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Regional
Training Course
A
regional training course on Inventory of glaciers, glacial lakes and
glacial lake outburst flood monitoring and early warning systems in the
Hindu Kush- Himalayan region was conducted from 28 July to 8 August in
collaboration with Asia-Pacific Network for Global Change Research (APN -
Japan). Eleven participants from China, India, and Pakistan
participated in the GLOF training. During the workshop, Martin Rice,
programme manager from APN-Japan visited ICIMOD and reviewed the progress
made by the project as well as interacted with the participants. Six
participants from Tibet Autonomous Region, China were awarded internships
at MENRIS-ICIMOD for additional two-weeks after the training course.
A
Refresher Course on Application of Geo-informatics for Disaster
Management was organized from 15 to 25 September in collaboration with
the International Institute of geo-information and earth sciences (ITC),
Netherlands. Altogether 25 participants from RMCs and the Asia-Pacific
region benefited from the training course. ICIMOD had signed a MoU with
ITC in December 2002 to collaborate and cooperate in geo-informatics
capacity building and applications development to mountain environment.
This course was supported by NUFFIC programme of the Dutch Government
through ITC.
National
Training Course
A
regional training course on “GIS/ RS for Resources Management” was
conducted from 1 -13 September 2003 in Swat, Pakistan jointly with the
National Centre of Excellence in Geology (NCEG), University of Peshawar
and ICIMOD. The training was organized for self-paying participants from
different organizations in Pakistan and all the logistics were managed by
NCEG. ICIMOD provided the support of resource persons and the training
materials, and the cost of four participants from Afghanistan. There were
altogether 30 participants from different professional background which
includes 9 participants from NCEG and other different institutions in
Pakistan and Afghanistan. It is the first time that participants from
Afghanistan have been included in ICIMOD’s GIS training program. The
training was conducted using ArcGIS software and the course included
lectures, hands-on exercises and group project works. The closing session
was organized at NCEG conference hall in Peshawar and was chaired by the
Vice Chancellor of Peshawar University. He also gave away certificates to
the participants. Presentations were made on “GIS activities at
ICIMOD” and “the Mountain GIS Portal” during the closing ceremony.
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Participants
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System
Support and Networking
As
a part of networking and support to national institutions, MENRIS has
provided support to different national institutions in the region
through visits, e-mail and other means of communications. ARCGIS and ARC
IMS (software licenses) have been provided to institutions in
Bangladesh, Tibet and Bhutan.
ICIMOD
supported a staff member each from Institute of Agriculture and Animal
Sciences (IAAS), Chitwan and Department of Hydrology and Meteorology,
Kathmandu, to undertake the training in air pollution monitoring held in
Delhi, India from 4-8 August.
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