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v:ext="edit"> <o:idmap v:ext="edit" data="1"/> </o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--> </head> <body bgcolor=white lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=blue style='tab-interval:.5in'> <div class=Section1> <table class=MsoNormalTable border=1 cellspacing=0 cellpadding=0 width=679 style='width:509.4pt;border-collapse:collapse;border:none;mso-border-alt:solid navy 3.0pt; mso-yfti-tbllook:480;mso-padding-alt:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt;mso-border-insideh: 4.5pt thin-thick-small-gap navy;mso-border-insidev:4.5pt thin-thick-small-gap navy'> <tr style='mso-yfti-irow:0;mso-yfti-firstrow:yes'> <td width=679 valign=top style='width:509.4pt;border:solid navy 3.0pt; padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt'> <p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center;background:#B4FFFF; mso-shading:windowtext;mso-pattern:horz-stripe aqua'><a name="_top"></a><b><span style='font-family:"Century Gothic","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family:JasmineUPC; color:navy;background:#E7FFFF;mso-shading:windowtext;mso-pattern:horz-stripe #CCFFFF'><br> </span></b><b><span style='font-size:34.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:18.0pt; font-family:"Century Gothic","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family:JasmineUPC; color:navy;background:#E7FFFF;mso-shading:windowtext;mso-pattern:horz-stripe #CCFFFF'>V</span></b><b><span style='font-size:29.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Century Gothic","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family:JasmineUPC;color:navy;background:#E7FFFF;mso-shading: windowtext;mso-pattern:horz-stripe #CCFFFF'>DIC </span></b><b><span style='font-size:34.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Century Gothic","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family:JasmineUPC;color:navy;background:#E7FFFF;mso-shading: windowtext;mso-pattern:horz-stripe #CCFFFF'>N</span></b><b><span style='font-size:29.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Century Gothic","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family:JasmineUPC;color:navy;background:#E7FFFF;mso-shading: windowtext;mso-pattern:horz-stripe #CCFFFF'>EWSLETTER</span></b><span style='font-size:23.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt;font-family:".VnCooper","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family:Arial;color:fuchsia;background:#E7FFFF;mso-shading:windowtext; mso-pattern:horz-stripe #CCFFFF'><br> </span><span style='font-size:23.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt;font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";color:#993300;background:#E7FFFF;mso-shading:windowtext; mso-pattern:horz-stripe #CCFFFF'>July </span><span style='font-size:23.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Trebuchet MS","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;color:#993300;background:#E7FFFF;mso-shading:windowtext;mso-pattern: horz-stripe #CCFFFF'>2009<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center;background:#B4FFFF; mso-shading:windowtext;mso-pattern:horz-stripe aqua'><span style='font-family: ".VnCooper","sans-serif";color:fuchsia'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style='mso-yfti-irow:1'> <td width=679 valign=top style='width:509.4pt;border:solid navy 3.0pt; border-top:none;mso-border-top-alt:solid navy 3.0pt;padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt'> <p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";color:green'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></b></p> <p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";color:green'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></b></p> <p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";color:green'>CONTENTS<o:p></o:p></span></b></p> <p class=MsoNormal><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p> <p class=MsoToc1><!--[if supportFields]><span style='mso-element:field-begin'></span><span style='mso-spacerun:yes'> </span>TOC \o &quot;1-2&quot; \f \h \z \u <span style='mso-element:field-separator'></span><![endif]--><span class=MsoHyperlink><span style='mso-no-proof:yes'><a href="#_Toc234218791">VDIC News<span style='color:black;display:none;mso-hide:screen;text-decoration: none;text-underline:none'><span style='mso-tab-count:1 dotted'>. </span></span><!--[if supportFields]><span style='color:black;display:none;mso-hide:screen;text-decoration:none; text-underline:none'><span style='mso-element:field-begin'></span> PAGEREF _Toc234218791 \h <span style='mso-element:field-separator'></span></span><![endif]--><span style='color:black;display:none;mso-hide:screen;text-decoration:none; text-underline:none'>1<!--[if gte mso 9]><xml> <w:data>08D0C9EA79F9BACE118C8200AA004BA90B02000000080000000E0000005F0054006F0063003200330034003200310038003700390031000000</w:data> </xml><![endif]--></span><!--[if supportFields]><span style='color:black; display:none;mso-hide:screen;text-decoration:none;text-underline:none'><span style='mso-element:field-end'></span></span><![endif]--></a></span></span><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:windowtext; font-weight:normal;mso-no-proof:yes'><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoToc2><span class=MsoHyperlink><span style='mso-no-proof:yes'><a href="#_Toc234218792"><span style='font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"'>Free Training Sessions Provided by VDIC</span><span style='color:black;display: none;mso-hide:screen;text-decoration:none;text-underline:none'><span style='mso-tab-count:1 dotted'>.. </span></span><!--[if supportFields]><span style='color:black;display:none;mso-hide:screen;text-decoration:none; text-underline:none'><span style='mso-element:field-begin'></span> PAGEREF _Toc234218792 \h <span style='mso-element:field-separator'></span></span><![endif]--><span style='color:black;display:none;mso-hide:screen;text-decoration:none; text-underline:none'>1<!--[if gte mso 9]><xml> <w:data>08D0C9EA79F9BACE118C8200AA004BA90B02000000080000000E0000005F0054006F0063003200330034003200310038003700390032000000</w:data> </xml><![endif]--></span><!--[if supportFields]><span style='color:black; display:none;mso-hide:screen;text-decoration:none;text-underline:none'><span style='mso-element:field-end'></span></span><![endif]--></a></span></span><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:windowtext; font-style:normal;mso-no-proof:yes'><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoToc2><span class=MsoHyperlink><span style='mso-no-proof:yes'><a href="#_Toc234218793"><span style='font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"'>Exhibitions at VDIC</span><span style='color:black;display:none;mso-hide:screen; text-decoration:none;text-underline:none'><span style='mso-tab-count:1 dotted'>.. </span></span><!--[if supportFields]><span style='color:black;display:none;mso-hide:screen;text-decoration:none; text-underline:none'><span style='mso-element:field-begin'></span> PAGEREF _Toc234218793 \h <span style='mso-element:field-separator'></span></span><![endif]--><span style='color:black;display:none;mso-hide:screen;text-decoration:none; text-underline:none'>1<!--[if gte mso 9]><xml> <w:data>08D0C9EA79F9BACE118C8200AA004BA90B02000000080000000E0000005F0054006F0063003200330034003200310038003700390033000000</w:data> </xml><![endif]--></span><!--[if supportFields]><span style='color:black; display:none;mso-hide:screen;text-decoration:none;text-underline:none'><span style='mso-element:field-end'></span></span><![endif]--></a></span></span><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:windowtext; font-style:normal;mso-no-proof:yes'><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoToc1><span class=MsoHyperlink><span style='mso-no-proof:yes'><a href="#_Toc234218794">Library<span style='color:black;display:none; mso-hide:screen;text-decoration:none;text-underline:none'><span style='mso-tab-count:1 dotted'>. </span></span><!--[if supportFields]><span style='color:black;display:none;mso-hide:screen;text-decoration:none; text-underline:none'><span style='mso-element:field-begin'></span> PAGEREF _Toc234218794 \h <span style='mso-element:field-separator'></span></span><![endif]--><span style='color:black;display:none;mso-hide:screen;text-decoration:none; text-underline:none'>2<!--[if gte mso 9]><xml> <w:data>08D0C9EA79F9BACE118C8200AA004BA90B02000000080000000E0000005F0054006F0063003200330034003200310038003700390034000000</w:data> </xml><![endif]--></span><!--[if supportFields]><span style='color:black; display:none;mso-hide:screen;text-decoration:none;text-underline:none'><span style='mso-element:field-end'></span></span><![endif]--></a></span></span><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:windowtext; font-weight:normal;mso-no-proof:yes'><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoToc2><span class=MsoHyperlink><span style='mso-no-proof:yes'><a href="#_Toc234218795"><span style='font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"'>Selected Resources on education and health for women and girls at VDIC</span><span style='color:black;display:none;mso-hide:screen;text-decoration:none; text-underline:none'><span style='mso-tab-count:1 dotted'>.. </span></span><!--[if supportFields]><span style='color:black;display:none;mso-hide:screen;text-decoration:none; text-underline:none'><span style='mso-element:field-begin'></span> PAGEREF _Toc234218795 \h <span style='mso-element:field-separator'></span></span><![endif]--><span style='color:black;display:none;mso-hide:screen;text-decoration:none; text-underline:none'>2<!--[if gte mso 9]><xml> <w:data>08D0C9EA79F9BACE118C8200AA004BA90B02000000080000000E0000005F0054006F0063003200330034003200310038003700390035000000</w:data> </xml><![endif]--></span><!--[if supportFields]><span style='color:black; display:none;mso-hide:screen;text-decoration:none;text-underline:none'><span style='mso-element:field-end'></span></span><![endif]--></a></span></span><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:windowtext; font-style:normal;mso-no-proof:yes'><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoToc2><span class=MsoHyperlink><span style='mso-no-proof:yes'><a href="#_Toc234218796"><span style='font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"'>Highlights from the New Additions to VDIC Library</span><span style='color:black; display:none;mso-hide:screen;text-decoration:none;text-underline:none'><span style='mso-tab-count:1 dotted'>.. </span></span><!--[if supportFields]><span style='color:black;display:none;mso-hide:screen;text-decoration:none; text-underline:none'><span style='mso-element:field-begin'></span> PAGEREF _Toc234218796 \h <span style='mso-element:field-separator'></span></span><![endif]--><span style='color:black;display:none;mso-hide:screen;text-decoration:none; text-underline:none'>2<!--[if gte mso 9]><xml> <w:data>08D0C9EA79F9BACE118C8200AA004BA90B02000000080000000E0000005F0054006F0063003200330034003200310038003700390036000000</w:data> </xml><![endif]--></span><!--[if supportFields]><span style='color:black; display:none;mso-hide:screen;text-decoration:none;text-underline:none'><span style='mso-element:field-end'></span></span><![endif]--></a></span></span><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:windowtext; font-style:normal;mso-no-proof:yes'><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoToc1><span class=MsoHyperlink><span style='mso-no-proof:yes'><a href="#_Toc234218797">Selected New Publications for Sale at VDIC<span style='color:black;display:none;mso-hide:screen;text-decoration:none; text-underline:none'><span style='mso-tab-count:1 dotted'>.. </span></span><!--[if supportFields]><span style='color:black;display:none;mso-hide:screen;text-decoration:none; text-underline:none'><span style='mso-element:field-begin'></span> PAGEREF _Toc234218797 \h <span style='mso-element:field-separator'></span></span><![endif]--><span style='color:black;display:none;mso-hide:screen;text-decoration:none; text-underline:none'>4<!--[if gte mso 9]><xml> <w:data>08D0C9EA79F9BACE118C8200AA004BA90B02000000080000000E0000005F0054006F0063003200330034003200310038003700390037000000</w:data> </xml><![endif]--></span><!--[if supportFields]><span style='color:black; display:none;mso-hide:screen;text-decoration:none;text-underline:none'><span style='mso-element:field-end'></span></span><![endif]--></a></span></span><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:windowtext; font-weight:normal;mso-no-proof:yes'><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoToc1><span class=MsoHyperlink><span style='mso-no-proof:yes'><a href="#_Toc234218798">Distance Learning Center Events in July 2009<span style='color:black;display:none;mso-hide:screen;text-decoration:none; text-underline:none'><span style='mso-tab-count:1 dotted'>. </span></span><!--[if supportFields]><span style='color:black;display:none;mso-hide:screen;text-decoration:none; text-underline:none'><span style='mso-element:field-begin'></span> PAGEREF _Toc234218798 \h <span style='mso-element:field-separator'></span></span><![endif]--><span style='color:black;display:none;mso-hide:screen;text-decoration:none; text-underline:none'>7<!--[if gte mso 9]><xml> <w:data>08D0C9EA79F9BACE118C8200AA004BA90B02000000080000000E0000005F0054006F0063003200330034003200310038003700390038000000</w:data> </xml><![endif]--></span><!--[if supportFields]><span style='color:black; display:none;mso-hide:screen;text-decoration:none;text-underline:none'><span style='mso-element:field-end'></span></span><![endif]--></a></span></span><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:windowtext; font-weight:normal;mso-no-proof:yes'><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoToc1><span class=MsoHyperlink><span style='mso-no-proof:yes'><a href="#_Toc234218799">Information on Development Projects in Vietnam<span style='color:black;display:none;mso-hide:screen;text-decoration:none; text-underline:none'><span style='mso-tab-count:1 dotted'>... </span></span><!--[if supportFields]><span style='color:black;display:none;mso-hide:screen;text-decoration:none; text-underline:none'><span style='mso-element:field-begin'></span> PAGEREF _Toc234218799 \h <span style='mso-element:field-separator'></span></span><![endif]--><span style='color:black;display:none;mso-hide:screen;text-decoration:none; text-underline:none'>7<!--[if gte mso 9]><xml> <w:data>08D0C9EA79F9BACE118C8200AA004BA90B02000000080000000E0000005F0054006F0063003200330034003200310038003700390039000000</w:data> </xml><![endif]--></span><!--[if supportFields]><span style='color:black; display:none;mso-hide:screen;text-decoration:none;text-underline:none'><span style='mso-element:field-end'></span></span><![endif]--></a></span></span><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:windowtext; font-weight:normal;mso-no-proof:yes'><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoToc2><span class=MsoHyperlink><span style='mso-no-proof:yes'><a href="#_Toc234218800"><span style='font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"'>New Disclosure World Bank Operational Project Documents for Vietnam</span><span style='color:black;display:none;mso-hide:screen;text-decoration:none; text-underline:none'><span style='mso-tab-count:1 dotted'>... </span></span><!--[if supportFields]><span style='color:black;display:none;mso-hide:screen;text-decoration:none; text-underline:none'><span style='mso-element:field-begin'></span> PAGEREF _Toc234218800 \h <span style='mso-element:field-separator'></span></span><![endif]--><span style='color:black;display:none;mso-hide:screen;text-decoration:none; text-underline:none'>7<!--[if gte mso 9]><xml> <w:data>08D0C9EA79F9BACE118C8200AA004BA90B02000000080000000E0000005F0054006F0063003200330034003200310038003800300030000000</w:data> </xml><![endif]--></span><!--[if supportFields]><span style='color:black; display:none;mso-hide:screen;text-decoration:none;text-underline:none'><span style='mso-element:field-end'></span></span><![endif]--></a></span></span><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:windowtext; font-style:normal;mso-no-proof:yes'><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoToc1><span class=MsoHyperlink><span style='mso-no-proof:yes'><a href="#_Toc234218801">Funding Opportunities<span style='color:black; display:none;mso-hide:screen;text-decoration:none;text-underline:none'><span style='mso-tab-count:1 dotted'>. </span></span><!--[if supportFields]><span style='color:black;display:none;mso-hide:screen;text-decoration:none; text-underline:none'><span style='mso-element:field-begin'></span> PAGEREF _Toc234218801 \h <span style='mso-element:field-separator'></span></span><![endif]--><span style='color:black;display:none;mso-hide:screen;text-decoration:none; text-underline:none'>9<!--[if gte mso 9]><xml> <w:data>08D0C9EA79F9BACE118C8200AA004BA90B02000000080000000E0000005F0054006F0063003200330034003200310038003800300031000000</w:data> </xml><![endif]--></span><!--[if supportFields]><span style='color:black; display:none;mso-hide:screen;text-decoration:none;text-underline:none'><span style='mso-element:field-end'></span></span><![endif]--></a></span></span><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:windowtext; font-weight:normal;mso-no-proof:yes'><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal><!--[if supportFields]><span style='mso-element:field-end'></span><![endif]--><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p> </td> </tr> <tr style='mso-yfti-irow:2'> <td width=679 valign=top style='width:509.4pt;border:solid navy 3.0pt; border-top:none;mso-border-top-alt:solid navy 3.0pt;padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt'> <h1 style='margin-top:0in;background:#33CCCC'><a name="_Toc234218791"></a><a name="_Toc192156835"></a><a name="_Toc163040071"></a><a name="_Toc130022841"></a><a name="_Toc130014230"></a><a name="_Toc129762544"></a><a name="_Toc129691316"></a><a name="_Toc129691317"><span style='mso-bookmark:_Toc129691316'><span style='mso-bookmark:_Toc129762544'><span style='mso-bookmark:_Toc130014230'><span style='mso-bookmark:_Toc130022841'><span style='mso-bookmark:_Toc163040071'><span style='mso-bookmark:_Toc192156835'><span style='mso-bookmark:_Toc234218791'><span style='font-size:20.0pt;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";color:blue'>VDIC News</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></a><span style='font-size:20.0pt;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";color:blue'> </span><span style='font-size:20.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-bidi-font-family:Verdana; color:blue'><o:p></o:p></span></h1> <p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:3.0pt;background:#CCFFFF'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p> <h2 style='margin-top:0in;background:#CCFFFF'><a name="_Toc234218792"></a><a name="_Toc192156836"><span style='mso-bookmark:_Toc234218792'><span style='font-size:9.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";color:green;font-style:normal'>Free Training Sessions Provided by VDIC</span></span></a><span style='font-size: 9.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";color:green;font-style:normal'> <o:p></o:p></span></h2> <p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:3.0pt;tab-stops:68.1pt;background: #CCFFFF'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:9.0pt; font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family:Verdana'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></b></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:3.0pt;tab-stops:68.1pt;background: #CCFFFF'><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family:Verdana'>Location: <span style='mso-tab-count:1'>       </span>VDIC, Ground Floor, 63 Ly Thai To, <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:City w:st="on">Hanoi</st1:City></st1:place><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:3.0pt;tab-stops:68.1pt;background: #CCFFFF'><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family:Verdana'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoBodyTextIndent3 style='margin-top:0in;margin-right:0in; margin-bottom:3.0pt;margin-left:0in;background:#CCFFFF'><u><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana;color:red'>IMPORTANT NOTICES FOR PARTICIPANTS</span></u><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana;color:black'>: <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoBodyTextIndent3 style='margin-top:0in;margin-right:0in; margin-bottom:3.0pt;margin-left:0in;background:#CCFFFF'><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana;color:black'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoBodyTextIndent3 style='margin-top:0in;margin-right:0in; margin-bottom:3.0pt;margin-left:0in;background:#CCFFFF'><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana;color:black'>* Please read the course materials available online at </span><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana'><a href="http://www.vdic.org.vn/?name=library&amp;op=viewDetailNews&amp;id=339&amp;mid=322&amp;cmid=361">http://www.vdic.org.vn/?name=library&amp;op=viewDetailNews&amp;id=339&amp;mid=322&amp;cmid=361</a> <span style='color:black'>before attending the class. It is useful to take them to the class for additional notes since we do not provide participants with printed course materials. <o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p class=MsoBodyTextIndent3 style='margin-top:0in;margin-right:0in; margin-bottom:3.0pt;margin-left:0in;background:#CCFFFF'><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana;color:black'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoBodyTextIndent3 style='margin-top:0in;margin-right:0in; margin-bottom:3.0pt;margin-left:0in;background:#CCFFFF'><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana;color:black'>* Please bring your own laptop to the classes if possible since these training sessions require computer use and Internet access while number of computers for class participants are limited. Wifi is provided free of charge at VDIC.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:3.0pt;background:#CCFFFF'><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:3.0pt;background:#CCFFFF'><u><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana'> Searching the Internet: basic skills class<o:p></o:p></span></u></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:3.0pt;tab-stops:68.1pt;background: #CCFFFF'><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family:Verdana'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:3.0pt;tab-stops:68.1pt;background: #CCFFFF'><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family:Verdana'>Date: <span style='mso-tab-count:1'>             </span>July 23, 2009 -- Time: 09:30am to 12:00 <st1:time Minute="00" Hour="12" w:st="on">noon</st1:time><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:3.0pt;tab-stops:68.1pt;background: #CCFFFF'><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family:Verdana'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:3.0pt;tab-stops:68.1pt;background: #CCFFFF'><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family:Verdana'>Aims: <span style='mso-tab-count:1'>             </span>After the workshop, participants should: (i) have a better understanding of information-finding possibilities on the Internet (ii) have a broad overview of different search tools (iii) be able to phrase search queries effectively.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:3.0pt;background:#CCFFFF'><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:3.0pt;background:#CCFFFF'><u><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana'> Referencing skills plus EndNote instructions<o:p></o:p></span></u></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:3.0pt;tab-stops:68.1pt;background: #CCFFFF'><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family:Verdana'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:3.0pt;tab-stops:68.1pt;background: #CCFFFF'><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family:Verdana'>Date: <span style='mso-tab-count:1'>             </span>July 23, 2009 -- Time: 01:30pm to 04:30pm<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:3.0pt;tab-stops:68.1pt;background: #CCFFFF'><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family:Verdana'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:3.0pt;tab-stops:68.1pt;background: #CCFFFF'><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family:Verdana'>Aims: <span style='mso-tab-count:1'>             </span>After the workshop, participants should know how to: (i) manage their references (ii) cite the references appropriately (iii) create a reference list or bibliography and (iv) learn how to use EndNote software to automatically manage your referencing works.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:3.0pt;tab-stops:68.1pt;background: #CCFFFF'><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family:Verdana'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <h2 style='margin-top:0in;background:#CCFFFF'><a name="_Toc234218793"></a><a name="_Toc192156837"><span style='mso-bookmark:_Toc234218793'><span style='font-size:9.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";color:green;font-style:normal'>Exhibitions at VDIC</span></span></a><span style='font-size:9.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size: 14.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman"; color:green;font-style:normal'> <o:p></o:p></span></h2> <p class=MsoBodyTextIndent3 align=center style='margin-top:0in;margin-right: 0in;margin-bottom:3.0pt;margin-left:0in;text-align:center;background:#CCFFFF'><i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family:Verdana;color:#993300'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></i></p> <p class=MsoBodyTextIndent3 align=center style='margin-top:0in;margin-right: 0in;margin-bottom:3.0pt;margin-left:0in;text-align:center;background:#CCFFFF'><i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family:Verdana;color:#993300'>Please see Library section for lists of selected resources on the exhibition themes below.