Water And The Millennium Development Goals: A Case For Collaboration
Friday, March 27, 2009
Session Description
Governments, international organisations and businesses struggle to achieve the MDGs for drinking water and sanitation. Join this vital, solution oriented discussion on how social entrepreneurs can contribute and collaborate in order to meet these goals. What are the most promising innovations? What is the role of non-state actors in global environmental governance and what questions of power and public / private authority do they raise? Finally, what are the ecological presuppositions of sustaining the water-related MDGs in an age of rapid climate change?
Time & Location
Time:
09:00 - 10:30, Friday, March 27, 2009
BST
Speakers
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Environmentalist, People and Water
Michal Kravcík, Dipl Ing. PhD. is a founding memberand Chairman of the NGO People And Water (
www.peopleandwater.sk). He is a water management engineer (graduated at the Civil Engineering Faculty of Slovak Technical University, Slovakia). He worked for 8 years at the Slovak Academy of…
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University of Greifswald, Coordinator of the Social Entrepreneurship Research Group GETIDOS
Rafael Ziegler coordinates the Social Entrepreneurship Research Group GETIDOS at the University of Greifswald and the Institut für ökologische Wirtschaftsforschung in Berlin. The preparatory phase of this interdisciplinary group started in 2008; its main phase is scheduled to last from…
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Founder Chairman, Gram Vikas USA
Joe Madiath is the Founder and Chairman of Gram Vikas. Joe has spent over 45 years working in the field of development among the poorest communities in Orissa, India. Drawn to Odisha in 1971 to help communities that had been ravaged by a cyclone and tidal wave, Joe stayed on as an…
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Research Fellow, University of Oxford
Chuks Okereke’s research interests lie broadly in the links between global environmental governance systems and international development. His current research focuses on the relationship between business climate strategies, government policies, and international climate governance. Chuks…
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President, Viva con Agua
Benjamin Adrion, a former German football league player, is the founder of “Viva con Agua de Sankt Pauli”. He established the drinking water initiative in Hamburg in 2005. Since then, more than 50,000 people in developing countries have been supplied with clean drinking water from Viva con Agua…
