The WaterNet professional training programme facilitates competency training to meet the needs of SADC, Country Water Partnerships, River Basin Organisations, Community Based Organisations, and various actors and practicing professionals in the water and related sectors. This is done in close collaboration with the SADC Water Division, and Global Water Partnership-Southern Africa.

Joint capacity building initiatives between members and other regional partners   are creating the necessary mechanisms for sustained development of the requisite technical, managerial and negotiation skills required for managing shared water resources.

To facilitate the participation of non English speaking countries in WaterNet activies and other SADC water affairs, a course- English for Water Managers is continuously offered.

WaterNet, together with Cap-Net and GWP-SA, are supporting the GWP Country Water Partnerships in an initiative to build capacity at national level to enable the development of national IWRM plans (as part of the implementation of the World Summit on Sustainable Development plan of action on water).