{"id":1085,"date":"2017-12-14T11:39:52","date_gmt":"2017-12-14T05:54:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.smallearth.org.np\/?page_id=1085"},"modified":"2017-12-20T15:44:29","modified_gmt":"2017-12-20T09:59:29","slug":"inception-cum-training-workshop","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/www.smallearth.org.np\/inception-cum-training-workshop\/","title":{"rendered":"Inception cum Training Workshop: Improving Skills for promoting sustainable watershed management practices in South Asia"},"content":{"rendered":"

Introduction<\/strong>
\nClimate change is severely impacting the socio economic conditions of small watershed communities in south Asia. The traditional watershed management practices cannot cope with the rapidly emerging climate change risks in these areas. Sustainable watershed management practices may enhance the resilience of natural resources to climate change risks (floods\/droughts) but lack of knowledge, skills, resources and awareness are the main impediments in changing the local community attitude and behaviour towards a positive change. Nevertheless, climate risks forecasting and assessment has been largely focused in the past, but promoting climate risk reduction\/mitigation through best adaptation practices on farm were largely overlooked. Therefore, stimulated adaptation of climate change resilient practices are urgently required to cope with the emerging climate risks.<\/p>\n

This workshop is a part of two years (2017-19) international project through financial support of Asia Pacific Newark (APN) Japan. The project is focussed on promoting sustainable watershed management practices including soil, water and energy conservation practices, potential use of harvested rainwater using solar\/electric\/diesel powered high efficient irrigation systems (drip. sprinkler, furrow bed irrigation systems) as per site specific conditions. Now to seek further insight in shortlisting and dissemination of the most appropriate interventions and to share new knowledge as per climate change scenario in Pakistan, this inception cum training workshop is the first event in Pakistan, where 20 project partners form lined departments of Pakistan will participate, whose domain of official responsibilities match with the above technologies, and will serve as master trainer for disseminating the new knowledge and technologies after the workshop.<\/p>\n

Objective<\/strong>
\n\u2022 Skill development in sustainable watershed management practices;
\n\u2022 Sharing of regional knowledge, especially among Pakistan, Nepal and Sri Lanka;
\n\u2022 Dissemination of promising sustainable watershed management technologies;
\n\u2022 Linkages development among national and international organizations.<\/p>\n

Focus Areas<\/strong>
\n\u2022 Sustainable watershed management;
\n\u2022 Characterizing site specific and best watershed management practices;
\n\u2022 Climate change resilient practices;
\n\u2022 Climate change and food security issues;
\n\u2022 Dissemination mechanism to end users.<\/p>\n

Potential Participants
\n<\/strong>\u2022 Agriculturists
\n\u2022 Hydrologists
\n\u2022 Environmentalist
\n\u2022 Social scientists
\n\u2022 Community workers<\/p>\n

Workshop Collaborators<\/strong>
\n\u2022 Asia Pacific Network for Global Change Research (APNgcr)
\n\u2022 Global Climate Change Impact Study Centre (GCISC)
\n\u2022 Pakistan Council of Research in Water Resources (PCRWR)
\n\u2022 Natural Resources Management Center Sri Lanka
\n\u2022 Nepal Academy of Science and Technology
\n\u2022 The Small Earth Nepal, Kathmandu Nepal<\/p>\n

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Click here for Workshop Schedule_draft<\/a><\/p>\n

Click here for Workshop Brochure<\/a><\/p>\n

Details of the project:<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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