IWMI_at_SWWW2012

List of planned IWMI activities at the World Water Week 2012: This is coming from the IWMI intranet, therefore some links are not accessible for non IWMI staff. || || || || || || || || || || || || || || || || || || || || || || || || || || ||
 * || **Event Type **  ||  **Event Title **  ||  **Who is involved **  ||  **Action Item **  ||  **Date **  ||  **Comments **  ||   ||
 * Workshop 8 || Governance for water and food security || Jean -Philippe Venot || Jean -Philippe Venot submitting a paper titled "Stakeholder oriented processes for IWRM in the Volta basin" || August 26, 2012  to August 31, 2012 ||  || 
 * Workshop 8 || Governance for water and food security || Alain Vidal || CPWF indicated to SIWI that CPWF would be willing to co-convene || August 26, 2012 <span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"> to August 31, 2012 ||  || <span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Workshop 8 || <span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Governance for water and food security || <span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Dennis Wichelns and Mark Giordano || <span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">IWMI to work with IFPRI on involvement of IWMI and to coordinate with CPWF || August 26, 2012 <span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"> to August 31, 2012 ||  || <span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Workshop 8 || <span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Governance for water and food security || <span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Malik Ravinder || <span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Submit an abstract of the paper titled ?Investing in strengthening livelihood-water-food nexus? || August 26, 2012 <span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"> to August 31, 2012 ||  || <span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Workshop 7 || <span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Health and food security ||  || <span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">IFPRI have been approached to co-convene || August 26, 2012 <span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"> to August 31, 2012 ||   || <span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Workshop 7 || <span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Health and food security || <span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Pay Drechsel || <span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Will submit an abstract and link to CRP4 and have a wastewater component || August 26, 2012 <span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"> to August 31, 2012 ||  || <span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Workshop 6 || <span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Trade and food security || <span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Mark Giordano || <span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">IFPRI have been approached to co-convene. Mark Giordano will discuss involvement with IFPRI || August 26, 2012 <span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"> to August 31, 2012 ||  || <span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Workshop 5 || <span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Towards a green economy: The water-food-energy nexus || <span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Alain Vidal || <span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Indicated to Torkil that CPWF would be willing to contribute a keynote with the outcomes of WWF6 || August 26, 2012 <span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"> to August 31, 2012 ||  || <span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Workshop 5 || <span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Towards a green economy: The water-food-energy nexus || <span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Upali Amarasinghe || <span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Submitting an abstract : Towards a green economy - the water-food-energy nexus. From work undertaken last year. || August 26, 2012 <span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"> to August 31, 2012 ||  || <span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Workshop 4 || <span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Securing water and food in an urbanizing world ||  || <span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">None at this stage || August 26, 2012 <span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"> to August 31, 2012 ||   || <span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Workshop 3 || <span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Rainfed production under growing rain variability: Closing the yield gap || <span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Alain Vidal coordinating || <span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">IWMI/CPWF/CRP to co-convene. || August 26, 2012 <span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"> to August 31, 2012 || <span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">CPWF reported that they are co-convening this and doing it with CRP5, FAO and The Nebraska University Food Institute. Need to confirm organisations involved. || <span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Workshop 3 || <span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Rainfed production under growing rain variability: Closing the yield gap || <span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Tilahum Amede (IWMI/ILRI) || <span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Submitting abstract: "Rainwater management transform Africa towards food security and resilience". || August 26, 2012 <span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"> to August 31, 2012 ||  || <span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Workshop 3 || <span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Rainfed production under growing rain variability: Closing the yield gap || <span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Bharat Sharma || <span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Submitting an abstract on the work from N2 Project (Indian rainfed analysis. || August 26, 2012 <span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"> to August 31, 2012 ||  || <span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Workshop 2 || <span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Safeguarding global food security and life supporting ecosystems || <span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Alain Vidal || <span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">CPWF may co-convene. || August 26, 2012 <span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"> to August 31, 2012 ||  || <span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Workshop 2 || <span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Safeguarding global food security and life supporting ecosystems || <span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Upali Amarasinghe || <span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Upali Amarasinghe submitting an abstract : Allocating irrigation water for environmental flows: impacts on food and livelihood security of upper Ganga Basin. Results from work completed under WWF-IWMI Upper Ganga e-flows project. || August 26, 2012 <span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"> to August 31, 2012 ||  || <span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Workshop 2 || <span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Safeguarding global food security and life supporting ecosystems || <span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Robyn Johnston || <span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Probably submit a proposal about the Afromaison project work (either for the workshop or a seminar) || August 26, 2012 <span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"> to August 31, 2012 ||  || <span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Workshop 1 || <span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Best use of blue water resources for food security || <span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Vladimir Smakhtin is coordinating with SIWI || <span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">IWMI to co-convene with SIWI || August 26, 2012 <span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"> to August 31, 2012 || <span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Contract signed for co-convening || <span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Solution || <span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Planning small reservoirs for enhanced livelihoods in sub-Saharan Africa || <span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Jean -Philippe Venot || <span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Based on the results of the small reservoir study || August 26, 2012 <span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"> to August 31, 2012 ||  || <span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Seminar or Side Event || <span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">MUS || <span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Barbara Van Koppen as coordinator of MUS group and with support from the Rockefeller Foundation || <span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Will submit something for the main program or their own event. || August 26, 2012 <span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"> to August 31, 2012 ||  || <span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Seminar or Side Event || <span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">AgWater project results || <span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Julie Van der Bliek || <span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Still to work out what type of session to have and key focus areas || August 26, 2012 <span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"> to August 31, 2012 ||  || <span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Seminar || <span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Wastewater/RRR || <span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Pay Drechsel || <span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Still discussing internally if we apply. This will only move forward if we can offer something new compared to our well-received side event last year. || August 26, 2012 <span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"> to August 31, 2012 ||  || <span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Seminar || <span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Managing water variability for food security, livelihoods and the environment (including Managing water resources temporary variability (flood harvesting through MAR)) || <span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Vladimir Smakhtin and Paul Pavelic || <span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Still to decide if submission will be made for this. || August 26, 2012 <span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"> to August 31, 2012 ||  || <span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Seminar || <span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Optimization of water allocation in agriculture with the use of simulation models and decision support systems || <span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Request from our Board member Asger Kej, DHI Solutions. Karsten Havnoe, Director of DHI Solutions is organizing. Peter/Vlad current contact points for IWMI || <span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">IWMI: IWMI might be able to contribute allocation and decision support info (maybe eg Luna's work in the upper Ganga, examples from SE Asia and the Nile work, Luna's work in Krishna, Matt's work in Volta and Nile, Paul's work in Upper Bhima, and several more. IWMI may be co-convenor. || August 26, 2012 <span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"> to August 31, 2012 ||  || <span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Communications Activities ||  || <span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">IKG (Joanna and James) || <span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">IWMI will organize a CRP5 (double sized) booth || August 26, 2012 <span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"> to August 31, 2012 ||   || <span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Communications Activities ||  || <span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">IKG (Joanna and James) || <span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">IWMI will undertake usual annual media campaign - topic will be related to food security || August 26, 2012 <span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"> to August 31, 2012 ||   || <span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Communications Activities ||  || <span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Michael Victor (CPWF) || <span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">CPWF may organize something (still to decide on topic & activities || August 26, 2012 <span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"> to August 31, 2012 ||   || <span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">