Wasa capacity building course

LAHORE: The Al-Jazari Water & Sanitation Academy held a certificate distribution ceremony at University of Engineering and Technology, Lahore, for the successful participants in its courses conducted at the academy under its project in the last two years.

According to a press release issued here on Thursday, Al-Jazari Academy is established under the project titled, “Capacity Building of WASAs in Punjab province”, technically assisted by the Japanese International Cooperation Agency (JICA) in collaboration with Government of the Punjab. It completed its first phase of trainings in April 2018.

Al-Jazari Academy Principal Dr Kiran Farhan shared the details of the courses. Al-Jazari Academy has trained almost 300 engineers form WASAs in the last two years. The academy has foreign qualified faculty with extensive industry experience, engaged specifically by Urban Unit to impart the technical skills and knowledge for the participants in the courses. Dr Nasir Javed, chief executive officer, Urban Unit, said “The capacity building sessions at Aljazari are the best examples of international collaboration in the domain of water and sanitation, as Pakistani and Japanese experts have worked together to devise some innovative trainings. AlJazari Academy is training professionals from across Pakistan, 70 percent of Punjab and the rest of other provinces, so we are covering whole country.’’