Water Energy Development and Environmental Protection: A Seminar

 
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The Mekong Institute (MI) will organize a regional seminar on Water Energy Development and Environmental Protection in the Greater Mekong Subregion (GMS), on March 21-23, 2012 in Phom Penh, Cambodia.

The GMS has arrived at a crossroads in meeting the needs and keeping the balances – whereas hydropower presents great economic and energy gains, at the same time, concerns have intensified over the potential cumulative impacts on the environment and people’s livelihoods in the Mekong Basin.

Therefore, a seminar, sponsored by the People’s Republic of China, will be set-up to address this pressing issue. The event goes under the theme: “Meeting Development Needs and Keeping Ecological Balance”, and aims at gathering institutions involved in sustainable hydropower and environmental protection in the GMS region, to promote regional cooperation for the sustainable management of the growing number of hydropower projects.

The seminar will be a platform for discussion on regional experiences, making all institutions share best practices in all stages of planning and implementation while in turn developing regional technical knowledge on this complex matter.

MI wishes to invite state agencies, private enterprises and civil society who are directly involved in sustainable hydropower and environmental protection in the GMS to this regional seminar and structured learning visit.

The three-day seminar will consist of panel presentations, group discussions and field visits to successful integrated water resource management projects in Cambodia.

For more information, please contact:
Ms. Tina Wang
Programme Coordinator
Policy and Planning Department
Mekong Institute
Tel: 66 (0) 43 202 411-2 ext. 409
Fax: 66 (0) 43 343 131
Mobile: 66 (0) 87 637 1283
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Regional Workshop and SLV to be Organized for Agricultural Production Groups along EWEC

The Mekong Institute proposes to organize a regional workshop and structured learning visit (SLV) on “Agriculture Sector Value Chains and Export Consortia Promotion” for leaders of small scale agriculture production groups and SME agricultural producers and traders on EWEC.

The workshop will be held at Mekong Institute Residential Training Center, Khon Kaen City and the structured learning visits will be arranged to study agriculture value chains in Nakhon Rachasima and Export Consortia in Central Provinces of Thailand.

This workshop and SLV will encourage small scale agricultural production groups to add value to their products through the processing and packaging and marketing clusters. Also, it will connect the SMEs into Regional Value Chains by promoting the Biz Network and Export Consortia. Lastly, this event will expose the EWEC leaders of small production groups and SMEs association to best practices in adding value and marketing agriculture products and well-established export consortia.

Target Groups:
•    Leaders of agriculture sector small scale production groups
•    SME processors and Modern Entrepreneurs who are interested to form SME production clusters and Export Consortia
•    Concerned government officials who are involved in promoting SMEs

 For more information please contact Ms. Chuleewan Praneetham at: This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it .