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<o:shapedefaults v:ext="edit" spidmax="1026"> <o:colormenu v:ext="edit" fillcolor="#cff"/> </o:shapedefaults></xml><![endif]--><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml> <o:shapelayout 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-top-alt: solid 3.0pt;mso-border-left-alt:solid 3.0pt;mso-border-bottom-alt:thin-thick-small-gap 4.5pt; mso-border-right-alt:thin-thick-small-gap 4.5pt;mso-border-color-alt:navy; 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'>February </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'>2010<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'>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="#_Toc253128819">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 _Toc253128819 \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>08D0C9EA79F9BACE118C8200AA004BA90B02000000080000000E0000005F0054006F0063003200350033003100320038003800310039000000</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";mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-fareast;mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-bidi;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="#_Toc253128820"><span style='font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"'>VDIC Re-opening Announcement</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 _Toc253128820 \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>08D0C9EA79F9BACE118C8200AA004BA90B02000000080000000E0000005F0054006F0063003200350033003100320038003800320030000000</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";mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-fareast;mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-bidi;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="#_Toc253128821">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 _Toc253128821 \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>08D0C9EA79F9BACE118C8200AA004BA90B02000000080000000E0000005F0054006F0063003200350033003100320038003800320031000000</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";mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-fareast;mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-bidi;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="#_Toc253128822"><span style='font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"'>Highlights from the New Resources 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 _Toc253128822 \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>08D0C9EA79F9BACE118C8200AA004BA90B02000000080000000E0000005F0054006F0063003200350033003100320038003800320032000000</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";mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-fareast;mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-bidi;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="#_Toc253128823">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 _Toc253128823 \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>08D0C9EA79F9BACE118C8200AA004BA90B02000000080000000E0000005F0054006F0063003200350033003100320038003800320033000000</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";mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-fareast;mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-bidi;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="#_Toc253128824">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 _Toc253128824 \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>08D0C9EA79F9BACE118C8200AA004BA90B02000000080000000E0000005F0054006F0063003200350033003100320038003800320034000000</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";mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-fareast;mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-bidi;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="#_Toc253128825"><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 _Toc253128825 \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>08D0C9EA79F9BACE118C8200AA004BA90B02000000080000000E0000005F0054006F0063003200350033003100320038003800320035000000</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";mso-ascii-theme-font: 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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="_Toc253128819"></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:_Toc253128819'><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='background:#CCFFFF'><span style='font-size:9.0pt; font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <h2 style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;background:#CCFFFF'><a name="_Toc192156836"></a><a name="_Toc253128820"><span style='mso-bookmark: _Toc192156836'><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'>VDIC Re-opening Announcement</span></span></a><span style='mso-bookmark:_Toc192156836'><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></span></h2> <p class=MsoNormal style='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='background:#CCFFFF'><span style='font-size:9.0pt; font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family:Verdana'>We are pleased to inform you that the VDIC has re-opened since Friday, 22nd January 2010. Our new location is on the second floor, 63 Ly Thai To street, Hanoi. We look forward to welcoming you at our new premises. <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='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='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> </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:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;background:#33CCCC'><a name="_Toc253128821"></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:_Toc253128821'><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="_Toc253128822"></a><a name="_Toc192156840"><span style='mso-bookmark:_Toc253128822'><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 Resources 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-left:30.25pt;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"'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:30.25pt;text-indent:-30.25pt; mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:9.0pt; font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"'>BAN-MIC-V4. Goenka, Aditya (ed.); Henley, David (ed.). <b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'>Southeast Asia's credit revolution: From moneylenders to microfinance</b>. Routledge. 2010. <u>Summary</u>: Southeast Asia s Credit Revolution describes and explains the rise of microfinance  the provision of credit and other financial services for the poor  in Southeast Asia, over the past four decades the most consistently successful region of the developing world. In recent years microfinance has come to be seen as a key weapon in the battle against global poverty, generating more enthusiasm and optimism than any other development strategy. -- Southeast Asia has a special place in the history of microfinance. Historically, Southeast Asian societies and economies were perceived as almost uniquely debt-ridden and credit-constrained. In the twentieth century, however, the region was in the forefront of the modern microfinance revolution. This book asks what factors have made it possible for formal microfinance institutions to replace moneylenders and other traditional credit providers. -- Bringing together economists, sociologists, anthropologists and historians, the book covers seven Southeast Asian countries. The topic is explored from cultural and institutional as well as economic perspectives, and policy-relevant lessons are offered for the design of successful microfinance institutions. Focusing on recent developments while putting them in historical context, this will be an important text for scholars and students of economic history, finance, institutional economics, and Asian Studies. <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:30.25pt;text-indent:-30.25pt; 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> <p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:30.25pt;text-indent:-30.25pt; mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:9.0pt; font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"'>ECO-ADM-P39. Project Management Institute (PMI). <b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'>A guide to the project management body of knowledge (PMBOK Guide). 4th edition</b>. Project Management Institute (PMI). 2008. <u>About the book</u>: A Guide to the Project Management Body of Knowledge (PMBOK® Guide) offers a set of processes, generally recognized as good practice, which delivers results across industries and organizations. The PMBOK® Guide contains the fundamental, baseline practices that drive business results for any organization  local, regional and global. What s new? * Standard language has been incorporated throughout the document to aid reader understanding. * New data flow diagrams clarify inputs and outputs for each process. * Greater attention has been placed on how Knowledge Areas integrate in the context of Initiating, Planning, Executing, Monitoring &amp; Controlling, and Closing process groups. * Two new processes are featured: Identify Stakeholders and Collect Requirements.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:30.25pt;text-indent:-30.25pt; 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> <p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:30.25pt;text-indent:-30.25pt; mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:9.0pt; font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"'>ECO-ADM-V9. Rowley, Chris (ed.); Quang, Truong (ed.). <b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'>The changing face of Vietnamese management</b>. Routledge. 2010. <u>About the book</u>: Vietnam has emerged from long periods of colonialization, wars and ideological conflicts to become an important economic force within Asia and a promising destination for international business ventures. The latest book in the popular Working in Asia series, The Changing Face of Vietnamese Management, draws on the experiences of local, Vietnamese experts to offer a unique perspective on the opportunities, challenges and issues facing managers and organizations operating in this fascinating emerging market. The book: - Contextualizes political, economic and social traditions - Discusses Vietnam s competitiveness within the global economy - Analyzes key functional areas, including HRM, marketing, finance and strategy - Examines key issues and new developments in management and business. This key text includes illustrative case studies and vignettes to provide broad coverage and content that would serve the needs of students and managers alike. <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:30.25pt;text-indent:-30.25pt; 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> <p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:30.25pt;text-indent:-30.25pt; mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:9.0pt; font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"'>(REF) ECO 2 [Internet]. World Bank. <b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'>Global Economic Prospects 2010: Crisis, Finance, and Growth</b>. World Bank. 2010. <u>About the book</u>: Global Economic Prospects 2010: Crisis, Finance, and Growth explores both the short- and medium-term impacts of the financial crisis on developing countries. Although global growth has resumed, the recovery is fragile, and unless business and consumer demand strengthen, the world economy could slow down again. -- Even if, as appears likely, a double-dip recession is avoided, the recovery is expected to be slow. High unemployment and widespread restructuring will continue to characterize the global economy for the next several years. Already, the crisis has provoked large-scale human suffering. Some 64 million more people are expected to be living on less than $1.25 a day in 2010 than would have been had the crisis not occurred and between 30,000 and 50,000 more infants may have died of malnutrition in 2009. -- Over the medium term economic growth is expected to recover. But increased risk aversion, a necessary and desirable tightening of financial regulations in high-income countries, and measures to reduce the exposure of developing economies to external shocks are likely to make finance scarcer and more costly than it was during the boom period. -- As a result, just as the ample liquidity of the early 2000s prompted an investment boom and an acceleration in developing-country potential output, higher costs will likely yield a slowing in developing-country potential growth rates of between 0.2 and 0.7 percentage points, and perhaps as much as an 8 percent decline in potential output over the medium term. -- In the longer term, however, developing countries can more than offset the implications of more expensive international finance by reducing the cost of capital channeled through their domestic financial markets. -- For more information. please visit www.worldbank.org/gep2010. To access Prospects for the Global Economy, an online companion publication, please visit www.worldbank.org/globaloutlook. <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:30.25pt;text-indent:-30.25pt; 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> <p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:30.25pt;text-indent:-30.25pt; mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:9.0pt; font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"'>ECO-POL-V70. Lan, Nguyen. <b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'>Guerilla capitalism: The state in the market in Vietnam</b>. Chandos. 