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Mar'12

• Sustainable Development:
  • GDRC launched a new blog on Rio+20: "Staying on the Road to Rio+20 ... " focusing on the upcoming UN Conference on Sustainable Development ("Rio+20") to be held in Rio de Jeneiro, Brazil in June 2012.
• Sustainable Business:
  • Overall improvement in webpages and resources
  • Documents and Reports - "Businesses in Rio+20"

Read the March and April 2012 issues of GDRC's newsletter - MOSAIC

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Feb'12

• All GDRC:
  • New slogan/tagline for GDRC: "Keeping the Forest and the Trees in Mind"
  • To facilitate viewing of the website on mobile smartphones, a QR code containing GDRC's URL was included on the main top page.
• Sustainable Development:
  • UN-DESD - Added link to Global Partnership for Education
• Oceans, Coasts and Small Islands:
  • Oceans - A number of links were added, including the 'World Oceans Radio'
  • Oceans - Link to GRID-Arendal Marine Newsletter added
• Urban Environmental Management:
  • Water Resources: New resources were added, and links updated
• Urban Heritage and Conservation:
  • Conventions, Conclusions, Citations: Added resources related to the World Heritage Convention
• Gender and Development:
  • Women and Development: Added a lin to wikigender.org
• Microfinance:
  • Programme pages were overhauled and updated. The process is continuing ...
• ICTs for Development:
  • This programme was renamed as "ICTs for Development"
  • Programme pages were overhauled and updated. The process is continuing ...
• Knowledge Management:
  • Programme pages were overhauled and updated. The process is continuing ...

Read the February 2012 issue of GDRC's newsletter - MOSAIC

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Jan'12

• All GDRC:
  • GDRC wishes all its friends, Virtual Fellows, Institutional Partners and visitors a very Happy New Year!
  • GDRC is now a partner of the Sustainable Sanitation Alliance (SuSanA)
  • Learning Lab - Pages were cleaned up and enhanced
• Environmental Decision-Making:
  • Documents - Added doc, "Framework for Responsible Environmental Decision-Making (FRED)"
• Sustainable Development:
  • GDRC is now a Partner of the United Nations Decade on Biodiversity.
  • UN Decade on Biodiversity - Information on biodiversity-related conventions added
  • Poverty - aded resource, "Linking Poverty Reduction and Environmental Management" by DFID et al.
• Oceans, Coasts and Small Islands:
  • Oceans - added doc, "The Ocean and Climate Change" by IUCN
• Urban Environmental Management:
  • Launch of new theme: GDRC is pleased to announce the launch of a new theme on Sustainable Sanitation
  • Water Resources - Added link to UN Water and other resources in the 'Organizations' section
  • Urban Energy - Added information on the International Year of Sustainable Energy for all (2012)
  • Networks - Resource links were added to the pages and cleaned up
  • Slums and Squatter Settlements - Resource links were added to the pages and cleaned up
  • Capacity Building - Added document on "Capacity Building - The UNDP Approach"
• Urban Governance:
  • Documents - added collections on urban governance from MOST and ELDIS databases
• Urban Heritage and Conservation:
  • Programmes, Initiatives and Networks - Added list of newsletters and bulletins
  • International Institutions and Organizations - Added and updated links to resource institutions
• NGO Cafe:
  • Kickstart an NGO - Added legal details in 'Registering an NGO'
• Gender and Development:
  • Gender Analysis Framework - Added several documents and reports
  • Gender and Environment - Added two documents on gender and urban environmental management by Kyoko Kusakabe et al.

Read the January 2012 issue of GDRC's newsletter - MOSAIC

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