28 December
 | | At the turn of each year all of us would just crave to have some snow outside our homes and offices to match the festivity of the X'mas and New Year season. It is actually the snow that makes that season really special. So the good news this morning for all of us here in Tashkent that there is a bit of snowing outside which makes us hope for a really snowy New Year night this year. With this, IWMI-Central Asia wishes all our collegues from all other IWMI offices and CGIAR centers throughout the world and their families a really merry Christmas and happy New Year. As for our IWMI-Central Asia office, we started our season festivities yesterday by having our corporate New Year party at a cosy place called 'East and West'. Attended by all our staff with their families, there were traditional toasts and good wishes for the New Year, as well as some fun nominations and awards for staff excelled in some way or other. All these were succesfully sealed by a selection of drinks and food served throughout the party and accompanied by a dance program allowing the fullest possible expression of all our thoughts and wishes that otherwise could have heen left untapped. So again, here is to merry Christmas and happy New Year to all of you! |
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| 20 December | | The International Center for Biosaline Agriculture (ICBA) organized a 5-day training course in collaboration with ICARDA and IWMI in Tashkent from December 12-16, 2005. The training course was part of the project 'Enabling Communities in the Aral Sea Basin to Combat Land and Water Resource Degradation Through the Creation of ‘Bright Spots’', RETA 6208, being undertaken in Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan and Turkmenistan. The course was attended by 16 participants, including those from regional Cotton Research Institutes, Karakul Research Station and Uzbek Plant Research Institute. Dr. Shoaib Ismail, Course Coordinator from ICBA and other eminent researchers from Uzbekistan gave lectures. For more details please see the Training Course Newsletter: Download - PDF file, size 111 Kb |
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| 15 December | | As reported today by an SDC representative, SDC plans to have the Annual Planning Workshop for the IWRM-Ferghana Project to take place on 26-27 January, 2006 in the town of Ferghana, Uzbekistan |
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| 12 December | | "Making water distribution more transparent: Application of the time-based water distribution method to tertiary canals in Central Asia", an article authored by a group of IWMI-Central Asia researchers, has been published in the recent issue of the Journal of Applied Irrigation Science (Vol.40/No. 2/2005)...more.. |
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| November | | Annual planning workshop for IWRM-Ferghana Project is scheduled to take place in late January - early February, 2006 |
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| 4-15 October | | IWMI-CA strengthens its SMID field activities for IWRM-Ferghana Project by hiring and training more field staff on their field teams in each project country |
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| September | | First field activities held for Water Productivity Project |
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| September | | First field activities held for Syrdarya Ground Water project |
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| Sept.-Dec. | | IWMI and SIC-ICWC to work on PODIUMSim-Uzbekistan |
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| 1 August | | New Head of IWMI-Central Asia office posted |
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| 1-5 August | | IWMI conducts locale-specifc training of Kazakh WUAs on across-the board water management and governance disciplines |
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| 24-27 August | | IWMI contracted by Counterpart Consortium conducts a pre-training survey of Kazakh WUAs in South Kazakhstan |
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| 30 May-1 June | | IWMI co-funds and takes part in the International Conference on Regional Cooperation in Transboundary River Basins hosted by the Government of Tajikistan in the capital city of Dushanbe |
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| 10-14 May | | Inception workshop held for the ADB-funded Bright Spots project |
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| 1 May | | IWRM-Ferghana Phase III started |
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| 30 April | | IWRM-Ferghana Phase II completed |
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