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DFID support for African participants to attend International Conference managed by DEW Point
DEW Point, DFID’s Resource Centre for Environment, Water and Sanitation managed by Harewelle International Limited, have been contracted to manage a process of identifying, selecting and supporting a number of participants to attend the Second International Conference on Climate, Sustainability and Sustainable Development in Semi-Arid Regions (ICID+18). This will be held in August 2010 at the Convention Centre of Ceará in Fortaleza in Brazil http://www.ICID18.org
Themes at the Conference are as follows:
- Climate and environment
- Climate and sustainable development
- Governance and sustainable development
- Policy processes and institutions
Interested candidates from semi-arid regions of Africa working in any of these fields are invited to submit a proposal to be considered attend one of three pre-conference events, which are being organised on a regional basis, focused on East Africa, West Africa and Southern Africa. These events will serve as both stand-alone technical events and an opportunity to make a final selection of around 30 representatives from Africa who will go on to present at ICID+18 under the DFID-supported programme.
Further information of the event and the DEW Point process are outlined in the summary DFID DEW Point support to African participation in the ICID+18 conference.
If there are any queries about the event or the application process, please contact your local DEW Point representatives as below:
East Africa
Rachel Shibalira r.shibalira@nrint.org NR International Kenya, Nairobi, Kenya
West Africa (Francophone countries)
Sabine Dissirama Attama dissattama@yahoo.fr Reseau Nigerien des Journalistes pour l’Education et le Développement (RENJED), Niamey, Niger
West Africa (Anglophone countries)
Lucy Nickoll l.nickoll@nrint.co.uk NR International U.K.
Southern Africa
Jill Kent jkent@harewelle.org
As this is a DFID sponsored process, we intend to operate in English, though we plan to run a bilingual (Francophone-Anglophone) pre-conference event in West Africa. All applications, presentations and the selection procedure will be in English. Should we get French or Portuguese applications we will forward these to IRD (French) or CPLP (Comunidade dos Países de Língua Portuguesa) for their consideration, as they will be supporting some participants from Francophone and Lusophone countries.
Please click on the following links for the application form and evaluation criteria.
The deadline for all applicants is 18/04/2010
