Full coverage: Capacity building

30.05.2008 Short interviews with Addis Bekalu, 18, from Ethiopia, Sanchita Rani Das, 17, from Bangladesh, and several other young women illustrate how empowering an adolescent girl can make the world a better place.
From: The Girl Effect

30.05.2008 Delhi based Centre for Women's Development Studies announces a two-week certificate course on Women's Studies beginning June 30, 2008 in the Indian capital. The course will focus on women's roles in society and current economic trends which affect their lives and status.

27.05.2008 Women have a significant role in environmental management and disaster risk reduction. Taking forward this line of thought, the third Global Congress of Women in politics and governance will define an action agenda for parliamentarians to adopt gender responsive legislation and programs for climate change.

27.05.2008 OneWorld South Asia has signed a MoU with Government of Rajasthan in western India to set up its LifeLines Education Services – a phone based information service for rural teachers in the state. The project, jointly monitored by Rajasthan Education Initiative and UNICEF, will provide support to teaching and learning exercises in villages.

23.05.2008 The Indian capital is home to hundreds of thousands of shelterless people who die without an identity, and are cremated as unclaimed. A local NGO and the Union Bank of India are now providing ATM cards to help them gain a sense of pride and acceptance in society.

22.05.2008 Ahead of the April elections, Nepalese women from all walks of life worked with an international women's empowerment group to articulate the changes they want to see in their country and to put their demands into action.

21.05.2008 Progress on UN Millennium Development Goals can succeed only if disaster risk reduction is made an integral part of the strategy. Disaster proofing the Millennium Development Goals outlines some risk management techniques to ensure smooth progress on MDGs.

19.05.2008 Marking the World Telecommunication and Information Society Day, the UN's International Telecommunications Union awarded DAISY Consortium for its efforts to enable equal access to information and knowledge by the disabled. DAISY is a worldwide organisation of libraries and ICT companies representing 35 countries including India and Bangladesh in South Asia.

19.05.2008 Marking the World Telecommunication and Information Society Day, the UN's International Telecommunications Union awarded DAISY Consortium for its efforts to enable equal access to information and knowledge by the disabled. DAISY is a worldwide organisation of libraries and ICT companies representing 35 countries including India and Bangladesh in South Asia.

19.05.2008 OneWorld South Asia as part of its Ek Duniya Web Services initiative is organising a training programme on Local Language Web Hosting and Communication from June 23-26, 2008 in New Delhi. The aim is to empower grassroots level organisations to build their own websites and generate effective content on development issues.

19.05.2008 OneWorld South Asia as part of its Ek Duniya Web Services initiative is organising a training programme on Local Language Web Hosting and Communication from June 23-26, 2008 in New Delhi. The aim is to empower grassroots level organisations to build their own websites and generate effective content on development issues.

15.05.2008 An ICT project in Sri Lanka is enabling people with disabilities to avail opportunities and live in an inclusive society. The eNABLE project – with Braille-equipped computers, a software to convert text into speech, a group hearing system and host of other facilities – links them with others at global and national levels.

15.05.2008 Walter Fust, former Director-General of the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC) envisions a knowledge safety net where human values go beyond the statistics of the Gross National Product (GNP). He acknowledges telecentre.org’s work in enabling people to benefit from the transformative power of technology.

13.05.2008 Best practices in preventing and eliminating child labor through education by Child Rights Information Network helps users design and implement capacity-building activities for children in situations of child labour. The book documents experiences of over 80 NGOs and possibilities of change through educational interventions.

12.05.2008 Software giant Bill Gates has promised to provide students in Indonesia with low-cost computers and free software. This will greatly help the government seeking to introduce a million computers for educational purposes.

12.05.2008 A small village in rural Kerala has successfully dealt with the onslaught of globalisation. Farmer groups and a distribution and retail network by the local community have helped producers get maximum returns for their farm produce and traditional products. The farmers are now happy with the elimination of middlemen.

08.05.2008 Freelance journalist and social activist Swagat Thorat in western India publishes a fortnightly called Sparshgyaan in local language for the visually impaired. In view of the limited availability of literature in Braille, this can be described as commendable effort.

07.05.2008 New mobile text message service called Reuters Market Light has made it easier for poor farmers in western India to get farm-related information. By subscribing to the service they can get regular updates on their mobiles about weather forecasts, pest attacks and daily market prices for their produce.

07.05.2008 NEW YORK, May 6 (OneWorld) - Women's rights advocates in the United States have launched a novel global initiative aiming to help millions of women across the world who face violence at the hands of men.

06.05.2008 India's National Rural Employment Guarantee Act has increased the bargaining power of the poor, felt participants at a recent consultation by Indian anti-poverty network WNTA in the capital. They also called for increased investment by the government for effective monitoring of the scheme.