Dr. Crispino Lobo, co-founder of the Watershed Organisation Trust (<link http: www.wotr.org>WOTR), on
Making Communities Climate-Smart: Bringing Together Science, Context and Practice in Rural India.
Date: Thursday, November 20, 2014, 11:30 – 12:30 am
Venue: ZEF, Walter-Flex-Straße 3, 53111 Bonn, ZEF’s right conference room, ground floor
Abstract:
WOTR is a not-for-profit NGO founded in 1993 operating currently in 7 Indian states – Maharashtra, Telangana, Seemaandhra, Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan, Jharkhand and Odisha. WOTR is recognized widely as a premier institution in the field of participatory Watershed Development and Climate Change Adaptation. Its unique strength lies in its ‘on-field’ experience and in a systemic, participatory approach. WOTR was initiated to support a large-scale multi-actor, multi-level, multi-sectoral, community led watershed development program for poverty reduction called the Indo-German Watershed Development Program (IGWDP). Its mandate is to reduce poverty through mobilizing the self-help capacities of individuals and communities to regenerate the eco-spaces or watersheds they live in, harvest rain water wherever it falls, use it productively, undertake sustainable livelihoods and do whatever else it takes to get them out of poverty. For more information see <link http: www.wotr.org>www.wotr.org
About the speaker:
Dr. Crispino Lobo is co-founder and Managing Trustee of WOTR. See his profile <link http: www.wotr.org board_of_trustees crispino-lobo>here.
