South Asian Water (SAWA) Leadership Program on Climate Change

11/01/2017 - 10/31/2021

“Water sector has always been my area of interest and the fellowship has provided me with the financial support and opportunity to explore beyond the technical research and conduct a much broader social, technical and economic research. It has provided me with an opportunity to intern at SaciWATERs. As an outcome of my fellowship, I was able to publish all the chapters of my thesis as paper publications in national and international conferences and journals. These publications and receiving a fellowship together with the international experience gained though the internship at SaciWATERs paved my way to win a full scholarship (International Macquarie Research Excellence Scholarship/ iMQRES) to pursue my PhD in Environmental Science (Department of Environmental Science/ Faculty of Science and Engineering) at Macquarie University, NSW Australia” Ms. Chathurika Perera , PhD Scholar, Macquarie University, 2013-15, PGIA


South Asian Water (SAWA) Leadership Programme on Climate Change is a fellowship program that awards fellowship to women enrolled in masters level Interdisciplinary Water Resources Management (IWRM) program across four universities in South Asia. The programme has evolved as a continuation to the Crossing Boundaries (2005-2012) and SAWA Fellowship (2012-2016). This fellowship program aimed at facilitating the creation of a group of interdisciplinary women leaders in south Asia, having a common understanding of the crosscutting scientific and societal issues of water resource management. Since this programme lays emphasis on leadership and intensive trainings, the number of awards is less in comparison to the earlier phase. The duration of the project is 4 years (2017-2021) with a funding support from International Development Research Centre (IDRC), Canada. South Asia Consortium for Interdisciplinary Water Resources Studies (SaciWATERs) is the nodal agency in the implementation of the program and also functions as the coordinating body with the program partners and IDRC.


Related Links :



SAWA Leadership Program http//www.saciwaters.org/sawaleadership program

SAWA Fellowship http//www.saciwaters.org/sawafellowships/

Crossing Boundaries http//www.saciwaters.org/CB/ 

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