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South Asia Consortium for Interdisciplinary Water Resources Studies
Upcoming Events

Fourth Gender Water Equity Training
April 12 – 14, 2010
Mumbai, India

This training, hosted by Tata Institute of Social Sciences (TISS), Mumbai together with SaciWATERs, Gender and Water Alliance (GWA) and the Society for Promoting Participative Ecosystem Management (SOPPECOM), Pune will aim to address the challenges in mainstreaming gender and equity perspectives in water policy and practise through interactive sessions, case study analyses and group discussions.     

For more information, go to: http://www.tiss.edu/events/the-fourth-gender-water-equity-training-workshop-in-south-asia-43.php

  
     
     
     

The 5th South Asia Research Workshop
May 3-5, 2010
Thimphu, Bhutan

SaciWATERs in collaboration with Royal Society for Protection of Nature, Bhutan calls for paper for the 5th South Asia Research Conference focusing on the issue – Globalization of Governance – Implications for Water Management in South Asia. The workshop will be held in Bhutan during May 3-5, 2010. It will be focusing on the following four themes:
Privatization of water services: Reforming the 'reform' agenda
Human wellbeing, Gender equity and IWRM – new and emerging challenges
Urbanization and Water: A conundrum and a source of conflict
Multilateral institutions and NGOs: changing configurations around the state in water resource management
Important Dates
Last date for receipt of Abstracts – December 31, 2009 at 17:00 hours IST
Date of intimation for acceptance of Abstracts- January 15, 2010
Last date for receipt of full length paper – February 15, 2010
Date of intimation for selection of paper – March 7, 2010
   
 

Financial Support

The authors of the selected papers shall be awarded financial support to cover travel cost, accommodation and modest per diem. Total of 20 papers based on author’s original work, are expected to be presented in the conference.
Abstracts\papers can be submitted electronically to Dr. Chanda Gurung Goodrich at chanda@saciwaters.org

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Fifth Gender, Water and Equity Training
June 14-18, 2010
Kathmandu, Nepal

A rapidly changing political, economic and social context throughout South Asia means that water is becoming a source of conflict and competition. The processes of liberalisation and globalisation, growing poverty, social inequalities, water scarcity and climate uncertainty are all interconnected contexts within which an understanding of gender relations and their intersection with water and equity needs to be located. These processes particularly affect the lives of poor women, often the primary informal managers of water, for whom access and rights to water are mediated through their social and economic position in society.

The Fifth Gender, Water and Equity Training will address some of these issues, both in terms of conceptual and contextual knowledge, as well as in building practical skills to negotiate concerns of equity and the principles of gender mainstreaming in the water sector. Organised jointly with SOPPECOM, Gender and Water Alliance and Cap-Net, this five day training seeks to raise participants’ awareness on key gender, water and equity issues in South Asia and the challenges in mainstreaming a gender equity perspective in water policy and practice through interactive sessions, case study analysis, small group discussions and field exposure.

Last date for submitting completed Application Pack is May 1, 2010 at 17:00 hours Indian Standard Time.

For more details:

Download – Programme Flyer and Application Pack.