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River basin management conference and a WWF job opportunity (16/12/04)

Hello everyone:

Two items that may be of interest to readers:

1. Here's a message from Bruce Lankford concerning an upcoming river basin management conference.

"This to inform you that there is still time to submit an abstract for the East African River Basin Management Conference held 7-9 March 2005 in Tanzania, and funded by DFID, IWMI, Comprehensive Assessment, and with support from HELP, Challenge Program and others. There are six themes: Theme 1 Water productivity - methodologies & management; Theme 2 Environmental flow assessment; Theme 3 Rainwater harvesting: Theme 4 Water governance and institutions (conflicts, legal framework, tradeoffs, dialogue, community level management); Theme 5 Water economics and livelihoods; Theme 6 Modelling and tools (decision-making).

On the 10th March a workshop by the World Bank is provided free for those attending the conference "Environmental and Social Safeguards: Integrating Environmental Flow Assessment in Water Resources Investment Planning and Policy Implementation March 10, 2005. Morogoro, Tanzania"

The deadline for abstracts is 31 December 2004, with full papers sent by 31 January 2005. Please refer to this URL http://www.iwmi.org.za/RIPARWIN/_archive/latest.htm or contact Soil-Water Management Research Group (swmrg@yahoo.co.uk) or Bruce Lankford b.lankford@uea.ac.uk for more details."

Dr Bruce Lankford, Senior Lecturer in Natural Resources , School of Development Studies (& Overseas Development Group), The University of East Anglia, Norwich, NR4 7TJ, United Kingdom (Email: b.lankford@uea.ac.uk; Tel +44 (0)1603 593378; Fax +44 (0)1603 451999; http://www.uea.ac.uk/dev/

2. Here's a job opportunity in the field of communications with WWF based at their international headquarters here in Gland. They are looking for a qualified, creative and motivated communications professional to work in their Global Marine Programme. The Communications Manager will identify and build new international communications opportunities, develop working relationships within and outside the WWF network and advance WWF's Global Marine agenda with a variety of audiences. A full job description and application details are available from WWF's Web site here http://www.panda.org/about_wwf/jobs/index.cfm.

Best wishes, Sandra Hails, Ramsar Secretariat

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Sandra Hails, CEPA Programme Officer
Ramsar Convention Secretariat
Rue Mauverney 28, CH-1196 Gland, Switzerland
Tel: +41 22 999 0176; Fax: +41 22 999 0169
E-mail: hails@ramsar.org
Web Site: http://ramsar.org
CEPA mini-Web site: http://ramsar.org/outreach_index.htm

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