tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11658679760514122302024-02-08T03:19:10.158+01:00Nektarina Non Profitworking together towards a sustainable worldNektarina Non Profithttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07568581819809348122noreply@blogger.comBlogger223125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1165867976051412230.post-73226601342123508902014-09-16T18:58:00.000+02:002014-09-16T19:01:31.091+02:00World Bank Group Youth Summit 2014: The Need for Open & Responsive Governments<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.182em;">The <b>World Bank Group Youth Summit 2014</b> will be held under the theme ''The Need for Open & Responsive Governments'' on </span><span style="background-color: white;">October 7, 2014 at the </span><span style="background-color: white;">World Bank Group Headquarters in Washington DC, USA.</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.385em;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The World Bank Group is hosting its second annual Youth Summit, in partnership with the Office of the United Nations Secretary-General's Envoy on Youth. This year's event will focus on increased youth engagement in issues relating to government transparency, accountability, and collaborative governance.</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">The <b>World Bank Group Youth Summit 2014</b></span> is open to everyone who are interested in this year's theme of Open & Responsive Governments. However, due to space limitations and in the interest of maximizing the impact of the event, we encourage everyone to submit their information and motivation for attending the event in the application form below. Selected participants will be notified as soon as decisions are made by the Youth Summit Organizing Committee (YSOC).</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Increased government openness is crucial to earning back the trust of young people. Perceptions of corruption, inefficiencies, and bad management have resulted in a lack of trust in governments. With increasing inequality, unemployment, and lack of sustainable solutions, this perception is especially true amongst youth who feel their voices are often overlooked, disregarded or shut out of government decision-making processes. As those who have the most to lose by inheriting corrupt systems and non-open governments, young people have the incentive to create and seize the necessary tools to become actively engaged in government decision-making, which could result in greater transparency, accountability and better opportunities in their future. Around the world youth are standing up against corruption, demanding open governments, honest decision-making and active engagement.</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">With this in mind, the Youth Summit 2014 aims to convene young civil society and NGO leaders, students, government officials, technical experts and practitioners to focus on how we, the youth, can help governments become more open and responsive. The sub-themes of the Summit will focus specifically on transparency, accountability and collaboration, measures understood to end corruption and promote open and responsive governments.</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">To achieve this goal, the one-day Summit will be composed of high-level plenary discussions and targeted workshops. The Summit is envisioned to be engaging and innovative in leveraging the experience and expertise of participants, speakers, and workshop facilitators in an interactive setting. For this reason, this year’s Summit will crowdsource workshop session proposals whereby organizations from around the world working on governance, anti-corruption, and other related fields are welcome to submit a proposal.</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Established in 2013, the Youth Summit serves as a platform for conversation and action to make the World Bank Group more relevant to the global youth and to better involve young people in the work of the World Bank Group. The Youth Summit Organizing Committee is comprised of young World Bank Group employees and is supported by World Bank Group senior management.</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The first Youth Summit was held in October 2013 and emphasized youth entrepreneurship, revitalizing a new chapter of World Bank Group involvement and engagement with a dynamic generation of young entrepreneurs, activists, development professionals, and others interested in global youth-related issues. It convened over seven hundred people and provided an opportunity for youth around the world to submit solutions to challenges faced by international organizations. Building on the accomplishments from last fall and responding to the overwhelmingly positive feedback received after the event, it was decided the Youth Summit would be hosted on an annual basis.</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Please note that due to the grassroots nature of this initiative, we are unable, at this time, to provide financial support towards travel and accommodation. However, there will be alternate ways to take part in the event virtually. Information on how to participate virtually will be updated shortly.</span></span><br />
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Nektarina Non Profithttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07568581819809348122noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1165867976051412230.post-56749386982073267172014-09-16T18:46:00.004+02:002014-09-16T18:46:50.527+02:00World Ocean Summit 2015 theme is ''Blue economy; blue growth'' and will be held in Lisbon, Portugal on June 2015<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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The ‘blue economy’ is nascent and not yet clearly defined, but it offers a vision of the ocean and coasts as a new source of economic growth, job creation and investment. Viewed narrowly, this could simply mean the beginning of a new and intensified phase of conventional economic activity. Yet a more expansive interpretation sees a blue economy in which economic opportunity is balanced by responsible investment in a sustainable ocean economy— a ‘win-win’ scenario where the private sector, acting through enlightened self-interest, is a catalyst for both economic development and environmental protection. In this vision, the blue economy is in itself a source of opportunity, investment and growth.</div>
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The Economist Events' third World Ocean Summit, chaired by John Micklethwait, Editor-in-Chief, <em style="box-sizing: border-box;">The Economist</em>, ambitiously aims to set a new global agenda for the ocean economy. The World Ocean Summit will convene more than 250 global leaders from various sectors with direct interests in the oceans and igniting a constructive dialogue on solution. Ahead of the summit, <em style="box-sizing: border-box;">John Micklethwait, Editor-in-Chief, The Economist</em><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">,</span><em style="box-sizing: border-box;"> </em><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">said </span><strong style="box-sizing: border-box;">''Ocean issues affect billions of people, in ways that bring together business, politics, academia and science.”</strong></div>
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Nektarina Non Profithttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07568581819809348122noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1165867976051412230.post-35758070313806464622014-09-11T21:53:00.001+02:002014-09-11T21:56:04.845+02:00Call for applications: Scientific research paper writing training workshop 10-14 November 2014, Kenya<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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10th-14th November 2014, ILRI Campus, Nairobi, Kenya<br /><br />Call for applications</h4>
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The BecA-ILRI Hub hereby invites applications for a workshop on scientific research paper writing to be held from 10th to 14th November 2014. The workshop is one of BecA-ILRI Hub’s annual training workshops under the capacity building portfolio, whose objective is to strengthen the capacity of African NARS to effectively, efficiently and sustainably deliver on their national mandates. The training will be conducted at the ILRI Campus, Nairobi, Kenya.</div>
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The workshop is generally open to PhD students and early career agricultural researchers with a strong interest in improving their writing skills. More specific applicant requirements include the following:<br />
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• African scientist with PhD or MSc in any agricultural discipline<br />
• Fluent in English (written and spoken)<br />
• Currently conducting agricultural biosciences research with an African national agricultural research program or university in one of the BecA countries: Burundi, Cameroon, Central Africa Republic, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Equatorial Guinea, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Gabon, Kenya, Madagascar, Republic of the Congo, Rwanda, São Tomé and Príncipe, Somalia, South Sudan, Sudan, Tanzania, Uganda.<br />
• A project report for conversion to a paper, and/or the figures and tables and any other illustrative material that have been generated from data analysis<br />
• Women candidates are particularly encouraged to apply<br />
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Interested eligible scientists / researchers should apply by completing the online application form;<a href="http://hpc.ilri.cgiar.org/beca/training/Writeshop2014/index.html" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; color: #4d81ba; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: top;">http://hpc.ilri.cgiar.org/beca/training/Writeshop2014/index.html</a></div>
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In addition, the applicant must attach a supporting letter from his/her supervisor or Head of Institution.<br />
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• Call for applications release: 11th September 2014<br />
• Application deadline: 5th October 2014<br />
• Information to successful applicants: 10th October 2014<br />
• Information to unsuccessful applicants: 11th October 2014<br />
• Training dates: 10th – 14th November 2014<br />
Applications submitted after the 5th October 2014 deadline and incomplete applications will not be considered.</div>
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There are several fully funded places for this workshop. However, applicants who can fund their participation have an added advantage. The cost of the workshop is $1500, excluding flights and accommodation<br />
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Inquiries about the workshop and / or the BecA-ILRI Hub Capacity Building Program should be directed to Dr. Wellington Ekaya, Senior Scientist Capacity Building ( This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. ) or Ms. Valerian Aloo, Capacity Building Program Officer ( This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. ).<br />
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<span class="meta_origin" style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: bold; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">UNITED NATIONS, Aug 29 2014 (IPS) </span>- Civil society leaders and U.N. development experts gathered on Wednesday to discuss the role of education for global citizenship in the post-2015 development agenda.<span id="more-136416" style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"></span></div>
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The workshop, sponsored by Soka Gakkai International (SGI), was part of the U.N.’s 65th Annual Department of Public Information/Non-Governmental Organization (DPI/NGO) Conference.</div>
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“We are part of a bigger humanity.” -- Ambassador Anwarul Chowdhury<br /><span style="font-size: xx-small;"></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Education “is linked to all areas of sustainable development and is vital in achieving all Sustainable Development Goals and targets,” Hiro Sakurai, SGI’s U.N. liaison office director, told IPS.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">“Education for global citizenship deserves particular attention and emphasis in this regard as it helps link issues and disciplines, brings together all stakeholders, and fosters shared vision and objectives,” he said.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Ambassador Anwarul Chowdhury, former under-secretary general and high representative of the U.N., gave the event’s keynote address. He expressed his excitement at the increased prominence of global citizenship in development circles.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">According to Ambassador Chowdhury, global citizenship requires “self-transformation” and can be a “pathway to a culture of peace.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Progress requires a “determination to treat each one of us as a global citizen,” he said. “We are part of a bigger humanity.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Saphira Ramesfar of the Baha’i International Community also spoke to the transformative nature of global citizenship.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">“It is not enough for education to provide individuals who can read, write and count,” she said. “Education must be transformative and bring shared values to life, cultivating an active care for the world itself and for those with whom we share it. Education needs to fully assume its role in building just, unified and inclusive societies.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">In the past, attempts to build global citizenship have focused on the young, but Ambassador Chowdhury argued for a more expansive understanding of the concept.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">“I believe that education for global citizenship is for all of us, irrespective of our age, irrespective of whether we are going through a formal education process or not,” Chowdhury said.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Anjali Rangaswami of the U.N. Department of Economic and Social Affairs explained how NGOs have actively participated in the crafting of the proposed Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Past years have set “a very high standard for civil society engagement,” according to Rangaswami.