From klance_remote at yahoo.com Sun Feb 1 08:27:42 2009 From: klance_remote at yahoo.com (Kate Lance) Date: Sun, 1 Feb 2009 05:27:42 -0800 (PST) Subject: [SDI-Africa] Green Belt Movement (Kenya) granted Geospatial Excellence Award at Map World Forum Message-ID: <926780.21453.qm@web53607.mail.re2.yahoo.com> http://greenbeltmovement.org/n.php?id=156 Green Belt Movement granted Geospatial Excellence Award at Map World Forum January 20, 2009: The Geospatial Excellence Award is granted to meritorious projects which have made significant and measurable contributions towards the development of new geospatial applications or innovative modification of existing geospatial technology practices to substantially reduce project costs. One of the categories of the award is for the usage of Geospatial Technology for Environment Management. Green Belt Movement is using Geospatial Technology for change detection which is critical for understanding what is happening with Kenya's forests and forests across Africa. Green Belt Movement has extensively used Geospatial technology to monitor the growth of the trees and the change in forest cover over time after plantation. GPS units have been used to find out the right locations during replanting projects. GIS Development is organizing Map World Forum on 10-13 February 2009 at Hyderabad International Convention Centre, India, http://www.mapworldforum.org/?; http://www.mapworldforum.org/2009/conference/award.htm See also: http://www.esri.com/news/arcwatch/0707/wangari.html Nobel Prize Winner Inspires the Audience at the ESRI International User Conference http://www.greenbeltmovement.org/a.php?id=248 Green Belt Movement to Boost GIS Capacity Through Donation of IMAGINE -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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Funded by the Ministry of Education of Rwanda and with the support of the Environmental Systems Research Institute (ESRI Inc./ESRI Germany), GIS is currently becoming a teaching method for secondary education in Rwanda . 40 secondary schools throughout the country and 120 teachers respectively have already been prepared with training, assessments for certification and software installations at schools to make use of this modern technology. A GIS textbook for teachers and students with sample lessons for use with the Rwandan curriculum has been adapted and published. ? The CGIS-NUR seminar on GIS in Secondary Education will present the achievements and challenges for integrating GIS in Rwandan secondary schools. Following the presentation there will be a discussion about future steps to take (e.g. formal integration in the National Curriculum, deployment of an e-learning environment at schools) and the role of Higher Education. ? Geographic Information Systems (GIS) is not only a research method at universities, but it can be applied in schools as a powerful tool to explore, investigate and visualize curricular topics in Mathematics, Geography, Computer Science by using ICT. It helps produce students with a wide-range of skills such as critical thinking, effective communication, time management, presentation of information and report writing. Find more about GIS in Schools in the recent ArcGIS in Secondary Schools Newsletter 2009/01 which can be downloaded from the NUR website: http://www.nur.ac.rw/download/Newsletter_200901.pdf. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://lists.gsdi.org/pipermail/sdi-africa/attachments/20090202/4208461d/attachment-0001.htm -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... 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Makowiecki Sent: Monday, February 02, 2009 7:15 PM To: Remote-Sensing-&-GIS-for-a-New-World at googlegroups.com Subject: {RS&GISfaNW:5145} User Intent + Relevant Map Content = Intelligent MashUp By Susan Smith. User Intent + Relevant Map Content = Intelligent MashUp By Susan Smith The rapidly growing geospatial industry is continually adding more market possibilities, with geospatial information turning up in the most surprising places. Microsoft Virtual Earth and Google Earth are responsible for the birth of countless web mapping applications that could not have been imagined just a few years ago. NavDog, a pioneer in developing AJAX-powered mapping systems, is working with companies to help educate them about the power of the data they have and how they can use and distribute that data in ways the could be valuable to them. Garnering the interest of online advertisers, NavDog has developed a consumer-facing map search technology that incorporates system intelligence into their GIS. Their Geographic Business Intelligence Engine (GBIE) is the basis for this intelligence, architected to process user actions in order to derive intent. Matching user intent with relevant map content, the results are displayed to the user in real time using NavDog's AJAX technology. The content is refined each time the user executes an action and the end result is a map