2010. <u>About the book</u>: This book is about the nature of the business system and the behaviour of state owned enterprises in Vietnam. Like China and other former socialist countries in Eastern Europe, Vietnam first pursued the Soviet development model characterised by central planning of economic and social activity. Then in the early 1980s it began a transitional process towards a market economy. Today, Vietnam is following the capitalist path to development and although it has made notable progress, the economy is still burdened by a large and inefficient state sector. The book provides existing and potential investors interested in doing business in Vietnam with a rich insight into how and why businesses in general and state owned enterprises in particular there are structured and managed. The book also presents researchers and students with a comprehensive, societal approach to the study of organisational behaviour. It also offers a distinctive interpretation of the common problems of state owned enterprises in transitional economies that goes beyond the traditional economic explanation. <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:30.25pt;text-indent:-30.25pt; 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> <p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:30.25pt;text-indent:-30.25pt; mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:9.0pt; font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"'>ENV-MAN-V4 [Internet]. Bass, Steve; Annandale, David; Phan, Van Binh; Tran, Phuong Dong; Hoang, Anh Nam; Le, Thi Kien Oanh; Parsons, Mike; Nguyen, Van Phuc; Vu, Van Trieu. <b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'>Integrating environment and development in Viet Nam: Achievements, challenges and next steps</b>. International Institute for Environment and Development (IIED). 2010. <u>About the book</u>: Development and environmental management have, for too long, been treated as separate objectives in Viet Nam  as in most countries. Viet Nam s extraordinarily rapid development has brought immediate and major benefits. But it has also led to poor people suffering pollution, climate change and soil infertility. It is time for development and environment to be considered together. This paper reviews what has worked well in integrating environment and development objectives in Viet Nam, as well as what currently constrains integration. It assesses future needs, given rapidly changing demographic, economic and environmental situations. Its recommendations offer a sure footing for  preparing for green growth in a future middle-income Viet Nam. Full text http://www.iied.org/pubs/display.php?o=17505IIED&amp;n=1&amp;l=55&amp;k=viet%20nam<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:30.25pt;text-indent:-30.25pt; 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> <p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:30.25pt;text-indent:-30.25pt; mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:9.0pt; font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"'>GOV-REF-V4 [Internet]. Acuña-Alfaro, Jairo. <b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'>Reforming Public Administration in Vietnam: Current Situation and Recommendations</b>. United Nations Development Programme; Vietnam Fatherland Front and Centre for Community Support and Development Studies; The National Political Publishing House. 2009. <u>About the book</u>: The book  Reforming Public Administration in Vietnam: Current Situation and Recommendations presents detailed discussions on developments of public administration in Vietnam over the last decade of reform and suggests ways forward or options for speeding up the reform process. The book, with one overview and six thematic chapters, provides rich insights into six major and cross-cutting themes of public administration reform in Vietnam, including (i) institutional reform, (ii) government organisation, (iii) human resources development for the civil service, (iv) public finance management, (v) economic development and public administration reform, and (vi) anti-corruption, development and public administration. -- The volume is a joint product of 18 senior and mid-range researchers from the world and Vietnam, who participated in the research commissioned by United Nations Development Programme in Vietnam and led and edited by UNDP Policy Advisor on Public Administration Reform and Anti-corruption between mid-2008 and early 2009. It also involved over 100 interviewees who are experts in the area of public administration in Vietnam and are serving or have served in the political, state, civil society organisations as well as think-tanks in Vietnam. -- The volume should be of special interests to policy-makers in Vietnam, academics engaged Vietnam studies, as well as applied researchers and development partners who are directly involved in efforts to facilitate public administration reforms in Vietnam. Full text http://www.undp.org.vn/detail/publications/publication-details/?contentId=3331&amp;languageId=1&amp;categoryName=All&amp;CategoryConditionUse=<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:30.25pt;text-indent:-30.25pt; 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> <p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:30.25pt;text-indent:-30.25pt; mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:9.0pt; font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"'>HEA-DEV-V32. BÙ Y t¿; Nhóm Ñi tác Y t¿. Ministry of Health (MOH); Health Partnership Group (HPG). <b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'>Báo cáo chung tÕng quan ngành y t¿ nm 2008: Nhân lñc y t¿ ß ViÇt Nam = Joint Annual Health Review 2009: Human resources for health in Vietnam</b>. BÙ Y t¿; Nhóm Ñi tác Y t¿. 2009. <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:30.25pt;text-indent:-30.25pt; 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> <p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:30.25pt;text-indent:-30.25pt; mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:9.0pt; font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"'>LAB-CON-V11. Collins, Ngan Thuy. <b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'>Economic reform and employment relations in Vietnam</b>. Routledge. 2010. <u>About the book</u>: The transformation of the Vietnamese economy from socialist planning to a market economy has led to Vietnam having one of the fastest economic growth rates in the world; and to also to Vietnam engaging much more with the international economy, joining the World Trade Organisation in 2006. This book fills a significant gap by surveying the economic reforms in Vietnam, where most studies have concentrated on other  young tiger economies. In particular it discusses the transformation of employment relations which have been a key part of the reforms and a necessary pre-condition to WTO membership. It examines the nature of employment reforms, analyses the motivation behind new policy initiatives and examines the detail of reforms in a range of business enterprises, reporting on extensive original research. Throughout it shows how several key forces have interacted  globalisation, government political interests, national cultural norms, market, managerial ideology and the special characteristics of particular firms  to produce a particular Vietnamese brand of post-communist market economy. Overall, this book illuminates the how employment relation practices are formed in transitional economies, and more broadly the economic and political transformation of socialist economies in the context of the global market. <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:30.25pt;text-indent:-30.25pt; 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> <p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:30.25pt;text-indent:-30.25pt; mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:9.0pt; font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"'>LAW-SYS-V7. Sidel, Mark. <b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'>The constitution of Vietnam. A contextual analysis</b>. Hart Publishing. 2009. <u>Table of contents</u>: Key themes in Vietnam s constitutions and constitutional debates; -- The 1946 constitution : a charter for independence and unity ; -- The 1959 constitution : a charter for socialism in the North; -- The 1980 constitution : a charter for reunification under socialism; -- The 1992 constitution : a charter for renovation (doi moi); -- Revising the 1992 constitution : debates and decisions after fifteen years of renovation (doi moi); -- Implementing constitutional guarantees : the problem of associational rights; -- The problem of judicial independence in a party-dominated state; -- Enforcing the constitution : the debate over  constitutional protection and a constitutional court; -- Afterword : the future of the Vietnamese constitution. . <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:30.25pt;text-indent:-30.25pt; 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> <p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:30.25pt;text-indent:-30.25pt; mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:9.0pt; font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"'>WBV 1. Engel, Susan. <b style='mso-bidi-font-weight: normal'>The World Bank and the post-Washington Consensus in Vietnam and Indonesia: Inheritance of loss</b>. Routledge. 2010. <u>About the book</u>: This book explores the history, structure and current operations of the World Bank, which despite being the largest development organisation and the largest development research body in the world with tremendous direct and indirect influence on developing economies, has rarely received the critical attention its importance merits. The book s unique contribution is twofold: it provides an original analysis of the interaction between economic theory, political practice and the Bank s development praxis as well as two detailed, grounded studies of the Bank s lending practices. The book starts with a detailed examination of the development theory and practice of the World Bank from its Keynesian origins to the current shift through the Washington Consensus to the so-called post-Washington Consensus. The second part is a detailed analysis of the Bank s lending practices in two countries, Vietnam and Indonesia. The case studies extensively utilise World Bank sources  analysing the Project Appraisal Documents for some 113 loans. They also draw on the secondary literature and on interviews with World Bank staff, government officials, academics and NGOs in both countries. 