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Integrated Urban Flood Risk Mitigation and Management Workshop in Trinidad and Tobago

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The United National Office for Disaster Risk Reduction has indicated that 90% of natural disasters are water-related. By 2050, rising populations in flood prone lands, climate change, deforestation, loss of wetlands and rising sea levels are expected to increase the number of people vulnerable to flood disaster to approximately two billion. In the Trinidad and […]

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Workshop on ‘Leadership and Research Methods for Interdisciplinary Water Research’

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SaciWATERs in partnership with Nepal Engineering College (NEC) organised a workshop on ‘Leadership and research methods for interdisciplinary water research’ from 24 August to 5 September 2018 in Nepal. The workshop was conceptualized under the ‘South Asian Water (SAWA) Leadership Program on Climate Change’. It is a leadership program that awards fellowships to women pursuing

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Climate Resilience: Access to Water Supply and Sanitation in Kaduna, Nigeria

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The training course on Climate Resilience: Access to Water Supply and Sanitation was organised by the National Water Resources Institute (NWRI) in collaboration with the West African Network for Capacity Building (WA-Net)/CAP-Net. The purpose of the course is to create awareness on climate change in general and climate resilience in particular and to impart the

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Workshop on Water Supply and Sanitation – August 2018, Dominican Republic.

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A workshop on Water Supply and Sanition took place in August 2018 in Dominican Republic. This workshop was a partnership between REDICA, Universidad Agroforestal Fernando Arturo de Meriño, REDAR and SOCOSADA. This workshop in Spanish aimed to analyse the local situation and to share the knowledge, policies and practices in terms of IWRM; and discuss the

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Regional Workshop on ‘Leadership and Research Methods for Interdisciplinary Water Research’ – 23rd August to 5th September 2018, Kathmandu, Nepal.

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A Regional workshop on ‘Leadership and research methods for interdisciplinary water research’ will be held in Kathmandu, Nepal from August 23rdto September 5th2018. The workshop is a part of the South Asian Water (SAWA) Leadership Programme on Climate Change, a fellowship project funded by IDRC and coordinated by SaciWATERs. The aim of the workshop is

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A Course on Micrometering of Drinking Water – September 2018, Santa Fe, Argentina.

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A course on Micrometering of Drinking Water will take place in the Faculty of Engineering and Water Sciences of the National University of the Litoral, Santa Fe, Argentina in the month of September. To be taught in Spanish, this course is targeted at personnel linked to providers of drinking water services; government officials; university professionals; advanced students of engineering

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Capacity development of the farmer leaders in medium/ major irrigation schemes; empowering them on participatory decision making – 25th June 2018, Uyilankulam, Sri Lanka

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The first training programme for 2018, Capacity development of the farmer leaders in medium/ major irrigation schemes was conducted in Farmer Training/Meeting Centre, Uyilankulam, Mannar District in the Northern Province of Sri Lanka on the 25thJune 2018. The main partners of the programme were Irrigation Department, Department of Agriculture, Department of Agrarian Development, Sri Lanka

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Drought Risk Reduction Workshop – 24 to 27 October 2017, Trinidad and Tobago.

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The United National Development Programme has indicated that the world is seeing a rapid amount of incidents of drought and desertification every year amounting to the loss of 12 million hectares, that is, 23 hectares every 60 seconds (1). Alarmingly, not enough is being done to deal with the risks associated with drought. In the

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Training Workshop on Groundwater Management within IWRM in River Basin Context – 21 to 25 November 2017, Ségou – Mali

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A Training Workshop on Groundwater Management within IWRM in River Basin Context was held from 21 to 25 November 2017 in Ségou, Mali.  It was organised in collaboration with the Country Coordination of Natural Resources Users in the Niger Basin (CNU-Mali), Regional Coordination of Natural Resources Users in the Niger Basin (CRU-BN) and Africa Groundwater Network

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Climate Change Adaptation (CCA) Programme for Farmer Organization (FO) Leaders – 18th September 2017, District Secretariat Ampara, Sri Lanka.

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A programme for farmer organization leaders in Ampara was arranged as a part of the Sri Lanka Water Partnership CCA Programme in collaboration with the Irrigation Department (ID) and Irrigation Management Division (IMD) of the Ministry of Irrigation and Water Resources Management with support from Cap-Net Lanka.  This was the 2nd programme in Sri Lanka

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