With the Third World Water Forum less than 6 months away, a tentative program has been created. For a view of the program which includes session titles please visit http://www.water-forum3.com/ta/files/2-5.pdf.

The 3rd World Water Forum is intended to be open to all stakeholders, to stimulate global awareness of water problems, to help generate action from the debates and ideas centered around the World Water Vision, and to contribute to concrete solutions of world water problems. The forum will provide an opportunity for technical and regional organizations that are actively involved with water problems to present their perspectives in free discussions. Furthermore, the Forum will provide not only a place for the expression of opinions in each sector, but also for discussion across sectors and regions. Main panels will allow major stakeholders to discuss perspectives on and approaches to water problems.
The Japanese cities of Kyoto, Shiga, and Osaka will serve as the venue of the Forum which will be held from March 16 to 23, 2003 (8 days).

For more information visit the Forum's website at http://www.worldwaterforum.org.

2. New Publication: Accounting for Water by Wim H. Kloezen

Accounting for Water: Institutional viability and impacts of market-oriented irrigation interventions in Central Mexico by Wim H. Kloezen was published in April of this year.

Summary (from page 275 of the publication)
"During the past decade, many countries throughout the world have attempted to improve their generally poor performance record of agency-managed irrigation systems by designing and implementing institutional policy programs. This thesis analyses the institutional viability and the local impact on irrigation performance of two such institutional intervention programs. This is done in the context of the Alto Rio Lerma irrigation district (ARLID), a large-scale irrigation system with a command area of more than 112,000 hectares located in the State of Guanajuato, Central Mexico. The central notion that runs through this study is the recognition that new institutional arrangements do not necessarily follow institutional design principles and top-down directives from policy makers and government interveners, but rather are created in a process of local negotiation between water users, farmer leaders and irrigation managers. This requires detailed observations on local practices, strategies and interactions on how users, leaders, and managers cope with building and transforming irrigation institutions."

This book was published by the Grafisch Service Centrum, Wageningen, the Netherlands.

3. INPIM to Conduct a Session at the Third World Water Forum

INPIM will be conducting a session at the Third World Water Forum titled "ENHANCING STAKEHOLDER PARTICIPATION IN IRRIGATION MANAGEMENT," which will focus on setting up budget cycles and service provisions that make irrigation agency staff accountable to farmers, thereby giving them access to financial records and involving them in decision-making. This session will involve participants from around the globe. National seminars of farmers are currently being organized in South and East Asian countries in collaboration with several INPIM country chapters in preparation for this session.

4. New Partnership with Cambodia

INPIM will be forming a new partnership with Cambodia. Raymond Peter, Executive Director of INPIM will travel to Cambodia during October where he will meet with irrigation specialists and officers and develop a business plan for the formation of Cambodian INPIM.

Forming a chapter of INPIM creates an organization through which an active dialogue on irrigation reform can be sustained. In addition, chapters enable networking and information dissemination amongst practitioners, researchers, policy makers, and other professionals concerned with the irrigation sector.

5. INPIM ED Participates in this year's Rosenberg International Forum on Water Policy

Mr. J. Raymond Peter, Executive Director, INPIM will be presenting the experience of Andhra Pradesh with irrigation reform at this year's Rosenberg Forum. This forum is held every other year and is attended by the world's senior water scholars and water managers. This year's Rosenberg Forum will take place in Canberra, Australia from 7 to 11 October 2002. The theme of the forum is "Innovation in the Management of Water Resources: Perspectives from the Developed and Developing World."

6. Proceedings of the Sixth International Seminar on PIM to be Published Shortly

The proceedings of the Sixth International Seminar on Participatory Irrigation Management are currently being finalized. They will be published with copies of the presentations made during the seminar and the papers on which those presentations were based on a CD-ROM within the next 2 months.

7. Seventh International Seminar on PIM to be held in Albania in 2004

The INPIM Board of Directors has decided that the next international seminar on PIM will be held in Tirana, Albania in 2004. The choice of Albania as a venue for the next seminar was made for several reasons. Seminar participants will have the opportunity to learn a great deal about irrigation reform in the transitional economies of Eastern and Central Europe as well as Central Asia and the newly independent states of the former Soviet Union. Participants will also learn firsthand about the innovative water user association project being supported by the World Bank in Albania. INPIM Albania has long been a very active country chapter. They will no doubt make excellent hosts.

Seminar arrangements are currently underway. More will be communicated via newsletters, e-newsletters, and postings on the INPIM website in 2003.

8. Call for Articles

We need you, INPIM members and e-newsletter readers, to keep INPIM's library and bi-annual newsletter up to date with the latest information from every corner of the world. If you do not have a formal paper, consider sending us your thoughts as a "Letter to the Editor," a newsletter article, or photographs of PIM activities in your country. We always appreciate receiving documents electronically, and can accept almost any format. We also accept materials sent by post or fax.

Please send all materials to INPIM's Coordinator, Josiane Georges, at coordinator@inpim.org or at the INPIM Secretariat address found at the end of this e-newsletter.

9. Watson International Scholars of the Environment Program - Call for applications, Deadline for Spring 2003 is October 15, 2002

This is an intensive program in sustainable ecosystem management, to provide mastery of critical concepts, relevant tools and transferable processes necessary for successfully managing ecosystems. The 3.5 month curriculum is designed for environmental leaders from non-governmental organizations, governments and university faculties throughout the developing world. The Watson International Scholars of the Environment are regarded as active participants, not as passive students. Instruction focuses upon relevant case studies of environmental problem-solving -- instances of success and failure from throughout the international arena are carefully diagnosed.