that displays the object of the user's map search, supplemented with related supporting content derived from relationships between map items and their connection to the user's immediate interests. Every time the user interacts with the site, a unique mashup of map content is created by the site. The service-oriented architecture (SOA) system selectively seeks content that the customer manages. Originally, the GBIE was designed to address putting advertising content into the experience, while at the same time employing their technique of exploration through browsing map content. Their challenge was to find a way to filter map icons that were represented to the user without knowing what the user was looking for, and to deal with relevant paid content that needed to be situated where it would be valued. Once the intelligent mapping system was complete, it provided a map that could learn from its users, as well as an intelligence system that could power numerous applications. Shawn Fredrickson, CEO of NavDog, explained that most of the data they gather is b-to-b. "We go out to a site or a company and they consolidate data," he said. One of their clients is Dotmenu, Inc. a company that builds products to make it easier for people to interact with restaurants. Dotmenu posts menus of restaurants up on their site, making it possible for people to order exactly what they want to eat at any time of day or night because they have access to such a wide selection. Fredrickson said they approached Dotmenu and pointed out that they maintain data for 250,000 restaurants, and suggested they allow NavDog to extend this data into a mapping environment, then NavDog would give it back to them in this enriched format. "They thought it was a great idea, so we went out to data aggregators." Currently NavDog has a destination website, which they consider their "proof of concept" for building their "business intelligence/geointelligence system" which consequently manages their browsing experience. Built in is a logic process based on their business model that is two pronged: 1) A private label system that is a lightweight version of the website. "Most of the interface stuff is removed but the experience of browsing content and the intelligence of how the content is delivered remains in a private label that we will go out and market to websites that have good core content," said Fredrickson. "If you went to Expedia and said, 'why don't you overlay our experience into your mapping system, and what we'll do is convert all your hotels into items that we can actually remap and track and work with the inherent intelligence. We will boomerang those back to you." 2) As part of this arrangement, NavDog would be able to distribute that mapped data to other sites whose core content is supported by those hotels, such as tours and destinations that could earn revenue by getting exposure for the hotels. The customer would have control over their content. NavDog is currently looking into creating a content aggregator for map content to build almost a paid "ad network" based on map content that supports other websites' content. This would enable customers to distribute their content to other sites that benefit them. Fredrickson said they are targeting markets that have large ad networks, and ones with services that support each other. The travel industry, the ticketing and event industry are "no brainers," in his opinion. "For Ticketmaster I can pump in supporting content, what will a consumer do before and after a concert, for example," he said. He added that real estate has a lot of potential, as people who are researching neighborhoods where they possibly might want to live will be interested to know about restaurants and malls, etc. NavDog will be able to add some paid content that shows where malls and restaurants are located. "As you begin to visualize this it's almost like the 'six degrees of separation.' There's the supporting element from every core content site that can support some other equally large core content site that does something different," Fredrickson pointed out. "You don't really ever have to compete, so a company can always go in and support another company's content. The trade there is you get the exposure but it's an ad campaign. You're acutally paying that publisher to be on their site through an ad network. As we began down this road, we could see this going on forever and ever." NavDog's pitch is as follows: you already have the sales force and the customers and we have publishers. "All we have to do is slide in there with a new product that opens up a new way for sites to generate revenue," said Fredrickson. "At the same time the user wins because the experience on each site becomes so much more enhanced, and access to information becomes much greater on each site." Ticketmaster has various pieces of information that intersect, according to Fredrickson. Consider that an event will attract a certain demographic. It's possible