<o:p></o:p></span></i></p> <p class=MsoBodyTextIndent3 style='margin-top:0in;margin-right:0in; margin-bottom:3.0pt;margin-left:0in;background:#CCFFFF'><u><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana;color:black'><o:p><span style='text-decoration:none'>&nbsp;</span></o:p></span></u></p> <p class=MsoBodyTextIndent3 style='margin-top:0in;margin-right:0in; margin-bottom:3.0pt;margin-left:0in;background:#CCFFFF'><u><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana;color:black'>11 July 2009 - World Population Day  Investing in women is a smart choice<o:p></o:p></span></u></p> <p class=MsoBodyTextIndent3 style='background:#CCFFFF'><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana;color:black'>No one knows yet what the full scale of this global economic crisis will look like. We do know that women and children in developing countries will bear the brunt of the impact. What started as a financial crisis in rich countries is now deepening into a global economic crisis that is hitting developing countries hard. It is already affecting progress toward reducing poverty. <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoBodyTextIndent3 style='background:#CCFFFF'><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana;color:black'>Policy responses that build on women's roles as economic agents can do a lot to mitigate the effects of the crisis on development, especially because women, more than men, invest their earnings in the health and education of their children. Investments in public health, education, child care and other social services help mitigate the impact of the crisis on the entire family and raise productivity for a healthier economy. <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoBodyTextIndent3 style='margin-top:0in;margin-right:0in; margin-bottom:3.0pt;margin-left:0in;background:#CCFFFF'><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana;color:black'>Investments in education and health for women and girls have been linked to increases in productivity, agricultural yields, and national income  all of which contribute to the achievement of the MDGs. Investments by governments worldwide have raised school enrolment rates, narrowed the gender gap in education, brought life-saving drugs to people living with AIDS, expanded HIV prevention, delivered bed nets to prevent malaria, and improved child health through immunization. <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoBodyTextIndent3 style='margin-top:0in;margin-right:0in; margin-bottom:3.0pt;margin-left:0in;background:#CCFFFF'><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana;color:black'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoBodyTextIndent3 style='margin-top:0in;margin-right:0in; margin-bottom:3.0pt;margin-left:0in;background:#CCFFFF'><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana;color:black'>Small exhibition at VDIC provides brief information on this topic. <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoBodyTextIndent3 align=right style='margin-top:0in;margin-right: 0in;margin-bottom:3.0pt;margin-left:0in;text-align:right;background:#CCFFFF'><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana;color:black'><a href="#_top">Back to top</a><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoBodyTextIndent3 style='margin-top:0in;margin-right:0in; margin-bottom:3.0pt;margin-left:0in;background:#CCFFFF'><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana;color:black'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style='mso-yfti-irow:3'> <td width=679 valign=top style='width:509.4pt;border:solid navy 3.0pt; border-top:none;mso-border-top-alt:solid navy 3.0pt;padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt'> <h1 style='margin-top:0in;background:#33CCCC'><a name="_Toc234218794"></a><a name="_Toc192156838"></a><a name="_Toc163040072"></a><a name="_Toc130022853"></a><a name="_Toc129762545"></a><a name="_Toc129691325"><span style='mso-bookmark: _Toc129762545'><span style='mso-bookmark:_Toc130022853'><span style='mso-bookmark:_Toc163040072'><span style='mso-bookmark:_Toc192156838'><span style='mso-bookmark:_Toc234218794'><span style='font-size:20.0pt;mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";color:blue'>Library</span></span></span></span></span></span></a><span style='font-size:20.0pt;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";color:blue'><o:p></o:p></span></h1> <p class=MsoNormal><i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:#993300'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></i></p> <p class=MsoNormal><i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:#993300'>For more information about VDIC library services and resources, please visit <a href="http://www.vdic.org.vn/?name=library&amp;op=viewDetailNews&amp;id=354&amp;mid=322">http://www.vdic.org.vn/?name=library&amp;op=viewDetailNews&amp;id=354&amp;mid=322</a> <o:p></o:p></span></i></p> <p class=MsoNormal><i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:#993300'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></i></p> <h2 style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><a name="_Toc234218795"></a><a name="_Toc192156839"><span style='mso-bookmark:_Toc234218795'><span style='font-size:9.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";color:green;font-style:normal'>Selected Resources on </span></span></a><span style='mso-bookmark:_Toc234218795'><u><span style='font-size:9.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";color:green;font-style:normal'>education and health for women and girls</span></u></span><span style='mso-bookmark: _Toc234218795'><span style='font-size:9.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:14.0pt; font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman"; color:green;font-style:normal'> at VDIC</span></span><span style='font-size: 9.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";color:green;font-style:normal'><o:p></o:p></span></h2> <p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:25.55pt;text-indent:-25.55pt'><span style='font-size:9.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:25.55pt;text-indent:-25.55pt'><i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'><span style='font-size:9.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size: 8.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"'>For more comprehensive list materials on gender available at VDIC, please contact <a href="mailto:nvu2@worldbank.org">nvu2@worldbank.org</a>. <o:p></o:p></span></i></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:25.55pt;text-indent:-25.55pt'><span style='font-size:9.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:25.55pt;text-indent:-25.55pt'><span style='font-size:9.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"'>GEN-EDU [Internet]. Lewis, Maureen ; Lockheed, Marlaine (eds.). <b style='mso-bidi-font-weight: normal'>Exclusion, Gender and Education: Case Studies from the Developing World</b>. Center for Global Development, 2007. Full text <a href="http://www.cgdev.org/content/publications/detail/14466">http://www.cgdev.org/content/publications/detail/14466</a><span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>  </span><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:25.55pt;text-indent:-25.55pt'><span style='font-size:9.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:25.55pt;text-indent:-25.55pt'><span style='font-size:9.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"'>GEN-EDU [Internet]. Lewis, Maureen; Lockheed, Marlaine. <b style='mso-bidi-font-weight: normal'>Inexcusable Absence: Why 60 Million Girls Still Aren't In School and What to do About It</b>. Center for Global Development, 2006. Full text <a href="http://www.cgdev.org/content/publications/detail/11898">http://www.cgdev.org/content/publications/detail/11898</a><span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>   </span><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:25.55pt;text-indent:-25.55pt'><span style='font-size:9.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:25.55pt;text-indent:-25.55pt'><span style='font-size:9.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"'>GEN-EDU [Internet]. USAID. <b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'>Education from a gender equality perspective</b>. United Nations Girls' Education Initiative, 2008. Full text <a href="http://www.ungei.org/resources/files/Education_from_a_Gender_Equality_Perspective.pdf">http://www.ungei.org/resources/files/Education_from_a_Gender_Equality_Perspective.pdf</a><span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>   </span><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:25.55pt;text-indent:-25.55pt'><span style='font-size:9.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:25.55pt;text-indent:-25.55pt'><span style='font-size:9.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"'>GEN-EDU 1. Hafkin, Nancy, Taggart, Nancy. <b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'>Gender, information technology, and developing countries</b>. <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:25.55pt;text-indent:-25.55pt'><span style='font-size:9.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:25.55pt;text-indent:-25.55pt'><span style='font-size:9.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"'>GEN-EDU 3. <b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'>Gender-sensitive participatory curriculum development at national training institutions in Vietnam: Striving for more effective and gender-sensitive learning and teaching</b>. Hanoi: National Committee for the advancement of women in Vietnam, 2004. Full text <a href="http://www.ubphunu-ncfaw.gov.vn/upload_news/files/%0bGender-sensitive%20Curriculum%20Development-TA.pdf">http://www.ubphunu-ncfaw.gov.vn/upload_news/files/<br> Gender-sensitive%20Curriculum%20Development-TA.pdf</a><span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>  </span><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:25.55pt;text-indent:-25.55pt'><span style='font-size:9.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:25.55pt;text-indent:-25.55pt'><span style='font-size:9.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"'>GEN-EDU 4. United Nations conference on Trade and Development. <b style='mso-bidi-font-weight: normal'>LDCs: building capacities for mainstreaming gender in development strategies</b>. Geneva: UN, 2002. <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:25.55pt;text-indent:-25.55pt'><span style='font-size:9.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:25.55pt;text-indent:-25.55pt'><span style='font-size:9.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"'>GEN-EDU 5. Nguyen, Thi Hien, Le, Ngoc Hung. <b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'>Sustainable capacity development: gender equality and poverty reduction</b>. Hanoi, Vietnam: The Publishing House of Political theory, 2005. <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:25.55pt;text-indent:-25.55pt'><span style='font-size:9.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:25.55pt;text-indent:-25.55pt'><span style='font-size:9.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"'>GEN-EDU 6. CARE International in Vietnam. <b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'>Income generation and training assistance for women and HRA ethnic minority farmers in Quang Ngai province of Vietnam</b>. <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:25.55pt;text-indent:-25.55pt'><span style='font-size:9.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:25.55pt;text-indent:-25.55pt'><span style='font-size:9.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"'>GEN-HEA 1. Asian-Pacific Resource and Research Center for Women (ARROW). <b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'>Women of the World: Laws and Policies Affecting their Reproductive Lives - East and Southeast Asia</b>. New York: Center for reproductive Rights, 2005. Full text <a href="http://www.crlp.org/pub_bo_seasia.html">http://www.crlp.org/pub_bo_seasia.html</a><span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>  </span><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:25.55pt;text-indent:-25.55pt'><span style='font-size:9.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:25.55pt;text-indent:-25.55pt'><span style='font-size:9.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"'>GEN-HEA 2. The World Bank. <b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'>Female genital cutting, women's health, and developmnet: The role of the World Bank</b>. The World Bank, 2007. World Bank Working Paper.<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>  </span><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:25.55pt;text-indent:-25.55pt'><span style='font-size:9.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <h2 style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><a name="_Toc234218796"></a><a name="_Toc192156840"><span style='mso-bookmark:_Toc234218796'><span style='font-size:9.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";color:green;font-style:normal'>Highlights from the New Additions to VDIC Library</span></span></a><span style='font-size:9.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";color:green;font-style:normal'><o:p></o:p></span></h2> <p class=MsoNormal style='mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></b></p> <p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center;mso-layout-grid-align: none;text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"; color:#993300'>Full list of new additions to VDIC library can be found at </span><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"'><a href="http://www.vdic.org.vn/?name=library&amp;op=viewDetailNews&amp;id=161&amp;mid=322&amp;cmid=325">http://www.vdic.org.vn/?name=library&amp;op=viewDetailNews&amp;id=161&amp;mid=322&amp;cmid=325</a><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='margin-top:12.0pt;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom: 0in;margin-left:30.25pt;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-indent:-30.25pt; mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:9.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"'>BAN-COR 4. Brigham, Eugene F.; Houston Joel F. <b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'>Fundamentals of financial management</b>. South-Estern Cengage Learning, Mason, USA, 2009. <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='margin-top:12.0pt;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom: 0in;margin-left:30.25pt;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-indent:-30.25pt; mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:9.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"'>BAN-MIC 24. Collins, Daryl; Morduch, Jonathan; Rutherford, Stuart; Ruthven, Orlanda. <b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'>Portfolios of the poor: How the world's poor live on $2 a day</b>. Princeton University Press, 2009. <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='margin-top:12.0pt;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom: 0in;margin-left:30.25pt;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-indent:-30.25pt; mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:9.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"'>ECO-ADM-M26. Sargeant, Adrian. <b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'>Marketing management for nonprofit organizations</b>. Oxford University Press, New York, USA, 2009. <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='margin-top:12.0pt;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom: 0in;margin-left:30.25pt;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-indent:-30.25pt; mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:9.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"'>ECO-AID-V [Internet]. OECD. <b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'>Better aid - Managing aid: Practices of DAC Member Countries</b>. OECD Publishing, 2009. Full text <a href="http://browse.oecdbookshop.org/oecd/pdfs/browseit/4309161E.PDF">http://browse.oecdbookshop.org/oecd/pdfs/browseit/4309161E.PDF</a><span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>  </span><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='margin-top:12.0pt;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom: 0in;margin-left:30.25pt;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-indent:-30.25pt; mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:9.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"'>ECO-DEV 45. Ocampo, Jose Antonio; K.S, Jomo; Vos Rob (eds.). <b style='mso-bidi-font-weight: normal'>Growth divergences: Explaining differrences in economic performance</b>. ZED Books, London &amp; New York, 2007. <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='margin-top:12.0pt;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom: 0in;margin-left:30.25pt;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-indent:-30.25pt; mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:9.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"'>ECO-DEV-A23. Beeson, Mark (editor). <b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'>Contemporary Southeast Asia</b>. Palgrave Macmillan, New York, USA, 2009. <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='margin-top:12.0pt;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom: 0in;margin-left:30.25pt;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-indent:-30.25pt; mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:9.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"'>ECO-POL 39. Martinez, Mark A. <b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'>The myth of the free market: The role of the state in a capitalist economy</b>. Kumarian Press, Sterling, USA, 2009. <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='margin-top:12.0pt;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom: 0in;margin-left:30.25pt;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-indent:-30.25pt; mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:9.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"'>ECO-POL-V66. Fforde, Adam. <b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'>Coping with facts: A skeptic's guide to the problem of development</b>. Kumarian Press, 2009. <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='margin-top:12.0pt;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom: 0in;margin-left:30.25pt;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-indent:-30.25pt; mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:9.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"'>ENV-CLI [Internet]. World Resources Institute; SIDA. <b style='mso-bidi-font-weight: normal'>Making Climate Your Business: Private Sector Adaptation in Southeast Asia</b>. World Resources Institute; SIDA, 2009. Full text <a href="http://sida.se/sida/jsp/sida.jsp?d=118&amp;a=42299&amp;language=en_US">http://sida.se/sida/jsp/sida.jsp?d=118&amp;a=42299&amp;language=en_US</a><span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>  </span><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='margin-top:12.0pt;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom: 0in;margin-left:30.25pt;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-indent:-30.25pt; mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:9.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"'>HEA-DEV 36. Peters, David H.; Siadat, Banafshed; Janovsky, Katjia; Vujicic, Marko (eds.). <b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'>Improving health service delivery in developing countries: from evidence to action</b>. World Bank, 2009. <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='margin-top:12.0pt;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom: 0in;margin-left:30.25pt;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-indent:-30.25pt; mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:9.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"'>HEA-HIV-V37. Viet Nam Administration of HIV/AIDS Control. <b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'>¯Ûc tính và dñ báo nhiÅm HIV/AIDS t¡i ViÇt Nam nm 2007 - 2012 = Vietnam HIV/AIDS estimates and projections 2001-2012</b>. Family Health International, 2009. <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='margin-top:12.0pt;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom: 0in;margin-left:30.25pt;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-indent:-30.25pt; mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:9.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"'>(REF) ICT 2. Orbicom; International Development Research Centre (IDRC). <b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'>Digital review of Asia Pacific 2009-2010: Reports on 30 economies and 4 sub-regional groupings</b>. SAGE Publications, 2009. Full text <a href="http://www.digital-review.org/">http://www.digital-review.org/</a><span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>  </span><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='margin-top:12.0pt;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom: 0in;margin-left:30.25pt;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-indent:-30.25pt; mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:9.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"'>SOC-ETH-V6. World Bank. <b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'>Country social analysis: Ethnicity and development in Vietnam (with CD) -- Phân tích xã hÙi quÑc gia: Dân tÙc và phát triÃn ß ViÇt Nam - Báo cáo v¯n t¯t [kèm CD-ROM]</b>. World Bank, 2009. <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='margin-top:12.0pt;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom: 0in;margin-left:30.25pt;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-indent:-30.25pt; mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:9.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"'>TOU-DEV 2. Hitchcock, Michael; King, Victor T.; Parnwell Michael (editors). <b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'>Tourism in Southeast Asia: Challenges and new directions</b>. 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text-autospace:none'><i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;color:#993300'>More featured titles for sale are listed at<o:p></o:p></span></i></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='background:#CCFFFF;mso-layout-grid-align:none; text-autospace:none'><i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;color:#993300'><a href="http://www.vdic.org.vn/?name=bookstore&amp;op=viewDetailNews&amp;id=155&amp;mid=328"><span style='font-style:normal'>http://www.vdic.org.vn/?name=bookstore&amp;op=viewDetailNews&amp;id=155&amp;mid=328</span></a></span></i><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family: Arial'><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='background:#CCFFFF;mso-layout-grid-align:none; text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family:Arial'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='background:#CCFFFF;mso-layout-grid-align:none; text-autospace:none'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family: Arial'>Investment Policy Review: Vietnam<o:p></o:p></span></b></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='background:#CCFFFF;mso-layout-grid-align:none; text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family:Arial'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='background:#CCFFFF;mso-layout-grid-align:none; text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family:Arial'>UNCTAD  2009 -- ISBN: 978-92-1-112744-7.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='background:#CCFFFF;mso-layout-grid-align:none; text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family:Arial'>Price: US$11<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='background:#CCFFFF;mso-layout-grid-align:none; text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family:Arial'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='background:#CCFFFF;mso-layout-grid-align:none; text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family:Arial'>Viet Nam opened its economy to foreign investors in the late 1980s under the Doi Moi policy of renovation and economic reforms. Viet Nam managed to quickly attract significant inflows of FDI and their impact has been very strong. As a result, foreign investors have been a major force in the economic transformation of Viet Nam during the past two decades and in its integration into the world economy.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='background:#CCFFFF;mso-layout-grid-align:none; text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family:Arial'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='background:#CCFFFF;mso-layout-grid-align:none; text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family:Arial'>To fully exploit the potential of the country in attracting and benefiting from FDI, the Investment Policy Review (IPR) highlights a number of areas where Viet Nam could focus its attention for further reforms. This includes a policy to ensure that the economy has the skills it needs as it evolves and develops, using foreign workers where necessary. Measures to clearly separate the State´s ownership and regulatory functions are also proposed, together with a rationalization and simplification of fiscal incentives on corporate taxes. It is also suggested to selectively lift certain FDI entry restrictions and to shift the regulatory stance from &quot;steer and control&quot; to &quot;regulate, monitor and enforce&quot;. Furthermore, the IPR, on the basis of an analysis of the electricity sector, proposes a number of measures to enable Viet Nam to attract FDI in power generation.