Message-ID: <35E0C997.97E9726A@idn.org> Date: Sun, 23 Aug 1998 22:01:59 -0400 From: "Christopher L. Byrne, Director" <mailto:info@IDN.ORG> Subject: This Week At The International Development Network (August 23, To: mailto:DEVEL-L@AMERICAN.EDU
Apologies for any cross-postingThis week we publish news and information dealing with Food Aid, Gender Issues (Including a new ILO Study on the Sex Trade in Southeast Asia), Microenterprise, Free Trade, Education, Democracy, Water Resources, Information Technology/Electronic Commerce, Humanitarian Relief in Sudan and Afghanistan, Banana Trade and the Windward Islands, and more at http://www.idn.org/
What's New at the IDN Web Site this week (August 23, 1998):
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IDN Membership Directory
List of pending membership applications updated. ____________________________________________
Tools You Can Use:
This week's tool is is a link to the Yearbook of International Co-operation on Environment and Development 1998/99. ____________________________________________
Quick Link of the Week:
This week's IDN Quick Link is to the web site for ENTERWeb, a web site for information on small business, finance, international trade, entrepreneurship, enterprise development and the economy. ____________________________________________
Project Profiles
We have repaired the Link to the project profile of "The Individual in a Global Society". It is an excellent project and the web site for the project is concise and packed with information. Our apologies for any inconvenience caused by the incorrect link.
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New Links:
Development Finance Limited - located in Trinidad & Tobago, its purpose is to serve viable, responsible private enterprises in the Caribbean by providing corporate finance, risk capital and strategic management advisory services.
Esquel Group Foundation - provides a variety of services to non-governmental organizations, foundations, private corporations and international development agencies working in Latin America and the Caribbean.
FUNDES - Swiss non-profit foundation dedicated to small and microenterprise development in Latin America.
Inter-American Council for Integral Development (CIDI) - Building Bridges towards the Future of Partnership for Development in the Americas.
Inter-American Drug Abuse Control Commission (CICAD) - promotes and facilitates multilateral cooperation among the member countries in the control of drug trafficking, production and use.
Institute of International Education - pioneers programs worldwide enabling thousands of students, scholars, artists, scientists, business managers and leaders in every field to share ideas and work for common goals.
Institute of Social Studies (ISS) - is an international post-graduate school of policy-oriented, social science teaching and research whose diverse activities include teaching, interdisciplinary research and advisory work in the field of development studies.
OAS Unit for the Promotion of Democracy - provides a program of support for democratic development which can respond promptly and effectively to Member States.
Society for Research and Initiatives for Sustainable Technologies and Institutions (SRISTI) - a non-governmental organisation setup to strengthen the creativity of grassroots inventors, innovators and ecopreneurs engaged in conserving biodiversity and developing eco-friendly solutions to local problems.
United Nations Commission on International Trade Law - works to further the progressive harmonization and unification of the law of international trade.
World Intellectual Property Organization - responsible for the promotion of the protection of intellectual property throughout the world through cooperation among States, and for the administration of various multilateral treaties dealing with the legal and administrative aspects of intellectual property. __________________________________________________________
Stories from The Development Front
The following stories were provided to members of the IDN last week and are now available on the web site:
Britain's CDC Invests In India's First Privatised Port
ADB to Finance Railway Project to Reduce Poverty in People's Republic of China
ADB Grant for Catchment Approach to Managing Soil Erosion in Asia
Samoan Nursing - the Story of Women Developing a Profession
Canada Provides Additional Assistance to China's Flood Victims
ECLAC to Study Comparative Measurements of Expenditure on Security and Defense
EX-IM Bank Backs Effort to Clean Wastewater in Argentina
Export-Import Bank Board of Directors Votes To Implement OECD Agreement on Export Credit Premium Rates
Secretary General Briefs In-coming Forum Chair
Australia Ratifies Waigani Convention
IDB Approves $132.8 Million for Electricity in Brazil
IDB Approves $22.5 Million for Reorganization of Health System in Haiti
MIF Approves $1,100,000 to Support Hydrocarbons Market Integration in Central America
IDB Approves $55 Million To Improve Water Sector In Haiti
IDB Approves $25 Million For Judicial Reform in Guatemala
IDB Finances Rehabilitation of Water Treatment Facility in Colombia
Report of ILO Commission of Inquiry Reveals Widespread and Systematic Use of Forced Labour in Myanmar (Burma)
Sex Industry Assuming Massive Proportions in Southeast Asia
Panthou, South Sudan: Displaced Children Are at Extreme Risk
Education High on Trinidad and Tobago Prime Minister's Investment Promotion Agenda
OAS to Call Special Assembly Session to Consider Budget Issues
Cooperation to Battle Drugs Enters New Era
OAS to Send Observers to Panama Referendum
OECD To Host Electronic Commerce Conference in Ottawa, 7-9 October 1998
USCR Calls U.S. Government Move to Assist Internally Displaced Colombians "An Important First Step" Americans Using Internet to Donate Money for Sudan Famine
Tom Murphy Elected Board Chair of Save The Children
US$14 Million UNDP Grant Assistance For Leather, Fibre and Handicraft Sectors in India
World Food Programme Extends Assistance to Kenya Flood Victims
Christian Aid Work to Continue in Afghanistan
CARE Development and Relief Programs Remain Active in the Wake of U.S. Military Strikes on Sudan and Afghanistan
CARE Staff Safe in the Aftermath of U.S. Military Strikes on Sudan and Afghanistan
Caribbean Leaders Will Meet in Santo Domingo
CARICOM Statement on the Result of the Nevis Referendum
ILPES Holds Course on Economic Reforms and Strategic Public Management
Military Expenditure: A Topic for Debate in Latin America
The Netherlands Commissions GTZ to Dispose of Toxic Waste in Pakistan
Windward Island Banana Recovery Plan Negotiated
Hope for Anse La Raye Women
Finally - Authentic Caribbean History Books
STABEX Support’s School Feeding Program
UNEP's Executive Director Visits China
Indonesia Faces Long-term Emergency
WFP Protests Against Looting of its Relief Supplies by Armed Men in the Democratic Republic of Congo __________________________________________________________
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