PRESS RELEASE: Research Project on “Water Security in Peri- Urban South Asia: Adapting to Climate Change and Urbanization”launched at Nepal Engineering College
(Kathmandu, 12 July 2010)
Urbanization, Climate change and Water Access in Peri Urban South Asia, a Collaborative Action Research Project in four institutions of the South Asian Countries proposed by namely South Asia Consortium for Interdisciplinary Water Resources Studies (SaciWATERS), Hyderabad, India, Management Development Institute (MDI), Gurgaon, India, Nepal Engineering College (nec), Kathmandu, Nepal and Institute of Water and Flood Management (IWFM), Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology (BUET), Dhaka, Bangladesh, formally commenced on 12th July, 2010. Thisthree year project is funded by the International Development Research Centre (IDRC), Canada.
nec research team includes the Project Leader Prof. Dr. Hari Krishna Shrestha, Principal, Nepal Engineering College, Mr. Mohan Bikram Prajapati and Mr. Sarbin Sayami. Mr. Rajesh Sada and Ms. Anushiya Shrestha are the designated full time researcher and research assistant in the team. While this is the core team of researchers, other faculty members and graduate students fromnec will also contribute in the research issues. An office for the project management has been established at the Center for Postgraduate Studies (nec-CPS), at Pulchowk in Lalitpur.
An internal inception meeting was organized on July 13, 2010 at nec-CPS wherein the frameworks of the project, activities foreseen and expected outcomes were discussed. In the meeting Prof. Ashutosh Shukla of nec summarized on the genesis of the research project, detailed the responsibilities of each partner institution, highlighted the aims of project and discussed the project activities and their sequences, study sites, research design, methodology, the expected outcomes and their relevance in the context of urbanization, climate change and their linkages to water scarcity.
The initial activity plan for the activities to be completed in the short, medium and long term time frame has been prepared. The 1st year of the project is focused on in-depth information gathering, where the emphasis will be on detailed baseline data collection through intensive literature review, map study and simultaneous field visits thereby finalizing the study sites. Second year onwards the research will focus on Participatory learning dialogue involving project team, multiple stakeholders and local communities; documentation of the changing access of peri-urban residents to water as a consequence of urbanization and climate change and adaptation strategies employed by water users thereby conducting capacity building activities for the local communities and municipal corporation officials and planning for creating resilience through institutional support.
For further information contact:
Mr. Rajesh Sada,
Research Coordinator
Water Security Project, Nepal Engineering College-Center for Postgraduate Studies,
Pulchowk,Lalitpur
Tel: +9779751041822/5536752
Email: rajesh_sada@hotmail.com
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