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Dear Colleagues, Content The only constant thing in life is change. COUNTRY DIRECTOR'S CORNER
On the first of July, a truly historic change has taking place in the GIZ: Dr. Bernd Eisenblätter, SPOTLIGHT long-serving chairman, has handed over to Tanja Gönner. NEWS FROM GIZ IS / CIM DESK Dr. Eisenblätter has led and shaped our organisation. He is the father of all successful developments over the last twenty years, including GIZ CAPTURED IN IMAGES the merger of GTZ with Inwent and DED. He has overseen the decen- tralisation, the strengthening of IS, and our system of OuR which is MY SPACE more flexible than a very stringent set of rules. GIZ IN NEWS Thank you, Dr Eisenblätter! WHAT'S NEW @ GIZ Tanja Gönner is the first woman to lead GIZ or any of the predecessor organi- sations. She has served as a Minister of Environment in the federal state of Baden-Württemberg and bring a wealth of political and administrative expe- rience to GIZ. Imprint
Published by Welcome, Tanja Gönner! Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH (Photograph by: Karsten Thormaehlen) Communication Team GIZ Office New Delhi There has also been a change in the set up of the Asia Department: India is 4th Floor, B-5/2, Safdarjung Enclave New Delhi - 110 029 no longer clubbed with China and Mongolia, but now forms the core of the E-Mail: [email protected] new South Asia Division which also includes Nepal, Bangladesh, and Sri Lanka. Let us expect more opportunities to work jointly with our South Asian neigh- Editorial Stefan Helming bours. Tushita Mukherjee
Layout & Design The division is headed by Ms Sandra Schenke. She has experience from many Gurjit Kaur parts of GIZ, including a stint in IS and as County Director in Tunisia. She will come for the first visit to India soon. Editorial input The Editorial Team thanks all the PR coordinators and experts for their constant support. Welcome, Sandra Schenke! For your suggestions or comments Please write to us at [email protected] or [email protected] Yours sincerely, Stefan Helming (Country Director)
YOUR TAKE Great job…….it’s come out really well.—Vaishali Nandan This time the newsletter-April 2012 is more attractive than ever. The layout, content and overall placements of pictures etc are really eye-catching. Many congratulations for you all.—Shantanu Garg Very nice and informative newsletter. It is excellent!—Reshma Verma Looks really great Tushita.—Sasank Vemuri You have done it again. The diversity of your stories is really amazing. Love it. Again well-done! —Irene Maweu, GIZ office Kenya, Communications, HIV and AIDS Focal Point It’s well done and quite comprehensive. —Nishtha Prakash It is really interesting and balanced combination of news + photos from within India as well as outside India giving an insight into GIZ operations (even at grass root level). I would really applaud the efforts of your team!—Kiran Kanda Congratulations on your India News! —Clarissa A. Dytianquin, GIZ Office Manila, Corporate Communications Manager 2 india NEWS / GIZ Staff Magazine 3 / 07.2012
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News from the Capital IGEN-RE organises a workshop to look at the current energy situation in rural areas of India from a Gender perspective New Delhi, March 20, 2012: The Renewable Energy Component of the Indo-German Energy Programme (IGEN-RE) conducted a study to ex- amine, analyse and understand the current energy situation in rural areas from a gender perspective. With an objective to further enrich the study, its initial findings were shared with the gender and rural energy experts and practitioners in the workshop. The workshop saw participation from organisations such as TERI, USAID, UN Women, En- ergia and UNDP. The participants collectively reviewed experiences and best practices regarding gender issues in energy access projects. A set of recommendations for a more gender sensitive approach to policies and programmes for energy access in rural areas was devel- oped by the group.
MSME and IGEN-RE jointly organise “Energise the BoP Work- GIZ-RSBY selects 10 candidates for the Young Professional shop” Programme New Delhi, April 26-27, 2012: To promote energy business models New Delhi, May 3-4, 2012: As part of capacity building measures at for low income Bottom of the Pyramid (BoP) markets in India, the Re- the state level, the GIZ-RSBY Young Professional Programme (GRYPP) newable Energy Component of the Indo-German Energy Programme kick-started with the induction programme for the 10 selected candi- (IGEN-RE) and the innovation sub-component of the MSME Umbrella dates. They were trained on different processes of the RSBY to serve Programme jointly organised the “Energise the BoP Workshop”. The t h e c a u s e o f p u b l i c i n t e r e s t i n t h e s o c i a l s e c t o r . Contact: [email protected]
GIZ-MoF Study on Willingness-to-Pay for a Comprehensive So- cial Security Scheme The Indo-German Social Security Programme and Ministry of Finance (MoF) are conducting a study on Willingness-to-Pay. The study will help understand how much the workers in the unorganised sector are able and willing to contribute for a Comprehensive Social Security insurance scheme including life, health, disability and pension insur- workshop was facilitated by the German consultancy-Endeva. It was ances. The study attempts to understand the demand for such a com- a platform for peer learning for successful entrepreneurs and start-up prehensive product. It will also shed light on the challenges and bot- innovators within the off-grid clean energy space. The one and a half t l e n e c k s t h a t m i g h t a p p e a r d u r i n g i m p l e m e n t a t i o n o f s u c h a s c h e m e . days event was organised as a side event of the Asian Competitiveness Contact: [email protected] Forum 2012. Three successful entrepreneurs in the rural renewable energy sector (Envirofit, DESI POWER, SELCO) were acting as mentors GIZ-supported research programme discusses its preliminary for 15 upcoming Indian energy entrepreneurs. Furthermore, 11 inves- findings in a multi-stakeholder workshop tors and incubators represented the financial and incubaton sector. New Delhi, May 3, 2012: MSME Umbrella Programme has been sup- The start-up companies gained immensely from the experiences of porting a research and knowledge exchange programme on Green the mentoring entrepreneurs and the workshop also provided them Growth commenced by Overseas Development Institute (ODI). This with the options for designing and improving energy business models is a collaborative, four year, research programme in partnership with that respond to the low income Indian markets. other institutions in China, India and other emerging economies. In India, the GIZ MSME Umbrella Programme has supported the incep- tion phase of this research programme. IGSSP Planning Workshop New Delhi, April 3, 2012: IGSSP organised a Planning Workshop for This multi-stakeholder workshop titled- ‘India - Leading the Path to- steering the programme in the right direction. Experts, practitioners wards Green and Inclusive Growth’ was organised with the intention and partners from the Ministry of Labour and Employment and the to discuss preliminary findings of the inception phase research, vali- Ministry of Finance of the Government of India participated in the date the rationale and understand the expectations from this research event for a brainstorming session on the programme implementa- by stakeholders. tion. india NEWS / GIZ Staff Magazine 3 / 07.2012 3
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The workshop was also aimed at developing an informed research agenda for the main research phase. The workshop was attended by about 36 participants representing government bodies, think tanks, academics, private sector representatives, and financial institutions, multilateral and bilateral agencies. It was instrumental in understand- ing the key expectations of India from a research of this nature. Contact: [email protected]
GIZ organises training workshop for CEOs of Cooperative Banks June 4-9, 2012: The training focussed on the need for adoption of ap- propriate governance structures, norms and practices for good gov- ernance, Board's oversight of bank's business operations, budgeting, adherence to banking laws and transparency in financial and non financial disclosures, Code of conduct for Board of Directors, Consti- GIZ organises training of trainers for the senior auditors in Odi- tution of sub-committees of the Board, their duties and responsibili- sha ties and their effective functioning and the importance of effective Odisha, June 4-9, 2012: Training of Trainers workshop for senior audi- Internal control systems for a well functioning and Prudent financial tors of the Cooperative Department in response to the request made institution. by the Government of Odisha regarding developing the capacities of their auditors and audit system. The training aimed to enhance/ The programme was well received and the role of GIZ in the design sharpen the domain knowledge, skill and insight of the auditors, who and conduct was appreciated by the state government and the partic- would assume the role of Trainers, for imparting training of auditors ipating bankers. Contact: [email protected] of the Primary Agricultural Credit Societies (PACS) in the state, with a v i e w t o i m p r o v i n g o v e r a l l q u a l i t y a n d e f f e c t i v e n e s s o f a u d i t o f P A C S . GIZ organises an orientation workshop for NABARD officers Contact: [email protected] May 21-22, 2012: The workshop oriented the officers of NABARD work- ing in different states to promote and actively market the products and services of CPEC- Centre for Professional Excellence in Coopera- NEWS FROM WEST INDIA tives at BIRD set up by NABARD under the NABARD-GIZ Rural Financial Institutions Programme. The outcome of the programme was the de- GIZ develops Solid Waste Management manual for the JNNURM centralisation of CPEC’s activities and programmes to the major states cities and the realisation of CPEC champions at the state to interface and Nashik, May 11, 2012: A workshop on Standard Operating Procedure support the accredited cooperative training institutions. (SOP) for Municipal Solid Waste Processing Plant for Municipal Corpo- Contact: [email protected] ration. Standard Operation Manual that has been developed by GIZ will help the Plant Manager and the Plant staff to run the facility in an NEWS FROM EAST INDIA efficient and effective manner. The target group for the workshop comprised of Senior Officials, staff GIZ organises 4th RSBY National Workshop involved in the Integrated Municipal Solid Waste Plant. An orientation Ranchi, April 9–12, 2012 : A three-day RSBY National Workshop was to the SOP developed for the Nashik Municipal Corporation was pro- held to listen to all the stakeholders working with RSBY, learn from vided to the target group. The main aim of the workshop was to pro- good practice examples, find ways to solve difficulties in the imple- vide in- plant training to the Plant Manager and staff on plant mainte- mentation and award the best performing stakeholders. Over 400 nance and day to day operations. It was suggested that the use of SOP persons attended including the Union Minister for Labour and Em- in the daily operations would help in performance optimisation of the ployment, Shri Mallikarjun Kharge, the Chief Minister of Jharkhand, Mr Plant. During the workshop, emphasis was given to the good house- Arjun Munda and GIZ India Country Director, Mr. Helming. Staff from keeping and Health & Safety aspects. The workshop was followed by the project provided technical assistance and facilitated the function- the distribution of training certificate to the participants. ing of the grand event.
