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Development e
-Brief
September
2, 2004: Issue 13
IN THIS ISSUE:
EVENTS & AWARDS
1. Corporate Social Responsibility
2.
NGOs
3.
Youth
NEWS
1. Disability
2. Machreq/Magreb
3. NGOs
REPORTS & BOOKS & ARTICLES
1.
Gender
2.
NGOs
3. Trade/Economics/Microfinance
4. Youth
WEBSITES
1. Gender
2.
Youth
EVENTS & AWARDS
1. CORPORATE SOCIAL
RESPONSIBILITY:
Corporate
Social Responsibility. This is a “rapid response” discussion that will
examine the role of standards, government and PPPs. Lead : “Corporate social
responsibility programs help companies meet or exceed what is required by
law and expected by society, but they can also be little more than public
relations exercises”.
http://rru.worldbank.org/Discussions/topics/topic43.aspx
2. YOUTH:
Youth Employment
Summit (YES 2004). The Youth Employment Summit (YES) will be held in,
Boca del Rio, Vera Cruz, Mexico, from October 4 - 7, 2004. The summit will
review the strategies within the context of the YES Framework for Action,
highlight successful programs, policies, and projects.
http://topics.developmentgateway.org/youth/rc/ItemDetail.do~101%200576~intcmp=00001?itemId=101%200576&intcmp=00001
“Youth
and Urban Space: Threats and Opportunity for Urban Culture”. The
Global Development Awards. This is open only to scholars and
practitioners based in developing countries, with an emphasis on
“recognising and supporting the work of younger researchers at the start of
their careers. Every year, approximately USD $400,000 is awarded in prizes
to researchers, both as cash and travel to GDN's Annual Conference”.
Deadline: Sept 20 2004
http://www.comminit.com/awards2004/awards2004/awards-881.html
3. NGOs:
Small Grants
Programme (SGP): International Deaf Children's Society (IDCS) This award
grants organisations up to £10,000 for projects that provide “measurable and
sustainable improvements to the individual lives of deaf children and their
families”. Lead: “This could be either by piloting new services or improving
existing services in the area of health and education or by promoting the
empowerment and participation of deaf children and their families”.
Deadline: Nov 30 2004
http://www.comminit.com/awards2004/scholarships2004/awards-838.html
World Urban Forum,
Barcelona, Spain, 13-17 September 2004.
Lead: “One of the major themes discussed at the Forum will be theme of
this year's forum is: Cities: Crossroads of cultures, inclusiveness and
integration?”
http://topics.developmentgateway.org/youth/rc/ItemDetail.do~101%200573~intcmp=00001
Call for Papers:
Special Issue on Current Issues in International Humanitarianism. This
is a call from the Development Practice organisation, for various papers
under the headings of; “Globalisation”, “Their needs and our interests”,
“Witness”, “Commercialisation”, “Working with security forces”, “Regulation
and Rights”, “Relief and development”, “Women’ s perspectives” and several
others. The Development Practice organisation offers “practice –based
analysis” and research regarding social dimensions of humanitarianism. For
more info;
http://www.developmentinpractice.org
1. DISABILITY:
Disabilities Learning
Program. “The World Bank Institute has launched a learning program aimed
at incorporating the disabilities dimension into development policies and
practices at the urban and municipal levels. The program, part of an
international effort to include disabled persons in the development process,
is based on estimates that some 10 percent of the world’s population must
cope with disabilities --about 400 million of them in developing countries”.
http://web.worldbank.org/WBSITE/EXTERNAL/NEWS/0,,conten%20tMDK:20244035~menuPK:34457~pagePK:34370~piPK:34424~th%20eSitePK:4607,00.html
2.
