Delhi

IDLO [International Development Law Organisation], in cooperation with American Telephone & Telegraph Company [AT&T India], is organizing a five-day capacity building program on “Improving Legal & Regulatory Efficiency for Water Resource Management in India” to be delivered on 22-26 March 2010 in New Delhi, Indi

Through hands-on workshops, interactive seminars, detailed case studies, field trips, and classroom instruction, this course will teach you how to plan, design, implement and monitor rainwater harvesting systems according to terrain characteristics, water table and soil conditions.

Senior Water Specialist

International Finance Corporation

Location: New Delhi, India
Last Date: February 28, 2010
Email: (Reference: DevNetJobs.org)

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The Yamuna Biodiversity Park (YBP) invites all citizens to celebrate the World Wetlands Day on the 2nd of February. This date marks the signing of the ‘Convention on Wetlands’ in 1971 at Ramsar, Iran. The 2010 Wetlands Day theme is “Caring for Wetlands – an Answer to Climate Change”. The theme highlights the fact that wetlands, with their biodiversity, can help mitigate climate change.

The STEPS Centre (www.steps-centre.org) at the University of Sussex,  UK, Sarai (CSDS) and Centre for Studies in Regional Development (JNU) are hosting a workshop on 'Peri-urban Futures and Sustainability' on 8th February at the India International Centre, New Delhi

8th February at 6.30pm, Instituto Cervantes, Hanuman Lane, Connaught Place, Delhi

Manushi and Jal Biradari are organizing a three-day meeting to discuss the New Yamuna Action Plan. It will cover YAP 1 [Yamuna Action Plan] and the agenda for YAP2. Minister for Environment and Forests Mr Jairam Ramesh will participate in a dialogue on 10 February.

WaterAid India - Programme Officer (Policy Research and Rights), New Delhi

WaterAid is an international non-governmental organisation focused exclusively on improving poor people’s access to safe water, improved hygiene and sanitation in developing countries. WaterAid is an equal opportunities employer.

This interdisciplinary month-long summer certificate course on environment/development issues allows participants to understand and critically evaluate issues that lie at the interface of environment and development; poverty; democracy, equity and justice.

Course design: Classroom lectures, seminars, several local field excursions, a week-long field visit to rural India, together with innovative, challenging project individual and/or group work. Participants are given an intense briefing on issues that are of concern to India and other developing countries. Field trips and meetings with communities serve to illustrate innovations and eco-restoration efforts that communities make to enable them to face the challenges of managing their natural resources base.

The Indo Italian Chamber of Commerce & Industry will be receiving a delegation of Companies from Italy from 22nd to 27th February in the cities of Delhi, Mumbai and Delhi.