tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19612968587114381632011-11-25T03:58:57.545+02:00International developments on development issues: the blog of the Israel's Agency for International Development Cooperation, MASHAVMASHAVhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05042994304416950702noreply@blogger.comBlogger941100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1961296858711438163.post-83362994192466671432011-02-16T09:47:00.007+02:002011-02-16T10:01:31.946+02:00

When Israel was reestablished almost 63 years ago, it adopted the ancient Jewish precept of Tikkun Olam as part of its national philosophy. This term, literally meaning "repairing the world" is an ancient Jewish value of reaching out to those in need and a social instruction to better our surroundings and society.During its formative years, Israel faced enormous development challenges, including

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H A I T I :O N E Y E A R A F T E ROne year ago, the earth under the Haitian people convulsed and the international community understood that we were all confronted with a major tragedy, that struck a country whose inhabitants have unfortunately a long story of suffering and struggle against poverty and underdevelopment.The State of Israel, representing the values of the Jewish people and loyal to

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A cool breeze at the end of the day blows down the sandy slope of the village of Mbisau in Senegal. A few dozen women, who are carrying their infants tied to their backs and wearing headscarves, are working bent down in their small plots of land where they are growing organic potatoes and onions. There are 126 women in this TIPA project, which uses advanced Israeli drip irrigation and

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Mount Carmel Training Center designed a three- year program to integrate early childhood education into the classrooms. This involved close consultation with the Kumasi Metropolitan Department of Education, as well as working closely with a core group of teachers, who are soon to become teacher trainers themselves.http://mci.ei.columbia.edu/?id=locations_kumasi

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Published in Ha'aretz a few days ago.About 10 days ago Israel sent five medical specialists from Sheba Medical Center for 10 days to treat the wounded. They were the first plastic surgeons to arrive in Congo after the accident, with proper know-how and equipment to treat the victims. Approximately 50 victims were burned when an oil tanker caught fire two weeks ago, killing more than 230 people in

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On July 19, MASHAV and the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United nations signed a Memorandum of Understanding for cooperation in Eastern Africa, to promote strong technical collaboration as well as the development of capacity building strategies that will benefit government services, the civil society and the private sector in Eastern Africa. The MOU was signed following an overall

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Israël a envoyé une équipe médicale d’urgence et du matériel de pointe pour soigner les rescapés, souvent très grièvement brûlés, de l’explosion d’un camion-citerne, qui a fait plus de 200 morts dans l’est de la République démocratique du Congo. une dizaine de docteurs, de chirurgiens et de spécialistes ont quitté en urgence Jérusalem, Haifa, et Tel-Aviv pour le Congo. MASHAV a pris la

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UN News Center, July 2nd, 2010. A very welcome initiative!In a bid to accelerate the empowerment of women, the General Assembly today voted unanimously to create a dynamic new entity merging four United Nations offices focusing on gender equality, a move hailed by Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon and other senior officials.http://www.un.org/apps/news/story.asp?NewsID=35224&Cr=gender&Cr1

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Nice pictures from the last eye surgery camp who recently (June 2010) took place in Georgia. A delegation of Israeli ophtalmologists sent by Israel's Agency for International Cooperation Development- MASHAV- in cooperation with the Israeli organization "Eyes from Zion"- gave a new hope for dozens of Georgian citizens suffering from eyes deseases.