MACHREQ/MAGREB:
Gaza Community Mental
Health Program Wins Peace Award. The award was granted by Psychologists
for Social Responsibility (PsySR), USA. The award that was presented on July
31st is
an annual award that begun in 1998, and is given to an organization that
promotes peace through values such as gender equality and sustainable
development.
http://www.grassrootsonline.org/gol_082704_gcmhp.html
Palestinian and Arab
Prisoners in Israeli Jails Continue Hunger Strike Demanding Improved
Conditions. Lead: “The Palestinian Centre for Human Rights expresses its
deep concern at the continued actions of the Israeli Occupation Authorities
towards the legitimate demands of the Palestinian prisoners in Israeli
prisons. Thousands of Palestinian and Arab detainees have joined this
strike. The strike began in four Israeli prisons on the 15th of August in an
attempt to exert pressure on the Israeli authority to improve the conditions
of confinement.”
3. NGOs:
CIVICUS soon
to launch new Civil Society Watch activist web site Lead: “CIVICUS’
Civil Society Watch (CSW) programme is soon launching a new activist website
which will act as the programme’s primary advocacy tool and create a greater
outreach for programme activities. The site promotes one of the underlying
aims of the programme which is to mobilise quick, principled and effective
responses to events that threaten civil society’s fundamental rights to
collectively express, associate and organize throughout the world. The
website will regularly feature ‘Action Alerts’ depicting situations where
civil society is under threat, and ‘Take Action’ campaigns where users are
encouraged to make a difference. Users can vote on issues relating to
threats to civil society and post their comments and suggestions in the
community section. The Library Section contains publications and articles
for those undertaking research on civil society issues. The site launch date
is to be announced in the following edition of this newsletter”http://www.civicus.org/new/intro_new.asp
1. GENDER:
WHO: The Sexual Violence Research Initiative (SVRI). “Sexual Violence
is both a public health problem and a violation of human rights, but it has
been a long struggle to have it recognised as a legitimate health issue.
Sexual violence to date has received little attention from researchers,
policy makers and programmes”.
http://topics.developmentgateway.org/gender/rc/ItemDetail.do~10%2010184~intcmp=00001?itemId=10%2010184&intcmp=00001
Women's Alliance for a
Democratic Iraq. This article relates the “Women's Alliance for a
Democratic Iraq (WAFDI)”, which is an international non-partisan and
not-for-profit women rights organization. “WAFDI is dedicated to a free and
democratic Iraq with full and equal individual rights for women. WAFDI is
committed to the advancement of women...”http://topics.developmentgateway.org/gender/rc/ItemDetail.do~10%2010583~intcmp=00001
2. NGOs:
Aid Agencies
Rethink Strategy. In this article, a group of the world's leading
nongovernmental organizations (NGOs), including CARE, OXFAM, Save the
Children, and World Vision, has produced a new report, entitled "Ambiguity
and Change: Humanitarian NGOs Prepare for the Future. The article touches
on the crises that many humanitarian organizations have to face today, and
the patterns of aid that these organisations follow. In essence it is a call
for help from the experts.
http://us.oneworld.net/article/view/92003/1/
Dimensions of the Global Civil Society. A new topic on the Development
Gateway is the “Johns Hopkins Comparative Nonprofit Sector Project”. It is
a project that reveals “important information about the dimensions of the
global civil society”. Lead: “Despite the upsurge in the number of
voluntary, non-profit and civil society organizations and their growing
significance as development actors, there is very little systematic
knowledge and empirical data about this sector -the Johns Hopkins
Comparative Non-profit Sector Project seeks to fill this knowledge gap and
offers new evidence about the scope and significance of this sector”. One of
the things it demonstrates is that the non-profit
sector is a far more
significant economic force around the world than is commonly understood –
“representing a $1.3 trillion dollar industry”.
http://topics.developmentgateway.org/civic
3.