to know when an event will take place, and when people in that demographic area will be in the geographic location of the event. "You have 100,000 people going to see a large concert, and we know what type of person goes to this concert and when they're going to be in the area, and that amounts to an incredible amount of targeted advertising by the company," explained Fredrickson. Businesses that are in geographic proximity to this event or along the route from ticketholder to destination would be targets. A company like Ticketmaster has the data and NavDog has the geospatial data that they want to narrow down to businesses located 200 feet from the venue. Businesses in this vicinity can take advantage of the geospatial data to pick relevant data points to set up an ad campaign. As an SOA, NavDog runs on Microsoft Virtual Earth. With AJAX they can accomplish a great deal of processing. NavDog can interpret what the user did during his/her session and bring relevant content back to the user each time he/she moves the map. Within the NavDog service, there is a feedback loop and scoring system to calculate the value of each exposure to content in the intelligent map. The scoring system can be used to record in the database every single map move performed while on the map. "In doing that, we can turn all that database information into a granular reporting system with several levels of interaction," said Fredrickson. "People say they can generate revenue off something they already have." NavDog is looking at a license fee structure based on the number of visitors per month. They may also include technological breakthroughs that would appear as enhancements to the customers' mapping feature. 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The Small Grants Scheme aims at: ??Supporting research that contributes to the prevention and control of communicable diseases; ??Strengthening the research capacity of the Eastern Mediterranean Region; ??Disseminating research results for their effective use in the prevention and control of communicable diseases; ??Monitoring the implementation of research results by the national control programmes to ensure the translation of research results into policy and practice. Deadline for applications:?28 February 2009. http://www.emro.who.int/TDR/Media/Word/TDR_Small_Grants_Scheme_09.doc Download the call and proposal form (Word, 314 kb) http://www.emro.who.int/tdr/media/excel/small_grant_scheme_09.xls Budget template (Excel, 90 kb) -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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Candidates should have a postgraduate degree in a field relevant to IWRM, preferably at PhD level; demonstrable affinity with academic research and education. Deadline: 13 February, 2009. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://lists.gsdi.org/pipermail/sdi-africa/attachments/20090205/ffe90e4a/attachment.htm From klance_remote at yahoo.com Mon Feb 9 07:57:41 2009 From: klance_remote at yahoo.com (Kate Lance) Date: Mon, 9 Feb 2009 04:57:41 -0800 (PST) Subject: [SDI-Africa] MSc: Sustainability in communal socio-ecological systems, South Africa Message-ID: <978986.14066.qm@web53611.mail.re2.yahoo.com> http://www.gssa.co.za/postgrad-opportunities/msc-sustainability-in-communal-socio-ecological-systems/ MSc: Sustainability in communal socio-ecological systems, School of Animal, Plant and Environmental Sciences, University of the Witwatersrand Two MSc bursaries (R30,000 each for two years) are available for ecology/environmental science students to participate in a multi-disciplinary research project titled SUCSES: Sustainability in communal socio-ecological systems. The aim of the overall project is to gain a better understanding of the dynamic relationship between society and the environment at multiple levels in a rural region of South Africa. Such analysis is necessary for identifying, understanding and responding to threats and opportunities for ecological sustainability and human well-being in these systems in order to inform appropriate policy. The project is based in the Agincourt Health and Demographic Surveillance Site, in the rural district of Bushbuckridge, Mpumalanga Province, South Africa. The MSc bursaries will each address one of the following research questions: Project 1: What are the spatial patterns of ecosystem composition, structure and function in a communal savanna Project 2: What are the patterns of land cover resilience to shocks (e.g. drought) and stresses, (e.g. resource harvesting) in different landscape units in a communal savanna landscape over the last two decades, and what are the implications of this for the provision of ecosystem services? Deadline for applications: 27 February 2009. Contact: rcrd at global.co.za. