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1st Implementation Cycle - Policy Session
11-22 Apr 2005
New York
In-session Activities
Learning Center
The CSD 13 Learning Center will include a specific focus on water, sanitation and human settlements. Courses will be listed on the CSD website and while pre-registration will be available, past experience has shown that most participants do not register prior to CSD. Instructors may provide suggested reading or other teaching materials in advance and these will be posted on the web. Participants in any given course are typically a mix of delegates, NGO representatives and participating experts from developed and developing countries.
| Date | Time | Title | Lecturer | Organization |
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| Monday, 11 April | 3:00-6:00 | Water Pricing in Australia: How to Achieve Water Conservation Objectives and Sustainable Use | Kate Houghton, Ross Dalton, Chris Davies, Colin Creighton |
Australia Department of the Environment and Heritage |
| Tuesday, 12 April | 10:00-1:00 | Institutional Aspects of Science, Technology and Innovation in Promoting Economic Development in Developing Countries | Calestous Juma | Harvard (Science and Technology) |
| 3:00-6:00 | Strengthening Governance of Water Resources: Environmental Laws, Enforcement and Indicators | Cheryl Rose Steve Wolfson |
US-Environmental Protection Agency | |
| Wednesday, 13 April | 10:00-1:00 | Programming for Sanitation and Hygiene Promotion: How to do it | Merri Weinger, USAID; Henk van Norden, UNICEF; HE Minister Maria Mutagamba, Uganda, President of AMCOW; Vanessa Tobin, UNICEF; Jamie Bartram, WHO; Cecilia Martinsen, WSSCC; Ede Ijjasz-Vasquez, WSP; Nafisa Barot, India; Syed Ayub Qutub, Pakistan | WSSCC – Water Supply and Sanitation and Collaborative Council |
| 3:00-6:00 | Funding for GEF projects | Frank Pinto | UNDP/GEF | |
| Thursday, 14 April | 10:00-1:00 | How to Focus Integrated Water Resources Management on Poverty Reduction | Paul Taylor | Cap-Net/The Institute |
| 3:00-6:00 | UN Decade of Education for Sustainable Development – Engaging Teacher Education Institutions | Charles Hopkins (UNESCO) Rosalyn McKeown (UNITWIN/UNESCO) Lorna Down (U. of West Indies) |
UNESCO | |
| Friday, 15 April | 10:00-1:00 | Trans-boundary Diagnostic Analysis and Strategic Action Programme & National IWRM Planning | Martin Bloxham Joakim Harlin | Global Environment Facility/International Waters learning Exchange and Resource Network (GEF-IW:LEARN) |
| 3:00-6:00 | Creating a Home in the city - Achieving the MDGs in Urban Centers | Pietro Garau (U. Rome) Elliott Sclar (Columbia U.) |
University of Rome "La Sapienza" Columbia University |
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| Monday, 18 April | 10:00-1:00 | Managing water and water resources through implementing the Ramsar Convention - Negotiation Simulation | Peter Bridgewater Sebastia Semene Rosa Montanez Frank Albertz |
The Ramsar Convention |
| 3:00-6:00 | The Way forward towards Sustainable Wastewater Management – Problem Identification for Project Formulation | Erik de Ruyter van Steveninck | UNESCO-IHE Institute for Water Education; UN/DOALOS and UNEP/ GPA |
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| Tuesday, 19 April | 10:00-1:00 | Sustainable Urban and Peri-Urban Sanitation | Ingvar Andersson (SIDA), Arno Rosemarin (SEI), Ron Sawyer (Sarar Transfomacion SC-Mexico), Cecilia Ruben (SEI) | The Institute/SEI/SIDA/UNDP |
| 3:00-6:00 | Attracting Private Finance for Water and Sanitation | Jacqueline Schafer, Paul Freedman, John Wasielewski, Griffin Thompson, Larissa Dobriansky | USAID | |
| Wednesday, 20 April | 10:00-1:00 | Sustainable Development Law: Access to Water, and Water Tenure Systems | Ashfaq Khalfan, Kenya; Marie-Claire Cordonier Segger Canada / U.K.; Maya Prabhu Canada / India; Jaykumar Menon, USA; Sebastien Jodoin, Canada; Daria Hobeika, Canada; Emily Wheeler, Canada / US; Anna Russell, South Africa; Shashi Yad, India | Center for International Sustainable Development Law (CISDL) |
| 3:00-6:00 | Gender and Sanitation – A Growing Problem - EcoSan, a Sustainable Solution | Mrs. Tumkur Niranjan Vimala, Nodal Officer UNICEF project, Bangalore; Professor Dr. Petter D. Jenssen, The Norwegian University of Life Sciences; Dr. Ken Gnanakan, President Acts-higher education, NGO Bangalore; Professor Dr. Tor Axel Stenström, Head of the Division of Water and Environmental Microbiology at the Swedish Institute for Infectious Disease Control | Norwegian University of Life Sciences |