2018 SEI US Center Annual Report - 1 Introduction - 2018 goals Status

The focus of the retreat was two-fold: to reflect and provide input on the organizational review, and to develop new tools and vocabulary that could also help generate recommendations for the review. [...] • Consolidation of the activities of the Sustainable Water Partnership USAID program in Kenya and Cambodia, working in collaboration with the Asia and Africa Centers staff. [...] 8 Finally, we also collaborated with the Kuwait Institute for Scientific Research (KISR) and UNDP to support the development of the first Kuwait National Energy Outlook report (KNEO), one of the first efforts to develop an integrated strategy for energy savings and the promotion of low-carbon energy supplies in that country. [...] As the developer of the WEAP modeling platform, the Water Group has long been engaged in capacity development around the use of the tool. [...] 3.2 Policy engagement 3.2.1 How the center has contributed to the development of SEI’s approaches to policy engagement and influence 3.2.2 How the center has increased the capacity of SEI staff to work at the interface between science and decision-making 3.3 Capacity development 4 Enabling results 4.1 Communications 4.1.1 How the center supported and enabled staff to be better communicators, and m.