News and Events

(last updated June 9, 2006)

The Project was launched in April 2005 with the Inception Workshop, which was announced and described in the CP Newsletter “Water and Food Monthly,” April, 2005 (PDF 199Kb).  Read Inception Report (PDF 81Kb).

Read the latest newsletter of the Challenge Program on Water and Food.

Update on Training Program: ‘Groundwater Governance in Theory and Practice’

The deadline for the application to enter into the training program has passed (June 6, 2006). We have more than enough applicants, and we will now go through the selection process. Before July 5, 2006, successful applicants will be informed individually by mail and fax. Subsequently and upon written consent and accept of the scholarship the fellows will be forwarded formal invitation letters for their visa requirements.

The training program is taking final shape. The first week of the 5-week program will take place at The Department of Water Resources Development and Management (DWRDM), Indian Institute of Technology, Roorkee, Uttar Pradesh, India. The second and third week will take place in Dehradun, Uttaranchal, at Centre for Soil and Water Conservation Research and Training Institute (CSWCRTI) and Indian Institute for Remote Sensing (IIRS), respectively. The fourth week will be hosted by the College of Agricultural Engineering (CAE), Punjab Agricultural University, Ludhiana, Punjab, India and for the fifth week, the participants will return to IIT, Roorkee.

The research phase of the fellows following the five week class-room course is being designed and prepared for the fellows to enter smoothly into a practical and realistic program of four weeks research (senior fellows) and 16 weeks action research for junior and media fellows.

The competition on best mascot and logo has been closed (May 31, 2006) and the award winner announced. The winner will be honored and awarded at the opening session of the fifth week of the course, which is planned to be a high level conference style workshop involving the senior fellows of the course and several national and international experts on groundwater and groundwater management.