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='background:#CCFFFF;mso-layout-grid-align:none; text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family:Arial'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='background:#CCFFFF;mso-layout-grid-align:none; text-autospace:none'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family: Arial'>Báo cáo Phát triÃn con ng°Ýi 2007/2008: cuÙc chi¿n chÑng bi¿n Õi khí h­u: oàn k¿t nhân lo¡i trong mÙt th¿ giÛi phân cách <o:p></o:p></span></b></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='background:#CCFFFF;mso-layout-grid-align:none; text-autospace:none'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family: Arial'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></b></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='background:#CCFFFF;mso-layout-grid-align:none; text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family:Arial'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='background:#CCFFFF;mso-layout-grid-align:none; text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family:Arial'>Tác gi£: Ch°¡ng trình Phát triÃn Liên hãp quÑc (UNDP) -- 2007 <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='background:#CCFFFF;mso-layout-grid-align:none; text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family:Arial'>Giá tiÁn: 2 USD<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='background:#CCFFFF;mso-layout-grid-align:none; text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family:Arial'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='background:#CCFFFF;mso-layout-grid-align:none; text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family:Arial'>K¿t qu£ cça nhïng gì chúng ta làm hôm nay à gi£i quy¿t v¥n Á bi¿n Õi khí h­u s½ tÓn t¡i ít nh¥t<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='background:#CCFFFF;mso-layout-grid-align:none; text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family:Arial'>mÙt th¿ k÷. Nhïng bi¿n Õi do phát th£i khí nhà kính gây ra thì không thà £o ng°ãc trong mÙt<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='background:#CCFFFF;mso-layout-grid-align:none; text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family:Arial'>kho£ng thÝi gian bi¿t tr°Ûc. Nhïng lo¡i khí l°u nhiÇt mà chúng ta th£i vào b§u khí quyÃn nm 2008<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='background:#CCFFFF;mso-layout-grid-align:none; text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family:Arial'>s½ tÓn t¡i ß ó cho ¿n nm 2018 và lâu h¡n th¿. Vì v­y, nhïng gì chúng ta lña chÍn hôm nay không<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='background:#CCFFFF;mso-layout-grid-align:none; text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family:Arial'>chÉ £nh h°ßng tÛi cuÙc sÑng cça b£n thân chúng ta mà h¡n th¿ nïa s½ £nh h°ßng tÛi cuÙc sÑng cça<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='background:#CCFFFF;mso-layout-grid-align:none; text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family:Arial'>con cháu chúng ta. Chính iÁu ó làm cho bi¿n Õi khí h­u khác biÇt và khó gi£i quy¿t h¡n nhïng<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='background:#CCFFFF;mso-layout-grid-align:none; text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family:Arial'>thách théc chính sách khác.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='background:#CCFFFF;mso-layout-grid-align:none; text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family:Arial'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='background:#CCFFFF;mso-layout-grid-align:none; text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family:Arial'>Nhïng khó khn lÛn nh¥t vÁ m·t chính sách có liên quan tÛi viÇc phân bÕ trách nhiÇm. Trong khi mÍi ng°Ýi Áu chËu nguy c¡ th£m hÍa tiÁm ©n nh° nhau, song sñ phân bÕ chi phí và lãi ích vÁ ng¯n và trung h¡n l¡i r¥t khác nhau. Sñ phân bÕ càng ·c biÇt khó khn h¡n vì nhïng Ñi t°ãng chính ã gây ra v¥n Á - các n°Ûc giàu - l¡i không ph£i là n°Ûc chËu £nh h°ßng nhiÁu nh¥t trong thÝi gian tr°Ûc m¯t. Chính nhïng n°Ûc nghèo nh¥t tr°Ûc ây cing nh° bây giÝ không góp ph§n áng kà vào phát th£i khí nhà kính l¡i là nhïng n°Ûc có nguy c¡ bË £nh h°ßng nhiÁu nh¥t. Các n°Ûc thu nh­p trung bình ang trß thành nhïng n°Ûc phát th£i lÛn xét vÁ tÕng thà - song hÍ không có món nã các-bon vÛi th¿ giÛi, trong khi các n°Ûc giàu thì ã<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>  </span>nã chÓng ch¥t và hÍ v«n là nhïng n°Ûc phát th£i thâp tính theo §u ng°Ýi. Chúng ta ph£i tìm ra mÙt lÙ trình ch¥p nh­n °ãc vÁ ph°¡ng diÇn ¡o éc và chính trË cho phép chúng ta b¯t §u ti¿n lên phía tr°Ûc m·c dù vÁ lâu dài có thà v«n còn nhiÁu b¥t Óng vÁ viÇc chia s» gánh n·ng và lãi ích. Chúng ta không nên à cho<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>  </span>nhïng b¥t Óng vÁ viÇc phân bÕ trách nhiÇm này c£n b°Ûc ti¿n cça chúng ta cing nh° không °ãc phép chÝ ãi ¿n khi bi¿t °ãc ti¿n trình bi¿n Ñi khí h­u mÙt cách ch¯c ch¯n rÓi mÛi hành Ùng. VÛi mong muÑn ó, hy vÍng Báo cáo phát triÃn con ng°Ýi nm nay s½ h× trã cho cuÙc th£o lu­n và cho phép chuy¿n i °ãc khßi hành. <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='background:#CCFFFF;mso-layout-grid-align:none; text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family:Arial'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='background:#CCFFFF;mso-layout-grid-align:none; text-autospace:none'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family: Arial'>World Development Indicators 2009 (book)<o:p></o:p></span></b></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='background:#CCFFFF;mso-layout-grid-align:none; text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family:Arial'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='background:#CCFFFF;mso-layout-grid-align:none; text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family:Arial'>Published April 2009 by World Bank -- ISBN: 0-8213-7829-5 <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='background:#CCFFFF;mso-layout-grid-align:none; text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family:Arial'>Price: $ 24.00 <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='background:#CCFFFF;mso-layout-grid-align:none; text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family:Arial'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='background:#CCFFFF;mso-layout-grid-align:none; text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family:Arial'>Looking for accurate, up-to-date data on development issues? World Development Indicators is the World Bank's premier annual compilation of data about development. This indispensable statistical reference allows you to consult over 900 indicators for some 150 economies and 14 country groups in more than 80 tables. It provides a current overview of the most recent data available as well as important regional data and income group analysis in six thematic sections: World View, People, Environment, Economy, States and Markets, and Global Links.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='background:#CCFFFF;mso-layout-grid-align:none; text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family:Arial'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='background:#CCFFFF;mso-layout-grid-align:none; text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family:Arial'>World Development Indicators 2009 presents the most current and accurate development data on both a national level and aggregated globally. It allows you to monitor the progress made toward meeting the Millennium Development Goals endorsed by the United Nations and its member countries, the World Bank, and a host of partner organizations. These goals, which focus on development and the elimination of poverty, serve as the agenda for international development efforts. <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='background:#CCFFFF;mso-layout-grid-align:none; text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family:Arial'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='background:#CCFFFF;mso-layout-grid-align:none; text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family:Arial'>New feature <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='background:#CCFFFF;mso-layout-grid-align:none; text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family:Arial'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='background:#CCFFFF;mso-layout-grid-align:none; text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family:Arial'>Statistics help us understand the events that trigger a crisis and measure its impact. Along with this year's 91 data tables,each section of the World Development Indicators 2009 has an introduction that shows statistics in action, describing the history of the current global crisis, its effect on developing economies, and the challenges they face. <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='background:#CCFFFF;mso-layout-grid-align:none; text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family:Arial'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='background:#CCFFFF;mso-layout-grid-align:none; text-autospace:none'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family: Arial'>Global Monitoring Report 2009: A Development Emergency <o:p></o:p></span></b></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='background:#CCFFFF;mso-layout-grid-align:none; text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family:Arial'><span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>   </span><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='background:#CCFFFF;mso-layout-grid-align:none; text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family:Arial'>Published April 2009 by World Bank<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>  </span>-- ISBN: 0-8213-7859-7.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='background:#CCFFFF;mso-layout-grid-align:none; text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family:Arial'>by World Bank<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>  </span>Price: $ 29.95 <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='background:#CCFFFF;mso-layout-grid-align:none; text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family:Arial'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='background:#CCFFFF;mso-layout-grid-align:none; text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family:Arial'>A Development Emergency, the title of this year's Global Monitoring Report, the sixth in an annual series, could not be more apt. The global economic crisis, the most severe since the Great Depression, is rapidly turning into a human and development crisis. No region is immune. The poor countries are especially vulnerable, as they have the least cushion to withstand events. The crisis, coming on the heels of the food and fuel crises, poses serious threats to their hard-won gains in boosting economic growth and reducing poverty. It is pushing millions back into poverty and putting at risk the very survival of many. The prospect of reaching the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) by 2015, already a cause for serious concern, now looks even more distant. <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='background:#CCFFFF;mso-layout-grid-align:none; text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family:Arial'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='background:#CCFFFF;mso-layout-grid-align:none; text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family:Arial'>A global crisis must be met with a global response. The crisis began in the financial markets of developed countries, so the first order of business must be to stabilize these markets and counter the recession that the financial turmoil has triggered. At the same time, strong and urgent actions are needed to counter the impact of the crisis on developing countries and help them restore strong growth while protecting the poor. <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='background:#CCFFFF;mso-layout-grid-align:none; text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family:Arial'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='background:#CCFFFF;mso-layout-grid-align:none; text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family:Arial'>Global Monitoring Report 2009, prepared jointly by the staff of the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund, provides a development perspective on the global economic crisis. It assesses the impact on developing countries, their growth, poverty reduction, and other MDGs. And it sets out priorities for policy response, both by developing countries themselves and by the international community. This report also focuses on the ways in which the private sector can be better mobilized in support of development goals, especially in the aftermath of the crisis. <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='background:#CCFFFF;mso-layout-grid-align:none; text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family:Arial'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='background:#CCFFFF;mso-layout-grid-align:none; text-autospace:none'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family: Arial'>New Industries from New Places: The Emergence of the Hardware and Software Industries in China and India <o:p></o:p></span></b></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='background:#CCFFFF;mso-layout-grid-align:none; text-autospace:none'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family: Arial'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></b></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='background:#CCFFFF;mso-layout-grid-align:none; text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family:Arial'>by Neil Gregory , Stanley D. Nollen , Stoyan Tenev<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>  </span>Available Immediately <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='background:#CCFFFF;mso-layout-grid-align:none; text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family:Arial'>Published March 2009 by Stanford University Press, World Bank -- ISBN: 0-8213-6478-2.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='background:#CCFFFF;mso-layout-grid-align:none; text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family:Arial'>Price: $ 25.95 <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='background:#CCFFFF;mso-layout-grid-align:none; text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family:Arial'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='background:#CCFFFF;mso-layout-grid-align:none; text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family:Arial'>Software comes from India, hardware comes from China. Why is that? Why did China and India take such different paths to global dominance in new high-tech industries? Will their paths continue to diverge or converge? How can other countries learn from their successes and failures in reaching global scale in new industries? <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='background:#CCFFFF;mso-layout-grid-align:none; text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family:Arial'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='background:#CCFFFF;mso-layout-grid-align:none; text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family:Arial'>To answer these questions, this book presents the first rigorous comparison of the growth of the IT industries in China and India, based on interviews with over 300 companies. It explains the different growth paths of the software and hardware sectors in each country, providing insights into the factors behind the emergence of China and India as global economic powers. It provides a compelling case study of how differences in economic policies and the investment climate affect industrial growth. <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='background:#CCFFFF;mso-layout-grid-align:none; text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family:Arial'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='background:#CCFFFF;mso-layout-grid-align:none; text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family:Arial'>This book sheds new light on common debates on &quot;China versus India&quot;, on why India is the software capital of the world while China is a manufacturing powerhouse. It refutes common myths about the growth of these industries for example, the role of Non-Resident Indians or the Y2K problem in the growth of the Indian software industry, the role of government intervention in industrial growth, and the relative size of China and India's software industries. <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='background:#CCFFFF;mso-layout-grid-align:none; text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family:Arial'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='background:#CCFFFF;mso-layout-grid-align:none; text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family:Arial'>&quot;Neil Gregory, Stanley Nollen, and Stoyan Tenev have written an excellent book on technology and economic development in China and India. The treatment is far more detailed than previous studies, and its coverage is also comprehensive as it analyzes the developments in these two giant, emerging economies. I recommend this book to those who are interested in gaining a deep insight into the economic development of China and India and to those who are in the position to think about long-term policy responses to the rise of China and India.&quot; <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='background:#CCFFFF;mso-layout-grid-align:none; text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family:Arial'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='background:#CCFFFF;mso-layout-grid-align:none; text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family:Arial'>-Yasheng Huang <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='background:#CCFFFF;mso-layout-grid-align:none; text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family:Arial'>MIT Sloan School of Management<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='background:#CCFFFF;mso-layout-grid-align:none; text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family:Arial'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='background:#CCFFFF;mso-layout-grid-align:none; text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family:Arial'>&quot;This insightful volume results from carefully executed quantitative as well as qualitative comparative work in countries that have followed different development trajectories. It helps that the countries, China and India, are important to the world by their sheer size and dynamism, and that the industries chosen (software and hardware) are vital to all the world's societies.&quot;<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='background:#CCFFFF;mso-layout-grid-align:none; text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family:Arial'>-Tarun Khanna, Author, Billions of Entrepreneurs: How China and India are Reshaping their Futures and Yours (Harvard Business School Press)<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoBodyTextIndent3 align=right style='margin-top:0in;margin-right: 0in;margin-bottom:3.0pt;margin-left:0in;text-align:right;background:#CCFFFF'><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana;color:black'><a href="#_top">Back to top</a><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='background:#CCFFFF;mso-layout-grid-align:none; text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"; 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mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";color:blue'><o:p></o:p></span></h1> <p class=MsoNormal style='mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none'><i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'><span style='font-size:9.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size: 8.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></i></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none'><i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'><span style='font-size:9.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size: 8.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:#993300'>For more information about our Distance Learning Center services, facilities and events, please visit <a href="http://www.vdic.org.vn/?name=learningevents&amp;op=viewDetailNews&amp;id=311&amp;&amp;mid=330">http://www.vdic.org.vn/?name=learningevents&amp;op=viewDetailNews&amp;id=311&amp;&amp;mid=330</a> <o:p></o:p></span></i></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:9.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:9.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size: 8.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"'>Seminar Series of International Symposium for Cardiac Surgery<o:p></o:p></span></b></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:9.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"'>July 9, 2009 from 19:00 p.m - 21:00 p.m<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:9.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:9.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"'>Funded by the VinaCapital Foundation Vietnam, the World Heart Foundation and supported by the World Bank Global Development Learning Network Asia Pacific, this regional program links surgeons and doctors involved in cardiac care in developing countries with the world s best in cardio-thoracic surgery, cardiology and pediatric cardiac care. <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:9.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:9.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"'>The International Symposium for Cardiac Surgery will allow doctors from all over Vietnam to congregate in GDLN centers in Ho Chi Minh City, Hanoi and other Asian sites for a series of lectures by exemplary leaders in the field of Cardio-Thoracic Surgery. The series is interactive and enables participants to ask questions after the presentations. The lectures are also webcast to enable worldwide participation and then compiled into a DVD series which will be distributed by World Heart Foundation to surgical programs in developing countries around the world.<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>  </span>This 6th session will connect Vietnam (Hanoi, Da Nang, Hue and Ho Chi Minh city), China, Cambodia and Bangladesh via videoconferencing, with the presentation by Dr. Tirone David from Toronto General Hospital, Canada. <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:9.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:9.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"'>To watch lecture videos, please visit <a href="http://www.jointokyo.org/en/about/itcs_vid/">http://www.jointokyo.org/en/about/itcs_vid/</a>. <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:9.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size: 8.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></b></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:9.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size: 8.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"'>APO E-learning Program on Exporting Agri Products to Global Market<o:p></o:p></span></b></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:9.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"'>July 13-15, 2009<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:9.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:9.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"'>The current financial crisis has dampened demand for imported products in most developed countries notably USA<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>  </span>and other large markets in EU, which means that countries dependent on those traditional markets could be seriously<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>  </span>affected. To avert further aggravation of the situation, governments and private enterprises should endeavor to explore new export markets and simultaneously identify and develop products that are still in demand of those traditional markets; as well as diversify markets and product composition in the export basket. This e-learning course is organized by Asia Productivity Organization (APO) to support such efforts by governments and enterprises in the<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>  </span>agriculture and food industry in member countries. <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:9.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:9.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"'>For further details and course registration, please refer to the <a href="http://www.vdic.org.vn/data/2009-events/CongVan&amp;PhieuDangKy.doc">attachment</a> (in Vietnamese only).<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:9.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size: 8.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></b></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family: Arial'>For more information, please contact Ms Dang Thi Thu Huong, email <a href="mailto:hdang2@worldbank.org">hdang2@worldbank.org</a>, telephone: 04-3934 6600, ext. 706. <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal align=right style='margin-top:12.0pt;margin-right:0in; margin-bottom:0in;margin-left:30.25pt;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:right; text-indent:-30.25pt;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:9.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"'><a href="#_top">Back to top</a><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family: Arial'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style='mso-yfti-irow:6'> <td width=679 valign=top style='width:509.4pt;border:solid navy 3.0pt; border-top:none;mso-border-top-alt:solid navy 3.0pt;background:#CCFFFF; padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt'> <h1 style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;background:#33CCCC'><a name="_Toc234218799"></a><a name="_Toc202761661"><span style='mso-bookmark: _Toc234218799'><span style='font-size:20.0pt;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman"; color:blue'>Information on Development Projects in Vietnam</span></span></a><span style='font-size:20.0pt;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";color:blue'><o:p></o:p></span></h1> <p class=MsoNormal style='mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:9.