tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26517145150564820822024-02-19T07:17:14.582-08:00AMR Innovation Fair 2008Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger12125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2651714515056482082.post-14569979095710312522008-04-07T08:22:00.000-07:002008-12-09T17:50:20.726-08:00Friday 4 April, ECOSOC NGO Forum<div align="justify"><a href="http://webcast.un.org/ramgen/ondemand/specialevents/2008/se080404.rm"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5186545434910082082" style="FLOAT: right; MARGIN: 0px 0px 10px 10px; WIDTH: 141px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 120px" height="130" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgCWVe6ouFUGO-A2lUw_qPyvQALSu4i5llAzWZlPpeTWbxnwHRdEi3RstoxRfmCaqAAYJ8-yUchkjn8yEK4Gw_cmvAFyc5YCWYSJNww74vIMYFS3R-HkHWyUert922erh4k-GpomXeuhVJ9/s200/webcast.jpg" width="154" border="0" /></a><span style="font-family:arial;">The ECOSOC NGO Forum took place in the ECOSOC Chambers, United Nations Headquarters in New York, from 3-6 PM on April 4, 2008. </span><span style="font-family:arial;"><br /></div><div align="justify">The forum serves as a preparatory event for the 2008 High-Level Segment of ECOSOC, and is an excellent platform for organizations in consultative status with the Economic and Social council to share their best practices and success stories. </div><div align="justify"></div><div align="justify"><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjwhhRxqphudd1DVIxte-akV6mCcwfen3S3E8c86eC6RBrNu9I4Xqjno3gNgCgmVK1nP3BjKQgcY8xCQ0fUZx3BDq8Xt9QagYZgonnTsDoE8ZmurO0P_OAJvd9kIiOKNOy0P15S-SxDDowu/s1600-h/mapSmall.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5186544137829958674" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 140px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 108px" height="91" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjwhhRxqphudd1DVIxte-akV6mCcwfen3S3E8c86eC6RBrNu9I4Xqjno3gNgCgmVK1nP3BjKQgcY8xCQ0fUZx3BDq8Xt9QagYZgonnTsDoE8ZmurO0P_OAJvd9kIiOKNOy0P15S-SxDDowu/s200/mapSmall.jpg" width="166" border="0" /></a></span><span style="font-family:arial;">Read more about </span><a href="http://esa.un.org/coordination/ngo/new/best/stories.asp"><span style="font-family:arial;">Best Practices</span></a><span style="font-family:arial;"> that were presented during the forum, and see the geographical presentation of the same projects on our intercactive </span><a href="http://esa.un.org/coordination/ngo/new/best/index.asp"><span style="font-family:arial;">Best Practices Map</span></a><span style="font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-family:arial;">! </span></span><br /><br /><a href="http://esa.un.org/coordination/ngo/new/index.asp?page=ngoForum"><span style="font-family:arial;">More on the NGO Section web site</span></a> </div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2651714515056482082.post-10153460589863938342007-12-12T16:27:00.000-08:002008-12-09T17:50:21.008-08:00United Nations Climate Change Conference<div align="justify"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEikytdtOVmRdQiYB9oecfVPkfACreu6ehxKaJCxbPDrRCsPzqFCUDSpnW05j6hAyhjZs2DmVODyRjJ0PV09mbcXXZiI52wlTKkIWMFMWA5HSl8nGDY3WelWiCWS8XoGfYnb_dVRFCWJQDaw/s1600-h/Ban+Ki-moon.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5143248219545162738" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 153px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 180px" height="180" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEikytdtOVmRdQiYB9oecfVPkfACreu6ehxKaJCxbPDrRCsPzqFCUDSpnW05j6hAyhjZs2DmVODyRjJ0PV09mbcXXZiI52wlTKkIWMFMWA5HSl8nGDY3WelWiCWS8XoGfYnb_dVRFCWJQDaw/s200/Ban+Ki-moon.jpg" width="167" border="0" /></a>Calling the fight against global warming "<em>the moral challenge of our generation</em>," Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon addressed the delegates at the 12 December opening of the High-Level segment of the United Nations Climate Change Conference in Bali. <a href="http://unfccc.int/meetings/cop_13/items/4049.php">Read more</a>.