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About the GDRC:
Whats New on the Website?

(Archives for 2003)

Dec'03

December 2003

Sustainable Development: UN Decade of Education for Sustainable Development
Urban Environmental Management: Chronicles - added link to 'E-Wire' news
Urban Environmental Management: City Networks - South African Cities Network
Urban Environmental Management: How-tos - links were updated and case studies on Innovative Communities added.
Microfinance: Sections on "Microfinance Governance" and "Capacity Building for Microfinance" were updated and expanded
Microfinance: Several new newsletters and bulletins were added.
Sustainable Business: Documents - Collections of corporate environmental reports
Sustainable Business: Tools and Strategies - Superfactory: Enabling Manufacturing excellence
Internet and ICTs: Link added to the United Nations ICT Task Force
Internet and ICTs: Link added to the Digital Opportunity Initiative
Knowledge Management: Link added to UNDP's Asia-Pacific Development Information Programme (APDIP)
All GDRC: The Privacy Policy of GDRC was unveiled ...

Read the December issue of
GDRC's newsletter - MOSAIC

Nov'03

November 2003

All GDRC: GDRC launches its new online newsletter, "GDRC Mosaic" - subscribe to it now!! The first issue will be sent out during the end of November.
All GDRC: GDRC announces its realigned and comprehensive capacity building policy.
Urban Environmental Management: City Networks - Asian Network of Major Cities 21
Urban Environmental Management: Footprints - many new related concepts such as 'virtual water', 'energy footprints', 'food miles' etc. were added.
Urban Environmental Management: New theme page on 'Green Construction'
Urban Environmental Management: Energy Management - Energy in Agenda 21
Microfinance: Credit Access for Women - Women Vision International
NGO Cafe: Bungee Jumps - NGO databases and directories
Gender and Development: Gender and ICTs - Gender Evaluation Methodology for Internet and ICTs

Read the November issue of
GDRC's newsletter - MOSAIC

Oct'03

October 2003

All GDRC: The daily average visitor count for GDRC has now crossed the 2000 mark in October! Though this is not quite equal to Disneyland, we are getting there :-)
Environmental Decision-Making: Documents - "Public Participation in Environmental Decision Making" by Michael K. Ewing
Sustainable Development: New special feature on Human Security!
Sustainable Development: New special feature on Poverty!
Urban Environmental Management: Chronicles - EarthWeek, a Diary of the Planet.
Urban Environmental Management: Guide to City Networks expanded and updated with new information
Urban Environmental Management: Urban Energy Systems - GDRC becomes a member of the World Council for Renewable Energy
NGO Cafe: New Toolbox item - NGO Funding Strategies
Microfinance: Case Studies - Country pages in Africa and Asia-Pacific were added and updated.
Knowledge Management: Global Knowledge Partnership
Internet and ICTs: Edited and updated special theme on ICTs and Local Governments

Sept'03

September 2003

Urban Environmental Management: Improved overall page design consistency
Urban Environmental Management: Environmental Education - Education for a Sustainable Future
Urban Environmental Management: EMS and Cities - Case studies and examples of EMS in the Public Sector
Microfinance: Information on the International Year of Microcredit (2005) was updated/enhanced
NGO Cafe: Kickstart an NGO - Guide to Logical Framework Analysis
NGO Cafe: Kickstart an NGO - Creating a Code of Ethics for your Organization
Technology Transfer: Technology Partnership Initiative (TPI)
Technology Transfer: UNFCCC - Technology Transfer Clearing House (TT:CLEAR)
Information Design: The Information Design Cycle - Making the 'A-ha!' Happen

Aug'03

August 2003

Urban Environmental Management: Slum and Squatters - Photo Essay on "Looking behind the Façade:How People Manage in Squatter Settlements"
Oceans, Coasts and Small Islands: Oceans - UN's Oceans and Law of the Sea
Sustainable Development: New resources under the Sustainbale Development programme of GDRC were uploaded. Ideas for its development are welcome!
Sustainable Development: Poverty - Intl. Forum on urban Poverty
Sustainable Development: Indicators - The 7 Triads of Sustainability
NGO Cafe: Short note - "What are NGOs?"
Knowledge Management: Global development Knowledge (GDK)
Knowledge Management: Reflections on the Development of Websites or Potholes-on-the-Information-Highway-they-don't-tell-you-about
Information Design: Instruction Design sub-theme - Rapid Instructional Design