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The photographs that grace the cover of this Vietnam Development Report (VDR) 2010 epitomize modern institutions. The settings may not appear modern, but the activities they represent are cutting edge, and are transforming Vietnam. Local level planning with the active engagement of citizens. Monitoring of public works by citizens groups. Efficient administrative services with the citizen as the client. Legal advice being provided to citizens. Professional media coverage of important events. These are the roots which feed the growth of a modern, open, and high-performing society. This VDR focuses on devolution and accountability, two aspects of modern institutions that are the essence of Vietnam's experience in the past two decades. At the risk of over-simplifying, this VDR distinguishes between two types of accountability, upward accountability focusing on compliance with rules, dictates, and instructions coming from within the hierarchy, and downward accountability focusing on the results that the person or body is entrusted to deliver. A person or body concerned with upward accountability emphasizes adherence to rules. Those concerned with downward accountability serve their clients. Both forms of accountability are needed. Vietnam's devolution has shown many positive results. Competition among the provinces is driving them to improve their business environments. Eased entry for non-state providers of services and greater autonomy for the management of state facilities are supporting innovation and increasing the variety of services.<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'><span style='mso-tab-count:11'>                                                                                                                                    </span><o:p></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 ViÇt Nam 2010: Các thà ch¿ hiÇn ¡i<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'>Ngân hàng Th¿ giÛi t¡i ViÇt Nam  2009<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: $2.00<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'>Thà ch¿ không ph£i là mÙt công trình hay tÕ chéc, thà ch¿ là các qui Ënh theo ó các cá nhân, công ty và nhà n°Ûc tác Ùng l«n nhau. Các béc £nh minh hÍa trên bìa cça Báo cáo Phát triÃn ViÇt Nam này là sñ thu nhÏ các thà ch¿ hiÇn ¡i. Sñ s¯p ·t có thà ch°a hiÇn ¡i, nh°ng các ho¡t Ùng này mang tính b£n lÁ và cho th¥y ViÇt Nam ang chuyÃn Õi. L­p k¿ ho¡ch ß c¥p Ëa ph°¡ng vÛi sñ tham gia cça ng°Ýi dân. Các nhóm dân c° giám sát các công trình công cÙng. DËch vå hành chính hiÇu qu£ vÛi ng°Ýi dân là khách hàng. T° v¥n pháp lý cho ng°Ýi dân. Báo chí chuyên nghiÇp °a tin các sñ kiÇn quan trÍng. T¥t c£ Áu là gÑc rÅ Ã có mÙt xã hÙi hiÇn ¡i, cßi mß và ho¡t Ùng hiÇu qu£ cao. -- Báo cáo Phát triÃn ViÇt Nam này t­p trung vào viÇc phân c¥p trao quyÁn và trách nhiÇm gi£i trình, hai khía c¡nh cça thà ch¿ hiÇn ¡i và là nhïng khía c¡nh Õi mÛi quan trÍng nh¥t cça ViÇt Nam trong hai th­p k÷ vëa qua.<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>  </span>Nói mÙt cách khái quát, Báo cáo Phát triÃn ViÇt Nam này phân biÇt hai hình théc trách nhiÇm gi£i trình là: trách nhiÇm gi£i trình h°Ûng lên trên t­p trung vào viÇc tuân thç các quy t¯c, các chÉ thË và chÉ ¡o ¿n të bÙ máy nhà n°Ûc, và trách nhiÇm gi£i trình h°Ûng xuÑng d°Ûi t­p trung vào các k¿t qu£ mà mÙt cá nhân hay mÙt c¡ quan có<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>  </span>nhiÇm vå thñc hiÇn. MÙt cá nhân hay c¡ quan vÛi trách nhiÇm gi£i trình h°Ûng lên trên s½ quan tâm nhiÁu ¿n viÇc tuân thç các quy Ënh. Còn mÙt cá nhân hay c¡ quan vÛi trách nhiÇm gi£i trình h°Ûng xuÑng d°Ûi s½ quan tâm nhiÁu h¡n ¿n viÇc phåc vå khách hàng. C£ hai hình théc trách nhiÇm gi£i trình này Áu quan trÍng và c§n thi¿t. -- Quá trình phân c¥p và trao quyÁn cça ViÇt Nam ã cho th¥y nhiÁu k¿t qu£ tích cñc. C¡nh tranh giïa các tÉnh ang thúc ©y hÍ c£i thiÇn môi tr°Ýng kinh doanh cça mình. ViÇc các nhà cung c¥p dËch vå ngoài quÑc doanh tham gia dÅ dàng h¡n và các c¡ sß cça nhà n°Ûc có nhiÁu quyÁn tñ chç h¡n trong qu£n lý ang h× trã cho sñ sáng t¡o cing nh° a d¡ng hóa các lo¡i hình dËch vå.<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'>Two Dragon Heads: Contrasting Development Paths for Beijing and Shanghai <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'>by Shahid Yusuf , Kaoru Nabeshima<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'>English Paperback -- Published January 2010 by World Bank -- ISBN: 0-8213-8048-6 <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: $ 10.00<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'>Sources of economic growth are well understood. Successfully translating that knowledge into sustained high rates of growth is harder to achieve. Relatively few countries have done so. Of those, China with an unmatched average GDP growth rate of 10 percent between 1978 and 2008 stands out.<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'>At the crux of China s success lie two cities: Beijing, the powerful hinge of the Bohai region, and Shanghai, the economic axis of the thriving Yangtze River Delta. The performance of these two megacities, along with a handful of other urban regions, will determine China s economic fortunes in the decades to come. Can their momentum be sustained? Can the growth rates of the past be continued into the future?<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'>Two Dragon Heads explores the contrasting development options available to Beijing and Shanghai, and it proposes strategies for each city based on the current and acquired capabilities of each, the experiences of other world cities, the emerging demand in the national market, and likely trends in global trade. Its fi ndings, which are supported by a wealth of research, will be of particular interest to policy makers, urban planners, business people, and researchers.<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'><i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family: Arial'>This is a fascinating book about the future development paths of the 'twin capitals' of China: the political capital of Beijing and the commercial capital of Shanghai. The authors weave economic growth, urban development, and technological innovation into a seamlessly coherent and cogent analysis. The book not only offers important insights and lessons for the development of other megacities in China, but also has long-term implications for many developing countries undergoing similar transitions. <o:p></o:p></span></i></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'>-LAN XUE, Professor and Dean, School of Public Policy and Management, Tsinghua University<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'>Public Sentinel: News Media and Governance Reform <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'>Edited by Pippa Norris<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'>English Paperback -- Published November 2009 by World Bank -- ISBN: 0-8213-8200-4 <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: $ 15.00<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'>What are the ideal roles the mass media should play as an institution to strengthen democratic governance and thus bolster human development? Under what conditions do media systems succeed or fail to meet these objectives? And what strategic reforms would close the gap between the democratic promise and performance of media systems?<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'>Working within the notion of the democratic public sphere, Public Sentinel: News Media and Governance Reform emphasizes the institutional or collective roles of the news media as watchdogs over the powerful, as agenda setters calling attention to social needs in natural and human-caused disasters and humanitarian crises, and as gatekeepers incorporating a diverse and balanced range of political perspectives and social actors. Each is vital to making democratic governance work in an effective, transparent, inclusive, and accountable manner. The capacity of media systems and thus individual reporters embedded within those institutions to fulfill these roles is constrained by the broader context of the journalistic profession, the market, and ultimately the state.<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'>Successive chapters apply these arguments to countries and regions worldwide. This study brought together a wide range of international experts under the auspices of the Communication for Governance and Accountability Program (CommGAP) at the World Bank and the Joan Shorenstein Center on the Press, Politics and Public Policy at Harvard University.<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'>The book is designed for policy makers and media professionals working within the international development community, national governments, and grassroots organizations, and for journalists, democratic activists, and scholars engaged in understanding mass communications, democratic governance, and development.<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'>The Road to Results: Designing and Conducting Effective Development Evaluations <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'>by Linda G. Morra Imas , Ray Rist<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'>English -- Published June 2009 by World Bank -- ISBN: 0-8213-7891-0 <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: $ 18.00<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'>This comprehensive text is an essential tool for those involved in development evaluation. It presents concepts and procedures for evaluation in a development context. It provides procedures and examples on how to set up a monitoring and evaluation system, how to conduct participatory evaluations and do social mapping, and how to construct a &quot;rigorous&quot; quasi-experimental design to answer an impact question.<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'>The book begins with a description of the context of development evaluation and how it arrived where it is today. It then discusses current issues driving development evaluation, such as the Millennium Development Goals and the move from simple project evaluations to the broader understandings of complex evaluations. The topics of implementing &quot;Results-based Measurement and Evaluation&quot; and constructing a &quot;Theory of Change&quot; are emphasized throughout the text.<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'>Next, the authors take the reader down &quot;the road to results&quot;, presenting procedures for evaluating projects, programs, and policies by using a &quot;Design Matrix&quot; to help map the process. This road includes:<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'>determining the overall approach <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'>formulating questions <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'>selecting designs <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'>developing data collection instruments <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'>choosing a sampling strategy <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'>planning data analysis for qualitative, quantitative, and mixed method evaluations. <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'>The book also includes discussions on conducting complex evaluations, how to manage evaluations, how to present results, and ethical behavior--including principles, standards, and guidelines. The final chapter discusses the future of development evaluation.<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'>Endorsements <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;<i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'>Programs aimed at the betterment of human welfare in the zones of turmoil and transition of the developing world face unprecedented challenges. This is why Ray Rist and Linda Morra's book is so important and timely. Nurtured by exceptional knowledge and experience, it captures in a convenient format the essentials of good evaluation practice in the field of development. Given its authoritative and up-to-date treatment of the real-life evaluation problems created by the complex and volatile operating environment for development, it belongs on the bookshelf of all evaluation and development professionals</i>.