</div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2651714515056482082.post-1340678284201951462007-12-10T16:43:00.000-08:002007-12-10T17:25:18.211-08:00Al Gore's Nobel Lecture: "We must act"<div align="justify">For their efforts to build up and disseminate greater knowledge about man-made climate change and to lay the foundations for the measures that are needed to counteract such change, the Nobel Peace Prize 2007 was awarded to Al Gore and the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). </div><div align="justify">Today in Oslo Al Gore has delivered his <a href="http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/peace/laureates/2007/gore-lecture_en.html">Nobel Lecture</a>.</div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2651714515056482082.post-4748739735516164172007-12-06T11:47:00.000-08:002008-12-09T17:50:21.236-08:00United Nations Climate Change Conference<div align="justify"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjtqOltDZMpuLsEkSSukmVOfutXooDcglzHOlaWYKNGFx3loa9pNyrcs0M2pGBQeAjvYEuyFQYvKoQtzjDW_-1C578mWf8M9BIYRSjTlB5O_C_PRuTxJPP2W3hGlmRu9QhEZ4SDFpn4n0sI/s1600-h/unfccc.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5140949922415530946" style="FLOAT: right; MARGIN: 0px 0px 10px 10px; WIDTH: 211px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 99px" height="93" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjtqOltDZMpuLsEkSSukmVOfutXooDcglzHOlaWYKNGFx3loa9pNyrcs0M2pGBQeAjvYEuyFQYvKoQtzjDW_-1C578mWf8M9BIYRSjTlB5O_C_PRuTxJPP2W3hGlmRu9QhEZ4SDFpn4n0sI/s200/unfccc.jpg" width="200" border="0" /></a> The 13th United Nations Climate Change Conference has completed its fourth day in Bali, Indonesia, and will run through 14 December. <a href="http://unfccc.int/2860.php">Read more</a>.</div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2651714515056482082.post-37913496966056973242007-12-05T10:53:00.000-08:002008-12-09T17:50:21.363-08:00Coral Garden Project in the Dominican Republic<div align="justify"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhzAbdj8-r-TUqtsob5GOlare81gf1Iuv4Wb_3G4c_n0ugz4b-rI_1M_gEudAesA0t2UKYuh-9zEAZ0GuqGtJ8HKLoslhxJGQITViiOChsQJI58Bp_AyeU7JZJ1BzIXeA_FGnSr_X5fSObv/s1600-h/coral.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5140566046828549026" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhzAbdj8-r-TUqtsob5GOlare81gf1Iuv4Wb_3G4c_n0ugz4b-rI_1M_gEudAesA0t2UKYuh-9zEAZ0GuqGtJ8HKLoslhxJGQITViiOChsQJI58Bp_AyeU7JZJ1BzIXeA_FGnSr_X5fSObv/s400/coral.jpg" border="0" /></a>The DR Coral Garden Project is a dynamic public-private initiative to conserve and restore threatened Caribbean coral reefs and associated habitats in Marine Protected Areas (MPAs) at Punta Cana, Bayahibe, Samana and Sosua Bay in the Dominican Republic. This project is being implemented by Counterpart International (CPI) and FUNGLODE/GFDD in association with a series of national stakeholders: NGO's, divers' and fishermen's associations, hotel and tourism companies and associations, as well as representatives from the Ministries of Environment and Tourism. <a href="http://www.globalfoundationdd.org/frameset_projects.html">Read more</a>.</div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2651714515056482082.post-12430757306864361432007-12-05T07:46:00.000-08:002007-12-05T07:52:42.874-08:00Asia-Pacific Water Summit<div align="justify">"<em>Our planet faces a growing water crisis. But the situation in the Asia-Pacific region is especially troubling. High population growth, unsustainable consumption, pollution and poor management all threaten the area’s clean water sources </em>[...]". <a href="http://www.un.org/News/Press/docs/2007/sgsm11311.doc.htm">Read more </a>about UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s message for the first Asia-Pacific Water Summit in Beppu, Japan, 3 December 2007.