Arba Minch University in Collaboration with the National Council for the Coordination ofPublic Participation onthe Construction of the Grand Renaissance Dam planned to conduct a one-day workshop and 4 days poster/plate presentation session of the GERD. The topic of this workshop is “Intellectuals and Citizens Engagement for GERD Realization”.In this workshop, we are tentatively planning to have a maximum of two papersfor presentations related to GERD/ABAY BASIN hydro-politics and any research work done in the basin.The paper/s shall mainly focus on Water Availability, Water Management, PublicDiplomacy/Water Politics, Soiland Water Conservation, Environmental Issues Related to WaterManagement Focusing on BLUE NILE and Preferably on the GERD.

 Interested applicants shall send their abstracts untilApril 16, 2021. Submission data for full paper of selected abstracts will beon April 19, 2021. The workshop start data will be on April 23, 2021.