Scriptorium

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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Linked with Noeleen Heyzer – USA, with Human Rights as Education for Peace, and with Globalization and the Eradication of Poverty.
DEVELOPMENT ALTERNATIVES WITH WOMEN FOR A NEW ERA is a network of women scholars and activists from the economic South who engage in feminist research and analysis of the global environment and are committed to working for economic justice, gender justice and democracy. DAWN works globally and regionally in Africa, Asia, the Caribbean, Latin America and the Pacific on the themes of the Political Economy of Globalization; Political Restructuring and Social Transformation; Sustainable Livelihoods; and Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights, in partnership with other global NGOs and networks.

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A Greater Gift is a program of SERRV International, a nonprofit alternative trade and development organization. Our mission is to promote the social and economic progress of people in developing regions of the world by marketing their products in a just and direct manner.

OUR MISSION is to promote the social and economic progress of people in developing regions of the world by marketing their products in a just and direct manner.

Our goal is to alleviate poverty and empower low-income people through trade, training and other forms of community support as they work to improve their lives. SERRV has worked to assist artisans and farmers for more than 55 years through the following:

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Linked with Wangari Maathai – Kenya, with The rich biodiversity of Africa, and with the GBM World Bank Biocarbon Project.

The GBM provides income and sustenance to millions of people in Kenya through the planting of trees. It also conducts educational campaigns to raise awareness about women’s rights, civic empowerment, and the environment throughout Kenya and Africa.

Green Belt Movement Kenya;
Green Belt Movement International;
News;
Pan African Training Workshops;
The Blog;
Events;
Links;
Contact.

In Africa, as in many parts of the world, women are responsible for meals and collecting firewood. Increasing deforestation has not only meant increasing desertification, but it has also meant that women have had to travel further and further afield in order to collect the firewood.

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Linked with Lydia Nyati-Ramahobo – Botswana, and with The Case of Shiyeyi in Botswana.

The Kamanakao Association is a registered non-governmental organization with the basic objective of maintaining and developing the remnants of the language and culture of the Wayeyi people of northern Botswana. Shiyeyi refers to both the language and culture of the Wayeyi people. In Shiyeyi, Kamanakao means « remnants. » Since its establishment, the association has worked tirelessly to convince the Government of Botswana to officially denounce the people of Wayeyi tribe as minority and also recognise their chieftainship as legitimate. Some efforts have been fruitfull!

The Kamanakao Association is one of the organizations assisting government to achieve the goal of recognizing and developing other languages for literacy as a necessary tool for development. It is willing to assist other groups to develop their languages so that Batswana can know and walk hand in hand with one another with pride and dignity in the hearts of all. This is necessary for unity and development.

Objectives:

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Linked with Dele Olejede – Nigeria, with e-learning plans for Africa, with Africa and Poverty, with TO LIFT AFRICA OUT OF POVERTY, and with Corruption linked to poverty.

ASAP A Self-Help Assistance Program (ASAP Africa) is a non-profit charitable organization committed to working in partnership with rural communities in Zimbabwe, assisting people in their efforts to improve their own lives.

Since 1992, ASAP Africa has been committed to working in partnership with rural African communities, assisting people in their efforts to improve their own lives. By working together with communities that take the initiative to try to resolve problems and pool their limited resources, long-term, sustainable improvements are achieved. ASAP Africa’s philosophy is to focus on the enormous potential of what people can achieve by working together. The staff in Zimbabwe works to empower those living in their country by sharing their knowledge of how to break the cycle of poverty, strengthen local education, and improve nutrition and health.

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Linked with Ervin Laszlo – Hungary, with Planet Life Academy, with New Concepts of Matter, Life and Mind, and with Consciousness In The Cosmos, Perspective of Mind.

The Club of Budapest International is an independent organization of likeminded persons who wish to come together in the interest of working toward a better future for all. Its core objective – pursued together with its world-renowned international members and engaged creative and national members – is to create and implement holistic solutions to problems that face the entire human family in a participatory way that can be experienced and acquired. (Read more on this page).

See also ‘Deutsche Version‘. And see also their Newsletter.

The Mission of the Club of Budapest is to be a catalyst for the transformation to a sustainable world through
Promoting the emergence of planetary consciousness: Interconnecting generations and cultures, Integrating spirituality, science, and the arts, Fostering learning communities worldwide.

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Linked with Ervin Laszlo – Hungary, with The Club of Budapest International, with New Concepts of Matter, Life and Mind, and with Consciousness In The Cosmos, Perspective of Mind.

