The world is changing. The speed of change is increasing. For an organisation, maintaining and increasing relevance demands a greater flexibility, a greater understanding of the world around it.

Success in doing so will result in a higher relevance.

Failure to do so will result in a decreasing relevance. In a dynamic world, those organisations that are inflexible and not at or near the leading edge of their market relevance will incur increasingly greater costs. They will slowly but surely more...

One million Faces, One urgent message!


There are around 640 million small arms and light weapons in the world today – one for every ten people on the planet. Eight million more are produced every year. Ten to 14 billion units of ammunition are produced every year, enough to shoot everyone in the world twice over. Without strict control, such weapons will continue to fuel violent conflict, state repression, crime, and domestic abuse. Just close your eyes and think about the recent shooting more...

The world is changing. It is changing at an increasing rate. The challenges approaching will be both threats and opportunities. These will affect every society and touch every person.

What fate will befall these societies and we, the people? Can we really afford to let the future be governed by chance?

IREX announces a new, bimonthly speaker series that will bring a unique, locally-focused perspective to international development policy dialogue in Washington, DC. The “Technology Serving Civil Society” series will host practitioners with grassroots experience using technology in innovative ways to increase the effectiveness of community and civil society initiatives throughout the developing world.

Participation Details
All events in this series will be hosted at IREX’s Washington D more...

Dear Colleagues and Friends:

The post conference report of Culture in Motion: Practice in International
Development is now available at ACCID web site
(http://www.nsaccid.org/Culture%20in%20Motion%20Report.pdf)

Culture in Motion attempted to address a number of needs and questions as
well as provoking thought and offering opportunities for engagement on
cultural practices in the development field. It is our pleasure to thank you
for your support and participation. We are very happy w more...

A weekly compilation of news links about and for regional communities pursuing local and regional development.
The purpose of this weekly e-Newsletter is to make "regional community" development approaches visible. I send an email to organizations featured.
It is a free subscription – use this email link: regions_work-subscribe@yahoogroups.com to subscribe. No other information is required. Un-subscription is just as easy, an option at the end of every issue.

Corruption in developing countries starts at the grassroots of the population and escalates all the way up to the top government level via elected politicians and officials. Government officials use corruption as a way of improving their financial standing and to gain promotion within government organisation ranks.

The key contributor to problem of allowing corruption to easily occur in government is lack of transparency and accountability.

M & E System(www.pacplan.com) can assist gover more...

Dear all,
This group might me of interest to you
regards
Valentine Gandhi

Group Summary
The Development CAFE,
An online network of social science professionals and development activists across the globe

If you are a social work student, NGO, social scientist, development professional or a socially conscious individual. This CAFE is a platform for minds from all over the world to meet and interact and share info and resources based on the development sector.

The CAFE is also a more...

Package Planning (PACPLAN) is e-governance tool for government to improve its policy/project measurement that specifically targets gathering, collating, analyzing and disseminating policy/project information for the government and large organizations. It is easy to use software tools and process in combination with various graphics, GIS (Geographic Information System) technology, internet technology and modeling tools such as economic analysis.

The solution is very quick and economical to im more...

Hansjörg Neun, Director of the Technical Centre for Agricultural and Rural Cooperation just launched his own blog. The messages posted up to now show that his purpose is to experiment and to discover the possibilities of communicating with a larger audience, namely the beneficiaries of CTA and all those involved in agriculture and rural development in the EU or in ACP (Africa, Caribbean, and Pacific) countries. The blog intends to trigger informal discussions on development (the end of poverty? more...