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A new brochure on capacity building (12/03/07)

Good morning everyone:

Wetlands: Your guide to capacity building in wetland management and restoration is an 8-page brochure that has been produced by the WetCap partnership. It lists existing wetland capacity building and training programmes, courses, and online modules, offered by the different WetCap and Ramsar-affiliated institutes.

The brochure was developed at the request of the Advisory Board on Capacity Building for the Ramsar Convention (read about the Board here http://www.ramsar.org/outreach_advisoryboard.htm). Over 4 pages it gives detailed information on the courses that are offered, their aims, language of delivery, duration, location, and types of participants. Another page gives a quick reference guide to all courses summarising the regional focus and duration or study load.

Formed in 2005, the WetCap partnership consists of seven organisations based in the Netherlands including: UNESCO-IHE, the Institute for Water Education; Cap-Net/UNDP, the International Network for Capacity Building in Integrated Water Resources Management; Rijkswaterstaat RIZA; ITC, the International Institute for Geo-Information Science and Earth Observation; Wetlands International; Wageningen International and Alterra (Wageningen University and Research Centre).

You can download the brochure from the Wetland Professionals Platform web site here http://www.wetlandprofessionals.org//content/view/41/74/ and hard copies are available from the Ramsar Secretariat (please send requests with your mailing address to riera@ramsar.org).

With 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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