India

Image and Content Courtesy: Global Water Partnership The Global Water Partnership Technical Committee provides intellectual leadership for the identification and understanding of critical emerging issues affecting water and s

Image and Content Courtesy: Deshpande Foundation The Deshpande Fellowship Program is a unique opportunity for budding social entrepreneurs. The Fellowship is an interactive, applied learning experience that aims to foster a generation of successful social entrepreneurs. Participants will learn existing best practices and engage with the foremost social entrepreneurs and local innovators to develop a working knowledge of leading social change models. The program will leverage this theoretical framework to aid each participant in the creation of an individualized proposal for social change. Fellows will be expected to implement their innovations with partner institutions. Twenty (25) Fellowships will be awarded. The last date for application is 1 May 2009. Women are encouraged to apply. Period: August 2009 till January 2010. Deadline: Apply by 1 May 2009.

Forwarded to the Portal by: Sulekha M.V.,Water Today Water Today, a bimonthly magazine focuses on changes and developments in the Water and Wastewater industry. It offers a high-level forum for discussion thereby enabling the water industry professionals to delve the issues about the products of interest, projects, and best verified practices that will benefit the industry. Water Today seeks quality articles written by water experts that can be published in our magazine. The article/case study may be about 6-8 pages in MS Word format with relevant images and tables etc. Our current issue is on Water Audit (last date for submission of article is 2nd April). The editorial calendar is given below for ready reference.

Forwarded to the Portal by: Poulomee Ghosh, Third Sector Partners

Third Sector Partners, a leading CxO and board search firm in the Not for Profit sector has been retained by IRRAD to recruit a COO. OVERVIEW Institute of Rural Research and Development (IRRAD), based in Gurgaon, Haryana, is an initiative of the S.M. Sehgal Foundation, registered as a Trust in India since 1999 to further the well-being of rural communities in India. IRRAD's mission is to implement Integrated Sustainable Village Development (ISVD) in select village clusters, build capacity in rural development, undertake rural research, improve village governance, and serve as a premier knowledge institution for rural development and poverty reduction in India.

Send to the Portal by Divya Mishra Assistant Editor FlyteLite ========== I handle a magazine called FlyLite (which is the in-flight magazine for JetLite) and for our April issue, we're carrying a story on the dams and bridges of India. We are currently looking for images for the following structures: 1. Gandhi Setu, Patna 2. The Grand Anicut Dam, Tamil Nadu 3. Idukki Dam, Kerala 4. Hirakud Dam, Orissa 5. Krishna Raja Sagara Dam, Karnataka

1. Interlinking of rivers
2. Mercury Menace - a case study of the Minamata Disease

Author: Jayanta Bandyopadhay, Indian Institute of Management, Calcutta Published: April 2009 Pages : 212 Imprint : SAGE India Water, Ecosystems and Society is an excellent guide to interdisciplinary knowledge on water. It draws attention to ecological benefits of floods, economic productivity of water systems and the feasibility of the proposed river-link project of India. It focuses on the need to recognise ecosystem services provided by rivers as well as the necessity of environmental flows in such a system. The book deals with emerging areas of research, by connecting ecology, economics and water management. It will be a compelling read for academicians and students working in the fields of geography and environment science, development economics, environmental sociology, ecology, integrated water management and so on.

The Asian Development Bank (ADB) has approved a technical assistance grant to raise awareness through the media on the serious threat that climate change poses to hundreds of millions of people in the region.

The South Asia Network on Dams, Rivers & People has published a critique of the India's National Action Plan on Climate change (NAPCC), titled: "There is little Hope here". India is more vulnerable to the climate change impacts than the US, the Europe or even China. And the poor within India, whose contribution to the climate change is the least, are the most vulnerable, considering their dependence on natural resources. The report, which includes recommendations of several civil society consultations, concludes that the NAPCC has been formulated through a most non transparent process; it will help neither the poor, nor the climate. The climate change provides a unique opportunity to make India's development path people and environment friendly, but the NAPCC completely misses that opportunity. There is little doubt that the responsibility of having created this specter that threatens our very survival, lies with the policies and practices of the counties of the Global North. It is also true that the western world, the UN and all the various multilateral agencies, including the UNFCCC have not managed to come up with anything more than feeble, cosmetic efforts towards addressing this challenge. Given these circumstances, the western world has forfeited the right to lecture on this issue.