Jobs and other Opportunities

Content Courtesy: Institute of Rural Management Anand (IRMA)

Variously described as “Common Pool Resources”, “Common Property Resources”, “Common Lands”, “Open Ground” etc; “Commons” have been an important and inseparable part of humanity. They have been life support systems and have impacted various cultures, traditions, organisations and environments. They are essential for the livelihood requirements of the poor to be met. It is common knowledge that "Commons" are of ecological, social, cultural, religious, sporting and recreational value. Issues related to “Commons” have drawn attention of the academia, practitioners, policy makers, and researchers. It is significant to note that Prof. Elinor Ostrom, a political scientist, won the Nobel Prize this year for her work on the subject.

Are you a Social entreprenur having a focus in Agriculture, Water, Energy?

Do you have an innovative product/ service or process?

Have you been in operation for more than 6 months?

Apply now to Wantrapreneur by visiting http://www.villgro.org/wantrapreneur/

Winners get a cash prize upto 1.5 lakhs and get a chance to get incubated by Villgro.

Content Courtesy: DevNetJobsIndia

• Preparation of Project Implementation Plan for Jalanidhi II

Kerala Rural Water Supply & Sanitation Agency

Content & Image Courtesy: Whitley Fund for Nature

The Whitley Fund for Nature (WFN) is a UK registered charity offering "Whitley Awards" to outstanding nature conservation leaders around the world. Whitley Awards are both an international profile prize and a form of project grant (currently £30,000 over one year, with a top prize of £60,000 over two years). Whitley Awards were developed to recognize effective leaders and communicators from around the world who are applying sustained, effective efforts to conserve the natural
environment. Conservation needs success stories and champions, and the Whitley Award winner network is a celebration of success taking place all over the world. WFN supports conservationists who already have proven results behind them and are ready to scale up their success and activities.

Content Courtesy: WaterAid

Manager Technical Support - Based in New Delhi, India

The package for the position will be around Rs. 9 lakh Gross per annum.

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.

Content Courtesy: WaterAid

Technical officer - Based in Bhubaneshwar, India

The package for the position will be around Rs. 6 lakh Gross per annum.

WaterAid is an international nongovernmental 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.

Content Courtesy: Takagi Fund for Citizen Science

The Takagi Fund for Citizen Science (the Takagi Fund, Tokyo, Japan) will invite grant applications for the year 2011 from groups and individuals in Asia pursuing "Citizen Science". The deadline for submission of applications for this round is 30 September, 2010.

Content Courtesy: DevNetJobsIndia

• Technical Officer

WaterAid India

Location: Bhubaneshwar
Last Date: September 5, 2010

A patent is a contract between an inventor and the public.  In order to promote and reward innovation, the contract states that if an idea is (i) novel, (ii) non-obvious, and (iii) reduced to practice, the inventor or innovator, upon  registration and full public disclosure of the innovation is thus provided a time limited monopoly to use the idea in commerce for one 20 year term.  Under worldw