Full coverage: Capacity building

28.03.2008 Bunkar Vikas Sanstha in Chanderi town in the Indian state of Madhya Pradesh has changed the lives of weavers by helping them earn better incomes. Once bound by poverty and exploited by traders, the community now aspires to use media tools to create more livelihood opportunities.

27.03.2008 NEW YORK, Mar 27 (OneWorld) - There will likely be fewer wildfires and more trees for future generations if loggers abide by a set of international rules on forest management, says a new study by independent environmentalists.

25.03.2008 Under its World Ahead Programme, Intel Corporation will supply a thousand personal computers to schools across 64 districts in Bangladesh. Ensuring cost-effective Internet connectivity with the help of other agencies is also one of the objectives of the programme.

24.03.2008 Digital Empowerment Foundation (DEF) invites nominations from South Asian countries for the Manthan Award 2008 to recognize the best e-content for development. The Manthan Award, after its four years of interventions in India, has now decided to cover Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Bhutan, Maldives, Nepal, Pakistan and Sri Lanka.

21.03.2008 A Kenyan company has launched a project called Digital Village Constituency Cluster geared to expand the country’s ICT reach to connect the rural population. Each cluster will have minimum of eight digital units serving commercial, developmental and educational activities within a 15 km radius.

18.03.2008 Global Knowledge Partnership has announced the Youth Social Enterprise Initiative Fellowship Programme 2008. The programme is meant for emerging young social entrepreneurs in developing countries in Asia region and provides them with financial, knowledge, mentorship and network support.

13.03.2008 Indian Institute of Foreign Trade and Business and Community Foundation are jointly organising a Management Development Programme on April 22-23, 2008 in New Delhi, India. The course offers professionals an opportunity to develop their knowledge base and skills to envision, plan and implement corporate social responsibility (CSR) initiatives.

12.03.2008 Tuhannet tansanialaiset naiskädet käsittelevät cashewpähkinöitä päivittäin: lajittelevat, kuivaavat, keittävät ja taas kuivaavat. Suomen käynnistämässä pilottihankkeessa kehitetään Mtwaran ja Lindin alueiden yrittäjyyttä ja tukevoitetaan tuotantoketjuja pähkinöiden viljelystä jatkojalostukseen, markkinointiin ja vientiin.

11.03.2008

07.03.2008 E-Commerce Asia Summit 2008 is the most prominent forum in Asia attended by major international players and decision makers in e-commerce. Organised by Terrapin from April 9-11, 2008 in Singapore, the summit will be a comprehensive information, solution and networking event to bring fresh air into the Asian e-commerce marketplace.

07.03.2008 Indian IT company Infosys Technologies is improving the efficiency of the country's agro supply chain, by enabling farmers' access to technical data and images, region-specific weather updates and market information, such as daily sales volumes and average prices.

07.03.2008 Indian IT company Infosys Technologies, in collaboration with an international development organisation, is improving the efficiency of the country's agro supply chain. The ICT-enabled application enables farmers to access technical information like data and images, access to region-specific weather updates and market information such as daily sales volumes and average prices.

05.03.2008 BOGOTA, Mar 5 (OneWorld) - People who earn their living by sorting through and reselling municipal waste have reasserted their role as garbage recyclers and productive members of the global economy at an unprecedented event here this week.

05.03.2008 ICIMOD’s latest resource manual, Advocacy Strategies and Approaches has been developed for effective advocacy of mountain development issues and themes in the Himalayan region. It also serves as a useful guide to facilitate mountain people’s participation in mainstream policy making.

03.03.2008 It was due to the efforts of 79-year-old Achyutha Bhat, that a village in Karnataka in southern India could overcome water scarcity. His passion for digging surangas (man-made tunnels) has not only revived the traditional water harvesting system but also helped local farmers in the region.