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A. GLOBAL FOCUS AOTEAROA SELECTION
* Climate Change and Tourism - Responding to Global Challenges [PDF 4.63MB]
The publication notes the vulnerability of the sector to climate change and the impacts of tourism on climate itself. The report provides an excellent basis to address the global phenomenon of climate change, as well as to develop practical tools that can be used by tourism policy- makers and managers to foster the sustainable growth of the industry.(UNEP, 2008) (read more)
* Making international development assistance work
Australia's aid program has been in the news lately, with calls for a wider public debate on the role of overseas aid. But public debate is being shaped by starkly contradictory arguments. An educated layperson who has just finished reading Jeffrey Sachs on The End of Poverty, for example, might think that aid can provide an important solution to the world's problems. One who has just completed William Easterly's The White Man's Burden or Dambisa Moyo's Dead Aid, on the other hand, is likely ... (read more)
* Paradise lost? [video]
Tuvalu is the fourth smallest country in the world but it has huge problems. It's in danger of being gobbled up by the rising tide - or is it? (TVNZ, 2010) (read more)
* The Social Impacts of the Global Economic Crisis in Viet Nam
A collection of three rapid assessment reports and a summary discussion paper. With support from Oxfam GB and the World Bank, researchers carried out rapid qualitative assessment of the short-term social impacts of the global economic crisis on businesses and workers in different sectors in Ha Noi: craft villages, industrial workers, and the mobile labour market. The goal was to inform government understanding and policy during the economic crisis following the initial stimulus package.(Oxfam... (read more)
* Transparency International Progress Report 2010: Enforcement of the OECD Anti-Bribery Convention
This is the sixth annual Progress Report on Enforcement of the OECD Convention prepared by Transparency International (TI), the global coalition against corruption. The OECD Convention on Combating Bribery of Foreign Public Offi cials in International Business Transactions, adopted in 1997, required each party to make foreign bribery a crime. The Convention was hailed as key to overcoming the damaging effects of foreign bribery on democratic institutions, development programmes and business c... (read more)
B. NEW RESOURCES ONLINE
* A Promising Start [PDF 346KB]
* Critical Investigations into Humanitarianism in Africa
* Is aid without climate adaptation a waste of time?
* Africa looks to vast forests for carbon credit
* Beyond the tipping point [film]
* Forbidden forest of the Indonesian Dayak people
* Greenpeace Australia Pacific
* International Conference on Renewable Energy and Climate Change
* Local solutions on a sinking paradise, Carterets Islands, Papua New Guinea [video]
* State of the Climate 2009 [PDF, 2.59 KB]
* The Governance of Clean Development
* There Once Was An Island: Te Henua E Nnoho [NZ film]
* Time now for taking Adaptation Seriously
* Next generation network evaluation (PDF 1.9MB)
* The Giving Pledge and the opportunity of a generation
* The spending cuts frenzy and the danger of a double-dip recession
4. EVENTS, CONFERENCES AND TRAINING
* 3 exciting training courses with MDF on Bali
* Development Education in Australia: Transformation or Trojan Horse?
* Hunger, Poverty and Free Trade: Preventing the Next Food Crisis Before It Starts [PDF 539KB]
* The links between poverty and the environment in Malawi [PDF 322KB]
* Women, food security and agriculture in global marketplace [PDF 1.15MB]
* Governance and Institutional Development
* Why the MDG action plan needs an anti-corruption agenda
* Celebrate, innovate and sustain: towards 2015 and beyond (PDF 216KB)
* High Level Summit on the MDGs
* Impacts of social transfer programs
* The Impact of the Global Financial Crisis on the Budgets of Low- Income Countries [PDf 651KB]
8. SEXUAL AND REPRODUCTIVE HEALTH AND RIGHTS
* Cash can reduce HIVs and STIs in Africa
* MDG Factsheet series-linkages with SRHR
* Press Release of Senator Lautenberg - Global Gag rule overturned
* XVIII International Aids Conference 2010
* Humanity-Equality-Destiny? - Implicating Tourism in the Commonwealth Games 2010 [PDF 2.37]
* Oceania Sustainable Tourism Alliance
* Comprehensive Agreement Ends Long, Bitter Conflict at Coca- Cola Pakistan
* Free Trade in Natural Resources Bad for Development
* Hold PACER-Plus talks, pursue development priorities, Leaders urged
* Intellectual Property Rights Remain a Barrier to Drugs
B. NEW JOB OPPORTUNITIES
1. AID
The US approach to food aid is increasingly inefficient and outdated. But a new USAID pilot program of local and regional purchases of food...
Critical Investigations into Humanitarianism in Africa
A blog debating various issues around humanitarian issues in Africa.
Is aid without climate adaptation a waste of time?
An article looking at the extent to which aid agencies are considering climate change in their operations. (The Ecologist, 29 January 2010)...
2. CLIMATE CHANGE
Africa looks to vast forests for carbon credit
Many African states are looking to capitalise on credits available via the REDD programme to halt deforestation. REDD is a key mitigation s...
Beyond the tipping point [film]
Beyond the Tipping Point?' is a documentary film about climate, action and the future. It is a free resource for groups to provoke discussi...
Forbidden forest of the Indonesian Dayak people
For many indigenous communities, there are powerful economic incentives to sacrifice trees for timber and large-scale agricultural crops. A...
Greenpeace forms partnerships with other non-government organisations. In the Pacific it helps local communities (the customary owners of 9...
International Conference on Renewable Energy and Climate Change
6-8 December 2010, Suva, Fiji. Pacific countries face many challenges that are common to them all. Most important amongst these are energy ...
Local solutions on a sinking paradise, Carterets Islands, Papua New Guinea [video]
Following king tides and violent storm surges in 2008, a local youth leader and community representative explains that his family have been...
