http://uk.oneworld.net/article/country/496/ en_GB_uk Mongolia http://us.oneworld.net/link/gotolink/addhit/83519 Pictures from Ulaanbaatar, the Mongolian capital, and rural communities suggest "reality is less idyllic" than the vast steppe and nomadic way of life popularly associated with the least populated country in the world. http://us.oneworld.net/link/gotolink/addhit/77814 A new microcredit fund is helping Mongolian sellers of honey, carpets, herbs, spices, and embroidery. http://www.digitalopportunity.org/article/view/134496/1/ The World Bank’s Board (International Development Association) has approved an investment grant of US$ 8 million for the Information and Communications Infrastructure Development Project (ICIDP). http://us.oneworld.net/link/gotolink/addhit/72053 For Mercy Corps, the core principles of civil society are participation, accountability, and peaceful change. http://www.digitalopportunity.org/article/view/127330/1/ Each village or soum in Mongolian is usually surrounded by baghs. A bagh is a remote ‘homestead’ usually defined by its portable Ger (traditional felt and wood home). Some soum and bagh communities are semi-nomadic and require a portable telecom solution. http://us.oneworld.net/link/gotolink/addhit/69071 Public TV and radio have existed for years in Mongolia, but new changes are bringing hope that national broadcasting could become truly public service media for the first time; good news for Mongolia's dispersed population, though concerns remain about how to finance and manage the service. http://us.oneworld.net/link/gotolink/addhit/68109 The Totem Peoples Preservation Project is dedicated to supporting the sustainability of indigenous nomadic cultures, their livestock, and their ecological habitats in Eastern Siberia and Mongolia. With Cultural Survival's support, nomadic Dukha reindeer herders brought their concerns to Mongolian government officials for the first time in 2003. http://us.oneworld.net/link/gotolink/addhit/62622 Some 10,000 Mongolian children who spend their days herding animals will soon be learning general literacy, animal husbandry, and business skills through videos, radio programs, and inserts in a monthly rural magazine. http://www.digitalopportunity.org/link/gotolink/addhit/61229 Mongolia’s National Radio and Television Service struggles as it emerges out of 70 years of government control to become an independent public service broadcasting set-up. The network is being helped in the transition by Unesco and the Asia-Pacific Institute for Broadcasting Development. http://www.digitalopportunity.org/link/gotolink/addhit/60391 Mongolia’s progress in the development of an information society, as envisaged in the Target 16 of the Millennium Development Goals, has been remarkable. Despite the progress, the country needs to go far ahead in creating an enabling environment for acheiving the MDGs, points out the report. http://us.oneworld.net/link/gotolink/addhit/57190 Life in Mongolia’s Gobi Desert, where temperatures range from 40 degrees Celsius (about 102 degrees Fahrenheit) in the summer to –40 degrees Celsius in the winter, is impossible without the sturdy Bactrian camel. But as more herdsmen in search of sustainable livelihoods move to urban areas , the number of camels has dwindled drastically in the past fifty years. But now the Gobi Regional Economic Growth Initiative, a program run by U.S.-based development agencies, is helping diversify and stre http://www.digitalopportunity.org/link/gotolink/addhit/56874 The Asian Development Bank will be supporting an ICT project in Mongolia to bring information resources within the reach of rural schools. The ICT for Innovating Rural Education project, which is also being backed by the Japan Fund for Information and Communication Technology, aims to boost creativity in classrooms, build an efficient school management system and create non-formal learning opportunities. About 10,000 students in 36 schools are going to benefit from the initiative. http://us.oneworld.net/link/gotolink/addhit/45625 Agricultural policies and water privatization are destroying the livelihoods of small farmers around the world, environmentalists told 20 heads of state and over 100 ministers at a UN meeting on desertification Monday. The situation has become dire in East Asia, as the desert encroaches on Beijing and affects farmlands as far away as Korea and Japan. http://www.learningchannel.org/link/gotolink/addhit/44843 Though a developing country, the literacy rate in Mongolia is equal to that of the developed world's. But the government is making a significant transition from the communist pattern of education to one which is modern. But change is not always easy. http://www.learningchannel.org/link/gotolink/addhit/40561 Mongolia posts an unprecedented success story as more girls go to school as compared to boys. The reason is that boys dropout of school to herd animals. Right now, nearly 80 per cent of all the country's college graduates are women.