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), set to expire in 2015, included a target of universal primary education. The SDGs, if adopted in their current draft form, would aim for universal secondary education as well.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Under target four, the SDGs specifically mention education for global citizenship, an issue left unaddressed by the MDGs.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The U.N’s Global Education First Initiative (GEFI), which lists “fostering global citizenship” as one of its three main priorities, was influential in this new development.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">According to Min Jeong Kim, head of GEFI’s secretariat team, the initiative was launched by the secretary-general in 2012 because “at that point education had sort of stagnated after rapid growth following adoption of [the] MDGs.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">After the panel speakers concluded, participants in the workshop broke into small groups to share their own perspectives on education for global citizenship.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">The event was also co-sponsored by the Baha’i International Community, Global Movement </span><span style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">for a Culture of Peace, Human Rights Education Associates, Sustainable </span><span style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Development Education Caucus and Values Caucus, bringing a wide variety of expertise to the table.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The SDGs are an opportunity for a whole new outlook on education.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Education should be focused on developing meaningful lives, rather than focused on making a living, Ambassador Chowdhury told IPS.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">So far the paradigm has been “if you get a good job, then your education is worth it, and if you do not get a good job, then your education is worthless,” he said. “That has to change.”</span></div>
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<em><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Edited by Kitty Stapp</span></em></div>
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<em><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The writer can be contacted at joelmjaeger@gmail.com</span></em></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The United Nations Food and Agriculture Organisation has just released a new publication in partnership with the CTA and support from SIDA, entitled ''Youth and Agriculture: Key Challenges and Concrete Solutions''.</span></div>
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The global population is expected to increase to 9 billion by 2050, of which, 14% are youth aged between 15 – 24 years. While the world’s youth population is will grow significantly, employment and entrepreneurial opportunities for youth, especially those living in developing countries’ economically stagnant rural areas – remain limited, poorly remunerated and of poor quality. Few young people see a future for themselves in agriculture or rural areas. Some of the major challenges faced are: limited access to land; inadequate access to financial services; insufficient access to knowledge; information and education; difficulties in accessing green jobs; limited access to markets; and limited involvement in policy dialogue.</div>
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The Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), the Technical Center for Agricultural and Rural Cooperation (CTA) and the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) have joined forces to conduct research and produce a publication which provides real life examples from developing and more advanced economies. </div>
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Each of six key challenges indicated above have been documented, and for each of them, seven to nine cases studies illustrate how they can be addressed. Analyses of the experiences, their implementation frameworks and indications on some of their results have been provided. Additional experiences have been indicated in the conclusions of each chapter. A number of the case studies carry innovations that have strong potentials to strengthen the engagement of youths and family farmers in agricultural value chains, enhance global food security and youth livelihoods. </div>
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Many of the initiatives reported originate with the young people themselves. They show that – when there is a supportive environment – youth are able to find innovative ways to create a future for themselves, and also contribute to the societies and communities in which they live. </div>
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The document builds on results of the project “Facilitating Access to Rural Youth to Agricultural Activities” undertaken by FAO/IFAD/MIJARC, as well as on CTA youth activities. CTA, FAO and IFAD hope that this publication will help development practitioners, youth leaders, youth associations, producers’ organisations and policy makers alike by providing insights into possible solutions that can be tailored to their own context. </div>
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Nektarina Non Profithttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07568581819809348122noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1165867976051412230.post-28386030179605192022014-08-27T22:53:00.000+02:002014-08-27T22:53:03.723+02:00Open Call for Participants : Participation in IFOAM Organic World Congress 2014<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Interested applicants are requested to complete the Application Form and send it to the e-mail address of TACSO office in their country by 3 September 2014.</h2>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The IFOAM Organic World Congress will bring together CSOs, practitioners, business people and academics from around the world in Istanbul, 13-15 October 2014. The varied levels of the conference will include developing values and principles for concerted action, developing future action points for organic agriculture, sharing of experiences, building of solutions and exploring future collaboration. Please see <a href="http://www.owc2014.org/" style="text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">www.owc2014.org </a>for more details.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">- Social and environmental challenges;</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">- Working on issues related to organic agriculture/animal husbandry, sustainable development/community supported agriculture, rural development, local food production, participatory guarantee systems, food security and related topics;</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">- Based in the IPA countries.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Participants are expected to have experience in the field and act as resource people throughout the conference by sharing and discussing good practices and lessons learned.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Active members of networks of associations working with organic agriculture, farmers associations and unions are encouraged to apply.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Interested applicants are requested to complete the Application Form and send it to the e-mail address of the TACSO office in their country (see list below) by 3rd September 2014 with the subject heading: People to People: IFOAM Organic World Congress. The selection process should be completed by 10 September 2014. Five participants will be selected per country. Please note that only selected applicants will be contacted.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">For selected participants, TACSO will cover travel costs (including costs of visas, if applicable), accommodation, meals and refreshments, cost of participation in the conference. Further information can be obtained from the TACSO web site (<a href="http://www.tacso.org/" style="text-decoration: none;">www.tacso.org</a>). If you have any additional questions please contact<a href="mailto:natalija.gojkovic@tacso.org" style="text-decoration: none;">natalija.gojkovic@tacso.org</a>.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">Interested Governmental authorities, UN agencies, academic institutions, non-governmental organizations and private sector partners are encouraged to send nominations by filling an online nomination form at: </span><a href="https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/accessible-Tourism" rel="nofollow" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #196ad4; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue; font-size: small;">https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/accessible-Tourism</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;"> along with relevant supporting materials to </span><span style="color: blue; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><a href="mailto:ngo@un.org" rel="nofollow" style="background: transparent; color: #196ad4; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;" target="_blank" ymailto="mailto:ngo@un.org">ngo@un.org</a></span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;"> by </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><b>August 30, 2014</b></span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">. Due to the high volume of nominations, please be as concise as possible. More detailed information may be requested by DSPD after the first-round contact.</span><br />
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Nektarina Non Profithttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07568581819809348122noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1165867976051412230.post-88293515443689365432014-08-19T11:18:00.000+02:002014-08-19T11:19:30.018+02:002015 Conference ''Education for Sustainability in Higher Education - Achievements and Prospects''<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><i><span style="background-color: white; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;">8th January 2015, Plymouth University, h</span>osted by PedRIO and the Centre for Sustainable Futures</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">January is named after Janus, the Roman god of gateways, endings and beginnings, so this is a timely opportunity to look back at what has been achieved in sustainability education and to explore and consider its future prospects and potential in higher education. This coming January also sees the end of the UN Decade of Education for Sustainable Development (ESD) and the ten-year anniversary of HEFCE’s influential policy document </span><em style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;">Sustainable Development in Higher Education</em><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">, and marks ten years since the Centre for Sustainable Futures (CSF) was established here at Plymouth University, with the ambitious goal to embed sustainability across university policy and practice, particularly in teaching and learning. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This conference will bring together, showcase, and celebrate achievements in sustainability-related teaching and learning, Continuing Professional Development (CPD), pedagogic research, resource development, hybrid learning space design, and whole institutional change. We welcome abstracts for research papers and posters (500 words maximum) on the themes shown below. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">While we particularly welcome submissions that address the indicative questions included here, we also invite broader abstracts that align with these overarching themes of the conference. <strong style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;">ESD Pedagogy: Criticality, Creativity and Collaboration: </strong>What are the teaching and learning processes that enable students to (i) develop their own capacity to think critically and creatively in the face of global sustainability challenges and (ii) act collaboratively in ways that pursue more hopeful and sustainable futures?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;">Innovative Learning Spaces for sustainability education: </strong>What are the physical and social environments that provide opportunities for new forms of sustainability education to flourish? What lies beyond the lecture hall that is conducive to student learning through inquiry-based, active, participatory, interdisciplinary, and experiential methods?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;">Towards the Sustainable University: </strong>What are effective approaches for leading institutional change, organisational learning, and staff CPD towards sustainability? To submit an online abstract please <a href="https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/ESDConference2015" style="font-weight: bold; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; padding-bottom: 1px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">click here</a> (deadline: 12th September 2014). </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;">Please note that while attending the conference is <strong style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;">free</strong> (lunch and refreshments will be provided), delegates will be responsible for paying for their own travel and accommodation.</span><span style="background-color: white;"> </span><span style="background-color: white;">If you have further queries or would like any additional information, please email Adam Fisher (<a href="mailto:adam.fisher@plymouth.ac.uk" style="font-weight: bold; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; padding-bottom: 1px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">adam.fisher@plymouth.ac.uk</a>) or Dr Lynne Wyness (<a href="mailto:lynne.wyness@plymouth.ac.uk" style="font-weight: bold; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; padding-bottom: 1px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">lynne.wyness@plymouth.ac.uk</a>).</span><span style="background-color: white;"> </span></div>