The opportunity for participants entails increased levels of effectiveness, informing sound decision-making by enhancing abilities to rapidly integrate data from across disciplines. Our investment in these leaders is strategic: We admit men and women capable of creating lasting, and immediately favorable impacts on the sustainable development of their home institutions, eco-regions and nations. Accordingly, participants are expected to be at a mid-point within their careers in environmental science, policy and technology fields. We are most interested in attracting individuals who want to forge new linkages among ideas and issues, to develop networks among leaders facing similar issues and to explore alliances with relevant colleagues and institutions for improved personal and institutional effectiveness.
Direct link to the Call for Applications webpage with downloadable forms: http://www.watsoninstitute.org/GE/Watson_Scholars/callapp.html
Deadline for receipt of completed applications is October 15, 2002.
Please mail or fax to:
Watson International Scholars of the Environment Program
Attn: Laura Sadovnikoff, Program Coordinator
Watson Institute for International Studies
Brown University
Box 1970
111 Thayer Street
Providence, RI 02912 USA

Fax: (401) 863-9733

10. Using Tomorrow's Water Today -Water Sharing Forum - 14 October 2002 in Sydney, Australia

Record high water prices, depleted irrigation reserves and prolonged drought conditions are posing one of the greatest challenges ever for Australia's rural policy makers who must shortly decide how precious water should be allocated in the future. While the trade-off between irrigated agricultural production and environmental quality has traditionally been an uneasy one, growing pressure on State governments to impose tougher regulation of access, particularly for irrigation, will further heighten existing tensions.

To help tackle this issue, Australia's peak body of agricultural and natural resource management professionals will host a public debate on the issue of water rights in rural Australia at a forum to be held in Sydney next month. Initiated by the Australian Institute of Agricultural Science and Technology (AIAST), the forum will cover the impacts of changes to State government policy for the allocation and use of surface and ground water. Addressing the strengths and weaknesses of the recent policy initiatives, the AIAST will bring together speakers to present the case for the environment, agribusiness and agriculture in what is expected to be a lively forum.

Key speakers will include:
Dr Bob Smith, Director General of NSW Department of Land and Water Conservation,
Dick Thompson, Chairman of Murrumbidgee Irrigation and
Brad Williams, Executive Director of the NSW Irrigators Council.

The forum will be held at the North Sydney Anzac Memorial (RSL) Club, Cammeray, New South Wales, October 14, starting 4 pm. As places are limited, interested people should contact Roger Fitzsimmons, Secretary of the Eastern NSW Branch of the AIAST on 02 9943 0090 or email: aiastensw@optusnet.com.au.

11. Land and Water Specialist, IWMI Ghana Office

The Job: IWMI is looking for a regionally recruited scientist with background in soil and water management at different scales and significant working experience in West and Central Africa, to be based in its Ghana office.

Qualifications & Skills: The person should have a Ph.D. and be bilingual (French-English). Though the person will be posted in Ghana (Accra), the position will be sub regional. Thus frequent travel to neighboring countries or IWMI's Africa Office in Pretoria is likely.
The candidate will provide input into sub regional projects related, for example, to IWMI's Comprehensive Assessment with special focus on river basins, formal and informal (wastewater) irrigation, and integrated soil and water management/modeling at different scales. S/he will play a co-leadership role in IWMI's collaborative program on intensifying rainfed agriculture/scaling up low-cost land and water management technologies. The candidate will also participate in IWMI's collaboration with GLOWA-Volta. S/he should be able to develop proposals for research, supervise M.Sc. and Ph.D. students from collaborating institutions, write scientific papers for journals and participate in international conferences and workshops.

Female candidates are strongly encouraged to apply.

Finally, the person must be able to assist the Ghana Head of Office in overall project administration and coordination in the sub-region, co-ordinate capacity building activities and represent the office when and where necessary, especially in francophone countries.
Salary & Benefits: Salary & benefits will be competitive as per the IWMI's policy for regionally recruited positions and with those of similar international institutions. These benefits include housing, utilities & transport allowance, educational assistance, annual home leave and medical insurance.

Applications: To obtain further details about IWMI visit our website http://www.iwmi.org. Interested candidates who meet the above requirements may please forward copy of application, resume and the names and addresses of three referees on or before 1 November 2002 to:
The Regional Director - South Africa
Private Bag X813, Silverton 0127
South Africa
Or by e-mail to:iwmi-africa@cgiar.org

12. Research Policy Broker, IWMI Ghana Office
The Job: IWMI is looking for a regionally recruited scientist who is well-oriented in institutional and governmental settings and national policies in Ghana and its neighboring countries, to be based in IWMI's Ghana office. The candidate will strengthen IWMI Ghana's capacity to develop appropriate decision support for policy makers based on IWMI's research work. He/she will analyze policy implications of IWMI's research work, to create awareness of our research findings and to facilitate their uptake and implementation in the appropriate political, institutional and legal environment at different levels (local, basin, nation). The candidate is also expected to provide leadership to increase IWMI's impact at the policy level. The person should have background in economics or another policy science. Experience in water and land management would be a significant advantage.

Qualifications & Skills: The candidate should have a Ph.D. but considerable job experience in line with this job description would be preferred. He/she must be bilingual (French-English). Though the person will be posted in Ghana (Accra), the position will be sub regional. Thus frequent travel to neighboring countries or IWMI's Africa Office in Pretoria is likely.

The candidate will accept project leadership and should be able to develop proposals for research, supervise M.Sc. and Ph.D. students from collaborating institutions, write scientific papers for journals and participate in international conferences and workshops.

Female candidates are encouraged to reply.

Salary & Benefits: Salary & benefits will be competitive as per the IWMI's policy for regionally recruited positions and with those of similar international institutions. These benefits include housing, utilities & transport allowance, educational assistance, annual home leave and medical insurance.

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