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Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency

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Name: Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency

First reported May 21 2013 - Updated May 22 2013 - 1 reports

Article: Stockholm Internet Forum - on the importance of an open and secure internet

Stockholm Internet Forum on the importance of an open and secure internetOn 22 - 23 May, the Ministry for Foreign Affairs, the Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency (Sida) and the Internet Infrastructure Foundation (.SE) are holding the ... [Published Government Offices of Sweden - May 21 2013]

Entities: Stockholm, Johan Hallenborg, Swedish International Development Cooperation A...

First reported May 21 2013 - Updated May 21 2013 - 1 reports

Carl Bildt

Article: SIF13 kicks off on 22 May

the Ministry for Foreign Affairs is holding SIF13, together with the Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency (Sida) and the Internet Infrastructure Foundation (.SE). Minister for Foreign Affairs Carl Bildt is hosting the conference, and preparations ... [Published Government Offices of Sweden - May 21 2013]

Entities: Trade Policy, Swedish International Development Cooperation A..., Carl Bildt, International Trade

First reported May 18 2013 - Updated May 18 2013 - 1 reports

Gov’t should have fewer duties, say experts

VietNamNet Bridge – The Government needs to adjust many of its roles and functions if wanting to achieve a healthier socioeconomic development, experts recommended at a conference held in Hanoi on Thursday.The conference held by the Central Institute ... [Published Bao Moi.com - May 18 2013]

Entities: Vietnam, State Bank of Vietnam, Fruit, Entrepreneur, Swedish International Development Cooperation A...

First reported May 14 2013 - Updated May 14 2013 - 1 reports

Integrating media and information literacy into Jordanian schools

In cooperation with the Jordan National Commission for UNESCO and Arab Women Media Center, UNESCO has been working to incorporate media and information literacy (MIL) into the Jordanian school curriculum by providing high school teachers and students ... [Published UNESCO - May 14 2013]

Entities: United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cul..., Amman, Education, Jordan, Freedom of Expression

First reported May 13 2013 - Updated May 13 2013 - 1 reports

Syrian Arab Republic: Sweden's humanitarian aid in 2013

Source: Government of SwedenCountry: Afghanistan, Somalia, Sweden, Syrian Arab Republic In 2012, Sweden was the third largest bilateral humanitarian donor in the world after the United States and the United Kingdom. Since 2005, Sweden's humanitarian aid ... [Published ReliefWeb - Latest Updates - May 13 2013]

Entities: Humanitarian Aid, Somalia, Syria

First reported May 13 2013 - Updated May 13 2013 - 1 reports

United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization

UNESCO publishes the second edition of Women and Media in the Maghreb newsletter

Within the framework of UNESCO’s global action to promote an enabling environment for freedom of expression in Arab countries funded by the Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency, UNESCO’s Office in Rabat publishes the second edition of ... [Published UNESCO - May 13 2013]

Entities: United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cul..., Maghreb, Rabat, Equality, Swedish International Development Cooperation A...

First reported May 13 2013 - Updated May 13 2013 - 1 reports

Gov’t should have fewer duties, say experts

HANOI – The Government needs to adjust many of its roles and functions if wanting to achieve a healthier socioeconomic development, experts recommended at a conference held in Hanoi on Thursday.The conference held by the Central Institute for Economic ... [Published Saigon Economic Times - May 13 2013]

Entities: Vietnam, State Bank of Vietnam, Fruit, Entrepreneur, Swedish International Development Cooperation A...

First reported May 08 2013 - Updated May 08 2013 - 1 reports

Somalia's lost generation: why youth employment is key to stability

Somalia's young population could be its greatest strength, but only if it tackles the sky-high unemployment and economic disenfranchisement Where can you search for hope when all you have ever known is conflict, poverty, loss and displacement? This is ... [Published Guardian.co.uk - May 08 2013]

Entities: Somalia, Swedish International Development Cooperation A..., Unemployment

First reported May 08 2013 - Updated May 08 2013 - 1 reports

Gaza Emergency Water Project

Improving Quality of and Access to Water and Wastewater Services in GazaIn spite of the serious damage inflicted on the water and wastewater infrastructure during the Intifada, the World Bank Group was able to respond quickly and effectively to restore ... [Published World Bank - May 08 2013]

Entities: Wastewater, Water Supply, emergency

First reported May 07 2013 - Updated May 07 2013 - 1 reports

MDI/SIDA Scholarship at University of Westminster in UK, 2013

Media Diversity Institute (MDI) and the Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency (SIDA) are offering MDI/SIDA Scholarship at University of Westminster in UK. Students must enroll for the full-time diversity and the media MA at the Westminster ... [Published Universities News - May 07 2013]

Entities: University of Westminster, The Diversity Institute, Swedish International Development Cooperation A..., United Kingdom

First reported May 02 2013 - Updated May 02 2013 - 1 reports

ODA use in 2012 drops more than a third -- NEDA

InterAksyon.comThe online news portal of TV5MANILA - The National Economic and Development Authority (NEDA) on Thursday said disbursement of foreign aid fell by more than a third last year after the Philippines failed to use up available loans from the ... [Published Interaksyon - May 02 2013]

Entities: World Bank Group, International Fund for Agricultural Development, International Cooperation, Swedish International Development Cooperation A..., Asian Development Bank

First reported Apr 29 2013 - Updated Apr 29 2013 - 1 reports

Despite sequestration, Obama funds homosexual groups in other countries

Tags: barack obama, usaidWASHINGTON, D.C., April 29, 2013 (C-FAM) - In the midst of sequestration cuts that have left flyers in American airports stranded in long delays and furloughed some federal workers, the Obama administration announced it will spend ... [Published LifeSite - Apr 29 2013]

Entities: LGBT, Sequestration, Homosexuality

Quotes

">“One of the greatest needs for women in the developing world is basic, accurate information about their health and hygiene,” said Racheal Meiers , BSR’s HERproject Director. “Our HERproject Toolbuilder provides this information through a simple, visual format that is universally accessible to women, regardless of whether they can read or whether they attend school. These tools can be printed out and widely shared where these women are gathering for work in factories and farms throughout the global supply chain.” "

BSR Launches Online Platform to Create Training Materials on Women’s Health in Developing Countries [Published theCSRfeed - May 22 2013]

In a statement, Aron Betru, managing director of PGH, said: "Leveraging innovative financing, we hope to help programmes achieve more impact with each deal, helping every donor dollar reach the end-user faster and with more value."

