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Sambodhi - an initiative catering to research and allied service needs of the social sector for design and development of state-of-art knowledge ware products and provision of knowledge-based services is organising a training programme for trainers!

Programme title: Training of Trainers on Design and Delivery of Training
Duration: 5 days, From 19th to 23rd November 2007
Venue: New Delhi

The training is aimed at augmenting the knowledge and skills of personnel in development projects and agencies involved in capacity development especially training; for efficient design and effective delivery of trainings.

Sambodhi’s previous programmes in the Capacity Development Series have been subscribed by personnel from leading development organizations and projects including Action Aid, BBC-WST, CARE, CRS, CRY, EHA, FHI, HLFPPT, IAMR, INP+, MPRLP, NCAER, Oxfam, PHFI, PSI, UNDP, UNICEF, UNIFEM, UNODC, UNESCO, World Vision as well as independent professionals.

Specifically, the training is aimed at:

• Developing a better understanding of fundamental principles of training
• Augmenting knowledge on adult learning and participatory training
• Facilitating a better understanding of systematic approach to training
• Enhance knowledge and impart skills for Design of Training
• Augment knowledge and skills for Delivery of training using a range of training methods

Upon completion of the training programme, participants would better appreciate key concepts of training, understand principles of adult learning, design a training programme for a specific target groups, select appropriate methods and content; and deliver the training programme with best possible methodologies.

Fees: The fee for training programme is Rs. 12,000/- per participant which includes tuition fee, reading material, lunch at the training venue and other training expenses.

Interested individuals/organisation can check out the Flyer for the programme containing more details by clicking here.

For more details, please contact:

Rajata Nayak,
Senior Executive,
Sambodhi Research & Communications,
H-35 A, LGF, Kalkaji New Delhi-110019
+91-11-40560734, 65492502

E-waste is one of the fastest growing waste streams in the world. In developed countries, it equals 1% of total solid waste generation and is expected to grow to 2% by 2010. In USA, it accounts 1% to 3% of the total municipal waste generation. In EU, historically, E-waste is growing three times faster than average annual municipal solid waste generation. 

In developing countries, it ranges 0.01% to 1% of the total municipal solid waste generation. In China and India, though annual generation per capita is less than 1 kg, it is growing at an exponential pace. The increasing “market penetration” in developing countries, “replacement market” in developed countries and “high obsolescence rate” make E-waste as one of the fastest waste stream.

Consequenty, the Central Pollution Control Board has issued Draft Guidelines for Environmentally Sound Management of E-waste in India.

Click here to read the Draft Guidelines and understand the problems and issues of E-waste in India and the Management Strategies that are proposed to be followed.

Also Read:

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Previously on DelhiGreens:

• MoEF Notifies Draft Hazardous Waste Management Rules

Even as the Alumni of various Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs) team up to put pressure on the institutes to prevent campus interviews being conducted by Dow Chemicals (which now owns Union Carbide)….

American Giants run into IIT backlash

IIT alumni gang up agaist Dow Chemicals

Alumni urge IITs to boycott Dow Chemicals

IITs urge bar on any tie with Dow Chemicals

Blacklist Dow Chemicals, demand IIT Alumni

….it’s a totally different scenario at the Center.

Far from banning the entry of Dow Chemicals into the country, the Center is gearing up to give the company a green signal to invest in India - even when the people of Bhopal are still suffering from not just the horror of the Bhopal Legacy but also from the threat of contamination from the chemicals that still lie around the site.

It would not speak good for the Government if such a clearance is actually given and Dow Chemicals be allowed to plant such time bombs in this country.

Tons of chemicals lie abandoned at the Union Carbide factory in Bhopal, poisoning the environment and people’s lives.

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Previously on DelhiGreens:

• Petition on Stopping Dow Recruitment at IIT-M

Click here to sign the petition

Delhi Metro has now got another feather in its ‘green’ cap! In an attempt to promote cycle as an eco-friendly mode of transportation, Delhi Metro has now begun to rent out cycles at its Vishwavidhalaya Station! Parking space for people who get their own cycles is also being provided. 