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <h2 style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><a name="_Toc234218800"></a><a name="_Toc202761662"><span style='mso-bookmark:_Toc234218800'><span style='font-size:9.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";color:green;font-style:normal'>New Disclosure</span></span></a><span style='mso-bookmark:_Toc202761662'><span style='mso-bookmark:_Toc234218800'><span style='font-size:9.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size: 8.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman"'> </span></span></span><span style='mso-bookmark:_Toc202761662'><span style='mso-bookmark:_Toc234218800'><span style='font-size:9.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size: 14.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman"; color:green;font-style:normal'>World Bank Operational Project Documents for Vietnam</span></span></span><span style='font-size:9.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size: 14.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman"; color:green;font-style:normal'> <o:p></o:p></span></h2> <p class=MsoNormal style='mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:9.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:9.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"'>The Disclosure Unit of the World Bank is responsible for the implementation and dissemination of documents relating to the World Bank s&nbsp;disclosure policy <a href="http://www1.worldbank.org/operations/disclosure/">http://www1.worldbank.org/operations/disclosure/</a>.&nbsp;On a regular basis, the Unit&nbsp;releases&nbsp;operational documents to the public through a network of Public Information Centers (PICs) worldwide. For assistance on disclosed documents, please contact one of the PICs at a location near you.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:9.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana'>For previous listings, please visit <a href="http://go.worldbank.org/QU93EOHWG1">http://go.worldbank.org/QU93EOHWG1</a>. Alternatively, you are welcome to visit VDIC or World Bank s mini Public Information Corners (mini-PICs) at your city/province libraries to view hard copies of World Bank project documents in Vietnam. List of mini-PICs in Vietnam can be found at <a href="http://www.vdic.org.vn/?name=library&amp;op=viewDetailNews&amp;id=162&amp;&amp;mid=322&amp;cmid=327">http://www.vdic.org.vn/?name=library&amp;op=viewDetailNews&amp;id=162&amp;&amp;mid=322&amp;cmid=327</a>. <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana'>List of World Bank s projects in Vietnam and detail project information can be found at <a href="http://www.worldbank.org/vn">www.worldbank.org/vn</a> &gt;&gt; select  <i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'>Projects &amp; Programs</i> .<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family:Verdana'>Vietnam - Coastal Cities Project</span></b><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family:Verdana'> - Project Appraisal Documents&nbsp;<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana'><a href="http://web.worldbank.org/external/projects/main?pagePK=64283627&amp;piPK=73230&amp;theSitePK=486752&amp;menuPK=486783&amp;Projectid=P082295">http://web.worldbank.org/external/projects/main?pagePK=64283627&amp;piPK=73230&amp;theSitePK=486752&amp;menuPK=486783&amp;Projectid=P082295</a><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family:Verdana'>Vietnam - Higher Education Development Policy Program</span></b><span style='font-size:9.0pt; font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family:Verdana'> - First Operation&nbsp;- Project Papers <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana'><a href="http://web.worldbank.org/external/projects/main?pagePK=64283627&amp;piPK=73230&amp;theSitePK=486752&amp;menuPK=486783&amp;Projectid=P079665">http://web.worldbank.org/external/projects/main?pagePK=64283627&amp;piPK=73230&amp;theSitePK=486752&amp;menuPK=486783&amp;Projectid=P079665</a><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family:Verdana'>Vietnam - Local Development Investment Fund Project</span></b><span style='font-size:9.0pt; font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family:Verdana'> - Integrated Safeguards Data Sheet<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana'><a href="http://web.worldbank.org/external/projects/main?pagePK=64283627&amp;piPK=73230&amp;theSitePK=40941&amp;menuPK=228424&amp;Projectid=P094055">http://web.worldbank.org/external/projects/main?pagePK=64283627&amp;piPK=73230&amp;theSitePK=40941&amp;menuPK=228424&amp;Projectid=P094055</a><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family:Verdana'>Vietnam - PCB Management Project</span></b><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family:Verdana'> - Project Appraisal Documents&nbsp;<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana'><a href="http://web.worldbank.org/external/projects/main?pagePK=64283627&amp;piPK=73230&amp;theSitePK=40941&amp;menuPK=228424&amp;Projectid=P099460">http://web.worldbank.org/external/projects/main?pagePK=64283627&amp;piPK=73230&amp;theSitePK=40941&amp;menuPK=228424&amp;Projectid=P099460</a><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family:Verdana'>Vietnam - Red River Delta Rural Water Supply and Sanitation Project - </span></b><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana'>Environmental Assessments; Resettlement Plans <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana'><a href="http://web.worldbank.org/external/projects/main?pagePK=64283627&amp;piPK=73230&amp;theSitePK=486752&amp;menuPK=486783&amp;Projectid=P077287">http://web.worldbank.org/external/projects/main?pagePK=64283627&amp;piPK=73230&amp;theSitePK=486752&amp;menuPK=486783&amp;Projectid=P077287</a> <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family:Verdana'>Vietnam - Rural Energy II Project - Additional financing -- </span></b><span style='font-size:9.0pt; font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family:Verdana'>Project Paper <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana'><a href="http://web.worldbank.org/external/projects/main?pagePK=64283627&amp;piPK=73230&amp;theSitePK=486752&amp;menuPK=486783&amp;Projectid=P113495">http://web.worldbank.org/external/projects/main?pagePK=64283627&amp;piPK=73230&amp;theSitePK=486752&amp;menuPK=486783&amp;Projectid=P113495</a> <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family:Verdana'>Vietnam - School Education Quality Assurance Program</span></b><span style='font-size:9.0pt; font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family:Verdana'> - Project Appraisal Documents&nbsp;<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana'><a href="http://web.worldbank.org/external/projects/main?pagePK=64283627&amp;piPK=73230&amp;theSitePK=40941&amp;menuPK=228424&amp;Projectid=P091747">http://web.worldbank.org/external/projects/main?pagePK=64283627&amp;piPK=73230&amp;theSitePK=40941&amp;menuPK=228424&amp;Projectid=P091747</a> <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family:Verdana'>Vietnam - Transmission and Distribution Project II</span></b><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family:Verdana'> - Environmental Assessments<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>   </span><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana'><a href="http://web.worldbank.org/external/projects/main?pagePK=64283627&amp;piPK=73230&amp;theSitePK=486752&amp;menuPK=486783&amp;Projectid=P084871">http://web.worldbank.org/external/projects/main?pagePK=64283627&amp;piPK=73230&amp;theSitePK=486752&amp;menuPK=486783&amp;Projectid=P084871</a><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family:Verdana'>Vietnam - Urban Upgrading Project</span></b><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family:Verdana'> - Environmental Assessments (Revised); Resettlement Plans (Revised); <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana'><a href="http://web.worldbank.org/external/projects/main?pagePK=64283627&amp;piPK=73230&amp;theSitePK=486752&amp;menuPK=486783&amp;Projectid=P070197">http://web.worldbank.org/external/projects/main?pagePK=64283627&amp;piPK=73230&amp;theSitePK=486752&amp;menuPK=486783&amp;Projectid=P070197</a><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family:Verdana'>Vietnam - Urban Upgrading Project, CAN THO Sub-Project, EIA Component 2 Phase 2</span></b><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana'> - Environmental Assessments; Resettlement Plans&nbsp; (Revised); Environmental Assessments&nbsp;(Revised)<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana'><a href="http://web.worldbank.org/external/projects/main?pagePK=64283627&amp;piPK=73230&amp;theSitePK=486752&amp;menuPK=486783&amp;Projectid=P070197">http://web.worldbank.org/external/projects/main?pagePK=64283627&amp;piPK=73230&amp;theSitePK=486752&amp;menuPK=486783&amp;Projectid=P070197</a><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family:Verdana'>Vietnam - Second Phase of the Second Program for Communes Facing Extreme Hardship in Ethnic Minority and Mountainous Areas (Program 135) Program - </span></b><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana'>Program Document <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana'><a href="http://go.worldbank.org/TAEOQ1B5Y0">http://go.worldbank.org/TAEOQ1B5Y0</a> <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:9.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:8.0pt; font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoBodyTextIndent3 align=right style='margin-top:0in;margin-right: 0in;margin-bottom:3.0pt;margin-left:0in;text-align:right;background:#CCFFFF'><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana;color:black'><a href="#_top">Back to top</a><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style='mso-yfti-irow:7'> <td width=679 valign=top style='width:509.4pt;border:solid navy 3.0pt; border-top:none;mso-border-top-alt:solid navy 3.0pt;padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt'> <h1 style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;background:#33CCCC'><a name="_Toc234218801"></a><a name="_Toc192156844"></a><a name="_Toc163040075"><span style='mso-bookmark:_Toc192156844'><span style='mso-bookmark:_Toc234218801'><span style='font-size:20.0pt;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";color:blue'>Funding Opportunities</span></span></span></a><span style='font-size:20.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";color:blue'><o:p></o:p></span></h1> <p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size: 9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family:Arial; color:#993300'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></i></p> <p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family:Arial;color:#993300'>- For more funding opportunities, please read previous VDIC newsletters at </span></i><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;color:#993300'><a href="http://www.vdic.org.vn/?name=newsletter&amp;op=viewDetailNews&amp;id=230&amp;mid=350">http://www.vdic.org.vn/?name=newsletter&amp;op=viewDetailNews&amp;id=230&amp;mid=350</a> <i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'><o:p></o:p></i></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family:Arial;color:#993300'>- For further information on the news provided below, please contact the organization directly.<o:p></o:p></span></i></p> <p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family:Arial;color:#993300'>- Please let us know if you have directly benefited from an opportunity information disseminated by VDIC.<o:p></o:p></span></i></p> <p class=MsoBodyTextIndent3 style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span lang=FR style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana;color:black;mso-ansi-language:FR'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoBodyTextIndent3 style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span lang=FR style='font-size:9.0pt; font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family:Verdana;color:black; mso-ansi-language:FR'>World Bank 2009 Young Professionals Program <o:p></o:p></span></b></p> <p class=MsoBodyTextIndent3 style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span lang=FR style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana;color:black;mso-ansi-language:FR'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoBodyTextIndent3 style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span lang=FR style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana;color:black;mso-ansi-language:FR'>The Young Professionals Program is a starting point for an exciting career in the World Bank. The Program is designed to attract outstanding young and motivated individuals from around the world, who have demonstrated a commitment to development, supported by academic success, professional achievement and potential for leadership. The Program recruits through a highly selective and competitive process and then facilitates their rapid integration into the World Bank's business and culture.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoBodyTextIndent3 style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span lang=FR style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana;color:black;mso-ansi-language:FR'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoBodyTextIndent3 style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span lang=FR style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana;color:black;mso-ansi-language:FR'>Please apply online. The application period is from May 1 to July 15, 2009.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoBodyTextIndent3 style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span lang=FR style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana;color:black;mso-ansi-language:FR'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoBodyTextIndent3 style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span lang=FR style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana;color:black;mso-ansi-language:FR'>Learn about the Young Professionals Program at <a href="http://go.worldbank.org/P6U8U79W40">http://go.worldbank.org/P6U8U79W40</a><span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>  </span><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoBodyTextIndent3 style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span lang=FR style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana;color:black;mso-ansi-language:FR'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoBodyTextIndent3 style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span lang=FR style='font-size:9.0pt; font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family:Verdana;color:black; mso-ansi-language:FR'>Photo Contest 2009 for Promoting Gender Equality in Education<o:p></o:p></span></b></p> <p class=MsoBodyTextIndent3 style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span lang=FR style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana;color:black;mso-ansi-language:FR'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoBodyTextIndent3 style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span lang=FR style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana;color:black;mso-ansi-language:FR'>As part of the initiative to promote gender equality in education, UNESCO Bangkok - along with the United Nations Girls Education Initiative (UNGEI), East Asia and Pacific (EAP) and South Asia (SA)  is pleased to invite entries for the Photo Contest 2009 on the theme of: Reversing Realities: Seeking Gender Equality in Education. All entries must be received at the UNESCO Bangkok office by 31 July 2009. Judging will take place in August 2009 at UNESCO Bangkok. <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoBodyTextIndent3 style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span lang=FR style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana;color:black;mso-ansi-language:FR'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoBodyTextIndent3 style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span lang=FR style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana;color:black;mso-ansi-language:FR'>For more information about the contest visit <a href="http://www.unescobkk.org/fileadmin/user_upload/appeal/gender/%0bPHOTO_CONTEST_2009_FLYER/Gender_Photo_Contest_2009_E-brochure.pdf">http://www.unescobkk.org/fileadmin/user_upload/appeal/gender/<br> PHOTO_CONTEST_2009_FLYER/Gender_Photo_Contest_2009_E-brochure.pdf</a><span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>  </span><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoBodyTextIndent3 style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span lang=FR style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana;color:black;mso-ansi-language:FR'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoBodyTextIndent3 style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span lang=FR style='font-size:9.0pt; font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family:Verdana;color:black; mso-ansi-language:FR'>Call for project proposals on climate change impacts and adaptation<o:p></o:p></span></b></p> <p class=MsoBodyTextIndent3 style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span lang=FR style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana;color:black;mso-ansi-language:FR'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoBodyTextIndent3 style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span lang=FR style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana;color:black;mso-ansi-language:FR'>What can be funded?<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoBodyTextIndent3 style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span lang=FR style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana;color:black;mso-ansi-language:FR'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoBodyTextIndent3 style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span lang=FR style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana;color:black;mso-ansi-language:FR'>Community-level projects focusing on local experiences with climate change and its impacts. These could involve field research, interviews with community members, workshops, photo projects, film projects etc.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoBodyTextIndent3 style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span lang=FR style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana;color:black;mso-ansi-language:FR'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoBodyTextIndent3 style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span lang=FR style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana;color:black;mso-ansi-language:FR'>Proposals can be made by interested groups or individuals, for example, local and indigenous organisations, research centres, researchers, graduate students with interdisciplinary training, community members (youth groups, women, elders) etc. <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoBodyTextIndent3 style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span lang=FR style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana;color:black;mso-ansi-language:FR'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoBodyTextIndent3 style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span lang=FR style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana;color:black;mso-ansi-language:FR'>Projects could explore any topic relating to climate change and local communities. <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoBodyTextIndent3 style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span lang=FR style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana;color:black;mso-ansi-language:FR'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoBodyTextIndent3 style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span lang=FR style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana;color:black;mso-ansi-language:FR'>We invite proposals from anywhere in the world, as long as they are for local-scale projects involving peoples and places vulnerable to climate change.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoBodyTextIndent3 style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span lang=FR style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana;color:black;mso-ansi-language:FR'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoBodyTextIndent3 style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span lang=FR style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana;color:black;mso-ansi-language:FR'>Proposals should reach UNESCO on or before 15 July 2009.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoBodyTextIndent3 style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span lang=FR style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana;color:black;mso-ansi-language:FR'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoBodyTextIndent3 style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span lang=FR style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana;color:black;mso-ansi-language:FR'><a href="http://www.climatefrontlines.org/en-GB/node/191">http://www.climatefrontlines.org/en-GB/node/191</a> <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoBodyTextIndent3 style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span lang=FR style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana;color:black;mso-ansi-language:FR'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoBodyTextIndent3 style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span lang=FR style='font-size:9.0pt; font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family:Verdana;color:black; mso-ansi-language:FR'>IWC Water Leader Scholarships<o:p></o:p></span></b></p> <p class=MsoBodyTextIndent3 style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span lang=FR style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana;color:black;mso-ansi-language:FR'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoBodyTextIndent3 style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span lang=FR style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana;color:black;mso-ansi-language:FR'>The IWC Water Leader Scholarships offer full and partial tuition scholarships for Australian citizens, permanent residents and international applicants for the Master of Integrated Water Management program.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoBodyTextIndent3 style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span lang=FR style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana;color:black;mso-ansi-language:FR'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoBodyTextIndent3 style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span lang=FR style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana;color:black;mso-ansi-language:FR'>International scholarships cover full tuition costs of the three-semester full-time Masters program, as well as overseas student health cover for the duration of the program. Scholarship does not include: Travel, Accommodation allowance, Living stipend, Field work or course material costs. It will be the responsibility of successful applicants to cover these costs.