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Yesterday, MASHAV and the German INWENT debated on aid effectiveness in a framework of 1-day seminar in Shefayim, CINADCO-MASHAV's agricultural training Center.I already found an article, for our french-speaking friends, on the JSS blog.Le vice-ministre des Affaires étrangères Danny Ayalon a rencontré aujourd’hui Dirk Niebel, ministre fédéral allemand de la Coopération économique et du

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Doing a lot with littleI have just received this great post published by Julia Chandler from the British Aid Agency (DFID) on the Haifa seminar last week. Julia was one of the speakers at the conference. She gave a very interesting presentation on the British case study.Thank you!http://juliac2.wordpress.com/2010/06/06/doing-a-lot-with-little/By the way, you are invited to watch these videos

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Vey good material I just found on the website of Web2forDev! exactly fits the issues we will deal with next week."Talking with the audience: Development organisations and social media": http://web2fordev.net/component/content/article/1-latest-news/111-talking-with-the-audience

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Next week Mashav is hosting a two-day workshop on "Maximizing Outcomes with Minimum Resources for Development Communication". The workshop will be held in Haifa, Mount Carmel Training Center (the very first branch of MASHAV, this years turning 50!). Jointly organized by MASHAV and DevCom, OECD Development Centre, the seminair will deal with communication issues regarding development and the role

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10/05/2010 – OECD countries agreed today to invite Estonia, Israel and Slovenia to become members of the Organisation, paving the way for the Organisation’s membership to grow to 34 countries.“Estonia, Israel and Slovenia, along with Chile that has just deposited its instrument to become a full member, will contribute to a more plural and open OECD that is playing an increasingly important role

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Israel and the Organization of American States signed a memorandum of understanding consolidating decades of development cooperation.The agreement signed Monday at OAS headquarters in Washington pledges to advance existing collaboration on education, environment, economic and social development, poverty, gender equity, disaster prevention and relief, agriculture and crisis management. from JTA

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Nice article from Reuters published a few days ago about the TIPA project in Senegal. This is all about a drip irrigation system, made up of water tanks and rows of black pipes! An Israeli innovation that some predict could end the area's aid dependency.http://uk.reuters.com/article/idUKLDE63R1NF._CH_.2420

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AKUT- Turkey- Israel cooperation - emergency unit visits Israel 25-30/4/2010. AKUT, the "Search and Rescue Association" in Turkey visited Israel last week for a 5 days trip and training, on the invitation of the Israeli Rescue Team "Arava".

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Nice article from the UN world food program: Eight Things You Never Knew About Feeding The Hungry: Nearer than you think, Yaks on track, Perfect altitude, Build what you need, Almost perfect, Maximum impact, Twenty-four hours, Fast food.

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An article from Ynet April 23, about how the Israeli delegation helps kids in orphanages rebuild their lives.http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3878294,00.html

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Israeli experts in the field of agriculture gave a seminar on sustainable development of cattle breading within the framework of the joint project UNDP - Mashav - Ministry of Agriculture and Water Management of Uzbekistan. In the end of May leading experts from Israel Ran Solomon, Daniel Werner and Efraim Zuckerman trained a group of Uzbek farmers from Kui-Chirchik district of Tashkent region.

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Further to our previous post (March 15) on the visit of the Word Bank delegation in Israel, essentially focused on water issues and climate change, look at these two very interesting blog posts and videos by Julia Bucknall, World Bank expert, reporting the visit.http://blogs.worldbank.org/climatechange/blogs/julia-bucknallFOR THE VIDEO:http://vimeo.com/10613787

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great speeches and clip (immediately after the speeches) on Israeli humanitarian activities abroad. http://www.aipac.org/PC2010/webPlayer/mon_israel10.asp. There is also an interview with Haim Divon, Head of MASHAV, and Mazal renford, Director of the Carmel Training Center.

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The World Urban Forum (WUF) is considered the world's premier conference on cities. The Forum was established by the United Nations to examine one of the most pressing problems facing the world today: rapid urbanization and its impact on communities, cities, economies, climate change and policies.In March 2010, UN-HABITAT and the Government of Brazil hosted the WUF fifth session in Rio de Janeiro

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Nepal and Israel signed on March 19 in Jerusalem an Agreement on cooperation in the field of agriculture. It was an opportunity for Nepalese Minister of Agriculture, Mr. Mrigendra Kumar Singh Yadav, to visit Israel. The visit also coincided with the celebration of 50th anniversary of the establishment of diplomatic relations between the two countries. the picture attached is a press article from

