Full Coverage: Capacity building

30.09.2004 Sangath, an NGO working for the welfare of children, is organising an in-depth 12-day workshop from 25th October to 6th November for teachers and parents on understanding learning disabilities and intervention skills.

30.09.2004 Fifty-five countries will participate in the ninth yearly session of EuropeÂ’s largest human rights and democratization conference from October 4 to 15. Sponsored by the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE), the conference is a unique forum for open discussion and dialogue on topical human rights issues among governments and civil society representatives.

28.09.2004 The Azim Premji Foundation, an Indian NGO, has come forward to help the west Indian state of Gujarat improve its quality of school education by providing free-of-cost, specially designed pictorial software.

28.09.2004

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Interested artists can enter their work for the Harambee international prize on or before September 30. The work should be an artistic endeavor that educates and promotes humanitarian effort in sub-Saharan Africa.

27.09.2004 The MDG on gender equality can be achieved by mainstreaming a gender perspective and promoting women's empowerment. This article reports how one organisation is addressing the gender challenge in Rajasthan where women's status suffers in a patriarchal society.

27.09.2004 The MDG on gender equality can be achieved by mainstreaming a gender perspective and promoting women's empowerment.
Deboshri Chatterjee from CUTS Centre for Consumer Action, Research & Training tells us more about how her organisation is doing it in Rajasthan, IndiaÂ….

23.09.2004 With an idea to create job opportunities for educated rural youth, ruralnaukri.com has recently launched a programme with the acronym - REAP (Rural Employment Action Programme).

23.09.2004

Books not bombs © Global Exchange / Global Exchange

For many grassroots and community health workers, the cost of a book is often out of reach. The Hesperian Foundation, publishers of community health and empowerment books, established the Gratis Book Program to help provide books for struggling but committed caregivers around the world.

22.09.2004 Member countries have endorsed the Commonwealth Telecommunications OrganisationÂ’s new initiatives in using ICTs to bridge the digital divide. At the second annual CTO Forum held on 20-21 September 2004 in Colombo, delegates said that the organisation was constantly expanding its role to match the changes happening in the ICT sector.

21.09.2004 Bangladesh-based non governmental organisation, BRAC is offering professional educational and training opportunities for the leaders, managers and staff of NGOs and other civil society organizations around the world.

21.09.2004

The shadow of business © Panos Pictures / ActionAid UK

As part of its 60th anniversary activities, Heifer International will host a symposium on October 21. Titled “The Small Farmer in a Global Economy,” the symposium will draw speakers and panelists from different parts of the world.

20.09.2004 “When I was a boy, my father set up and ran the city’s only cinema,” says Abdel-Qayum Omari, a businessman from Ghazni, Afghanistan. Omari’s contribution to his country goes a step further. For it is his money that has gone into the birth of Afghanistan’s first privately funded independent radio station. Radio Ghaznawiyan broadcasts 16 hours a day and reaches 250,000 Afghans.

20.09.2004 Senior citizens set up a virtual co-operative, MitraMandal, to open up more oppourtunities for the underprivileged sections of the society in the Indian Capital-New Delhi.
Krishna V. Sane from SITA (Studies in Information Technology Applications) tells us moreÂ…

20.09.2004

Mujer marroquí / Moroccan woman © International Planned Parenthood Federation

In collaboration with 31 local womenÂ’s groups, the U.S.-based organization Global Rights has produced a 420-page human rights awareness manual in Arabic for Moroccan women.

17.09.2004 Researchers who are currently taking part in programs supported by the Global Development Network (GDN) may participate in the fifth International Monetary Fund/GDN Visiting Scholars Program, to be held in Washington, D.C. from this December to April, 2005. The application deadline is October 31.

16.09.2004 Local people interested in learning computers are turning up at the new community multimedia centre in a neighbourhood in Benin. The UNESCO-supported telecentre does not have its own community radio station yet but has linked up with a nearby FM station for an hourÂ’s broadcasting every day.

16.09.2004

Albanian Human Rights Group

The non-profit organization Virtual Activism and its Center For Knowledge Society have organized a series of training workshops in Cairo, Egypt for non-governmental organizations working on human rights and development issues.

16.09.2004

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Teachers Without Borders, a U.S.-based organization, needs mentor-teachers to guide students from different parts of the world through the Certificate of Teaching Mastery program.

15.09.2004 The draft ICT Empowerment Charter of South Africa is now empowered with inputs from the civil society organisations as they brought out their recommendations on the Charter. The crucial role of the development sector in bridging the digital divide has been raised in this submission.

15.09.2004 The draft ICT Empowerment Charter of South Africa is now empowered with inputs from the civil society organisations as they brought out their recommendations on the Charter. The crucial role of the development sector in bridging the digital divide has been raised in this submission.