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Nektarina Non Profithttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07568581819809348122noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1165867976051412230.post-26521488843948345402014-08-07T11:18:00.000+02:002014-08-07T11:18:42.278+02:00Women to watch ahead of the 2015 United Nations Climate Change Conference in Paris, France<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<strong style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">International climate conferences are usually a sea of dark suits – like a mass audition for Men in Black – only there’s not much action.</span></strong></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">It’s a situation UN climate chief Christiana Figueres <a href="http://www.rtcc.org/2014/08/04/christiana-figueres-climate-deal-must-bring-gender-equality/" style="text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">describes in an interview with RTCC</a>, published on Monday: “I don’t think I am the only woman who is very acutely aware, every time I walk into a room, how many men and how many women are sitting round the table.”</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The German chancellor is the most powerful woman in Europe and one of the most influential politicians in the world. A former environment minister, she ran the 1995 UN climate summit in Berlin, where the idea of the Kyoto Protocol was born. Last month she <a href="http://www.rtcc.org/2014/07/14/merkel-returns-to-climate-politics-with-call-for-eu-leadership/" style="text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">reaffirmed Germany’s commitment</a> to a UN deal, and pledged $1 billion to the Green Climate Fund.</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">They are highly unlikely to feature at the UN talks, but President Obama has <a href="http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2014/jun/26/obama-mocks-climate-change-skeptics-paranoid-about/" style="text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">frequently cited his daughters</a> as one of the reasons why he wants to address the causes of climate change. “You talk to Malia, you talk to Sasha, you talk to your kids or your grandkids — this is something they get,” he said. “They don’t need a lot of persuading.”</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">She leaves her post as EU climate chief later this year, but <a href="http://www.rtcc.org/2014/04/25/china-emissions-peak-key-to-un-climate-deal-says-hedegaard/" style="text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">the fiery Dane</a> has a critical part to play in securing the 2015 treaty she has fought for. In October the EU’s 28 member states meet to agree the bloc’s 2030 climate targets. An ambitious package will place pressure on other leading emitters like the US and China to follow.</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Nauru’s UN ambassador is the <a href="http://www.rtcc.org/2013/11/09/marlene-moses-climate-change-stakes-are-high-for-island-nations/" style="text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">current face of small island states</a>, the conscience of the UN climate process. The 39-strong group represent countries that may soon disappear under the waves. That may be inevitable. Moses is charged with letting the world know it’s also unacceptable.</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The <a href="http://www.rtcc.org/2014/07/21/world-bank-sees-momentum-behind-global-carbon-price/" style="text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">tough-talking</a> West Ham football fan runs the World Bank’s clean energy division and together with president Jim Kim has led its transition away from its roots as a fossil fuel funder. Kyte wrote the investment standards for the Bank’s private arm – these have now been adopted by the UN’s Green Climate Fund – making her one of the architects of the clean revolution.</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Brazil’s uncompromising environment minister treads a delicate line. Climate science studies indicate the country will be hit hard if warming breaches 2C. But as an emerging economy she wants to retain flexibility over its pathways and <a href="http://www.rtcc.org/2014/07/09/scale-of-amazon-rainforest-carbon-loss-revealed/" style="text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">ownership of the Amazon rainforest</a>. Host of the 2012 Rio+20 summit, she’s also on Ban Ki-moon’s post-2015 high level development panel.</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>Nawal Al Honsany</b></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Masdar City’s director of sustainability is the <a href="http://www.rtcc.org/2012/12/19/masdar-sustainability-chief-says-middle-east-at-green-energy-tipping-point/" style="text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">face of clean tech in the Middle East</a>. The oil- and gas-rich region has struggled to embrace the UN climate process, fearful of how its economic model could be affected. Masdar and Al Honsay, based in Abu Dhabi, is an attempt to demonstrate the benefits from low carbon growth, through solar power and hi-tech urban centres.</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">When President Barack Obama announced <a href="http://www.rtcc.org/2014/06/02/us-carbon-cuts-will-leave-world-safer-and-more-stable-says-obama/" style="text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">new carbon standards for power plants</a> in June, corks popped (metaphorically) at the NRDC. The influential green NGO, based in Washington, was instrumental in designing the new legislation with the White House. Tipped by some to join the administration, for now Beinecke still leads the NRDC, where she has been for 30 years.<b><br /></b><br /><b>Lisa Jackson</b></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>“</b>Climate change is real and a real problem”. <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2014/apr/22/apple-climate-change-is-real-and-its-a-real-problem" style="text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">That message</a> carries real weight when it’s from tech giant Apple. Former Environmental Protection Agency chief Jackson is now head of sustainability at the iPhone makers, which has set <a href="http://www.rtcc.org/2014/07/14/apple-cuts-carbon-footprint-by-3/" style="text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">ambitious climate goals</a>, proving business can lead in this sector. It says 94% of its corporate facilities and 100% of its data centres are now powered by renewables.</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Passionate and eloquent, Robinson probably rages about global injustice in her sleep. The former Ireland president turned climate justice campaigner was <a href="http://www.rtcc.org/2014/07/14/mary-robinson-appointed-un-climate-change-envoy/" style="text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">recently appointed</a> Ban Ki-moon’s climate envoy. A barrister and 20 years an Irish senator, Robinson played an important role in the early 1990s laying the foundations for the Northern Ireland peace agreements.</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Low-lying Bangladesh faces increasing climate impacts as sea levels rise, and extreme events become more common. First elected in 2009, Bangladesh’s prime minister ‘gets’ climate change, according to local campaigners. Evidence can be seen in the country’s <a href="http://www.rtcc.org/2014/07/07/bangladesh-and-climate-change-time-to-change-the-narrative/" style="text-decoration: none;">Climate Change Strategy and Action Plan</a> (BCCSAP), and two climate change funds worth half a billion dollars.</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>Hela</b><b> Cheikhrouhou</b></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The little known Tunisian is now one of the most important green finance officials in the world, in her position as <a href="http://www.rtcc.org/2014/05/22/un-climate-fund-chief-rejects-claims-it-will-finance-fossil-fuel-projects/" style="text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">Green Climate Fund executive director</a>. Formerly at Citibank, the World Bank and the African Development Bank, Cheikhrouhou is tasked with raising $15bn by the end of 2014 so the GCF – an essential part of plans for a 2015 UN climate deal – can invest in developing countries.</span></span></div>
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<b style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Claudia Salerno</span></b></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Known for dramatic interventions at UN climate negotiations, Venezuela’s chief negotiator <a href="http://climatechange-tv.rtcc.org/2013/11/21/cop19-claudia-salerno-caldera-on-historical-responsibility/" style="text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">Salerno plays a central role</a> in the Like Minded Group of Developing Countries (LMGDC), which includes Saudi Arabia, Iran and Ecuador. The small but influential body will need to be brought on board for the 2015 agreement to achieve full consensus. That will need careful and quiet diplomacy.</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>Pilita Clark</b></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The FT’s environment correspondent <a href="http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/15a0cd14-a92a-11e3-bf0c-00144feab7de.html#axzz39QFY6xsy" style="text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">performs a vital role</a> in communicating what is being discussed at UN talks to the global business community. Widely respected among her peers, Clark’s coverage is known for its clarity, impartiality and apparent eagerness to avoid acronyms – not a trait always associated with reporters following the UN process.</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>Monica Araya</b></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The Costa Rica climate campaigner and former climate negotiator ran for vice president in recent elections on a green ticket. She failed in that attempt, and now runs Nivela, an environmental thinktank focused on Latin America. Araya caused chaos in 2013 when she was <a href="http://www.rtcc.org/2013/06/19/costa-rica-sacks-climate-advisor-for-criticising-china-oil-loan/" style="text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">removed from Costa Rica’s UN team</a> for complaining about the country’s oil investments with China.</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>Tasneem Essop</b></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Former South African provincial minister, <a href="http://www.wwf.org.za/media_room/spokespeople/international_climate_policy/" style="text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">now a central player </a>in WWF’s efforts to secure a global climate deal. A strong advocate for an agreement that involves poverty alleviation and climate justice, Essop is part of an influential global team including Sam Smith in the US, and Leo Hickman in the UK.</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Ban Ki-Moon and Thorning-Schmidt visited Greenland to witness first-hand the impacts of climate change there (Pic: UN Photos)</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>Helle Thorning</b><b>-</b><b>Schmidt</b></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">In March Denmark’s prime minister accompanied UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon to the Arctic to explore the effects warming temperatures are having on the region. The country has consistently pushed for tougher EU climate laws – and recently <a href="http://www.rtcc.org/2014/06/10/denmark-set-to-approve-new-climate-change-law/" style="text-decoration: none;">passed its own legislation</a> binding it to reducing its emissions 40% by 2020.</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>Lavanja Rajamani</b></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">A professor at the <a href="http://www.cprindia.org/users/lavanya-rajamani" style="text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">Centre for Policy Research</a> in New Delhi, insiders say Rajamani is “a quiet mover but influential”, advising UN officials and at times the EU and India. At a time when information over what levels of emission cuts developed and developing countries make take is limited, she is likely to play an important bridging role.</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>Bernarditas Muller</b></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This complex and experienced Philippines negotiator helped draft the Kyoto Protocol in 1997, but has a mixed relationship with UN talks, finding herself <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2009/dec/04/copenhagen-climate-cummit-talks-critic" style="text-decoration: none;">kicked off the national delegation</a> in 2009. Closely linked with the China-funded South Centre, Muller recently cropped up at the Green Climate Fund talks in Bali, with some board members accusing her of obstructing the negotiations. One to watch.</span></span></div>
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Nektarina Non Profithttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07568581819809348122noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1165867976051412230.post-55579781638082494502014-08-06T18:27:00.003+02:002014-08-06T18:27:47.145+02:00Attend a webinar of ''10 Social Media Best Practices for NGOs''<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<strong style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; font-family: ars_maquette_pro; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Date:</strong> Thursday, August 21, 2014<br /><strong style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; font-family: ars_maquette_pro; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Time:</strong> 9 am SGT (Singapore), 11 am AEST (Sydney), 1 pm NZST (Wellington)<br /><strong style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; font-family: ars_maquette_pro; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Cost:</strong> Free<br /><strong style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; font-family: ars_maquette_pro; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Presented by:</strong> Heather Mansfield of<span style="color: #173b4f;"> <a href="http://www.nptechforgood.com/" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: #218f97; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">Nonprofit Tech for Good</a> </span>and <a href="http://pir.org/" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; color: #218f97; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">Public Interest Registry</a></div>