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoBodyTextIndent3 style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span lang=FR style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana;color:black;mso-ansi-language:FR'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoBodyTextIndent3 style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span lang=FR style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana;color:black;mso-ansi-language:FR'><a href="http://www.watercentre.org/education/programs/scholarships/iwc-scholarships">http://www.watercentre.org/education/programs/scholarships/iwc-scholarships</a> <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoBodyTextIndent3 style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span lang=FR style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana;color:black;mso-ansi-language:FR'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoBodyTextIndent3 style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span lang=FR style='font-size:9.0pt; font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family:Verdana;color:black; mso-ansi-language:FR'>Entry now open for the Japanese award for most innovative development project (MIDP)<o:p></o:p></span></b></p> <p class=MsoBodyTextIndent3 style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span lang=FR style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana;color:black;mso-ansi-language:FR'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoBodyTextIndent3 style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span lang=FR style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana;color:black;mso-ansi-language:FR'>The Global Development Network (GDN) is now accepting submissions for the 2009 Annual Global Development Awards and Medals Competition for the Japanese Award for Most Innovative Development Project. <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoBodyTextIndent3 style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span lang=FR style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana;color:black;mso-ansi-language:FR'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoBodyTextIndent3 style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span lang=FR style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana;color:black;mso-ansi-language:FR'>A competitive grant program administered by GDN, the competition provides an opportunity for organizations to expand their on-going field work in any development related project. Finalists are invited to attend the Annual Global Development Conference, held each year in a different country, to showcase their project proposals before an eminent jury for the final round. This year the Annual Conference will be held in Prague from January 16-18, 2010. The winning proposal will receive a cash award of US$ 30,000 and the runner-up organization will receive US$ 5,000. <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoBodyTextIndent3 style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span lang=FR style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana;color:black;mso-ansi-language:FR'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoBodyTextIndent3 style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span lang=FR style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana;color:black;mso-ansi-language:FR'>The deadline for submitting completed applications is August 24, 2009. <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoBodyTextIndent3 style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span lang=FR style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana;color:black;mso-ansi-language:FR'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoBodyTextIndent3 style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span lang=FR style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana;color:black;mso-ansi-language:FR'>For more information please go to <a href="http://www.gdnet.org/cms.php?id=2009_awards_medals_announcement">http://www.gdnet.org/cms.php?id=2009_awards_medals_announcement</a><span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>  </span>or email <a href="mailto:awards@gdnet.org">awards@gdnet.org</a><span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>  </span><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoBodyTextIndent3 style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span lang=FR style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana;color:black;mso-ansi-language:FR'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoBodyTextIndent3 style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span lang=FR style='font-size:9.0pt; font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family:Verdana;color:black; mso-ansi-language:FR'>Unilever Vietnam Foundation - annual grant scheme for health and hygiene projects <o:p></o:p></span></b></p> <p class=MsoBodyTextIndent3 style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span lang=FR style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana;color:black;mso-ansi-language:FR'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoBodyTextIndent3 style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span lang=FR style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana;color:black;mso-ansi-language:FR'>Unilever Vietnam Foundation (UVF) Annual grant scheme for Health and Hygiene projects 2009 is an annual program of UVF to make positive contribution to the improvement of living standard through fulfilling health and hygiene aspirations of Vietnamese people and to bring about Unilever s missions in Vietnam.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoBodyTextIndent3 style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span lang=FR style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana;color:black;mso-ansi-language:FR'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoBodyTextIndent3 style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span lang=FR style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana;color:black;mso-ansi-language:FR'>Program 2009 gives priority to projects in the fields of habitat sanitation and community health. Sponsored projects will be executed in 2010. Successful applicants must demonstrate their full commitment and determination to completely deliver the target outcomes of their projects and work out specific measurement of the impacts of projects on community. <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoBodyTextIndent3 style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span lang=FR style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana;color:black;mso-ansi-language:FR'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoBodyTextIndent3 style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span lang=FR style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana;color:black;mso-ansi-language:FR'>3. Focus areas<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoBodyTextIndent3 style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span lang=FR style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana;color:black;mso-ansi-language:FR'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoBodyTextIndent3 style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span lang=FR style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana;color:black;mso-ansi-language:FR'>a.<span style='mso-tab-count:1'>         </span>Habitat sanitation for community health<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoBodyTextIndent3 style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span lang=FR style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana;color:black;mso-ansi-language:FR'>" <span style='mso-tab-count:1'>          </span>Personal hygiene &amp; habitat sanitation for diseases prevention<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoBodyTextIndent3 style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span lang=FR style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana;color:black;mso-ansi-language:FR'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoBodyTextIndent3 style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span lang=FR style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana;color:black;mso-ansi-language:FR'>b.<span style='mso-tab-count:1'>         </span>Clean water<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoBodyTextIndent3 style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span lang=FR style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana;color:black;mso-ansi-language:FR'>" <span style='mso-tab-count:1'>          </span>Improve polluted water<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoBodyTextIndent3 style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span lang=FR style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana;color:black;mso-ansi-language:FR'>" <span style='mso-tab-count:1'>          </span>Initiatives to save clean water<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoBodyTextIndent3 style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span lang=FR style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana;color:black;mso-ansi-language:FR'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoBodyTextIndent3 style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span lang=FR style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana;color:black;mso-ansi-language:FR'>c.<span style='mso-tab-count:1'>         </span>Waste and environment<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoBodyTextIndent3 style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span lang=FR style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana;color:black;mso-ansi-language:FR'>" <span style='mso-tab-count:1'>          </span>Treat and reduce waste to protect environment<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoBodyTextIndent3 style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span lang=FR style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana;color:black;mso-ansi-language:FR'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoBodyTextIndent3 style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span lang=FR style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana;color:black;mso-ansi-language:FR'>Deadline for application submission: by 15 August 2009. <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoBodyTextIndent3 style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span lang=FR style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana;color:black;mso-ansi-language:FR'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoBodyTextIndent3 style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span lang=FR style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana;color:black;mso-ansi-language:FR'>Unilever Vietnam Foundation<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoBodyTextIndent3 style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span lang=FR style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana;color:black;mso-ansi-language:FR'>233 Nguyen Trai, <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoBodyTextIndent3 style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span lang=FR style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana;color:black;mso-ansi-language:FR'>Thanh Xuan District, Ha Noi<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoBodyTextIndent3 style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span lang=FR style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana;color:black;mso-ansi-language:FR'>Tel: (84 4)3 8583383 ext 300<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoBodyTextIndent3 style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span lang=FR style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana;color:black;mso-ansi-language:FR'>Contact person: Ms Le Thi Hoai Thuong <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoBodyTextIndent3 style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span lang=FR style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana;color:black;mso-ansi-language:FR'>Email: le-thi-hoai.thuong@unilever.com<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoBodyTextIndent3 style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span lang=FR style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana;color:black;mso-ansi-language:FR'>Ho Chi Minh city:<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoBodyTextIndent3 style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span lang=FR style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana;color:black;mso-ansi-language:FR'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoBodyTextIndent3 style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span lang=FR style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana;color:black;mso-ansi-language:FR'>Unilever Vietnam Foundation<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoBodyTextIndent3 style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span lang=FR style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana;color:black;mso-ansi-language:FR'>156 Nguyen Luong Bang, <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoBodyTextIndent3 style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span lang=FR style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana;color:black;mso-ansi-language:FR'>District<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>  </span>7, HCMC<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoBodyTextIndent3 style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span lang=FR style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana;color:black;mso-ansi-language:FR'>Tel: (84 8) 54135686 ext 2295<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoBodyTextIndent3 style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span lang=FR style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana;color:black;mso-ansi-language:FR'>Contact person: Ms Tran Thi Thu Huyen<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoBodyTextIndent3 style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span lang=FR style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana;color:black;mso-ansi-language:FR'>Email: <a href="mailto:tran-thi-thu.huyen@unilever.com">tran-thi-thu.huyen@unilever.com</a><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoBodyTextIndent3 style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span lang=FR style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana;color:black;mso-ansi-language:FR'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoBodyTextIndent3 style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span lang=FR style='font-size:9.0pt; font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family:Verdana;color:black; mso-ansi-language:FR'>Announcing the 2009 Asia Pacific Human Development Fellowships<o:p></o:p></span></b></p> <p class=MsoBodyTextIndent3 style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span lang=FR style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana;color:black;mso-ansi-language:FR'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoBodyTextIndent3 style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span lang=FR style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana;color:black;mso-ansi-language:FR'>There are two types of Fellowships: Media or Academic, both of which are directly or indirectly intended to support building of HD capacity among nationals from programme countries. The brochure with information on the fellowships is available at <a href="http://www2.undprcc.lk/about_us/fellowship.php">http://www2.undprcc.lk/about_us/fellowship.php</a><span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>  </span><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoBodyTextIndent3 style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span lang=FR style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana;color:black;mso-ansi-language:FR'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoBodyTextIndent3 style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span lang=FR style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana;color:black;mso-ansi-language:FR'>This year the theme for the Media Fellowship is  Gender , linked to the forthcoming APHDR, which will contribute to dissemination. The theme for the Academic Fellowship is  Climate Change to encourage researchers to focus on the theme selected for the APHDR to follow Gender.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoBodyTextIndent3 style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span lang=FR style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana;color:black;mso-ansi-language:FR'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoBodyTextIndent3 style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span lang=FR style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana;color:black;mso-ansi-language:FR'>The theme for the APHDR following the one on gender has been revisited in light of global happenings. The decision is to do the next APHDR on climate change, which has the potential to thwart the achievements of the MDG and human development and increase inequality. The issues underlying social exclusion will continue to receive much attention through, for example, publications such as the global HDR on migration, the regional HDR on gender, and ongoing analysis of the social impact of the financial crisis.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoBodyTextIndent3 style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span lang=FR style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana;color:black;mso-ansi-language:FR'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoBodyTextIndent3 style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span lang=FR style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana;color:black;mso-ansi-language:FR'>We would be grateful if you could pass this information on to those individuals and institutions who you think would be interested in applying. Please do encourage prospective applicants to submit applications by the deadline of September 1st, 2009. Applications and queries should be sent to hdfellowships.rcc@undp.org.<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>  </span>We look forward to applications from Ph.D. students and media professionals!<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoBodyTextIndent3 style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span lang=FR style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana;color:black;mso-ansi-language:FR'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoBodyTextIndent3 style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span lang=FR style='font-size:9.0pt; font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family:Verdana;color:black; mso-ansi-language:FR'>2010 Endeavour Awards for Research, Postgraduate study or research, Vocational education and training, Professional Development and Student<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>  </span>Exchanges<o:p></o:p></span></b></p> <p class=MsoBodyTextIndent3 style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span lang=FR style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana;color:black;mso-ansi-language:FR'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoBodyTextIndent3 style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span lang=FR style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana;color:black;mso-ansi-language:FR'>As part of Australian Scholarships, the Endeavour Awards promote excellence in education. Australian Scholarships brings together under one umbrella, scholarships administered by the Australian Government Department of Education, Employment and Workplace Relations and AusAID, the Australian Agency for International Development. Australian Scholarships aims to build mutual understanding between Australia and its Asia-Pacific neighbours.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoBodyTextIndent3 style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span lang=FR style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana;color:black;mso-ansi-language:FR'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoBodyTextIndent3 style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span lang=FR style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana;color:black;mso-ansi-language:FR'>Through the Endeavour Awards, the Australian Government provides opportunities <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoBodyTextIndent3 style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span lang=FR style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana;color:black;mso-ansi-language:FR'>for high achieving international students, researchers and professionals to <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoBodyTextIndent3 style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span lang=FR style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana;color:black;mso-ansi-language:FR'>undertake short or long term study, research and professional development in <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoBodyTextIndent3 style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span lang=FR style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana;color:black;mso-ansi-language:FR'>Australia in a broad range of disciplines.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoBodyTextIndent3 style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span lang=FR style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana;color:black;mso-ansi-language:FR'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoBodyTextIndent3 style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span lang=FR style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana;color:black;mso-ansi-language:FR'>Contact email: endeavour.scholarships@deewr.gov.au<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoBodyTextIndent3 style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span lang=FR style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana;color:black;mso-ansi-language:FR'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoBodyTextIndent3 style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span lang=FR style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana;color:black;mso-ansi-language:FR'>More info: <a href="http://www.endeavour.dest.gov.au/default.htm">http://www.endeavour.dest.gov.au/default.htm</a><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoBodyTextIndent3 style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span lang=FR style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana;color:black;mso-ansi-language:FR'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoBodyTextIndent3 style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span lang=FR style='font-size:9.0pt; font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family:Verdana;color:black; mso-ansi-language:FR'>United Nations - the Nippon Foundation of Japan Fellowship Programme Applications for 2010 Session</span></b><span lang=FR style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana;color:black;mso-ansi-language:FR'><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoBodyTextIndent3 style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span lang=FR style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana;color:black;mso-ansi-language:FR'><span style='mso-tab-count:2'>                        </span><span style='mso-spacerun:yes'> </span><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoBodyTextIndent3 style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span lang=FR style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana;color:black;mso-ansi-language:FR'>The major objective of this Fellowship Programme is to provide funded opportunities for advanced training in the field of ocean affairs and the law of the sea, or related disciplines, to government officials and other mid-level professionals from developing coastal States so that they may obtain the necessary skills to assist their countries in the formulation of comprehensive ocean policies and to implement the legal regime set out in the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS) and related instruments, including the CBD.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoBodyTextIndent3 style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span lang=FR style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana;color:black;mso-ansi-language:FR'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoBodyTextIndent3 style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span lang=FR style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana;color:black;mso-ansi-language:FR'>The Fellowship Programme consists of two phases, namely a six-month research and study phase, immediately followed by a three-month training phase. The first phase will be implemented through a university or research institution affiliated with the Programme and which has in-depth competence and expertise in the given field of studies. After completing the first phase, fellows will undertake a training phase with the Division for Ocean Affairs and the Law of the Sea in New York, or with an intergovernmental agency or organization competent in the chosen field.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoBodyTextIndent3 style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span lang=FR style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana;color:black;mso-ansi-language:FR'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoBodyTextIndent3 style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span lang=FR style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana;color:black;mso-ansi-language:FR'><a href="http://www.un.org/depts/los/nippon">http://www.un.org/depts/los/nippon</a> <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoBodyTextIndent3 style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span lang=FR style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana;color:black;mso-ansi-language:FR'><span style='mso-spacerun:yes'> </span><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoBodyTextIndent3 style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span lang=FR style='font-size:9.0pt; font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family:Verdana;color:black; mso-ansi-language:FR'>ICE WaRM's Master of Water Resources Management Scholarships<o:p></o:p></span></b></p> <p class=MsoBodyTextIndent3 style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span lang=FR style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana;color:black;mso-ansi-language:FR'><span style='mso-spacerun:yes'> </span><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoBodyTextIndent3 style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span lang=FR style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana;color:black;mso-ansi-language:FR'>The International Centre of Excellence in Water Resources Management (ICEWaRM) offers a scholarship programme to high quality international students to study the multiple award-winning nested Master of Water Resources Management, including Graduate Certificate, Graduate Diploma and Masters options, delivered by its partner institutions.