The Cap-Net family is deeply saddened by the passing away of Mr Lewis Jonker on 25 May 2015 in Cape Town, South Africa. Lewis is known to most of us during his tenure as the WaterNet Manager the capacity building network for Southern African Development Community (SADC) affiliated to Cap-Net. He hosted one of the …
Cap-Net would like to announce and launch new training materials. They are ‘2nd Edition Drought Risk Reduction in IWRM’ and ‘Integration of Groundwater Management: Into Transboundary Basin Organizations in Africa’. The ‘2nd Edition Drought Risk Management in IWRM’ includes a facilitator’s guide and full training manual which can be downloaded via this link. This manual …
The International Water Centre (IWC) is currently offering several full scholarships for high calibre international candidates (excluding Australian citizens, Australian permanent residents and New Zealand citizens.) interested in studying the Master of Integrated Water Management (MIWM) commencing in Semester 1, 2016 at The University of Queensland. The MIWM program is custom-designed and collaboratively delivered by …
IWC Masters Scholarships (International) is now open for application. Leer más »
In partnership with the Penang Water Supply Corporation, Water Watch Penang, a member of MyCDNet, organised the World Water Day 2015 celebration which took place at the Air Itam Dam, Penang Malaysia on the 26 April 2015. The event took place a monthlater than the original date of the World Water Day (22 March 2015) …
World Water Day 2015 Celebration – 26 April 2015, Penang, Malaysia. Leer más »
The World Water Day was celebrated in Almaty on April 8, 2015. UNESCO Cluster Office in Almaty in collaboration with the Central-Asian Regional Water Network CAR@WAN organized a round-table presentation of the report of the United Nations ‘Water for sustainable world’ dedicated to the World Water Day. The event was attended by representatives from public, …
On March 27, a symposium on ‘Drought Management in the Region of Chorotega, Costa Rica’ was organised by a former participant of the course. It took place at the Nicoya Campus of the Universidad Nacional, one of the most recent network members of REDICA. Four representatives from the Universidad de Costa Rica and Ms. Lilliana …
The 7th World Water Forum was held in Daegu-Gyeongbuk, South Korea from 12 to 17 April 2015. This tri-annual event is the largest water-related event in the world in cooperation with the public, private sectors, academia, and industries. It was originally launched in an effort to facilitate international discussions on global water challenges. Dr. Themba …
7th World Water Forum – 12 to 17 April 2015, Daegu-Gyeongbuk, South Korea. Leer más »
Research scholarships for ‘Promoting Young Researchers in South Asia for Grounded Gender-Agriculture Research’ is now opened for applications from Bangladesh, India and Nepal. The theme for this research is “Poverty Squares and Gender Circles: Unravelling Agriculture Gaps, Challenges and Opportunities in the Eastern Gangetic Plains” and is funded by the Consortium Group of International Agriculture …
Cap-Tec consultation meeting took place from 26 to 27 March 2015 at Delft, The Netherlands. The meeting gathered the supply and demand sides of new technologies; water professionals and managers, development practitioners, policy makers, farmer representatives and industrialists, researchers, and capacity development specialists. Along the 2-day meeting, participants discussed salient questions and set the basis …
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The Regional Masters Degree Program in IWRM remains central to WaterNet activities. A total of twenty eight applicants were selected for admission into the MSc program within the Department of Civil Engineering at the University of Zimbabwe (UZ) and the College of Engineering and Technology University of the Dar-es-Salaam (UDSM) for 2015/16 academic year. The …
WaterNet Master’s Degree Programme in IWRM (2015/16 Intake) Leer más »