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Pupils at the Eritrean Refugee School in Sudan are learning internet and social media platforms with a former professional football player! another way to reach the outside world.http://www.unhcr.org/4b9fb8cb9.html

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MASHAV, in cooperation with the Israel's Water Authority, held yesterday a conference in Shefayim for the celebration of the International Water Day with a panel of Israeli experts and representatives of the Governmental sector. Shefayim MAHSAV's Training Center hosted a delegation from the World Bank, in Israel for the presentation of the WB new report on climate change and its implications in

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This last days, MASHAV published updated flyers on the Israeli activities in the domains of agriculture, medicine and public health, education and community & socio-economic develpoment:http://www.mfa.gov.il/NR/rdonlyres/1FE1E5AA-10D7-49BD-BCD5-3678E9874CFC/0/Medicine.pdfhttp://www.mfa.gov.il/NR/rdonlyres/1533F394-4272-4864-B434-A29208517251/0/Agriculture.pdfhttp://www.mfa.gov.il/NR/rdonlyres/

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From ILO website, two days ago.Despite signs of progress in gender equality over the past 15 years, there is still a significant gap between women and men in terms of job opportunities and quality of employment, according to a new report by the International Labour Office (ILO).http://www.ilo.org/global/About_the_ILO/Media_and_public_information/Press_releases/lang--en/WCMS_123827/index.htm

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A post (video) from the US Department of State on the importance of the 3 Ds. Secretary Clinton testifies before the House Foreign Affairs Committee on Promoting Security through Diplomacy and Development: The Fiscal Year 2011 International Affairs Budget (Feb. 25). You also can read the full statement.http://www.state.gov/video/?videoid=68869987001Another speech, a day before, on the priorities

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We met yesterday with a representative of the blog "green prophet". I would like to share with you the following link:http://www.greenprophet.com/"Green Prophet" is dealing with issues such as development and environment, in Israel and the Middle East, and brings to a wide public discussions and articles on environement and related issues. They are doing a great job!

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From the UN news Center.The United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) today launched an interactive Web-based tool containing information on usable roads, crop calendars and damaged areas in Haiti to help aid workers in the Caribbean country better distribute food and combat shortages in the wake of last month's earthquake.http://www.un.org/apps/news/story.asp?NewsID=33769&Cr=Haiti&

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OlW-ucSzdGIA recent interview of Dambisa Moyo (feb.5, 2010) on the issue of foreign aid and its effectiveness. Not everybody likes her but this is pretty interesting.

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Interersting post in the US Department of State's blog about human trafficking. Look also at the comments, sometimes very interesting...

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I would like to share with you the blog of Joel Leyden, an Web.2.0 specialist and journalist. This last months he has posted numerous photos on Haiti, the Israeli field hospital and the Israeli activity with the local population.http://joelleydeninternetseomarketingjournal.blogspot.com/

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Though the Israeli search-and-rescue team has left Haiti, the Israeli spirit continues to waft through the devastated country. An Israeli delegation to the island country set up a provisional school among the earthquake wreckage.An article by Oshrat Nagar-Levitt, Ynet 4/2/10.http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3842471,00.html

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A very interesting article I just found in the Huffington Post dated January 18, 2010 from Colin J. Fleming, about how climate change and its consequenceson development may represent a challenge to international security. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/colin-j-fleming/climate-terror-global-war_b_427608.html

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Look at this blog post about MASHAV... nice. Thank you!http://diplomatstalk.blogspot.com/2010/01/mashav-20-israel-center-for.html

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The Office of the High Commissioner for Human rights of the UN published a report following the Special Session on “The Support of the Human Rights Council to the Recovery Process in Haiti after the Earthquake of January 12, 2010.http://www.ohchr.org/EN/NewsEvents/Pages/DisplayNews.aspx?NewsID=9780&LangID=E