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The rise of social media has profoundly changed the way non-governmental organizations (NGOs) communicate with their donors and supporters, and although most organizations are currently experimenting with social media, few have been properly trained on how to effectively use social networking sites such as Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, and Instagram. Your organization’s Return on Investment (ROI) from using social media is directly related to whether your staff are knowledgeable of each site’s unique functionality and toolset, so training is essential for success.<div style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; color: #173b4f; line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 1.2em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">
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This webinar will present ten of today’s most cutting edge social media practices. Topics include:</div>
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<li style="background: transparent; border: 0px; list-style-type: disc; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Highlighting the shift from to broadcast to social communications and fundraising.</li>
<li style="background: transparent; border: 0px; list-style-type: disc; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Learning the top three best practices for Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, and Instagram.</li>
<li style="background: transparent; border: 0px; list-style-type: disc; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Telling your nonprofit’s story through video, images, and infographics.</li>
<li style="background: transparent; border: 0px; list-style-type: disc; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Creating an editorial calendar for social media communications.</li>
<li style="background: transparent; border: 0px; list-style-type: disc; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Tracking and reporting your ROI.</li>
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Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has invited Heads of State and Government along with leaders from business, finance, and civil society to the Climate Summit to catalyze ambitious action to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and strengthen climate resilience, and to mobilize political will toward achieving an ambitious, legally binding international climate change agreement by 2015. Complete information about the Climate Summit is available <a href="http://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?f=001yTJnPylzA_Aotqsy0EP1zFTApSpBxBPaIh1DKQw2dTsLqDFIQvZrrEay6D1ZtXNndrEXFHXGdEesx-ovoDMhGXRVSZdiSXtDSrnWQ3MMi25p5DOmKg--IcauZuRnJ7SgRJZ55IDZ6FDylhGYwDl_ZMZpYnRCpfkBfFqpRfGf_xrlFTTEDlDi-4kOuzc1rA3jKqsIuVxFord_wYkosbMASQ==&c=o9aUbQ2UCfxZ0rsRiByLigE-f65loxFmQzSP0HH7_hPh5MAsxPK2-A==&ch=DGXwPK_oKUPj-A7IotUHmvZQnhdIed_8tqw7hLQVVlwtb5rq8hO9Og==" rel="nofollow" shape="rect" style="background: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;" target="_blank">here</a>.</div>
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<em><span style="font-weight: 700;">A. Submit nominations for the following 4 civil society speaking roles and 34 additional attendees for the Climate Summit</span></em></div>
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<span style="font-weight: 700;">1. The following 18 civil society roles in the Climate Summit will receive travel funding from the Executive Office of the Secretary General. All candidates must be representatives of civil society organizations.</span></div>
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<span style="font-weight: 700;">a) One speaker in the Opening of the 2014 Climate Summit on behalf of civil society at large</span></div>
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<span style="text-decoration: underline;">Criteria</span>: For this speaking role, the CCST is seeking a young woman (under the age of 30) from a developing country. Candidates must have a proven track record of effective advocacy or implementation of community based solutions for climate change mitigation or adaptation, as well as proven strong communication and public speaking skills. This speaker will collaborate with a diverse civil society Selection and Drafting Committee for the development of this statement (see Section C below).</div>
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<span style="font-weight: 700;">b) Three panellists for the Thematic Debate "Voices from the Climate Frontlines" (organized by UNICEF and UN Women)</span></div>
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<span style="font-weight: 700;">c) 14 Summit Attendees</span></div>
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<span style="text-decoration: underline;">Criteria</span>: Candidates must have a proven track record of effective advocacy or implementation of community based solutions for climate change mitigation or adaptation. These attendees will not have speaking roles in the Summit programme.</div>
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<span style="font-weight: 700;">2. <span style="text-decoration: underline;">An additional 20 civil society representatives will be invited to attend the Summit through this nomination process without offer of travel funding support.</span></span> These representatives will not have speaking roles in the Summit programme.</div>
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<span style="text-decoration: underline;">Before submitting a nominee, please confirm the nominee</span>:</div>
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<li style="font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif;">is a representative of a civil society organization, and officially authorized by their organization/network to speak on the organization/network's behalf.</li>
<li style="font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif;">has a proven track record of effective advocacy or implementation of community based solutions for climate change mitigation or adaptation.</li>
<li style="font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif;">has excellent competency with climate change issues, experience with presenting climate change issues in public fora, and demonstrated ability to engage constructively with a variety of stakeholders.</li>
<li style="font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif;"><span style="text-decoration: underline;">for a speaking role</span>: is a compelling public speaker (the online nomination form requests links to writing samples or remarks delivered at speaking engagements).</li>
<li style="font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif;">is available to be at UN Headquarters in NY at 8:30am on 23 September, and for travel if necessary. The nominee must have a US visa, or be able to obtain one within 3 weeks, for travel to the US.</li>
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Please note that the Climate Summit also involves Action Area Sessions, and leaders of civil society, non-governmental organizations and indigenous peoples that are actively contributing to announcements for those Sessions have already received invitations to the Summit via another process. Anyone receiving an invitation for an Action Area Session will not be considered for opportunities provided via this process to attend the Summit. Please check with potential nominees to see if they have received an invitation to an Action Area Session before submitting them to this process. The list of attendees for the Action Area Sessions will be provided to the civil society Selection and Drafting Committee for this process.</div>
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A civil society Selection and Drafting Committee will be facilitated by UN-NGLS to evaluate all nominees and determine a short-list of 76 candidates for the roles outlined above in Section A.</div>
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<span style="font-size: 10pt;">The final selection of speakers will be made by the Secretary-General's CCST, with input by UNICEF / UN Women for the roles in the Thematic Session "</span><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Voices from the Climate Frontlines,"</span><span style="font-size: 10pt;"> ensuring regional, gender and age balance, and diversity of expertise.</span></div>
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<span id="yui_3_16_0_1_1406747343973_13796">The Secretary-General's CCST will provide an invitation letter for the selected civil society speakers and attendees. These participants will be responsible for obtaining their visas for travel. Please confirm with candidates you are considering for nominations that the US Embassy/consulate in their home country will be able to issue a visa for travel to the US within 3 weeks.</span></div>
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The UNECE ahead of its Inter- Governmental Forum, mandated the NGO Committee on the Status of Women in Geneva to organize the <b>NGO review Forum</b>. This forum is expected to bring together Civil societies and NGOs to contribute to the discussions and bring grass roots women's voices on achievements made, remaining gaps and challenges on the implementation of the 12 critical areas of concern of the 1995 Beijing Platform for Action (BPfA). As well as on emerging issues that affect women. The outcome of this NGO forum will feed into the UNECE Social Forum in November. This NGO Forum Beijing +20 review for the 56 countries in the ECE region is <b>scheduled to take place between 3-5 November 2014 at the Palais des Nations, Geneva</b>.</div>
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They are reaching out to all CSOs and NGOs working on any aspect of Sustainable Development and the Environment in the region to participate in this forum. <b class="yiv9073668493" id="yiv9073668493yui_3_16_0_1_1406239113252_2913">Your assistance in sharing this invitation widely within your network will be appreciated.</b> You may wish to visit the dedicated <u class="yiv9073668493"><a class="yiv9073668493" href="http://beijing20.ngocsw-geneva.ch/" rel="nofollow" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; cursor: text !important; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;" target="_blank"><span class="yiv9073668493">website</span></a></u> to learn more about this forum or click on the links below for some of these documents. </div>
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- <a class="yiv9073668493" href="http://beijing20.ngocsw-geneva.ch/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/NGOForum-Beijing+20-one-pager-28Mai2014-final.pdf" id="yiv9073668493yui_3_16_0_8_1406021602918_88" rel="nofollow" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; cursor: text !important; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;" target="_blank"><span class="yiv9073668493">Special Invitation</span></a></div>
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<span style="font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit;">The </span><b style="font-style: inherit;">12th Conference of the Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity</b><span style="font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit;"> (</span><b style="font-style: inherit;">COP12</b><span style="font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit;">) will take place from the 6th to the 17th of October, 2014 in PyeongChang, South Korea. The theme of this meeting will be </span><i><b>Biodiversity for Sustainable Development</b></i><span style="font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit;">. According to the Korean government up to 20.000 delegates are expected to participate in conference. Of particular importance is the so called “High Level Segment”, which is scheduled to convene from October 15th to 17th. On the days environmental ministers from all over the world will personally take part in the negotiations. It is expected that COP12 will adopt a “Pyeongchang Roadmap” to enhance the implementation of the Strategic Plan for Biodiversity 2011-2012 and the achievement of the Aichi Biodiversity Targets. COP12 will, among others, deal with the following agenda items:</span></div>
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<li style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;">Launch of the 4th Edition of the Global Biodiversity Outlook (GBO4)</li>
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<li style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"> Business and Biodiversity</li>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span lang="EN-US" style="text-align: left;">This is a proud moment for Peace Child International to announce that the 7th World Youth Congress will be for the first time in Sub-Saharan Africa; the first to schedule a High Level Segment where the young delegates will discuss their ideas directly with Heads of State and Agency leaders; the first to be organised in partnership with a Minister for Youth Employment, and therefore, the first to focus directly on solving the problem of youth unemployment which will be discussed as part of the </span><span style="text-align: left;"><span lang="EN-US"><b>The Conakry Commitment: charting a path to full youth employment by 2030</b><i>.</i></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 21px; text-align: justify;">Peace Child International and the Ministry for Youth and Youth Employment of the Republic of Guinea are proud to announce the </span><strong style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 21px; text-align: justify;">7th World Youth Congress </strong><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 21px; text-align: justify;">- incorporating the 2nd International Youth Job Creation Summit and the Green Economy Eco-Business Innovations Challenge (GEEBIZ). To be hosted in Conakry, Guinea, from </span><strong style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 21px; text-align: justify;">11-21 November 2014</strong><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 21px; text-align: justify;">, it will be the first World Youth Congress in Sub-Saharan Africa, the first to host a High Level segment between youth and government ministers and donor agency leaders and the first to focus on the youth unemployment crisis. It aims to deliver the Conakry Commitment: A Road Map to Full Youth Employment by 2030 – </span><a href="http://peacechild.org/wyc-english/" style="-webkit-transition: all 0.18s ease-out; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 21px; text-align: justify; text-decoration: none; transition: all 0.18s ease-out;">Read More…</a></div>
