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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.

This introductory course on Integrated Water Resource Management (IWRM), from the United Nations University (UNU), provides a brief historical background and overview of IWRM and gives an overview of the various aspects of IWRM, from integration, capacity building to applications and case studies.

IWRM has been defined by the Global Water Partnership (2000) as a process, which promotes the coordinated development and management of water, land and related resources in order to maximize the resultant economic and social welfare in an equitable manner without compromising the sustainability of vital ecosystems. An important aspect of any IWRM program is therefore, research, planning and action at the river basin level.

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

Venue: New Delhi

Topics:

• Floristic and faunal studies
• Human-Wildlife Conflict

Organizer: Wadia Institute of Himalayan Geology

Venue: Wadia Institute of Himalayan Geology (WIHG), Dehradun

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• Consultants (implementing watershed projects)

            Nabcons, a wholly-owned subsidiary of NABARD

            Location: Udaipur (Rajasthan), Pune, Amravati and Jalna (Maharashtra)
            Last Date: 15th March, 2011

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• Scientific Officer - Groundwater Hydrology and Remote Sensing/GIS

            International Water Management Institute

            Location: Hyderabad
            Last Date: 15th March, 2011

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Organizer: Centre for Holistic Learning

Venue: Huthina Betta campus, Sirsi, Karnataka

Description:

The workshop addresses the self in the human being. It draws attention to human needs - need for human relationships, inherent desire to seek knowledge, and the joy that we naturally derive from these. In our current situation, we might be seeking different things. Thus, it brings about a dialogue between what we are and what we want to be. It does not posit happiness in an after-world, but here and now, based on a "humanness" common to all human beings. The approach is rational, secular and universal.

It lays down in no uncertain terms the rights of citizens over the what in the West are called 'Commons' . Even the well-informed among us are not aware of their rights over such public spaces.

The Order states that :

Organizers:

• Forum for Policy Dialogue on Water Conflicts in India
• Wageningen UR
• Society for Promoting Participative Ecosystem Management (SOPPECOM)

Venue: Pune, Maharashtra

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.