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An article from Ynet, January 27, 2010Six-year old Wadley to arrive in Israel on flight with returning delegation for life-saving surgery.Six-year old Wadley Elysee, a resident of a small Haitian village, will join the returning Israeli delegation on an El Al flight home Thursday. It will be the boy's first time on an airplane, and he says he is very excited. Wadley is suffering from four

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An update on the U.S rescue efforts in Haiti. From Dipnote, the official blog of the US Department of State.http://blogs.state.gov/index.php/site/entry/relief_efforts_in_haiti

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Israeli Deputy Foreign Minister Danny Ayalon and German Minister for Economic Cooperation and Development Dirk Niebel, signed an MOU in Berlin on January 18, 2010, regarding development cooperation with emphasis on water and agriculture.Following the cooperation agreement signed between the two parties in March 2008, the Israeli Ministry of Foreign Affairs through MASHAV, Israel’s Agency for

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The Israeli delegation landed in the capital of Port-Au-Prince on Friday evening (15 January) and established its operation center in a soccer field near the airport. On Tuesday night (Jan. 19), an additional team joined the IDF forces operating in Haiti since last week’s earthquake, consisting of GOC of the Home Front Command, Maj. Gen. Yair Golan, CEO of the Ministry of Health, Dr. Eitan Hai-Am

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Following the tragic earthquake in Haiti, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu today (Wednesday), 13 January 2010, ordered Defense Ministry, Foreign Ministry and Public Security Ministry officials to quickly consider how to render humanitarian assistance to the Caribbean nation. To this end, an advance IDF Home Front Command, IDF Medical Corps and Foreign Ministry delegation has already departed for

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from UN news Center- 8 January 2010 – Actress and Goodwill Ambassador Nicole Kidman is set to help break ground today on a new centre located in San Francisco to combat violence against women, part of an initiative between the United Nations Development Fund for Women (UNIFEM) and Family Violence Prevention Fund.According to UNIFEM, data suggests that up to 70 per cent of women worldwide

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Based on its rich experience in developing cutting-edge technologies in such fields as water management, recycling and reuse of treated wastewater, desert agriculture and afforestation, the challenges presented by climate change may well serve as a lever to position Israel as a regional and global center of knowledge on adaptation to climate change. Dr. Yeshayahu Bar-Or, Chief Scientist of the

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http://www.mfa.gov.il/MFA/Israel%20beyond%20politics/International_Renewable_Energy_Conference-Feb_2010.htmThe Third International Eilat-Eilot Renewable Energy Conference will be held in February in Eilat. Organized by the Eilat Eilot Renewable Energy Administration in association with the Technologies Company, the conference focuses on the latest innovations in renewable energy.The conference is

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The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation has awarded the Hebrew University of Jerusalem Kuvin Center for the Study of Infectious and Tropical Diseases a $5 million grant for research into visceral leishmaniasis in Ethiopia. The project is a collaborative effort with Addis Ababa University.http://www.israel21c.org/briefs/5-m-for-disease-control-in-ethiopia

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NPO organization Eye from Zion sends Israeli senior ophthalmologists to one of the world's most impoverished countries. Two of them offer special insight into their journey .from Ynet, byDr. Nirit Bourla, Dr. Nadav Belfairhttp://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3825051,00.html

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An article from BBC, By Jason Palmer.The UN Foundation/Vodafone Foundation Partnership report outlines examples of new technologies that mitigate conflicts and save lives worldwide. The "crowd-sourced" data that comes from victims of natural disasters and conflicts is now a crucial part in disaster management, says a new report.

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USAID Celebrates 25 Years of Demographic and Health Surveys.http://www.usaid.gov/press/releases/2009/pr091218.html?utm_source=twitterfeed&utm_medium=twitterSince 1984, Demographic and Health Surveys (DHS), conceived and funded largely by the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), has collected and disseminated high quality data that provide critical insight for decision makers to plan

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an article from UN news center. Again, about the great cooperation between development and new technologies. http://www.un.org/apps/news/story.asp?NewsID=33226&Cr=copenhagen&Cr1=People around the world can now keep tabs on countries’ promises and proposals on combating climate change, thanks to a new online tool launched today by the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP).