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://lists.gsdi.org/pipermail/sdi-africa/attachments/20090209/ab3262b3/attachment.htm From gojwang at yahoo.com Thu Feb 12 06:18:10 2009 From: gojwang at yahoo.com (Gordon Ojwang') Date: Thu, 12 Feb 2009 03:18:10 -0800 (PST) Subject: [SDI-Africa] Fellowship for African Nationals: BSc or MSc on Hydrology from China Message-ID: <687008.89653.qm@web35608.mail.mud.yahoo.com> As you may be aware within the framework of co-operation between WMO and the Chinese government, it was agreed that WMO and China will jointly support fellowships for African Nationals to obtain MSc or BSc. degree on Hydrology from China for duration of 4-5 years including 1-2 years language training. The age is strictly limited to 35 years or less for MSc and 25 years or less for BSc. ?The WMO Fellowship committee will meet on Friday 20 February 2009 to select the candidates for this year.? You can identify one person from your NHS who can benefit from this programme. The nominated person should fill WMO's Fellowship application form and the Chinese Scholarship Form both of which should be fully completed and signed by the Director of the Meteorological Services (PR) of your country and returned to the address below before 18 February 2009. ?To facilitate the process and to assist you to meet the deadline, attached herewith you will find WMO Fellowship Form in English and French. The Chinese Scholarship Form, only in English is also attached. (See attached file: zhongguozhengfu.pdf)(See attached file: FNFEnglish.doc) See attached file: FNFFrench.doc) Contact: Mohamed Mahmoud TAWFIK Chief Division, Basic Systems in Hydrology ?World Meteorological Organization 7 bis, Avenue de la Paix Case postale No: 2300-CH-1211 GENEVE 2-SWITZERLAND. ?Tel : 4122-730 83 30 ?Fax : 4122-730 80 43 E-mail: mtawfik at wmo.int -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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Candidates are welcome to submit proposals on how knowledge, innovation and? capacity for promoting African integration through the application of the? convergence of information, computers and communication technologies,?biotechnologies and nano-technologies applied to the pressing challenges African? countries face simultaneously now as multiple and overlapping economic, food,? energy, health and climate crises. Applicants must possess an MSc or MA,?preferably in a field related to science, technology and innovation in relation?to some aspect of African development. They should also submit a 5-page research?proposal, with research question, methodology, and a three year plan that?includes how they intend to undertake literature review, field research and the?final completion of the thesis. Candidates who apply may seek further information from Professor? Mammo Muchie, NRF/DST research professor chair on innovation? studies: muchiem at tut.ac.za,? Tel: +27123823078. Relevant website: http://www.diiper.ihis.aau.dk/, http://www.ccis.aau.dk/ -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://lists.gsdi.org/pipermail/sdi-africa/attachments/20090213/35af8dd8/attachment.htm From klance_remote at yahoo.com Mon Feb 16 08:58:25 2009 From: klance_remote at yahoo.com (Kate Lance) Date: Mon, 16 Feb 2009 05:58:25 -0800 (PST) Subject: [SDI-Africa] Massive diamond find perplexes Jwaneng planners (Botswana) Message-ID: <785202.69476.qm@web53602.mail.re2.yahoo.com> http://www.mmegi.bw/index.php?sid=1&aid=1&dir=2009/February/Monday9 Massive diamond find perplexes Jwaneng planners (Botswana) This a classic case of what happens when spatial data in a country is not shared, but is instead kept under lock and key in different government offices, private organisations.? Millions have been wasted on servicing land for residential development (for roads, storm water drainage, water pipes and electricity connections), only to find that there are diamonds beneath. As the Mmegi newspaper reports,?the new diamond discovery issue?is now pitting the Ministries of Local Government, Lands and Housing, and Minerals, Energy and Water Resources against one another, accusing each other of poor consultation. The Jwaneng town?mayor, Christopher Ramolemane, said, "We don't know what is happening at all. This is an issue of three ministries - local government, minerals, and lands - maybe they can better explain to you what is going on," said the visibly frustrated mayor in an interview at his house in Jwaneng. The mayor says he fails to understand how the Jwaneng Town Council were allocated funds to service the unit when authorities knew that they had awarded the same land to a company to explore for diamonds. 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Candidates should have: ??an appropriate level last degree in a cognate discipline such aslaw, planning, social anthropology, surveying, human geography or sociology and preferably a record of publication in established journals. ? a good command of written English Contact Dr. J Whittal School of Architecture, Planning and Geomatics University of Cape Town Tel +27 21 650 3575; email jennifer.whittal at uct.ac.za Deadline: 28 February 2009. