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16 JUNE 2009 Dear %%first_name%%, Welcome to the June 2009 edition of the IWC eBulletin.
From the CEO
As the IWC expands into new and exciting directions, we continue to welcome new staff into our Brisbane office. We have also recently updated our branding. You may have noticed our new logo, but have you also seen our new website? Take a moment to have a look and let us know what you think: www.watercentre.org. I’m pleased to announce that our Water Leader Scholarships are open again for the 2010 intake of the Master of Integrated Water Management. Our postgraduate programs are now also offered as a part-time/distance course (for Australian citizens/residents only), and this option is proving very popular with domestic students because of the flexibility it offers. Our staff have also been busy. We’ve had great feedback on the training and workshops we’ve recently run in Australia, Libya and Viet Nam among others, as you’ll see below. We’ve also had the pleasure of having Anna Argyroudi, an exchange student from Greece, doing some interesting work with us. Mark Pascoe IWC CEO Water Leader Scholarships now open!
The International WaterCentre is proud to announce 2010 full and partial tuition Water Leader Scholarships to study the Master of Integrated Water Management: Full scholarships – AU$36,000 –
cover all tuition costs for the three semester program (Australian and
international students). Partial scholarships cover some tuition costs (Australian and international students). Scholarships are available for full-time and part-time study. (part-time study option available to Australian citizens and residents only) Applications close 1st August. The program takes a multi-disciplinary, whole-of-water cycle approach. Our lecturers are highly-regarded water professionals and academics in a range of disciplines, from around the world and from our member universities - The University of Queensland, Griffith University, Monash University and The University of Western Australia. The IWC’s students come from all around the world. “With a student group spanning five continents,” said Lina Taing, 2009 scholarship recipient and social scientist from California, “class discussions are always enriched by the diverse perspective each of us offers based on our professional and personal experiences.” Visit: www.watercentre.org/education/programs/scholarships Email: scholarships@watercentre.org Call: +617 3123 7766
Over the last 11 years the International Riversymposium has grown to become
one of the leading global annual events on river management. Each year,
representatives from over 50 countries gather in Brisbane, Australia to discuss
and address key issues of river management. The Riversymposium promotes
the exchange of ideas, knowledge and technology between industry, science,
community and environmental organisations regarding rivers and waterways. The 12th International Riversymposium will be held at the Brisbane Convention and Exhibition Centre on Monday – Thursday, 21 – 24 September. On-Line registration and full program details are available on our website www.riversymposium.com
The IWC welcomes new accountant Yolanda RevisYolanda Revis has recently joined the IWC in the role of accountant. Yolanda has worked in property investment for a number of years. She is a qualified accountant with 25 years management accounting and office administration experience. She has brought with her a wealth of experience in the commercial environment obtained from previous positions in private education, travel and tourism, and manufacturing. We welcome Yolanda to the IWC team. International Riversymposium relocated to IWC Brisbane office
The IWC has recently become the Managing Agent for the International Riversymposium. We welcome Celeste, Carla and Lynette into our Brisbane office and look forward to the new partnership. Libyan Environment General Authority capacity building program
All over the world, it seems, people who work in environment authorities face the same challenges. Whether in a wet, green land like Canada, where International WaterCentre Education and Research Officer Nate Matthews comes from, or a dry desert country like Libya, where he has just returned to Australia from, bureaucracy and government and new ideas bring their own difficulties.
Keys for Success with integrated water resources management (IWRM)
The need to continually plan, do, reflect and evaluate underlies the Keys for Success with integrated water resources management devised by a group of river basin organisation staff in Viet Nam recently. Creating Water Sensitive Cities in Australia
Tim Fisher, Advisor to Senator Penny Wong, Minister for Climate Change and Water, at Creating Water Sensitive Cities workshop. Imagine...
Bob McMullan launches Sanitation Challenge book
On 22nd March Parliamentary Secretary for International Development Assistance, Bob McMullan, MP launched the International WaterCentre publication “Meeting the Sanitation and Water Challenge in South-East Asia and the Pacific”.
“Lives
could be saved and life-changing gains could be made for future generations
through more urgent and comprehensive efforts to tackle sanitation and hygiene
challenges now,” declared the 200 participants of the Sanitation and Water
Conference held in Melbourne in 2009 which produced this publication. “The cost of inaction is enormous.” The aims of the document are to spread the messages of the conference and to provide a useful resource for the water and sanitation sector.
Download “Meeting the Sanitation and Water Challenge in South-East Asia and the Pacific” Water management – What about the people?
“Seeing young students like you who care,” residents of the Mary Valley in South East Queensland, Australia told Masters student Anna Argyroudi, “gives us hope that water and land will one day be managed in a sustainable way.” Greek exchange student, Anna Argyroudi, has recently spent four months in the Mary Valley exploring the emergent world views and dilemmas of the people of the area since the Traveston Dam proposal announcement by the Queensland Government.
Partner news: Griffith University
IWC director, Professor Ned Pankhurst, has recently been appointed Deputy Vice Chancellor (Research) at Griffith University. He was previously Pro-Vice Chancellor of the Science, Environment, Engineering and Technology Group at Griffith University, based on the Gold Coast campus. The IWC congratulates Professor Pankhurst and wishes him all the best in his new appointment. Partner news: Monash/IWC South Africa
South Africa has enabling legal frameworks for managing and conserving freshwater biodiversity, including cross-sector policy objectives. The latter require effective cooperation between multiple (usually overstretched) agencies, each with their own roles and responsibilities. Coordination across overlapping and sometimes mismatching mandates is often poor. Given multiple stakeholders with diverse expectations and mental models, management of a common property resource should probably not target an optimal solution for “the problem”. Instead, it should involve mutual learning, participative sense-making and adaptation. Based on this, a reflective assessment process and a scorecard-type spreadsheet tool were developed to facilitate multi-agency reflection and promote group learning and cooperative action. Click here to learn more about IWC's Master of Integrated Water Management |
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