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoBodyTextIndent3 style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span lang=FR style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana;color:black;mso-ansi-language:FR'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoBodyTextIndent3 style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span lang=FR style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana;color:black;mso-ansi-language:FR'>ICE WaRM's Scholarship Programme aims to:<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoBodyTextIndent3 style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span lang=FR style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana;color:black;mso-ansi-language:FR'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoBodyTextIndent3 style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span lang=FR style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana;color:black;mso-ansi-language:FR'>- provide high calibre students with the opportunity to study with ICE WaRM partners to further their knowledge; <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoBodyTextIndent3 style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span lang=FR style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana;color:black;mso-ansi-language:FR'>- provide students with the opportunity to participate in research and advance their scientific knowledge in water resources management; <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoBodyTextIndent3 style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span lang=FR style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana;color:black;mso-ansi-language:FR'>- encourage the exchange of ideas on best practice within water-related fields; <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoBodyTextIndent3 style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span lang=FR style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana;color:black;mso-ansi-language:FR'>- provide students with the opportunity to participate in presentations, conferences, seminars and forums on contemporary issues in water resources management; <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoBodyTextIndent3 style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span lang=FR style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana;color:black;mso-ansi-language:FR'>- provide the opportunity for students from organisations and countries currently facing major water issues to participate in programmes which they may not be able to fund; and <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoBodyTextIndent3 style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span lang=FR style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana;color:black;mso-ansi-language:FR'>- demonstrate a commitment to cultural change and diversity and the international sharing of knowledge and skills related to water resources management.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoBodyTextIndent3 style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span lang=FR style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana;color:black;mso-ansi-language:FR'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoBodyTextIndent3 style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span lang=FR style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana;color:black;mso-ansi-language:FR'>Semester 1 start (February) - Deadline 28th August<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoBodyTextIndent3 style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span lang=FR style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana;color:black;mso-ansi-language:FR'>Semester 2 start (July) - Deadline 27th February<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoBodyTextIndent3 style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span lang=FR style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana;color:black;mso-ansi-language:FR'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoBodyTextIndent3 style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span lang=FR style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana;color:black;mso-ansi-language:FR'>Please go to <a href="http://www.icewarm.com.au/page.php?pId=183">http://www.icewarm.com.au/page.php?pId=183</a> for more information. <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoBodyTextIndent3 style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span lang=FR style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana;color:black;mso-ansi-language:FR'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoBodyTextIndent3 style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span lang=FR style='font-size:9.0pt; font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family:Verdana;color:black; mso-ansi-language:FR'>Internews Launches Competition for World s Best Climate Change Reporting<o:p></o:p></span></b></p> <p class=MsoBodyTextIndent3 style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span lang=FR style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana;color:black;mso-ansi-language:FR'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoBodyTextIndent3 style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span lang=FR style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana;color:black;mso-ansi-language:FR'>Earth Journalism Awards to Culminate at Pivotal Copenhagen Conference Internews, the global media assistance organisation, opened the Earth Journalism Awards on World Environment Day, June 5, with a call to professional and citizen journalists around the world to enter their best reporting on climate change. Winners will be invited to the United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP15) in Copenhagen this December, where they will cover these pivotal negotiations and be honoured at a high-profile awards ceremony.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoBodyTextIndent3 style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span lang=FR style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana;color:black;mso-ansi-language:FR'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoBodyTextIndent3 style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span lang=FR style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana;color:black;mso-ansi-language:FR'>Deadline: September 7, 2009 (12.00 pm, Paris-time, GMT+2).<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoBodyTextIndent3 style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span lang=FR style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana;color:black;mso-ansi-language:FR'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoBodyTextIndent3 style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span lang=FR style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana;color:black;mso-ansi-language:FR'>Details of the awards are available at <a href="http://awards.earthjournalism.org">http://awards.earthjournalism.org</a>. <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoBodyTextIndent3 style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span lang=FR style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana;color:black;mso-ansi-language:FR'><span style='mso-spacerun:yes'> </span><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoBodyTextIndent3 style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span lang=FR style='font-size:9.0pt; font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family:Verdana;color:black; mso-ansi-language:FR'>7,700 Euros await winners - ASEAN Centre for Biodiversity (ACB) invites photographers to zoom in on biodiversity<o:p></o:p></span></b></p> <p class=MsoBodyTextIndent3 style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span lang=FR style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana;color:black;mso-ansi-language:FR'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoBodyTextIndent3 style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span lang=FR style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana;color:black;mso-ansi-language:FR'>Calling all professional, amateur and student photographers! The ASEAN Centre for Biodiversity (ACB) is now accepting entries to the First ASEAN-wide photo contest  Zooming in on Biodiversity .<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoBodyTextIndent3 style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span lang=FR style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana;color:black;mso-ansi-language:FR'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoBodyTextIndent3 style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span lang=FR style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana;color:black;mso-ansi-language:FR'>In partnership with the European Commission, ASEAN Member States, and the Asian Institute of Journalism and Communication, the photo contest seeks to popularize the values of biodiversity through the medium of photography. <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoBodyTextIndent3 style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span lang=FR style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana;color:black;mso-ansi-language:FR'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoBodyTextIndent3 style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span lang=FR style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana;color:black;mso-ansi-language:FR'>The contest will run until 30 August 2009 with a total of 7,700 Euros total prize at stake. <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoBodyTextIndent3 style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span lang=FR style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana;color:black;mso-ansi-language:FR'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoBodyTextIndent3 style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span lang=FR style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana;color:black;mso-ansi-language:FR'>For contest details and mechanics, log on to <a href="http://www.aseanbiodiversity.org">www.aseanbiodiversity.org</a>. <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoBodyTextIndent3 style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span lang=FR style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana;color:black;mso-ansi-language:FR'><span style='mso-spacerun:yes'> </span><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoBodyTextIndent3 style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span lang=FR style='font-size:9.0pt; font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family:Verdana;color:black; mso-ansi-language:FR'>BirdLife and CEPF expand funding opportunities for biodiversity conservation in Indochina<o:p></o:p></span></b></p> <p class=MsoBodyTextIndent3 style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span lang=FR style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana;color:black;mso-ansi-language:FR'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoBodyTextIndent3 style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span lang=FR style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana;color:black;mso-ansi-language:FR'>Critical Ecosystem Partnership Fund (CEPF) opportunities in Indochina were expanded today, with an invitation for applications from Lao P.D.R. and Thailand for the first time, and a repeat call for applications from Cambodia and Vietnam. This call for Letters of Inquiry (LoIs) has a deadline of 11th September 2009. Full details can be found at www.birdlifeindochina.org/cepf or <a href="http://www.cepf.net">www.cepf.net</a>.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoBodyTextIndent3 style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span lang=FR style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana;color:black;mso-ansi-language:FR'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoBodyTextIndent3 style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span lang=FR style='font-size:9.0pt; font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family:Verdana;color:black; mso-ansi-language:FR'>BirdLife và CEPF mß rÙng ch°¡ng trình tài trã cho ho¡t Ùng b£o tÓn thiên nhiên ß ông D°¡ng<o:p></o:p></span></b></p> <p class=MsoBodyTextIndent3 style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span lang=FR style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana;color:black;mso-ansi-language:FR'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoBodyTextIndent3 style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span lang=FR style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana;color:black;mso-ansi-language:FR'>BirdLife và Quù Ñi tác vÁ các hÇ sinh thái trÍng y¿u (CEPF) mß rÙng c¡ hÙi nh­n tài trã të CEPF ß khu vñc ông D°¡ng b±ng viÇc l§n §u tiên thông báo nh­n th° yêu c§u tài trã cho các Á xu¥t dñ án °ãc triÃn khai t¡i Lào, Thái Lan và thông báo nh­n th° yêu c§u tài trã l§n thé hai Ñi vÛi Campuchia và ViÇt Nam. H¡n cuÑi nh­n các Á xu¥t dñ án là ngày 11 tháng 09 nm 2009. Chi ti¿t °ãc ng t£i trên trang web www.birdlifeindochina.org/cepf ho·c www.cepf.net.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoBodyTextIndent3 style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span lang=FR style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana;color:black;mso-ansi-language:FR'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoBodyTextIndent3 style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span lang=FR style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana;color:black;mso-ansi-language:FR'>Trong ãt hai này, các Á xu¥t dñ án cho Lào và Thái Lan có thà xây dñng nÙi dung dña trên b¥t kó °u tiên §u t° nào cça CEPF; nh°ng Ñi vÛi Campuchia và ViÇt Nam, th° yêu<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>  </span>c§u tài trã s½ bË giÛi h¡n ß mÙt sÑ °u tiên §u t° cho ¿n nay v«n ch°a nh­n °ãc nhiÁu Á xu¥t dñ án. TÛi thÝi iÃm này ã có 8 dñ án °ãc tài trã cho các tÕ chéc dân sñ (tÕ chéc phi chính phç, nhóm cÙng Óng và viÇn nghiên céu, v.v.) ß Campuchia và ViÇt Nam và 10 Á xu¥t dñ án ã °ãc chuyÃn sang giai o¡n hai à xây dñng hÓ s¡ dñ án §y ç.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoBodyTextIndent3 style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span lang=FR style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana;color:black;mso-ansi-language:FR'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoBodyTextIndent3 style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span lang=FR style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana;color:black;mso-ansi-language:FR'>Các thông tin bÕ sung và b£n dËch tóm t¯t b±ng ti¿ng ViÇt, Anh, Kh¡-me và Lào °ãc ng trên trang web www.birdlifeindochina.org/cepf. <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoBodyTextIndent3 style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span lang=FR style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana;color:black;mso-ansi-language:FR'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoBodyTextIndent3 style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span lang=FR style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana;color:black;mso-ansi-language:FR'>Thông tin chi ti¿t xin liên hÇ cepf-rit@birdlife.org.vn<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoBodyTextIndent3 style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span lang=FR style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana;color:black;mso-ansi-language:FR'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoBodyTextIndent3 style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span lang=FR style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana;color:black;mso-ansi-language:FR'>Web site: <a href="http://www.birdlifeindochina.org/cepf">www.birdlifeindochina.org/cepf</a> <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoBodyTextIndent3 style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span lang=FR style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana;color:black;mso-ansi-language:FR'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoBodyTextIndent3 style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span lang=FR style='font-size:9.0pt; font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family:Verdana;color:black; mso-ansi-language:FR'>Skoll Awards for Social Entrepreneurship <o:p></o:p></span></b></p> <p class=MsoBodyTextIndent3 style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span lang=FR style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana;color:black;mso-ansi-language:FR'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoBodyTextIndent3 style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span lang=FR style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana;color:black;mso-ansi-language:FR'>The Skoll Awards for Social Entrepreneurship support social entrepreneurs whose work has the potential for large-scale influence on critical challenges of our time: tolerance and human rights, health, economic and social equity, peace and security, institutional responsibility, and environmental sustainability. These issues are at the heart of the foundation s vision of empowering people to create a peaceful, prosperous, sustainable world. Within these issues, we are particularly interested in applications from social entrepreneurs working in five critical sub-issue areas that threaten the survival of humanity  climate change, nuclear proliferation, pandemics, conflict in the Middle East and water scarcity. <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoBodyTextIndent3 style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span lang=FR style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana;color:black;mso-ansi-language:FR'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoBodyTextIndent3 style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span lang=FR style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana;color:black;mso-ansi-language:FR'>Applications are accepted and reviewed on a year-round basis, with successful applicants receiving initial funding installments shortly after decisions are made. Regular deadlines (listed below and updated regularly) assist us in managing the internal review process for these applications, a process that takes a minimum of six months to be completed. <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoBodyTextIndent3 style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span lang=FR style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana;color:black;mso-ansi-language:FR'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoBodyTextIndent3 style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span lang=FR style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana;color:black;mso-ansi-language:FR'>Please note the following application deadlines: August 12. <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoBodyTextIndent3 style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span lang=FR style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana;color:black;mso-ansi-language:FR'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoBodyTextIndent3 style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span lang=FR style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana;color:black;mso-ansi-language:FR'><a href="http://www.skollfoundation.org/skollawards/index.asp">http://www.skollfoundation.org/skollawards/index.asp</a> <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoBodyTextIndent3 style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span lang=FR style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana;color:black;mso-ansi-language:FR'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoBodyTextIndent3 style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span lang=FR style='font-size:9.0pt; font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family:Verdana;color:black; mso-ansi-language:FR'>TWAS Research Grants Programme in Basic Sciences<o:p></o:p></span></b></p> <p class=MsoBodyTextIndent3 style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span lang=FR style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana;color:black;mso-ansi-language:FR'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoBodyTextIndent3 style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span lang=FR style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana;color:black;mso-ansi-language:FR'>This program is for Individual Scientists and Research Units in S&amp;T-Lagging Countries. Under this scheme, grants are awarded to high-level promising research projects in biology, chemistry, mathematics and physics carried out by either individual scientists or research units in the 80 S&amp;T-lagging countries (S&amp;TLCs) identified by TWAS. <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoBodyTextIndent3 style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span lang=FR style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana;color:black;mso-ansi-language:FR'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoBodyTextIndent3 style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span lang=FR style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana;color:black;mso-ansi-language:FR'>Deadline: 31 August. <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoBodyTextIndent3 style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span lang=FR style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana;color:black;mso-ansi-language:FR'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoBodyTextIndent3 style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span lang=FR style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana;color:black;mso-ansi-language:FR'><a href="https://twas.ictp.it/prog/grants/research-grants/">https://twas.ictp.it/prog/grants/research-grants/</a><span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>  </span><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoBodyTextIndent3 style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span lang=FR style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana;color:black;mso-ansi-language:FR'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoBodyTextIndent3 style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span lang=FR style='font-size:9.0pt; font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family:Verdana;color:black; mso-ansi-language:FR'>Postgraduate Courses for Professionals with Relevance to Developing Countries - Scholarships in Germany<o:p></o:p></span></b></p> <p class=MsoBodyTextIndent3 style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span lang=FR style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana;color:black;mso-ansi-language:FR'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoBodyTextIndent3 style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span lang=FR style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana;color:black;mso-ansi-language:FR'><a href="http://www.daad.de/imperia/md/content/entwicklung/hochschulen/%0bast/postgraduate_courses__2010_-_2011.pdf">http://www.daad.de/imperia/md/content/entwicklung/hochschulen/<br> ast/postgraduate_courses__2010_-_2011.pdf</a><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoBodyTextIndent3 style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span lang=FR style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana;color:black;mso-ansi-language:FR'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoBodyTextIndent3 style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span lang=FR style='font-size:9.0pt; font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family:Verdana;color:black; mso-ansi-language:FR'>Apply for the 2009 GE &amp; Science Prize for Young Life Scientists<o:p></o:p></span></b></p> <p class=MsoBodyTextIndent3 style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span lang=FR style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana;color:black;mso-ansi-language:FR'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoBodyTextIndent3 style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span lang=FR style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana;color:black;mso-ansi-language:FR'>The GE &amp; Science Prize for Young Life Scientists has been established to provide support to scientists at the beginning of their careers, because Science/AAAS and GE Healthcare believe that such support is critical for continued scientific progress. In 2009, the prize will recognize outstanding graduate students in molecular biology from all regions of the world. This international prize will be awarded for the outstanding thesis in the general area of molecular biology as described in a 1000-word essay. The winning essay will be published in Science; essays of the regional award winners will appear in the online version of Science. The deadline for entries is 1 August 2009.