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GDRC celebrates its seventh anniversary this month!! May 2008

Do your bit: Focus on days highlighting international issues Check out International Days and Observances for May


GDRC Web access statistics for April 2008
Apr'08
April 2008
  • Urban Environmental Management:
    • Japan Urban Observatory - updated links and resources
  • Urban Heritage and Conservation:
    • Added links to Heritage-related Conventions, Recommendations and Declarations
  • NGO Cafe:
    • Kickstart an NGO: Resources on NGO Credibility was expanded.
  • Microfinance:
    • Training opportunities: School of Applied Microfinance, Nairobi, Kenya
    • Inspiring Ideas: Short Takes - Good Practices in Microfinance
    • Microfinance Governance: Imp-Act SPM Network: Making microfinance work for the poor and excluded

Read the April 2008 issue of GDRC's newsletter - MOSAIC
Do your bit: Focus on days highlighting international issues Check out International Days and Observances for April


GDRC Web access statistics for March 2008
Mar'08
March 2008
  • Environmental Decision-Making:
    • Documents and Reports - Environmental Decision Making, Science, and Technology
  • Sustainable Development:
    • Poverty - Comments added to the 'Causes of Poverty' section
    • Voices - a number of contributions to the 'Sustained Voices' section were added
  • Urban Environmental Management:
    • Footprints - new information added to Virtual Water resources
    • Sustainable Tourism - WSSD-Johannesburg Plan of Implementation: Sustainabel Tourism
    • Sustainable Tourism - Several additions were made to 'Organizations, Networks and Initiatives'
    • Water - Updates to World Water Day: 22 March
    • Water - Source Water and Sanitation News Service
    • MEAs and Cities - Added document, "Negotiating and Implementing MEAs: A Manual for NGOs"
  • NGO Cafe:
    • Kickstart an NGO: Special feature on Accountability - Humanitarian Accountability Partnership
    • Flash: A new feature on "New Books on NGOs" added
  • Microfinance:
    • Environment Colours of Microfinance - Updated and added case studies
    • Financing Microenterprises - Added link to microLINKS
    • Internet Resources - Added links to World Savings Banks Insitute et al.
    • French edition - added document, "Portée et performances financières ... " by Zacharie ELOUNDOU OWONA

Read the March 2008 issue of GDRC's newsletter - MOSAIC
Do your bit: Focus on days highlighting international issues Check out International Days and Observances for March


GDRC Web access statistics for February 2008
Feb'08
February 2008
  • Sustainable Development:
    • UN-DESD - a number of additional resources were added, including resources from the 2007 Tbilisi+30 event
  • Urban Environmental Management:
    • Green Construction - Marrakech Taskforce on Sustainable Construction
    • Sustainable Tourism - List of Journals was updated
    • Sustainable Tourism - Added 'Davos Declaration on Climate Change'
  • Urban Governance:
    • Programmes and Institutions - "Our Global Neighbourhood" - Report of the Commission on Global Governance
  • NGO Cafe:
    • Kickstart an NGO: Ashoka's Citizen Base Initiative
    • Flash!: SANGONet's NGO Pulse
  • Microfinance:
    • Case Studies - a number of case studies and country files were added
    • Microfinance and Disasters - Link added to QUICK Centre - Knowledge Sharing Platorm on Microfinance in Post-Disaster Situations
  • Informal Sector:
    • Defining the Informal Sector - Men and Women in the Informal Economy
  • Technology Transfer:
    • Initiatives and Info Reources - List of national initiatives added
  • Sustainable Business:
    • Networks and Groups - Added section on newsletters

Read the February 2008 issue of GDRC's newsletter - MOSAIC
Do your bit: Focus on days highlighting international issues Check out International Days and Observances for February


GDRC Web access statistics for January 2008
Jan'08
January 2008
  • Urban Environmental Management:
    • Sust. Tourism - link added to Hospitality, Tourism, and Travel Research Community Discussion Forum
  • Urban Governance:
    • Programmes and Institutions: World Bank's new blog on 'People, Space and Deliberation'
  • Microfinance:
    • Case Studies - Mozambique: "The Microfinance Market In Maputo ... "
    • News and Events - MicroCapital News
    • Training - Link to Academy of Microfinance Development in Asia (AMiDA)
  • Technology Transfer:
    • Initiatives and Info Resources - List of technology newsletters

Read the January 2008 issue of GDRC's newsletter - MOSAIC
Do your bit: Focus on days highlighting international issues Check out International Days and Observances for January


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While many of the programmes of GDRC were available since 1995 in different web locations, they were consolidated and developed in its present form as www.gdrc.org on 25 May 2000.
 
     

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