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Professional Network Event: Asset Management in Developing Countries - NOW FULLY BOOKED

Event Date: 
28 July, 2011 - 18:00 - 20:00
Venue: 
ARUP Engineering Consultancy Headquarters 13 Fitzroy Street, London, W1T 4BQ
Location: 
London
Organiser: 
jen.johnstone
This event is now FULLY BOOKED. 
 
Topic
 
The construction, maintenance and management of infrastructure can be a challenge in the developing world and poor asset management can have a huge impac

EWB UCLU brings you London's first International Development Course!!

Event Date: 
4 December, 2010 - 09:00
Venue: 
UCL Main Quad
Location: 
London
Organiser: 
sousiu

EWB is running London's first International Development Course. The day will consist of talks from some seriously interesting people (including David Heymann, Priti Parikh, Article 25, Elaine Jones and others TBC), a global health workshop and a debate to round of the day and apply your acquired knowledge to some healthy conversation. The day promises to be a really great event that anyone would benefit from attending.  

Tickets are only £5 and £3 if you are an EWB society member. So make sure you join in joining fortnight and reek the benefits!

HEDON's London RIG: "The Fuel Network: International Network on Household Energy in Humanitarian Settings.”

Event Date: 
28 October, 2010 - 18:30 - 20:30
Venue: 
The Carpenters Arms Pub 12 Seymour Place, London, W1H 7NA
Location: 
London, Marylebone
Organiser: 
mim

 

"The Fuel Network: International Network on Household Energy in Humanitarian Settings.”

by Emily Bishop, Freelance Consultant from The Women's Refugee Commission.

Cyclone Shelter: Saving Lives in Bangladesh

Event Date: 
21 April, 2009 - 18:30 - 19:30
Venue: 
Renold Building D7, North Campus
Location: 
Manchester
Organiser: 
lewisheather

The VC of BRAC University (Bangladesh) is an inspirational civil engineer who spearheaded the country's cyclone shelter programme (deaths per major cyclone down from 300,000 to 4,500 in 20 years). Join David Hulme who will discuss the project and reasons for its dramatic success

Meeting the Challenges of Water Supply and Sanitation in sub-Saharan Africa

Event Date: 
12 February, 2009 - 19:00 - 20:00
Venue: 
Lecture Room 6, New College
Location: 
Oxford
Organiser: 
camila

This talk will be given by Richard Carter who has worked for more than 30 years on the natural science, social science and engineering of water development and management, focusing especially on the poorest countries of sub-Saharan Africa.

Rwanda: Questions and contradictions

Event Date: 
28 November, 2008 - 12:00 - 13:00
Venue: 
New Engineering Building, E240
Location: 
Durham
Organiser: 
Visitor
"Is it right for outside workers to interfere in another country's development and what happens when the aid agencies leave? – Dr Tim Short discusses problems in Rwanda since the 1994 civil war."