&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'>- Robert Picciotto, former Director General, Evaluation, World Bank Group;<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'>Visiting Professor, King's College, London<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;<i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'>This book exemplifies everything I look for in an evaluation text: Well-tested material, carefully evaluated, proven in practice. Credible because done by people who know what they are talking about through experience and expertise. Content that teaches and exemplifies the profession's standards, and so is useful, practical, ethical, and accurate. Makes evaluation understandable, accessible, and doable. Communicates the importance and value of monitoring and evaluation. A good mix of theory and practice, methodologically solid, illustrated with relevant and understandable examples. Substance that is real-world and realistic, that is, grounded in the political, economic, cultural, and management realities of development. Narrative that both teaches and inspires. Those are the things I look for in a book and this book delivers on every criterion</i>.&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'>- Michael Q. Patton, former President of the American Evaluation Association;<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'>author of 'Utilization-Focused Evaluation, and Qualitative Research and Evaluation Methods';<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'>independent evaluation and organizational development consultant<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;<i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'>The need for this book has never been greater, as the evaluation of development cooperation becomes increasingly important. Readers, presented with comprehensive and yet concise coverage of the main topics and current concerns, will acquire insights into this increasingly complex field of inquiry. Essential reading for both novice and more experienced development evaluators, it is clearly written and easy to understand, with an assortment of real-world examples and valuable gems of practice wisdom. It is sure to become the most indispensable and widely read text for anyone wishing to learn about contemporary development evaluation</i>.&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'>- Penny Hawkins, Head of Evaluation, New Zealand Agency for International Development;<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'>Vice-Chair, DAC Network on Development Evaluation<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'>Handbook on Impact Evaluation: Quantitative Methods and Practices <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'>by Shahidur Khandker , Gayatri B. Koolwal , Hussain Samad<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'>English -- Published October 2009 by World Bank -- ISBN: 0-8213-8028-1<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: $ 15.00<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'>Public programs are designed to reach certain goals and beneficiaries. Methods to understand whether such programs actually work, as well as the level and nature of impacts on intended beneficiaries, are main themes of this book. Has the Grameen Bank, for example, succeeded in lowering consumption poverty among the rural poor in Bangladesh? Can conditional cash transfer programs in Mexico and Latin America improve health and schooling outcomes for poor women and children? Does a new road actually raise welfare in a remote area in Tanzania, or is it a &quot;highway to nowhere?&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'>This book reviews quantitative methods and models of impact evaluation. It begings by reviewing the basic issues pertaining to an evaluation of an intervention to reach certain targets and goals. It then focuses on the experimental design of an impact evaluation, highlighting its strengths and shortcomings, followed by discussions on various non-experimental methods. The authors also cover methods to shed light on the nature and mechanisms by which different participants are benefiting from the program.<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'>For researchers interested in learning how to use these models with statistical software, the book also provides STATA exercises in the context of evaluating major microcredit programs in Bangladesh, such as the Grameen Bank. The framework presented in this book can be very useful for strengthening local capacity in impact evaluation among technicians and policymakers in charge of formulating, implementing, and evaluating programs to alleviate poverty and underdevelopment.<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'>The Social Dimensions of Climate Change: Equity and Vulnerability in a Warming World <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'>Edited by Robin Mearns , Andrew Norton<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'>English -- Published December 2009 by World Bank -- ISBN: 0-8213-7887-2<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: $ 13.00<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'>Climate change is arguably the most profound challenge facing the international community in the 21st century. It is as much a challenge for poverty reduction, growth and development as it is a global environmental issue. It could undermine or reverse progress in reducing poverty and attaining the Millenium Development Goals, thereby unraveling many of the development gains of recent decades. It already threatens the livelihoods, health and well-being of millions of people worldwide, and of the poorest and most vulnerable groups in particular. And it has potentially far-reaching implications for international relations and for personal, national and regional security.<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'>While significant uncertainties still remain, tremendous strides have been made over recent years in improving scientific understanding of the human processes driving global climate change and the likely impacts on world ecosystems. What is much less well understood is how these dynamics in the physical environment will interact with those of socio-economic systems, what the consequences will be for society, and how best to address them.<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'>In order to focus attention on these previously neglected and poorly understood social dimensions of climate change, the World Bank convened an international workshop in March, 2008, with the participation of community activists, former heads of state, leaders of Indigenous Peoples, representatives of non-governmental organizations, international researchers, and staff of the World Bank and other international development agencies. This edited volume brings together revised versions of many of the papers presented during that workshop, as an initial step in taking stock of existing knowledge on the social dimensions of climate change. Several new papers were also commissioned for this volume.<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'>Convenient Solutions for an Inconvenient Truth: Ecosystem-based Approaches to Climate Change <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'>by World Bank<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'>English -- Published November 2009 by World Bank -- ISBN: 0-8213-8126-1<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: $ 11.00<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'>Global warming and changes in climate will have severe and lasting impacts on national efforts to alleviate poverty and promote sustainable development. Some of the world s poorest countries and communities are the most vulnerable and are already suffering the consequences. Yet often these countries are rich in natural capital, ecosystems, and biodiversity that can contribute to solutions as they can to climate change. Biodiversity is the foundation and mainstay of agriculture, forests, and fisheries.<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'>Biological resources provide the raw materials for livelihoods, agriculture, medicines, trade, tourism, and industry. Forests, grasslands, freshwater, and marine and other natural ecosystems provide a range of services, often not recognized in national economic accounts but vital to human welfare: regulating water flows and water quality, flood control, pollination, decontamination, carbon sequestration, soil conservation, and nutrient and hydrological cycling.<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'>Current efforts to address climate change focus mainly on reducing emissions of greenhouse gases, mainly through cleaner energy strategies, and on attempting to reduce vulnerability of the communities at risk by improving infrastructure to meet new energy and water needs. This book sets out a compelling argument for including ecosystem-based approaches to mitigation and adaptation as a third essential pillar in national strategies to address climate change. Such ecosystem-based strategies can offer cost-effective, proven and sustainable solutions contributing to, and complementing, other national and regional adaptation strategies.<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;<i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'>Ecosystem-based adaptation is a win-win situation: it simultaneously addresses the challenge of climate change and protects biodiversity and ecosystem services, which are essential for human well-being. Development agencies, countries, and the Conventions on Biological Diversity and Climate Change need to recognize that conserving and restoring ecosystems is a cost-effective and socially responsible approach to both mitigating and adapting to climate change, while providing communities with the ecosystem services essential for human welfare</i>.&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'>- Robert Watson, Chief Scientific Advisor, Department for Environment, Food, and Rural Affairs, U.K. and<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'>Professor of Environmental Sciences, Director of Strategic Development, University of East Anglia, U.K. <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;<i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'>We need constant reminding that safeguarding and restoring the biodiversity of natural ecosystems are essential and highly cost-effective ways of mitigating climate change and reducing our vulnerability to its inevitable impacts. This engaging book provides a compelling case for the central role of ecosystem management in coping with climate change. It is essential reading for people involved in policy, research, and implementation</i>.&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'>- R.M. Cowling, Professor of Botany,<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'>Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University, Port Elizabeth, South Africa <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;<i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'>As our understanding expands on the widespread implications of anthropogenic climate change, our recognition of the interconnections between biodiversity, ecosystem services, and climate change mitigation and adaptation comes to the forefront. As this book argues, if we are to meet the unprecedented climate change challenges, we must make use of all available resources, including those provided by nature: genetic, species, and ecosystem diversity. Linking the dual challenges of climate change and biodiversity loss is integral to the goals and objectives laid out in Rio</i>.