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FULL
NAME OF ORGANIZATION
: Water, Research and Training
Centre (Myanmar)
ABBREVIATION
: WRTC-Myanmar
SECTOR
OF WORK
: Research/ Training for water
and rural sector
MONTH/
YEAR STARTED IN COUNTRY
: April 2003
TOTAL
NUMBER OF STAFF
: 10
About
WRTC : Water,
Research and Training Centre (WRTC)
is a non governmental, non
profit educational foundation
working for the Myanmar peoples
by promoting and improving their
access to research and training
opportunities and education in
the water and rural sector in
Myanmar and abroad.
Founded in June 1997, registered
under the Netherlands Law on 8
Sept. 1997. It also is a member
of the Dutch Chamber of Commerce
(KvK No.41160487). The WRTC is
150 members strong and the
nineteen person board of
governors advises and directs
the WRTC’s research, training,
consultancy, advocacy,
networking and information
dissemination services.
Long
Term Goal
• To provide a better quality of
life through progressive
education for Myanmar peoples.
• To be a key mechanism for
human capacity builders,
universities, institutes,
research centres and vocational
training programmes in the
education sector of Myanmar.
• To provide the appropriate
knowledge, know-how and practice
in order to empower the local
population, especially to the
rural population, as genuine
stakeholders in the natural
resources of Myanmar.
• To introduce a culture in
exercising democratic principles
in daily water utilisation and
management practices.
• To protect Myanmar watersheds
and their environment not only
by law but also by participation
of the population through the
vision and the culture.
• To provide the well preserved
environment and knowledge for
the next generations.
• To take part actively in the
global networking of water
related research and knowledge
capacity building process.
Objectives:
• To Initiate socio-technical
process of human and
institutional capacity building
directed to and equitable and
sustainable management of water
resources and water environment
in the best interest of the
Myanmar peoples.
• To promote a sense of
community in all walks of life,
in which a shared use of water
provides a unifying force.
• To pursue various scholarship
programs for the Myanmar peoples
directed to an education which
provides freedom of thought,
creativity, competence, and an
access to effective and
efficient participation in the
reconstruction of Myanmar.
Activities:
We do human and institutional
capacity building, advocacy for
the water awareness campaign and
sustainable development.
Networking worldwide, creating
learning communities and
communities of practice aim at a
desirable and foreseeable social
change. We provide Myanmar
orientated research, free
consultation for Myanmar
students and most important low
level mediation through Myanmar
professionals to achieve peace
in Myanmar.
Information on Food Security and
others
• Make frequent visit to
monastic schools and provide
nutritious foods, stationeries
and clothings to the vulnerable
children
Project
Area ( Yangon )
Contact
Address:
Room 16, Building 6,Myakanthar
Housing, Insein Road, Kamayut
Township, Yangon, Myanmar,
Tel
: 95-9-5111880
E-mail
address :
wrtcmya@mail4u.com.mm,
wrtcmyan@gmail.com
Kempenearstraat 3, 2613 BZ
Delft, The Netherlands,
Tel
: 31-15-2124793
UNESCO,
1 Rue Miollis, 75015 Paris,
France
Tel
: +33 1 45 68 4054
Mobile
: +33-(0)6-78 35 20 41
Fax
: +33 1 45 68 58 11
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