Full Coverage: Development

30.04.2004 Our partner organizations, Local Democracy Agencies (LDA) from Pec/Peja, Prijedor, Sarajevo and Kraljevo presented their activites at the Civitas Fair that is being held in Padua between 29th of April and 2nd of May in Padua, Italy.
As Association of Local Democracy Agencies gives a great example of regional cooperation and decentralized cooperation, supporting democratic processes and capacity building in the South East Europe region we talked with the Director of the Association of LDA, Mrs. Antonella Valmorbida.

30.04.2004 En avril 1994, l'ensemble de la communauté internationale avait les yeux rivés sur les premières élections multiraciales de l'histoire de l'Afrique du Sud. Deux défis attendaient Nelson Mandela et son nouveau gouvernement : en plus d'avoir à garantir une réconciliation nationale essentielle, il devait rapidement s'attaquer à restructurer un système économique où la richesse des Blancs n'avait été « gagnée » que par l'exclusion et l'exploitation directe des travailleurs africains, métis et asiatiques. Dix ans plus tard, les inégalités s'aggravent.

30.04.2004 The first Trans-European Forum started in Novi Sad, Vojvodina, yesterday, with events organized by kuda.org and the Citizens Pact for the SEE.

30.04.2004 Afghan minister of planning, Ramazan Bashardoost, created a storm in the Afghan reconstruction efforts when he said NGOs are ineffective and are squandering aid money.

27.04.2004 Sixty years after their founding, the World Bank and IMF remain the dominant institutions in development but face determined opposition to their role in shaping globalisation. Have the Bank and Fund changed their attitudes to liberalisation, privatisation and fiscal austerity?

27.04.2004 Increasing attacks by Maoist rebels in remote regions of Nepal have destroyed scores of health posts, leaving them powerless and deserted, with hapless villagers forced to fend for themselves.

22.04.2004 La Plate Forme Nationale de Sécurité Alimentaire (PFNSA) lance un appel à une aide massive à la reconstruction d'Haïti, à la veille de la rencontre prévue ce 22 avril à Port-au-Prince entre le gouvernement transitoire haïtien et les bailleurs de fonds internationaux.

22.04.2004 Dinamismo e cooperação. Unindo forças e tendo estes dois valores como lema, ex-alunos de uma EIC do CDI criaram junto com profissionais do centro comunitário uma cooperativa que oferece serviços de informática e manutenção de redes. A Dinamicoop já está proporcionando uma série de novas possibilidades de trabalho aos integrantes do CEACA, - Centro Comunitário Lídia dos Santos, no Rio de Janeiro, com perspectivas de expansão de suas atividades.

21.04.2004 Imagine um país cujo governo se diz "revolucionário" e cuja oposição de direita o acusa de "comunista". Um país que está reforçando os vínculos com Cuba. Agora imagine que esse mesmo país mantém uma das piores distribuições de renda do mundo, continua fielmente pagando os serviços da dívida externa e mantendo e ampliando contratos de longo prazo com as multinacionais. Esse país é a Venezuela.

19.04.2004 By the year 2007, for the first time in history, humanity will be primarily an urban species: homo sapiens urbanis. Unless cities drastically shrink their ecological footprints, the planet may not be able to carry the weight of this urban sprawl. But new inspiration for the task ahead is taking root in unlikely places - in this case, in the brown dirt of a South African slum called Ivory Park.

16.04.2004 Executive Board of the World Bank has approved a grant of 15 million USD for Kosovo, that will support the efforts for strengthening of the economic politics, improvement of the business environment, encouragement of the economic growth, new employments and restructuring of the mines and energy.

16.04.2004 Central Indian state Madhya Pradesh's much-hyped Gyandoot e-governance initiative seems to be suffering due to improper implementation and poor infrastructure.

16.04.2004 An international rights group has alleged that a meeting organized by the Indian government violates a judicial order for protecting a threatened indigenous community in the southeastern Andaman islands.

15.04.2004 Did the groundbreaking Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC), whose work followed the 1994 election, successfully heal the wounds of earlier decades in South Africa? Helena Cobban analyses South Africa's progress over the last ten years.

15.04.2004 Victoria Brittain a research associate at the London School of Economics reflects on the progress made by Rwanda to reconcile and reintegrate all Rwandans into one society.

14.04.2004 The World Bank is celebrating its 60th anniversary. Meanwhile, social movements worldwide are organizing demonstrations against the impact of the policies and ideology of this institution.

13.04.2004 JOHANNESBURG, Mar 4 (IPS) -- Ten years after the demise of apartheid, South African blacks are still waiting for a slice of the economic pie they were denied in the past.

13.04.2004 VSO India have been asked to advise a World Bank study on disability in India. The study aims to highlight the link between disability and poverty so that the World Bank can move from an inclusive disability policy recommendation into policy and practice.

11.04.2004 "Ten years later, the children of Rwanda are still suffering the consequences of a conflict caused entirely by adults,” UNICEF Executive Director Carol Bellamy

10.04.2004 In April 1994 about a million people were killed in a horrific genocide in Rwanda as the world stood by. Ten years on, CAFOD looks at the ongoing traumatic impact this has on people's lives and the courageous efforts by its people to build a more hopeful future.