Training Activity

Date: 04 – 06 December 2016

Venue: Tehran, Iran

Organizer: RCUWM-Tehran

Participating Countries/Organizations: Journalists and Public Relations Experts

Number of Participants: 56

Number of Female Participant: 26 (46%)

Objectives/Outcomes:

• Helping to improve the capacity of the media in water journalism in Afghanistan, Iran, Pakistan, and Turkmenistan
• Raising public awareness about climate change in general and water- related issues in
• Acquiring 20 journalist educators the updated skills and techniques to train journalists and media professionals on new media competencies to report on Climate Change and water issues, with a focus on a powerful and instrumental role of the media in raising public awareness and social behavior change as […]
  

Date: 9 May 2016

Venue: Tehran, Iran

Co-organizers: RCUWM-Tehran, Tehran municipality, Iran Water Resources Management Company

Participating Countries/Organizations: Germany, Japan, and South Korea

Participants: 930

Number of Female Participants: 405 (43%)

Objectives/Outcomes:

• The relationship between city, citizens and rivers
• Requirements and measures for urban river restoration and training and flood management
• How to participate stakeholders and residents in river restoration projects
• Presenting new approaches on urban river management and related experiences in Iran, Germany, Japan and South Korea

Date: 23-24 January 2016

Venue: Faculty of Environment, University of Tehran, Iran

Organizer: RCUWM- Tehran

Participating Countries/Organizations: RCUWM- Tehran, TETCO, University of Tehran

Number of Participants: 45

Number of Female Participants: 15 (34%)

Objectives/Outcomes:

• Defining ecological buffer zones in urban areas
• Introducing the role of value engineering and planning ecological buffer zones in urban rivers
• Explaining objectives and necessities of holding the workshop on value engineering
• Presenting ecological buffers and areas in the metropolitan area of Tehran in urban development projects
• Evaluating the riverbed concept and instructions on determination of flood fringe
• Reviewing international experiences on defining ecological buffer zones and related instructions
• Presenting experiences on urban […]
  

Date: 29 November-2 December 2015

Venue: Kyoto, Japan

Co-organizers: The Japan Federation of Engineering Societies, RCUWM–Tehran, Science Council of Japan, UNESCO, WFEO

Participating Countries/Organizations: China, Iran, Japan, Lebanon, South Korea, Taiwan, The Netherlands

Number of Participants: 50

Number of Female Participants: 17 (34%)

Objectives/Outcomes:

• Providing an opportunity to discuss and exchange new information, technology and experiences associated with river technologies among the participants in the WECC 2015.

Date: 16-19 November 2015

Venue: Tehran, Iran

Co-organizers: UNESCO, RCUWM-Tehran, Iranian National Water & Waste & Wastewater Eng. Co. (NWWEC)

Participating Countries/Organizations: Germany, Iran, Japan, USA

Number of Participants: 150

Number of Female Participants: 35 (23%)

Objectives/Outcomes:

• Promoting knowledge and awareness of journalists in the key issues on water and sanitation,
• Recognition of existing capacity, and aligning it with the needs
• Improving the quality and quantity of prepared papers regarding water- related issues
• Strengthening the water news network to raise public awareness through collaborative working between the water sector and media

Date: 18 October 2015

Venue: Tehran, Iran

Co-organizers: IUST, RCUWM-Tehran, TETCO

Participating Countries/Organizations: RCUWM- Tehran, TETCO, Ministry of Energy

Number of Participants: 80

Number of Female Participants: 27 (33%)

Objectives/Outcomes:

• Introducing to objectives and approaches related to Tehran river restoration and training master plan
• Presenting the latest progress of the mentioned master plan in three river restoration studies (Inception study and feasibility study)
• Ensuring rivers and canals in terms of safe passage of flood
• Improving urban ecosystem in ecological buffer area, social and awareness building on environmental issues and creating relationship between city, citizen and river
• Restoring river flow regime qualitative and quantitative-wise and aquifers recharge
• Stimulating […]
  

Date: 1 July 2015

Venue: Tehran, Iran

Co-organizers: RCUWM – Tehran, NWWEC

Participating Countries/Organizations: Australia, Iran

Number of Participants:  35

Number of Female Participants: 7 (20%)

Objectives/Outcomes:

• Discussing new technologiesin the field of vacuum and presure sewage collection networks and to transfer experiences from other parts of the world

Date: 12-17 April 2015

Venue: Daegu & Gyeongbuk, South Korea

Organizer: RCUWM–Tehran

Participating Countries/Organizations: China, France, Iran, South Korea, and The Netherlands

Number of Participants: 30

Number of Female Participants: 10 (34%)

Objectives/Outcomes:

The Session invited water-related government officials and experts from the three countries in collaboration with the three Ministries. Session speakers introduced government policies and practices, and exchanged their view on the future trilateral cooperation on water resources. Mr. SHIN Hyunsuk shared a Korean development history on water resources management that South Korea had been overcome over time through development of water management policies against water crises due to climate change and urbanization. […]

Date: 11-12 March 2015

Venue: Jakarta, Indonesia

Co-organizers: UNESCO Office Jakarta, JFIT

Participating Countries/Organizations: Australia, China, France, Indonesia, Iran, Japan, Malaysia, Mongolia, Pakistan, Philippines, Serbia, and South Korea

Number of Participants: 200

Number of Female Participants: 56 (28%)

Objectives/Outcomes:

• Signing 3 Memorandums of Understanding (MoU’s) to promote collaboration, cooperation and networking among three UNESCO’s Category II Water Centres, namely Humid Tropical Centre (HTC) Kuala Lumpur, Regional Centre on Urban Water Management (RCUWM-Tehran), and Asia-Pacific Centre for Eco-Hydrology (APCE)