Launch of CReW+ Academy Block 3

The GEF CReW+ project is hosting the academic program and the Central American Institute of Public Administration (ICAP) in Costa Rica designed and implemented an academic programme to update the technical knowledge of collaborators from government institutions who work in wastewater management or related subject areas. 

The participants, who were from different government institutions from the Wider Caribbean Region, represented the countries of Guyana, Jamaica, Suriname, Belize, Mexico, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Costa Rica, Barbados, Colombia, Saint Lucia, Trinidad and Tobago, Colombia, Dominican Republic and Honduras.

Block 3 was entitled "Methods to develop the blue economy and the good use of wastewater" and was carried out over the course of six weeks, between the months of April and May 2022. The programme consisted of six modules, and for each of them participants received an attendance certificate with regional recognition. In each module, approximately 90 people participated. Block 4 was launched on 1st July 2022.

Furthermore, the Central American Institute of Public Administration (ICAP), in collaboration with and through funding from the GEF CReW+ project, offered a Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) based on the new Compendium of Sanitation Systems and Technologies that ended on July 29.