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look at this video on youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n4a-FZjPregEconomist Dambisa Moyo, named one of Time magazine's most influential people in the world for 2009, discusses her book Dead Aid: Why Aid is Not Working and How There is a Better Way for Africa. In her point of view, we have to encourage trade and developement by other ways than classical aid. This is not the first time we are

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MASHAV together with NATO and the Rambam Medical Center in Haifa held in November 2009 an advanced course on “The best ways of training for mass-casualty situations”. This is the first time MASHAV and NATO have cooperated on a project.The workshop, was designed for doctors, nurses, hospital administrators and first-responder organizations that deal with treating the injured in mass-casualty

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25 Novembre- International Day for the elimination of violence against women. A FAO initiative.http://www.fao.org/gender/en/Numerous studies underscore the social costs of rural women's lack of education and assets, linking it directly to high rates of undernutrition, infant mortality and - in some countries - HIV/AIDS infection, dislocation of family's authority and violence.

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Giving the gift of sight: A non-profit with zero overhead, Israel's Eye from Zion is restoring sight to hundreds of people in developing countries.Eye from Zion grew out of the vision of Israeli businessman Nati Marcus. Since its founding about three years ago, it has grown into a core group comprising five or six influential Israelis like Hessel. With their help, through missions undertaken by

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Corruption is one of the top-10 issues in the developing world. Look at what OECD is doing in matters of anti-corruption. All you want to know on the fight against corruption, from the OECD's website.http://www.oecd.org/document/42/0,3343,en_2649_37447_41799402_1_1_1_1,00.html

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A delegation of senior Brazilian officials is slated to arrive in Israel in order to assess the knowledge and technological solutions Israel can offer them in their conservation efforts.The Brazilian delegation will include 10 government ministers from various areas in the country and representatives from the country's largest water companies.From YNET, Nov. 12. by Yael Darel

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This is an impressive document by UNEP, the UN program for environment (and not only because of its 82 pages...) about environement and armed conflicts. It more generally deals with issues as development and armed conflicts and the incidence of wars, from a legal point of view, on development and environment. Very interesting. Here is the link: http://postconflict.unep.ch/publications/int_law.pdf

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from REUTERS Africa. The roadmap would bring together 26 states, from South Africa to Egypt."Three African trade blocs that have agreed to form a free trade area covering more than half a billion people created a long overdue roadmap on Monday.The Southern African Development Community (SADC), East African Community (EAC) and Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa (Comesa) agreed to the

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From the friends of FAO program. "Imagine the year 2050. Wheat prices have increased by over 90 percent , child undernutrition has increased by 20 percent and crop yields continue to decrease due to lack of water. These are just some of the ominous predictions from a new study that finds climate change could have negative consequences for agricultural productivity and human well-being if action

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UN NEWS CENTER, from a report released by FAO on Nov. 4."Agriculture has the potential to play a critical role in slashing global emissions, with around 70 percent of the possibility of alleviating the effect of climate change coming from developing countries", FAO said.

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A very interesting issue: the role of religions in climate deterioration. An article By Andrew C. Revkin, New York Times."Much of the discourse over climate has been focused on gigatons of gases, megawatt hours of electricity, miles per gallon or details of diplomatic accords or legislation. But Olav Kjorven, an assistant secretary general at the United Nations involved with the meeting, spent

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from Al Goodman, CNN- a post by the WFP friends website. Nov.6.A new international treaty to combat climate change will not be ready when 40 world leaders meet next month in Copenhagen but may be finished next year, a top United Nations official said Friday in Barcelona."What we will need after Copenhagen is a little time," said Yvo de Boer, head of the United Nations climate change secretariat.

