Human Resource Development Programme - The Concept

Environmental protection and technological and industrial development have to go hand-in-hand for long term sustainable development.
There is a need to train organizations, technocrats and planners in essential aspects of environmental development such that these can be mainstreamed into every aspect of human activity.

Exposure visit and training to CPCB & SPCB officials in Germany on Waste Management

The Human Resource Development Programme (HRDP) is a cross cutting thrust area under ASEM in the environment sector catering to sustainable urban and industrial development. The major objectives of the programme are to:

• optimize resources and increase synergies;
• facilitate expansion and upgrading of existing networks;
• mobilize resources and
• improve outreach for assured quality, results and impacts.

Human Resource Development Program in Environment reaches much beyond attainment of technical skills and includes elements of:

• building awareness,
• strengthening knowledge and skills to do the job within a given project,
• systematically organizing access to knowledge as a strategic development,
• strengthening management practices,
• promoting peoples’ problem-solving and action competence,
• strengthening the technical capabilities of institutions and organisations,
• strengthening cooperation and integration among agents and their institutions,
• strengthening the regulative and integrative framework,
• fostering social responsibility.

InWEnt Manual (2.6 MB)

Managing Collaboration - Management Model for Successful Collaboration in the Public Sector

For the strengthening cooperation and integration among agents and their institutions: Approaches and Tools

• Guiding Principles
• Key Elements
• Training types
• Background