Focus on the Global South- India - Refresher Workshop: Towards Green Villages

Centre for Science and Environment announces a five-day refresher workshop on how to use environment to eradicate poverty in rural areas, an initiative of the Anil Agrawal Green College. The workshop aims at answering the above questions that together have clue to a sustainable village.

The workshop involves classroom debate and field trip dissection.

For more than two decades CSE has been campaigning and researching on the linkages between environment and poverty. We believe that India's poverty is ecological in nature. Thus to eradicate poverty we have to regenerate our ecology. Many villages have done so. CSE has been studying their experiences. Development models evolved out of community initiatives point that if we understand the ecological nature of poverty the road to prosperity is within reach.

The refresher workshop aims to learn from these models and to put in place a framework for sustainable village. The workshop is designed such a way that it not only conceptually clears the linkages between environment-poverty but also demonstrate its feasibility through field trips to model villages. The workshop draws its content from experiences of numerous communities successful in sustainable development. So this equips participants with crucial understanding of sustainable development.

What the workshop will mean to the participants?
* To help understand the nature of poverty in India
* To get to know the poverty-environment linkages
* To introduce the complexities of ecological poverty
* To help develop sustainable village models
* To see how communities define and nurture development
* To reorient on the development potential of programmes like the NREGA

What will be the outcomes of the workshop for the participants?
* To be conceptually clear about environment-poverty linkages
* To be able to guide development programmes effectively
* To be able to decipher the potential of local ecology
* To be able to evolve environment-poverty indicators

Who should attend?
* Development practitioners at grassroots level
* Members of NGOs
* Representatives of development programme implementing agencies
* Students of social science, economics and development studies
* Members of rural development agencies and rural development institutions

How the workshop will be conducted?
The workshop will be conducted through CSE research, guest faculties and field trip to Sukhomajri and Banga villages in Haryana. It has four components: class room teaching, guest lectures, participants' homework and field trip. Every day has a specific theme and related guest lecture and homework for participants.

The workshop will span five days from 12th-16th March 2007. This includes a total classroom time of 3 1/2 days and a one-day field trip to Sukhomajri and Banga villages.
A certificate of participation will be awarded by CSE to all participants.

How much does it cost to attend the workshop?
The venue for the refresher workshop will be CSE office at 41, Tughlakabad Institutional Area, New Delhi-110062.

Participants have to pay a fee of Rs. 4,400 for the workshop. It includes costs of the fee, study materials, lunch and tea at the workshop and the field trip. Participants have to bear the cost of travel to and fro Delhi and lodging and boarding in Delhi.

How to apply for the workshop?
There are limited seats for the workshop. If we get more applications than the workshop strength, we will select candidates.

Interested participants should apply to
Supriya Singh of CSE's Natural Resource Management and Livelihood unit

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While applying give the following details:

Name:
Age:
Organization and a brief on it:
Personal brief on your work:
Designation:
Educational Background:
Language you will be comfortable with (either English or Hindi)
Your expectations out of the workshop.
Contact details: (Address, Telephone no. and e-mail)

As an alternative, you can apply online at:
http://www.cseindia.org/misc/tgv_march07.htm

What are the cut off dates?
Applications should be submitted by 21st February. The short-listed candidates will be informed by 25th February. Selected candidates must send the fee by 2nd March. Participants must be in Delhi by March 11. From the week beginning March 5, CSE will start sending participants reading materials and other related materials related to the workshop.

For more information
Supriya Singh
Assistant Coordinator
Natural Resource Management and Livelihood Unit
Centre for Science and Environment
41, Tughlakabad Institutional Area
New Delhi- 110062
Ph: 91-11-29955124/6110/6394/6399 Ext. 225
Fax: 91-11-29955879
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