</div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2651714515056482082.post-145371819950391792007-11-28T09:30:00.000-08:002008-12-09T17:50:21.760-08:00Third Conference on Energy and Sustainable development in the Uttermost regions<div align="justify"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgCY4jjuGaZi9emGl0yijHhLmTZOPiOjuQlxHXbVJo5RI9X8spqPFRb4WiG1d97KAHNODLCZXTdW-vMob3IzzU1WDohVStU3Y4nT6rhsVE9tPO9nyk7FdE3W3QrO9GkMYb5ynPbPjlBakNu/s1600-h/Third+Conference+on+Energy+and+Sustainable+development+picture.pdf"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5138035339033848818" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgCY4jjuGaZi9emGl0yijHhLmTZOPiOjuQlxHXbVJo5RI9X8spqPFRb4WiG1d97KAHNODLCZXTdW-vMob3IzzU1WDohVStU3Y4nT6rhsVE9tPO9nyk7FdE3W3QrO9GkMYb5ynPbPjlBakNu/s320/Third+Conference+on+Energy+and+Sustainable+development+picture.pdf" border="0" /></a>A France-based NGO, COEDADE RUP, organized the Third Conference on energy and sustainable development in the Uttermost regions. The meeting, placed under the High Patronage of Monsieur Sarkozy, President of the French Republic, took place in Guadeloupe on 7-9 November 2007 gathering some 200 participants, including representatives of civil society and local authorities. Delegations from Cuba, Dominica, Haiti, the Dominican Republic, French Guyana and also the Martinique participate in the meeting. Representatives of the European Union and the Caricom were also present. <a href="http://esa.un.org/coordination/ngo/new/ThirdConferenceEnergySustainableDevelopment.pdf">Read more (pdf). </a></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2651714515056482082.post-26193434357889805752007-11-20T06:29:00.001-08:002008-12-09T17:50:21.904-08:00The International Year of Sanitation<div align="justify"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgn3waF9Za2W__d5jAlOFba_GUwv1hiW2JcZvpsfKEfr_SsPc_EUrYjnwCoDygquSKwZzSBnAGZ85YnK6TKN3S62aakzBdS8XsasFTutn54O6IX58GyxOUIwtU1nISwa2RgBmut7s-u5sbp/s1600-h/IYoS.bmp"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5138361404361026594" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgn3waF9Za2W__d5jAlOFba_GUwv1hiW2JcZvpsfKEfr_SsPc_EUrYjnwCoDygquSKwZzSBnAGZ85YnK6TKN3S62aakzBdS8XsasFTutn54O6IX58GyxOUIwtU1nISwa2RgBmut7s-u5sbp/s200/IYoS.bmp" border="0" /></a>On Wednesday, 21 November 2007 the Global Launch of the <a href="http://esa.un.org/iys/index.shtml">International Year of Sanitation </a>will be held at the United Nation Headquarters, New York (11:00 a.m. - 1:00 p.m.). Main objects of the Launch: a) unveiling of the International Year of Sanitation logo; b) presentation of UN publication on sanitation; c) viewing of Public Service Announcement.</div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2651714515056482082.post-17786448795140088582007-11-19T16:12:00.001-08:002008-12-09T17:50:22.119-08:00World Toilet Summit 2007<div align="justify"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjCpgh6tZPkhbyZ2iA2To3iUGorU46cCGO5BrnAOftuihmE2_Lp8AFMp1vmvWOqOUATOmM2nra90xw4Ofi-FweJD1SDyRPo5WFt02LoovuuMUeETw3gSSjRuWlpU3Qm8Pp0Y20pEdE3qIgX/s1600-h/Pathak+on+the+toilet+seat.