This article written by Marianna Török, Director of Emerging GuideStars talks about the way in which the absence of a legislative framework that enables disclosure of reports by civil society organisations is a major obstacle for countries seeking to implement databases based on the GuideStar model. However it also examines the ways in which voluntary databases can help overcome the problems faced and examines the prospects for Germany, Hungary and Palestine.
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Este curso ofrece principios y técnicas para analizar, de manera integral, los aspectos económicos y ambientales de los proyectos de desarrollo. El objetivo del curso es introducir al participante en el manejo de herramientas económicas relacionadas con la conservación ambiental, para poder incorporarlas en el análisis costo-beneficio de los proyectos de desarrollo.
El curso está dirigido a tomadores de decisiones y profesionales que trabajan en temas relacionados con el desarrollo y la more...
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The extent of the poverty in many developing and transformation countries does not reduce the need of people who are unemployed in the industrialised countries, for instance in Germany, who only find precarious employment, or who must survive as poor people in a rich country. One thing should however not be set off against the other. At the same time, there is a narrowing of the viewpoint in many debates in Germany and in other industrialised countries where heated debates are going on regarding more...
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En un intento por fortalecer el vínculo entre la investigación y las políticas públicas en América Latina y el Caribe, Global Development Network (GDN) y el Centro de Implementación de Políticas Públicas para la Equidad y el Crecimiento (CIPPEC), buscan promover mejores intervenciones en el uso de la investigación en las políticas, que conduzcan a políticas públicas más efectivas a favor de los pobres en la región, al contribuir a mejorar la forma en la que los actores se compromet more...
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From Poverty to Power is a major new book from Oxfam International that argues that ending the scourges of extreme poverty, inequality, and threatened environmental collapse is the greatest global challenge of the twenty-first century. The best way to tackle them is through a combination of active citizens and effective nation states.
Why active citizenship? Because people living in poverty must have a voice in deciding their own destiny, fighting for rights and justice in their own society, more...
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AWID’s Young Feminist Activism program seeks to build a multigenerational movement by amplifying the voices of young women so that their experiences and ideas are reflected in feminist discourse and activism. The Young Feminist Activism program supports and mobilises younger activists by creating provocative opportunities for engagement, innovative research projects, capacity building activities and multi-generational dialogues linked to AWID’s initiatives to promote change. The program als more...
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Jailed physician and human rights activist Dr. Binayak Sen was named the 2008 recipient of the Global Health Council’s annual Jonathan Mann Award for Health and Human Rights. Living in Raipur, Chhattisgarh in central India, the 58-year old pediatrician was selected by a jury of public health professionals for this prestigious award because of his long service to poor tribal communities in India, his leadership in establishing self-sustaining health-care services where none existed, and his unw more...
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