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Nature-based Solutions for Water and Waste management (July 10-13 , 2018)

Abhinav Assistant ‐Urban Practitioners' Program Indian Institute of Human Settlements, Bengaluru, India Conducted a Chatbox which is a knowledge dissemination platform in IIHS where researchers and practitioners’ share their work experience and knowledge gained with their colleagues from different teams within IIHS. The session provided The participants with new information and innovative ideas to deal with The current water crisis in urban areas. The session was also attended by The Campus development team who are already designing a similar treatment plant within The proposed campus.	Kriti Trivedi Student School of Planning and Architecture, Bhopal, India She has proposed GI for a live project in Tirupur by GIZ for issues regarding runoff with suggestions for bioswales and a no development zone. -------------------------------------------- Rohit Joseph Co‐convener CANALPY, Kerala, India Working on proposing Phytorid to help with cleaning canals in Allapey.

Kshitij Aggarwal Architect Independent Working on fitting rainwater harvesting structures and storm water channeling in Chatola Housing Community, Almora. Also working on incorporating RWH and DWWTs in a private residence. Has also been asked to create an NBS for wastewater management for a senior secondary school - DWWTs. Also giving technical inputs to SWAJAL (NGO) for building water sensitive structures.	Shilpa DN Assistant Professor Ramaiah Institute of Technology, Bengaluru, India She has planned to conduct an exercise in January for M Arch candidates of our institution as a part of academics based on the concepts learnt in training. She will pass on the further details regarding it by the end of Jan.


International Tools and Approaches for Citywide Water and Sanitation Management ( 24 July - 03 August, 2018)

Ashwani Luthra Faculty Guru Ramdas School of Planning, Amritsar, India His department has incorporated topics from training programme in the course curriculum. He is supervising the research of 4 post-graduate students in water and sanitation sector. He has presented my research paper on 'Factors Determining Decentralized Rain Water Harvesting'. -------------------------------------------- Md. Toriqul Islam Senior Manager (Technical) NGO Forum For Public Health, Dhaka, Bangladesh He has implemented a city wide sanitation project. The knowledge he gained from the training has helped develop an operational manual for faecal sludge management system.	Celline Achieng Faculty Africa Nazarene University, Nairobi, Kenya She is guiding the development of an Institutional water (both clean and waste) management plan, and a solid waste management plan that will inform our University's Environment Policy currently under formulation. She is also awaiting a response from the UN-Environment over a joint proposal with a Faith-Based Organization (FBO) that will enable us enhance solid waste management in collaboration with our county government (Kajiado County). She will be incorporating elements from the training in her teaching and curriculum. For example, her courses on Environmental Pollution, and Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) will use various examples explained during the course.

Maithrie Perera Student Lanka Rain Water Harvesting Forum (LRWHF), Colombo, Sri Lanka Organised "International Conference on Water Security Through Rainwater Harvesting" 27th-29th November, 2018,Colombo , Sri Lanka. The objective of this conference was to provide a multidisciplinary platform for practitioners and professionals to discuss the innovations, trends, and concerns to enhance water security through rain water harvesting . The conference also provided an opportunity to network with international and national key players in rainwater harvesting. The conference included a field visit to best practices of urban rain water harvesting, film festival and a walk for rain water. 3 other alumna from this CSE training also presented their research findings at the conference. After the training Programme , she started a research in a rural area in Sri Lanka where people face a huge difficulty to find safe drinking water, and to implement Rain water as a safe alternative drinking water source. This is a CKDu (chronic kidney disease of unknown etiology) hotspot in Sri Lanka where many people have died due to CKDu.

List of Trainings
Date: July 10-13, 2018 Nature-based Solutions for Water and Waste management	Date: July 10-12, 2018 Preparation of Shit Flow Diagrams (SFDs)
Date: July 24 - 28, 2018 International training on tools and approaches (Part I)	Date: July 30 - August 03, 2018 International training on tools and approaches (Part II)
September 17-20, 2018 WSUDP training	Date: September 25 - 28, 2018 Urban Lakes and Wetland Management:
Date: October 09-12, 2018 SSP training	Date: November 27-30, 2018 NBS conclave

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