving partnership to better meet water and sanitation needsMarco Schouten, CEO of Vitens Evides International / Director of the Foundation Water for Life

interviewed by Klaas Schwartz, Associate Professor of Urban Water Governance

Putting evidence to work: Research reality in an NGOIrene Guijt, Head of Research, Policy and Practice, Oxfam GB

Coffee break

Panel discussionConditions for societal impact: what needs to be done or in place to have impact, best approaches and lessons learnedmoderated by Michael McClain

• Md. Abul Quassem, alumnus and former DG MoWR

• Shah Alam Khan, Professor at BUET • Shahnoor Hasan, PhD Fellow• Marco Schouten, CEO of Vitens Evides

International / Director of the Foundation Water for Life

• Nicole de Bree, International Advisor, Ministry of Infrastructure & Environment

• Irene Guijt, Head of Research, Policy and Practice, Oxfam GB

Question & Answer session

12.45-13.45 Lunch break

Shahnoor Hasan is a PhD fellow in the Water Governance Chair group at IHE Delft. Her research explores the role of participatory planning tools in the strategic delta planning processes. Prior to pursuing her PhD research, Shahnoor worked as a Lecturer at the University of Liberal Arts of Bangladesh. Her previous research work focused on urban rainwater harvesting, assessment of persistent organic pollutants and heavy metals in water. Shahnoor graduated magna cum laude in Environment Management from the Independent University in Bangladesh and holds a Bachelor of Science in Environmental Studies from North South University in Bangladesh.

Michael McClain is Chair Professor of Ecohydrology and Head of the Hydrology and Water Resources Chair Group. His interests lie broadly in hydrology and the science and practice of ecohydrology, to support integrated water resources management (IWRM) and sustainable development. His research focuses on catchment hydrology and water quality, flow-ecology relationships, environmental flows, and land-water interactions. He routinely advises governmental authorities in a science and management context and leads major research and development projects in Africa and South America. Prof. McClain received his PhD from the University of Washington (USA) in 1996. In 2008 he joined IHE Delft and from 2009-2011 served as Head of the Department of Water Science and Engineering. He became Professor of Ecohydrology in 2012.

Chris Zevenbergen is Professor of Flood Resilience of Urban Systems at IHE Delft and at TUDelft, the Netherlands and a visiting Professor at the Southeast University (SEU), China. He is also Project Director of DeltaCap, a capacity development programme to support the implementation of the Delta Plan in Bangladesh. His research interest and teaching are specifically on innovative concepts to mitigate urban flood risks, on flood proofing building designs and technologies and on decision support tool development in urban planning with practical application in urban flood management. He has a strong affinity with the ecological, socio-economic, institutional aspects of urban planning and water management. He has published/edited five books and more than 100 scientific publications in the field of environmental engineering and urban flood management.

Water and delta: shared vision of Bangladesh and the Netherlands

ModeratorH.E. Mr. Sheikh Mohammed Belal is an officer of Bangladesh Foreign Service. H.E. Mr. Belal graduated from Chittagong University in Forestry and subsequently obtained a Master’s in International Relations and Trade from Monash University in Australia. H.E. Mr. Belal is also a graduate of Harvard University of U.S.A. where he obtained his Master’s in Public Administration in 2012. During his career in the Foreign Service, H.E. Mr. Belal has been posted to Bangladesh Embassies in Australia, Malaysia, U.S.A. and Uzbekistan.

Marco Schouten is the CEO of Vitens Evides International and Director of the Foundation Water for Life. After graduating as a business economist in 1994 from the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, he was engaged for 9 years as an international management consultant. During this period, Marco worked and lived for 5 years in respectively Suriname and Egypt. From 2003 to 2010, Marco worked at IHE Delft, combining education and research tasks with management and business development. In 2009, he was awarded his PhD in Economics by Erasmus University Rotterdam on the topic of privatisation and strategic management of water providers.

