The project will build the capacity of ministries and public service providers responsible for water and energy in the ESCWA region to examine and address the water and energy nexus in an integrated manner. This will be pursued through two parallel, complementary and coordinated capacity building interventions. The first track will focus on high-level officials in ministries responsible for water and energy will receive training on how to address and incorporate the water and energy nexus considerations in their strategies, policies and plans at the national and regional levels. This will be achieved through the preparation of a regional policy tool kit (comprised of 7 modules focused on knowledge and awareness-raising; policy coherence; the water-energy security nexus; efficiency; technology; renewable energy; and climate change and natural disasters), their participation in two regional policy training workshops, and the implementation up to three pilot projects focused on applying a water and energy nexus policy tool. The second track will focus on water and energy public service providers and three technical areas of intervention (resource efficiency, technology transfer and renewable energy). The tool kits will be used to inform regional discussions undertaken at the policy and technical levels. The project will thus assist ESCWA Member Countries to better understand how the water and energy nexus can contribute to global deliberations on a set of sustainable development goals in a post-2015 development framework.