Groundwater Governance Training Program
Indian, Bangladeshi and Chinese Senior Fellows Training Programs 2006-2007 Conducted for International Management Institute
Six to seven fellows will be coming to Australia under this program to Work with the Centre of learning best practice in Gro8indwater management (PDF 990kb). The main field site will be South Australia
IWMI is conducting a large capacity building project within the CGIAR Challenge Program on Water and Food in the Indus-Ganges and Yellow River basins, shortly called 'Groundwater Governance in Asia'.
A major activity of this project is to implement two annual cycles of a training program on 'Groundwater Governance in Theory and Practice'. The first cycle starts in October 2006 and covers two phases: 1. A five-week intensive classroom course, and 2. A 5 to 16 week action research phase where participants get a change to emerge themselves into research related to groundwater management. The whole program culminates with an annual meeting (end of March 2007) where the participants (we call them fellows) present their findings, conclusions and recommendations.
We are targeting three groups of fellows (in total 40 for each cycle): 1. junior fellows with more academic background and less experience from actual management, 2. seniors, who have practical experience from GW management, and 3: media fellows (journalists) from the five countries covering the basins: India, China, Pakistan, Bangladesh and Nepal. The first course will take place in India, and in late 2007 the cycle will be repeated with more emphasis on China. While the junior and media fellows will work on field surveys in their own country for their research phase (15 weeks), we have defined the research phase for the seniors (4 weeks) to consist of a visit to a country outside the region with the aim to expose the senior fellows (approximately 5 - 10 persons in total) to approaches to and practical issues of groundwater management in other (considered more 'developed') countries outside the region.
UniSA through the Centre for Comparative Water Policies and Law will be conducting the first of these for 3 fellows from India and Bangladesh. This will take place in November 2006 in Adelaide South Australia. The Centre will be liaising with DLWBC and Environment Resources and Development Court and the NRM Council as well as its students and staff in the School of Commerce for this training program.
The program has this aim
The fellow will write a travel report and will also submit a paper
describing how the knowledge and insight gained during the trip can be
applied in his further work to support better groundwater governance in his
own country. We are aware that approaches cannot be transferred blindfolded
and that contexts are very different in South/South East Asia and say
Australia. However, we also believe that sharing knowledge and brokering
knowledge by exchanging people and building networks across the globe is a
valuable way of enhancing the awareness and the capacity for better
governance structures.
Ground water governance in Asia research and capacity building program funded by International Water Management Institute (IWMI) http://www.iwmi.cgiar.org/ as part of Challenge Program on Water and Food as Project Number: 42 (‘Groundwater Governance in Asia: Capacity Building through Action Research in the Indo-Gangetic (IGB) and Yellow River (YRB) Basins’ CGIAR www.cgiar.org/who/index.html
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The Centre and the University was delighted to welcome three senior fellows form 26 November to 16 December
Adam
Gray Dr Dutta, Dr Falendra Sudan and Prof Lashari at the river Murray in
South Australia
Dr Debapriya Dutta
Scientist additional Director
Natural Resources Management systems
Department of Science and technology
Technology Bhawan
New Mehrauli Rd
New Delhi
Dr Falendra K Sudan
Reader
Department of Economics
Unviersity of Jammu
Jammu and Kashmir India 180006
Edior International Jounral of Environment and Development &
Prof Dr Bakhshal Khan Lashari
Director
Institute of Irrigation and Drainage Engineering
Mehran University of Technology
Jamshoro 76062
Sindh Pakistan.
The three fellows and Prof Atique Islam Head
of School and Prof Jennifer McKay at City West campus UniSA Adelaide
The fellows engaged in many interactions with members of the NRM council of
SA, MEMBERS OF THE South East NRM Council. Personnel from Department
of Water Land and bio diversity conservation, CSIRO and South Australian
Farmers Federation.
Looking at irrigation system for groundwater
on a farm in the South East of of South Australia
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ISGWAS book update
All book chapters have been reviewed by editors and authors and are currently in the hands of the graphic designer at the US National Groundwater Association. The goal is to have the book go to print by the end of January. We will keep you informed as the process moves forward.
Full reference of the book:
Ragone, S., Hernández-Mora, N., de la Hera, A., Bergkamp, G. and J. McKay (eds.) (2007) The global importance of groundwater in the 21st Century: Proceedings of the International Symposium on Groundwater Sustainability. National Groundwater Association Press, Ohio, USA
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Impact of the Groundwater training on sustainable governance of Groundwater in India and Pakistan
A specific aspect of the Groundwater governance program is the assessment of the impact of the training in South Australia on future policy in India. The three professionals will be preparing a report answering this question "What can I do after having participated in the GGA Training Program in order to increase the attention to sustainable GW Governance". The reports will be presented at a meeting in late March 2007 In India and summarised on this web site.
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Research and training Program-Groundwater governance in Asia workshop -
Delhi March 25th to 30th. 2007
The summary and writing part of the Training and Research Program of 2006 was completed work in New Delhi India. Prof Sudan from Jammu won the prize for the best senior fellow paper for work on looking at the NRM institutional structures in South Australia and their application to Jammu Kashmir in India. His work relied on meeting with NRM groups in South East and the NRM Council and was directed by Prof McKay and assisted by Ganesh Keremane and Adam Gray.
Kent Martin for the SAFF helped enormously in the field work and Steve Barnett of DWLBC and Dr John Radcliffe. The work will be published in an international journal. The work built on and used the framework as on this web site . The whole project involved preliminary meetings in India, 3 weeks in Australia and this follow up meeting. The work is capacity building in nature.
The program was run by the International Water Management Institute Sri Lanka and the and CGIAR Water and Food Challenge program and there were 3 senior fellows for UniSA and 3 who worked with Prof Peck and the University of Kansas law school. The program will be extended next year with more Senior fellows to visit UniSA from Indo-Gangetic countries of Nepal, India, Pakistan, Bangladesh and China.
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In the course of the Groundwater training program summary and writing workshop many papers were given by the 25 Junior and 6 Senior fellows.
These given before IWMI organisers Dr Karen Villholth, Dr Mark Gordiano and Dr Bharat Sharma, and CGIAR fellows and Dibya Kansakar and the USA, Australian and Chinese Resource fellows. This session was chaired by Tushaar Shah. These people gave papers as well.
Program's PowerPoint Presentation titled: Groundwater Governance regimes in Australia, India and Pakistan- how to achieve multiple objectives in complex socio-ecological systems.
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Cooperative Research Centre for Irrigation Futures
Ground water sustainability is one of the most important topics in the 21st century. And now what some of the leading scientific experts are saying on the subject can be found in one limited-edition book - The Global Importance of Groundwater in the 21st Century: Proceedings on the International Symposium on Groundwater Sustainability.
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