Klaas Schwartz joined IHE Delt in 1998 where he is currently Associate Professor Urban Water Governance. He is Head of the Water Services Management Group which focuses on management and governance of water supply and sanitation provisioning in developing countries. He coordinates the Managing Water Organisations short course and educational module, which prepares participants for leadership positions in the water sector and utility management. In addition to his position at the Institute, he is a visiting researcher at the Amsterdam Institute for Social Science Research of the University of Amsterdam. His main research interests concern the reform of public water utilities, service provisioning to low-income areas (‘pro-poor services’) and informal water services provisioning. Klaas has been involved in research, education and training activities in the field of water services management and governance in various countries in Asia, Africa, Europe and Latin America.

Shah Alam Khan is a Professor at the Institute of Water and Flood Management, at the Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology (BUET). He is a coastal and urban water management expert with more than 20 years of experience in developing, managing and implementing research, capacity-building, educational and consulting projects with national and international partners. Grounded in his academic degrees in Civil Engineering (BSc Eng., BUET), Environmental Engineering (MSc, Univ of Rhode Island, USA) and Coastal Engineering (PhD, Drexel Univ, USA), Dr. Khan has developed a broader interdisciplinary and integrated understanding of water resource engineering and management from advanced training and collaborative work with multi-disciplinary partners. Dr. Khan actively participates in national level water resource planning and advisory activities and contributes expertise to professional capacity-building programmes and services.

Md. Abul Quassem is an eminent water resources engineer with diverse professional experience in engineering, social science and management. He obtained a BSc in Civil Engineering from Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology (BUET), and MScs from IHE Delft in Hydraulic Engineering and in Social Science from ISS in the Netherlands. He then received his PhD in Participatory Management from Barrington University, USA. Dr. Quassem started his career in a private company and later joined the Bangladesh Water Development Board, where he worked in different positions for 30 years. He retired as Director General of the Water Resources Planning Organization (WARPO) in 2002. For most of his active professional life, he worked as BWDB counterpart for the Netherlands Technical Assistance Projects. He guided the National Water Management Plan for Bangladesh to completion. Presently, he works as an advisor to various organisations and is the Chairman of the National Disaster Management Advisory Committee of Bangladesh.

An evolving partnership to better meet water and sanitation needs

Panel discussionConditions

for societal impact: what needs to be

done or in place to have impact, best

approaches and lessons learned

Nicole de Bree is a Senior Advisor of International Affairs to the Governing Board of the Rijkswaterstaat, the executive agency of the Dutch Ministry of Infrastructure and Environment. Policymaking, policy implementation, project delivery and knowledge management meet in Rijkswaterstaat’s national and international interests and achievements. Innovations in technology and in water governance are at the heart of the work of Rijkswaterstaat, as the organisation continuously seeks to secure sustainable operational water management and to mitigate the effects of climate change. The agency’s international interests are focused on EU, cross-border affairs and specific cooperation with organisations in the USA and China. Nicole is one of the Ministry’s members in the Steering Committee that guides the formal cooperation between IHE Delft and the Ministry of Infrastructure and Environment. Nicole worked in various positions in Dutch central government before starting her work at Rijkswaterstaat in 2007.

Irene Guijt is the Head of Research at Oxfam Great Britain where she has been working since January 2016.She has more than 25 years of experience in learning processes and systems in (rural) development and natural resource management, collective action and social justice concerns. She undertakes research, system design, facilitation and advisory work on learning-oriented knowledge processes. Recent work includes advisor for The MasterCard Foundation on how to ensure clients’ voices are embedded in their work, testing the utility of (impact) evaluation of SenseMaker in East Africa and Asia, including on girls’ empowerment for GirlHub. She is a strategic evaluation advisor for a ‘libraries for democracy’ initiative in Chile, and piloting Participatory Impact Assessment and Learning with IFAD in Vietnam/Ghana. In 2000, she was a team leader for researching and writing the much used IFAD guidance on programme evaluation ‘Managing for Impact’. She is active in global evaluation capacity building through BetterEvaluation and working on the theory of change for transformational development with Hivos, and in the politics of evaluation as co-convenor of the Big Push Forward, about which she is co-editing a book.

