Joint Symposium and The 7th steering meeting

The event began on 27th October 2010 with a Welcoming Ceremony and Opening Remarks by Mr. Hwang- Keun Chung, chariman of the INWEPF Korean Committee. This was followed by two keynote speeches. The first was “International cooperation for improvement of paddy field ecosystem” by Prof. Sun-Joo Kim of Konkuk University, Korea and next was “Necessity and methods for participatory irrigation management” by Prof. Masayoshi Satoh of Tsukuba University, Japan.                                                  

After keynote speeches, INWEPF-PAWEES joint symposium and each session for INWEPF and PAWEES were held.

 

Further activities of 3 working groups reorganized in the INWEPF 6th steering meeting in November, 2009 were discussed at each working group meeting and such as strategic action plans were approved at 7th steering meeting .

 

Participants visited to the sites of Panpo Rural Development Project, Panpo Wastewater Treatment Project Ongpo Agricultural Water Development Project in Jeju island

 

Dr. Yoon, Chun Gyeong (Professor at Konkuk University, Korea) was to be the chairperson in a unanimous along with the proposal from INWEPF Korean Committee, and Mr. Mohd Yazid Bin Abdullah, (Principal Assistant Director Irrigation and Agricultural Drainage Division) was elected for the vice chairperson.

Delegates from Japan committee, the previous host nation, reported about activities which were done after the previous 6th steering meeting. The related activities of each WG are bellows;

Introduction and suggestion on basic direction in the 2nd year of 2nd phase and preparation to WWF6 were made by Korea, hosting committee.

Each working group discussed about such as the TOR, strategic action plan of 2010-2011 and so on.

After the WG meeting, the results of the WG meetings were reported by the chairperson of each group.

A report of ICID in Indonesia was made briefly by the participants from Korea.

Results of APEC Japan 2010 Ministerial Meeting on Food Security in Niigata was presented by Japanese committee.

It was agreed that upcoming INWEPF steering meeting as follows.8th INWEPF steering meeting :Malaysia

9th INWEPF steering meeting :Myanmar

10th INWEPF steering meeting :Thailand

For the preparation of the WWF6, task force team shall be formulated. The team is composed of 5 members: Japan, Korea, Malaysia, Myanmar and Thailand.