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NEWS FROM NORTH INDIA NEWS FROM NORTH-EAST GIZ partners with Reuters Market Light for providing SMS-based INDIA agricultural information to small farmers in Uttarakhand Dehradun, May 09, 2012: The Regional Economic Development (RED) GIZ supports the Second Sustainable Mountain Development Programme in Uttarakhand in partnership with Reuters Market Light Summit of the Indian Mountain Initiative (RML) has introduced a mobile-based agri-information service for the Gangtok, May 25-26, 2012: Building on the success of the inaugural farmers in the hill regions, on a pilot scale since 2010. RML’s actionable summit, this year, the Summit deliberated on three issues: mountain information enables the farmer to mitigate their production and mar- livelihoods, communities and forests, and water. In addition, various keting risks in an informed way and thus, improve their livelihood by side events were organised that included the second Indian Hima- better realisations and lower costs. It provides information from pre- layan Photography Competition, a session on mountain cities, and a sowing to post harvesting stage covering 600+ crop varieties, 1300+ legislators' meeting on climate change and the need for legislation. markets and 3500 weather locations in eight local languages and on The inaugural sustainable development summit was held in Nainital all mobile operators and handset devices. Farmers receive information in May 2011. One of the major outcomes of the inaugural summit was on market prices, crop advisory, weather forecasts, agriculture infor- to set up a working group to the Planning Commission of India to look mation as per the stage of crop, soil type, irrigation, mechanisation into the development needs of the Indian mountain states. facility etc. Various projects/ Institutions/ NGOs like ULIPH-Ajeevika, GRAMYA, Uttarakhand organic & commodity Board, NABARD, HARC, Addressing the delegation, the Chief Guest, Shri K.T. Gayltsen, Hon. CHEA etc. are a part of this effort. Speaker State Legislative Assembly, Sikkim, emphasised on the im- portance of the Indian Mountain Initiative as a platform for the Indian Seeing the benefits and scope of further enhancing the bargaining Himalayan states to come together, learn from each other, arrive at a capabilities of local farmers, and also bringing transactional trans- consensus on appropriate action to address their unique needs, and to parencies and efficiencies in the system, GIZ has now taken a further communicate the same to appropriate authorities. initiative of starting a development partnership project with RML to strengthen and upscale this service. This ‘DeveloPPP’ project aims to Shri P.D. Rai MP (Lok Sabha) Sikkim and convener concluded the Sum- make this mobile-based agri-information service available to about mit presented the vision document titled 'Sikkim Declaration', which 4000 farmers in each year for the next three years. underlined the need to give undivided attention to mountain devel- opment over the next two decades. Additionally, this service can be effectively utilised for various aware- ness drives for various schemes etc. The Dept. of Telecommunication Over 250 delegates from the 11 Himalayan states of India and the Dar- (DoT) and RML have mutually agreed on spreading ‘health awareness jeeling district of West Bengal attended it. The delegates represented for rural women’ in Uttarakhand facilitated by ULIPH – Ajeevika. various stakeholder groups including academics, NGOs, bureaucrats and policy makers, scientists and legislators. GIZ selects 50 units to pilot the energy efficiency finance Ludhiana, May 7, 2012: The MSME Umbrella Programme launched en- ergy audits of select 50 MSME unitsa at an event. These units have been selected for piloting the energy efficiency loan product devel- NEWS FROM SOUTH INDIA oped by the programme in collaboration with the Frankfurt School of Finance & Management. Discussion on Solid Waste Management explores possibility of PPP models Tirupati, May 24, 2012: A roundtable discussion on Solid Waste Man- agement (SWM) was organised by GIZ-IGEP for Municipal Corpora- tion Officers of the Solid Waste Management (SWM) department. The discussion was focused on exploring the possible Public Private Part- nership (PPP) models for implementation of the Solid Waste Manage- ment-Detailed Project Reports (SWM-DPR) sanctioned under JNNURM. Various PPP models were discussed and explained to the participants in detail.
Also further steps to be taken for implementation of SWM-DPR as well as the pre-requisite for obtaining the environment clearance for the proposed processing and landfill facility was discussed in the work- The Programme has been working with the partner banks - State Bank shop. of India, SIDBI and Bank of India to promote responsible business be- haviour and ‘Green Finance’ in MSME sector in India. The loan product developed in collaboration with Frankfurt School is presently being pi- loted with State Bank of India in the light engineering cluster at Ludhi- ana and steel re-rolling mills cluster at Mandi Gobindgarh in Punjab. Based on the energy audit results, the SBI will be financing these units to buy energy efficient technologies and instruments. Top Executives of SBI and more than 70 participants representing MSMEs from the se- lected clusters, partner banks, consulting companies, BMOs and BDS providers attended the event. Contact: [email protected] india NEWS / GIZ Staff Magazine 3 / 07.2012 5
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GIZ IS inaugurates two Multi-Skills Development Centres in Karnataka
Multi-Skills Development Centres Karnataka, April 16 -17, 2012: The Multi-Skills Development Centres at Gulbarga and Bangalore are established with the technical assistance of GIZ IS to focus on skill development and offer excellent and ad- vanced technology training courses to benefit the people and industry. Mr. Stefan Helming, Country Director, GIZ attended the programme in Gulbarga. Planning Commission Deputy Chairman, Mr. Montek Singh Ahluwalia, inaugurated the centres and laid the Foundation stone for the new buildings.
Mr. Ahluwalia stressed said that it is the first pilot project in the country and the Government of India will be giving 32.23 crores as financial as- sistance. He added, “Germany stands out for doing more through skills development among the industrialised world. Now, time has come for us to emulate and impart the same in India to secure future for our youth.” Mr. Hans-Herrmann Dube, Regional Director GIZ-IS South Asia, South- East-Asia and China said, “Germany has 350 years of history in offering vocational training. We treat it as important as academic learning.”
GIZ-IS provided support for architectural planning of the centres, design building, preparation of material estimates and civil engineering super- vision. Special attention is given to design appropriate technical facilities, such as laboratories and workshops where the emphasis is on student activation and student-organised learning. Modern construction engineering features like energy efficiency, green construction, water harvest- ing etc., with inputs from German experts in the new building design, training and Construction Engineering are being applied.
Union Labour Minister, Mr. Mallikarjun Kharge, Labour Minister Mr. B N Bacchegowda, Counsul General of Federal Republic of Germany, Dr. Ingo Karsten and Secretary of Ministry of Labour, GoI, Mrutyunjay Sarangi as well as other Karnataka State Government officials were present among 1500 participants on the inaugural day.
