14 November 2008 – The United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) enlisted the help of North American youth to help tackle climate change. The “Kick the Carbon Habit” education campaign was launched at a three-day event in Chicago featuring 20 youth representatives, between the ages of 18 and 22, from the US and Canada. The new project seeks to raise awareness of the importance of resource conservation, and UNEP stressed the importance of education and youth leadership in addressing globa more...
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WEDNESday, 3 December 2008. Adapting to climate change is a major issue in the climate change talks, particularly for people in the world’s poorest countries. Most of these countries account for only a miniscule contribution to the greenhouse gas emissions that are accelerating the rate of climate change, yet they stand to suffer the most from climate change. To get a sense of the problem, the first question in an interview with UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon by a Polish newspaper was wh more...
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European Development Days 2008 is the European Commission's major event. Each year the EDD hosts some 3000 participants from every continent, representing over 1200 organisations in the development community, including administrations, parliaments, local authorities, civil society, international organisations, academics, development agencies, the private sector and the media.
It is an open forum that brings together the whole development family. By breaking down walls between different issues more...
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Mondialogo seeks to promote intercultural dialogue, understanding and exchange among young people. It was launched jointly by UNESCO and Daimler. The Partnership has arisen from shared aims and convictions. Since its foundation, UNESCO – as a specialized organization of the United Nations with universal membership - has been involved in promoting culture, cultural diversity and a dialogue among cultures and civilizations globally. Daimler works with more than 270,000 employees of different ori more...
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Don’t cut education funding, urge ministers attending UNESCO’s International Conference on Education
Geneva, 28 November. The global financial crisis should not serve as a justification for cuts in education funding, concluded ministers and representatives from 153 countries attending the 48th session of UNESCO’s International Conference on Education which closed on 28 November. The theme of the week-long conference was “Inclusive Education: The way to the future”, with discussions focused on ways of providing education to the hundreds of millions of people around the world with little or more...
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The failure of governments across the world to tackle deep and persistent inequalities in education is consigning millions of children to lives of poverty and diminished opportunity, according to a report published by UNESCO on 25th November. Blaming a combination of political indifference, weak domestic policies, and the failure of aid donors to act on commitments, the 2009 Education for All Global Monitoring Report – Overcoming inequality: why governance matters - warns that ‘unacceptable more...
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JOURNAL: Development in Practice. VOLUME: 18 ISSUE: 6. AUTHOR: Megan Bradley.
ABSTRACT - Co-operation between researchers in the global North and South is critical to the production of new knowledge to inform development policies. However, the agenda-setting process is a formidable obstacle in many development research partnerships. The first section of this article examines how bilateral donor strategies affect collaborative agenda-setting processes. The second section explores researchers' more...
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