*PRGA Newsletter issue No. 25 September 2007
Bank-Based Group Brings Bank Services to Isolated and Poor
Basic, everyday financial services like opening a bank account are out of reach for more than two billion people in developing countries. But that gap is being closed under an initiative launched by CGAP, a global resource center for the microfinance industry housed at the World Bank.
ADB Seeks Funding to Strengthen Poverty Alleviation Efforts
Asian Development Bank representatives called for intensified efforts to fight poverty during discussions on the Asian Development Fund (ADF), an endowment used to provide grants and low-interest loans to some of Asia and the Pacific’s poorest nations.
Launch of UN Action Plan to Empower Women
Wednesday September 19 2007 marked the official launch in Kinshasa's Grand Hotel of UN resolution 1325 in the DRC, entitled "Women, Peace and Security." The resolution envisages an action plan aimed at empowering women in order to have gender equality and a durable peace, where there is no impunity for sexual violence and other human rights violations against women.
PRGA Program Recommended Resources
These booklets belong to the series on Promoting Local Innovation based on actual experiences of partners in the PROLINOVA Program.
The series covers, among others, the following topics:
- Facilitating multi-stakeholder partnerships
- Recognizing local innovation
- Stimulating and supporting joint experimentation
- Managing local innovation funds
- Farmer-led documentation and sharing
- Stimulating institutional and policy change
The booklets are now available in our PRGA Program web-site Recommended Resources
Open Nominations for PRGA Program Advisory Board positions
Current positions waiting for new appointments: NRM representative, Farmer representative, CGIAR representative
Deadline November 2th
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Deadline extension until: October 31/07
Call for “Practical Notes” for a special issue of Development in Practice
FROM THEORY TO THE PRACTICE: OPERATIONALIZING PARTICIPATORY RESEARCH AND GENDER ANALYSIS
Contributions deadline extension until: October 31, 2007
Practical Notes
Concise accounts of up to 3000 words usually of an empirical nature concerning a particular experience or topic, but presented in a way that will interest a wide international readership.
Rethinking Impact Workshop: Capturing the Complexity of Poverty and Change
In association with the CGIAR's Institutional Learning and Change (ILAC) Initiative and Innovation Works, and the Sustainability Science Program of the Center for International Development (Harvard University), the PRGA Program is co-organizing a workshop on 'Rethinking Impact: Capturing the Complexity of Poverty and Change,' at CIAT headquarters, Cali, Colombia, March 26-28, 2008.
Prospective participants are requested to submit an abstract by November 9, 2007.
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