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Freiburg im Breisgau, May 31, 2012: University of Freiburg is one of the Universities in Germany with a significantly high concentration of Indian Students. Advisor for Returning Experts in India conducted an info-session with the Students from University of Freiburg and introduced them to the Programme “Migration for Development”. The two-hour session took place at the Kollegiengebäude witnessed the participation of students with background in Renewable Energy, Information and technology, Sociology, and Microsystems) was well received. ^ Induction Workshop
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The Changing Face of Industrial Development By Raghu Babu Nukala and Anna-Katharina Meyer
alundborg, a trading and industrial town in Denmark, has the largest coal-fired power plant in the country. This 1500 MW plant at the centre became the earliest example of industrial symbiosis. A biotechnology company and an oil refinery buy the steam produced by the K power plant, indirectly reducing possible thermal pollution to a fjord (A long narrow inlet of the sea between steep cliffs) in the proximity. The power plant uses salt water from the fjord instead of fresh water from the Lake Tisso for cooling purposes, and gives out hot salt water, which is used by a fish farm and local homes for heating purpose. The fly ash generated by the plant is used by a cement company. Similarly go many such cyclic exchanges of materials and wastes between several collaborating partners that benefit financially from the co-operation.
This system of recycling and reuse of energy and materials saves costs and reduces negative environmental impacts. The successful symbiosis among industries has inspired the industrial community to re-think of industrial development in a completely different, efficient and sustainable way.
Customised approaches hood level, the impacts of the industrial park, positive or negative, are analysed and corrected measures taken up, if needed. These efforts In emerging economies like India, where industrialisation is an im- are reinforced with capacity development of individuals and organi- portant driver for development, it becomes even more pertinent to sations, and also feed into industrial policy. reconsider the conventional ways of industrial development. The What makes a good eco-industrial park? overall goal of achieving sustainable development becomes increas- ingly dependent on how the industrial areas are planned and devel- A good eco-industrial park shows that in its planning, development oped. The approach needs to be comprehensive and needs to con- and operation, environmental, economic and social aspects are taken sider aspects such as land-use conflicts, industrial citing rules, green into consideration. It is climate proofed; energy efficient; uses cost-ef- design of park infrastructure and plants, clean production, pollution fective environmental services; has satisfactorily looked into land-use prevention, energy efficiency and inter-company partnering. Such an compatibility and protection of the surrounding environment and approach would have to be integrated into the Eco Industrial Devel- human populations’ livelihood and well-being. Looking at the eco- opment (EID) concept for application in India. nomic aspects, the eco-industrial park is based on a sound site mas- ter plan which ensures flexibility as well as longevity, helps promote The Eco-Industrial Park Handbook (Lowe 2001) for Asian Developing investments with industries compatible to the site, and effectively Countries elaborates, “By working together, the community of busi- accomplishes and uses synergies with industries within the park for nesses seeks a collective benefit that is greater than the sum of indi- exchange of materials and energy. vidual benefits each company would realise by only optimising its in- dividual performance.” The concept has been applied in diverse ways Various aspects of eco-industrial development are reflected in several in several countries across Europe, Americas, Europe and Africa. “Eco projects with technical support provided by GIZ-ASEM. The examples Industrial Development” has emerged as one of the key sustainable include, carrying out a site suitability assessment and developing a development. However, for realising results and impacts, its applica- site master plan for the Andhra Pradesh Special Economic Zone in tion on a large scale is important and for this, the concepts may need Vishakhapatnam in cooperation with L&T – RAMBØLL Consulting to be customised to local needs. Engineers Ltd. under the technical guidance from Bayer Technology Eco-industrial development Services (BTS); improvement of eco-performance with environmental and economic benefits in 14 selected industries by employing Eco- In India, the Advisory Services in Environmental Management (ASEM) profit tool, improved environmental infrastructure in 30 industrial Programme undertook several initiatives in a systematic way, since parks in Andhra Pradesh as a step towards transforming them to eco 2002, to introduce and establish eco industrial development. It has industrial parks; setting up a common Treatment, Storage and Dis- been well understood that for fostering EID, particularly in emerging posal Facility (TSDF) in Bangalore; transforming independent e-waste economies such as India, beyond just technical issues, many socio- recyclers into a company named E-WaRDD in Bangalore; planning of economic issues that currently exist or might emerge as a result of Common Effluent Treatment Plants (CEPT) catering to small, medium further development need to be addressed. These issues include land and large enterprises in cooperation with the national and state gov- use, natural resources management, negative environmental im- ernments; building a Geographic Information System for the Naroda pacts, ecological considerations and many more. The issue of climate Industrial State in Gujarat. change has further expanded the scope of eco industrial develop- The pathway ment. The journey of GIZ-ASEM in developing the concept of Eco Industrial The initiatives included interventions at the policy, industrial park and Parks has been documented in a publication called “Pathway to Eco single company level. Each case had a customised approach. While Industrial Development in India: Concepts and Cases.” the individual companies are supported in the move towards cleaner production and improved ecological and economic performance, an In future, more sustainable and resource efficient industrial develop- eco-industrial park is transformed if it is already existing or appropri- ment is most practical, viable and responsible way to do business. ately planned in the development of a new one to provide supportive When business-as-usual is done on a sustainable basis, it has a big po- environment and cost-effective common infrastructure and services tential to steer socio-economic change. Bright ideas and pilots have with technologies that are energy and resources efficient and eco- already proved the success of eco-friendly approaches. These innova- friendly. Such services are delivered with viable business models, in- tive pilots are waiting to translate into big scale eco industrial devel- cluding private sector participation. At the regional and neighbour- opment programmes for achieving sustainable inclusive growth. 8 india NEWS / GIZ Staff Magazine 3 / 07.2012
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Drip irrigation systems
The Impacts of UPNRM; developing and funding bankable models for natural resource management
he Umbrella Programme on Natural Resource Management (UPNRM) is facilitating environmentally friendly economic growth through en- T hancing the private investment in the space of Natural Resource Management.
Three years after its inception, the portfolio of UPNRM has grown to 109 projects implemented in 14 states and one union territory. The rapid increase in the number of projects being implemented by various clients, ranging from NGOs, producers companies, trusts, and cooperatives, to private companies, demonstrates the acceptance of loan-based financing for sustainable NRM-based livelihoods . Till May 31, 2012, NABARD, un- der UPNRM, has sanctioned Rs 244.28 crores (37.5 million Euros, 1 Euro=Rs 65) to projects that cover over 200,000 beneficiaries. Current projects include integrated farming, livestock rearing, processing & marketing of agriculture commodities, poultry, medicinal herb-cultivation, processing and marketing and so on.
Last year’s impact data revealed that of the 83,632 project participants that were involved in 44 projects, approximately 36% are women and 44% from scheduled casts and scheduled tribes. The productive activities undertaken by the project participants resulted in an increased aver- age annual income of INR 22,300. Nearly a quarter of the beneficiaries saw an increase in their annual income by 137% or by over 40,000 INR. Environmental impacts include:
• Savings of approx 31.1 million cubic meter of water through the system of rice intensification and drip irrigation, which is approximately equivalent to one-year’s water requirement for a town of 600,000 people; • Improved soil fertility in over 400 hectares of land through vermi-composting; • Planting of over 9,000 trees on 1,013 acres on degraded lands in Orissa and Tamil Nadu; • Sequestration of 6,000 tons of carbon dioxide per annum and; • Mitigation of methane equivalent to approx. 4,500 tons of carbon dioxide from entering the atmosphere.
To quantify, understand and replicate the poverty-alleviating and environmental impacts of all projects, UPNRM’s second round of impact moni- toring will be completed by the end of July.
One example of how UPNRM is impacting the life of rural poor and also the environment can be illustrated by a project being implemented by MASUTA, a producer company in Bihar and Jharkhand. MASUTA has taken loan of Rs 51 Lakh for the procurement of 300 solar reeling machines and have generated livelihood op- portunity for 300 women for at least 220 days in a year. With the installation of automatic solar reeling machines, the work efficiency of these women has increased two-fold. Earlier one woman used to process 15 Kg of yarn using old carbon-emit- ting diesel operated machines. With solar reeling machines, the same woman can easily process 30 kg of Tasar yarn in a year while also helping MASTUA in saving 800,000 liters of diesel. It means double the income from her and her family for the same number of hours of work.
As the first round of projects begin to graduate to commercial scale, UPNRM will continue to support in developing techni- cally feasible, financially viable and environmentally sustain- able proposals that are not getting credit support from com- mercial banks. india NEWS / GIZ Staff Magazine 3 / 07.2012 9
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International Youth Forum Go4Biodiv gives voice to the youth in the Global Biodiversity Convention
As India gears up for hosting the 11th Conference of the Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD-COP 11), youth 648422 from various nations are also preparing themselves for the major Summit. Go4BioDiv is an International Youth Forum providing a platform to the youth to voice their opinion on the issues related to Biodiversity during this global event of decision-making on biodiversity. This forum was organised for the first time in parallel to CBD-COP 9 in Bonn-Germany in 2008 and then during COP 10 in Nagoya-Japan in 2010. This year, the Forum will take place in parallel to the COP with the theme ‘Conserving coastal and marine biodiversity for sustaining life and livelihoods’.