TRADE/ECONOMICS/MICROFINANCE:
Migrant Workers and Xenophobia in the Middle East. This is a paper
produced by the UN by R, Jureidini. It analyses both the patterns and cases
of xenophobia in the region. Issues raised include, the history of migration
to the area by foreign workers, the trends of employment and abuse that
these workers are subjected to, amongst many others.
http://www.unrisd.org/80256B3C005BCCF9/httpNetITFramePDF?ReadForm&parentunid=045B62F1548C9C15C1256E970031D80D&parentdoctype=paper&netitpath=80256B3C005BCCF9/(httpAuxPages)/045B62F1548C9C15C1256E970031D80D/$file/jureidin.pdf
Display and Evaluation
of the Progress Made by the Republic of Yemen in Executing the Programme of
Action for the Least Developed Countries. This is an ESCWA study
published in Arabic. This study reveals, and evaluates the measures taken by
Yemen over the last three years in executing the Programme of Action for the
Least Developed Countries (LDC’s) adopted by the Third United Nations
Conference on the Least Developed Countries that took place in Brussels, May
2001. Lead: “The study focuses on government measures taken in various
social and economic sectors to improve economic growth on the one hand and
to implement the recommendations of the conference on the other”.http://www.escwa.org.lb/
4. YOUTH:
Youth Employment
Network. The Youth Employment Network (YEN) was created in partnership
with the World Bank, UN, and ILO to “develop and implement strategies that
give young people everywhere a real chance to find decent and productive
work. The YEN is engaged in the advocacy work and also”.
http://topics.developmentgateway.org/youth/rc/ItemDetail.do~100%209909~intcmp=00001
Creating More
Opportunities for Young People Using Information and Communication
Technology. This paper details ways, in which young people can move from
self employment to running their own business, using information and
communication technologies,
drawing from a report produced by the author for the Global Knowledge
Partnership.
http://topics.developmentgateway.org/ict/rc/ItemDetail.do~101044%205~intcmp=00001
1. GENDER:
Rethinking
Domestic Violence: A Training Process for Community Activists Website.
This tool aims to strengthen the capacity of a wide range of community
members to prevent domestic violence. “The Training Process is organised in
six parts: Introduction; Becoming Aware of Gender and Rights; Deepening
Understanding of Domestic Violence, which helps participants think about
their personal experiences and come to a deeper understanding of why action
is necessary; Developing Skills and Personal Qualities; Taking Action to
Prevent Domestic Violence; and Appendices which provide information on how
to monitor and evaluate the process of domestic violence prevention in the
community. Each section offers a series of two-hour modules designed to
strengthen capacity of participants to prevent domestic violence. All the
interactive modules have been extensively field-tested in Uganda, Tanzania
and Kenya and designed to be easy to follow, even for those with minimal
training experience”.To download:
http://www.serve.com/adnet/index.shtml
A Comprehensive Website on Women, Children and HIV. The Women,
Children, and HIV Website “is the result of a collaboration between the
François-Xavier Bagnoud (FXB) Centre at the University of Medicine and
Dentistry of New Jersey (UMDNJ) and the Centre for HIV Information (CHI) at
the University of California”.http://topics.developmentgateway.org/gender/rc/ItemDetail.do~10%2010656~intcmp=00001
2. YOUTH:
European Youth Portal.
Developed with and for young people, this portal (currently available in 22
languages) is part of a European Commission initiative to provide access to
youth-related information on Europe. Information and experience exchange are
tools designed to enhance young people's participation in public life and
contribute to their active citizenship.
http://www.comminit.com/links/linksunmulti/links-640.html
Development e-Brief
Information Sources
Development e-Brief
receives and comprises
of material from various sources for its publication. Should you wish to refer
to these sources/ sites directly, the list includes publications from: AVIVA,
www.aviva.org
, AWID:
www.awid.org ,
Democracy Digest:
www.freedomhouse.org
, Development Gateway:
www.developmentgatway.org
, Dignity:
www.dignity.org ,
e-Civicus:
www.civicus.org
, Eldis:
www.eldis.org , ESCWA:
www.escwa.org.lb
, GDB:
www.developmentex.com
, Grassroots International:
www.grassrootsonline.org
, IGTN:
www.IGTN.org , ILO:
www.ilo.org
One World:
www.oneworld.net ,
Siyanda:
www.siyanda.org
, The Daily Star:
www.dailystar.com.lb
, The Drum Beat:
www.comminit.com , The
Soul Beat:
www.comminit.com
, The World Bank:
www.worldbank.org ,
UNDP:
www.undp.org
, Wicejilist:
www.wicej.addr.com
, WLP:
www.learningpartnership.org
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