Following is a news story from ExpressIndia.com on the same:

Metro goes green, to rent out cycles now
Express News Service

New Delhi, October 17 IF you thought Delhi Metro is only about swish trains that can take you places in matter of seconds, think again. In a novel experiment, the Delhi Metro Rail Corporation today launched an eco-friendly initiative to promote cycling at Delhi University’s North Campus. Starting Thursday, commuters can take cycles on rent at the Vishwavidyalaya station for Rs 10 for every four hours. About 20 such cycles can be rented. To encourage more cyclists to take the Delhi Metro trains from its Vishwavidyalya station, DMRC also inaugurated a cycle stand to accommodate 50 cycles.

According to DMRC officials, the ‘rent-a-cycle’ facility will be extended to all parking sites of Delhi Metro by yearend. The number of stands at each station would depend on number of cycle users. At Seelampur, for example, the stand would accommodate 600 cycles, for officials say close to those many are parked there every day.

Delhi Metro PRO Anuj Dayal said the fare for cycle parking would be Rs 2 for 8-10 hours, and smart card users would be exempted. A monthly pass would be issued for Rs 20. DMRC is also negotiating with parking contractors for installation of cycle stands, Dayal said. “If the experiment works out well, DMRC may get stands fitted at select parking sites.”

DMRC also plans to install automatic parking at sites such as Pul Bangash, Pratap Nagar, Shastri Nagar, Kashmere Gate and Pitampura.

Write to Editor - ExpressIndia

Previously on DelhiGreens:

• This is what we need..
• A tribute to Delhi Metro!

Dow Chemical, the owner of Union Carbide, key accused (under both criminal and civil law) in the 1984 Bhopal gas disaster, is attempting to recruit IIT-Madras students. Since Union Carbide has not even responded to a summons in the criminal case, Dow Chemical is guilty of shielding a criminally absconding corporation.

Besides, Dow Chemical refuses to clean up the severe contamination present at the factory site which causes interminable suffering to the gas survivors and their offspring even today. This is a petition to IIT-Madras to refuse campus recruitment to Dow Chemical.

Click here to read and sign the petition.
                (Please indicate if you are an IIT Alumnus.)

Indeed, it is part of a larger campaign to petition IIT-Madras to screen the corporations it allows for campus recruitment in order to disallow criminal corporations.

Please also write to the members of the IIT-Madras Senate which consists of the Faculty and is the main decision-making body. The list of professors on the Senate is available here. 

The Bhopal Legacy - Bhopal Gas Disaster - ‘The Icon of Corporate Crime’ - Greenpeace

Also read on DelhiGreens:

• Center may give a “green” signal to Dow Chemicals?

The Union Ministry of Environment & Forests (MoEF) has notified through a publication in the Gazette of India, Extraordinary, Part-II, Section-3, Sub-section (ii) dated the 28 September 2007 - the Draft Hazardous Waste Management Rules.

The said Draft Rules will be taken into consideration by the Central Government after expiry of a period of sixty days form the date of publication of the notification in the Official Gazette (60 days after 28 September, 2007).

Any person desirous of making any objection or suggestion with respect to the said draft rules may forward the same within the period so specified (on or before 27 November, 2007) to
The Secretary,
Ministry of Environment and Forests,
Paryavaran Bhawan, Central Government Offices Complex,
New Delhi-110003.

Source: Monday, Oct. 15 2007

Chat on 18th October 2007

Log in to IndianWildlifeclub.com for an online chat on “Urban Wildlife” between 7.30 PM (IST) and 8.30 PM (IST) on 18th October 2007.

The chat will be moderated by Lima Rosalind, who is the Director of Environment Education at WWF-India.

Click Here to reach the chat room on the said day and time, after registering as a member.

You can also click HERE to see transcripts of the earlier chat sessions.

Previously on DelhiGreens:

• “Disappearing tigers: Taking Stock”, IWC’s Monthly Online Chat

From the index page of NobelPeacePrize.org:

The Norwegian Nobel Committee has decided that the Nobel Peace Prize for 2007 is to be shared, in two equal parts, between the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (headed by Dr. R.K. Pachauri) and Albert Arnold (Al) Gore Jr. for their efforts to build up and disseminate greater knowledge about man-made climate change, and to lay the foundations for the measures that are needed to counteract such change.

             
                        faces that need no introduction….