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoBodyTextIndent3 style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span lang=FR style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana;color:black;mso-ansi-language:FR'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoBodyTextIndent3 style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span lang=FR style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana;color:black;mso-ansi-language:FR'><a href="http://www.sciencemag.org/feature/data/prizes/ge/howto.dtl">http://www.sciencemag.org/feature/data/prizes/ge/howto.dtl</a><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoBodyTextIndent3 style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span lang=FR style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana;color:black;mso-ansi-language:FR'><span style='mso-spacerun:yes'> </span><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoBodyTextIndent3 style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span lang=FR style='font-size:9.0pt; font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family:Verdana;color:black; mso-ansi-language:FR'>Newton International Fellowships <o:p></o:p></span></b></p> <p class=MsoBodyTextIndent3 style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span lang=FR style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana;color:black;mso-ansi-language:FR'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoBodyTextIndent3 style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span lang=FR style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana;color:black;mso-ansi-language:FR'>Are you at the beginning of your research career - with the potential to be world-class? Is your research in the natural or social sciences, engineering or humanities? Do you want to build and maintain links with leading researchers in the UK? Then apply now for a Newton International Fellowship<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>   </span>The next round of applications will open in December 2009. <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoBodyTextIndent3 style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span lang=FR style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana;color:black;mso-ansi-language:FR'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoBodyTextIndent3 style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span lang=FR style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana;color:black;mso-ansi-language:FR'><a href="http://www.newtonfellowships.org/index.html">http://www.newtonfellowships.org/index.html</a> <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoBodyTextIndent3 style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span lang=FR style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana;color:black;mso-ansi-language:FR'><span style='mso-spacerun:yes'> </span><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoBodyTextIndent3 style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span lang=FR style='font-size:9.0pt; font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family:Verdana;color:black; mso-ansi-language:FR'>IDRC Internship Awards <o:p></o:p></span></b></p> <p class=MsoBodyTextIndent3 style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span lang=FR style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana;color:black;mso-ansi-language:FR'><span style='mso-spacerun:yes'> </span><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoBodyTextIndent3 style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span lang=FR style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana;color:black;mso-ansi-language:FR'>The IDRC Internship awards provide exposure to research for international development through a program of training in research management and grant administration under the guidance of IDRC program staff. The internship is designed to provide hands-on learning experiences in research program management - in the creation, dissemination and utilization of knowledge from an international perspective.<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>  </span><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoBodyTextIndent3 style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span lang=FR style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana;color:black;mso-ansi-language:FR'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoBodyTextIndent3 style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span lang=FR style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana;color:black;mso-ansi-language:FR'>In principle, IDRC supports research on all parts of the developing regions of the world. At this time, the Centre Training and Awards Program is not supporting awards which involve research in Burma, Cuba, Iran, Iraq, Eastern Europe or Central Asia.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoBodyTextIndent3 style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span lang=FR style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana;color:black;mso-ansi-language:FR'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoBodyTextIndent3 style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span lang=FR style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana;color:black;mso-ansi-language:FR'>The intern will undertake a program of research on the topic submitted when competing for the internship award, and will be trained in the techniques of research management through hands-on experience with the Centre's policies and practices for grant administration under the mentorship of a Program Officer(s). <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoBodyTextIndent3 style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span lang=FR style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana;color:black;mso-ansi-language:FR'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoBodyTextIndent3 style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span lang=FR style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana;color:black;mso-ansi-language:FR'>Deadline for receipt of applications: 12 September 2009 (awards will be announced in December 2009).<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoBodyTextIndent3 style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span lang=FR style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana;color:black;mso-ansi-language:FR'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoBodyTextIndent3 style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span lang=FR style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana;color:black;mso-ansi-language:FR'><a href="http://www.idrc.ca/en/ev-84370-201-1-DO_TOPIC.html">http://www.idrc.ca/en/ev-84370-201-1-DO_TOPIC.html</a><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoBodyTextIndent3 style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span lang=FR style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana;color:black;mso-ansi-language:FR'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoBodyTextIndent3 style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span lang=FR style='font-size:9.0pt; font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family:Verdana;color:black; mso-ansi-language:FR'>Nam S&amp;T Centre Research Fellowship, 2009<o:p></o:p></span></b></p> <p class=MsoBodyTextIndent3 style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span lang=FR style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana;color:black;mso-ansi-language:FR'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoBodyTextIndent3 style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span lang=FR style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana;color:black;mso-ansi-language:FR'>The Centre for Science and Technology of the Non-aligned and Other Developing Countries (NAM S&amp;T Centre) is implementing a NAM S&amp;T Centre Research Fellowship scheme to provide the scientists and researchers of its member countries an opportunity to affiliate themselves with the scientific institutions located in another member country for upgrading their research skills, undertaking short-term joint projects, delivering lectures, developing linkages and establishing closer cooperation with the scientists/institutions in their fields of interest. The duration of the fellowship may vary from a few weeks to a few months, depending upon the nature / plan of work and mutual agreement with the host institution/country. Generally, the Fellowship is not provided for attending a workshop / training course. <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoBodyTextIndent3 style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span lang=FR style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana;color:black;mso-ansi-language:FR'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoBodyTextIndent3 style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span lang=FR style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana;color:black;mso-ansi-language:FR'><a href="http://www.namstct.org/nam_rfellowship.htm">http://www.namstct.org/nam_rfellowship.htm</a><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoBodyTextIndent3 style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span lang=FR style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana;color:black;mso-ansi-language:FR'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoBodyTextIndent3 style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span lang=FR style='font-size:9.0pt; font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family:Verdana;color:black; mso-ansi-language:FR'>Joint NAM S&amp;T Centre  ZMT Bremen (Germany) Fellowship in Tropical Coastal Marine Ecology and Biogeochemistry <o:p></o:p></span></b></p> <p class=MsoBodyTextIndent3 style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span lang=FR style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana;color:black;mso-ansi-language:FR'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoBodyTextIndent3 style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span lang=FR style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana;color:black;mso-ansi-language:FR'>The Centre will sponsor up to five scientists during the year for short term affiliation at ZMT for a period of up to 3 months. Only one scientist each from a particular developing country can be selected, strictly on a competitive basis based on the applicant s academic and professional background, the plan of work and the mutual research interests of the applicant and ZMT. The ZMT will provide a subsistence allowance of ¬ 1000 per month to each selected fellow for accommodation, meals and out-of-pocket expenses in Bremen for the duration of the fellowship. NAM S&amp;T Centre will pay the return international airfare from the home country to Bremen, Germany to the selected scientists / researchers only from those member countries of the NAM S&amp;T Centre or members of the NAM S&amp;T  Industry Network, which have no outstanding dues towards the annual membership subscription to the Centre. Lists of the member countries and the members of the NAM S&amp;T  Industry Network are available in the Centre s website www.namstct.org. Applications from defaulting member countries and other developing countries, which are not the members of the NAM S&amp;T Centre are also welcome, but in such cases, the sending country or the candidates themselves will have to arrange for their international travel and pay US$500 to the NAM S&amp;T Centre in advance towards its administrative expenses.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoBodyTextIndent3 style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span lang=FR style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana;color:black;mso-ansi-language:FR'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoBodyTextIndent3 style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span lang=FR style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana;color:black;mso-ansi-language:FR'><a href="http://www.namstct.org/NAM-ZMT%20Fellowship.htm">http://www.namstct.org/NAM-ZMT%20Fellowship.htm</a><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoBodyTextIndent3 style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span lang=FR style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana;color:black;mso-ansi-language:FR'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoBodyTextIndent3 style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span lang=FR style='font-size:9.0pt; font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family:Verdana;color:black; mso-ansi-language:FR'>International Fulbright Science and Technology Award<o:p></o:p></span></b></p> <p class=MsoBodyTextIndent3 style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span lang=FR style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana;color:black;mso-ansi-language:FR'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoBodyTextIndent3 style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span lang=FR style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana;color:black;mso-ansi-language:FR'>The International Fulbright Science and Technology Award for Outstanding Foreign Students provides talented students with an opportunity to pursue Ph.D. study at top U.S. universities. Sponsored by the Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs of the U.S. Department of State, the Award is designed to be the most prestigious international scholarship in science and technology. This Award Program, an outcome of the 2006 U.S. University Presidents Summit cosponsored by the U.S. Department of State and U.S. Department of Education, demonstrates the United States commitment to welcoming top-notch future researchers and leaders to pursue serious scientific study and research at U.S. institutions.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoBodyTextIndent3 style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span lang=FR style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana;color:black;mso-ansi-language:FR'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoBodyTextIndent3 style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span lang=FR style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana;color:black;mso-ansi-language:FR'><a href="http://foreign.fulbrightonline.org/scienceandtech.html">http://foreign.fulbrightonline.org/scienceandtech.html</a><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoBodyTextIndent3 style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span lang=FR style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana;color:black;mso-ansi-language:FR'><span style='mso-spacerun:yes'> </span><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoBodyTextIndent3 style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span lang=FR style='font-size:9.0pt; font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family:Verdana;color:black; mso-ansi-language:FR'>Granting Programme - International Foundation of Science (IFS)<o:p></o:p></span></b></p> <p class=MsoBodyTextIndent3 style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span lang=FR style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana;color:black;mso-ansi-language:FR'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoBodyTextIndent3 style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span lang=FR style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana;color:black;mso-ansi-language:FR'>The IFS Granting Programme is open for project proposals from developing country scientists who meet the eligibility criteria and conduct research on the sustainable management of biological resources.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoBodyTextIndent3 style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span lang=FR style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana;color:black;mso-ansi-language:FR'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoBodyTextIndent3 style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span lang=FR style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana;color:black;mso-ansi-language:FR'><a href="http://www.ifs.se/Programme/granting_programme.asp">http://www.ifs.se/Programme/granting_programme.asp</a><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoBodyTextIndent3 style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span lang=FR style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana;color:black;mso-ansi-language:FR'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoBodyTextIndent3 style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span lang=FR style='font-size:9.0pt; font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family:Verdana;color:black; mso-ansi-language:FR'>International Brain Research Organization (IBRO) Funding Program<o:p></o:p></span></b></p> <p class=MsoBodyTextIndent3 style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span lang=FR style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana;color:black;mso-ansi-language:FR'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoBodyTextIndent3 style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span lang=FR style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana;color:black;mso-ansi-language:FR'><a href="http://funding.ibro.info/Pub/Pub_Collections_List.asp">http://funding.ibro.info/Pub/Pub_Collections_List.asp</a>? <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoBodyTextIndent3 style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span lang=FR style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana;color:black;mso-ansi-language:FR'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoBodyTextIndent3 style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span lang=FR style='font-size:9.0pt; font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family:Verdana;color:black; mso-ansi-language:FR'>DLR-DAAD Research Fellowships - Current Offers <o:p></o:p></span></b></p> <p class=MsoBodyTextIndent3 style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span lang=FR style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana;color:black;mso-ansi-language:FR'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoBodyTextIndent3 style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span lang=FR style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana;color:black;mso-ansi-language:FR'> DLR-DAAD Research Fellowships is a new programme implemented by the  Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt (DLR) and the  German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD).<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoBodyTextIndent3 style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span lang=FR style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana;color:black;mso-ansi-language:FR'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoBodyTextIndent3 style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span lang=FR style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana;color:black;mso-ansi-language:FR'><a href="http://www.daad.de/deutschland/foerderung/ausschreibungen/09144.de.html">http://www.daad.de/deutschland/foerderung/ausschreibungen/09144.de.html</a><span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>  </span><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoBodyTextIndent3 style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span lang=FR style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana;color:black;mso-ansi-language:FR'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoBodyTextIndent3 style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span lang=FR style='font-size:9.0pt; font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family:Verdana;color:black; mso-ansi-language:FR'>Commonwealth Scholarships <o:p></o:p></span></b></p> <p class=MsoBodyTextIndent3 style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span lang=FR style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana;color:black;mso-ansi-language:FR'><a href="http://www.cscuk.org.uk/apply.asp">http://www.cscuk.org.uk/apply.asp</a><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoBodyTextIndent3 style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span lang=FR style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana;color:black;mso-ansi-language:FR'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoBodyTextIndent3 style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span lang=FR style='font-size:9.0pt; font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family:Verdana;color:black; mso-ansi-language:FR'>Collaborative Partnership on Forest - funding sources <o:p></o:p></span></b></p> <p class=MsoBodyTextIndent3 style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span lang=FR style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana;color:black;mso-ansi-language:FR'><a href="http://www.fao.org/forestry/17254/en/">http://www.fao.org/forestry/17254/en/</a> <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoBodyTextIndent3 style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span lang=FR style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana;color:black;mso-ansi-language:FR'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoBodyTextIndent3 style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span lang=FR style='font-size:9.0pt; font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family:Verdana;color:black; mso-ansi-language:FR'>Funding database - Gender &amp; Diversity</span></b><span lang=FR style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana;color:black;mso-ansi-language:FR'> <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoBodyTextIndent3 style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span lang=FR style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana;color:black;mso-ansi-language:FR'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoBodyTextIndent3 style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span lang=FR style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana;color:black;mso-ansi-language:FR'><a href="http://www.genderdiversity.cgiar.org/cast_the_net/funds_scholarships.asp">http://www.genderdiversity.cgiar.org/cast_the_net/funds_scholarships.asp</a> <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoBodyTextIndent3 style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span lang=FR style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana;color:black;mso-ansi-language:FR'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoBodyTextIndent3 style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span lang=FR style='font-size:9.0pt; font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family:Verdana;color:black; mso-ansi-language:FR'>Children s International Photography Contest Focuses Worldwide Lens On Biodiversity <o:p></o:p></span></b></p> <p class=MsoBodyTextIndent3 style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span lang=FR style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana;color:black;mso-ansi-language:FR'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoBodyTextIndent3 style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span lang=FR style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana;color:black;mso-ansi-language:FR'>Youngsters around the world are invited to enter the &quot;See the Bigger Picture&quot; photography contest by submitting images illustrating plants, animals or anything else that captures biodiversity to www.seethebiggerpicture.org. The winner will receive an all-expenses-paid trip to National Geographic headquarters in Washington, D.C., and will meet with renowned photojournalist Joel Sartore, a contest judge. <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoBodyTextIndent3 style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span lang=FR style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana;color:black;mso-ansi-language:FR'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoBodyTextIndent3 style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span lang=FR style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana;color:black;mso-ansi-language:FR'>Entries must be received by Sept. 8, 2009. <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoBodyTextIndent3 style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span lang=FR style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana;color:black;mso-ansi-language:FR'><span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>  </span><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoBodyTextIndent3 style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span lang=FR style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana;color:black;mso-ansi-language:FR'>&quot;See the Bigger Picture&quot; contest rules can be found on <a href="http://www.seethebiggerpicture.org">www.seethebiggerpicture.org</a> as well as in the July and August issues of National Geographic magazine and in the June/July and August issues of National Geographic Kids magazine. In the United States the contest is open to kids ages 6-14, and internationally to kids ages 6-16. <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoBodyTextIndent3 style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span lang=FR style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana;color:black;mso-ansi-language:FR'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoBodyTextIndent3 style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span lang=FR style='font-size:9.0pt; font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family:Verdana;color:black; mso-ansi-language:FR'>The Development Gateway photo competition 2009 <o:p></o:p></span></b></p> <p class=MsoBodyTextIndent3 style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span lang=FR style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana;color:black;mso-ansi-language:FR'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoBodyTextIndent3 style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span lang=FR style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana;color:black;mso-ansi-language:FR'>The Development Gateway photo competition is open to ALL photographers at least 13 years of age, except employees of Development Gateway and their immediate families. Your entry to the contest constitutes your agreement to allow your photograph, name, occupation, city and state of residence, to be published as the selected award winner; published or used on the Web sites; and used for the promotion of Development Gateway including, but not limited to, Web pages, brochures, fact sheets, and other materials. Entrants retain ownership and all other rights to future use of their photographs. The Development Gateway shall have the right to verify, in its sole judgment, winner eligibility. <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoBodyTextIndent3 style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span lang=FR style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana;color:black;mso-ansi-language:FR'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoBodyTextIndent3 style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span lang=FR style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana;color:black;mso-ansi-language:FR'>We are looking for compelling photographs of socio-economic development in developing countries. Four types of photographs will be accepted. 1) The images may show information and communications technologies. 2) The images may show people making something, selling wares, working in a field, constructing a building or type of infrastructure, or acquiring knowledge. 3) The images could be abstract images representing hope, the future, or capacity building. 