Full coverage: Development

04.10.2006 Meenakshi Datta Ghosh, the secretary of the Ministry of Panchayati Raj opened a phone-based information service for farmers, ‘Soochna Se Samadhan Sewa'. The service, which is part of a new community project in support of one of the UN Millennium Development goals on digital inclusion, is aimed at helping developing countries to become part of the digital society.

04.10.2006 Anti-debt campaigners are hailing as groundbreaking Monday's decision by Norway to cancel 80 million dollars in debt owed by five poor nations after it determined that the loans were not granted in a good faith effort to promote development.

04.10.2006 As Nepal emerges from a week-long annual holiday to celebrate the Dasain, the most important religious and cultural festival of the majority Hindus, the country is again faced with the problem of getting the coalition government to sit down for talks with armed Maoist rebels

04.10.2006 Kehitysyhteistyövaikuttajat keskustelivat Helsingissä politiikan johdonmukaisuudesta: köyhyyttä ei poisteta yksin kehitysavulla, vaan siihen tarvitaan myös muiden politiikkalohkojen panos. Kepan uutisen mukaan pienten järjestöjen edustajat voivat parhaiten vaikuttaa eri politiikan alojen johdonmukaisuuteen käyttämällä äänioikeuttaan.

04.10.2006 FC Euroopan jalkapallotähdet jyräsivät heiveröisen FC Etelän joukkueen KUAn Changemaker-nuorisoverkoston järjestämässä leikkimielisessä jalkapallo-ottelussa tiistaina. Samalla järjestöt luovuttivat Suomessa ja Britanniassa kerätyt yli 11 000 vetoomuskorttia kehitysministeri Paula Lehtomäelle. Lue myös Kepan ja global.finlandin uutiset aiheesta.

04.10.2006 Pratham’s learning centres involving balawadi, balasakhi and bridge courses have caught the imagination of the children living in the slums of Mysore. The play way methods using low cost toys and learning tools made out of industrial waste has made learning more exciting.

04.10.2006 SARANDEEP Kaur, 6, is a small girl with a huge smile. Dressed in an oversized blue salwar-kameez, she turns a deep shade of pink as she reads out two stories, and does three formidable additions and subtractions. Six months ago, this class II girl of Govt Primary School at Kamalu village could not even recognise alphabets, and the less said the better about arithmetic.

04.10.2006 Per la campagna Sbilanciamoci! la finanziaria 2007 rappresenta "un segnale di cambiamento" rispetto alle finanziarie della precedente legislatura. "Finalmente una politica fiscale più equa e maggiori risorse per apprezzabili singoli interventi di politica sociale ed ambientale". "Si colpiscono, però, ancora una volta sanità ed enti locali e manca un disegno complessivo di rilancio di un’economia diversa, sostenibile e di qualità" - nota la Campagna. Va notato che il ddl della legge finanziaria recepisce 15 proposte che la campagna Sbilanciamoci! ha formulato in questi anni. "Quello che critichiamo è ancora l’insufficiente discontinuità con il passato: poche le risorse per la spesa sociale che rimane sotto la media europea, le spese militari non vengono tagliate e si istituisce ancora una volta ed extrabilancio un fondo di 1 miliardo per le missioni internazionali". La campagna chiede al Parlamento di migliorare il ddl della finanziaria e al Governo avviando un un confronto trasparente con le organizzazioni sociali e della società civile. Sbilanciamoci! presenterà il prossimo 12 ottobre il Rapporto sulla Finanziaria presso la Camera dei Deputati.

03.10.2006 The acceptance of childhood as a protected and privileged period of life was simultaneous to the rise of the modern welfare state, and predates by several decades the discourse of globalisation. However, the ubiquitous tools of globalisation, such as the internet and tourism have currently induced a weakening of the welfare state and dissolution of earlier existing “protective” barriers wherein the teacher and the learning system mediated between the child and the outer world.

03.10.2006 Maailmassa yli miljardi ihmistä asuu suurkaupunkien läheisyydessä olevissa slummeissa. Maanantaina vietettiin maailman asumiselle omistettua päivää (World Habitat Day). YK kehotti hallituksia ryhtymään mittaviin toimenpiteisiin, jottei slummien asukasmäärä kaksinkertaistuisi seuraavien 30 vuoden aikana.

03.10.2006 National Conference on Environmental Conservation (NCEC-2006) recommends that academicians have to interact with the industries by visiting them and involve themselves in solving the issues related to environmental protection.

03.10.2006 Child Domestic Labour remains on the fringes of child labour, far from the glare of international action… a hidden phenomenon. Child domestic labour is a widespread and growing global phenomenon that traps as many as ten million children or more - mostly girls - in hidden forms of exploitation, often involving abuse, health risks and violence.

02.10.2006 Vuoden 2006 Sasakawa-palkinto myönnettiin kolumbialaiselle 16 järjestön allianssia johtavalle Rodrigo Vivas Rosasille, sekä mauritanialaiselle Tenadi Cooperative Groupille. Molemmat toimivat puhtaan veden saatavuuden edistämiseksi alueillaan. Samalla järjestöt työskentelevät uhanalaisten kasvilajien säilyttämiseksi ja köyhyyden vähentämiseksi.