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The UN Assistant Secretary General on Gender Issues, and about 50 high level representatives from around the world will attend the international conference from November 8-12.About 50 participants - including women at the highest levels from about 30 countries around the world - among them government ministers, members of parliament, and holders of senior positions in civil society and academia

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Further to our prevous post... definitly, a very interesting issue."mHealth - as a reminder - is defined as the “delivery of health care services via mobile communication devices” as it was also stated during the event.The general consensus at the event was that mHealth has really great potentials, especially in developing countries. Obiageli Katryn Ezekwesili, Worl Bank Vice-President for the

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An article from the website of the UN Research Institute for Social Development."In feminist, as in mainstream, thinking, there has been a reassessment of the relationship between religion and politics. For much of the twentieth century, it was assumed that religion was at odds with gender equality, and campaigners for women’s rights looked to the spread of secular principles and attitudes as an

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immigration and climate change- an article from LA Times, Oct. 25. by Edmund Sanders.

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A very interesting issue- mHealth and e-development. Oby Ezekwesili, Vice President of the World Bank and one of the speaker at the event was at the Israeli Ministry of Foreign Affairs last thursday, speaking in front of MASHAV's staff. From the website of the Austrian Network for Information and communication Technologies for Development.http://ict4d.at/2009/10/21/

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by Roberta Rampton, Reuters."The Obama administration has the right approach for reducing world hunger but must move quickly on its plan to make food security a central part of its foreign policy by helping the world's poorest farmers.The administration wants to spend $3.5 billion over the next three years on projects to help farmers get seed, fertilizer, training and access to markets,

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Buenos Aires, Argentina - “We should not exclude any potential means of mitigating climate change¨ said Jan Heino, Assistant Director General of the Forestry Department at FAO, just as the World Forestry Congress drew to a close on Friday 23 October. In as little as five days, a major exercise of discussion, partnership and knowledge sharing occurred, seeing the involvement of the private sector

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"Peacemaking strategies must include denying extremists recruits from a hungry population by providing food to alleviate the suffering". By By Samuel R. Berger. October 16, 2009, Los Angeles Times. "Children who grow up in the world's poorest countries know hunger as an everyday part of life. The U.N.'s Food and Agriculture Organization estimates that every six seconds a child dies of hunger.

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An article by Ruth Levine, further to the great article of Bono (yes, the Singer of U2...) in the New York Times a days ago on "Rebranding america"."And by appointing a team of people in the National Security Council, the Departments of State and Defense who have spoken out about the central position of development in U.S. foreign policy". Says Bono:“From a development perspective, you couldn’t

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Special aid was sent last week by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the Joint Distribution Committee (JDC Israel) to Burkina Faso. The West African country is suffering from a severe humanitarian crisis, due to recent floods, and hundreds of thousands of people have become refugees in their own country.The Foreign Ministry through MASHAV, Israel's Agency for International Cooperation, and in

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I would like to introduce you... a great blog on the issues of sustainable development and food security. I found it on the website of "Foreign Policy blogs".

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“We know that investing in children and securing their rights is one of the surest ways to ending poverty. And I know that no one can better speak for young people than you,” Mr. Ban said, inviting his youthful listeners to first crouch and then rise in a symbolic gesture of the UN’s “Stand Up Against Poverty” campaign on the eve of the International Day for the Eradication of Poverty".

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Every year for the past 9 years, compulsory reading for any economist has been the excellent ‘The World In’ series that is released in November annually predicting the upcoming year for economies, politics to new innovations in industry, and more often than not, they see what the future has in store. What they have predicted well has been the rate of growth of African economies that have hit

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You can find more info on the Department of State’s Global Hunger and Food Security website at http://www.state.gov/s/globalfoodsecurity/.

