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ANNOUNCEMENTS
- Training Material
- Methods For Rural Development Projects (Compilation of IFPRI's Technical Guides)
This manual provides a framework for thinking about what projects would be most appropriate in a given situation and indicates what types of information are needed in order to maximize project impact.
- Guidebook on Rural Women and Development
The Dimitra project of the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) has published the first edition of its Guidebook on Rural Women and Development. This book contains profiles of 650 organizations based in Europe, Africa, and the Near East, which have projects or programs involving or concerning rural women and development. For more information, visit http://www.fao.org/dimitra/query/start1.idc
- Study in the United States: Environment, Social and Development Studies
The report Study in the United States: Environment, Social and Development Studies was written by professionals from developing countries who secured a degree in environment and development from American and European universities. It is meant for students and professionals, who want to study in the United States. For more information, visit http://devnetjobs.tripod.com/devnetjobsstudyusa.pdf
- Survey on Food Security Initiatives
Survey on Food Security Initiatives provides information on strategies that have been or are currently being used by communities and professionals to influence food security policy. The survey is being conducted under the guidance of a National Advisory Committee, with representatives from each region of Canada and key organizations involved in issues such as food security, sustainable food systems and poverty. For more information, visit http://www.developmentgateway.org/download/117216/SurveyonFoodSecurityInitiatives.pdf
- Implementation of Information Systems for Food Security (en Español)
For more information, visit http://www.fao.org/es/esa/sisaar-s.htm
- Review of Health and Agriculture Project Monitoring Tools
Review of Health and Agriculture Project Monitoring Tools is part of the Food Aid Management (FAM) Monitoring & Evaluation Working Group's efforts to compile useful monitoring and evaluation tools for food aid and food security programs. It details fifteen different monitoring tools used by FAM funded members and other organizations. For more information, visit http://www.foodaid.org/MandEToolkit.html
- Urban Agriculture Magazine
The Urban Agriculture Magazine is an initiative under the Resource Centre on Urban Agriculture and Forestry (RUAF) Programme. It functions as a platform for exchange and discussion of information on urban agriculture. It facilitates the sharing of information on the impacts of urban agriculture, promotes the analysis and debate on critical issues for sector development, and publishes the "best", "good", or even 'bad" practices in urban agriculture. The Urban Agriculture magazine welcomes contributions on new initiatives at individual, neighborhood, city, and national levels. For more information, visit http://www.ruaf.org/newslgen_fr.html
- Fisheries Resource Information System and Tools (FiRST)
Fisheries Resource Information System and Tools contains resource and socioeconomic data for the marine fisheries sector in South and Southeast Asia and tools for analysis. For more information, visit http://www.iclarm.org/trawl/update_oct2001/FiRST Manual/first manual.htm
- Joint Japan/World Bank Graduate Scholarship Program (JJ/WBGSP)
The Joint Japan-World Bank Scholarship Program awards scholarships to individuals from World Bank member countries to undertake graduate studies at universities renowned for their development research and training. For more information on scholarship eligibility, visit http://www.worldbank.org/wbi/scholarships/jjwbgsp/Eligibility.html
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INSTITUTION PROFILE
Institute for Development Policy and Management
Institute for Development Policy and Management (IDPM) is a multi-disciplinary unit specialising in management and development in developing and transitional economies. It hosts a large number of African study fellows every year and provides career development opportunities. It includes one-year Masters programs, PhD programs, and short professional development training. For more information, visit http://www.man.ac.uk/idpm.
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NETWORK PROFILE
Resource Accounting Network for Eastern and Southern Africa (RANESA)
Resource Accounting Network for Eastern and Southern Africa was established in 1998 to support capacity in sustainable development planning, integrated economic, environmental management, and policy design in Sub-Saharan Africa. It trains developers, users of Natural Resources and Environmental Accounting (NRA) and policymakers. It offers technical training, research workshops, and research grants for research on construction and use of NRA in support of analytical capacity, empirical research results, and information and development for improved environmental statistics and sustainability indicators. It supports advocacy and networking activities in promoting awareness among governments, private sectors, and Non-Governmental Organizations (NGOs) through policy workshops, research reports, newsletters, policy briefs, and their website. For more information, visit http://www.ranesa.co.za.
