HRC delegate attended "Management of Hydro Power Development and Use 2008" in Sweden

   ---Nominated by the Department of International Cooperation Science and Technology of Chinese Ministry of Water Resources, Ms. Zhang Tian, a project officer in HRC, was selected to attend the "Management of Hydro Power Development and Use 2008"—an advanced international training programme held in Stockholm, Sweden from Oct.5 to Nov.1.
   The above mentioned courses was one of the global training progammes under the sponsorship of the Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency (Sida),aiming at enhancing managerial and technical skills and covering subjects of strategic importance to economic and social development for developing countries. Entrusted by Sida, Vattenfall and SWECO, respectively a largest Swedish energy company and a leading European industrial engineering consultative corporation, conducted the training programme, in which 28 delegates from 16 countries participated with 3 participants from China.
   The 28-day training was professionally managed, with optimized time distribution and rich course contents. Besides the specialized courses on hydropower and other energy sources fields, many non-technical hot topics, such as Gender Policies, Hiv/Aids & infrastructure development, etc., were introduced with the deep impression. It is worth mentioning that Sida is always paying much attention on the team-interaction in the classroom by the way of the "group work" teaching mode. Especially, the useful introduction of "Logical Framework Approach" (LFA) can update our abilities on how to scientifically, systematically and effectively analyze the causes of the problems and deep understand the opportunities and challenges of the hydropower development in the group-work discussions.
   According to the demand of training programme, each participant should submit a "Change Project". The HRC delegate gave a presentation of the Change Project titled "To Enhance Managerial Skills for Future Training Programme and Exploit Potential SHP International Market", focusing on the remarkable contribution made by HRC to the global SHP development through 27 years' efforts in carrying out a great number of international training on SHP and unremitting efforts for recent few year in establishing good relationships with many countries on export trade of hydropower equipment. In addition, the new challenges ahead and the plan of action were analyzed adopting the advanced approaches learnt from this training. The result of implementing the "Change Project" in the next six months will be given and appraised in the Part II of the training programme to be taken place in Tanzania.
It is earnestly expected that, with the new ideas obtained from Sida, we would be able to make an improvement on our future work and contribute more to the further promotion of SHP development at home and abroad. (2008-11-10)