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An article from FAO Media Center, again, on the issue of the international crisis and its heavy consequences on developing countries. Have a look at the video- a very interesting analysis from David Dowe, presenting the new hunger report. "The combination of food and economic crises has pushed the number of hungry people worldwide to historic levels — more than one billion people are

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The purpose of World Food Day is to raise awareness and encourage action to alleviate hunger around the world. This year’s events are of utmost importance as the number of hungry people has increased to over 1 billion for the first time in history. A post from the blog of WFP, for those who want to get involved.

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A very interesting article about - again- technologies and development, from the website of UNAIDS. October 5, 2009."Digital and technological revolutions have dramatically changed the way in which people communicate around the world. Many communities in developing countries don’t yet have access to computers and the internet however according to the International Telecommunications Union (ITU)

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McGill Conference on Global Food Security, Oct. 5-7.The purposes of the conference is to educate, ignite debate and allow for new perspectives on local and global food issues.http://www.hour.ca/news/news.aspx?iIDArticle=18411

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You probably knows the famous theory by Dambisa Moyo on the "dead Aid"… here is a video posted this week on a debate between Moyo and Naido, partisan of "more aid".http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pHvEW_et7zs

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In a video message (you can click the link!), Ambassador for Global Women's Issues Melanne Verveer underscored the central role women's empowerment and equality play in U.S. foreign policy. Ambassador Verveer said:"Investing in women is one of the most powerful forces for international development and for advancing the causes of peace and security, democracy and prosperity around the world; and,

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Have a look on this very interesting blog, dealing with development issues, agriculture and food security.http://commonrevalescence.blogspot.com/2009_09_01_archive.html

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Israeli experts attempt to cure Pacific Ocean Islanders of diabetes, obesity starting with junk food die-hard Samoans. Experts' delegation devises national prevention, treatment program for Polynesian country. by Itamar Eichner, Ynethttp://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3763498,00.html

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An interesting article related to development and technology, in the spirit of the previous article published today on the subject.In India, especially in rural areas, men are often in charge of the family mobile phone. But Subhi Quaraishi, CEO of ZMQ Software Systems, thinks that phones are a great way to reach women as well. "The goal of our program is to use technology to empower women," said

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Julia Margulies is the Director General of the Weitz Center for Development Studies, Rehovot ,Israel.The Weitz Center for Development Studies, a non-governmental, non-profit, public organization, was founded in 1963 in Rehovot to engage in professional activities related to regional urban and rural development in Israel and in other developing countries. The Center was established and later

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September 29, 2009 Dean Takahashi, from twitter"Healthcare in developing countries could get a shot in the arm from mobile health apps being developed by startups, according the executive director of the mHealth Alliance.David Aylward, who is being named head of the alliance today, said in an interview that the personal healthcare monitoring apps being developed for the iPhone and other smart

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Once again, the issue of development is a major component of Obama's speech, in the continuation of Cairo's speech and more recently Accra's speech in Ghana during his visit to African countries. "At a time of such interdependence, we have a moral and pragmatic interest, however, in broader questions of development -- the questions of development that existed even before this crisis happened. And

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Global Food Security: U.S. Commitment to Action"The question is not whether we can end hunger, it's whether we will." — U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham ClintonSince the election of Barak Obama and the nomination of H. R. Clinton as Secreatary of State, a lot has been done in the field of international cooperation and engagement with the people of the world. The new media is a major tool

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As I said before, Mashav is the Israel's Aid Agency. what do we want and why we are here? First of all, we would like to share with MASHAV's staff, MASHAv's affiliates and partners, and the staff of the other departments at the Israeli Ministry of Foreign Affairs, our ideas and analysis about the current trends in the field of international development. We would like also to enhance the

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MASHAV Development News is a blog moderated by the external relations desk of the Israel's National Agency for International Development Cooperation in Jerusalem, Israel. MASHAV is a division within the Israeli Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Since its conception in 1958, MASHAV has trained about 250,000 people from 140 countries, in Israel and in developing countries. MASHAV provides training in a

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