Hi All,
Greetings from India!
A ‘River Basin Approach’ in ‘Nature Based Solutions’ by ensuring rights to local and indigenous communities over the local natural resources with involvement of all stakeholders can offer some of the best solutions to growing water woes and climate change crises. That’s what we want to explore further in our exciting upcoming River Conference (3rd Odisha River Conference) scheduled for 24-25 March 2019 with the following theme:
Promoting the Forest-River-Communities nexus for Conservation of Rivers and Combating Climate Change
The conference will see a unique gathering of forest protecting communities, civil society organisations, experts, academia and other stakeholders at Baripada in the eastern state of Odisha. Baripada in Mayurbhanj district, famous for the Simlipal bio reserve and a perfect test case to understand intricate linkages between forests, rivers and indigenous communities.
The Conference agenda has significance both at national and global context for people working on these issues and who are interested in taking up suitable action and advocacy initiatives surrounding the theme. We plan to have two general sessions, four technical sessions and a River Festival by indigenous communities residing in the Similipal bio reserve showcasing their relationship with the rivers and forests.
Would you be interested to be part of this unique initiative? If you want to collaborate or participate, please write to me for further details. Our last River Conference in 2018, organised around inter-state cooperation in river basin management, saw collaboration of 25 organisations and many individuals and witnessed active participation of about 150 people from cross section of stakeholders. We expect more encouraging response this time.
Thanking you,
Warm regards,
Ranjan
Ranjan K Panda
Convenor, Water Initiatives Odisha (WIO)
Mahanadi River Waterkeeper (Member, Global Waterkeeper Alliance, New York)
Convenor, Combat Climate Change Network, India
Country Manager for India, Climate Scorecard Project (Boston, USA)
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Fighting water woes, combating climate change...25 years and on!
Fighting water woes, combating climate change...25 years and on!
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