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<b style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 21px; text-align: justify;">Age Criteria: </b><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 21px; text-align: justify;"> The main age for youth delegates is 18 to 35 years. Anyone born before 11th November 1979 is NOT eligible; 15-18 year olds are eligible (born before 11th November 1999) IF they are exceptional, and if they come with chaperones at their own expense. </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 21px; text-align: justify;">Apply soon, as the Deadline for Applications is: </span><b style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 21px; text-align: justify;"><u>Sunday 14th September, 2014</u></b><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 21px; text-align: justify;">. You can apply at this link </span><b style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 21px; text-align: center;"><span lang="EN-US"><a href="http://peacechild.org/world-youth-congress/" rel="nofollow" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;" target="_blank">http://peacechild.org/world-youth-congress</a></span></b></div>
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<span class="yiv3902949035Apple-style-span" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1406535447059_15709" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; text-align: justify;">Guinea is one of the most vibrant, self-confident African countries - one with fantastic entrepreneurs, and one whose current leadership seeks to make it the most transparent, most green, and the most youth-friendly country in Africa. It has some of Africa's most astonishing and beautiful scenery, too.</span><span class="yiv3902949035Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; text-align: justify;"> Please also note that </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; text-align: justify;">Guinea is currently experiencing an outbreak of Ebola. While the government and the UN expect to have the disease under control long before our Congress in November, please know that Peace Child International and the Minister will not invite young people to the Congress until they both confirm the country is 100% Ebola-free. If it is not Ebola-free by November, the Congress will be postponed.</span></div>
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Nektarina Non Profithttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07568581819809348122noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1165867976051412230.post-1732675909986037672014-07-27T15:10:00.006+02:002014-07-27T15:12:48.113+02:00Call for side events for the Public Forum of the Third UN World Conference on Disaster Risk Reduction<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Applications for side events (such as symposiums, seminars and workshops), exhibition booths, and poster exhibitions that form a part of the <b>Public Forum of the Third United Nations World Conference on Disaster Risk Reduction</b> to be held 14-18 March 2015 in Sendai, Japan are now being accepted. The deadline for submission of applications is 16 September 2014. <a href="http://unisdr.us8.list-manage2.com/track/click?u=f73be7f0269f66148228f3194&id=ce1412de45&e=8f1ea50948" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1406465949590_7095" rel="nofollow" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; word-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank">Learn more about the Public Forum online</a><span style="background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0);">.</span><br />
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The <b>Public Forum</b> will promote a shared responsibility of reducing disaster risk and building resilience. The Public Forum will be held in a number of venues across the city of Sendai and is open to Conference participants and the public.<br />
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Nektarina Non Profithttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07568581819809348122noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1165867976051412230.post-61421810902147941022014-07-26T09:28:00.001+02:002014-07-26T09:28:30.979+02:00With Connect4Climate, Youth speak about Climate Change and Raise Action4Climate on Times Square in New York!<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-size: 16px;">Connect4Climate has partnered with <a href="http://mtvvoices.com/en/" style="text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">MTV Voices</a> to celebrate youth climate action documentaries, exhibiting a 30 second compilation of Action4Climate competition submissions on two massive Broadway displays on Times Square. From 22 July until 29 July 2014, the youth stories will be presented on the 38’-wide by 48’-tall LED displays that are positioned in the heart of Times Square at 1515 Broadway.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 16px;"><a href="http://www.connect4climate.org/competition/action4climate" style="text-decoration: none;">Action4Climate</a> received stories from 300 young directors in 70 countries. The short documentaries show a new world of climate impacts, solutions and actions, addressing one of our generation’s greatest challenges. As World Bank Group President, Jim Yong Kim says, “We will never end poverty if we do not tackle climate change.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 16px;">Action4Climate stories are of drought in Sub-Saharan Africa, floods in Southeast Asia, extreme weather and regret from the Philippines. They show climate solutions, from renewable energy to inspiring leadership. They are personal stories of society getting together and tackling climate change. They are stories of hope and action, directed at a global audience.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 16px;">The Action4Climate competition, supported by <a href="http://www.edison.it/en/" style="text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">Edison</a>, the <a href="http://www.ebrd.com/pages/homepage.shtml" style="text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">European Bank for Reconstruction and Development</a>, the <a href="http://www.minambiente.it/" style="text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">Italian Ministry for Land, Sea and the Environment</a>, the <a href="http://www.undp.org/content/undp/en/home.html" style="text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">United National Development Program</a>, the <a href="http://www.unep.org/" style="text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">United Nations Environment Program</a>, <a href="http://www.televisionet.tv/" style="text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">Televisionet.tv</a> and <a href="https://vimeo.com/connect4climate" style="text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">Vimeo</a>, asks: “What is your #Action4Climate?”</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 16px;">Watch <a href="https://vimeo.com/album/2812955" style="text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">highlighted films on Vimeo</a>, <a href="http://www.connect4climate.org/blog/action4climate-map" style="text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">browse the map of all the entries</a> and join the conversation with<strong>#Action4Climate</strong>.</span></div>
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Nektarina Non Profithttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07568581819809348122noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1165867976051412230.post-45724133551103743392014-07-24T17:18:00.000+02:002014-07-24T17:18:14.250+02:00Global Video Competition on Education for Sustainable Development for Students Worlwide<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span lang="en" style="box-sizing: border-box;">The Salon Global University Student Video Competition is organized by Salon Films (H.K.) Ltdin the framework of the last year of the UN Decade of Education for Sustainable Development (DESD, 2005-2014), coordinated by UNESCO. The competition is supported by the Hong Kong Baptist University in partnership with UNESCO.</span></div>
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<span lang="en" style="box-sizing: border-box;">To achieve sustainable development, political regulations and financial incentives are not enough. A fundamental change is necessary in the way people think and act. The international community has long recognized that education is crucial for bringing about such change. Education for Sustainable Development (ESD) allows learners to acquire the knowledge, skills, attitudes and values necessary to shape a sustainable future. ESD means including key sustainable issues into teaching and learning; for example, climate change, disaster risk reduction, biodiversity, poverty reduction, and sustainable consumption.</span></div>
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<span lang="en" style="box-sizing: border-box;">In December 2002, the United Nations’ General Assembly launched the UN Decade of Education for Sustainable Development running from 2005-2014. The main aim of ESD is to empower citizens to address the challenges of the present and future and to make responsible decisions for a viable world. BUT EDUCATION FOR SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT DOES NOT MEAN PROTECTING OUR PLANET.</span></div>
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<span lang="en" style="box-sizing: border-box;">Sustainable Development (SD)</span></h4>
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<span lang="en" style="box-sizing: border-box;">Seeks to meet the needs of the present without comprising those of future generations. Sustainable development is a vision of development that encompasses respect for all life – human and non-human – and natural resources, as well as integrating concerns such as poverty reduction, gender equality, human rights, education for all, health, human security and intercultural dialogue.</span></div>
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<span lang="en" style="box-sizing: border-box;">Education for Sustainable Development (ESD)</span></h4>
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<span lang="en" style="box-sizing: border-box;">Aims to help people to develop the attitudes, skills, perspectives and knowledge to make informed decisions and act upon them for the benefit of themselves and others, now and in the future. ESD helps the citizens of the world to learn their way to a more sustainable future.</span></div>
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<span lang="en" style="box-sizing: border-box;">The United Nations Decade of Education for Sustainable Development (DESD) (2005-2014)</span></h4>
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<span lang="en" style="box-sizing: border-box;">For which UNESCO is the lead agency, seeks to integrate the principles, values and practices of sustainable development into all aspects of education and learning, in order to address the social, economic, cultural and environmental issues we face in the 21st century.</span></div>
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<span lang="en" style="box-sizing: border-box;">Topics</span></h4>
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<li style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span lang="en" style="box-sizing: border-box;">Biodiversity</span></li>
<li style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span lang="en" style="box-sizing: border-box;">Climate Change Education</span></li>
<li style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span lang="en" style="box-sizing: border-box;">Disaster Risk Reduction</span></li>
<li style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span lang="en" style="box-sizing: border-box;">Sustainable Lifestyles</span></li>
<li style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span lang="en" style="box-sizing: border-box;">Water</span></li>
<li style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span lang="en" style="box-sizing: border-box;">Poverty Reduction</span></li>
<li style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span lang="en" style="box-sizing: border-box;">Gender Equality</span></li>
<li style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span lang="en" style="box-sizing: border-box;">Cultural Diversity</span></li>
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<span lang="en" style="box-sizing: border-box;">The Aims of the Project</span></h4>
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<li style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span lang="en" style="box-sizing: border-box;">Share the experiences of people who have worked or are working on Education for Sustainable Development.</span></li>
<li style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span lang="en" style="box-sizing: border-box;">Show the variety of interventions and facets of Education for Sustainable Development and demonstrate its importance as a driving force for social change.</span></li>
<li style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span lang="en" style="box-sizing: border-box;">Promote favourable practices and encourage new projects in Education for Sustainable Development.</span></li>
<li style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span lang="en" style="box-sizing: border-box;">Celebrate the UN Decade of Education for Sustainable Development at the World Conference on Education for Sustainable Development to be held in November 2014 in Aichi-Nagoya, Japan.</span></li>
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<span lang="en" style="box-sizing: border-box;">The following Terms and Conditions/Rules apply to the Salon Global University Student Video Competition. By participating in this Competition, the participant undertakes to comply with and abide by these Rules and provide all information required. The participant should understand that any failure to do so will result in disqualification.</span></div>
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<span lang="en" style="box-sizing: border-box;">University students from all over the world can participate in the competition. However, the videos should have the nomination of their university and each university can nominate a maximum of 3 videos. </span>Participants are required to produce short video on ESD</div>