&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'>- Ahmed Djoghlaf , Executive Secretary, Convention on Biological Diversity,<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'>United Nations Environment Programme, Nairobi, Kenya<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 Report 2010: Development and Climate Change <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'>by World Bank<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'>English -- Published November 2009 by World Bank -- ISBN: 0-8213-7987-9<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: $ 12.00<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'>Act Now, Act Together, Act Differently<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'>Today's enormous development challenges are complicated by the reality of climate change the two are inextricably linked and together demand immediate attention. Climate change threatens all countries, but particularly developing ones. Understanding what climate change means for development policy is the central aim of the World Development Report 2010. It explores how public policy can change to better help people cope with new or worsened risks, how land and water management must adapt to better protect a threatened natural environment while feeding an expanding and more prosperous population, and how energy systems will need to be transformed. <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'>The report is an urgent call for action, both for developing countries who are striving to ensure policies are adapted to the realities and dangers of a hotter planet, and for high-income countries who need to undertake ambitious mitigation while supporting developing countries efforts. A climate-smart world is within reach if we act now to tackle the substantial inertia in the climate, in infrastructure, and in behaviors and institutions; if we act together to reconcile needed growth with prudent and affordable development choices; and if we act differently by investing in the needed energy revolution and taking the steps required to adapt to a rapidly changing planet. <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'>In the crowded field of climate change reports, WDR 2010 uniquely: <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'>emphasizes development <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'>takes an integrated look at adaptation and mitigation <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'>highlights opportunities in the changing competitive landscape and how to seize them <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'>proposes policy solutions grounded in analytic work and in the context of the political economy of reform <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'>Bioenergy Development: Issues and Impacts for Poverty and Natural Resource Management <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'>by Elizabeth Cushion , Adrian Whiteman , Gerhard Dieterle<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'>English -- Published December 2009 by World Bank -- ISBN: 0-8213-7629-2<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: $ 14.00<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'>Bioenergy has been critical to humanity since the cave dwellers first used wood to cook their food and stay warm at night. Ancient forms of bioenergy - firewood and cow dung patties - remain primary fuel sources for rural and poor people. New sources of bioenergy including  black liquor , biodiesel, cellulosic ethanol and many more, have great promise and generate great controversy.<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 gives an overview of bioenergy developments and examines the main issues and possible socioeconomic implications of these developments and their potential impacts on land use and the environment, especially with respect to forests. The paper presents an introduction to bioenergy, provides a background and overview of solid biomass and liquid biofuels, and examines opportunities and challenges at the regional and country level. It also examines potential impacts for specific types of bioenergy.<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'>The book does not pretend to be definitive, especially with respect to the controversial interplay of subjects like the impact of bioenergy on food prices, but it does try to suggest the tradeoffs that need to be examined in considering bioenergy policies, and it has five main findings: <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'>Solid biomass will continue to provide a principal source of energy and should not be overlooked. <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'>There will be major land use implications resulting from bioenergy developments. <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'>It is critical to consider tradeoffs, including those related to poverty, equity and the environment, when considering bioenergy policies. <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'>There is considerable potential for greater use of forestry and timber waste as a bioenergy feedstock. <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'>The climate change impacts of bioenergy development are uncertain, and highly location and feedstock specific. <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'>Post-Crisis Growth in Developing Countries: A Special Report of the Commission on Growth and Development <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'>by Commission on Growth and Development<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'>English -- Published January 2010 by World Bank -- ISBN: 0-8213-8165-2<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'>Price: $ 9.00<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'>The 2008 financial crisis has raised a number of questions about the best strategy for achieving sustained growth and poverty reduction in developing countries, foremost among them whether the failure of the financial system also signifies the broader failure of market-oriented capitalist systems. The Growth Commission believes that the crisis was not a failure of market-oriented systems and that an outward-looking strategy, as suggested in the original Growth Report (published in May 2008), remains broadly valid.<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'>The following questions are discussed in this special report:<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'>- How has the economic landscape changed in the wake of the financial crisis of 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'>- What factors contributed to the onset of the financial crisis and its transmission from advanced to developing countries? <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'>- Should the crisis be interpreted as a failure of financial-sector regulation or as a broader failure of market-based systems? <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'>- What effects will the financial crisis have on the prospects for economic growth in developing countries? <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'>- How will the crisis impact the formulation of developing country growth strategies going forward? <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'>- What is the outlook for free trade and a growth model that capitalizes on the global 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'>- How do actions by the advanced economies in response to the crisis affect the choices of policymakers in the developing world? <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'>- What is the appropriate role of government in the post-crisis 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'>- How will the lessons of the crisis affect strategies for financial-sector development in developing countries? <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'>- What are the prospects for improved international oversight of global finance and cross-border financial flows? <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal align=right style='text-align:right;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 href="#_top">Back to top</a><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal align=right style='text-align:right;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> </td> </tr> <tr style='mso-yfti-irow:5'> <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="_Toc253128824"></a><a name="_Toc202761661"><span style='mso-bookmark: _Toc253128824'><span style='font-size:20.0pt;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman"; color:blue'>Information on Development Projects in </span></span></a><st1:place w:st="on"><st1:country-region w:st="on"><span style='mso-bookmark:_Toc253128824'><span style='mso-bookmark:_Toc202761661'><span style='font-size:20.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";color:blue'>Vietnam</span></span></span></st1:country-region></st1:place><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="_Toc253128825"></a><a name="_Toc202761662"><span style='mso-bookmark:_Toc253128825'><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:_Toc253128825'><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:_Toc253128825'><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 <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:country-region w:st="on">Vietnam</st1:country-region></st1:place></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 <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:country-region w:st="on">Vietnam</st1:country-region></st1:place>. List of mini-PICs in <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:country-region w:st="on">Vietnam</st1:country-region></st1:place> 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 <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:country-region w:st="on">Vietnam</st1:country-region></st1:place> 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'>Trung Son Hydropower<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>  </span>Project - invitation for consultations<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;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'>The World Bank and the Trung Son Hydropower Management Board would like to invite interested members of civil society organizations, think tanks and academic institutes to our offices at<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>   </span>63 Ly Thai To, Hanoi, 6th Floor, on Wednesday March 3, 2010, at<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>  </span>10.00 a.m. for<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>  </span>consultations on the<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>  </span>Ma river Trung Son Hydropower Project in Thanh Hoa. This follows a series of consultations scheduled for all affected villages during January and February, 2010.<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>  </span>The meeting will be followed by lunch.<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>  </span>If you would like to participate,<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>  </span>please send an email to Ms Dung Kim Le with your name, organization and contact details, as well as the number of people attending:<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>  </span>dle2@worldbank.org or by telephone: +84  4 - 3936 7319<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>  </span>&amp; +84  4 - 3934 6600<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>  </span>Ext 319. Please send your confirmation by February<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>  </span>26, 2010.