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COURSES/WORKSHOPS
- Organization: Center for Sustainable Resource Development (CSRD)
Title: Sustainable Environmental Management
Location: Berkeley, California, United States
Date: June 22-July 13, 2002
Deadline: March 15, 2002
Fee: US $7,000
Contact: Dr. Robin Marsh
Academic Coordinator
Center for Sustainable Resource Development (CSRD)
Co-Director of Beahrs Environmental Leadership Program (ELP)
CSRD
101 Giannini Hall
University of California-Berkeley
Berkeley, California 94720-3100
United States
Phone: 510 643-1042
Fax: 510 643-4483/642-4612
Email: rmarsh@nature.berkeley.edu
Web: http://www.cnr.berkeley.edu/BeahrsELP
- Organization: Salzburg Seminar
Title: Achieving Food Security Through Community-based Food Systems
Location: Salzburg, Austria
Date: May 1-8, 2002
For more information, visit http://www.salzburgseminar.org
- Organization: University of Hohenheim
Title: Master of Science Program in Agricultural Sciences, Food Security, and Natural Resource Management in the Tropics and Subtropics
Location: Stuttgart, Germany
Date: October 2002
Deadline: March 15, 2002 for non European Union applicants and July 15, 2002 for European Union applicants
Fee: € 50/semester
Contact: Dr. Anne Valle Zarate
Director of the Master of Science Programmed
Centre for Agriculture in the Tropics and Subtropics
University of Hohenheim
D-70593
Stuttgart
Germany
Phone: +49-711-459-3328
Fax: +49-711-459-3315
Email: masterpr@uni-hohenheim.de
Web: http://www.uni-hohenheim.de
- Organization: Global Trade Analysis Project (GTAP)
Title: Tenth Annual Short Course in Global Trade Analysis
Location: Sheffield, United kingdom
Date: May 4-10, 2002; July 4-10, 2002; August 4 - 10, 2002
Fee: US $3,295
Contact: Judy Conner
Global Trade Analysis Project
University of Sheffield
England
United kingdom
Phone: +1 765 494-4267
Fax: +1 765 496-1221
Email: connerjr@purdue.edu
Web: http://www.gtap.agecon.purdue.edu
- The International Agricultural Centre (IAC) is offering the following courses:
- Title: Decision-making in Natural Resources Management: Economics for the Environment
Location: Wageningen, The Netherlands
Date: October 6-19, 2002
Deadline: August 15, 2002
Fee: € 2500
Contact: Henk Lette
Course Co-ordinator
International Agricultural Centre
P.O. Box 88
6700 Ab Wageningen
The Netherlands
Phone: +31 317 495 495
Fax: +31 317 495 395
Email: training@iac.agro.nl
Web: http://www.iac.wageningen-ur.nl
- Title: Training Programme on Food and Nutrition Security
Date: September 16-29, 2002
Fee: € 4500
Location: Wageningen, The Netherlands
Contact: Marianne Van Dorp
Programme Co-ordinator
International Agricultural Centre
P.O. Box 88
6700 Ab Wageningen
The Netherlands
Phone: +31 317 495 495
Fax: +31 317 495 395
Email: training@iac.agro.nl
Web: http://www.iac.wageningen-ur.nl
- The Overseas Development Group is offering the following courses:
Contact: Professor Frank Ellis
Chief Executive or Paul Burgon
Project Development Manager
Overseas Development Group
University of East Anglia
Norwich NR4 7TJ
United Kingdom
Phone: +44 (0) 1603 456410
Fax +44 (0) 1603 505262
Email: odg.train@uea.ac.uk
Web: http://www.uea.ac.uk/dev/ODG
Courses offered:
- Title: Disasters and Development: Hazard, Risk, and Vulnerability Assessment
Location: Norwich, United Kingdom
Date: July 8-26, 2002
Fee: £ 2,900
- Title: Monitoring and Evaluating for Development Activities
Location: Norwich, United Kingdom
Date: August 5-30, 2002
Fee: £ 4,200
- Title: Management Information Systems (MIS) for Monitoring and Evaluating
Location: Norwich, United Kingdom
Date: September 2-13, 2002
Fee: £ 2,500
- Title: Social Analysis for Natural Resource Research, Extension, and Development Workers
Location: Norwich, United Kingdom
Date: August 5-30, 2002
Fee: £ 3,500
- Title: Land Degradation Assessment
Location: Norwich, United Kingdom
Fee: Negotiable
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CONFERENCES
- Organization: Food and Agricultural Organization (FAO)/Economic and Social Department (ES)
Title: Twenty-Eighth Session of the Committee on World Food Security
Location: Rome, Italy
Date: June 6-8, 2002
For more information, visit http://www.fao.org/unfao/bodies/cfs/default.htm
- Organization: Food and Agricultural Organization (FAO)
Title: World Food Summit: Five Years Later
Location: Rome, Italy
Date: June 10-13, 2002
For more information, visit http://www.fao.org/worldfoodsummit
- Organization: Food and Agricultural Organization (FAO) /Food Insecurity and Vulnerability Information and Mapping Systems (FIVIMS)
Title: International Scientific Symposium on Measurement and Assessment of Food Deprivation and Under-nutrition
Date: June 26-28, 2002
Location: Rome, Italy
For more information, visit http://www.fivims.net/Symposium_en.htm
- Organization: International Agricultural Education (IAE)
Title: International Agriculture and Global Food Security
Date: July 7-13, 2002
Location: Bloomington, Indiana, United States
For more information, visit http://www.indiana.edu/~global/ffainstitute.htm
- Organization: International Food and Agribusiness Management Association (IAMA)
Title: Food Chains: Connecting Value with Values
Location: Noordwijk, The Netherlands
Date: June 6 -11, 2002