Putting evidence to work: Research reality in an NGO

13.45Welcome back and recap of morning session Michael McClain

Flavia Schlegel, Assistant Director-General for the Natural Sciences, UNESCO

The Netherlands’ response to future water challengesKees Rade, Director Climate, Water, Food Security, Energy and Natural Resources / Ambassador Sustainable Development Ministry of Foreign Affairs

Musical interlude

Africa’s future – Impact through capacity developmentLapologang Magole, Chairperson WaterNet Board / University of Botswana

interviewed by Chidiebere Nnebuo, former Chair of Student Association Board

The future role of IHE DelftCharlotte de Fraiture, Professor of Hydraulic Engineering for Land and Water Development

Tea break

Panel discussion Reflections for the futuremoderated by Michael McClain

• Maria Salingay, Chair of PhD Association Board

• Arnoud Molenaar, Chief Resilience Officer / Manager Rotterdam Climate Proof at City of Rotterdam

• Naser Almanaseer, Middle East regional DUPC committee member

• Lapologang Magole, Chairperson WaterNet Board / University of Botswana

• Kellie Liket, Postdoctoral researcher at the Impact Centre, Erasmus University

• Charlotte de Fraiture, Professor of Hydraulic Engineering for Land and Water Development

Question & Answer session

Surprise session

Farewell and thanksJohan Aad van Dijk, Business Director

Reception

Opening photo exhibition ‘Alumni in Action’Gil Garcetti, IHE Delft Cultural ambassador

Afternoon Programme

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Kees Rade is Director Climate, Water, Food Security, Energy and Natural Resources and Ambassador Sustainable Development Ministry of Foreign Affairs

Mr Kees Rade joined the Ministry of Foreign Affairs as a policy officer at the European Integration Department in 1979. He subsequently worked for the UN Department and Policy Unit for Development Policies. In 1989 he became First Secretary at the Economic and Social Section of the Permanent Mission to the UN in New York. In 1993 he returned to The Hague where he became Head of Unit responsible for the relations with Suriname and thereafter Deputy Head of Mission managing the Development Programme of the Netherlands in Kenya, South-Sudan and Somalia.

In 2001 Mr Rade became Ambassador of the Netherlands to Nicaragua. From 2005 until 2009 he was Director of the Department for the United Nations and International Financial Institutions. In that capacity Mr Rade participated in many international meetings on UN and IFI issues, including G-20 meetings, UNGA and IDA meetings. In 2009 Mr Rade was appointed Ambassador of the Netherlands to Brazil. In 2014, he was appointed as director of the Department for Inclusive Green Growth of the ministry of FA, dealing with global public goods (water, climate, energy, natural resources, food security). He is also Arctic Ambassador and Ambassador for Sustainable Development.

Africa’s future – Impact through capacity development

Lapologang Magole is a Senior Research Scholar at the University of Botswana’s Okavango Research Institute in Maun. She received her PhD in Development Studies (Environmental Policy Analysis) at the University of East Anglia, in the UK in 2003. Her research work focuses on natural resources governance and while interacting with resource users at grassroots level, donor agencies, policy makers and implementers, she has come to appreciate multiple interests and aims with regard to natural resources management and use. Her publications are in the areas of: institutions for management of resources held and used communally, in particular, land and water as well as issues affecting development and natural resources access by minority communities. She was elected Chair of WaterNet in 2014.

Chidiebere Nnebuo received his B.Eng from Federal University of Technology, Owerri, Nigeria in 2010. He is now studying Urban Water & Sanitation - Water Supply Engineering specialty and has completed his research thesis in “Further development and applications of a method to control biofouling in SWRO: Assimilable organic carbon (AOC) based on adenosine triphosphate (ATP)”. He is an active member of IHE Delft and is heavily involved with the Water Youth Network (WYN). The Water Youth Network is a global and inclusive connector in the water sector, with a vibrant community of students and young professionals across all water disciplines. Chidiebere is a keen presenter and public speaker who strongly supports youth involvement in water and the realization of the Sustainable Development Goals.