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<span lang="en" style="box-sizing: border-box;">Complete the registration form that can be downloaded by clicking here:</span> <a href="http://www.salonmedia.com/guvc/2014-Salon-Global-University-Video-Competition-Registration-Form-English.docx" style="background: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #2a6496; text-decoration: none;">English</a>/ <a href="http://www.salonmedia.com/guvc/2014-Salon-Global-University-Video-Competition-Registration-Form-Chinese.docx" style="background: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #2a6496; text-decoration: none;">中文</a> <span lang="en" style="box-sizing: border-box;">and seek their university’s support. The completed form with university endorsement should be emailed to the following email address:</span> <a href="mailto:registration@salonmedia.com" style="background: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #2a6496; text-decoration: none;">registration@salonmedia.com</a>. <span lang="en" style="box-sizing: border-box;">The video should be submitted on a DVD and sent by post to the following address together with the original registration form</span>: <span lang="en" style="box-sizing: border-box;">Salon Films (H.K.) Ltd, Unit C, 4/F, Freder Centre, 68 Sung Wong Toi Road, Kowloon, Hong Kong.</span> <span lang="en" style="box-sizing: border-box;">The email should be sent out latest by 20 Aug 2014 and the DVD should be received latest by 29 Aug 2014.</span></div>
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<li style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span lang="en" style="box-sizing: border-box;">The video must be no more that 5 minutes in length.</span></li>
<li style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span lang="en" style="box-sizing: border-box;">Any spoken language used in the video that is not English must be accompanied by an English subtitle.</span></li>
<li style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span lang="en" style="box-sizing: border-box;">The video must not contain violence, profanity, sex or direct attacks on individuals or organizations. Any entries deemed offensive will be immediately disqualified.</span></li>
<li style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span lang="en" style="box-sizing: border-box;">The video must be the participant’s own original creation – no copyrighted music, video, sounds or images may be used without prior, full permission from the author(s) of the said copyrighted music, video, sounds or images that the participant wishes to include.</span></li>
<li style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span lang="en" style="box-sizing: border-box;">The video must not infringe on any third party rights.</span></li>
<li style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span lang="en" style="box-sizing: border-box;">The video must be originals.</span></li>
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<span lang="en" style="box-sizing: border-box;">The Prize</span></h3>
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<span lang="en" style="box-sizing: border-box;">The video author (or a nominated representative, if a team effort) of each winning video will be invited to attend the UNESCO ESD Youth Conference on 7 November 2014 in Okayama, Japan and also the UNESCO World Conference on ESD in Nagoya, Japan from 10 to 12 November 2014.</span> <span lang="en" style="box-sizing: border-box;">Travel costs to and from Japan, hotel accommodation and a living allowance will be provided for the duration of stay in Japan.</span> <span lang="en" style="box-sizing: border-box;">A trophy will also be awarded to the winner.</span></div>
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<span lang="en" style="box-sizing: border-box;">After the competition closes at midnight 29 August 2014, qualifying video will be judged on adherence to the competition challenge through their creativity, originality, message content and overall presentation (sound and picture quality). Three winning videos will be selected by a special jury.</span></div>
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<span lang="en" style="box-sizing: border-box;">The competition winners will be announced on 1 October 2014 on the competition web page and winners will also be notified by email.</span></div>
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<b>For more information, please visit</b>: <a href="http://www.salonmedia.com/guvc/#.U9EjLvmSxOA" style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">www.salonmedia.com/guvc/#.U9EjLvmSxOA</a></div>
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To learn more and read more about ESD, please go to the following websites:</div>
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UNESCO ESD <a href="http://en.unesco.org/themes/education-sustainable-development" style="background: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #2a6496; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">http://en.unesco.org/themes/education-sustainable-development</a></div>
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<span lang="en" style="box-sizing: border-box;">ESD success stories</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><a href="http://www.unesco.org/new/en/unesco-world-conference-on-esd-2014/resources/esd-in-action/" style="background: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #2a6496; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">http://www.unesco.org/new/en/unesco-world-conference-on-esd-2014/resources/esd-in-action</a></div>
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<span lang="en" style="box-sizing: border-box;">ESD good practices</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><a href="http://www.unesco.org/new/en/unesco-world-conference-on-esd-2014/resources/esd-good-practices/" style="background: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #2a6496; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">http://www.unesco.org/new/en/unesco-world-conference-on-esd-2014/resources/esd-good-practices</a></div>
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<span lang="en" style="box-sizing: border-box;">ESD video playlist </span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><a href="http://www.unesco.org/new/en/unesco-world-conference-on-esd-2014/resources/playlists/" style="background: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #2a6496; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">http://www.unesco.org/new/en/unesco-world-conference-on-esd-2014/resources/playlists</a></div>
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Nektarina Non Profithttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07568581819809348122noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1165867976051412230.post-26168463225518172452014-07-20T12:57:00.001+02:002014-07-20T12:57:14.522+02:00The State of the World's Forests 2014 is released by the FAO<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">Across the world, forests, trees on farms, and agroforestry systems play a crucial role in the livelihoods of rural people by providing employment, energy, nutritious foods and a wide range of other goods and ecosystem services. They have tremendous potential to contribute to sustainable development and to a greener economy. Yet, clear evidence of this has been lacking. This evidence is critical to inform policies on forest management and use, and to ensure that the benefi ts from forests are recognized in the post-2015 development agenda, not only with respect to the environment, but also for their contributions to broader social issues.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">This edition of State of the World’s Forests addresses this knowledge gap by systematically gathering and analysing available data on forests’ contributions to people’s livelihoods, food, health, shelter and energy needs. Crucially, the report also suggests how information might be improved and policies adjusted, so that the socioeconomic benefits from forests can be enhanced in the future.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.fao.org/3/a-i3710e/i3710e01.pdf" style="outline: 0px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">Key findings and messages</a><br /><a href="http://www.fao.org/3/a-i3710e.pdf" style="outline: 0px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">Full report</a><br /><a href="http://www.fao.org/3/a-i3727e.pdf" style="outline: 0px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">State of the World's Forests In Brief</a><br /><a href="http://www.fao.org/news/story/en/item/236722/icode/" style="outline: 0px; text-decoration: none;">Press release</a> eBook (forthcoming)<br /><a href="http://www.fao.org/3/a-i3710e/i3710e02.pdf" style="outline: 0px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">Chapter 1: Introduction</a><br /><a href="http://www.fao.org/3/a-i3710e/i3710e03.pdf" style="outline: 0px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">Chapter 2: The measurement of socioeconomic benefits</a><a href="http://www.fao.org/3/a-i3710e/i3710e04.pdf" style="outline: 0px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">Chapter 3: The multiple benefits provided by forests</a><br /><a href="http://www.fao.org/3/a-i3710e/i3710e05.pdf" style="outline: 0px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">Chapter 4: Policy measures to enhance forest-related benefits</a><br /><a href="http://www.fao.org/3/a-i3710e/i3710e06.pdf" style="outline: 0px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">Chapter 5: Strengthening the links between policies and benefits</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">The State of the World's Forests reports on the status of forests, recent major policy and institutional developments and key issues concerning the forest sector. It makes current, reliable and policy-relevant information widely available to facilitate informed discussion and decision-making with regard to the world's forests.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 1.384615385em; line-height: 1.416666667;"><b>ABOUT THE PROGRAM</b></span></div>
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As part of the PACMAS Program of support under its Media Strengthening component, PACMAS proposes to fund a 2 week fellowship for mid-level broadcasters and journalists to attend the UNSIDS Conference in Apia, Samoa.</div>
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The unique characteristics of SIDs being small, remote and resource-poor, has seen the group as making the least progress in sustainable development compared to other country groupings. In economic terms, especially in terms of poverty reduction and debt sustainability, <a href="http://www.sids2014.org/index.php?menu=1575" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: #00a6dd; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">SIDS has regressed</a>.</div>
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The <a href="http://www.sids2014.org/index.php?menu=14" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: #00a6dd; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">third UN Conference on Small Island Developing States</a> will be hosted in the Pacific for the first time, hosted by Samoa. The theme of the conference is <a href="http://samoasids2014.com/" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: #00a6dd; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">“The sustainable development of Small Island Developing States through genuine and durable partnerships”</a>. Underscored by PACMAS strong C4D focus, this program will facilitate emerging Pacific Island media leaders’ understanding of global issues, discussion and negotiation of ideas and knowledge, and engagement in public debates at international levels. This program is designed to<em style="background: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">empower participants </em>b<em style="background: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">y strengthening their skills, competencies and networks that will enable further dialogue at national and community level, empowering citizens to voice their aspirations and concerns and participate in the decisions that relate to their development. </em><i style="background: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"></i></div>
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GOALS</h3>
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The Program provides journalists with an opportunity to gain first-hand experience in the work of the international community convening and engaging on issues around sustainable development within the Small Island Developing States context. The program will provide opportunities to hear national leaders, development partners and subject matter experts deliberate on pressing developing issues that face the region, particularly, post-2015 MDGs. The fellowship aims to profile the sustainable development issues to be discussed at the conference, the outcomes of which will impact Pacific communities.</div>
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Upon completion of the Program, participants are expected to continue working in journalism or broadcasting and help promote better understanding of global development issues and their local implications in their home country. As working journalists with an understanding of development issues facing the region, the program is not intended to provide basic skills training.</div>
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<strong style="background: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">LEARNING OUTCOMES:</strong></div>
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<li style="background: transparent; border: 0px; float: none; list-style: disc; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Familiarization and reporting on the post-2015 development agenda and implications for SIDS;</li>
<li style="background: transparent; border: 0px; float: none; list-style: disc; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Knowledge-sharing on the strategic roles of media and media training in Pacific Island development.</li>
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<strong style="background: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">PARTICIPANT SELECTION PROCESS</strong></div>
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The selection is a competitive 2-step process which includes the provision of 3 samples of work with the initial application, and a final interview. At least one applicant will be selected from the six themes of the conference:</div>