Go4BioDiv 2012 is being organised by and awareness generation by these Messengers, both, to the wider the Ministry of Environment and Forests public at COP and in their home countries/sites. The third impact dur- (MoEF), with the Wildlife Institute of India ing COP is realised by providing a fresh youth perspective on the is- as the nodal institute, with partnership of sues, particularly in cross-cutting CBD Programmes of Work. Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH on behalf of The Messengers are encouraged to develop a group affiliation and the German Federal Ministry for Economic have a first-hand experience of the issues by living at an actual site rel- Cooperation and Development (BMZ), IUCN, UNESCO, the ASEAN evant to the theme of Go4BioDiv. They prepare for the interventions Centre for Biodiversity and other partners. during the COP and also for public outreach and awareness genera- tion in their respective countries/ sites. 35 vibrant and dedicated young adults from important coastal and marine sites of the World have been as Go4BioDiv Messengers 2012. In India, Go4BioDiv 2012 will have three phases- The Virtual Phase, They represent Australia, Bangladesh, Belize, Costa Rica, Germany, starting April 2012, will address the issues critical to coastal and ma- India, Indonesia, Japan, Mauritania, Mexico, Philippines, South Africa, rine conservation and for livelihoods through discussions on Face- The Netherlands, and USA. 25 Messengers represent Marine Heritage book and LinkedIn. The phase is open for the 35 Go4BioDiv partici- sites in different countries, and 10 Messengers belong to the coastal pants as well as the wider community. The discussions taking place states and Union territories of India. Almost all the Messengers have in the virtual platform will shape further activities and the Go4Biodiv a close personal relationship with coastal marine issues and areas. Declaration during CBD COP-11. These participants have begun contributing to the Go4BioDiv Virtual camp via a virtual discussion forum using social media. These Messen- The Live Phase of Go4BioDiv will take place in India during the CBD- gers will be given E-Coaching on biodiversity. COP (October 6-19 2012). In the first 10 days, the participants will be stationed in the Marine World Heritage site of India- Sundarbans, and This innovative initative with a successful past has recently been of- prepare for their interventions in the CBD COP. They will move to the ficially recognised as a ‘UN Decade Project on Biological Diversity’. COP venue in Hyderabad in the last 4 days of this phase. At the CBD- This prestigious award distinguishes initiatives, which contribute to COP, the participants will use innovative, creative and global ways for biodiversity conservation in an innovative and exemplary way. With spreading their messages on coastal and marine conservation, includ- this award, the outstanding commitment of Go4BioDiv for involving ing a Go4BioDiv declaration. young adults in biodiversity conservation has been acknowledged. Post COP Phase will include production of a COP publication and fol- Go4BioDiv has been conceptualised and implemented to make im- low-up with the participants, once they go back to their respective pact at three levels. First, on the lives of the participants (called ‘Mes- countries/ states and act as messengers for spreading the message of sengers’) by providing them exposure to issues and stimulating in- biodiversity conservation, while remaining connected with the virtual teraction with subject experts and connecting them to the bigger platform. conservation and youth networks. The second impact is the outreach For more details, visit: www.go4biodiv.org
How can you engage? If you are interesting in discussing issues on biodiversity or coastal and marine ecosystems and livelihood issues, you can join the discusisons Forum on Facebook http://www.facebook.com/groups/youth4coastalmarine/ Those who are not active on Facebook, can join on Linkedin Page- http://www.linkedin.com/groups?gid=4404890&trk=hb_side_g
If you would like to receive latest news and information and also interesting facts and details on coastal and marine biodiversity, then you can LIKE our Facebook Page- http://www.facebook.com/Go4BioDiv
If you are interested in basic conceptual reading on Biodiversity, then please visit the E-Coaching section on the Go4BioDiv website http:// go4biodiv.org/india-2012/e-coaching/. E-Coaching is meant for the 35 Go4BioDiv Messengers, however the resource material is available as an open access material on this webpage.
Please contact Dr Neeraj Khera ([email protected]) or Ms Tushita Mukherjee ([email protected]) for further information on your en- gagement with the above activities. 10 india NEWS / GIZ Staff Magazine 3 / 07.2012
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Merits of gas-based power News » States » Karnataka Saurabh Kumar Wednesday, May 23rd, 2012 | Published: June 1, 2012 18:30 IST | Updated: June 1, 2012 18:34 IST f 2 Page 1 o U.K. award for Karnataka rural development project India and European Union Launch Joint Hasan Suroor A Karnataka microfinance organisation, which provides affordable loans to the poor to helpVenture them plan theiron energy Skill development needs, has won the prestigioushope Ashden Gold Award, given annually by Ashden, a British charity, for promoting i sposal A joint venture of Skills Development is being launched by India and European Union. India universalwast e d access to sustainable energy. Bhopal will receive 6 million Euros from EU in connection with the project, which will span for four and The Shri Kshethra Dharmasthala Rural Development Project (SKDRDP) was awarded thea half £40,000 years. The prize project money was at launched a by Dr João Cravinho, Ambassador of the European ceremony in London on Wednesday. Union. Judges described SKDRP as a “fantastic example” of how ethically managed microfinance could deliver sustainable energy to the poor. The project will be under the control of a Steering Committee, chaired by the Indian Ministry of Decentralised gas-based power is the best bet for airports, hospitals and shopping malls. It will mitigate the burden on Labour and Employment. Technical assistance will be provided by a consortium under utilities. “We were bowled over by the scale SKDRDP has achieved so far, along with the responsibilityCambridge it takes Education for lending in collaboration to the with Deutsche Gesellschaft fuer Internationale Search India’s power sector has embarked on a high growth trajectory, particularly in the last five poor,years. Thenurturing capacity usersaddition to take out effective loans. SKDRDP has huge potential to expandZusammenarbeit its work even further, International and to Services of Germany, Aarhus Tech of Denmark, Scottish during the 11th Five Year Plan has been in excess of 55,000 MW, more than double of the pinspireerformance many of the others 10th Plan. to follow its lead,” they said. In spite of such impressive growth, the demand for electricity outstrips supply in most parts of the country. Also, Qualifications Authority of Scotland and City and Guilds of England. shortage of fuel, in particular coal, is not helping matters, as several generation plants are ruL.H.nning Manjunath, well below capacity, executive director of SKDRDP, said it was important | to recognise that the poor needed financial Cli mat e change t oi ncrease vwhileect o questionsr born aree dbeingi se raisedases abouti n newRaj onasest inh athen absence- Ti m ofe firms O coalf I n linkages.di a P agsupporte 1 of to2 acquire sustainable energy assets.| Wednesday , June 6 , 2012 Speaking on the occasion, Union Labour Secretary Mrityunjaya Sarangi stated that the Centre A leadin g newspa per recently cited the absence of coal linka ge as the main reason for more than 36,000 MW of new has set up the project to provide skills to 500 million workers by the year 2022. These people generation capacity, mostly with private investments, becoming unviable. The power shortage“For is tooexacerbated long,Today's microcredit by low Edition only meant improving livelihoods. This award will redefine thewill scope receive of specialisedmicrocredit,” training. he “Recently, the Cabinet secretary called a meeting of all the The Times of India > Story Follow Us:said. Nation 0 utilisationJaipu ofr thermal power plants, starved of coal supplies. The shortage is manifesting itself in many different waysFront — Page > Chief Secretaries of the states on skill development. All the secretaries, while stressing the need the sale of domestic and commercial generators, and invertors has been growing at a fastAdvanced pace, Searchwith »power outages in 2 the heat having become an order of the day. Kandeh Yumkella, Director General1 of United Nations Industrial Development Organisatifor onskill (UNIDO) development, and Chairalso said of UNthat they suffered from this problem of dearth of adequate Home City India World Business Tech Sports Entertainment Life & Style Women Hot on the Web Spirituality NRI IPL 2012 Photos Times NowIN Videos TODAY'S LIVE TV PAPER Like Front-Energy, Page which campaigns for increasing access to energy for the poor, urged governmentstrainers,” around Sarangi the world said. “What to support the European Union is going to do for us is providing help in this Mumbai Delhi Bangalore Hyderabad Chennai AhmedabadGiven Allahabad that most Bhubaneswar generators Bhopal run on Chandigarh diesel, their Coimbatore incessant Goa us Gurgaone increases