<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'>Draft social and environmental plans for Consultation are on the web sites: <a href="http://www.worldbank.org/vn/trungson">www.worldbank.org/vn/trungson</a> &amp; <a href="http://thuydientrungson.dqs.vn">http://thuydientrungson.dqs.vn</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'>Vietnam -&nbsp;<b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><a href="http://web.worldbank.org/external/projects/main?pagePK=64283627&amp;piPK=73230&amp;theSitePK=40941&amp;menuPK=228424&amp;Projectid=P106235">Expressway Development Danang-Quang Ngai Project</a></b>: Integrated Safeguards Data Sheets&nbsp;(Revised)&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'><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'>Vietnam - <b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><a href="http://web.worldbank.org/external/projects/main?pagePK=64283627&amp;piPK=73230&amp;theSitePK=40941&amp;menuPK=228424&amp;Projectid=P099211">Rural Distribution Project</a></b>: Environmental Assessment; Resettlement Instrument<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'>Vietnam - <b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><a href="http://web.worldbank.org/external/projects/main?pagePK=64283627&amp;piPK=73230&amp;theSitePK=486752&amp;menuPK=486783&amp;Projectid=P084871">Second Transmission Project - Additional Financing</a></b>: Environmental Assessment<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'>Vietnam - <b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><a href="http://www.worldbank.org/vn/trungson">Trung Son Hydropower Project</a></b>: Environmental Assessment; Resettlement Instrument<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'>Vietnam - <b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><a href="http://web.worldbank.org/external/projects/main?pagePK=64283627&amp;piPK=73230&amp;theSitePK=40941&amp;menuPK=228424&amp;Projectid=P111182">Vietnam Poverty Reduction Support Credit 9</a></b>: Project Information Documents<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 align=right style='text-align:right;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 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: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;padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt'> <h1 style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;background:#33CCCC'><a name="_Toc253128826"></a><a name="_Toc192156844"></a><a name="_Toc163040075"><span style='mso-bookmark:_Toc192156844'><span style='mso-bookmark:_Toc253128826'><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'>Vietnam Innovation Day 2010  Climate Change <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 Vietnam Innovation Day<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>  </span>(VID) 2010, co-organized by the Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment, The Ho Chi Minh Communist Youth Union - Central Committee, and the World Bank, is an opportunity for innovative ideas that address local development challenges. It identifies, shares, exchanges and directly supports small, bottom-up, innovative development proposals that deliver results, which can then be expanded or replicated. The theme for the program is  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'>The VID is seeking proposals from all Vietnamese organizations and government units with legal status at local levels. All organizations at local levels except the following agencies and units: (1) agencies and units affiliated with the Ministry and the Youth Union systems at the Central level; (2) Management units of projects funded by the World Bank, (3) agencies, organizations and units affiliated with Army and Police forces. Foreign and international organizations may only apply in partnership with a local agency. <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'>Format of the application:<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'>- All documents should be in Vietnamese.<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'>- An organization can submit more than one proposal<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'>- Proposals may be submitted by post or by email. Proposals must clearly state the name and address of the proposing organization.<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'>- In the event that two identical proposals are received, only the first proposal submitted will be considered.<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'>Deadline: 5pm, March 22, 2010 (for those outside Hanoi, the deadline is based on the date of the post-office or the time of the email).<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'>For further information, please go to web site <a href="http://www.worldbank.org.vn/ngaysangtao">www.worldbank.org.vn/ngaysangtao</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'>2010 Essay Competition for youth aged 18-25 on the theme of Youth Unemployment<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 Essay Competition 2010 invites youths to share ideas on: How can you tackle youth unemployment through youth-led solutions? <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 answer both questions: <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'>1. How does youth unemployment affect you, your country, town or local 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'>2. What can you do, working together with your peers, to find a sustainable solution for job seekers through youth entrepreneurship?<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>  </span>Think specifically about the barriers youths face in the labor market and how to tackle difficulties in accessing capital for business startups.<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'>We encourage you to give concrete examples if you have personal experience as a young entrepreneur and if not share your ideas about how you would go about creating a business/ work opportunities in your local community/ town/ country.<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'>The International Essay Competition is open to all young people, students and non-students alike, between the ages of 18 and 25, from all countries of the world. If you are at least 18 and not older than 25 on May 15, 2010, you are eligible to participate. <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'>Eight finalists will participate in the Final Jury in Stockholm, Sweden, in May 2010, and attend the Annual Bank Conference on Development Economics (ABCDE) organized by the World Bank.<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 submissions&nbsp;: March 16, 2010.<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 visit <a href="http://www.essaycompetition.org">www.essaycompetition.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'><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'>Doctoral and Post Doctoral Workshop on Development and International Organizations Stockholm, Sweden May 2010  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'>Paper proposals are invited from current doctoral students and early career postdoctoral researchers (up to three years post-PhD) conducting research on the World Bank Group and other international economic organizations in any social science field. Successful candidates will be asked to present a research paper of 8,000 9,500 words in advance of the workshop. <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'>Accommodation expenses will be covered for successful candidates.<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>  </span>This does not include travel costs, per diem or meals.<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'>The workshop will be scheduled to coincide with the Annual Bank Conference on Development Economics (ABCDE), which will take place in Stockholm, Sweden, May 30-June 2, 2010, on the theme of Development Challenges in a Post-Crisis World. Participants will also be invited to attend the ABCDE Conference. <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'>Workshop 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'>Submitted papers must focus on the work (policy, operations) of one or more of the organizations listed below:<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'>1. Bretton Woods Institutions: The World Bank Group, The International Monetary Fund;<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'>2. World Trade Organization;<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'>3. Regional multilateral development banks: Inter-American Development Bank, African Development Bank, Asian Development Bank, European Bank for Reconstruction and 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'>Paper proposals may address any aspect of development-related activity of these organizations. For example, topics might include, but are not limited 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'>- Country studies of specific policies or projects;<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'>- Governance and organizational reform;<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'>- Links between trade and 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'>- Relations between various organizations (e.g. World Bank-IMF);<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'>- Aid harmonization and coordination; bilateral versus multilateral aid;<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'>- Engagement and partnerships with new donors (e.g. China, philanthropic foundations)<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'>Application is open to researchers of any nationality and any country of residence, currently enrolled in their third year or later of a PhD program or having completed their PhD no later than three years beforehand (as of May 31, 2010). Thesis research to be presented during the workshop needs to be completed or of an advanced state. Students in their first year of study should not apply. Developing country researchers are strongly encouraged to apply.<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 applications is 28 February 2010.<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 visit <a href="http://www.radnetwork.org/">http://www.radnetwork.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'><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 Master of Lifelong Learning 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'>Lifelong Learning has become a fundamental goal of recent education policies, often advocated as a way to achieve socio-economic development and as a tool for promoting the 'knowledge-based' society. The rationale of the Masters of Lifelong Learning is to increase the awareness of European Lifelong Learning policies in a regional European context as well as on a global scale. It aims to provide policy-makers and professionals with responsibility for managing, delivering or supporting Lifelong Learning with opportunities to develop their own analysis and practice in what is a constantly changing economic, social, technological and policy 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'>The growing significance of Lifelong Learning both in national and international policy results in the need to bring its implications under close and critical scrutiny. The Master of Lifelong Learning is to be considered a response to a strong need for conducting educational reform activities all over 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 European Commission offers scholarships for 3rd country (non-EU) students and scholars.The deadline for scholarship applications is 1 December 2010.<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 visit <a href="http://www.dpu.dk/site.aspx?p=7131">http://www.dpu.dk/site.aspx?p=7131</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'>Brunei Darussalam Government 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'>With His Majesty's consent, the Government of Brunei Darussalam is offering annual scholarships under a special scholarship award scheme, commencing in academic session.<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'>Tenable in Brunei Darussalam, the aim of the Scholarship awards is to provide students, with the opportunity to study at Universiti Brunei Darussalam [UBD], Universiti Islam Sultan Sharif Ali [UNISSA] and Institut Teknologi Brunei [ITB].<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'>The Scholarship award is normally tenable according to the duration of the specific programme which is four years for an Honours First Degree or one to two years for a Master's Degree or three years for a Doctoral programme at UBD, UNISSA and ITB, two and a half years for HND at ITB on full-time basis.<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 closing date 28th February 2010<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'>Read more at <a href="http://www.mfa.gov.bn/scholarship/index.htm">http://www.mfa.gov.bn/scholarship/index.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'>Master in Public Policy Scholarship<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 two-year Master in Public Policy (MPP) programme provides a strong foundation in conceptual and analytical skills for future public service leaders and individuals with an interest in understanding and influencing how public policy choices are made.