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<li style="background: transparent; border: 0px; float: none; list-style: disc; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Sustainable economic development;</li>
<li style="background: transparent; border: 0px; float: none; list-style: disc; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Climate change and disaster risk management;</li>
<li style="background: transparent; border: 0px; float: none; list-style: disc; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Social Development in SIDS (Health, NCD’s Youth and Women);</li>
<li style="background: transparent; border: 0px; float: none; list-style: disc; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Sustainable Energy;</li>
<li style="background: transparent; border: 0px; float: none; list-style: disc; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Oceans Seas and Biodiversity;</li>
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The program is open to journalists and broadcasters from 14 Pacific Island countries including Cook Islands, Federated States of Micronesia, Fiji, Kiribati, Nauru, Niue, Palau, Papua New Guinea, Republic of Marshall Islands, Samoa, Solomon Islands, Tonga, Tuvalu and Vanuatu. A final 6 successful applicants will be selected to attend the program. Eligible candidates not selected will be invited to participate in new social media discussion groups to run concurrently during the Conference, and receive training materials electronically.</div>
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ELIGIBILITY REQUIREMENTS:</h3>
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<li style="background: transparent; border: 0px; float: none; list-style: disc; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Candidates must be nationals of a Pacific Island country;</li>
<li style="background: transparent; border: 0px; float: none; list-style: disc; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Age between 25 – 35;</li>
<li style="background: transparent; border: 0px; float: none; list-style: disc; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Currently full-time employed by a Pacific Island media organization;</li>
<li style="background: transparent; border: 0px; float: none; list-style: disc; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Knowledgeable on Pacific development issues, and familiar with conference themes;</li>
<li style="background: transparent; border: 0px; float: none; list-style: disc; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Oral and written fluency in English;</li>
<li style="background: transparent; border: 0px; float: none; list-style: disc; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">At least 5 years of professional journalism experience and proven interest in development issues facing the Pacific;</li>
<li style="background: transparent; border: 0px; float: none; list-style: disc; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Provide a letter of support from the Head of the organization endorsing their full participation and that news developed over this period will be published/broadcast through their media outlet;</li>
<li style="background: transparent; border: 0px; float: none; list-style: disc; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Have approved accreditation to attend the conference, preferably media accreditation;</li>
<li style="background: transparent; border: 0px; float: none; list-style: disc; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Have a passport valid until April 2015.</li>
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<span style="background: transparent; border: 0px; font-size: 1.17em; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><b>PARTICIPANTS ARE EXPECTED TO:</b></span></div>
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<li style="background: transparent; border: 0px; float: none; list-style: disc; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Familiarize themselves with the topics of the <a href="http://www.sids2014.org/index.php?menu=1540" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: #00a6dd; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">six multi-stakeholder partnership dialogues</a> , the <a href="http://www.sids2014.org/index.php?menu=1537" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: #00a6dd; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">zero draft document</a> and national priorities before the UNSIDS Conference, candidates will be provided support and guidance in this from SPREP.</li>
<li style="background: transparent; border: 0px; float: none; list-style: disc; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Participate in a training workshop and in hands on activities.</li>
<li style="background: transparent; border: 0px; float: none; list-style: disc; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Undertake professional work assignments. Each participant will be required to compile a dossier of at least 8 news stories, scripts or links on their allocated key thematic area for submission and distribution.</li>
<li style="background: transparent; border: 0px; float: none; list-style: disc; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Attend media briefings by specialised agencies, programmes to be guided by SPREP.</li>
<li style="background: transparent; border: 0px; float: none; list-style: disc; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Support the sharing and distribution of news through their network and contact list where possible.</li>
<li style="background: transparent; border: 0px; float: none; list-style: disc; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Provide PACMAS and SPREP with a detailed list of their news items that were published or broadcast in national media over this period.</li>
<li style="background: transparent; border: 0px; float: none; list-style: disc; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline;">Provide their own equipment</span> (laptop, recorder, camera and so forth) required to complete their assignments.<span style="background: transparent; border: 0px; font-size: 1.17em; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> </span></li>
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WHAT IS PROVIDED BY PACMAS?</h3>
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<li style="background: transparent; border: 0px; float: none; list-style: disc; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Most direct return economy single airline ticket from your country to Apia, Samoa;</li>
<li style="background: transparent; border: 0px; float: none; list-style: disc; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Shared accommodation;</li>
<li style="background: transparent; border: 0px; float: none; list-style: disc; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">A daily subsistence allowance (DSA) to cover your meals (excluding breakfast).</li>
<li style="background: transparent; border: 0px; float: none; list-style: disc; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Upon completion of the Programme requirements and submission of dossier of news stories, scripts or links, participants will receive a certificate of participation;</li>
<li style="background: transparent; border: 0px; float: none; list-style: disc; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Hotel and airport transfers in transit countries.<span style="background: transparent; border: 0px; font-size: 1.17em; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> </span></li>
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PARTICIPANT RESPONSIBILITY AND OTHER REQUIREMENTS</h3>
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<li style="background: transparent; border: 0px; float: none; list-style: disc; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Once selected, participants will need to obtain all necessary transit visas to Apia, Samoa for reimbursement upon submission of original receipts.</li>
<li style="background: transparent; border: 0px; float: none; list-style: disc; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Travel and health insurance;</li>
<li style="background: transparent; border: 0px; float: none; list-style: disc; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Provide a reference letter from current employer, this letter is also to indicate support for your participation in this program and support for publishing or broadcasting your news items developed during this programme;</li>
<li style="background: transparent; border: 0px; float: none; list-style: disc; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">In preparation for the Program, participants are required to prepare two short PowerPoint presentations (7 – 10 minutes each) in the context of their key thematic area on a topic assigned by PACMAS Capacity Development Advisor and SPREP Coordinator.</li>
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<li style="background: transparent; border: 0px; float: none; list-style: decimal; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Media treatment of Pacific development issues, challenges and opportunities (with examples)</li>
<li style="background: transparent; border: 0px; float: none; list-style: decimal; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Facilitating development dialogue: Role of the media</li>
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<strong style="background: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">APPLICATION PROCESS</strong></div>
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Please complete application form, and submit with supporting documents via e-mail to <a href="mailto:training@pacmas.org" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: #00a6dd; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">training@pacmas.org</a> no later than 4pm (AEST) on Wednesday, July 23, 2014.</div>
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Application requirements:</div>
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<li style="background: transparent; border: 0px; float: none; list-style: disc; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Application form;</li>
<li style="background: transparent; border: 0px; float: none; list-style: disc; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Supporting documents including 3 samples (or links) of your work;</li>
<li style="background: transparent; border: 0px; float: none; list-style: disc; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Photocopy of your passport bio-page;</li>
<li style="background: transparent; border: 0px; float: none; list-style: disc; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Letter of support from your employer;</li>
<li style="background: transparent; border: 0px; float: none; list-style: disc; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Information on any visas you may have that will allow you to travel freely through New Zealand and Australia that will not have expired by October 2014.</li>
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Nektarina Non Profithttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07568581819809348122noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1165867976051412230.post-24950620857343987792014-07-17T16:55:00.005+02:002014-07-17T17:04:17.467+02:00Nektarina calls for Your support to provide bicycles and school supplies for children in Thakarwadi, India<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">As many of you know #Nektarina is running a lot of activities in India, as part of its <b>Education for Sustainability #E4S project</b>. You will be able to see here some of the best moments from the project so far : </span><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/122900157@N06/sets/" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; text-align: left;">www.flickr.com/photos/122900157@N06/sets/</a></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>We are currently fundraising for children in the community of Thakarwadi </b>in Maharashtra state, India in order to buy materials for school such as books, shoes, clothes and study materials to enable those children to benefit from school. <b>We also aim to buy bicycles to enable the children to travel the 6 km that separate them from school </b>more easily. Given that education is the most powerful weapon we can use to end poverty and enable sustainable development at all levels of the society, we feel strongly connected to the needs of these children who deserve to have access to education.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">That is why we are now calling for support to provide bicycles and school supplies to those children in Thakarwadi, India. Your personal support is needed to enable this dream becomes true ! Please help us reach our goal by donating, if You are able to, or by forwarding this message to Your friends, family and colleagues. We would be very grateful for any support provided and to have this goal reached with Your contribution. In order to donate, please go to</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> : </span><a href="http://www.indiegogo.com/projects/school-supplies-bikes-for-thakarwadi-india/x/8195556" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; text-align: left;">www.indiegogo.com/projects/school-supplies-bikes-for-thakarwadi-india/x/8195556</a> </div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Because together we can achieve sustainable development, Your voice counts and Your support as well. Please help make it happen !</span></div>
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<span style="color: #143c5f; font-family: 'Century Gothic', Verdana, 'Times New Roman', Arial; text-align: justify;">The competition is open to the best practices related to the issues of</span><span class="yiv8153907897" style="color: #143c5f; font-family: 'Century Gothic', Verdana, 'Times New Roman', Arial; font-weight: 700; text-align: justify;"><span class="yiv8153907897"> </span>energy poverty</span><span class="yiv8153907897" style="color: #143c5f; font-family: 'Century Gothic', Verdana, 'Times New Roman', Arial; text-align: justify;"> </span><span style="color: #143c5f; font-family: 'Century Gothic', Verdana, 'Times New Roman', Arial; text-align: justify;">as actions liable to mitigate or aid in adapting to</span><span class="yiv8153907897" style="color: #143c5f; font-family: 'Century Gothic', Verdana, 'Times New Roman', Arial; text-align: justify;"> </span><span class="yiv8153907897" style="color: #143c5f; font-family: 'Century Gothic', Verdana, 'Times New Roman', Arial; font-weight: 700; text-align: justify;">climate change</span><span style="color: #143c5f; font-family: 'Century Gothic', Verdana, 'Times New Roman', Arial; text-align: justify;">. The competition is open to:</span><span class="yiv8153907897" id="yui_3_16_0_8_1405604123524_19" style="color: #143c5f; font-family: Century Gothic, Verdana, Times New Roman, Arial;"></span><br />
