This year 2011 is the 100^th anniversary of the International Women’s Day. The African Diaspora Professional Women in Europe (ADIPWE) is compiling the list of  Inspirational Female of African origin in Europe. Could you please help us to put a high quality list together and increase their visibility?

The list will be published in the first week of March. Please click on the link below to nominate your inspirational woman now…

... and opportunities in the telecommunications (especially in rural areas) for the private sector !

This article shows that liberalization and privatization cannot come without re-distributive policies and social safety nets due to the changes the society undergoes in the meantime. But this also means new openings and opportunities to act for social businesses: be it in education, health, or telecommunications sectors

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 I logged on to Facebook this morning, and had a message from a friend that runs an NGO in rural Benin, a small country in West Africa.  

"We have a number of tailors & artisans waiting for us to start Novi Boutik (the NGO's online store), but I don't even know how we are going to get sample products, or provide start-up funding for them."

There are so many…

Southeast Asia is a hub for human trafficking.  So often, young girls are lured by traffickers through promises of well paying jobs in the cities.  If you have read Half the Sky, by Nicholas Kristof and his wife Sheryl Wudunn, you will already be aware of the horrors endured by women and girls caught in the web of modern day slavery, and if you don't know, read the book.  It's easy to read but hard to handle.

I write for a…

Though the title seems pessimistic, Kenya's always been one of the more developed Sub-Sarahan African countries, with a great education system. After a big crisis, it now seems back on track...

Check out this article:

http://www.poverties.org/poverty-in-kenya.html

BALLE (Business Alliance for Local Living Economies) is launching a new COMMUNITY CAPITAL series—monthly Webinars and an all-day Intensive at the BALLE Business Conference on June 14. Free Webinar on Feb. 1 with BALLE’s Michael Shuman and RSF Social Finance’s Don Shaffer. This is a ‘how-to’ series with specific case studies for strengthening healthy place-based economies by connecting…

Smith & Nephew plc (LSE: SN, NYSE: SNN), the global medical technology business, and the World Environment Center (WEC) jointly announced today that Smith & Nephew has been elected as WEC’s newest Corporate Member. Headquartered in London, England, Smith & Nephew operates in 32 countries, with major manufacturing operations in the U.S. and the…

.. our contribution to fight poverty:



Green Energy Parks (GrEnPa) are small commercial developments in rural areas that convert biomass (agricultural residues) into energy, chemicals and commercial products. They'll provide rural jobs, contribute to food security (additional farming revenue) and its goods replace fossil based products (negative CO2 Footprint!).

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The beginning of a new year offers an opportunity for a fresh start full of good intentions.2010 marked the beginning of a new decade with great hopes for sustainable development including biodiversity – BUT it  was not a good year for global sustainable development. It was marked  and marred by an entirely preventable, highly publicised, major environmental disaster and, in the main, a “business as usual” approach.

It was also marked by increased calls for true sustainability versus…

Ethiopian government has been putting much efforts in recent years in seriously developing the country, but it still faces the challenge of an all-pervasive, widespread poverty. Where to begin? Roads apparently...

http://www.poverties.org/poverty-in-ethiopia.html

http://www.undp.org/latinamerica/biodiversity-superpower/Index.htm

I wrote the chapter on Tourism.

Ethiopia Becomes Second Fastest Growing Economy in SSA…

Economic growth and development has traditionally been subject of economics since Adam Smith and it is still focused by theoretical, methodological practical experts as well. Despite our increasing knowledge, the international community emphasise and point to the importance of research into this field. The relation between the economic growth and the development of a nation is excessively debated among the economists and the international development agencies. In the case of Zambia…