| Identification of Research Priorities in the Southern Province for 2009: University of Ruhuna and AGSL partnership |
The workshop on 'Identification of the research priorities in the Southern Province for 2009' was organized by the Department of Agricultural Economics of the University of Ruhuna together with UNDP AGSL in Wakwella training centre in Galle on 12th March 2009.  |
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| AGSL meets fishing communities in Bahirawa |
| The 23rd of March 2009, AGSL, together with the District Extension Officer of National Aquaculture Development Authority of Monaragala, met the members of Urusita Wewa fishing management Committee as well as fishing communities of Habaralu tank and Demodara tank to assess the current situation of fishing communities in Monaragala District. |
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| Uva Province invites region of Umbria to support its efforts in strengthening the mental health services at the local level |
| The Chief Secretary of the Uva Province, Mr. Amarasekera, sent an invitation to the region of Umbria in Italy, in which he welcomes a mission to the Uva Province to make a first assessment and discuss a partnership between the two regions in support of the implementation of the mental health plan in Uva. He welcomes such a decentralized cooperation initiative, within the framework of ART GOLD Sri Lanka Programme, in order to support Uva in its scope to implement innovative Provincial Mental Health Services, in accordance with the National Policy. |
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| Galician mission from CSHG to elaborate the training plan 2009 for the tourism sector in the Southern and Uva provinces in Sri Lanka |
| Three members from the Centro Superior de Hostelerier de Galicia (CSHG) visited Sri Lanka on a mission from 19th of February to 5th March 2009. |
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| IDEASS - UNDP Nicaragua facilitates cooperation with Sri Lanka |
| Within the framework of the IDEASS Initiative, the ART GOLD Sri Lanka Programme (UNDP AGSL), with the support of the IDEASS International Secretariat in Italy, has intervened at a crucial time to obtain sample Leptospirosis Kits from Nicaragua. These sample kits were requested by the Ministry of Health in Sri Lanka, to be tested at the Medical Research Institute (MRI) of Sri Lanka, since the incidence of rat fever has been increasing in alarming proportions recently in the country. |
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| Improving access to safe drinking water: committee on water supply in the Uva Province |
| The 27th of February, 2009 AGSL participated in the second meeting of the committee on water supply in the Uva Province. |
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