Message-ID: <358DDDA7.85C440E2@idn.org> Date: Mon, 22 Jun 1998 00:29:27 -0400 From: "Christopher L. Byrne, Director" <mailto:info@IDN.ORG> Subject: This Week at the International Development Network (June 22, 1998) To: mailto:DEVEL-L@AMERICAN.EDU
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Good day!
Thanks to all who have submitted links and other information for publication on the IDN Web Site. There were many submissions for MicroFinance and Microenterprise Development this past week. Your contributions are most welcome and appreciated. This past week the IDN entered into the final stages of negotiations with a major publisher of literature on Sustainable Development, which will be available to members of the IDN at a 25% Discount. More information will be released when the agreement is finalized. IDN Membership Information is available at http://www.idn.org/membership/index.htm
New or updated items this week on the IDN Web Site (http://www.idn.org/):
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IDN Membership Directory
Updated list of members ____________________________________________
Tools You Can Use:
Development Indicators On-Line from the Development Assistance Committee (DAC) of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD)
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Quick Link of the Week:
This week's IDN Quick Link is to Children, Youth & AIDS, a multimedia exhibition from UNICEF that shows the impact of HIV/AIDS on children and serves as an educational forum for AIDS awareness and prevention. ____________________________________________
New Conferences, Meetings and Symposia
Information And Communication Technologies In Economic Development (Pakistan)
Canadian Council of Christian Charities: Relief and Development Group Forum 1998 on Partnership
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ViewPoints (including a new discussion forum)
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New or Modified Links (modified links are indicated by the (*):
ACTIONAID - development charity working directly with three million of the world's poorest people in Africa, Asia and Latin America, helping them in their fight against poverty.
Association of Caribbean Electoral Organizations (ACEO) - promotes cooperation and mutual assistance among electoral authorities in the Caribbean, and the use of election processes that ensure free, fair and peaceful elections.
Association of Central and East European Election Officials (ACEEEO) - promotes cooperation and mutual assistance among electoral authorities in Central and Eastern Europe, and the use of election processes that ensure free, fair and peaceful elections.
Association of African Election Authorities (AAfEA) - promote and institutionalize the professional nature of African election authorities through regional exchanges and networking.
Association of Asian Election Authorities (AAEA) - promotes and institutionalizes open and transparent elections, independent and impartial election authorities, professionalization of Asian election authorities, citizen participation in the electoral and civic process, information sharing, and the development of resources for election-related information and research.
Centre cooperation internationale sante developpement inc (CCISD) - development health activities in Africa and Latin America: AIDS-STD, primary health care, epidemiological surveillance, women health.
Christian Children's Fund - CCF is an international child development organization assisting over 2.5 million children in 32 countries, including the United States.
CUSO - a Canadian organization which supports alliances for global social justice. We work with people striving for freedom, self-determination, gender and racial equality and cultural survival.
DMFAS Programme of UNCTAD - the Debt Management and Financial Analysis System (DMFAS) is designed to strengthen the technical capacity of developing countries to record and monitor their external debt.
Department for International Development (UK) - Created in May 1997 after the UK General Election. It subsumes the responsibilities of the Overseas Development Administration, in managing Britain's bilateral and multilateral development programmes in poorer countries.
Developments - a free quarterly magazine produced by the Department for International Development to increase awareness of development issues.
Eastern Caribbean Investment Promotion Service (ECIPS) - promotes investment in the countries of the Eastern Caribbean.
Fundación CIPAV - Colombian NGO founded in 1986. The projects and programs on which it focuses are alternative agricultural production systems. In these systems we promote the efficient and sustainable utilization of the available human and natural resources, which are in harmony with the environment.
Global Care - an international Christian charity working for needy children through relief, development, education and child-care programmes
*The Global Health Network - an alliance of experts in health and telecommunications who are actively developing the architecture for a health information structure for the prevention of disease in the 21st century.
IS World - provide information management scholars and practitioners with a single entry point to resources related to information systems technology and promote the development of an international information infrastructure that will dramatically improve the world's ability to use information systems for creating, disseminating, and applying knowledge.
*International Center for Research on Women (ICRW) - a private, nonprofit organization dedicated to promoting social and economic development with women's full participation.
International Resources Group Ltd. - committed to providing efficient management and cost- effective services that promote sustainable economic development.
Journal of Developmental Entrepreneurship - A publication devoted to issues concerning microenterprise development.
Livestock Research for Rural Development - The international journal for research into sustainable developing world agriculture.
MicroFinance Network - A global association of leading microfinance practitioners. MicroFinance Network convenes Executive Directors of institutions such as BancoSol, BRI, and BRAC for annual conferencees to discuss best practices. Proceedings are on-line, along with information on other research publications.
Oxfam Great Britain - a development, advocacy, and relief agency working to put an end to poverty world-wide.
Soufrière Marine Management Area (SMMA) - St. Lucia - a non profit, public interest organization, which promotes the conservation of the marine environment, specifically coral reefs.
United Nations Statistical Institute for Asia and the Pacific (SIAP) - a centre for statistical training for the developing countries in Asia and the Pacific region.
Virtual Library on Microcredit - a repository of information on microcredit, alternative and non-conventional financial systems issues. Community mobilization and enviro-economic development also find a place here.
World University Service of Canada-Entraide universitaire mondiale du Canada (WUSC-EUMC) - An NGO, is a network of individuals and post-secondary institutions whose mission it is to foster development and global understanding through education and training. __________________________________________________________
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