WATER AND ITS MANY ISSUES.
METHODS AND CROSS-CUTTING ANALYSIS (WP4, 3/3)

22^nd February – 6^th March 2021
In Cambodia, Thailand and Vietnam

The first goal of the Annual ASEAN Water Platform (AWP) is to build capacity in research into water natural resource management (WNRM) within the partner countries’ institutions, by means of gathering researchers from different backgrounds for multidisciplinary methodological approaches related to the analysis of WNRM sector.

The second objective is to disseminate knowledge on WNRM and enhance collaboration between the participants. The platform must be able to increase the research collaboration between participants and to set the basis future long-term partnership between the representatives of different institutions in EU and in ASEAN. Then, the institutions partners must be able to set up and run projects on a bigger international scale.

In order to achieve those goals, AWP relies on the following working principles:

• Transfer of methodological tools;
• Multidisciplinary approaches (social sciences, sciences);
• Good balance between theories and practical work;
• Interactivity among participants;
• Disseminate knowledge;
• Build a collaborative network (academic and non-academic);Intercultural exchanges.

The training will gather more than 100 participants from different countries and backgrounds. AWP is the only training within Wanasea project that is open to participants from outside the consortium, mainly from Vietnam, Laos and Myanmar, thanks to co-funding sources from AUF, IRD, AFD and University of Nantes.

The AWP was initially planned to be held in Chiang Mai University in July 2020 and therefore, the project team had worked together in February 2020 in Chiang Mai discussing logistic and academic issues. Details are available in the Meeting Minutes below (available for download). However, due to the Covid 19 restrictions, it will be organised in parallel in three member countries: Cambodia (Phnom Penh), Thailand (Chiang Mai) and Vietnam (Can Tho) from 22^nd Feb – 6^th Mar 2021.

The general programme (updating) of this unique AWP, workshop programmes of AWP Chiang Mai and AWP Can Tho as well as related application forms are available for download below (Materials for download).

This year, participants will also have a chance to attend the Innovative Research Competition. The Grant award for the winner of each country is 1.000 EUR. The Term of Reference and Application of this competition is available for download too.

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Videos of previous trainings are available at the project’s official Youtube channel.

MATERIALS FOR DOWNLOAD

AWP 2021 – Programme – All countries

P1 – Qualitative methodologies in social science, Ruth Banomyong (TU)

P2 – Sustainability of small-scale fisheries-Community based resource management approach in Cambodia, Vietnam and Bangladesh, Dewan Ahsan (SDU)

P3 – Technology Adoption in Agriculture-Theory and Application to Irrigation Technology, Lionel Richefort (UN)

P4 – Water rersources in the Mekong Delta, Nguyen Hieu Trung (CTU)

P5 – Bio-diversity vs Climate change in the Mekong Delta, Duong Van Ni (CTU)

Mekong project – Collective book

Mekong project – Introduction activities

Mekong Project – Procedures and Outcomes

AWP2021 Report

AWP 2021 VIDEO

AWP 2021 – Opening and Plenary Session 1: Qualitative methodologies in social sciences, Ruth Banomyong (Thammasat University)

AWP 2021 – Plenary Session 2: Sustainability of small-scale fisheries: Community based resource management approach in Cambodia, Vietnam and Bangladesh, Dewan Ahsan (SDU) & Plenary Session 3 – Technology Adoption in Agriculture: Theory and Application to Irrigation Technology,  Lionel Richefort (University of Nantes)

AWP 2021 – Plenary Session 4: Water rersources in the Mekong Delta – Nguyen Hieu Trung (Can Tho University) & Plenary Session 5: Bio-diversity vs Climate change in the Mekong Delta Duong Van Ni (Can Tho University)

AWP 2021 – Restitution of Inequalities and Environmental Changes Nexus Project – Huynh Thi Phuong Linh (IRD), Stéphane Lagrée (University of Nantes) (including a video introduction of ETIS project by CREED)

AWP 2021 – Innovative Research Competition –  results announcement and speeches from winners

AWP 2021 – Workshop Restitution

– Can Tho University –

The goal of the annual ASEAN Water Platform (AWP) is to build capacity in research on water natural resource management (WNRM) within the partner countries’ institutions. The Graduate Academy of Social Sciences, Can Tho University and Agence Universitaire de la Francophonie (AUF) have already organized similar event, “Tam Dao Days in Social Sciences” – https://www.tamdaoconf.com/en/presentation/.

The purpose of AWP is to gather together researchers with different backgrounds in order to have an exchange of multidisciplinary methodological approaches related to the analysis of WNRM sector. Therefore, facilitators specialized in various fields will be carefully selected. A second objective is to disseminate knowledge on WNRM and enhance collaboration between the participants.

The purpose is to support different groups of researchers specialized in different disciplines in order to accomplish a common goal that they have set themselves. Our aim is to increase the research collaboration between participants and to set the basis future long term partnership between the representatives of different institution in EU and in ASEAN. The AWP will strengthen the multidisciplinary research and make the institutions involved in the project more internationalized.

For each AWP, 72 Asian young researchers and 5 Europeans visiting scholars will be selected on the basis of transparent rules and clear criteria.

Thanks to additional funding from AUF and the French National Research Institute for Sustainable Development (IRD), some fifteen candidates outside WANASEA consortium will be selected, notably in Laos and Myanmar.

PROGRAMME

AWP 2018 Booklet

AWP 2018 Scientific and Pedagogic Report

 AWP 2018 Photos

 AWP 2018 VIDEO

Opening ceremony, Nguyen Vo Chau Ngan, Can Tho University

Plenary Session 1: Water Resources Changes. A Great Threat for Sustainable Development in the Mekong Basin, Van Pham Dang Tri, Can Tho University

Plenary Session 2: Global Challenges for Fisheries Management and South-East Asian Perspective, Eva Roth, University of Southern Denmark

Plenary Session 3: Holistic Urban Water Resources Management, Dedac Cervera, University of Barcelona

Plenary Session 4: The Concepts of “Water Governance” Put to the Test: An Inquiry into the Implementation of Phuoc Hoa Water Project , Huynh Thi Phuong Linh, Vietnamese-German Office for Sustainability Research Cooperation

Plenary Session 5: Solid Waste Management and Human Impact on Deltas, Alexis Drogoul, Representative of IRD in Vietnam and Philippines

Round Table

AWP 2018 – News on VTV5

AWP 2018 Feedbacks from Trainees and Trainers (WP5)

Plenary Session 1: Water Resources Changes. A Great Threat for Sustainable Development in the Mekong Basin, Van Pham Dang Tri, Can Tho University

Plenary Session 2: Global Challenges for Fisheries Management and South-East Asian Perspective, Eva Roth, University of Southern Denmark

Plenary Session 3: Holistic Urban Water Resources Management, Dedac Cervera, University of Barcelona

Plenary Session 4: The Concepts of “Water Governance” Put to the Test: An Inquiry into the Implementation of Phuoc Hoa Water Project , Huynh Thi Phuong Linh, Vietnamese-German Office for Sustainability Research Cooperation

Plenary Session 5: Solid Waste Management and Human Impact on Deltas, Alexis Drogoul, Representative of IRD in Vietnam and Philippines

Round Table

AWP 2018 – News on VTV5

AWP 2018 Feedbacks from Trainees and Trainers (WP5)