Activities

Date: 11 – 13 December 2004

Venue: Tehran, Iran

Co-organizers: RCUWM-Tehran, UNESCO Tehran Cluster Office, UNESCO New Delhi Regional Office

Participating Countries/ Organizations: India, Iran, Lebanon, Nepal, Sri Lanka, UNESCO Office in New Delhi, UNESCO Tehran Office and UNESCO Headquarters

Number of Participants: 15

Number of Female Participants: 6 (40%)

Objectives/Outcomes:

-Urge RCUWM-Tehran to approach relevant ministries of various countries and national focal points (National Committees for IHP) in the region to receive more feedback on the needed topics. Feedbacks should be drawn from Delhi Cluster, Iran Cluster, Almaty Cluster, and countries served by Cairo office;

-Urge UNESCO cluster offices in /Tehran, New Delhi and Almaty in active coordination […]

Date: 27 November – 1 December 2004

Venue: Yazd, Iran

Co-organizers: ICQHS-Yazd, RCUWM-Tehran, UTCO

Participating Countries/ Organizations: Afghanistan, Belgium, China, England, France, Iran, India, Kyrgyzstan, Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, Tajikistan, and Uzbekistan

Number of Participants: 52

Number of Female Participants: 4 (7%)

Objectives/Outcomes:

• Recognizing the state of the art with regard to rainwater harvesting and management of aquifer recharge technology
• Recognizing the role of dissemination and training
• Emphasizing the regional issues

Date: 23 -24 February 2004

Venue: Tehran, Iran

Co-organizers: RCUWM-Tehran, Ministry of Energy

Participating Countries/ Organizations: Germany, Iran, Jordan, The Netherlands, GWA, RCTWS-Cairo, TIWA, UNESCAP, UNESCO

Number of Participants: 85

Number of Female Participants: 63 (74%)

Objectives/Outcomes:

• Establishing a conductive environment for women’s participation
• Reiterating the necessity of making more cooperation as operational means aimed at gender mainstreaming
• Emphasizing on creating more opportunities for women in managerial and decision making sectors.
• Promoting women’s training in different technical fields
• Establishing women communities within governmental organizations
• Establishing a unit of gender information in water affair section of Ministry of Energy or other Ministries to provide the possibility of generating […]
  

Date: 15 – 16 December 2003

Venue: Tehran – Iran

Co-organizers: RCUWM-Tehran, IDB

Participating Countries/Organizations: Bangladesh, Egypt, France, Iran, Jordan, Libya, Malaysia, Oman, Tajikistan, The Netherlands, Turkey, and Yemen

Number of Participants: 38

Number of Female Participants: 3 (7%)

Objectives/Outcomes:

• Water and Environment
• Water Resources Management in Critical Conditions
• Shared Water Resource Management
• Participatory Water Management

Several issues including importance of exchanging knowledge and experiences, capacity building, research, education, participatory approaches in water management and global attention to integrated water resources management were highlighted subjects considered in the concluding remarks, the proceedings of the above-mentioned symposium was published and disseminated by UNESCO-IHP within the framework of technical documents […]

Date: 6 -19 September 2003

Venue: Power and Water Institute of Technology, Tehran, Iran

Co-organizers: RCUWM-Tehran, UNESCO

Participating Countries/Organizations: Bahrain, Fiji, Iran, Malaysia Oman, Pakistan, Uzbekistan

Number of participants: 22

Number of Female Participants: 5 (23%)

Objectives/Outcomes:

• Making the participants familiar with principles and concepts of Water Demand Management by presenting good practices and case studies in the region
• Transferring new approaches from developing countries to the states in the region
• Strengthening national capabilities of the participation in the formulation and implementation of activities related to different aspects of Water Demand Management

Date: 7-9 May 2003

Venue: Tehran, Iran

Co-organizers: RCUWM-Tehran, United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (UNESCAP)

Participating Countries/Organizations: Afghanistan, Azerbaijan, Bangladesh, England, Iran, Japan, Pakistan, South Korea, Sri Lanka, Uzbekistan

Number of Participants: 42

Number of Female Participants: 8 (19%)

Objectives/Outcomes:

• Capacity building for promoting water conservation awareness
• Required job skills for a position to be effective along with the skills and training needs
• It was finally decided that participant countries should formulate, adopt and implement measures to enhance the national capacities for promotion of public awareness on water conservation and water use efficiency in all sectors.