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5134708938402704322" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjCpgh6tZPkhbyZ2iA2To3iUGorU46cCGO5BrnAOftuihmE2_Lp8AFMp1vmvWOqOUATOmM2nra90xw4Ofi-FweJD1SDyRPo5WFt02LoovuuMUeETw3gSSjRuWlpU3Qm8Pp0Y20pEdE3qIgX/s200/Pathak+on+the+toilet+seat.jpg" border="0" /></a>The <a href="http://www.worldtoiletsummit2007.org/">World Toilet Summit 2007 </a>- organized by the Sulabh International Social Service Organization (the founder in the left picture) in collaboration with the World Toilet Organization from 31 October to 3 November 2007 in New Delhi, India - is an endeavour to underscore the crucial role played by toilets on all aspects of human development (social, economic, health, security). WTS 2007 has provided a platform to discuss pertinent issues vis-à-vis current sanitation scenario, exchange <a href="http://www.hindu.com/2007/11/10/stories/2007111050730200.htm">ideas</a>, learn <a href="http://www.missionsanitation.org/fashionshow.html">lessons </a>from each other, and promote actionable strategies to meet the challenges posed by the lack of toilets in households and public places, in both rural and urban areas of the world.</div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2651714515056482082.post-61567751197769194162007-11-11T16:34:00.001-08:002007-11-29T12:28:18.063-08:00AMR Innovation Fair 2008<p align="justify">The AMR Innovation Fair 2008 will be held from 30 June to 1 July 2008 at the United Nations Headquarter in New York alongside the high-level Annual Ministerial Review. </p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2651714515056482082.post-11293422735624236032007-11-11T16:26:00.000-08:002007-11-12T13:00:00.356-08:00Who can attend the Innovation Fair<div align="justify">The Innovation Fair 2008 will include a "NGO pavillon" where <strong>NGOs in consultative status with ECOSOC</strong> can display their activities. </div><div align="justify">As for the <strong>special exhibitors</strong> who will have a dedicated booth, the proposed criteria for their selection are the following:</div><ul><li><div align="justify">innovative partnerships involving a UN entity;</div></li><li><div align="justify">innovation by major actors in the field of sustainable development.</div></li></ul>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2651714515056482082.post-50247993482080385422007-11-11T12:09:00.000-08:002008-12-09T17:50:22.593-08:00Innovations in Development Cooperation<div align="justify"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjTspqKHHhgPzitc7m9kOfzwbsu1NTDnwNMm5bOdZgkZ-K9OgmQled0gK_veyhPuWp9T710XDkIMQzInDNOCfLgZhAqQ-mx56d91E_MXuqvW6beiXu8iPFh-Z-XxF0dzBDlVwpy_STMnLPm/s1600-h/heather-full.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5131792614881009378" style="margin: 0px 0px 10px 10px; float: right; width: 158px; height: 186px;" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjTspqKHHhgPzitc7m9kOfzwbsu1NTDnwNMm5bOdZgkZ-K9OgmQled0gK_veyhPuWp9T710XDkIMQzInDNOCfLgZhAqQ-mx56d91E_MXuqvW6beiXu8iPFh-Z-XxF0dzBDlVwpy_STMnLPm/s200/heather-full.jpg" border="0" height="193" width="158" /></a><a href="http://fotocompetition.googlepages.com/home">Humanitarian Photo Contest 2008 </a>is an initative brought by the students of the master II 6th edition in "Cooperation and Project design for Development" of University La Sapienza, Rome (Italy), and is born from the will to share the richness of the field practice ending the course. The 32 students involved in cooperation projects in South America, Africa, Asia, Eastern Europe, USA and Italy are organizing a photo contest and exhibition around the theme: "<em>Is blind who only sees with the eyes</em>" (Sahrawi saying). Each volunteer is author of two pictures that, once back from the field, will be "examinated" by a technical and artistical jury. The sole purpose of the event is the raising of some funds to sustain the activities of the Non Profit association <a href="http://www.godsgoldenacre.org.uk/">God's Golden Acre</a>. Finally, a special award is destinated to the photo most inspired by: "<em>Is legitimate only the use of technologies that enhance the lives of everybody</em>" (Gandhi).</div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com