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Category: Training and Capacity Building
Category: Call for applications: funding for African Programme on Rethinking Development Economics (APORDE) training programme
Posted by: Ed Kerry - Wed 8 May, 2013 - Author(s):
African Programme on Rethinking Development Economics (APORDE) is pleased to announce that the seventh edition of the African Programme on Rethinking Development Economics (APORDE) will be held in Johannesburg (South Africa) from 2nd to 14th September 2013.
APORDE is a high-level training programme in development economics which aims to build capacity in economics and economic policy-making. (...)
APORDE is a high-level training programme in development economics which aims to build capacity in economics and economic policy-making. (...)
Category: JICA To Focus On Master Plan For Urban Development
[News] - Posted by: Nerisa Kamar - Fri 26 Apr, 2013 - Author(s):
Mr Fuyuki Sagara, Senior Representative of the Japan International Co-operation Agency (JICA), Ghana Office, yesterday said the agency would keep focusing on support for urban modernization in developing countries.
He said JICA had developed a strategic urban master plan for the rapid socio-economic transformation of developing countries.
Mr Sagara stated at the fourth international seminar on urban development in Asia and Africa in Accra.
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He said JICA had developed a strategic urban master plan for the rapid socio-economic transformation of developing countries.
Mr Sagara stated at the fourth international seminar on urban development in Asia and Africa in Accra.
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Category: Catholic Youth Network For Environmental Sustainability in Africa (CYNESA)
[Organization] - Posted by: Allen Ottaro - Thu 18 Apr, 2013
The mission of the Catholic Youth Network for Environmental Sustainability in Africa (CYNESA), is to offer the platform through which young Catholics across Africa can offer a response to the twin challenges of environmental degradation and climate change, from the perspective of Catholic social teaching on care for creation, paying attention to the most vulnerable.
The network aims to achieve this through:
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The network aims to achieve this through:
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Category: Bajo Carbono Inc.
[Organization] - Posted by: Enrique Rebolledo - Fri 12 Apr, 2013
We are a company that facilitates investments in the public services and infrastructure sector, such as waste-to-energy projects and waste water treatment plants. (...)
Category: City Green launches Learning Farm development effort
[News] - Posted by: Ed Kerry - Mon 8 Apr, 2013 - Author(s): , Harvy Lipman
City Green, the Clifton non-profit that encourages urban farming and community garden plots along with environmental education, has broken ground and begun a fundraising effort for its new learning farm in Clifton.
Located at Schultheis Farm on Grove Street, the learning farm will be a center supporting education in areas such as environmental awareness, sustainable agriculture and healthy food.
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Located at Schultheis Farm on Grove Street, the learning farm will be a center supporting education in areas such as environmental awareness, sustainable agriculture and healthy food.
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