Guwahati the cost Hubli of power Indore (atJaipur about two to three times than normal electricity tariff), apart from causing sound and air pollution. The recent announcement Nationclean energy of the pioneers. UP critical area,” he added, stating that India will receive the help of EU in developing a National Kanpur Kolkata Kochi Kozhikode Lucknow Ludhiana Madurai Mangalore Mysore Nagpur Nashik Noida Patna Pune Rajkot Ranchi Thane Surat Thiruvananthapu Calcutta ram Bhopal waste disposal hope Vocational Qualification Framework and National Labour Market Information System. Government to shut down commercial activities and establishments after 7 p.m. everyday does“The not Ashden come as 2012 a surprise. winners are exposing the myth that poor countries cannot stimulate growth without degrading the Vadodara Varanasi The announcement, though hastily withdrawn days after it was criticised, brings to the Bengalfore the challenge that RASHEED KIDWAI environment. They are demonstratingA German that sustainable firm might help energy dispose stimulates of the piles of greentoxic waste growth lying inand the new jobs, lifts people out of policymakers face in meeting the demand for electricity. Opinion Bhopal, June 5: “Skills development is the central thread of „Europe 2020′ strategy, as well as the Indian You are here: Home > Collections > Drinking Water poverty, improves health and opens up new educational opportunities.” The UP Government’s order, seen dispassionately, is part of a time-honoured method of International cutting off power when abandoned Union Carbide factory since the Bhopal gas leak 28 years ago, the UnionNational Skills Development Mission. We are very happy to partner with India in this area. With Business home minister hinted today. Ads by Google demandClimate outstrips change supply. The to public increase outrage that vector followed would have made policymakersSarah realise Butler-Sloss,that this method Founder will Director of Ashden said: “Inements this of uncertain UPA II’s three-year world rule,our P.winners this offerproject a bothbeacon EU ofand hope, India will engage in tackling challenging issues like new skills for the not be accepted. Innovative solutions to balance the growing demand of consumers with Sportsthe available resources at commandborne of thediseases utility need in to be Rajasthan evolved and implemented. 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The International Journal for Rural Development The key areas will be 3 key economic sectors and will be tried in pilot states. The project will The recent pilot demonstration of the trigeneration plant in Delhi holds promise in this regard remote Jumble for power-starved Afghanistan (GIZ/INTEGRATION). Tags: vector borne disease | Swine flu | malaria | IMR | dengue fever gather information with regard to the needs of industry and their requirement for skilled labour utilities. The Trigeneration (TG) project, commissioned in the All India Institute of Medical Gallery Sciences (AIIMS) on June Chidambaram, who heads the group of minist Keywords: Ashden Gold Awardsounding 2012 out GIZ, SKDRDP after Madhya, rural Pradesh, development Gujarat and Maharashtra declined to allowforce. The vocational sectors will be selected from 20 high growth sectors that have been 5, couldJAIPUR: serve Climate as a model change that is couldexpected be replicated to adversely in citiesimpact where human availability health in of the gas state is not by an Horseissue. Racing to airlift the toxic waste and dispose it of waste disposal in their territory. prioritized by the Indian government. Theincreasing TG project, the born risk outof exposure of a collab toorative vector, effort water- of and Government food-borne of diseases.India and It Germany can also aggravatethrough Press their Releases respective Insurance 27.03.2012 Travel Printable version | Jun 8, 2012 12:03:16 PM | http://www.thehindu.com/news/states/karnataka/article3480147.ece agencies,malnutrition Bureau and of Energyincrease Efficiency mortality and and GIZ morbidity (which associatedis the nodal with agency changes of German in intensity Gove rnment),and is a decentralised GIZ has reportedly come forward with a proposal and cleaner form of generation of electricity for captive uses. The aim of the project is to© create The Hindu opportunities to “learn by doing”. Candidates will be helped in frequency of extreme events. WEEKLY FEATURES in Germany. A decisionGIZ cooperating will be taken on with June Allianz8 when the and GoM DEZA on Bhopal in crop meets insurance in New scheme As the name suggests, TG technologies could simultaneously supply electricity, heating and cooling requirements from Delhi, the minister said. building competence in spheres of development regarding occupational standards, training thePotential same fuel impacts source ofand climate are best change suited can for thus establishments be expected that to become need all an the additional three applications. stressor for7days Common examples of G.S. Singhvi and S.J. Mukhopadhayay had Graphiti In close cooperation with Allianz Re and the Swiss agency SDC, “Deutsche Gesellschaft für suchRajasthan's establishments health are sector. hospitals, While hotels, the state shopping in the last malls, few airports, years has etc. shown progress in terms of On May 28, the SupremeInternationale Court Zusammenarbeit”had rapped the Centre (GIZ) for has not developedbeing serious a newabout concept for crop insurances that Knowhow disposing the waste. A bench of Justices healthTHE status TIMES and outcomes, OFmuch stillINDIA, remains to be BANGALORE done. Jobs will initially be available in seven countries in Asia. The scheme features the monitoring of observed: “You croplandare not sure via even remote after sensing 28 years. with It is satellites. because the people affected and Careergraph living in Bhopal are poor. It is a failure on your part to deal with this.” httApds:/ /byw Googleww.t hehi ndubusi nessli ne.co m/ opi ni on/ arti cl e3577159. ece?css=pri nSaltt Lake 6/ 28/ 2012 WEDNESDAY MAY 30, 2012 In future, insurances will be provided to protect more than five million smallholders and their families in CITIES AND REGIONS Chidambaram said the initial proposal had been to destroy the waste at Ankleshwar in Asia from beingom ruined the stateby failed governments. harvests. Initially, the insurancee minister’s policies visit. are to be offered in seven GUEST COLUMN Metro Gujarat, Pithampur in Madhya Pradesh and Taluja in Maharashtra. But it could not be countries. In Bangladesh, Cambodia, India,dissatisfaction Indonesia, with Thailand, th the Philippines and Vietnam, CarbonInnovative Sequestration funding is need of the hour North Bengal done because of opposition fr Develop knowledge and understanding of Carbon Capture and Storage Northeast smallholders will enjoy more economicGas Peedit security. Mahila AsUdhyog “Deutsche Sangathan, Gesellschaft said: für Internationale NGOs working with 1984 disaster survivors voiced www.globalccsinstitute.comIt is essential to promote sustainable private investment to increase agricultural productivity,says Jharkhand Dr V Tagat. Zusammenarbeit” (GIZ) announced in March, the organisation has been commissioned by the German Abdul Jabbar, the convener of the Bhopal Bihar Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ) to work together closely with the “He should first get a technical evaluation of the toxic waste done. Odisha Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC) and “Allianz Rückversicherung” (Allianz Re) to Despite India's recent high economic growth rate,around 350 million of its more than a billion people still live on less than one dollar a I ndi a mull s sendi ng che mi cal wast e t o Ger many - Ti mes Of I ndi a Page 1 of 2 Onlineday.Of these,75Medical per Education cent live in rural areas and are primarily dependent on agriculture andARCHIVES natural resources for their subsist“Thereence. is an establish erroneous a cropassumption insurance that scheme. the waste Collaboration is confined hasto the initially Union been Carbide agreed factory for a period of three years. byUnfortunately,environmental Medvarsity - India's 1st Medical degradation e-learning is a majorInitiative. causal Enquire factor Now!in enhanci ng and perpetuatingSince 1stpoverty,particularly March, 1999 amongalone. the Butrural in my view, it is spread over 67 acres and is estimated to be 20,000 metric tonnes. 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State-of-the-art satellite technology as well as new growth models can now make accurate data Though there is an increasing level of investments in various NRM sectors,it tends to lag behind other development sectors.The Home City India World Business Tech Sports Entertainment Life & Style Women Hot on the Web Spirituality NRI IPL 2012 Photos Times Now Videos LIVE TV - About Us GovernmentPri noft IndiaRel e providesase a large amount of funds (over two per cent of GDP) forht tthep: development// www.t h andehi managementnPdague.c1oofm 1/ofn naturalews/ availablest at es enabling/karn exactat a kestimatesa/ arti cofl ethe3 harvest4801 volume.47. e cSuche? cestimatesOpinionss= Blogspr then Autoi nt Pollsserve Speak as Out a 6 Sciencebasis/ 8/ Environment2for0 the12 calculationEducation Sunday of TOIthe Headlineslevel of Specials damage Crest and 2-Minute hence TOI ePaper the Archivescompensation - Advertise Jabbar, who declined to meet Chidambaram today, said toxic waste was affectingGlobal Warming about The Good Earth Developmental Issues Flora & Fauna Pollution Wild & Wacky amount in the event of a partial crop loss. 