December 20, 2010
Course 2010 “Integrated Water Resources Management” successfully implemented!

The course on “Integrated water resources management” took place in Wageningen from 8 to 26 November. Participants came from India, Indonesia, Kenya, Ethiopia and South Africa. This year’s course was centered on the issue of dealing with change. Both the Comprehensive Assessment on Water use in Agriculture and the CSD 17 call for fundamental changes in the ‘way we think about water and agriculture’. The course facilitated participants to reflect on these changes and provided tools to deal with the implications of these new paradigms in land and water management in their own working environment. The study program also included new methods to search and acquire information (digital libraries, electronic magazines, internet, etc.) and the use of acquired information in individual assignments. The experience gained in these assignments was shared in a plenary workshop.

September 17, 2009
Nuffic–NFP Fellowship application deadline is 1 November 2009
The deadline for Nuffic–NFP Fellowship application is 1 November 2009.

For more details regarding the fellowships please refer to our fellowships page.

June 16, 2009
Concluding Workshop 49^th ICLD
This year the International Course on Land Drainage has a different set-up instead of organizing the 4 modules after each other, they are organized in parallel sessions. Furthermore, a shift has been made from lectures on basics to lectures that focus more on application.

The course started on Monday 6 June with 15 participants from Egypt, India, Nigeria, Pakistan the Netherlands and Zimbabwe.

On Friday afternoon, 26 June, the Course will be concluding with a workshop in which we will discuss the lessons learned with adapting irrigation and drainage practices to climate change (the overall theme of this year’s Course). Lessons learned with adaptation in the Netherlands, in the home countries of the participants, and at an international level will be presented. In a group decision set-up, we will discuss how we can learn from each other’s experiences and how others can learn from us.  This closing workshop will also be attended by staff of the Centre for Water and Climate and some representatives from other Dutch organizations working in this field of expertise.

For more information contact: Lisette Bourquin, IWRM Team, Centre for Water and Climate, Alterra,
tel. +31 317 486938 email:

August 8, 2008
Schedule for the ilri courses in 2009

• International Course on Land Drainage (ICLD): 6 April – 26 June 2009
  Applications due 1 March 2009

• International Course on Tools for agricultural Water Use Assessment: an IWRM Perspective (IWRM): 6 April – 24 April 2009
  Applications due 1 March 2009

• International Course on Agricultural Drainage Criteria (ICDC): 27 April – 15 May 2009
  Applications due 15 March 2009

• International Course on Design, Implementation and Operation of Drainage Systems (IDSD): 18 May – 5 June 2009
  Applications due 15 Arpil 2009

• International Course on Institutions in water Management (ICIW): 8 June – 26 June 2009
  Applications due 1 May 2009