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South Asia Consortium for Interdisciplinary Water Resources Studies
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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 atchanda@saciwaters.org

Training
Workshop on "Social science research data analysis and writing".Organized by Tiss under the CB project , from 31 Jan to 11 Feb 2010 .
  
Participants
  
1.   15 PhD SAWA fellows from 3PIs mainly BUET , CWR &PGIA , and
  
2.   12 PhD fellows from 11 different universities in India are participating in the training program .

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