Announcements

Integrated Water Resource Management – Training Programme
(August 29 - September 16, 2005)

The world is facing a water crisis that seriously is affecting the production and living conditions, jeopardizing poverty reduction and sustainable development, especially in the poorer countries in the world. The poor and marginalized groups in the society are often vulnerable to water crisis and also limited in the aspect of improving their situation
through better management of the resources.

Under the Sida funded scheme Ramboll Natura AB together with Stockholm International Water Institute (SIWI) is offering an international training programme on "Integrated Water Resource Management" scheduled with a first session in Sweden, August 29th - September 16th 2005, and a follow-up session during two weeks in November 2005, in South Africa. The follow-up session is carried out in close co-operation with the International Water Management Institute (IWMI). A list of countries from which applicants can be selected, is attached.

The IWRM training programme is aiming at finding a way to contribute to a better situation, by supporting capacity building for Integrated Water Resource Management. During this programme we strive to achieve an active and strong link to the participants' professional areas but also to strengthen the exchange between participants from different professional and geographical backgrounds.

The general objective of the programme is to support and stimulate the development of Integrated Water Resource Management in the parti-cipant's home country. By educating people we hope to improve the technical solutions as well as the management and governing of the water resources in a country.

This training programme is aiming at decision and policy makers in water resource management and investment, subject-matter specialists involved in planning, implementation and management of IWRM related projects both in public and private sector, members of national and international NGOs in the areas of natural resource management, water and environ-ment and staff at universities and training institutes.

The application form is also available on the following links

http://www.rambollnatura.se

http://www.siwi.org