Message-ID: <35B2CD14.47C8F47F@idn.org> Date: Mon, 20 Jul 1998 00:52:36 -0400 From: "Christopher L. Byrne, Director" <mailto:info@IDN.ORG> Subject: This week at the International Development Network (July 20, 1998) To: mailto:DEVEL-L@AMERICAN.EDU
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New this week:
INTERNSHIPS/FELLOWSHIPS
The Rockefeller Foundation is once again offering a program for African scholars, the "Africa Dissertation Internship Awards" (ADIA). (Includes link and e-mail).
ADIA provides funding for dissertation field research in sub-Saharan Africa. Citizens of sub-Saharan African nations enrolled in doctoral programs in the United States and Canada are eligible. Priority is given to research on economic development in the areas of agriculture, environment, education, health, life sciences, population and the humanities. The hope of the foundation is that the program will help create a generation of Africans better prepared to contribute effectively to development objectives in their home countries.
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This week's tool is A Guide to the Legal Maze of the Transition Countries from the GTZ, with more than 200 electronically retrievable and up-to-date CIS-state legal documents.
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This week's IDN Quick Link is to the web site for the Pan-African Con- ference on Sustainable Integrated Coastal Management, taking place in Mozambique.
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NEW IN THE IDN BOOKSTORE (http://www.idn.org/bookstore/index.htm)
The following titles have been added to the IDN Bookstore at http://www.idn.org/bookstore/index.htm:
The Commonwealth Secretariat and the Contemporary Commonwealth
Inside the OAU : Pan-Africanism in Practice
Organization of African Unity (International Organizations, Vol 7)
Organization of African Unity : An Analysis of Its Role
The WTO As An International Organization
An Anatomy of the World Trade Organization
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NEW PUBLICATION LINK
Read an interview with economist Ricardo Ffrench-Davis, Regional Adviser to the Executive Secretariat of the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC), on the launch of the new Spanish edition of the book, América Latina y el Caribe: políticas para mejorar la inserción en la economía mundial (Latin America and the Caribbean: Policies to Improve Linkages with the Global Economy).
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NEW LINKS
This week's new and modified links include:
(Links with an (*) are modified links or link descriptions.)
The Carter Center - dedicated to fighting disease, hunger, poverty, conflict, and oppression through collaborative initiatives in the areas of democratization and development, global health, and urban revitalization.
The Commonwealth Secretariat - a unique family of 53 developed and developing nations around the world.
HR Wallingford - an independent research and consultancy organisation specialising in civil engineering hydraulics and the water environment.
International Development - a non-profit organization devoted to assisting humanitarian efforts in construction and construction management. In many cases we are able to assist with labor, materials, and monetary donations.
The International Development Association (IDA) - the World Bank Group's concessional lending window. It provides long-term loans at zero interest to the poorest of the developing countries. The overarching goals of IDA lending are to assist countries in reducing poverty and in achieving sustainable, broad-based economic growth.
International Program for Technology Research in Irrigation and Drainage Network - a part of the IPTRID Program with the objective of improving the exchange and flow of technical information and research results in the irrigation and drainage sector.
International Water Management Institute (IWMI) (formerly the International Irrigation Management Institute) - works to improve food security and the lives of poor people by fostering sustainable increases in the productivity of water used in agriculture through better management of irrigation and water basin systems.
Link Romania - a British Charity working in Romania, providing a freight service for humanitarian aid and working with street children and in agricultural development.
*Marie Stopes International - International family planning charity. Mission is 'children by choice not by chance'.
The Rockefeller Foundation - funding opportunities for International Development.
United Nations Environment Program (UNEP) - provides leadership and encourage partnerships in caring for the environment by inspiring, informing and enabling nations and people to improve their quality of life without compromising that of future generations.
UN Special Initiative on Africa - designed to rationalize United Nations assistance to Africa, including that of the Bretton Woods institutions, through more effective coordination, synergistic actions, capacity building and by facilitating genuine partnerships.
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