Dear Saman,

I am now looking at the requests for training, outside the Performance Review forms, and wish to comment on your request.

The Training budget is limited to development of IWMI staff. So, as you yourself mention, the GIAM Country workshops are more of a capacity building exercise for national partners of IWMI in China and India.

So, it should really be in the Capacity Building budget.

What I suggest is that you make your application to James, to include this activity in the Capacity Building budget for 2007. I have to inform him what our commitments are for this year, so that when he knows what your request is, he can decide whether we can include it or not.

Hope that is satisfactory.

Simon