<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'>Areas of Concentration <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 particular, MPP students deepen their understanding of a specific field by focusing on one of five areas of concentration:<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'>Development Studies<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'>Economic Policy and Analysis<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'>International Relations and Security Studies<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'>Social and Environmental 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'>Public Management and Governance<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'>Practical Experience<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'>To obtain direct practical experience, students also undertake a public policy or management study, called the Policy Analysis Exercise, for a client in the public, private, or non-profit sector.<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'>Internships <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'>Most students also take internships with organisations that are relevant to their studies, such as the United Nations Environment Programme (Bangkok); National Economic Development Authority (Philippines); World Bank (Washington, DC); Government Investment Corporation (Singapore); and Standard Chartered Bank.<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'>Read more at <a href="http://www.lkyspp.nus.edu.sg/MPP_Financial_Aid.aspx">http://www.lkyspp.nus.edu.sg/MPP_Financial_Aid.aspx</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'>Master in Public Administration Scholarship<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 1-year Master in Public Administration (MPA) programme provides an intensive, interdisciplinary course of study for experienced professionals who wish to acquire new knowledge and skills to enhance their leadership and managerial capabilities. <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'>Taught by expert faculty using a problem-based learning approach and real-world case studies, MPA students learn to apply the techniques of policy analysis and programme evaluation to resolve complex multi-dimensional policy challenges, as well as sharpen their leadership and communication skills. The School also conducts an active programme of seminars and public lectures by political, not-for-profit and business leaders to enable all students to complement their formal learning with the opportunity to interact with distinguished individuals who are shaping the future. <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 MPA class comprises approximately 60 accomplished and motivated individuals who bring with them a wealth of diverse experiences to enhance the classroom learning experience. Students come from many different countries  from Southeast Asia, South Asia, East Asia and the Pacific and Africa. They work in a variety of sectors such as finance, trade, education, media, health, transport, housing, foreign affairs and development. Despite their short time together, or perhaps because of the shared experience of learning and working under tremendous pressure, MPA students forge an enduring international network of professional and personal contacts. <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'>Read more at <a href="http://www.lkyspp.nus.edu.sg/MPA_Financial_Aid.aspx">http://www.lkyspp.nus.edu.sg/MPA_Financial_Aid.aspx</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'>IDS-FunMat 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'>IDS-FunMat is an International Doctoral Programme in Functional Materials funded by the ERASMUS MUNDUS Programme of the European Union.<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'>Our school offers scholarships for PhD projects in Functional Materials Science, carried out in co-supervision between universities from two different countries (see list of partners). In most projects an industry partner is also involved. The PhD candidates must spend at least 6 months in each university. The projects start around October and take 3-4 years.<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 European Union finances each year a number of ERASMUS MUNDUS PhD scholarships in our school, and in addition we have PhD projects funded by other sources.<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'>Scholarships for PhD projects in Functional Materials Science which are carried out in co-supervision between universities from two different countries (see list of partners). In most projects an industry partner is also involved. The PhD candidates must spend at least 6 months in each university. The projects start around October and take 3-4 years. <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 applications in both categories: 20 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'>More information is available at <a href="http://www.idsfunmat.u-bordeaux1.fr/">http://www.idsfunmat.u-bordeaux1.fr/</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'>UNU-IAS 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'>Every year UNU-IAS and UNU-ISP offer PhD and Postdoctoral Fellowships to provide young scholars and policy-makers, especially from the developing world, with a multi-disciplinarily context within which to pursue advanced research and training that is of professional interest to the successful applicant and of direct relevance to the research agenda of their selected UNU-IAS or UNU-ISP programme.<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 provides the successful applicant with a unique opportunity 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'>- develop and advance their research under the supervision of a UNU-IAS or UNU-ISP faculty member and contribute to the overall research agenda of the Institute,<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'>- widen their research interests and professional networks by working in the international and multi-disciplinary context of the UNU-IAS and UNU-ISP, and with its wider network of Japanese universities and research institutes, as well as international collaborators,<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'>- become exposed to the workings of the international and multilateral policy process and the broader UN system, 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'><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'>- link with other UNU-IAS and UNU-ISP PhD and Postdoctoral Fellows.<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 sending application for 2010 fellowships:<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>  </span>28 February 2010.<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'>Read more at <a href="http://www.ias.unu.edu/sub_page.aspx?catID=6&amp;ddlID=127">http://www.ias.unu.edu/sub_page.aspx?catID=6&amp;ddlID=127</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'>DUO-Singapore Exchange Fellowship<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 Asia-Europe Meeting's (ASEM) DUO Fellowship Fund aims to promote student exchanges between European and Asian ASEM member countries. Under this fund, the DUO-Singapore Exchange Fellowship is awarded by the Singapore Government to Singapore and ASEAN students studying in the Nanyang Technological University (NTU), National University of Singapore (NUS) and Singapore Management University (SMU). The Award is also open to students from European ASEM countries (who come from universities with fee waiver arrangements with NTU, NUS and SMU)<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'>Read more at <a href="http://www.mfa.gov.sg/duo/application.html">http://www.mfa.gov.sg/duo/application.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'>Australian Youth Ambassadors for Development 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 Program (AYAD) was launched by Australian Minister of Foreign Affairs in 1998 to strengthen mutual understanding between Australia and the countries of Asia Pacific region. This program places skilled young Australians (aged 18-30 ) on short term assignments from 6 - 12 months to support development activities in various sectors.<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'>AYAD Vietnam has number of opportunities to develop assignment proposals to support Host organisations such as local development agencies, non-governmental organisations, UN agencies, international organizations, and academic institutions, social enterprises with the aim to build capacity and transfer skills for September 2010 s mobilization.<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'>Interested organisations are invited to discuss these opportunities with the AYAD In-country Management team at their Hanoi office.<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 on the program and application forms please contact hanh.hoang@austrainining.com<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>  </span>or Tel: (04) 3762 8422 ext: 18.<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 AYAD does not support English Language Teaching.<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'>MS/PhD scholarships at SEARCA<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 Southeast Asian Regional Center for Graduate Study and Research in Agriculture (SEARCA) invites applications for its graduate scholarship (MS and PhD) in agriculture and related fields (including biological sciences, social sciences, economics and statistics, forestry and fisheries, environmental sciences, agro-industrial technology and engineering, biochemistry, and development management) for School Year 2011-2012.<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'>Application deadlines are 1 April and 1 September.<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 visit <a href="http://www.searca.org">http://www.searca.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'>UNDP Equator Prize 2010 Call for Nominations<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 Call for Nominations for the Equator Prize 2010 officially opened on 11 January 2010.<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>  </span>The Equator Prize is awarded biennially by the UNDP Equator Initiative for outstanding local, indigenous and community efforts to reduce poverty through the conservation and sustainable use of biodiversity.<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>  </span>Now in its fifth award cycle, the Equator Prize has special significance during the International Year of Biodiversity, 2010.<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 Equator Prize 2010 will be awarded to twenty-five local and indigenous communities from across the tropics; twenty will receive US$5,000 and a further<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>  </span>five will be selected as  special recognition winners and receive a total of US$20,000.  Special recognition will be awarded in each region of prize eligibility (Africa, Asia and the Pacific, and Latin America and the Caribbean), one for indigenous peoples and applied traditional knowledge, and one for ecosystem-based adaptation to climate change.<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>  </span>Equator Prize winners receive international recognition for their work and an opportunity to shape international policy and practice in the 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'>Nominations for the Equator Prize 2010 must be received by 28 February 2010. <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'>Read more at <a href="http://www.equatorinitiative.org">www.equatorinitiative.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'>Stockholm Industry Water Award open for nominations<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 Stockholm International Water Award recognizes the business sector's contribution to sustainable water management, by minimizing water consumption and environmental impact. It is given to any sector of business and industry. It recognizes improved performance in production processes, new products and management, as well as innovative approaches in water and wastewater process technologies which together help to improve the world water situation.