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Positive Community Impact (PCI) is a non-profit health and humanitarian aid organization dedicated to preventing disease, improving community health, and promoting sustainable development. It is a global health organization based in California, US and spread across 16 countries. PCI works to save lives and to build healthy communities around the world by preventing disease and providing access to economic opportunity, clean water and nutritious food. Through over 50 years of positive community impact it has developed particular expertise in building partnerships and networks, as well as mobilizing and building the capacity of communities to participate in program design, implementation and monitoring and continuous learning for sustainable and measurable impact. 

Organizer: Madhya Pradesh Forest Department, Govt. of M.P. (MPFD)
                M.P. Minor Forest Produce Co-operative Federaton Ltd.
                Indian Institute of Forest Management, Bhopal

Venue: RCVP Noronha Academy of   Administration, Bhopal

Description:
Madhya Pradesh Minor Forest Produce Federation, IIFM and Madhya Pradesh Forest Department have since long been involved in providing livelihood opportunities to forest dwellers and rural households through some direct intervention and also through research and development initiatives. But it is strongly felt that there are many grey areas where still a lot is needed to be done. Further, many good thing are happening around the globe in the field of NWFP management related issues. There are plenty of success stories regarding sustainable livelihood through NWFP marketing & trading. Madhya Pradesh wishes to learn from such experiences. It is in this background MPMFP Federation is organizing an international conference on NWFP.

Organizers: Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Bombay
                             Thadomal Shahani Engineering College (TSEC), Mumbai

Venue: Thadomal Shahani Enginnering College, P G Kher Road, Off Link Road, Bandra (West), Mumbai

Description:
IIT Bombay is organising Workshop on "Environmental Statistics for Professional" jointly with TSEC, Mumbai.

The objective of the proposed Four Day Training Workshop on Environmental Statistics is aimed at familiarizing the teaching community on the application of appropriate statistical techniques, exclusively to environmental systems. The faculty will demonstrate application of various probability and statistics techniques to environmental problems. The training would hopefully help in teaching the subject at their respective Institutions, in a structured manner.

The Ganges river system originates in the Central Himalayas, and extends into the alluvial Gangetic Plains and drains into the Indian Ocean at the Bay of Bengal. In the upstream mountainous regions, hydropower is the main focus of development with mega and micro projects either under construction or being planned in both Nepal and India.

After the main river channel reaches the plains, it is highly regulated with dams, barrages and associated irrigation canals. All this infrastructure development and abstractions affects the river’s flow regime and reduces flows, which, in turn, impacts downstream water availability, water quality and riverine ecosystems. Furthermore, there are concerns that climate change is likely to exacerbate the water scarcity problem in the Ganges Basin. Therefore, modeling the hydrology of the basin is critical for estimation, planning and management of current and future water resources.

Guest post by: Amita Bhaduri

The public art outreach project was organized by the Max Mueller Bhavan in association with the Government of Delhi and the Goethe-Institut (Hamburg, Germany) as a part of the “Year of Germany in India” programme opened on 5^th of November, 2011. The art exhibition which continued till the 19^th of November co-curated by artist Ravi Agarwal who is also a practicing environmentalist (Director, Toxics Link) along with German artist, Till Krauser attempted to create a pulsating synergy between the Yamuna and Elbe rivers.

Gigi Scaria’s - The fountain of purification

Photo courtesy: Rocky Thongam

This is a 24 ft installation representing a four storey apartment complex that draws Yamuna water, purifies it at various levels and dispenses it from the top in the form of a fountain.

Sohail Hashmi, an author, film-maker, one of the founders of the Safdar Hashmi Memorial Trust (SAHMAT) and a true Dilliwala on 5 December 2011 at the India Habitat Center. The presentation woven around photographs of the city's step well

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ABT Society is seeking to recruit young professionals for exciting career opportunities in rural development in Tamilnadu.

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Bihar Water Development Society (BDWS) works on projects related to education, health care, self-help groups and socio-economic development programmes. The basic purpose behind these activities is to work for the upliftment of the rural masses and to alleviate the sufferings of the poor, the marginalized, especially of women who are deprived of self-dignity, confidence and self-respect and handicapped in many ways while struggling to come to the main stream of society.

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Advisory Services in Environmental Management (ASEM) develop, evaluate and implement projects and activities that aim at protecting the environment and its resources in India with sustainable and holistic approaches focusing on relevant sectors (urbanization, industrialization etc.) to address the priority needs of India so as to achieve verifiable environmental improvements.

Vrutti addresses the need for social, technical and managerial resources in the livelihoods sector. It’s a group of young, dynamic professionals who are committed to working for livelihoods promotion and contributing to improved quality of life of the marginalised communities. Our core team is drawn from management, social work and public health backgrounds and has research, planning, policy making and training skills.