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You make the Decade! Who has joined the Water Decade campaign?
CTAUN joined the 'Water for Life' Decade in 2006 and organized the conference 'The Global Challenge of Water' in New York, USA, in February 2006. The conference, attended by nearly 400 participants from 28 countries, focused on water-related issues and provided educators with background information on local, national and international problems and successes achieved. A full conference report with summaries of all presentations including conference pictures, links and information on exhibits is available online.
The Indus Foundation for Human Development is a civic society organization working in different fields of human development. It strives for improving the educational, health and cultural status of people by empowering them with training and research facilities. The Foundation also organizes capacity enhancement activities in the fields of teacher education, community development and mobilization, youth development and environmental studies. The Quaid College Network, under the auspices of the Indus Foundation for human development, initiated the initiatives Green Teacher Initiative-II and Save Water Youth Movement which included two self-funded capacity building programs under the framework of the Decade. They impart awareness and motivate school teachers and youth to make sustainable use of water resources and encourage others to practice the same, which involves in-house training sessions, field visits, motivational presentations and group work in different districts of Pakistan.
Environment Canada is a diverse organization where programs, services, and people lead the way in implementing the Government of Canada's environmental agenda. Their aim is to protect the environment, to conserve the country's natural heritage, and to provide weather and meteorological information for information of the population. Environment Canada joined the Decade's Campaign and promoted the Decade with a bilingual (English/French) children booklet Explore water with Holly Heron/À la découverte de l'eau avec notre ami le heron targeted at children aged 5-9. Designed to increase children's knowledge and understanding about water through simple activities and experiments the booklet was provided free-of-charge for educational purposes. Between 2005 and 2006, 30,000 copies of the booklet were produced with all copies distributed by January 2008. | ||||
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María del Pilar González Meyaui
Information management and awareness raising expert - Responsable de información y sensibilización pública
UN-Water. Decade Programme on Advocacy and Communication
Programa de ONU-Agua para la Promoción y la Comunicación en el marco del Decenio
Casa Solans - Avda. Cataluña, 60 - 50014 Zaragoza - SPAIN
Tel: (+34) 976 72 42 20
gonzalez-meyaui@un.org - www.un.org/waterforlifedecade
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