4) The photographs may also include images of original artwork from a developing country. Please do not include photographs of groups of people posing. <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoBodyTextIndent3 style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span lang=FR style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana;color:black;mso-ansi-language:FR'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoBodyTextIndent3 style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span lang=FR style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana;color:black;mso-ansi-language:FR'>Deadline for submitting entries is September 18, 2009. <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoBodyTextIndent3 style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span lang=FR style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana;color:black;mso-ansi-language:FR'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoBodyTextIndent3 style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span lang=FR style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana;color:black;mso-ansi-language:FR'><a href="http://www.dgfoundation.org/news-events/photo-contest.html">http://www.dgfoundation.org/news-events/photo-contest.html</a><span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>  </span><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoBodyTextIndent3 style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span lang=FR style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana;color:black;mso-ansi-language:FR'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoBodyTextIndent3 style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span lang=FR style='font-size:9.0pt; font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family:Verdana;color:black; mso-ansi-language:FR'>Seed Grants: Support to Underserved Victim Populations - Call For Proposals<o:p></o:p></span></b></p> <p class=MsoBodyTextIndent3 style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span lang=FR style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana;color:black;mso-ansi-language:FR'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoBodyTextIndent3 style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span lang=FR style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana;color:black;mso-ansi-language:FR'>The United Nations Inter-Agency Project on Human Trafficking (UNIAP), in 2009-2010, aims to support agencies and interventions that test new approaches in the field of anti-human trafficking; address areas which have not been sufficiently addressed; and reach victims and vulnerable people who have not been reached.<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>  </span>UNIAP will provide grants of up to US $30,000 to non-government organizations and academic institutions with legal status to fund seed research projects, programmatic interventions, or a combination of the two, for a duration of 12 to 24 months.<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>  </span>Programs must be innovative, effective, and targeted, with empirical means for verification of results and impact.<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>  </span>Priority will be given to the following four themes:<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoBodyTextIndent3 style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span lang=FR style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana;color:black;mso-ansi-language:FR'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoBodyTextIndent3 style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span lang=FR style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana;color:black;mso-ansi-language:FR'>A. Service provision to underserved or disenfranchised exploited populations that include trafficked persons<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoBodyTextIndent3 style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span lang=FR style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana;color:black;mso-ansi-language:FR'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoBodyTextIndent3 style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span lang=FR style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana;color:black;mso-ansi-language:FR'>B. Case documentation, monitoring, and analysis; on-the-job training;<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>  </span>and/or other practical means to improve the current criminal justice response at the grassroots<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoBodyTextIndent3 style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span lang=FR style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana;color:black;mso-ansi-language:FR'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoBodyTextIndent3 style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span lang=FR style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana;color:black;mso-ansi-language:FR'>C. Systematically investigating and documenting broker/trafficker networks<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoBodyTextIndent3 style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span lang=FR style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana;color:black;mso-ansi-language:FR'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoBodyTextIndent3 style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span lang=FR style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana;color:black;mso-ansi-language:FR'>D. Developing and proliferating better human trafficking situation and response monitoring<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoBodyTextIndent3 style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span lang=FR style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana;color:black;mso-ansi-language:FR'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoBodyTextIndent3 style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span lang=FR style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana;color:black;mso-ansi-language:FR'>The deadline for submission of proposals is 6 pm (18:00), Friday, 31 July, 2009.<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>  </span><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoBodyTextIndent3 style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span lang=FR style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana;color:black;mso-ansi-language:FR'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoBodyTextIndent3 style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span lang=FR style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana;color:black;mso-ansi-language:FR'>Please email application and questions to the UNIAP Vietnam project office: Nguyen Ngoc Anh at Nguyen.Ngoc.Anh@un.org.vn.<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>  </span><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoBodyTextIndent3 style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span lang=FR style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana;color:black;mso-ansi-language:FR'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoBodyTextIndent3 style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span lang=FR style='font-size:9.0pt; font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family:Verdana;color:black; mso-ansi-language:FR'>Plural+ Competition<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>  </span><o:p></o:p></span></b></p> <p class=MsoBodyTextIndent3 style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span lang=FR style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana;color:black;mso-ansi-language:FR'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoBodyTextIndent3 style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span lang=FR style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana;color:black;mso-ansi-language:FR'>Young people from around the world are warmly invited to participate in a video competition organized by the United Nations Alliance of Civilizations and the International Organization for Migration (IOM), on the theme of migration and diversity.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoBodyTextIndent3 style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span lang=FR style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana;color:black;mso-ansi-language:FR'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoBodyTextIndent3 style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span lang=FR style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana;color:black;mso-ansi-language:FR'>Youth around the world are invited to participate in a dynamic video festival organized by the United Nations Alliance of Civilizations (UNAOC) and the International Organization for Migration (IOM) in collaboration with other international partners including the Anna Lindh Foundation, Baka Forum, Chinh India, the Royal Film Commission of Jordan, the Media That Matters Film Festival and UNICEF.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoBodyTextIndent3 style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span lang=FR style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana;color:black;mso-ansi-language:FR'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoBodyTextIndent3 style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span lang=FR style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana;color:black;mso-ansi-language:FR'>Recognizing youth as agents of social change in a world often characterized by intolerance, and ethnic and religious divisions, the PLURAL + video festival is aimed at involving youth in addressing questions on migrant integration, inclusiveness, identity, diversity, human rights and social cohesiveness wherever they be in the world.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoBodyTextIndent3 style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span lang=FR style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana;color:black;mso-ansi-language:FR'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoBodyTextIndent3 style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span lang=FR style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana;color:black;mso-ansi-language:FR'>The practical contributions of young people - whether they are migrants, 2nd generation immigrants or indeed non-migrants  in not just identifying constraints but also in promoting a climate of respect and appreciation for each other can help show the way forward in creating a more enlightened world.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoBodyTextIndent3 style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span lang=FR style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana;color:black;mso-ansi-language:FR'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoBodyTextIndent3 style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span lang=FR style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana;color:black;mso-ansi-language:FR'>Youth worldwide are invited to submit short videos on their thoughts, experiences, opinions, questions and suggestions on these issues and on promoting harmonious coexistence in diverse cultural and religious contexts.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoBodyTextIndent3 style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span lang=FR style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana;color:black;mso-ansi-language:FR'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoBodyTextIndent3 style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span lang=FR style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana;color:black;mso-ansi-language:FR'>Submissions will be open from 1 June to 30 September, 2009. <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoBodyTextIndent3 style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span lang=FR style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana;color:black;mso-ansi-language:FR'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoBodyTextIndent3 style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span lang=FR style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana;color:black;mso-ansi-language:FR'>Full details on PLURAL <a href="http://www.unaoc.org/content/view/346/257/lang,en/">http://www.unaoc.org/content/view/346/257/lang,en/</a><span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>  </span><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoBodyTextIndent3 style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span lang=FR style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana;color:black;mso-ansi-language:FR'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoBodyTextIndent3 style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span lang=FR style='font-size:9.0pt; font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family:Verdana;color:black; mso-ansi-language:FR'>2009 annual Developing Asia Journalism Awards (DAJA) competition - ADBI<o:p></o:p></span></b></p> <p class=MsoBodyTextIndent3 style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span lang=FR style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana;color:black;mso-ansi-language:FR'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoBodyTextIndent3 style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span lang=FR style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana;color:black;mso-ansi-language:FR'>The Asian Development Bank Institute invites journalists from developing Asia and the Pacific to submit published articles written in 2008 or 2009 in connection with the 2009 annual Developing Asia Journalism Awards (DAJA) competition.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoBodyTextIndent3 style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span lang=FR style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana;color:black;mso-ansi-language:FR'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoBodyTextIndent3 style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span lang=FR style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana;color:black;mso-ansi-language:FR'>The subject matter of the articles should be in line with one of the following four categories (see below for further guidance on these categories).<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoBodyTextIndent3 style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span lang=FR style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana;color:black;mso-ansi-language:FR'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoBodyTextIndent3 style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span lang=FR style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana;color:black;mso-ansi-language:FR'>- Poverty impact of the global financial crisis <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoBodyTextIndent3 style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span lang=FR style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana;color:black;mso-ansi-language:FR'>- Government responses to the global financial crisis <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoBodyTextIndent3 style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span lang=FR style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana;color:black;mso-ansi-language:FR'>- Infrastructure development <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoBodyTextIndent3 style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span lang=FR style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana;color:black;mso-ansi-language:FR'>- Climate change adaptation <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoBodyTextIndent3 style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span lang=FR style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana;color:black;mso-ansi-language:FR'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoBodyTextIndent3 style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span lang=FR style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana;color:black;mso-ansi-language:FR'>An international panel of judges will select the 20 best articles written by journalists who will then be invited to ADBI in Tokyo for a four-day training program running from 20-23 October 2009.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoBodyTextIndent3 style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span lang=FR style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana;color:black;mso-ansi-language:FR'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoBodyTextIndent3 style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span lang=FR style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana;color:black;mso-ansi-language:FR'>The training program will provide an opportunity for participants to discuss and debate the above four issues with leading experts. There will also be practical sessions designed to help journalists prepare clear, accessible stories that help promote economic and financial literacy.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoBodyTextIndent3 style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span lang=FR style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana;color:black;mso-ansi-language:FR'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoBodyTextIndent3 style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span lang=FR style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana;color:black;mso-ansi-language:FR'>Winners of each of the four categories, as well as two special prizes for (i) best development journalist of the year; and (ii) best young development journalist of the year (under 30 years of age) will be selected from these 20 articles. Awards will be given at the conclusion of the training program. Special prizes may be given to entrants in the main award categories or to separate entries.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoBodyTextIndent3 style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span lang=FR style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana;color:black;mso-ansi-language:FR'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoBodyTextIndent3 style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span lang=FR style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana;color:black;mso-ansi-language:FR'>The closing date for entries is Wednesday, 15 July 2009, 6.00 pm, Tokyo time.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoBodyTextIndent3 style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span lang=FR style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana;color:black;mso-ansi-language:FR'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoBodyTextIndent3 style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span lang=FR style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana;color:black;mso-ansi-language:FR'><a href="http://www.adbi.org/news/2009/05/14/2951.daja.2009.entries.open/">http://www.adbi.org/news/2009/05/14/2951.daja.2009.entries.open/</a><span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>  </span><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoBodyTextIndent3 style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span lang=FR style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana;color:black;mso-ansi-language:FR'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoBodyTextIndent3 style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span lang=FR style='font-size:9.0pt; font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family:Verdana;color:black; mso-ansi-language:FR'>UNU-ONY Junior Professional Fellow <o:p></o:p></span></b></p> <p class=MsoBodyTextIndent3 style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span lang=FR style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana;color:black;mso-ansi-language:FR'><span style='mso-spacerun:yes'> </span><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoBodyTextIndent3 style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span lang=FR style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana;color:black;mso-ansi-language:FR'>The United Nations University Office at the United Nations, New York (UNU-ONY) recruits Junior Professional Fellows (JPFs) for two sessions each year running from August to January, and February to July. The internship title, &quot;Junior Professional Fellows&quot; reflects the high level of responsibility and opportunity given to those accepted into this program.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoBodyTextIndent3 style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span lang=FR style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana;color:black;mso-ansi-language:FR'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoBodyTextIndent3 style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span lang=FR style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana;color:black;mso-ansi-language:FR'>Please note that UNU-ONY Junior Professional Fellows positions require full-time commitments due to the high level of responsibilities given to our interns. These are unpaid positions. On the job training and support is provided throughout the internship. <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoBodyTextIndent3 style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span lang=FR style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana;color:black;mso-ansi-language:FR'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoBodyTextIndent3 style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span lang=FR style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana;color:black;mso-ansi-language:FR'>Deadlines for applications are as follows:<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoBodyTextIndent3 style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span lang=FR style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana;color:black;mso-ansi-language:FR'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoBodyTextIndent3 style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span lang=FR style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana;color:black;mso-ansi-language:FR'>- February 1st to July 31st Session: November 30th<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoBodyTextIndent3 style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span lang=FR style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana;color:black;mso-ansi-language:FR'>- August 1st to January 31st Session: May 31st<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoBodyTextIndent3 style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span lang=FR style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana;color:black;mso-ansi-language:FR'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoBodyTextIndent3 style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span lang=FR style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana;color:black;mso-ansi-language:FR'>For more details about the activities pertaining to each of the focus areas, please click here. UNU-ONY liaises with the UN Secretariat, the Permanent Missions, academia and foundations in five areas of activities<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoBodyTextIndent3 style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span lang=FR style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana;color:black;mso-ansi-language:FR'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoBodyTextIndent3 style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span lang=FR style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana;color:black;mso-ansi-language:FR'>- Dissemination/communication<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoBodyTextIndent3 style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span lang=FR style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana;color:black;mso-ansi-language:FR'>- Political and diplomatic linking<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoBodyTextIndent3 style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span lang=FR style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana;color:black;mso-ansi-language:FR'>- Academic interplay<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoBodyTextIndent3 style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span lang=FR style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana;color:black;mso-ansi-language:FR'>- Research and Policy<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoBodyTextIndent3 style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span lang=FR style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana;color:black;mso-ansi-language:FR'>- Institutional Development<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoBodyTextIndent3 style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span lang=FR style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana;color:black;mso-ansi-language:FR'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoBodyTextIndent3 style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span lang=FR style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana;color:black;mso-ansi-language:FR'><a href="http://www.ony.unu.edu/internships">http://www.ony.unu.edu/internships</a><span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>   </span><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoBodyTextIndent3 style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span lang=FR style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana;color:black;mso-ansi-language:FR'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoBodyTextIndent3 style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span lang=FR style='font-size:9.0pt; font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family:Verdana;color:black; mso-ansi-langua