European Development Days 2008 is the European Commission's major event. Each year the EDD hosts some 3000 participants from every continent, representing over 1200 organisations in the development community, including administrations, parliaments, local authorities, civil society, international organisations, academics, development agencies, the private sector and the media.
It is an open forum that brings together the whole development family. By breaking down walls between different issues more...
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Mondialogo seeks to promote intercultural dialogue, understanding and exchange among young people. It was launched jointly by UNESCO and Daimler. The Partnership has arisen from shared aims and convictions. Since its foundation, UNESCO – as a specialized organization of the United Nations with universal membership - has been involved in promoting culture, cultural diversity and a dialogue among cultures and civilizations globally. Daimler works with more than 270,000 employees of different ori more...
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Don’t cut education funding, urge ministers attending UNESCO’s International Conference on Education
Geneva, 28 November. The global financial crisis should not serve as a justification for cuts in education funding, concluded ministers and representatives from 153 countries attending the 48th session of UNESCO’s International Conference on Education which closed on 28 November. The theme of the week-long conference was “Inclusive Education: The way to the future”, with discussions focused on ways of providing education to the hundreds of millions of people around the world with little or more...
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JOURNAL: Development in Practice. VOLUME: 18 ISSUE: 6. AUTHOR: Megan Bradley.
ABSTRACT - Co-operation between researchers in the global North and South is critical to the production of new knowledge to inform development policies. However, the agenda-setting process is a formidable obstacle in many development research partnerships. The first section of this article examines how bilateral donor strategies affect collaborative agenda-setting processes. The second section explores researchers' more...
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JOURNAL: Development in Practice. VOLUME: 18 ISSUE: 6. AUTHOR: Pablo Gutman. Much has been researched and said about the impacts of international trade liberalisation at the country level; but little is known about its social and environmental local-level impacts. Since national averages can mask the existence of winners and losers, national-level studies may be a poor guide to addressing the plight of the rural poor and the environment that are at the core of the agenda of the social and cons more...
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JOURNAL: Gender & Development. VOLUME: 16 ISSUE: 3. Authors: Rachael Hinton, Michelle Kopi, Angela Apa, Agnes Sil, Mary Kini, Jerry Kai, Yanny Guman, Daniell Cowley. In seven short years, Kup Women for Peace, a community organisation in Papua New Guinea, has gone from tribal peacebuilding to ensuring a free, fair, and violence-free election in one small part of Simbu Province. The organisation's approach was multi-faceted and locally appropriate, enfranchising many women - and educating men - more...
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SERIES: Oxfam Campaign Reports. Author: Edmund Cairns. Since the end of the Cold War, the number of armed conflicts in the world has fallen. But is this trend now about to be reversed? Climate change, poverty and inequality, and the wider availability of weapons all add to the risk of conflicts increasing. In 1949, the Geneva Conventions enshrined people’s rights to be protected from atrocities in conflict. Yet civilians are still killed, raped, and forced to flee their homes, 60 years on. In more...
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