Dec'05

• All GDRC: GDRC has interlinked the three programmes of Knowledge Management, Information Design, and ICTs to launch the "GDRC Learning Lab"
• Environmental Decision-Making: Documents and Reports - Criteria for EDM
• Sustainable Development: SD Stories - Principal Voices
• Urban Environmental Management: Sustainable Transportation - added link to Paul Barter's blog and enhanced pages with many other links/features.
• Gender and Development: Gender and Environment - Focus on transportation
• Microfinance: Microfinance and Disasters - Rural finance in conflict environments
• Microfinance: Case Studies - new documents added to Georgia country page.

Read the December 2005 issue of GDRC's newsletter - MOSAIC

Check out International Days and Observances for December

Nov'05

• Sustainable Development: Many new 'Sustained Voices' were added.
• Sustainable Development: Concepts related to Innovative Communities
• Urban Environmental Management: Disaster Managenment - Info on World Disaster Day
• Urban Environmental Management: City Networks - Several new networks were added
• Gender and Development: Gender Mainstreaming Learning Manual and Information Pack
• Microfinance: Training Programme - Information on several new training programmes were added
• Microfinance: New Special Theme - 'Microfinance and Disasters'
• Internet and ICTs: Networks and Initiatives - Added link to 'e-ForAll Initiative'

Read the November 2005 issue of GDRC's newsletter - MOSAIC

Check out International Days and Observances for November

Oct'05

• Environmental Decision-Making: Documents - Environmental Management Toolbox
• Sustainable Development: UNDESD - International Days and Observances
• Oceans, Coasts and Small Islands: Coastal areas - Guiding Principles for post-tsunami rehabilitation and reconstruction
• Oceans, Coasts and Small Islands: Islands - University of West Indies
• Urban Environmental Management: Disasters - "Environmental Management and Disaster Reduction"
• Microfinance: Newsletters added - "Portfolio" and "Post-Conflict Microfinance"
• Microfinance: Updated document on 'Causes of Poverty'
• Microfinance: Training Programmes - Rural Finance Learning Centre

Read GDRC's newsletter - MOSAIC

Check out International Days and Observances for this month

Jul'05

• All GDRC: Most index pages of GDRC Programmes were redesigned for consistency and easy navigability.
• Oceans, Coasts and Small Islands: GDRC becomes a member of the World Ocean Network, and endorses WON's 'Ocean Passport'
• Oceans, Coasts and Small Islands: Islands - "Renewable Energy in Small Islands" by Thomas Lynge Jensen
• Oceans, Coasts and Small Islands: Coasts - UNEP's Guiding Principles for Coastal Reconstruction
• Urban Environmental Management: Water resource (Rainwater Harvesting) - The International Rainwater Harvesting Alliance
• Urban Environmental Management: Networks - The +30 Network
• Urban Environmental Management: Slums and Squatters - Short article on "Homelessness - an Issue"
• Urban Governance: Precautionary Principles - new documents and resources added.
• Microfinance: Updates added to 'The International Year of Microcredit 2005'
• Sustainable Business: Intro document - "Sustainability is Good Business"
• Internet and ICTs: Info Overload - "How Much Information?"

Read the July 2005 issue of GDRC's newsletter - MOSAIC

Check out International Days and Observances for July

Jun'05

• All GDRC: Contact page - Visitors can now make Skype calls to the GDRC office. Try it - Call GDRC !!
• Environmental Decision-Making: Documents - several new one-page documents were added.
• Urban Environmental Management: Disaster Management - Added link to "GOLFRE: Global Open Learning Forum on Risk Education"
• NGO Cafe: Kickstart an NGO - The Lack-Gap-Mismatch Analysis tool
• Information Design: Research Output - Info Design: Lessons Learnt at GDRC!

Read the June 2005 issue of GDRC's newsletter - MOSAIC

Check out International Days and Observances for June

May'05

• All GDRC: On May 25, GDRC is four years old!!
• All GDRC: Online website evaluation form added to the main page - please send in your comments!
• Oceans, Coasts and Small Islands: Info update on World Oceans Day (8 June)
• Urban Environmental Management: Slums and Squatters - Link to 'Habitat International Coalition'
• Urban Environmental Management: Water Resources - (a) World Economic Forum's Water Initiative, and (b) Watergy resources
• Urban Environmental Management: Ecological Footprints - Calculate your water footprint
• NGO Cafe: Kickstart an NGO - expanded feature on "How to start an NGO"
• NGO Cafe: Kickstart an NGO - A sample set of NGO Bye-Laws
• NGO Cafe: Flash! - Added feature: "New Pulbications on NGOs"
• Microfinance: Documents - "Causes of Poverty" page was expanded and revised.
• Microfinance: Finance for Microenterprises - Report on 'Sustainable Microentrepreneurship' by Guy Vincent

Read the May 2005 issue of GDRC's newsletter - MOSAIC

Check out International Days and Observances for May

Apr'05

• All GDRC: GDRC's search page was redesigned to enable users to choose between Google, MSN or Yahoo to search the GDRC website.
• Environmental Decision-Making: Documents - Rio Summit and Principle 10
• Oceans, Coasts and Small Islands: GDRC is now a member of the UN Oceans Atlas
• Urban Environmental Management: Transportation - Sustainable Urban Transport Project
• Urban Environmental Management: Disaster management links - Groups and networks
• Urban Heritage and Conservation: GDRC becomes a member of the Asian Academy for Heritage Management (AAHM)
• NGO Cafe: Kickstart an NGO - Addtional resources were added to 'NGO Credibility'
• NGO Cafe: Kickstart an NGO - Addtional resources were added to 'NGO Codes of Conduct'
• Microfinance: Networks - Rural Finance Learning Center
• Microfinance: Training Programmes - Resources were updated and expanded.
• Microfinance: Documents - Microcredit and Microfinance Glossary
• Internet and ICTs: Programme pages were redesigned and updated!

Read the April 2005 issue of GDRC's newsletter - MOSAIC

Check out International Days and Observances for April

Mar'05

• Urban Environmental Management: City Networks - added links to four associations of local governments in Indonesia
• Urban Environmental Management: Sustainable Transportation - link to Kyoto World Cities Challenge
• Technology Transfer: Added info on email list. "Technology Transfer in International Development [DEVEL-L]"
• Microfinance: Case Studies - a number of resources were added to the Microfinance country files, and to the French and Spanish editions.

Read the March 2005 issue of GDRC's newsletter - MOSAIC

Check out International Days and Observances for March

Feb'05

• All GDRC: GDRC becomes a member of the Global Alliance for Disaster Reduction (GADR)
• Environmental Decision-Making: One-pagers - Skills for Environmental Decision Making
• Microfinance: French edition - Programme de renforcement des capacités en microfinance pour l’Afrique francophone (CAPAF)
• Urban Environmental Management: Sustainable transportation - Links to best practices and success stories in sustainable mobility

Read the February 2005 issue of GDRC's newsletter - MOSAIC

Check out International Days and Observances for February

Jan'05

• Urban Environmental Management: Waste Management - added GDRC documents on (a) "The 3R Concept and Waste Minimization", (b) "An Urban Waste Management Continuum", and (c) "Examples of Waste Management in Japan (1997-2001)"
• Urban Environmental Management: Energy systems - "An Introduction to Energy Sources from Oceans"
• Sustainable Business: Sustainable Business Concepts - Going Green

Read the January 2005 issue of GDRC's newsletter - MOSAIC