Full Coverage: Capacity building

28.06.2006 Oil wars, water wars, land wars, atmospheric wars: this is the real face of economic globalisation, whose appetite for resources is exceeding the limits of sustainability and justice, writes Vandana Shiva, an author and international campaigner for women and the environment.

23.06.2006 The time is now ripe for the development community to engage with climate change, says Saleemul Huq, director of the climate change programme at the International Institute for Environment and Development, United Kingdom and chair of the Bangladesh Centre for Advanced Studies.

22.06.2006 Journalists, media entrepreneurs, government and civil society representatives, academics, and students met last week in UNESCO’s Montevideo Office to analyze and evaluate the situation of media, development and poverty reduction in Uruguay and the region, and to make recommendations for UNESCO’s action in this context.

22.06.2006 Eight people with disabilities have an opportunity to voice their issues using the Community Multimedia Centre (CMC) in Nepal after a recent training workshop on audio production and new technologies. Of the eight participants, five were visually impaired and the remaining three were physically challenged. Read more about this innovative project by UNESCO.

19.06.2006 Programi Publikues i Institutit të Fondacionit për Shoqëri të Hapur Maqedoni FOSIM, dha Çmimin Vjetor për Dizajnin më të Mirë të Librit për Shoqatën Qytetare “Ekokrater” nga Kratovo, për doracakun e tyre Kratovo Doracak për Turistë . Ceremonia e dorëzimit të çmimit u mbajt në OJQ-në Infocentre në Shkup.

15.06.2006 The need to enhance information flow to farmers led to the inception of the Information and Communication Support for Agricultural Growth in Nigeria Project (ICS-Nigeria). The hope is that access to information will trigger an increase in farmers’ use of agricultural technologies, which in turn will increase their productive capacity.

15.06.2006 The University of Manchester is launching a new one-year MSc programme to address the training needs associated with recent massive expansion in information and communication technologies for development (ICT4D) projects.

13.06.2006 IT for Change, supported by HIVOS, India, and Association for Progressive Communications, is planning to hold a workshop, “Audio Visual Resources for Development: Moving towards Open Paradigms", on 15th June in Bangalore.

08.06.2006 Women in southern Sri Lanka, who were affected by the tsunami, have started a programme of recycling garbage so that some of the women can sort out the garbage and earn a living. With Oxfam GB's help, this compost and garbage-recycling programme has been extended to nearly 1,500 households.

07.06.2006 The Information Management Resource Kit (IMARK) is a comprehensive suite of distance learning resources for information management and exchange.

07.06.2006 Accurate, timely information saves lives. Jonathan Walter, editor of the World Disasters Report, provides an insight.

05.06.2006 Away from the cacophony of Business Process Outsourcing (BPO), prowess in information technology and the growing GDP, students from the University of Michigan, on a visit to India, got a taste of the real India – water problems, low literacy, poor infrastructure, ill-managed cities and rural poverty.

01.06.2006 The ongoing gender sensitisation programmes by Delhi Police is likely to get a boost with a recent manual compiled for the police officials involved in training the middle and lower rank officers. It will be used by the trainers in Delhi Police Academy, Andhra Pradesh Police Academy, and Delhi Home Guard Academy.