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Page 1 of 2 "High infant mortality rate ( IMR), maternal mortality ratio (MMR), malnutrition among You are here: Home > Collections > Toxic Waste Threats to health from climate change to be integrated However,the financing needs of this sector are far greaterPress thanInformation the resources Bureau available.This cannot- Contact be Us achieved through grantba sed children and women, high incidence of childhood diseases, Governmentdeclining sex of ratio India of girls, low Presenting the new offer, Michael Roth, who is responsible for the development and introduction of theIndia insurance mulls scheme sending at GIZ, chemical stresses just waste how much of a tightrope walk in... government programmes alone.The Planning Commission has also emphasised the need for a gradual shift from the mode “Chidambaramof grant and his team were not prepared to sit and talk to us. I did not want to The Times of India female literacy in comparison to national average, inadequacyMinistry of in Labour drinking & Employment water supply and queue up,it is greet for GIZ him and with its folded partners:Bhopal hands “On and the hand one overhand, a thememorandum,” insurance policy Jabbar, has whoto be affordable for our potentialto Germanyclients. On the other, in the event that damage occurs,1 the 0 • S January 19, 2012 and subsidies by increasing the people's contribution to 50 per cent by 2017. 0 Advanced Search » • S 23-May-2012 17:31 IST heads the most influential and vocal section of gas survivors, said. Recommend sanitation,Following poor the healthsuccess and of poorthe Indo-German socio-economic Watershed status of womenProgram along and withthe Adivasi social Development Program,the National Bank for compensation amount has2 to be genuine support preventing people from slipping into absolute poverty.”AP May 25, 2012, 12.47PM IST 'UP riskiest place for women to give birth' discrimination, are all already a cause of concern for population health in the state," the Home City India World Business Tech Sports Entertainment Life & Style Women Hot on the Web Spirituality NRI IPL 2012 Photos Times Now Videos LIVE TV 1 chemical waste August 22, 2010 Agriculture and Rural Development (NABARD) approached the German Development Bank,KfW and GIZMumbai to support Delhi Bangaloredevelopment HyderabadLike and Chennai Ahmedabad Allahabad Bhubaneswar Chandigarh Coimbatore Goa Gurgaon Guwahati Hubli Indore JaipurTags: Union Carbide plant | Rajasthan State Action Plan on Climate Change (RAPCC) on Climate Change report by the In cooperating with the project partners, BhopalGIZ seeks to benefit from its decades of work in the countries involved in order to bring all stakeholders together. One important task finance of a loan-cum-grant based programme.The Umbrella Programme on Natural Resource Management (UPNRM) was to augment NEW DELHI: Indian government ministers are considering a plan to have a German company Meet on climate change highlights challenges India and European Union Launch Project on Skill Development Kanpur Kolkata Kochi Kozhikode Lucknow Ludhiana Madurai Mangalore Mysore Nagpur Nashik Noida Patna Pune Rajkot Ranchi Thane Surat Thiruvananthapuram Rajasthan State Pollution Control Board stated. The report has been prepared with the help of here will be to develop the skills that the responsible staff in the project countries require. In addition, GIZdispose is ofgoing toxic wasteto su dumpedpport the from authorisation a pesticide plant ofin Bhopal,the insurance where a chemical solutions gas leak by private investment in the sector and assist in developing a suitable policy environment. Vadodara Varanasi September 17, 2009 killed thousands in 1984. a multi-disciplinaryA Project team on of Skill experts Development from TERI was withlaunched support by the fromGovernment GIZ of India and the European Union here in New Delhi today. the responsible state authorities and provide the population with comprehensive information onwww.HomeShop18.com the insurancele solutions. The objective of UPNRM is to demonstrate the viability of loan-based,community owned approaches to natural resource management.It by Goog This 06 Million Euro Project will be carried out in the next four and a half years. Ads / 2012 aims to achieve this by weaving holistic,participatory and financially sustainable livelihood solutions into publicYou are policieshere: Home and > Collections making > Toxic Waste The 3506 metric/ 8 tons of chemical waste was dumped by the Union Carbide plant in pits that IN-DEPTH COVERAGE "VBDs are probably the most sensitive to changes in climate parameters. Malaria is a major activists say are leaking toxins into ground water. Ads by Google In the second phase of the project, insurance solutions are to be offered in other sAsianp countries, but also in Africa and South America. In addition to GIZ, Allianz Re and healthinvestments problem towards inLaunching Rajasthan improving the projectespecially theDr João livelihoods in theCravinho, north of Ambassador western the rural desert ofpoor. the partEuro pean of the Union state. said, Dengue "Skills development is the central thread of Chidambaram to reach Bhopal on5 774.j Drinking Water 'Europe 2020' strategy, as well as the Indian National Skills Development Mission. He said EU is very happy to partner with 1557 The followi
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Welcoming Dr João Cravinho, Ambassador of the European Union, Dr. Mrutyunjay Sarangi said this multifaceted project will aphi n "Operationalproject needs integration in natural in resource policy and management.The programme between core various elements vertical of the programmes programme include designing,testing and scalingl eg upr 'No entry' for in Mah for Bhopal toxic waste create an opportunity to “learn by doing” and build competence in the development of occupational standards, training standardsww.,t e THE TIMES OF INDIA, BANGALORE p:// w GIZ July 22, 2011 Bhopal activist Rachna Dhingra said on Friday that the initial proposal calls for India to pay 9 withinloanbased the health economically sector, and viable between models,extensive health and other capacity related developm sectors suchent asto drinkingenhance water, programme effectivenesshtt and institutionalisation of Tags: June 5 Chidambaram Carbide plant programmes and curricula. 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However,the financing needs of this sector are far greater than the resources available.This cannot be achieved through grantbased1 Crore Life Insurance It may be noted that a Memorandum of Understanding between the Ministry of Labour and Employment, Government of India "We have left no stone unturned to prepare the RAPCC report. The data is based on 20,000 research papers published since 1850. Given the government programmes alone.The Planning Commission has also emphasised the need for a gradual shift from Accordingthe mode to theof grantreport, "high dependency on groundwater has resulted in its overexploitation, rising temperature and shifting monsoon trend, malaria window in Rajasthan can certainly increase. Enough is already known to start action. 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The stage of groundwater exploitation which was 35% in 1984 has to Germany • S November 2008 a Joint Declaration on Education was signed between the European Union and the Indian Ministry for Human "Given the fragility of the resource base in much of Rajasthan, agriculture is a high risk activity. Climate change poses formidable challenges to RELATED ARTICLES • S BetterFollowing energy the efficiency success in of pumpsets the Indo-German used by 600 Watershed farmers in DoddaProgramballapur,Karnataka.Saving: and the Adivasi Development 36 lakh KWh Program,the power per yearNational whenreached Bank fully a level for of 138% in 2008. And out of the 237 blocks in 32 districts in state, only 30 are in the animal husbandry sector as well. Rajasthan is the second highest producer of milk in the country (amounting to nearly 17 lakh kg per day). Resource Development with the aim of setting up a sectoral policy dialogue on education and training in a number of thematic AP May 25, 2012, 12.47PM IST Recommend Bhopal impostors get free treatment But the current annual loss in milk production due to heat stress in Rajasthan is 98.65, 40.55 and 29.74 litres per animal per year in crossbred implementedAgriculture and areas. Rural Development (NABARD) approached the German Development Bank,KfW and GIZ to supportsafe developmentcategory. According and to the latest NASA satellite data, the groundwater levels in northern cows, local cows and buffaloes respectively," states the report. 