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://lists.gsdi.org/pipermail/sdi-africa/attachments/20090216/f41040c5/attachment.htm From klance_remote at yahoo.com Wed Feb 18 08:35:55 2009 From: klance_remote at yahoo.com (Kate Lance) Date: Wed, 18 Feb 2009 05:35:55 -0800 (PST) Subject: [SDI-Africa] Call for Student Entries for Sustainability Generation Workshop Message-ID: <157304.53692.qm@web53603.mail.re2.yahoo.com> [Source: Community Mapping Network - East, Central and Southern Africa - CMN-ECA List] Call for Student Entries for Sustainability Generation Workshop Theme: Climate Change: Role of the Sustainability Generation 21-24 April 2009 Nairobi, Kenya The overall objective of the Sustainable generation workshop is to provide a forum for college students in Africa to engage creatively and innovatively with students from other regions on current environment and sustainability challenges.?See the attached announcement for information and further action. Any bona fide university student (between the ages of 17 to 25 at the start of the competition) from chartered universities/higher education institutions across Africa is eligible for the competition. Entries from teams will also be accepted; however, only two members from a winning team can participate in the workshop. UNEP, under its flagship programme of Mainstreaming Environment and Sustainability in African (MESA) Universities Partnership, in collaboration with UNICEF, UNU, Strathmore University, University of Uppsala, Inter-varsity Environment Network and MCSDP is giving you an opportunity to come up with an idea as to how you would promote sustainable solutions to help combat climate change in your college.?Share your idea for a project that could have an impact in terms of improving the environment and helping to combat/mitigate/adapt to the impacts of climate change in your college. Your project should take into account the current climate, environment and development issues in Africa and also outline the steps you will take to implement your idea. Your idea for a sustainable solution can take the form of a scientific, cultural/social, political, or business measures. The challenge you have is to persuade us how your project will have both a beneficial local and global impact in addressing climate change. Other vital considerations for winning ideas are the buy in of your institution, sustainability and funding plan as well as assurance that you will be able to implement the project and carry it through to the end. Contact: env.edu at unep.org. The closing date for the submission of concept papers is 8 March 2009. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://lists.gsdi.org/pipermail/sdi-africa/attachments/20090218/8064adb3/attachment-0001.htm -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: Call for participation in the Students Sustainability Generation Workshop.pdf Type: application/octet-stream Size: 278975 bytes Desc: not available Url : http://lists.gsdi.org/pipermail/sdi-africa/attachments/20090218/8064adb3/attachment-0001.obj From chrisgnicholas at att.net Wed Feb 18 01:00:50 2009 From: chrisgnicholas at att.net (Chris Nicholas) Date: Tue, 17 Feb 2009 22:00:50 -0800 (PST) Subject: [SDI-Africa] Landsat 5 data policy Message-ID: <408021.51335.qm@web180113.mail.gq1.yahoo.com> greetings - with the post-Bush Administration here in the US,? and the offer of free CBERS data to all of Africa by the Chinese and Brazil, a few of us are determined that, for the 1-2 years it may still be 'alive', to do our best to get Landsat 5 data flowing freely, and in near real-time, to the "pixel inhabitants" who might benefit from it the most: the subscribers of this list. This follows on the heels of recent pp2c2e (political processes too complicated to explain) developments that may (finally!!) allow its reception at the Malindi, Kenya facility. The cascading effect would be felt by those within the "footprint of the CSIR/South Africa station as well; a 2000km radius from Hartbeespoort, and hopefully set a precedent that all this Earth observation stuff, at a 20meter resolution, accomplishes it goals, *by far*, by giving it away and promoting collaboration, that restricting its use to a few Ivory towers in Maryland, Santa Barbara, Montana, South Dakota, and elsewhere. So, please: make your feelings, and the potential impacts of a policy change, known! please write, or even better, have your American ambassadors write, to: Fernando Echavarria,? echavarriafr at state.gov concerning the ways this would benefit your activities in? Africa. best regards - (and with a new email address) Chris p.s. - because of my new email address, and tp2c2e (technical processes too complicated to explain) could someone please forward this along to the scgis listserv as well? -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://lists.gsdi.org/pipermail/sdi-africa/attachments/20090217/c71b3446/attachment.htm From klance_remote at yahoo.com Fri Feb 20 09:27:00 2009 From: klance_remote at