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Voices of the Future online training program for grassroots women in Web 2.0
Voices of Our Future is an online training program in Web 2.0, citizen journalism, and empowerment for emerging grassroots women leaders. Thirty applicants will be selected to become Correspondents and take part in the full five-month long program. The application embodies the spirit of Web 2.0. You will need regular and reliable access to the Internet throughout the process.
If you are interested in participating, read more here
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UN Small Grants Programme – Indigenous Issues
Secretariat of the United Nations Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues
Applications for grants under the Small Grants Programme under the Second Decade will be accepted between 1 July 2010 and 1 October 2010. Applications are to be submitted to: indigenousfund@un.org during this time period. Applications submitted outside of this time period or to other email addresses will not be considered for funding. The proposals will be assessed by the Bureau of the UN Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues in May 2011 and successful applicants will receive notice thereafter. A list of organizations awarded grants will also be posted on this website.
Please note:
- Project must have a focus on indigenous peoples
- All applicants must submit their project proposals in accordance with the Trust Fund Project Proposal Format and include both a summary sheet and a proposal document
- Projects will be disregarded if the required information is not present.
- Additional information pertaining to the proposal will not be accepted beyond the deadline of submission (1 October 2011)
Please visit our webpage to obtain updated grant information and application materials: http://www.un.org/esa/socdev/unpfii/en/second_trustfund.html
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Call for proposals: ICCAFFE 2011
Climate Change, Agri-Food, Fisheries and Ecosystems: Reinventing Research, Innovation, and Policy Agendas for Environmentally- and Socially-Balanced Growth
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Date and location: May 19-21, 2011, Agadir (Morocco)
URL: http://nrcs.webnode.com/scientific-events/iccaffe2011/english-version/
Download: Call for proposals.ICCAFFE2011
Send abstract: Online Submission Tool
Organizers: North-South Center for Social Sciences (NRCS) / German Technical Cooperation (GTZ)
Partners:Institute for Research and Development (IRD),France / Faculty of Law, Economics and Social Sciences, Ibn Zohr University, Morocco / Compassion in World Farming, United Kingdom
ICCAFFE2011 Key Themes
- Climate Change, Food Security and Agriculture
- Climate Change Adaptation in Food and Agriculture Perspective
- Innovation to Address Climate Change Challenges
- Sustainable Agriculture and Capacity Building
- Biofuel Linkages with Climate Change, Agriculture, and Food Security
- Marine Biodiversity and Ecosystem-Based Fisheries Management
- Contesting the Agro-Food System in the Context of Climate Change
- Farm Animal Welfare and Sustainable Production and Consumption
- Food’s Climate Impact and the Need for a Green- and Climate-Friendly Consumerism
- Climate Change, Ecosystem Services and Biodiversity Conservation
- Proactive and Coordinated Policy and Management Action Responses and Communication to Relevant Stakeholders
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Competition for property rights
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Omidyar Network and Changemakers Launch
Competition to Unleash Impact through Property Rights
Washington DC and Redwood City, CA, August 18, 2010 - Omidyar Network and Ashoka’s Changemakers announced today they are launching an online competition to find the world’s top leaders working to increase secure access to property rights. The Property Rights: Identity, Dignity & Opportunity for All challenge will recognize solutions that create economic and social opportunity through secure rights to land.
The global competition is geared towards entries that demonstrate a range of approaches, especially those that work to provide land to the landless; help to formalize and document property rights for individuals or communities who lack established rights; or work on legal education to help people understand and benefit from the laws that protect these assets. Entries will be accepted until November 3, 2010.
“Secure property rights can provide people with life-altering benefits—economic opportunity, enhanced identity, and personal dignity,” said Matt Bannick, Managing Partner of Omidyar Network. “Practitioners are leading groundbreaking initiatives in the field; the competition provides on online platform to connect these innovators, encourage dialogue and action, and catalyze a larger movement in property rights.”