State of the Climate 2009 [PDF, 2.59 KB]
This annual collection documents the weather and climate events in 2009 from around the world and put them into accurate historical perspec...
Just north east of Bougainville, in Papua New Guinea is the small island of Takuu. The association exists for several noble reasons, and on...
The Governance of Clean Development
This research programme focuses on the governance of clean development, principally in the area of energy, and aims to generate insights in...
There Once Was An Island: Te Henua E Nnoho [NZ film]
Three people in a unique Pacific Island community face the first devastating effects of climate change, including a terrifying flood. Will ...
Time now for taking Adaptation Seriously
Among development experts there is a widely held view that adaptation to climate change must be planned bottom up and many examples show ho...
3. DEVELOPMENT PRACTICE
Next generation network evaluation (PDF 1.9MB)
This paper reviews the current field of network monitoring and evaluation. Focusing on networks in the development sector it suggests the e...
The Giving Pledge and the opportunity of a generation
In this Social Entrepreneurship Blog, the founder of iContact founder Ryan Allis analyses The Giving Pledge. Allis suggests where the 40+ b...
The spending cuts frenzy and the danger of a double-dip recession
In the May 2010 issue of Third World Resurgence, Martin Khor asks if austerity will lead to a new recession, Bhumika Muchhala writes about ...
4. EVENTS, CONFERENCES AND TRAINING
3 exciting training courses with MDF on Bali
September - November, 2010 Competency-Based Learning course (CBL), 20 - 24 September 2010, 27 September - 01 October 2010 (Bahasa Indonesia...
Development Education in Australia: Transformation or Trojan Horse?
Special Forum for Development Educators.Friday 3rd September 4.30pm - 7.30 pm, Melbourne. What type of education is appropriate for people-...
5. FOOD
Hunger, Poverty and Free Trade: Preventing the Next Food Crisis Before It Starts [PDF 539KB]
Free trade policies have undermined agricultural safeguards in developing nations. As the developed world benefits from increased trade, th...
The links between poverty and the environment in Malawi [PDF 322KB]
Deforestation arising from conversion of forest areas into agriculture is a serious problem in Malawi. This paper discusses competition for...
Women, food security and agriculture in global marketplace [PDF 1.15MB]
The steep increase in global food prices has added nearly 100 million people to the numbers who are chronically hungry, pushing the world t...
6. GOVERNANCE
Despite women's central importance to reconstruction, they are regularly marginalised by the donor assistance processes as women and other ...
Governance and Institutional Development
The Commonwealth Secretariat's Governance and Institutional Development Division works to provide technical assistance for capacity-buildin...
Why the MDG action plan needs an anti-corruption agenda
Transparency International is lobbying hard for specific anti-corruption proposals to be incorporated into a global MDG action plan. Corrup...
7. POVERTY
Celebrate, innovate and sustain: towards 2015 and beyond (PDF 216KB)
Published in July 2010 this is the United States' Strategy for Meeting the Millennium Development Goals. The Strategy lists four imperative...
Financing an Inclusive and Green Future considers the challenges the region faces for achieving the MDGs and shows that they are still with...
Official website of the Plenary Meeting of the United Nations General Assembly on accelerating the progress of the Millennium Development G...
Impacts of social transfer programs
This site provides access to a series of knowledge resources on the impacts of social transfer programs: a Compendium on the effects of non...
The Impact of the Global Financial Crisis on the Budgets of Low-Income Countries [PDf 651KB]
This report examines the impact of the global financial crisis on the budgets of low-income countries, especially their spending to reach t...
8. SEXUAL AND REPRODUCTIVE HEALTH AND RIGHTS
Cash can reduce HIVs and STIs in Africa
On the eve of a global AIDS summit in Vienna, the World Bank today released two new studies that show how young women and men in Malawi and...
MDG Factsheet series-linkages with SRHR
A series of factsheets on: linking the MDGs and young women's health; linking the MDGs, Young People and HIV: and, linking the MDGs and com...
Press Release of Senator Lautenberg - Global Gag rule overturned
The Senate Appropriations Committee today passed an amendment authored by Sen. Frank R. Lautenberg (D-NJ) to the FY 2011 State and Foreign ...
A declaration that was the official statement from the XVIII International Aids Conference 2010 calling for drug policy based on science no...
XVIII International Aids Conference 2010
Official website for the XVIII International Aids Conference 2010, which took place in Vienna, Austria from 18-23 July 2010.
9. TOURISM
Humanity-Equality-Destiny? - Implicating Tourism in the Commonwealth Games 2010 [PDF 2.37]
Mega events have little to do with bolstering tourism, and in fact can have a negative impact. The report investigates the links between me...
Oceania Sustainable Tourism Alliance
The Oceanic Global Sustainable Tourism Alliance (OSTA) is an opportunity for sustainable community-benefit tourism in the Pacific Islands m...
Sustainable Tourism Online is a comprehensive online information resource delivering substantial research, data and tools within three main...
10. TRADE
Comprehensive Agreement Ends Long, Bitter Conflict at Coca-Cola Pakistan
A negotiated agreement has successfully resolved a long and bitter conflict over employment and trade union rights at Coca-Cola Beverages P...
Free Trade in Natural Resources Bad for Development
Natural resource dependence puts states at risk of the "Dutch disease". The belief that restrictions on natural resource exports should be ...
Hold PACER-Plus talks, pursue development priorities, Leaders urged
Civil society groups from the Pacific including churches, trade unions, gender groups, indigenous rights groups and advocacy groups have ca...
Intellectual Property Rights Remain a Barrier to Drugs
Intellectual property (IP) rights are a key reason for high medicine prices, rendering such medicines unaffordable and out of reach for poo...
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