Full coverage: Capacity building

30.06.2005 The Osijek-Baranja District signed a Collaboration Agreement on Rescue and Crisis Management in Cases of Natural Disasters and Catastrophes with the Baranya County in Hungary. The agreement was signed in Pecuh and is a part of a long term programme designed to increase the public safety. The agreement is part of the ongoing ‘Cross-border collaboration in nature disaster protection and safety’ project, the implementation of which started last year.

30.06.2005 The recent meeting of the Commonwealth Action Programme for the Digital Divide (CAPDD) held last week in London identified the national regulatory capacity as the key area for capacity building within the Commonwealth.

29.06.2005 Representatives of the “Familija” Ngo from Prijedor presented the Association of Roma of Prijedor Area with technical and office equipment. The donation, worth 12,000 KM (approximately 6,000 EUR), includes a TV set, VCR machine, CD-radio player/recorder, fax machine and one computer the software and hardware package.

29.06.2005 The Regional Environmental Center for Central and Eastern Europe (REC) has teamed up with Italian NGO L'Umana Dimora Onlus to add years of practical EU experience to its Training for Young Environmental Leaders programme. The programme provides advanced training in organisational development, project management and environmental topics in a stimulating international atmosphere.

29.06.2005 Journalists in Pakistan have reportedly filed dozens of access to information requests in the past six months as a result of workshops on press freedom organised by the Pakistan Press Foundation (PPF). Since December 2004, PPF has held workshops in seven communities throughout the country to train journalists on press freedom monitoring and free expression advocacy.

28.06.2005 Uganda Women Entrepreneurs Association Ltd (UWEAL) is training the uneducated women to market their products worldwide on the internet.

28.06.2005 The Millennium Campaign and Civicus have launched a comprehensive and easy-to-use Campaign toolkit for everyone who wants to put an end to extreme poverty by holding their elected leaders to account for the promises they made in the Millennium Declaration. Find out which skills you need and what tools are available, read helpful tips and learn which campaign resources you can draw on.

27.06.2005 Madrassas have all along remained the preserve of men but this one has broken new ground.

24.06.2005 Sri Lanka has opened e-Government Centre of Excellence.This centre is a result of a public private partnership between the Information and Communication Technology Agency of Sri Lanka (ICTA), the Sri Lanka Institute of Development Administration, and Millennium Information Technologies.

24.06.2005 Red Hat Scholarships is the first ever open source program of its kind in the world designed to encourage young talent and spread the open source philosophy that has created world class software like Linux, Apache and many other programs.

24.06.2005 Three case studies of community radio prepared by the Commonwealth of Learning and the UNESCO Regional Office for Education in Africa focus on various aspects of impact of radio on sustainable development.

22.06.2005 The Commonwealth Human Rights Initiative (CHRI) in collaboration with the Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) of the Government of India is organising a workshop - Police Public Interface: Making it Happen - in the central Indian city of Bhopal.

22.06.2005 4 - 19 July 2005 Bangkok, Thailand Regional Workshop on Accessible Web-based Information Networking

22.06.2005 The World Summit Award national contest in Nigeria, also known as the Nigerian eContent Awards , has been officially launched in Lagos.

22.06.2005 Blindness in Ethiopia results from a wide range of natural and man-made factors, and is also linked to underdevelopment and armed conflict.

22.06.2005 By sharing your IT skills to build capacity in developing countries of Africa, Asia you can also develop your management skills.

21.06.2005 Mimos president and chief executive officer Tengku Datuk Dr Mohd Azzman Shariffadeen suggested that the Islamic Development Bank (IDB) should set up a US$1 billion Knowledge and Information Communication Technology for Development (KICT4D) Fund and KICT4D Task Force to help accelerate KICT4D among its 55 member countries.

21.06.2005 The world's largest school as recognised by the Guinness Book has made its foray into the media world with the launch of an Educational Frequency Modulation (FM) Radio Channel.

20.06.2005 The quality of programmes sent in for the ABU-UNESCO TV Documentary Exchange this year has seen a significant improvement from material submitted in previous years.

20.06.2005 OneWorld South Asia is holding a training programme on local language web hosting and communication in the west Indian city of Pune on July 6-9, 2005. The training is targeted at grassroots and intermediary level civil society organisations and multi-stakeholder partners to expose them to the nuances of web-site creation, web-tools, and Plone content management system.