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inside any containers. Any slum child can pick the lock on the entrance gate. It's hazardous waste︳ ︳ storage,Business Line CombinedIndian strategy: style. (from left) Mr A.V. Swamy, Director, SAT InfoTech; Mr N. Pradeep Kumar, Managing Director, Infosun; Mr Bharat Kumar Manager,Repositioning Reddy, CEO of Threshold Soft; Mr Anand M, Director, SKILD Education; and Mr Varun Reddy, Director, Intersoft International, at the IT SME India pavilion of ’Indiasoft 2012 ’ in Hyderabad on Thursday. — P.V. Sivakumar BhopalDepartment,NABARD waste will be flown to GermanyTHE TIMES OF INDINow,A GermanAbout usexperts Advertise want with us to clean Terms ofit use up. Privacy policy Feedback Hyderabad, March 22: RSS Newsletter TOI Mobile ePaper Sitemap Archives Nine small and medium information technology companies have formed a consortium, IT SME India, to tap global markets. Powered by INDIATIMES When you say global markets, it is not exactly the traditional North American and European markets. Published: 8 Jun 12 16:35 CET On the night of December 2, 1984, one of the biggest chemical accidents in history occurred in the Indian city of Bhopal. A factory owned Online: http://www.thelocal.de/sci-tech/20120608-43045.html by the US chemical company Union Carbide, now part of Dow Chemical, produced an insecticide calledThese Sevin small firms, at thewith aBhopal combined plant.turnover ofT heRs 500 crore and staff strength of 6,200, are focussing on geographies that SUCCESSFUL PROJECTS Other Times Group news sites Living and entertainment Hot on the Web Services are considered either not viable or not so lucrative. 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Cooperation (GIZ), a German government agency that provides services for sustainable5 Steps development. to a flat tummy in 7 days 5 Natural tips to prevent hair loss “But some of us in that avatar liked the idea and began working on a different alliance. It is not just about collecting annual Better energy efficiency in pumpsets used by 600 farmers in Doddaballapur,Karnataka.Saving: 36 lakhCopyright KWh © 2012power Bennett, per Coleman year & Co. when Ltd. All rightsfully reserved. For reprint rights: Times Syndication Service The plan to have five special flights take the toxic waste to an as yet unnamed disposal site in Germany was approvedAbout two by weeksIndia’s Interiorago, almost Minister 28 P.years after the accident, a group of cabinet ministers in New Delhi10 Tips membershipdecided for guaranteed fee.to Wesign share over weight expenses the loss on dis exploringposal newer of the markets, pitchingPower for diet projects,” for quick he said. weight loss Chidamabaramimplemented and other senior ministers at a meeting in New Delhi. toxic waste from Bhopal to the German technicians. SPIEGEL has obtained the presentation that wasMr used A.V. Swamy, as a Director basis of for SAT reaching InfoTech, understands the this power of unity better. Taking time off from business delegates at India Soft-2012, he says he hardly found visitors in the last edition two years ago. decision. It explains in detail how the GIZ subsidiary International Services will transport roughly 350 tons of toxic waste to Germany for "The ministers have given a green signal," a senior ministry official told news agency AFP, declining to be named. Other sources say the Indian “Feeling a bit embarrassed, I left the venue handing over the stall to his staff. This year, my firm is able to generate a lot of disposal. governmentWorking will capital pay €3.6 support million to for MASUTA,a the project. tassar silk reeling unit owned by 3,000htt tribalp://ti womenmesof iinn dBihari a.i n di ati mes.co m/city/j ai pur/ Raj ast han-has-t he-hi ghest-probabilit... 6/ 8/ 201interest.2 Because, I'm at the combined stall of IT SME India,” he said. Others in the alliance included SKILD Education Private Limited and Infosun. "The German Society for International Cooperation (GIZ) has been awarded the contract to transport the wasteA to February Germany letter for dis fromposal," the he GIZ said. to the relevant ministry in Bhopal mentions disposal "at an incinerator in Hamburg." This information is Sustainable honey collection in the Vidharbha Forest Result: Saving of 150 million honey beesincorrect, per year insay addition GIZ officials, to generatin noting gthat 5-6 the incineration contract will be put out to Europe-wide tender,[email protected] but only after the contract has been Keywords: IT cos, consortium, IT SME India, global markets Bonn-basedtimes more GIZ isincome a government-run to the tribal enterprise honey collectors that works on international environmental issues and sustainablesigned. development. Share Ghost Factory Like Send Bhopal was the scene of the world's worst industrial accident in 1984 when the pesticide factory leaked toxic gas into nearby slums, killing thousands 0 instantly and tens of thousands more over the following years. 0 The old factory site in Bhopal, with its rusty tanks and dilapidated clusters of buildings, is like a ghost factory. A sign in the former control Tonnes of chemical waste previously produced by the plant were left in pits around the site, polluting local waterroom supplies. reads: Re "Safetysidents ishave everybody's been business." Stray dogs search for shady spots in the ruins of the laboratoryAds by Google building. Dusty bottles and campaigning for years for a thorough clean-up of the factory and the surrounding area. containers filled with substances like benzene, potassium hydroxide and methylene chloride stand underhtt p:// thewww laboratory.t hehi ndubu tables.si nessli nNe.oc oonem/i ndustry-and-econo my/i nf o-t ech/ arti cl e31... 3/ 23/ 2012 knows exactly which highly toxic substances were buried at the site after the disaster. Many experts believe that the presence of toxic waste has resulted in more birth defects and illnesses among successive generations of people living near the plant. Germany's Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development, which the GIZ answers to, has already approved the project. The GIZ had the draft contract sent to the Indian government last week. The most problematic issue is the question of who assumes the risk According to GIZ, the waste to be flown to Germany is not connected with the poison that leaked in the accident.and Hans-Hermann costs for possible Dube transportation from GIZ claimed accidents on German soil. that analysis had shown the material heading for Germany contained low levels of pesticide and heavy metals. htt p:// arti cl es.ti mesofi ndi a.i ndi ati mes.co m/ 2012-05-25/ devel op ment al-i ssues/ 31... 6/ 25/ 2012 According to the GIZ presentation, "the current owner remains responsible for the waste until its final disposal." A bank guarantee is also Environmental group Greenpeace said it supported the clean-up idea but was not sure whether it made sense required,to send the in waste case somethingto Germany. goes wrong en route to the incinerator.
DPA/AFP/The Local/hc The disposal of Bhopal's toxic waste in Germany, about 6,500 kilometers (4,000 miles) away, will cost Indian taxpayers about €3.4 million ($4.25 million). "We couldn't have wished for a better partner than the Germans," says state Urban Development Minister Babulal Gaur, 62, who is responsible for the rehabilitation of the gas victims and is the former chief minister of Madhya Pradesh.
htt p:// www.t hel ocal. de/ arti cl e. php?I D=43045&pri nt =true Gaur would have preferred to 6dispose/ 11/ of2 0the1 2waste in India. "I've held that dirt in my own hands. The material lost its toxicity long ago," says the minister, downplaying the hazards. But all Indian states that were candidates for reprocessing went to court to fend off the toxic waste.
'Problematic Residues'
According to analyses performed by the German disposal experts, the fears of the Indian states are understandable. According to the GIZ report, the material -- supposedly pesticide-contaminated soil which is not directly connected to the 1984 accident -- still contains "problematic residues" of chlorine, mercury and heavy metals.
The German planners believe that the Bhopal project could be completed within a year. The toxic waste, which is still sitting in the abandoned plant in open containers, will be collected by workers in protective suits and gas masks, sealed into airtight containers and flown to Germany, preferably in the cooler months between October and March.
"The 350 tons that we intend to dispose of now are just the tip of the iceberg," says Hans-Hermann Dube, the South Asia director for GIZ International Services, headquartered in the Indian capital. In truth, as Dube points out, the entire former Union Carbide plant is a case for special waste disposal. The problems associated with contaminated ground water, which still affect Bhopal residents today, are another issue altogether. "In the long term, India will need its own facilities to dispose of chemical and other toxic waste on-site and in environmentally correct ways," says Dube. htt p:// www.spi egel. de/i nt ernati onal/ worl d/ ger many-pl ans-t o-di spose-of-bhopal-t... 6/ 26/ 2012 india NEWS / GIZ Staff Magazine 3 / 07.2012 11
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• WEEE Recycle project of India presented in the ILO Report on Sustainable Development
The WEEE Recycle project, a joint project of GIZ, adelphi, European Union, Manufacturer’s Association for Information Technology (MAIT) and Toxics Link, is mentioned in the chapter on ‘Recycling’ in the International Labour Organisation’s report ‘Working towards Sustainable Devel- opment: Opportunities for decent work and social inclusion in a green economy.’ The report says, “India’s Ministry of Environment and Forests issued new rules which came into effect in May 2012, requiring manufacturers to establish e-waste collection centres or introduce ‘take back’ systems. Meanwhile, Germany’s GIZ is the lead agency for WEEE Recycle, a project co-financed by the European Commission and the German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development BMZ, and promotes the formalisation of e-waste dismantling and recycling activi- ties in four target cities: Delhi, Kolkata, Pune and Bangalore.”