New financing partnership to speed delivery of medical aid [Published TrustLaw - May 20 2013]

"Teachers, students and local farmers will have a better awareness of landmines and UXO by receiving illustrated education day by day" he said

SOCIETY IN BRIEF 15/4 [Published Bao Moi.com - Apr 15 2013]

...ulnerability at Sida , by the Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency, described resilience as a "new type of result" and said that the "need to choose different indicators for measuring resilience [per se], in order to understand if adaptation has been achieved, seems not to have been considered in most planning processes"

Resilience: meaningless jargon or development solution? [Published Guardian.co.uk - Mar 05 2013]

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Norplan to work on Kakono project, Tanzania [Published International Water Power & Dam Construction - May 22 2013]
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The Internet and freedom for all [Published Philippine Center for Investigative Journalism - May 22 2013]
Stockholm Internet Forum to discuss internet, f... [Published News from the Swedish Government - May 21 2013]
Article: Stockholm Internet Forum - on the impo... [Published Government Offices of Sweden - May 21 2013]
Article: SIF13 kicks off on 22 May [Published Government Offices of Sweden - May 21 2013]
New financing partnership to speed delivery of ... [Published TrustLaw - May 20 2013]
Gov’t should have fewer duties, say experts [Published Bao Moi.com - May 18 2013]
Rwanda: Peace-building in Rwanda goes mobile [Published ReliefWeb - Latest Updates - May 15 2013]
Download multi-media materials commemorating Wo... [Published Ifex - May 15 2013]
Integrating media and information literacy into... [Published UNESCO - May 14 2013]
Democratic Republic of the Congo: Renewed fundi... [Published ReliefWeb - Latest Updates - May 14 2013]
Enforcement, Risk Management and Preferred Trad... [Published World Customs Organization - May 13 2013]
UNESCO publishes the second edition of Women an... [Published UNESCO - May 13 2013]
Syrian Arab Republic: Sweden's humanitarian aid... [Published ReliefWeb - Latest Updates - May 13 2013]
Svenskt näringsliv engagerat för minskad fattigdom [Published Nyheter från Sida - May 13 2013]
Gov’t should have fewer duties, say experts [Published Saigon Economic Times - May 13 2013]
Executive Board members visit Bosnia and Herzeg... [Published UNICEF - May 09 2013]
Somalia's lost generation: why youth employment... [Published Guardian.co.uk - May 08 2013]
Gaza Emergency Water Project [Published World Bank - May 08 2013]
MDI/SIDA Scholarship at University of Westminst... [Published Universities News - May 07 2013]
NDI Poll: GD Maintains Strong Support [Published Civil Georgia - May 03 2013]
ODA use in 2012 drops more than a third -- NEDA [Published Interaksyon - May 02 2013]
occupied Palestinian territory: Gaza Emergency ... [Published ReliefWeb - Latest Updates - May 01 2013]
Despite sequestration, Obama funds homosexual g... [Published LifeSite - Apr 29 2013]
Foreign Observers Witness Election ... [Published Bulatlat.com - Apr 28 2013]
Tunisia judicial human rights training, 2012-2013 [Published International Bar Association - Apr 25 2013]
Georgian Dream remains favorite political group... [Published Xinhua News Agency - Apr 22 2013]

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Stockholm Internet Forum to discuss internet, f... [Published News from the Swedish Government - May 21 2013] On 22 - 23 May, the Ministry for Foreign Affairs is holding the Stockholm Internet Forum on Internet Freedom for Global Development - SIF13 - together with the Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency (Sida) and the Internet Infrastructure ...
Svenskt näringsliv engagerat för minskad fattigdom [Published Nyheter från Sida - May 13 2013] På Sida samlas idag mer än tjugo svenska företagsledare tillsammans med Sidas generaldirektör Charlotte Petri Gornitzka, Ericssons Vd Hans Vestberg och Columbia-professor Jeffrey D Sachs. Syftet med mötet är att föda in näringslivets roll i de nya, mer ...
Claiming the city [Published The Nordic Africa Institute Homepage - Apr 15 2013] Half of the world’s population lives in cities, and a growing proportion – today one billion – lives in “slums” and informal settlements. Many of the urban poor engage in collective strategies to secure their housing, earn a living, and defend their ...
MICROCAPITAL BRIEF: Itau Unibanco of Brazil Com... [Published MicroCapital - Mar 11 2013] Brazilian bank Itau Unibanco recently joined the Business Call to Action (BCtA), a multi-organization initiative that seeks to reduce poverty through the private sector in support of the United Nations Millenium Development Goals (MDGs). Itau Unibanco ...
Women’s Day in Turkey – a Working Day [Published blogs.worldbank.org - Mar 07 2013] Having lived in many countries throughout the former Soviet Union over the last nine years, I am familiar with International Women’s Day as a holiday. In Turkey , however, Women’s Day remains a work day. And quite appropriately so, it seems to me. ...

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Davos 2013 - Open Forum: NGOs as New Models for... [Published World Economic Forum - YouTube - Feb 12 2013]