Full Coverage: Development

08/31/2006 Kako je prošle nedelje prenio portal internodium.org, američke nevladine organizacije CHF Montenegro (Community, Habitat and Finance), IRD Montenegro (International Relief and Development) i AED (Academy for Educational Development) najavili su implementaciju projekta uspostave bežične mreže u cijeloj Crnoj Gori “Montenegro Connect”.

08/31/2006

Dalit Aid

International NGOs (INGOs) vary greatly in size, approach and focus. For the majority, India continues to be a priority area for their activities, where they use a variety of working strategies. There are many different approaches the INGOs follow with regard to Dalit programmes in India. We need to learn from each other where there is an impact and where there are problems. We need to analyse the nature and context of caste discrimination, soical exclusion of dalits, caste conflicts and solutions to such conflicts, assess the political dimensions of Dalit empowerment, assess the different models and ways of working on Dalit issues.

08/30/2006 A Monrovia (Liberia), si registra un improvviso aumento di casi di colera, riporta Medici Senza Frontiere (MSF) che ha deciso di riprendere l'unità per il trattamento del colera nell'ospedale cittadino JFK e sta incrementando le sue attività. "La settimana scorsa abbiamo ammesso 125 casi gravi al centro per il trattamento del colera, rispetto ai 46 della settimana precedente" - segnala MSF in Liberia. Intanto il Programma dell’Onu per lo sviluppo (Undp) sulla Liberia ha pubblicato il primo rapporto dalle prime elezioni libere dopo 14 anni di conflitto, che lo scorso anno hanno portato alla presidenza l’economista Ellen Johnson Sirleaf. Dopo aver enumerato le conseguenze del conflitto civile sullo sviluppo umano – “alti tassi di mortalità infantile e materna, ostacoli per la crescita dei bambini e alti tassi di analfabetismo”, nonché fuga di cervelli e bisogno di riforme – il rapporto propone anche soluzioni pratiche affinché il nuovo governo promuova passi avanti nello sforzo di ricostruzione.

08/30/2006 The ultimate goal in gender equality is to ensure that women and men have equitable access to, and benefit from society's resources, opportunities and rewards. And, as part of this, women need to have equal participation in defining what is valued and how this can be achieved, women's groups told the Planning Commission.

08/30/2006 The task force on education, set up by the Orissa government to prepare its Vision-2020 document, notes in its report that for three years, 27 high schools in the state have showed ‘Nil’ results.

08/30/2006 The House of Representatives instructed the government to endorse the International Labour Organisation (ILO) Convention on Indigenous and Tribal Peoples. If its backers maintain pressure on the government, ratification should happen in the next session of parliament in a couple of months, said parliamentarian Bijaya Subba, who piloted the recommendation through the house.

08/30/2006

Balochistan Province

It was reported that fighter jets and helicopters attacked the south western province of Balochistan, killing some 37 government opponents, including a former governor and chief minister of the province, Sardar Akbar Khan Bugti.

08/29/2006 Programas para el campo que se contraponen a la reforma agraria basada en la función social de la propiedad y que desarrollan una política de compra y venta de la tierra.

08/29/2006 Como se había presumido y como ha sido en el transcurso del proceso de negociación del Tratado de Libre Comercio, Colombia cedió a la imposición norteamericana de exportar reses de más de 30 meses de edad.

08/29/2006 Norway has made a US$20 million contribution to ADB's Pakistan earthquake fund through an innovative debt-for-development swap. The debt-for-development swap means that $20 million worth of outstanding loan repayment obligations from Pakistan to Norway will be converted into a grant to be administered by ADB.

08/29/2006 A World Bank's report has bracketed Andhra Pradesh as being in `middle of the pack, neither outstanding nor poor' in carrying out reforms process and in human development index

08/29/2006 The children living in slum areas, who do not go to school, will now be educated under a special government scheme. Children from six to 14 years of age will be imparted free education at Alternative and Innovative Education Centres (AIEC), which will be opened in slum areas under the Sarv Shiksha Abhiyan, a Centre-sponsored scheme.

08/25/2006 El domingo 20 de agosto El Universal publicó en su página agroeconómica, que en el departamento de Bolívar hay 21 mil hectáreas cultivadas de maíz y que se esperaba que para el segundo semestre del año se llegara a 34 mil hectáreas.

08/25/2006 The hotel is among 100,000 cooperatives formed in Venezuela in the last two years that are the centerpiece of President Hugo Chavez's new socialist model to create jobs and redistribute this oil-rich country's wealth.

08/25/2006 he past seven years have been a period of marked improvement in a number of health indicators in Maharashtra, Orissa, Punjab, Gujarat and Chhattisgarh, according to the third National Family Health Survey

08/25/2006 Sandra Salazar, directora ejecutiva del Centro de Comunicación Voces Nuestras estará presentando el tema "Nuevas alianzas y protagonismo del desarrollo rural: plataforma centroamericana de comunicación para el desarrollo" durante el encuentro Latinoamericano "Sin Comunicación no hay Desarrollo " que arranca hoy en la capital peruana y finalizará el próximo 26

08/25/2006 The U.S. government's announcement that it will review the possibility of limiting, suspending, or withdrawing trade preferences under the General System of Preferences (GSP) to three Latin American countries—Argentina, Brazil, and Venezuela—is political pressure...

08/25/2006 Esta es una historia de globalización, sus ecos, sus repiques y sus consecuencias. Trata de vetas minerales, capital y capitalistas, economía, política, empleos y recursos naturales. Los personajes aparecen en Bolivia, Brasil, la India y hasta en Uruguay.

08/24/2006

Foreign Grant

NGO activity being largely voluntary, overheads in such organisations should be minimal. But establishment expenses are often the main reason for receiving donations from abroad. And information on fund sources and use is only rarely available, says R. VAIDYANATHAN, adding that as conscience-keepers who are the first to point fingers at the government it is vital that NGOs ensure their own activities are transparent.

08/23/2006