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<li class="yiv8153907897" style="text-align: justify;"><span class="yiv8153907897" style="color: #143c5f; font-family: Century Gothic, Verdana, Times New Roman, Arial;">original ideas just waiting to be realized,</span></li>
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<span style="color: #143c5f; font-family: 'Century Gothic', Verdana, 'Times New Roman', Arial;">The practices must be concretely</span><span class="yiv8153907897" style="color: #143c5f; font-family: 'Century Gothic', Verdana, 'Times New Roman', Arial; font-weight: 700;"><span class="yiv8153907897"> </span>feasible projects</span><span style="color: #143c5f; font-family: 'Century Gothic', Verdana, 'Times New Roman', Arial;">. </span><span style="color: #143c5f; font-family: 'Century Gothic', Verdana, 'Times New Roman', Arial;">What is a good practice?</span><span class="yiv8153907897" style="color: #143c5f; font-family: 'Century Gothic', Verdana, 'Times New Roman', Arial;"> </span><a class="yiv8153907897" href="http://www.bestclimatepractices.org/about/" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1405604123524_21923" rel="nofollow" style="background: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); color: purple; cursor: text !important; font-family: 'Century Gothic', Verdana, 'Times New Roman', Arial; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;" target="_blank">Read the definition</a><span style="color: #143c5f; font-family: 'Century Gothic', Verdana, 'Times New Roman', Arial;">.</span></div>
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<span class="yiv8153907897" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1405604123524_21928" style="color: #143c5f;">Propose your practice (July 10th to October 15th, 2014). </span><span style="color: #143c5f; font-family: 'Century Gothic', Verdana, 'Times New Roman', Arial;">The practices must be submitted in English, in accordance with the procedure indicated in the 2014 Contest Guidelines:</span><span class="yiv8153907897" style="color: #143c5f; font-family: 'Century Gothic', Verdana, 'Times New Roman', Arial;"> </span><a class="yiv8153907897" href="http://iccgov.org/newsletter/2014/observatories/www.bestclimatepractices.org/contest" rel="nofollow" style="background: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); color: purple; cursor: text !important; font-family: 'Century Gothic', Verdana, 'Times New Roman', Arial; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;" target="_blank">www.bestclimatepractices.org/contest</a></div>
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<span style="color: #143c5f; font-family: 'Century Gothic', Verdana, 'Times New Roman', Arial; text-align: justify;">A panel of experts, including</span><span class="yiv8153907897" style="color: #143c5f; font-family: 'Century Gothic', Verdana, 'Times New Roman', Arial; text-align: justify;"> </span><span class="yiv8153907897" style="color: #143c5f; font-family: 'Century Gothic', Verdana, 'Times New Roman', Arial; font-weight: 700; text-align: justify;">Carlo Carraro</span><span class="yiv8153907897" style="color: #143c5f; font-family: 'Century Gothic', Verdana, 'Times New Roman', Arial; text-align: justify;"> </span><span style="color: #143c5f; font-family: 'Century Gothic', Verdana, 'Times New Roman', Arial; text-align: justify;">(ICCG and Ca 'Foscari University of Venice),</span><span class="yiv8153907897" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1405604123524_21937" style="color: #143c5f; font-family: 'Century Gothic', Verdana, 'Times New Roman', Arial; font-weight: 700; text-align: justify;">Pippo Ranci<span class="yiv8153907897"> </span></span><span style="color: #143c5f; font-family: 'Century Gothic', Verdana, 'Times New Roman', Arial; text-align: justify;">(World Access to Modern Energy & EXPO2015 Association),</span><span class="yiv8153907897" style="color: #143c5f; font-family: 'Century Gothic', Verdana, 'Times New Roman', Arial; text-align: justify;"> </span><span class="yiv8153907897" style="color: #143c5f; font-family: 'Century Gothic', Verdana, 'Times New Roman', Arial; font-weight: 700; text-align: justify;">Shonali Pachauri</span><span style="color: #143c5f; font-family: 'Century Gothic', Verdana, 'Times New Roman', Arial; text-align: justify;">(International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis - IIASA),</span><span class="yiv8153907897" style="color: #143c5f; font-family: 'Century Gothic', Verdana, 'Times New Roman', Arial; text-align: justify;"> </span><span class="yiv8153907897" style="color: #143c5f; font-family: 'Century Gothic', Verdana, 'Times New Roman', Arial; font-weight: 700; text-align: justify;">Saleemul Huq</span><span class="yiv8153907897" style="color: #143c5f; font-family: 'Century Gothic', Verdana, 'Times New Roman', Arial; text-align: justify;"> </span><span style="color: #143c5f; font-family: 'Century Gothic', Verdana, 'Times New Roman', Arial; text-align: justify;">(International Institute for Environment and Development - IIED) and</span><span class="yiv8153907897" style="color: #143c5f; font-family: 'Century Gothic', Verdana, 'Times New Roman', Arial; font-weight: 700; text-align: justify;"><span class="yiv8153907897"> </span>Raffaella Centurelli</span><span class="yiv8153907897" style="color: #143c5f; font-family: 'Century Gothic', Verdana, 'Times New Roman', Arial; text-align: justify;"> </span><span style="color: #143c5f; font-family: 'Century Gothic', Verdana, 'Times New Roman', Arial; text-align: justify;">(International Energy Agency, IEA), will evaluate the practices in accordance with the above criteria and will award the Experts' Choice Award: a precious Murano glass art item fashioned by a famous master craftsman.</span><span class="yiv8153907897" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1405604123524_21936" style="color: #143c5f; font-family: Century Gothic, Verdana, Times New Roman, Arial;"></span><br />
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Nektarina Non Profithttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07568581819809348122noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1165867976051412230.post-19028351733753596442014-07-16T20:53:00.003+02:002014-07-16T20:53:59.457+02:00The United Nations Secretary-General will host a Climate Summit in September 2014<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">On September 2013, the United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon invited world leaders to a <a href="http://www.un.org/climatechange/summit2014" title="Climate Summit 2014">Climate Summit</a> one year from now in his opening speech to the General Assembly today, and challenged them to bring bold pledges that will help set the world on a low-carbon path. </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The Summit is aimed at catalyzing action by governments, business, finance, industry, and civil society in areas for new commitments and substantial, scalable and replicable contributions to the Summit that will help the world shift toward a low-carbon economy.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">“Let us seize the 2015 challenge: a final push for the MDGs, new directions on energy and climate, and an inspiring new development framework. ”, said Ban Ki-moon. He also </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">called on the international community to “innovate, scale-up, cooperate and deliver concrete action that will close the emissions gap and put us on track for an ambitious legal agreement through the UNFCCC process.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">“Our planet and our scientists are sending a clear message, as we will see once again this week when the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change issues its latest assessment.”, h</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">e added. Then he emphasizes that “There is opportunity amid this peril – a chance to change the way we do business, plan our cities, fuel our homes and factories, and move our goods and ourselves. A low-carbon path beckons – a path that can create jobs and improve public health while safeguarding the environment.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The Summit will come one year before countries aim to conclude a global climate agreement in 2015 through the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC). Although the 2014 Climate Summit is not part of the negotiating process, countries have recognized the value of the Summit, including by welcoming the Secretary-General’s efforts in a Decision of the Doha climate conference.<b> </b></span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The Summit will include participation by business, finance, civil society and local leaders and will take place on 23 September 2014 at the United Nations headquarters in New York in the USA. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Access more information about the summit at : <a href="http://www.un.org/climatechange/summit/" style="line-height: normal;">http://www.un.org/climatechange/summit/</a></span></div>
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Nektarina Non Profithttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07568581819809348122noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1165867976051412230.post-17347958906539133892014-07-16T20:48:00.000+02:002014-07-16T20:48:04.894+02:00Mary Robinson is the new United Nations Secretary-General’ Special Envoy for Climate Change<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 22.847999572753906px; text-align: justify;">In March of this year <b>Mary Robinson</b> extended her mandate as United Nations Special Envoy for the Great Lakes region of Africa at the request of United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon. The Secretary-General has now asked her to relinquish this mandate to accept another - the post of the </span><strong style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 22.847999572753906px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;">United Nations Secretary-General’ </strong><strong style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 22.847999572753906px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;">Special Envoy for Climate Change</strong><span style="line-height: 22.847999572753906px; text-align: justify;">.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">There was a degree of urgency in the appointment because of the 2014 Climate Summit which the Secretary-General will host in September with Heads of State and Government, business, civil society amongst those invited to attend. Therefore the Secretary-General asked Mary Robinson to accept the post, with immediate effect, which will continue to the climate talks to be held in Paris in December 2015.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">On accepting the appointment Mary Robinson said: <em style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">“ I have mixed emotions at handing over the role in the Great Lakes region when I make my final report to the Security Council on 7 August, but ultimately I feel it is appropriate that I respond positively to the request of the Secretary-General. His focus on climate change and his faith in my capacity to help make progress on the challenges it presents is, I believe, an affirmation of the work of the Foundation I lead. Our work on climate justice emphasises the urgency of action on climate change from a people’s perspective and I intend to take this approach in my new mandate as Special Envoy for Climate Change. ” </em></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The role of Special Envoy and Mary Robinson’s work within the Mary Robinson Foundation - Climate Justice, as its President, will be kept separate but the synergies are very clear and should be of mutual benefit. Read here the <a class="web" href="http://www.un.org/News/Press/docs/2014/sga1481.doc.htm" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 0px 1.55em; padding: 0px; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline;">Official UN Secretary General's Announcement</a></span></div>
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Nektarina Non Profithttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07568581819809348122noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1165867976051412230.post-59779178154500385192014-05-31T16:32:00.001+02:002014-05-31T16:32:36.941+02:00The year 2014 is designated as The International Year of Small Island Developing States<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 20px;">The <b>International Year of Small Island Developing States </b>is celebrated in 2014 in order to mark the contributions that this group of countries has made to the world. Small island developing states are home to vibrant and distinct cultures, diversity and heritage. </span><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 20px;">People of Small Island Developing States are also at the forefront of efforts to addressing pressing global issues through ingenuity, innovation and use of traditional knowledge. </span><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 20px;">The challenges facing the small island developing States are challenges that confront us all, and they are determined to work with all countries to find solutions that will ensure a brighter future for generations to come. </span><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 20px;">Read about the various activities that will take place at and around the Conference in Apia, Samoa. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">There are currently 32 small island developing States in three geographic regions: the Caribbean; the Pacific; and Africa, Indian Ocean and South China Sea. These small islands have a combined population of 63.2 million people and a combined gross domestic product (GDP) of $575.3 billion. Small islands face a unique set of challenges due to their small size and remote location. They are also highly vulnerable to climate change and natural disasters. While they have many things in common, the standards of living among small islands differ widely, with GDP per capita ranging from $51,000 in Singapore to $830 in Comoros.</span></div>
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