UNESCO-IHE Fellowships available for SIDS’ Water Professionals
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Netherlands has awarded a range of Fellowships for water professionals from Small Island Developing States (SIDS), to pursue relevant water related MSc programmes at UNESCO-IHE in Delft, the Netherlands.
UNESCO-IHE will provide at least 20 key water professionals, in two batches starting in 2015 and 2016, with MSc level education on relevant topics for the SIDS. The 18 month MSc programmes includes 6 months’ field based research to be conducted on specific, problems in the home country of the participant.
Furthermore, UNESCO-IHE will provide at least 50 water professionals and decision makers with specific expertise on key topics, by enabling them to enrol in UNESCO-IHE Short Courses that start in 2016 and 2017.
In August 2015, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Netherlands and UNESCO-IHE Institute for Water Education jointly launched the project “Strengthening Small Island Developing States’ capacity in the water sector to cope with the effects of climate change”. The project aims to strengthen the capacity of professionals and decision makers, in order to improve water management in SIDS, to better address future challenges, such as coping with the effects of climate change.
The beneficiaries of the project are professionals who are responsible for key decision making processes in the governments of SIDS.
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