Die Planet Life Academy ist eine Bildungseinrichtung des Club of Budapest, die im Juni 2004 mit einem ersten kleinen Eröffnungsprogramm begann. Bekannte und weniger bekannte Vordenker/innen vermitteln all ihre Visionen, Konzepte und innovative praktische Projekte für ein Lernen auf der Stufe der grundlegenden Potentiale des Menschen (« Lernen des Lernens », « Unternehmer der eigenen Potentiale werden ») eine humane Gestaltung der Globalisierung und ein ethisches und systemisch-ganzheitliches Denken in allen Wissensgebieten. Die Planet Life Academy baut schrittweise ein immer vielfältigeres Programm auf – auf drei Ebenen:

• – allgemein zugängliche Veranstaltungen (also eine Art « freie Volkshochschule »);
• – Seminare, Studien, Vorträge, Fortbildungen etc. auf akademischer Ebene;
• – Bildungsangebote und Trainings für Unternehmen;
• – Dozenten und Trainer der Planet Life Academy sind renommierte Vertreter aus Wissenschaft, Wirtschaft, Politik, Kunst, Kultur, Ethik und Medien.

Kontaktformlar auf der Website.
Impressum.

E-Changer – Organisation suisse de volontariat à la coopération, Partenaires dans l’échange et pour le changement. (Aussi en espagnol et portugues).

E-CHANGER est une organisation suisse de volontariat à la coopération.

Nous sommes convaincus que l’amélioration des conditions socio-économiques dans les pays en voie de développement n’est possible que si les populations défavorisées arrivent à se responsabiliser et à prendre conscience des possibilités juridiques, politiques et économiques qui s’offrent à elles. Nos volontaires, fortes de leurs compétences et de leur expérience professionnelles, s’engagent à renforcer le potentiel d’organisations Sud. Qu’il s’agisse de femmes paysannes brésiliennes, d’Indiens boliviens ou de journalistes burkinabés, tous nos partenaires luttent pour s’affirmer comme interlocuteurs des pouvoirs politiques et économiques qui ont tendance à les oublier lorsqu’ils prennent des décisions qui les concernent.

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The International Cost Engineering Council (ICEC) is an nonpolitical and nonprofit organization which was founded in 1976 with the object of promoting cooperation between national and multinational cost engineering, quantity surveying and project management organizations worldwide for their mutual wellbeing and that of their individual members.

ICEC member societies are located in more than 40 countries, and have chapters or sections in many additional countries. Through these chapters and sections, ICEC has access to more than 100,000 cost engineers and project managers in over 120 different nations. Regular ICEC meetings are attended by delegates of the member societies where subjects of common interests are exchanged and discussed. Each member society has one vote on the Council.

Major objectives of ICEC:

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1). Terre des Hommes Suisse:

Siège à Genève. Terre des Hommes Suisse prend parti pour l’enfant et son avenir et agit pour ses droits fondamentaux afin qu’il vive sur une terre qui le nourrit au sein de sa famille et de sa communauté. Qu’il bénéficie de soins préventifs et curatifs, qu’il reçoive une éducation de qualité, appropriée et une formation professionnelle. Terre des Hommes Suisse oeuvre pour des relations plus justes entre les pays du Nord et du Sud. Notre objectif c’est l’aide au développement au Sud, 70 projets dans 11 pays (Afrique, Amérique Latine et Asie), avec des associations locales comme partenaires.

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Linked with Mahmood Mamdani – USA & Uganda, and with Making Sense of Political Violence in Postcolonial Africa.

The ACMCU of the Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service. – They say: « The Prince Alwaleed Center for Muslim-Christian Understanding is concerned with Islam and the West and Islam in the West. The Center, since its creation in 1993, has built bridges of understanding between the Muslim world and the West, addressing stereotypes of Islam and Muslims and issues and questions such as the clash of civilizations, and the compatibility of Islam and modern life – from democratization and pluralism to the status of women, minorities and human rights – and American foreign policy in the Muslim world ».

The ‘Prince Alwaleed Center for Muslim-Christian Understanding’ ACMCU is concerned with Islam and the West and Islam in the West. The Center, since its creation in 1993, has built bridges of understanding between the Muslim world and the West, addressing stereotypes of Islam and Muslims and issues and questions such as the clash of civilizations, and the compatibility of Islam and modern life – from democratization and pluralism to the status of women, minorities and human rights – and American foreign policy in the Muslim world. (see Homepage ACMCU).

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Linked with Ann Pettifor – England, with In these Times, with A cycle of illusions, with Bringing the Proposal to Reality, and with New Economics Foundation NEF.

Jubilee Research is part of the Global and National Economics (GNE) programme at nef (the New Economics Foundation, London). Nef is a radical “think-and-do” tank, founded in 1986 by the people who led the first Other Economic Summit – a fore-runner to the World Social Forum. It is based on the principles of new economics, and was voted Prospect Magazine’s UK Think Tank of the Year in 2002/3. Working on the UK and international economies and the environment, it seeks to promote well-being, rights and environmental sustainability, and to resolve tensions between these objectives. Its GNE team coordinates work on markets and climate change with Jubilee Research’s programme of international financial reform. Building on the work of the hugely successful Jubilee 2000 debt cancellation campaign,[1] Jubilee Research continues to provide up-to-date, accurate research, analyses, news and data on international debt.

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