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Doing the right project – doing the projects right – (also in espanol)

PM4DEV was created to provide with expert project management consulting and training services based on a methodology customized to the challenges of development projects. Our objective is to serve the needs of the global development community by providing the tools and processes to plan, implement, and monitor projects in a more consistent, reliable and predictable manner. Our methodology is based on a project management cycle that incorporates all the processes, tools and practices to effectively manage projects of all sizes … (full long text homepage).

Services: consulting, training, systems, coaching;
Download a brochure detailing our services: in english, in espanol;
Resources: bookstore, articles, e-books, e-learning;
Newsletter;
Links;
Address: PM4DEV, Paola Diaz, Director, P.O Box 1064, Norcross, Georgia 30091, USA;
Contact: online, by e-mail.

Our Mission (left column):

• PM4DEV mission is to provide our clients with the best resources, tools, methods and processes available. As a valued partner we will perform at the highest level on every assignment to ensure successful outcomes that meet or exceed our client’s expectations;
• We will assist our clients, to the extend of our capabilities, implement and use effectively project management methodology in all development projects.

Development Projects Challenges: … (full text right column).

Our Vision (left column):

• Relief and development organizations adopt and value project management, as a key competence of their work and they attribute the use of project management methodologies as part of their success to reduce poverty and increase the social well being communities worldwide;
• Our Project Management Methodology helps development organizations meet their strategic goals by standardizing processes, reducing risks, and avoiding duplication of efforts;

Complex Problems: … (full text right column).

Our Values: … (full text left column).

Benefits of PM: … (full text left column).

Linked with Fethullah Güllen – Turkey, and with Islamic Revivalism in Muslim World.

I found no website (in english), but the movement is named in many articles:

• … We take a look at the Gulen movement, a loose coalition of public institutions and media organisations inspired by the charismatic preacher Fetullah Gulen … (full text);
• … This movement is one of the eight major groups derived from the work of the reformer Said Nursi (1873–1960), author of several volumes of Qur’anic exegesis known as Risale-I Nur. Nursi made an attempt to respond to the debates of his time (emergence of the new republic and Kemalist secularization efforts): he became the source of a powerful movement active in Turkey … (on religion.info);
• … I’m prompted by several developments, past and present, in exploring this. Around this time last year the Australian Intercultural Society (AIS) launched the Fethullah Gulen Chair in the Study of Islam and Muslim-Catholic relations at the Australian Catholic University (ACU). The chair is one of the first of its kind and was set up with the express intent of promoting perspectives on Islam that were non-Arab of origin … (full text);
• An international conference entitled « Islam in the Contemporary World: The Fethullah Gülen Movement in Thought and Practice » was held at The Boniuk Center for the Study and Advancement of Religious Tolerance at Rice University of Houston on 12-13 November 2005.  Download the conference papers in pdf … (full text);
• Georgetown University, Washington, D.C., has continued a series of conferences organized on the themes of Islam and the Gülen movement … (full text);
• FETHULLAH GULEN AND HIS LIBERAL TURKISH ISLAM MOVEMENT;
• Professors and students from all over have gathered for a conference on the gulen movement … (full text);
• The Muslim world has been undergoing radical social, economic, political and intellectual change since its encounter with the West. How Muslims cope with the challenges they face necessarily impacts on the wider, non-Muslim world. The underlying aim of this conference is to examine the impact of the Gülen movement on the contemporary Muslim world in transition and the relations between the West and Islam in general … (full text);
• The Google download book: Turkish Islam and the Secular State, By M. Hakan Yavuz, John L. Esposito, 2003, 280 pages;
• This study is an effort to understand how the Gülen movement, named after the prominent Turkish scholar Fethullah Gülen, has a sphere of influence on the global scale. Active in more than a hundred countries with schools and intercultural centers, the Gülen movement is considered to be one of the most significant social movements that arose from the Muslim world … (full text);

… and many more on Google-web search for Gülen Movement.

(also in fr and es)

The Tri-continental Centre CETRI is a non-governmental organisation founded in 1976 and based in Louvain-la-Neuve (Belgium). It is a centre for studies, publications, documentation and ongoing education on the development of North-South relations. CETRI’s aim is to promote understanding of the perspectives of the South and to contribute to critical analysis of the dominant concepts and practices in development in a period of neo-liberal globalisation. It is particularly supportive of understanding and discussing the role of social and political actors in the South who are fighting for the recognition of social, political, cultural and environmental rights … (about 1/2).

Homepage, newswire, books and articles in the right column;
Forum social mondial (27 janvier 2009 – 1 fevrier 2009): in english, in french;
Areas and countries; Authors; Topics; Sources;
Documentation Center;
Agenda (2009);
Newsletter;
Addresses: /headquarter: Tricontinental Center CETRI, avenue Sainte Gertrude 5, B-1348 Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium – and its Map;
Contact.

About 2/2: … CETRI has 4 types of activity: study, training, publication and documentation. The main subjects over the past few years have been the role of social movements in the South, the dynamics of the anti-globalisation movement, the evolution of democracy in Latin America, the scope of social and political alternatives in the South, the rationales and consequences of structural changes, and development aid.

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Deutsche Gesellschaft für Technische Zusammenarbeit GTZ (also in german)

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

The GTZ is an international cooperation enterprise for sustainable development with worldwide operations.
GTZ promotes complex reforms and change processes, often working under difficult conditions. Its corporate objective is to improve people’s living conditions on a sustainable basis. (About).

Homepage;
Sitemap;
Jobs and careers;
Press; Publications; Newsletter;
GTZ worldwide;
Service;
Themes; Projects;
Web credits;
Address: Deutsche Gesellschaft für Technische Zusammenarbeit GTZ GmbH, Dag-Hammarskjöld-Weg 1-5, 65760 Eschborn, Germany;
Postal address: GTZ GmbH, Postfach 5180, 65726 Eschborn, Germany;
Contact.

Corporate profile: As an international cooperation enterprise for sustainable development with worldwide operations, the federally owned Deutsche Gesellschaft für Technische Zusammenarbeit (GTZ) GmbH supports the German Government in achieving its development-policy objectives.

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(This entry’s contact information was last verified in July of 2005)

Linked with Elizabeth Betita Martinez – USA.

The SF day labor program is part of the San Francisco Bay Area Progressive Directory.

Formed in 1990 by a group of immigrant workers, together with community allies, who envisioned a space where laborers could unite to find temporary work to support themselves and their families. The program is committed to connecting workers to jobs with dignity, safety, and a just wage, and to providing employers with high-quality work performance. Contact the program during our business hours (7am-1pm, Mon-Fri, 7am-12pm Sat), at least one hour in advance, to hire one or more laborers for general and specialized work. Our Women’s Collective (which can be reached at the same number and requires one day’s advanced notice) can provide experienced domestic and office help. The program is a non-profit entity and the workers recieve 100% of all wages (webpage).

childcare; community-building; employment; gardening; immigrants; janitorial work; labor; news online; calendars; events and notices;
Address: c/o La Raza Centro Legal, 474 Valencia Street, Suite 295, San Francisco, CA  94103, USA;
Contact: Voice /Tel, US (415) 252-5375 ad US (415) 252-5376, Web.

About … not of the above SF Day Labor Program … but of its Top Organization, the San Francisco Bay Area Progressive Directory, which is an index to about 1000 organizations in the San Francisco Bay Area that are related to progressive activism and/or helping out disadvantaged people, plus links to related web sites elsewhere.

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