Course description
Understanding total systems thinking approach for sustainable water and sanitation delivery.
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What you will learn
This course aims to use dynamic systems analysis (mapping) to gain clarity about the WASH environment as a dynamic complex system of social, physical and institutional factors. It will help you identify and engage opportunities to gain leverage and move towards sustainability by applying total systems thinking tools. It also provides an approach to effectively learn and adapt your understanding of the whole WASH system to both urban and rural contexts.
Training Course Content
Core content
- An introduction to systems thinking approach in WASH and evaluating how the WASH environment operates as a complex, dynamic system,
- Develop an appropriate strategy to engage the system in order to have a highly leveraged impact for sustainable WASH,
- Assumptions and hypotheses about how our WASH system works, including learnings and effective adaptation measures,
- Developing and creating a rich picture, inter-relationship digraphs and surfacing causal loop diagrams (CLD),
- Optional pre-work for this course involves downloading the free student version of Vensim® Software to practice drawing diagrams which will be discussed in-class during the course.
Course delivery details
Course structure
This course is delivered via a mixture of lectures, workshops and practical sessions. During this short course, you will be joined by full-time and part-time students from our master's and PhD courses, creating a dynamic and interactive experience.
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