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Last Date: 05 February 2011

Parivartan Awards for Sustainability and Innovation 2011 recognize and showcase such companies that have used innovation for making their products, processes, facilities and operations sustainable.

The Parivartan Awards will be announced at Parivartan 2011, India’s only forum to focus exclusively on driving adoption for sustainability initiatives in businesses by promoting the business case with decision makers both on the production side as well as on the consumption front. It is the forum of choice to promote sustainably driven market development and innovation.

Svaraj – the society for Voluntary Action Revitalisation and Justice – is a small but well known national development voluntary organisation. head quartered in Bangalore.  Our vision – a just society in a just environment. Our programmes include strengthening food, water and livelihood security through fair and just management and protection of our ecosystem, responding to needs of disaster affected families and providing vital physiotherapy care for people with disabilities; research and policy analysis, communications and promoting individual philanthropy.

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It is great pleasure to announce that ICID is inviting nominations for the WatSave Awards 2011 from individuals/ team working in the area of irrigation, drainage and flood management.

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The wage rates under MGNREGA have been increased by the Ministry of Rural Development with effect from 1st January 2011. This will result in 17-30% enhancement of wages under the premier flagship program of the UPA Government across the country. This was announced by the Union Minister for Rural Development and Panchayati Raj Dr. C.P.Joshi at a Press Conference in Krishi Bhawan here today.

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The United Nations Office to Support the International Decade for Action “Water for Life” 2005-2015/UN-Water Decade Programme on Advocacy and Communication (UNW-DPAC) and the UN World Water Assessment Programme (WWAP) are pleased to invite you to submit your Best Practice for the 1st edition of the “Water for Life” Best Practices Award.

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CSDi is announcing the January launch of a module of four online field courses on Adaptation to Climate Change. These courses begin by introducing basic climate change concepts, and develop as participants identify local community vulnerabilities, investigate appropriate solutions, develop full projects, launch and manage them.

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Screening of Award winning film ‘Niyamgiri You Are Alive’ by Suma Josson. The film won the Vasudha Award for the best environmental documentary in the International Film Festival Goa, 2010.

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Those activists, practitioners and journalists who have travelled in the Kosi River basin during 2008 (before the Kushaha breach), 2009 and 2010 have helped enhance our collective understanding on a manmade crises of gigantic proportions. Though not pre-planned, a unique fellowship on Kosi has indeed developed over these years. In their respective domains, each of the fellows have/are contributing to taking the key learnings across for better understanding on how our land, rivers and water ought to be managed (or not managed). The task, however, is far from finished.