For more information, visit http://www.foodchains.nl
- Organizations: German Agency for Technical Cooperation (GTZ), Deutsche Welthungerhilfe - German Agro Action (DWHH), German Foundation for International Development /Centre for Food, Rural Development and the Environment (DSE/ZEL)
Title: Food and Nutrition Security- Programmes Addressing Acute and Chronic Malnutrition
Location: Feldafing, Federal Republic of Germany
Date: April 15-26, 2002
Fee: € 2000
For more information, visit http://www.welthungerhilfe.de/inhalt/info/termine/FaN.pdf
- Organization: Institute for Development Policy and Management (IDPM)
Title: Finance for Growth and Poverty Reduction: Experience and Policy
Location: Manchester, United Kingdom
Date: April 10-12, 2002
For more information, visit http://idpm.man.ac.uk/idpm/fd2002conf1.html
- Organization: Deutscher Tropentag 2002
Title: Challenges to Organic Farming and Sustainable Land Use in the Tropics and Subtropics
Location: Witzenhausen, Germany
Date: October 9-11, 2002
Target Group: Ph.D. candidates, scientists, extensionists, decisionmakers, politicians, and farmers who are interested or engaged in agricultural research and rural development in the tropics and subtropics
For more information, visit http://www.tropentag.de
- Organization: International AIDS Economics Network (IAEN)
Title: The Economics of HIV/AIDS in Developing Countries
Location: Barcelona, Spain
Date: July 6-7, 2002
For more information, visit http://www.IAEN.org
- Organization: American Association of University Women (AAUW) Educational Foundation
Title: International Perspectives: Global Voices for Gender Equity
Location: Washington D.C., United States of America
Date: November 15-17, 2002
Deadline: November 1, 2002
For more information, visit http://www.aauw.org/7000/ef/symposium.html
- Organization: University of Pretoria and the African Econometrics Society (AES)
Title: Econometric Modelling for Africa
Location: Berg-Dal-Camp, Kruger National Park, South Africa
Date: July 3-5, 2002
Deadline: March 31, 2002
For more information, visit http://www.up.ac.za/academic/economic/econ/conference/index.html
- Organization: University of Heidelberg
Title: Innovation for Sustainable Development: Institutions, Incentives and Economics Policy
Location: Heidelberg, Germany
Date: September 7-11, 2002
Deadline: May 10, 2002
For more information, visit http://www.eco.uni-heidelberg.de
- Organization: The University of York
Title: York Annual Meeting in Econometrics
Location: York, United Kingdom
Date: June 21-22, 2002
Deadline: June 7, 2002
For more information, visit http://www-users.york.ac.uk/~gt4/conference.htm
- Organization: The Arne Ryde Foundation
Title: Markets: Expectations and Information
Location: Lund, Sweden
Date: June 10-20, 2002
For more information, visit http://www.nek.lu.se/ryde
- Organization: Teachers College, Columbia University
Title: Africa in an Age of Globalization
Location: Columbia, United States of America
Date: April 12, 2002
For more information, Email tsh30@columbia.edu
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FELLOWSHIPS / SCHOLARSHIPS / COMPETITIONS
- Organization: Centre for Environmental Economics and Policy in Africa (CEEPA)
Title: Masters degree training program in Environmental Economics and Policy
Date: July 1-September 20, 2002
Contact: D. Duplessis
Program Coordinator
Centre for Environmental Economics and Policy in Africa
Natural and Agricultural Sciences
University of Pretoria
Pretoria 0002
South Africa
Fax: +27 12 420 4958
Email: duplessisd@postino.up.ac.za
- Organization: Social Science Research Council (SSRC)
Title: Social Sciences and Humanities
Deadline: September 1, 2002
Contact: Ellen Perecman
Program Director
Abe Fellowship Program
Social Science Research Council
810 Seventh Avenue
31st Floor
New York 10019
United States of America
Phone: 212 377-2700
Fax: 212 377-2727
Email: abe@ssrc.org
Web: http://www.ssrc.org/fellowships/abe
- Organization: International Development Research Center (IDRC)
Title: Gender, Globalization and Land Tenure
Location: Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
Eligibility: Applications will be accepted only from developing country institutions and international institutions. Researchers and co-researchers must be citizens of developing countries
Date: April 2002
Deadline: March 29, 2002
Contact: Gender Unit
International Development Research Centre
250 Albert Street
PO Box 8500
Ottawa
Ontario
Canada K1G 3H9
Fax: 1-613-567-7748
Email: gsd@idrc.ca
Web: http://www.idrc.ca/awards/egendinf.html
- Organization: United Nations University/Institute of Advanced Studies (UNU/IAS)
Title: Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS)/United Nations University (UNU) Postdoctoral and Ph.D. Fellowship Programme
Location: Tokyo, Japan
Date: October 2002
Award: ¥ 280,000/month (Postdoctoral); ¥ 250,000/month (Ph.D.)
Deadline: May 15, 2002
Contact: Postdoctoral and Ph.D. Fellowship Programmed
United Nations University/Institute of Advanced Studies (UNU/IAS)
5-53-67 Jingumae
Shibuya-ku
Tokyo 150-8304
Japan
Phone: +81-3-5467-2323
Fax: +81-3-5467-2324
Email: fellowships@ias.unu.edu
Web: http://www.ias.unu.edu/fellowships
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