Training Resources
Welcome to the H2infO Training Page! The resources found within this page have been collected from across the U.S. Water Partnership with the goal of aiding in the education and preparation of H2infO users all over the world working to address unique water challenges.
Training Resources
Pump Selection: a Field Guide for Developing Countries
Published:
January 1, 1989U.S. Agency for International Development
This manual is designed to enable field technicians an managers who do not necessarily have extensive experience in water engineering to make appropriate choices of water pumping systems and components. It presents the decisions-making process as a logical progression.Read more
Stream Corridors in Watershed Management
Published:
September 1, 1989U.S. Agency for International Development
Stream corridor management includes the maintenance of riparian and in stream vegetation and maintenance of overall channel morphology with its obstructions , rapids, meanders and adjacent wetlands.Read more
Public Sector Irrigation Training: Guidelines for Preparing Strategies and Programs
Published:
May 1, 1989U.S. Agency for International Development
Over the past 20 years, vast sums of money have been invested in irrigation and drainage infrastructure, but far less in the most important resource of all: the people who operate, maintain, and use the constructed systems. This document presents general guidelines to help developing countries...Read more
Benin Rural Water and Sanitation Project Management and Supervision Workshop
Published:
November 1, 1989U.S. Agency for International Development
From 2-11 October 1989, WASH conducted a workshop on Supervision and Management for Beninese and American supervisors working for the USAID Rural Water and Sanitation Project. The workshop took place at Abomey where the project is headquartered. The training was facilitated by two consultants whose...Read more
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Benin, Sub-Saharan AfricaWorkshop Design for the Training of Trainers
Published:
June 1, 1991U.S. Agency for International Development
This training guide describes a 10-day workshop for trainers who will train field workers in performing the tasks needed to work with communities on water and sanitation activities. The training can cover activities involving technical skills, such as latrine construction, spring capping, or well...Read more
Training Resource Book on a Participatory Method for Modeling Bio Resource Flows
Published:
January 1, 1991U.S. Agency for International Development
This training resource book was developed for people working with farmers in farming systems research and extension. It deals specifically with a farmer-participatory method for constructing pictorial models. The model, in this case, concerns bio resource flows between aquaculture and agriculture...Read more
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United StatesConducting a Team Planning Meeting for Studies and Concept Development Tasks: Facilitator's Guide
Published:
March 1, 1993U.S. Agency for International Development
The Water and Sanitation for Health (WASH) Project regularly uses the team planning meeting (TPM) approach to prepare its short-term teams for their assignments. To assist in the TPM process, in 1985 WASH published the Facilitator Guide for Conducting a Team Planning Meeting, WASH Technical Report...Read more
Community Sanitation Improvement and Latrine Construction Program: A Training Guide
Published:
March 1, 1993U.S. Agency for International Development
The 10-day program presented here is designed to train local development agents to direct community sanitation and latrine construction programs. The program presents the role of the development agent as that of sanitation educator, community facilitator and catalyst, and resource for identifying...Read more
Water And Sanitation Health Education Program Summary: Urgench and Beruniy, Uzbekistan
Published:
December 1, 1995U.S. Agency for International Development
The direction of the Environmental Policy and Technology Project was initiated to provide assistance to the Central Asian Republics in fostering regional cooperation in the Aral Sea region. Assistance is administer under the auspices of USAID with a focus to provide: potable water and public health...Read more
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UzbekistanTraining Activities in System B (In-country and Overseas)
Published:
August 1, 1995U.S. Agency for International Development
At the end of this program, the Project Operations Committee on November 13th 1990 chaired by the RPM requested that the training coordinator remain with the MARD Project for an additional 12 months as overall Systems Training Coordinator. Later, this period was extended up to the Project...Read more
Regional focus:
Sri Lanka, South East Asia