Catégorie : Civil Society

Linked with Ramesh Jaura – India & Germany.

DEVELOPMENT WATCH is an Alliance for Monitoring International Cooperation and has been launched by GLOBAL COOPERATION COUNCIL and IPS EUROPE as an independent watchdog to monitor reliable and critical information on international development cooperation. You will agree with me that tax payers in the OECD countries have the right to know what is happening with their hard-earned money. Also peoples in the countries of the South receiving funds must be enabled and empowered to know what their governments are doing with the money they get for them from the North. This objective can be achieved if individuals, institutions and organizations around the world – in North and South – help us and provide DEVELOPMENT WATCH reliable and critical information.

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On the Nabuur.com website you will find people around the world who share your interests, goals and ideas. You’ll find:

• Virtual ‘Villages’ where communities in developing countries present their issues and ask for assistance of online volunteers (‘Neighbours’);
• Online discussions in the Villages between representatives of the communities and their Neighbours on how to solve local issues;
• Thousands of committed individuals who work as online volunteers (Neighbours) to find solutions for problems of communities in developing countries;
• Individuals.

On NABUUR.COM you can help a community in a developing country:

• Here and now;
• Together with other online volunteers (Neighbours);
• By sharing your skills, knowledge and contacts;
• In direct contact with the local community, so you will see the results of your actions with your own eyes;
• In the online discussions on NABUUR.COM the representative of the local community and his/her Neighbours work together to find solutions for the community’s problems.

how it works.

See the NABUUR.COM Guidelines for NABUUR.COM’s guiding principles.

what you can do.

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Linked with Paula Makabory – Indonesia, and with WEST PAPUA, the forgotten story of a people in crisis.

Founded in 1987, Agenda began as a journal, which sought to provide a political outlet and focus for gender and feminist activism in the politically-fraught apartheid South Africa of the time. In the words of a founding member: « We – those of us who founded Agenda – had a dream – to bring gender/women’s liberation into the big debates of the day and into the centre of the movements for liberation and transformation ». Over the years, Agenda has maintained this perspective, but evolved to operate four programmes and an interactive website as follows:

Journal: At the forefront of feminist publishing in South Africa for almost 20 years, Agenda’s journal creates an important space for women to publish their work. The journal questions, debates and critiques understandings of gender. Four themed issues are published each year, with 4,000 journals read by 60,000 people each year.

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Linked with Semjidmaa Damba – Mongolia.

The Mongolian Women’s NGO Coalition was formed on December 10, 1999 and Was registered in the Ministry of Justice on February 25, 2000. The Coalition is a non-profit, non governmental organization which is directed towards the improvement of society, and it exists to ensure that equal numbers of women are elected and nominated for decision-making positions.

The Coalition also:

– prepares documents and information on the electoral system and women candidates for the general electorate
– prepares women nominees for election through traning programs
– prepares related books manuals and materials for nominees on electoral skills
– Infuences laws and rules concerning election nomination for election
– cooperates with external and internal organizations.

See on their website the names of the 31 NGOs being part of the Coalition. So also the ‘Association of Business Women of Vulnerable Group’.

The International Fund for Agricultural Development IFAD, a specialized agency of the United Nations, was established as an international financial institution in 1977 as one of the major outcomes of the 1974 World Food Conference. The Conference was organized in response to the food crises of the early 1970s that primarily affected the Sahelian countries of Africa. The conference resolved that « an International Fund for Agricultural Development should be established immediately to finance agricultural development projects primarily for food production in the developing countries ». One of the most important insights emerging from the conference was that the causes of food insecurity and famine were not so much failures in food production, but structural problems relating to poverty and to the fact that the majority of the developing world’s poor populations were concentrated in rural areas.

IFAD’s mission is to enable the rural poor to overcome poverty.

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