The Netherlands’ response to future water challenges

Charlotte de Fraiture has over 20 years of international working experience in the field of water management for agriculture. During the first five years of her career, she was involved in implementation and management of irrigation and rural development projects in Senegal and Nepal. She worked for the International Water Management Institute (IWMI) from 1996 to 2011 based in Colombia, Sri Lanka, Ghana and Burkina Faso. She was involved in several research projects related to watershed development, irrigation performance, irrigation management transfer and modelling of global water supply and demand, leading the development and application of the global water and food model. She joined IHE Delft in 2012 as professor of Hydraulic Engineering for Land and Water Development. She holds a PhD in Civil Engineering (specialisation Water Resources Management) from the University of Colorado in Boulder-USA, an MA in economics from the University of Colorado in Boulder-USA and an MSc in irrigation water engineering from Wageningen University, the Netherlands.

The future role of IHE Delft

Panel discussion Reflections for the future

Naser Almanaseer is a Jordanian professional in the field of water resources management. He obtained a Bachelor Degree in Geology in Egypt. After working with UNDP in Jordan, he obtained a Master of Engineering in Hydrology from IHE Delft. After years spent working between Jordan and the United States, he obtained a PhD in Civil Engineering from North Carolina State University. Currently, he is working for the Department of Civil Engineering at Al-Balqa’ Applied University in Jordan. Dr. Almanaseer is a steering committee member for several projects with the Jordanian Ministry of Water and Irrigation and the Jordanian Ministry of Environment and has contributed to the development of a number of water strategies in Jordan. Furthermore, he is a committee member in the DUPC for the Middle East. He is part of two ongoing DUPC projects in the Middle East in collaboration with IHE Delft.

Kellie Liket is a postdoctoral researcher at the Impact Centre, Erasmus University, Rotterdam. She conducts impact evaluations in Bangladesh, Malawi and the Netherlands, but spends most of her time on projects that aim to valorise lessons from rigorous impact evaluations to policy makers and other decision makers. Two of the projects she is currently working on are very relevant to the public health/WASH field. The first is a global ‘Value for Money’ evidence portal of impact evaluations that is she working on with a team of researchers. The second project is a new community organisation called Effective Giving, of which Kellie is the co-founder. She is also Chairwoman of the Dutch Effective Altruism chapter and a significant voice in the Dutch debate about the impact and use of evidence in the Dutch international development sector.

Maria Luisa Baiño-Salingay is an Associate Professor of Chemistry at the University of Science and Technology of Southern Philippines, USTP, a government-owned university. She obtained a BSc in Chemistry at Xavier University, Ateneo de Cagayan as an academic scholar of Pilipinas KAO (Kao Global Chemicals, Japan). She is a licensed Chemist and a trained Chemical Safety and Security Officer of the US Department of State. She gained an MSc in Physical Sciences with a major in Chemistry and a minor in Physics at USTP-CDO. After experiencing the worst flood in her home city of Cagayan de Oro, in December 2011, she decided to pursue water education in the Netherlands. She earned an MSc in Water Management at IHE Delft with a thesis entitled “Flood Related Water Quality Assessment and Management of Can Tho City, Vietnam.” It was funded by PRoACC2 under the Flood Resilience Group of IHE Delft and the Netherlands Fellowship Program (NFP). She started her PhD (also NFP funded), in May 2016. Her research focuses on Toxicological Assessment of Pesticide Contamination in Urban Flood Water: Case Study in Cagayan de Oro, Philippines and Can Tho, Vietnam.

Arnoud Molenaar is the Chief Resilience Officer of the City of Rotterdam. After graduating in Physical Geography from the University of Utrecht, he started his career with several trainee posts and jobs in France, New Zealand and the Netherlands. As deputy head of the Rotterdam Water Management Department, he was responsible for Rotterdam urban water management and the Waterplan2. In 2008 he was appointed Manager of the ambitious Rotterdam Climate Proof programme. In this context, he initiated the international Connecting Delta Cities network as part of the C40, became regional coordinator within the Dutch research programme Knowledge for Climate and was responsible for the design and implementation of the Rotterdam Adaptation Strategy. He successfully led the City of Rotterdam towards a leading position on innovative urban water management and climate adaptation, which resulted in 2013 in a European Peer City status. In September 2014 he was appointed as Chief Resilient Officer at the City of Rotterdam, supported by the Rockefeller Foundation. Most recently the Rotterdam Center for resilient Delta Cities was launched under his leadership.