{"id":554,"date":"2016-05-01T21:57:00","date_gmt":"2016-05-01T19:57:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/iwa.vipserv.org\/?page_id=554"},"modified":"2017-02-07T23:30:35","modified_gmt":"2017-02-07T22:30:35","slug":"konstytucja","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/iwa-ywp.pl\/?page_id=554","title":{"rendered":"IWA YWP Global"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"lipsum\">\n<p><strong>IWA Young Water Professionals is a community established with the aim to empower them as emerging water talent in the water sector and the association.<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/155386285\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h1>Who are they?<\/h1>\n<p>IWA Young Water Professionals are dedicated, enthusiastic, and passionate water professionals (IWA member) aged 35 or below, who wish to develop their career, build their network and engage in the International water community to contribute to inspire change.<\/p>\n<p>The community covers about 100 countries, and represents academia, policy, consultancy and industry, and cover a wide range of disciplines. Everyone, who is interested in any angle of water management is welcome to join.<\/p>\n<h1>What do they do?<\/h1>\n<p>Through this community they can start to grow their careers by engaging with their peers; organising activities by and for YWP to connect, develop their competencies, and initiate YWP activities or contribute to IWA&#8217;s activities.<\/p>\n<h2>Involvement in IWA&#8217;s leadership<\/h2>\n<p>Internationally the community works closely with IWA to be empowered in the association&#8217;s activities and the water sector. Over the years the community has worked on and increasingly been involved in IWA&#8217;s leadership:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Currently 5 positions in IWA strategic Council are held by our Young Water Professionals.<\/li>\n<li>YWP Steering Committee has min 8 YWPs that represent the YWP community<\/li>\n<li>The Chair of the YWP Steering Committee is invited to the IWA board<\/li>\n<li>Currently about 30 of 49 IWA Specialist Group Management committees have a YWP representative to encourage YWP engagement and empower them to become leaders in their field<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>IWA young water professionals activities Internationally:<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>IWA Young Water Professional Conferences- affordable professional development and learning events organised by and for YWPs<\/li>\n<li>IWA Young Water Professionals involvement in International (IWA) Congresses \/ Conferences\n<ul>\n<li>Emerging Water Leaders Forum<\/li>\n<li>Encourage Workshop \/Careeer development \/ soft skill learning session submissions by young water professionals<\/li>\n<li>Support development of professional development programme at (SG) events (Networking; Workshop; Soft skill learning session; Mentoring; Rapporteuring; Career fair; Organising special YWP awards (best presentation\/best poster))<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Contributing to and sharing their experience and expertise with IWA\n<ul>\n<li>In Specialist Groups (task groups or working groups)<\/li>\n<li>Through blog writing<\/li>\n<li>By getting involved in IWA programmes<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The result is that IWA is integrating ywps, recognising their contributions and leadership which leads to their empowerment.<\/p>\n<h2>IWA young water professional activities locally<\/h2>\n<p>At country level (not all countries) IWA supports its young members to develop <a href=\"https:\/\/iwa-connect.org\/#\/group\/iwa-young-water-professionals-ywp\/page\/57485573faea03797bab0b2c\">IWA Young Water Professional Chapters<\/a> &#8211; groups of local IWA members that work locally with the same vision as IWA &#8211; to empower young water professionals in the sector.<\/p>\n<p>The result is that IWA is integrating ywps, recognising their contributions and leadership which leads to their empowerment.<\/p>\n<h1>Background<\/h1>\n<p>The water sector faces the significant dual challenges of an ageing workforce and a shortage of adequately skilled staff to meet growing demand for services. Across the spectrum of low, middle and high income countries, there is a common need to attract and retain qualified personnel to design, build, operate, manage and maintain water resources and water &amp; wastewater services. This is a serious challenge that needs to be tackled now; not tomorrow.<\/p>\n<p>IWA recognised this need back in 2002 when it started to initiate a range of activities that would attract young water professionals to IWA and the water sector. This started with the development of Young Researcher conferences that were priced at much lower fee than IWA conferences, and in 2006 the first Young Water Professional Steering committee was formed &#8211; by IWA members of 35 and below &#8211; with the main aim to provide advice to IWA and support implementation of activities that would encourage ywps to become part of the network, and join the water sector in general. As such these activities were focused to:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>promote ywps in Specialist groups (activities and events)<\/li>\n<li>promote young professionals to enter the water sector and the IWA\n<ul>\n<li>Special YWP events at IWA congress<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>YWP conferences at affordable rates<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>YWP award<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The Young Water Professional steering committee came up with further ideas and advice for IWA to become THE network for young water professionals (beyond just students) consisting of the following sub-cohorts with their respective needs:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Water professionals (30-35): Those that are taking the next step in their career, becoming managers, and need to develop leadership skills and big picture thinking.<\/li>\n<li>Early career professionals (20-30): Searching for job\/intern opportunities, developing their network, gain experience, developing soft skills.<\/li>\n<li>Students (no age specification): Want to present, publish their paper, are looking for a job in the future, and want to develop an initial network.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Young water professional activities increasingly developed to:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Create visibility to young members and promote ywp\n<ul>\n<li>Presenting to IWA leaders (eg. Governing Assembly; Specialist Groups)<\/li>\n<li>Promoting ywp positions in IWA leadership (eg. Governing member committees, Specialist groups, Strategic Council)<\/li>\n<li>Best presentation\/ poster awards<\/li>\n<li>Writing of Newsletters<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Create networking opportunities\n<ul>\n<li>Creating local country YWP networks for those that cannot afford travel &#8211; IWA YWP chapters<\/li>\n<li>Create networking at events (eg. mentoring sessions between seniors and young)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Create online platform for discussion (Facebook; Linked in; Twitter)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Create professional development opportunities\n<ul>\n<li>Precongress workshops<\/li>\n<li>Workshops on Career development or soft skill development<\/li>\n<li>Production of magazine on Career opportunities in the water sector (World of Opportunities)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Create recognition\n<ul>\n<li>YWP profiles and stories online and in magazine (Water 21 &#8211; now the Source)<\/li>\n<li>YWP award<\/li>\n<li>YWP best presentation\/ best poster awards<\/li>\n<li>Professional development award &#8211; for organisations investing in young staff.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>We proceed currently to integrate ywps further in the association and the water sector, and have the goal to empower the next generation of water leaders by supporting the sector to attract young professionals (ranging from social, natural and engineering sciences, policy makers, scholars and practitioners), and assisting them to fulfill their potential to become the global leaders in their field.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h3><a href=\"http:\/\/iwa-connect.org\/\">Want to become IWA YWP member?<\/a><\/h3>\n<p>Let your dreams come true!<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/144025562\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>IWA Young Water Professionals is a community established with the aim to empower them as emerging water talent in the water sector and the association. &nbsp; &nbsp; Who are they? 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