yahoo.com (Kate Lance) Date: Fri, 20 Feb 2009 06:27:00 -0800 (PST) Subject: [SDI-Africa] WhereCampAfrica, ILRI, Nairobi, 4 April 2009 Message-ID: <979577.94601.qm@web53604.mail.re2.yahoo.com> Please share with colleagues who might be interested?.. Registration for WhereCampAfrica 2009 now is open at www.wherecampafrica.org. WhereCamp is the free unconference for geogeographers, mobile location experts and social cartographers and all kinds of folks interested in place.?An unconference is a conference planned by the participants. After a morning plenary to help frame the discussion, everyone?convenes together, plans sessions, and has break-outs into sessions (i.e.,?the event is community driven and is what you make it). This will be a?great opportunity in Nairobi to mix and mingle with movers/shakers/aficianados in the GeoWeb/mash up/mobile applications/Web 2.0 world.?Topics might include: Mobile location Remote Sensing Geoinformatics Mapping and Agriculture Food Security and Location Community Mapping Local Search social cartography Crisis Mapping Iphones Androids and the way the web is falling into mobile For further details, contact: Jubal Harpster, jharpster (at) wherecampafrica.org -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://lists.gsdi.org/pipermail/sdi-africa/attachments/20090220/8d96f722/attachment.htm From klance_remote at yahoo.com Tue Feb 24 07:47:53 2009 From: klance_remote at yahoo.com (Kate Lance) Date: Tue, 24 Feb 2009 04:47:53 -0800 (PST) Subject: [SDI-Africa] Human Rights Center Mobile Challenge Message-ID: <932286.13540.qm@web53607.mail.re2.yahoo.com> http://netsquared.org/hrc-ucb Human Rights Center Mobile Challenge Recent innovations in science and technology, especially mobile technologies, have provided human rights advocates, journalists, and scientists with new tools to expose war crimes and other serious violations of human rights and disseminate this information in real time throughout the world. Cell phones, combined with GPS, cameras, video, audio, and SMS are transforming the way the world understands and responds to emerging crises. Handheld data collection devices, such as PDAs, provide researchers with new ways of documenting mass violence and attitudes toward peace, justice, and social reconstruction in conflict zones. The Human Rights Center at the University of California, Berkeley?is sponsoring a challenge to encourage innovations for applying mobile technologies for human rights investigations and advocacy. Through a NetSquared Community vote, 10 finalists will be chosen. All 10 finalists will be invited to present their ideas at an international conference, ?The Soul of the New Machine: Human Rights, Technology, and New Media,? at UC Berkeley, May 4 and 5, 2009. A panel of judges, selected by the Human Rights Center, will choose three winners, to be announced at the conference. Winners will receive cash awards of $15,000 (first place), $10,000 (second place), and $5,000 (third place) to implement their ideas. Submission period ends March 13, 2009 - 3:00pm PST -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://lists.gsdi.org/pipermail/sdi-africa/attachments/20090224/8300d09b/attachment.htm From klance_remote at yahoo.com Tue Feb 24 08:06:36 2009 From: klance_remote at yahoo.com (Kate Lance) Date: Tue, 24 Feb 2009 05:06:36 -0800 (PST) Subject: [SDI-Africa] positions with Southern Africa Regional Environment Program (SAREP) Message-ID: <922854.58456.qm@web53604.mail.re2.yahoo.com> https://jobs.aecom.com/1033/ASP/TG/cim_home.asp?partnerid=20052&siteid=5022? (search using keyword 'SAREP') Trans-boundary Natural Resources Management Specialist, Southern Africa Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services Specialist, Southern Africa Water Resources Specialist, Southern Africa Environmental Management Chief of Party, Southern Africa AECOM seeks several specialists for the USAID-funded Southern Africa Regional Environment Program (SAREP) which will increase cooperation and management of trans-boundary river basins and ensure the protection of biodiversity and improved access to water supply and sanitation. The project will commence in 2009 with a three (3) year base period and a two (2) year option period. Key technical areas to be covered by the project: - Trans-boundary water resources and river basin management - Legal and policy coordination and collaboration - Institutional capacity development and strengthening - Conservation and protection of biodiversity and ecosystems - Improved access to water supply and sanitation - Climate change impact assessment and response plan development Interested, qualified candidates can send a cover letter and resume highlighting their experience as related to the project?s key technical areas, specifically trans-boundary natural resources management experience, through AECOM site. Deadline: February 28, 2009. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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