Jul'03

July 2003

Environmental Decision-Making: GDRC and Environmental Decision-Making
Urban Environmental Management: Ecological footprints - The Footprint of Berlin
Urban Environmental Management: Sustainable Tourism - International Ecotourism Standard
Urban Environmental Management: Water - Documents: Access e-newsletter
Urban Environmental Management: City Networks - Energie-Cités: Association of European Local Authorities Promoting a Local Sustainable Energy Policy
Urban Environmental Management: Sustainable Transportation - Urban Transport and Environment
Informal Sector: New documents from ILO on the changing paradigm of informal sector
Urban Governance: Pages were added, edited, and updated.
NGO Cafe: Kickstart an NGO - "Constituting an NGO Board: Creating a Strong Baseline for an NGO's Activities"
Microfinance: Country pages for Indonesia enhanced!
Microfinance: Country pages for India enhanced!
Internet and ICTs: Case studies collections: (1) infoDev ICT Stories and (2) ICTs for Good Governance

Jun'03

June 2003

Microfinance: Updated links and documents in the Intl Year of Microcredit 2005 pages
Microfinance: Indonesia Country page - "Act or Accident? - Birth of Village Units"
Urban Environmental Management: Transportation - Missoula Institute for Sustainable Transportation
Urban Environmental Management: Waste Resources - Urban Waste Management Issues
Information Design: Jack of all Trades, and Master of Quite-a-Few
Sustainable Business: Documents - Management of Sustainability
Gender and Development: Gender and ICTs - "ICTs: A Womrn's Agenda"
Technology Transfer: Special feature - Environmental Technology Databases, plus updates to main index page

May'03

May 2003

Information Design: Redesign and streamlining of front pages
Gender and Development: Special Focus theme on 'Gender and Governance' added!
Urban Environmental Management: Waste management - Pages were redesigned and new documents added
Urban Environmental Management: Water Resources Management - link to World Water Development Report
Informal Sector: New programme pages uploaded!!
Microfinance: Updates to links in the India Country page.
Microfinance: Spot light on Grameen - Grameen Bank II

Apr'03

April 2003

Urban Governance: Programmes - WHO Healthy Cities and Urban Governance
Urban Heritage and Conservation: Programmes, Initiatives and Networks - TUGI Report Card on Cultural Heritage
Urban Environmental Management: Ecological Footprints - many new links added
Knowledge Management: Redesign and streamlining of front pages, including many new documents and resources added.
Environmental Decision-Making: Redesign and streamlining of front pages
Oceans, Coasts and Small Islands: 8 June is World's Oceans Day!

Mar'03

March 2003

Microfinance: Forum - 2005 International Year of Microcredit
Urban Environmental Management: Water Resources - UEMRI becomes a member of SAFFIRE (Strategic Alliance For Freshwater Information, Resources and Education)
Urban Environmental Management: Energy Systems - new links were added and updated
Internet and ICTs: Sustainable ICT Case Studies

Feb'03

February 2003

Urban Environmental Management: Ecological Footprints - GLOBIO, Mapping Human Impacts on the Biosphere
Urban Environmental Management: Sustainable Tourism - Tourism and Agenda 21
Microfinance: Case Studies - newly added - Trinidad and Tobago; other pages updated.
Microfinance: Training - Southern New Hampshire University Microenterprise Development Institute 2003
Microfinance: Networks - Africa Microfinance Network
Technology Transfer: Links to online technology databases expanded

Jan'03

January 2003

Urban Environmental Management: New feature!! 'Ecological footprints'
Urban Environmental Management: Water Resources - List of Global Water Assessments
Urban Environmental Management: Water Resources - Intl. Secretariat for Water
Urban Environmental Management: Water Resources - The Bonn Keys
Urban Environmental Management: Networks - InterEnvironment, World Directory of Environmental Organizations
Urban Governance: Redesign and streamlining of front pages
Urban Governance: Programmes and Institutions - Ombudsman Center for Environment and Development
Urban Governance: Programmes and Institutions - id21: Urban Poverty and Governance
Technology Transfer: New technology databases were added
Technology Transfer: Special Feature on Appropriate Technology
NGOs and the Civil Society (NGO Cafe): Bungee Jumps - InterEnvironment, World Directory of Environmental Organizations
Sustainable Business: Redesign and streamlining of front pages

Check What's New for 2002 and 2000-2001. While many of the programmes of GDRC were available since 1995 at a different web locations, www.gdrc.org itself went online on 25 May 2000.

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