Mekong - U.S. Partnership
The Stockholm International Water Institute (SIWI) of the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) is pleased to announce the Shared Waters Partnership (SWP) Mekong Workshops: Water-Food Security in Cambodia and Vietnam Delta, December 2-3 and December 5-6, 2013.
The SWP continues to work on food security Two workshops will be held in Phnom Penh, Cambodia (December 2-3) together with the Cambodia Development Resource Institute (CDRI), and Can Tho, Vietnam (December 5-6) together with the Mekong Delta Development Research Institute (MDI, part of Can Tho University) with experts in fisheries, agriculture and livelihoods. Cambodia and the Vietnamese Delta are the most sensitive areas for food security due to alteration of the Mekong mainstream.
The aim of workshops is to bring together national/local stakeholders based in Cambodia and Vietnam to discuss food security to promote science-based decision making and to support local capacity building for understanding the water-food security complexity.
Call for Papers
The organizers call for papers to be presented during the workshops. For the interested authors, please send the abstract to swp.abstract@siwi.org and indicate which workshop (either Cambodia or Vietnam) is the most relevant for your presentation (or both) by November 15.
Registration
No registration fee is required, but pre-registering is required for all participants. Please register by sending an email to swp.abstract@siwi.org including your name, affiliated institution, primary interest in the topic and contact information. Limited financial support is available for travelling and accommodation for participants.
Please let us know the necessary support (departure city/airport & whether you need support for accommodation) in your email. We regret that the funding request must be submitted no later than October 30, 2013 due to administrative reasons.
If you have questions regarding the workshops and SWP’s general engagement in the Mekong, please send your questions to kyungmee.kim@siwi.org
Conference webpage: http://www.watergovernance.org/workshop-december-2013