<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 nomination deadline is February 15, 2010.<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 more and nominate online at <a href="http://www.siwi.org/SIWA/nominate">http://www.siwi.org/SIWA/nominate</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'>Call for Applications to Promote Millennium Development Goal 5b (MDG5b): Universal Access to Reproductive Health by 2015<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'>With only 5 years remaining before the Millennium Development Goals framework comes to an end, it is clear that decisive and concerted action needs to be taken to ensure that MDG5 is prioritised at all levels.<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'>Without sufficient attention or priority given to MDG 5 (particularly 5b  universal access to reproductive health) it is unlikely that any of the MDGs will be attained.<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 2010 MDG Review Summit along with the Country Progress Reports present a unique final opportunity to prioritise MDG5b amongst key decision-makers at the national, regional and global levels.<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 Advocacy Flexi Fund (AFF) provides small grants to support civil society organizations working with young people to advocate for MDG5b to ensure sexual and reproductive health and rights.<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 know that there are few resources available at country-level for advocacy, but sometimes a small amount of money can make a large difference.<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 Applications: 15 February 2010.<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'>Download the application guidelines and form below <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'><a href="http://www.ippf.org/NR/rdonlyres/8811C6D2-D37F-42A6-A990-6656C26F8C61/0/ApplicationGuidelines.doc">http://www.ippf.org/NR/rdonlyres/8811C6D2-D37F-42A6-A990-6656C26F8C61/0/ApplicationGuidelines.doc</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'>Small Grants Available for Gibbon Surveys in Vietnam<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'>Fauna &amp; Flora International and Conservation International are co-operating on work designed to determine the current state of knowledge of gibbon distribution and status and to intensify, standardize and systematize gibbon surveys in Vietnam. As part of this project, CI/FFI are providing small grants to conduct gibbon surveys in Vietnam on priority populations. This small grant scheme is intended to provide additional data on gibbon populations in Vietnam in order to provide the most up-to-date information for the forthcoming revision of the Vietnam Primate Conservation Status Review for Gibbons. This small grants scheme is funded by Arcus 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'><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 application deadline is 14th February 2010<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 application form and budget template please contact the Small Grants Managers: Dr Ben Rawson <a href="mailto:b.rawson@conservation.org">b.rawson@conservation.org</a> and Mr Paul Insua-Cao <a href="mailto:paul.insua-cao@fauna-flora.org">paul.insua-cao@fauna-flora.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'><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'>C¡ hÙi nh­n tài trã - Kh£o sát vÁ sÑ l°ãng cá thà v°ãn ang bË e do¡ t¡i ViÇt Nam<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'>TÕ chéc B£o tÓn Ùng thñc v­t QuÑc t¿ (FFI) phÑi hãp vÛi TÕ chéc B£o tÓn QuÑc t¿ (CI) thñc hiÇn dñ án nghiên céu vÁ thñc tr¡ng, tình hình phân bÑ cing nh° nhïng hiÃu bi¿t vÁ loài v°ãn ß ViÇt Nam. Dñ án s½ cung c¥p các kho£n tài trã nhÏ cho các cá nhân, tÕ chéc tham gia thñc hiÇn kh£o sát vÁ sÑ l°ãng các cá thà v°ãn ß ViÇt Nam.<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://envietnam.org/E_News/E_351/Application_Form_Small_Grants.doc">http://envietnam.org/E_News/E_351/Application_Form_Small_Grants.doc</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'><a href="http://envietnam.org/E_News/E_351/Budget_Template_Small_Grants.xls">http://envietnam.org/E_News/E_351/Budget_Template_Small_Grants.xls</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 Scholarships funded by University of Canterbury<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 University of Canterbury (UC) offers a number of scholarships for study towards a PhD degree or for the thesis year of a Masters degree. There is strong competition for these scholarships and applicationmust have gained at least a first class honours degree, or the equivalent, for it to be worth applying. <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'>To be considered for a University of Canterbury Master or Doctoral scholarship, in addition to submitting a scholarship application form, a complete application for admission shouldbe made before or at the same time as the scholarship application is made. If admission has not been approved by prescribed dates, the scholarship application will not be considered. <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'>University of Canterbury Doctoral Scholarships <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'>University of Canterbury International Doctoral Scholarships <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'>University of Canterbury Masters Scholarships <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'>NZi3 Doctoral and Masters Scholarships and Research Awards: <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'>NZi3 Masters Scholarships <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'>NZi3 PhD Scholarships <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'>NZi3 Research Award<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 information is available at <a href="http://www.canterbury.ac.nz/intstud/scholarships/uoc.shtml">http://www.canterbury.ac.nz/intstud/scholarships/uoc.shtml</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'>PhD Scholarships at UNU-IIST<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 Institute for Software Technology of the United Nations University (UNU-IIST) offers PhD Programmes open to candidates from developing countries. The Programmes, based in Macao SAR China, are conducted in partnership with prestigious universities in industrialised countries. PhD candidates are requested to spend a period of time at the partner university. The PhD degree is issued by the partner university.<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 joint PhD programme in partnership with the University of Pisa is currently active. Joint PhD Programmes with other universities are under negotiation. <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 information is available at <a href="http://www.iist.unu.edu/index.php/training/phd-programme">http://www.iist.unu.edu/index.php/training/phd-programme</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'>2010 Sustainable Banking Awards Launched<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 Financial Times, in partnership with IFC launched the 2010 FT Sustainable Banking Awards, the leading program recognizing banks and other financial institutions for leadership and innovation in integrating environmental, social and governance considerations into their operations.<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 judging panel will select short-lists for each category in April 2010.<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>  </span>Winners will be announced and the awards presented on June 3, 2010.<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 will be accepted until February 28, 2010 in the following 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'>- Sustainable Bank of the Year <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'>- Emerging Markets Sustainable Bank of the Year <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'>- Achievement in Basic Needs Financing <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'>- Achievement in Banking at the Bottom of the Pyramid <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'>- Sustainable Investor of the Year <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 further information, please go to web site <a href="http://www.ftconferences.com/sustainablebanking/">http://www.ftconferences.com/sustainablebanking/</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'>Fujitsu Scholarship<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'>Fujitsu Scholarship Program, sponsored by Fujitsu Limited, provides financial assistance for postgraduate education and cross-cultural management training to participants from the Asia-Pacific region. Fujitsu Limited, an international leader in information technology, telecommunications, semiconductors and electronics that is headquartered in Tokyo, established the Fujitsu Scholarship to commemorate its 50th anniversary in 1985. <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 Fujitsu Scholarship program is available for academic programs at JAIMS. JAIMS, located in Honolulu, Hawaii, is a nonprofit postgraduate institute established by Fujitsu in 1972. Many Fujitsu Scholarship recipients/graduates are now working for corporate and social-service organizations in their home countries as well as in other nations. <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'>Hone your leadership vision with this specialized program, delivered by JAIMS, in the wonderful setting of Honolulu, Hawaii. The diverse student body and rigorous curriculum will stretch you to be your best, and prepare you to lead your organization to success in the 21st Century.<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 application deadline for the 26th Fujitsu Scholarship is March 19, 2010.<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'>Read more at <a href="http://www.fujitsu.com/global/about/responsibility/community/scholarship/">http://www.fujitsu.com/global/about/responsibility/community/scholarship/</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'>Irish Aid Fellowship Programme for Vietnamese students<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'>Irish Aid Fellowship Programme provides&nbsp;:<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'>- Up to five (5) full tuition scholarships for the full-time MBA<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'>- Up to five (5) full tuition scholarships for the following MSc Programmes: MSc Project Management&nbsp;; MSc Supply Chain Management&nbsp;; MSc Finance&nbsp;; MSc Quantitative Finance&nbsp;; MSc eBusiness &amp; Information Systems; MSc Marketing; MSc International Business; MSc in Strategic Management Accounting.<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'>All scholarships include stipend for accommodation &amp; living 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'>The Irish Aid Fellowship Programme is open to Vietnamese citizens resident in Vietnam who are committed to returning to Vietnam after their masters/MBA.<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 programme applications is Friday February 28th 2010. <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 scholarship applications is March 31st, 2010. <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 visit <a href="http://www.smurfitschool.ie/vietnam/">http://www.smurfitschool.ie/vietnam/</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'>Siam Cement Group (SCG) Foundation Scholarship Program on International Development Studies<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 SCG Foundation is pleased to grant up to 6 full scholarships for individuals wishing to study at the Master of Arts Program in International Development Studies (MAIDS) at Chulalongkorn University for the upcoming 2010-2011 academic year. <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'>Scholarships are open to government workers, non-profit sector employees, students and other individuals with a background in development from each of the fo