The WEEE Recycle project aims at improving the situation of e-waste management in India by involving producers, recyclers (informal and for- mal) encompassing Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) and other stakeholders in the value chain. To know more about the project, visit http:// www.weeerecycle.in/ Announcement
• The Indo-German Environment Partnership (IGEP) programme commences from March, 2012
The Indo-German Environment Partnership (IGEP) programme, the successor programme of the Advisory Services in Environmental Manage- ment (ASEM), started on March 1, 2012.
IGEP will aim to respond to some key challenges identified in the policy framework of the Ministry of Environment and Forests, Government of India. Building on the experiences of ASEM, the programme will strengthen its thematic profile in the urban and industrial sector, enhance the effectiveness to up-scale successful case studies and support the environmental reform agenda and priority needs of India. With a strong focus on pilot measures and policy decisions of national level relevance, it will endeavour towards enhancement of resource efficiency, reduction of environmental stress, improved service delivery in urban infrastructure services and mitigation of greenhouse gas emissions.
The programme has been commissioned for six years (March 2012 to February 2018.) The first phase of the programme has the duration of three years from March 1, 2012 to February 28, 2015.
To know more, visit www.igep.in and/or write to [email protected] PROJECT NEWS
• IGEN-RE will work in Bihar, West Bengal and Uttarakhand to facilitate access to Renewable Energy in Rural Areas.
In its second Work Group Meeting between GIZ and the Ministry of New and Renewable Energy (MNRE) held on May 30, 2012, the Renewable Energy Component of the Indo-German Energy Programme (IGEN-RE) took the decision to focus on implementing future activities on improving access to rural renewable energy in the states of Bihar, West Bengal and Uttarakhand. The identified activities will vary from solar PV pumping in Bihar and upgrading of traditional water mills in Uttarakhand to promoting rural electrification in West Bengal through generation-based incentive mechanisms. Furthermore, market-based dissemination of improved biomass cook stoves will be a common IGEN-RE activity in all of the selected states.
• GIZ selected as lead project management agency for setting up an easily accessible rice information system
Food staples and poverty are closely linked in India, home to over 30% of the world’s poor (456 million people) and presently accounting for close to 20% of global rice production and consumption. While India’s demographic pattern doesn’t seem to change significantly and overall population is invariably growing, commodity prices are at an all-time high, resulting in a sharp decrease in available arable acreage (per house- hold).Similar to most of the other South East Asian countries, self-sufficiency in rice production is key to the agenda of the Indian Government’s food security initiatives. Its importance becomes all the more clearer as rice counts among the daily staples for millions of households across the country, especially for those in lower income segments. This fundamental and imminent need has resulted in the National Development Council adopting a resolution to launch a food security mission, intended to increase annual production of rice by 10 million tons, wheat by 8 million tons and pulses by 2 million tons by the end of the eleventh plan (2011-2012).Taking cognizance of the current situation, the SDC along with other key stakeholders such as Allianz Re, Sarmap and IRRI conceptualised the RIICE (Remote sensing Information for Insurance and Crops in Emerging Economies) project in early 2012.
GIZ hereby assumes the role of the lead project management agency with a geographical coverage including India as well as the Philippines. The 12 india NEWS / GIZ Staff Magazine 3 / 07.2012
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objective of this project is to reduce the vulnerability of smallholders engaged in rice production by setting up an easily accessible rice informa- tion system (“Global Rice Information Gateway”). The latter is expected to allow for better production and risk management, which public and private stakeholders of the domestic rice sector are prone to be exposed to (development of targeted crop insurance solutions).
GIZ, on behalf of the RIICE Consortium, organised a brainstorming workshop in April, 2012. The event was attended by a multi-stakeholder gath- ering which included participation from public sector institutions as well as research agencies such as ICRAI, NABARD, the Indian Meteorological Department, TNAU and the Agricultural Insurance Company of India. Other participants included representatives of / experts associated to the remote sensing technology sector such as Skymet and private insurance companies such as Bajaj Allianz General Insurance Co Ltd.
The proceedings saw a variety of discussions on issues ranging from technology adoption, capacity development, insurance awareness, to fi- nancial literacy and (as well as) cadastral data availability for (rather: in) India. The event concluded with an agreement on the project design and identification of the national partners on the operation-implementation level as well the insurance service providers’ front for the Indian subcontinent.’ Contact: [email protected]
• GIZ-ASEM hands over the IT software System to partner Minister Department of Consumer Affairs.
GIZ, Department of Consumer Affairs [DoCA] and Indian Institute of Public Administration [IIPA] signed a tripartite Memorandum of Understand- ing [MOU] to hand over the Information Technology (IT) software system developed under the GIZ-ASEM & DoCA project “Consumer Protection and Sustainable Consumption in India”. The MOU was signed by the Joint Secretary Mr. Manoj Parida on behalf of DoCA, Professor Suresh Misra on behalf of IIPA and Mr. Haebig Manfred on behalf of GIZ.
The web-based IT platform with a central complaints database and a knowledge base to provide pre-purchase and post purchase information to consumers was developed under the Project for implementing in Pilot centres. The IT system has embedded frequently occurring consumer problems and standardised advice positions in 28 fields like tele-communication, food and health, insurance, banks, electricity, petroleum/LPG, public distribution system, etc for consumer counselling. This is an important tool for the Central / State Government to learn about market fail- ures and consumer problems in specific sectors to facilitate informed policy decisions.
Since June 2010, 28 pilot Consumer Advice Centres (CACs) are utilising this system Orissa Tamil Nadu, Madhya Pradesh & Gujarat. Three new states- Bihar, Maharashtra and Rajasthan have adopted the software to address consumer grievances. Other states have expressed their interest to implement the model developed by GIZ. Till now, 111287 counselling on consumer enquiries and complaints have been done. Finding the usefulness of the system developed, DoCA has formulated an integrated scheme to setup such CACs in all the districts of the country during the 12th Plan period.
The DoCA has identified IIPA as the nodal agency for implementing the IT system in future and guide all State Consumer Helplines across the country and also provide skill development for the personnel operating the centres. A training module for the CAC advisors was developed under the Project and after initial training in the pilot centres has been handed over to IIPA for further training. india NEWS / GIZ Staff Magazine 3 / 07.2012 13
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• Rashtriya Swasthya Bima Yojana reaches 30 million households and celebrates to mark the occasion
New Delhi, July 28, 2012: Rashtriya Swasthya Bima Yojana (RSBY) has reached yet another milestone by reaching 30 million households. An event was organised to celebrate the occasion by glancing through the progress so far and mapping a roadmap for the future. Close to 50 people participated in the celebration including Union Minister for Labour and Employment (MoLE), Mr. Mallikarjun Kharge, Member of Parliament and former (during the initial years of RSBY) Minister of State of Labour and Employment, Mr. Oscar Fernades. Mr. Rita Sharma from National Advisory Council, Ex-Secretary of MoLE, Mr. K. M Sahani and Secretary of MoLE, Dr. M. Sarangi were present in the occasion. The author of ‘India Unbound’ and columnist Mr. Gurcharan Das also graced the occasion. Other dignitaries included Mr. D. K. Jain (Joint Secretary at Union Ministry of Rural Development, Mrs. Suneeta Sanghi from Planning Commission, World Bank India Country Director, Mr. Robert Zagha, GIZ India Country Director, Mr. Stefan Helming along with Mr. Ulrich Meinecke and Mrs. Anja Maria Bugs from German Embassy in India.
Mr. Anil Swarup (Additional Secretary and Director General Labour Welfare, MoLE) acknowledged the support of GIZ and World Bank in the chal- lenging but interesting journey of RSBY.
/ upcoming events
• Field visit to action research location on Study of the needs of Urban poor Migrants for financial counselling services in migrant hubs of East Delhi; June 18-19, 2012.
• Workshop on Business Models for Low-Income Markets in India-Bringing Products and Services to the BoP–ICT for Deve- lopment Ahmedabad, July 21, 2012 and Assam, July 27, 2012
• Conference on “What after cooperative reforms” by BIRD; July 2012
• Workshop on streamlining operations of Cooperative Training Institutions by BIRD; July 2012.
• National Training Consultation for new training and capability development strategy for NABARD for all stakeholders under SHG Bank Linkage programme; BIRD, Lukcnow, tbd
• Network for Social Security Workshop, September 2012, Kathmandu, Nepal
• IGSSP is organising its 2nd Workshop on Network for Social Security among nine countries such as Ghana, Tanzania, Cambo- dia, Indonesia, Nepal, Pakistan, Philippines, Kenya and Nigeria in the 2nd week of September 2012 at Kathmandu in Nepal. The objective is to learn from each other and implement the good practices. For more information, write to-network.soci- [email protected]