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Responding to increasing concerns over climate change, The Energy and Resources Institute (TERI), the Institute for Global Environmental Strategies (IGES), and World Bank Tokyo Development Learning Center (TDLC) have jointly developed an eight-week blended distance learning program on “Science and Policy of Climate Change”. This will be conducted for Asia-Pacific region from 8th April to 8th June, 2011.

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The package for the position will be around Rs.6.4 lakhs Gross per annum.

WaterAid India invites applications from experienced and qualified professionals for the position of Programme Officers for its offices in Bhubaneshwar/Bhopal and the officers will be placed in Ranchi, Bhubaneshwar and Raipur.

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The package for the position will be around Rs.6.6 lakhs Gross per annum.

WaterAid India invites applications from experienced and qualified professionals for the position of Programme Officer Planning, Monitoring and Evaluation for its Country Office in New Delhi.

Content Courtesy: Centre for Science and Environment

• Decentralised Wastewater Treatment & Reuse Policy Workshop
  
  Date: 3rd - 4th March, 2011
  
  CSE is organising a two day programme focusing on how urban areas can establish decentralised wastewater treatment  system (DWWT) particularly in unsewered areas that would facilitate recycling and reuse of water.

India's premier environment and wildlife competitive film festival, CMS VATAVARAN will be organised from 06-10 Dec, 2011 at New Delhi.

Entries:

Entries are invited from environment and wildlife filmmakers for 10 Indian and 08 International categories.

Organizer: North East Centre for Environmental Education and Research (NECEER)

Venue: New Delhi

Topics:

• Floristic and faunal studies
• Human-Wildlife Conflict

Society for Rural, Urban and Tribal Initiative (SRUTI) is a not-for-profit organisation that facilitates social action across rural and urban India towards a more equitable and democratic society that envisions dignity and justice for all.

This short-term fellowship, awarded to 7 applicants, aims to document key issues and struggles for justice addressed by the SRUTI Fellows through their individual efforts and people’s movements in different parts of the country.

The broad areas of work are:

• Right to Natural Resource Livelihood (Jal, Jangal, Zameen)
• Effective Governance
• Education
• Caste Discrimination
• Rights to the City and Education.

The SRUTI Fellows area of work spreads across 12 states: Uttarakhand, Delhi, Rajasthan, Madhya Pradesh, Maharashtra, Bihar, Jharkhand, Chhattisgarh, Orissa, Andhra Pradhesh, Tamil Nadu and Karnataka.

The Advocacy Fellows and films will be mentored and directed by Rita Banerji who has aligned with the SRUTI team to facilitate and monitor the project.

The Fellowship will begin in the first week of March with an orientation workshop to sensitize the selected Advocacy Fellows to the issues on the ground and introduce them to the SRUTI Fellows. The workshop will also mentor and train them to research, script, document and put together the series of films.

Ministry of Culture operates the Scheme for the Award of Senior/Junior Fellowships for undertaking research oriented projects in the fields of performing, literary and plastic arts as also new areas related to culture. The scheme has recently been revised and, starting from the year 2010-11, a total of 400 Fellowships will be awarded for a maximum period of two years, out of which 200 are Senior fellowships having a value of Rs.20,000/- per month for artistes in the age group of above 40 years and 200 are Junior Fellowships having a value of Rs.10,000/- per month for the artistes in the age group of 25-40 years.

Organizer: Aqua Foundation

Venue: India Habitat Centre, New Delhi

Topics:

• Adaptive water management
• Managing Change & Measuring performance of Water Management

The Centre for Atmospheric Sciences(CAS), Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi is organising this programme which is sponsored by Department of Science and Technology, Government of India. Forty candidates will be selected from all over the country. The programme will be held at CAS, IIT, Delhi.

Eligibility:

M.Sc./M.Tech. degree in Physics/ Meteorology/ Atmospheric Sciences/ Geophysics/ Mathematics/ Statistics/ Oceanography / Computer Science with overall good academic record with at least one year working experience/ exposure relevant to the field of Atmospheric Science. Those who have Ph.D. Degree and working on monsoon related problems will be given preference.

Programme period: 27th June–20th July 2011

Age limit: Less than 35 years as on 31st March 2011.