Three winners will be selected and each will receive a prize of US $50,000. Top entries will be determined by public voting via the Changemakers website; finalists will move on to be evaluated by an expert panel. Bannick will serve as the presiding judge and is joined by Hernando de Soto, renowned economist and President of the Institute for Liberty and Democracy; Tim Hanstad, land policy expert and CEO of the Rural Development Institute; Elinor Ostro, political scientist and winner of the 2009 Nobel Prize in Economics for analysis of governance and the commons; Dr. Amrita Patel, the Chairman of the National Dairy Development Board of India and founder and chairwoman of the Foundation for Ecological Security; and Matthew Bishop, US Business Editor and New York Bureau Chief of The Economist.
The Property Rights: Identity, Dignity & Opportunity for All competition is open to a diversity of changemakers who are increasing access to property rights for individuals or communities, in rural or urban areas, and through for-profit or non-profit innovation. Winners could include technology providers, policy advocates, microfinance lenders, women’s rights advocates, and other entrepreneurs with leading edge ideas.
“The Changemakers open-source model has surfaced some of the most innovative, effective solutions to the world’s most pressing challenges,” said Sushmita Ghosh, President Emerita of Ashoka. “We are thrilled to partner with Omidyar Network to support an emergent global community and accelerate greater impact in the field of property rights.”
About Omidyar Network
Omidyar Network is a philanthropic investment firm dedicated to harnessing the power of markets to create opportunity for people to improve their lives. Established in 2004 by eBay founder Pierre Omidyar and his wife Pam, the organization invests in and helps scale innovative organizations to catalyze economic and social change. To date, Omidyar Network has committed more than $353 million to for-profit companies and nonprofit organizations that foster economic advancement and encourage individual participation across multiple investment areas, including microfinance, property rights, consumer internet, mobile and government transparency. To learn more about Omidyar Network, visit www.omidyar.com.
About Ashoka’s Changemakers
Ashoka’s Changemakers is a community of action that connects social entrepreneurs around the globe to share ideas, inspire, and mentor each other. Through its online collaborative competitions and open-source process, Changemakers.com is one of the world’s most robust spaces for launching, discussing, and funding ideas to solve the world’s most pressing social problems. Changemakers builds on Ashoka’s three decade history and belief that we all have the ability to be a Changemaker. www.Changemakers.com
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M.A. in Agriculture and Rural Development
Erasmus University Rotterdam
The ARD-specialization focuses on the political economy of agriculture and rural development in The Hague, the International Institute of Social Studies (ISS) is part of Erasmus University (EUR), specializing in international development studies. Its key strengths are:
- International study body – with over 80 per cent coming from developing nations
- Outstanding and internationally diverse faculty who combine rigorous academic research with on development work around the world
- Excellent location in the heart of the Netherlands and Europe, within easy reach of other cities (45 minutes to Amsterdam, 2 hours to Brussels, 3.5 hours to Paris)
The ISS, one of the world’s leading centres of higher education and research in development studies, a program of study leading to a Masters degree in Development Studies. The MA Program aims equip graduates to apply new insights in academic and policy analysis in a practical context.
Specialisation Details:
Recurrent turbulence in the world economy and in global food and agricultural markets highlights and changing problems in agriculture and rural development, such as rural poverty and resource pressures, and vast rural underemployment. Food security/food sovereignty, crisis and the rise of biofuels, land grabbing and dispossession, ‘supermarketization’ of products and climate change, are currently at the top of the development agendas of donor community and the resurging transnational agrarian movements.
The ARD specialisation offers an interdisciplinary, political economy perspective on agricultural and development problems and policies, with an emphasis on practical, critical understandings, and skills required of successful professionals in this field. The focus is on the social leading to social exclusion, dispossession, rural poverty, rural under/unemployment and degradation, as well as on interventions undertaken in these fields by government and grassroots organizations. It offers a balance between theory, policy and practice. The key thematic areas are:
- land use, access to land (and water), and agrarian reforms
- rural poverty, social exclusion and marginalisation
- rural resource conflicts and environmental degradation
Explicit attention is given to the impact of structural transformation of production, the role of the state, and civil society (including transnational agrarian movements), gender, diversification of rural and the politics of agrarian change.
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