Catégorie : Z – OLD + privat

Picked up on Weitzenegger’s Website for International Development Cooperation, and its Newsletter.

The MicroInsurance Focus Resource Center promotes sound practices in insurance provision to low-income persons through the exchange of knowledge and experience.

Microinsurance is an important risk management tool for low-income households, but as a sophisticated financial service, poses many new challenges to the microfinance industry and other stakeholders … (full text).

Homepage and latest news,
resource centers;
microfinance discussion groups;
events;
organizations;
consultants;
library;
jobs;
address: The Microfinance Gateway Manager, CGAP Secretariat/World Bank, 1919 Pennsylvania Ave. NW, Washington DC 20433, USA;
contact.

About: 1. … The Microfinance Gateway (the Gateway) is the most comprehensive source of information for and about the microfinance industry. It includes research and publications, discussion groups, specialized resource centers, organization and consultant profiles, and the latest news, events, and job opportunities in microfinance. Its guiding vision is to enable microfinance industry participants to generate value, innovate and engage in the free flow of ideas by effectively utilizing the Gateway’s knowledge assets.

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a World Bank Group – in all UN languages

IFC is helping create stock market indices that allow investors to assess the environmental, social, and governance performance of companies based in emerging markets … Home.

Organisation;
IFC disclosure;
Products & Services;
Partners & Stakeholders;
IFC’s annual report;
Contacts.

About: Our Vision is that poor people have the opportunity to escape poverty and to improve their lives. Our values are excellence, commitment, integrity, and teamwork. Our purpose is to:

• Promote open and competitive markets in developing countries;
• Support companies and other private sector partners;
• Generate productive jobs and deliver basic services;
• Create opportunity for people to escape poverty and improve their lives.

Mission: IFC, as the private sector arm of the World Bank Group, shares its mission:

• To fight poverty with passion and professionalism for lasting results;
• To help people help themselves and their environment by providing resources, sharing knowledge, building capacity, and forging partnerships in the public and private sectors.

Published on the BRITISH COUNCIL /Learning

The EU Socrates programme has now finished its second phase (2000 – 2006) and has been replaced by the EU Lifelong Learning Programme, which consists of four main actions; Comenius; Leonardo; Grundtvig and Erasmus, plus transversal actions. The British Council manages the Comenius and Erasmus actions. The Leonardo, Grundtvig and Transversal actions are now managed by Ecotec … (full text).

Comenius schools;
Erasmus – higher education;
lifelong learning programme in the UK;

funding programmes in education and training;
learning A to Z;

leonardo – vocational training;
grundtvig – adult education;
transversal programme – Arion study visits;

address: The United Kingdom’s international organisation for cultural relations and educational opportunities, a registered charity:

• Tel. 209131 (England and Wales),
• Tel. SC037733 (Scotland).

Tchad – Agir Pour l’Environnement /Chad – act for the environment
(Main language of the website: french)

The current situation of Lake-Chad is very alarming, its surface does not cease decreasing year by year. The erosion of the shores and the traqnsport of solid elements by streaming fill the lake … (full text).

Topicality;
videos;
audios;
photos;
who we are;
projects;
activities reports;
Chad’s history (a 10 pages.pdf);
links;
contacts.

SENSITIZING FOR THE ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION: Chad is a country sahélien and semi-desert which is confronted with a serious problem of turning into a desert, which touches in particular banks of the lake Chad. Vis-a-vis this danger, it is necessary, to see essential, to organize all the forces available to help the inhabitants of the country to be opposed to this projection of the desert. We modestly think of contributing to it via our association “Chad – To act for the Environment”, by blocking amongst other things the projection of the desert by the afforestation. With this intention, the participation of the population/the peasant in the management of the project is very wished. In this case our intention to create centers of village formation is justified amply …

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Has not its own website, but is named on many fellow sites. Here some:

Linked with Shereen Sazawar – Afghanistan.

The recent jailing of an Afghan magazine editor is raising concerns about the issue of press freedom in Afghanistan. Ali Mohaqiq Nasab, editor of the « Women’s Rights » monthly, was found guilty of publishing articles that were deemed un-Islamic. On 22 October, he was sentenced to two years in prison. The United Nations, the Afghanistan Independent Human Rights Commission, and several international media rights groups including the International Federation of Journalists have protested. Journalists inside Afghanistan say they fear the case could pave the way for more attacks on the country’s independent … (full interview).

Sentenced to death: Afghan who dared to read about women’s rights, by Kim Sengupta, 31 January 2008;

Afghan reporter sentenced to death for ‘blasphemy’: court, Jan 22, 2008;

Jail term for Afghan journalist;

on South Asian Media.net /Afghanistan.