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BIT’s 3rd Annual World Congress of Regenerative Medicine & Stem Cells

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BIT’s 3rd Annual World Congress of Regenerative Medicine & Stem Cells (RMSC-2010)Shanghai Everbright Convention and Exhibition CenterDecember 5-7, 2010On behalf of the Organizing Committee of BIT’s 3rd Annual World Congress of Regenerative Medicine & Stem Cells (RMSC-2010), it is a great honor to welcome you from all over the world. RMSC-2010 will be held at Shanghai Everbright Convention and Exhibition Center during December 5-7, 2010, with a theme of “From Bench to Bedside”. This more...

Added by Laura Fu on September 09, 2010

Quick Decision Bad Credit Loans - Quick Decision Unsecured Loans - Quick Decision Loans

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Quick decision loans bring the relief for your all urgent need of cash quick decision loans arrange same day loans, Quick Decision Loans For Unemployed, quick decision loans for bad credit and Quick Decision unsecured loans.

Added by Benjamin Hebrew on September 09, 2010

Understanding disaster management in practice: with reference to Nepal

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preventionweb.net –

This book charts the approach to disaster risk reduction and poverty alleviation followed by Practical Action in Nepal. It aims to be informative of the relationship between disasters and poverty and makes suggestion on the basis of the project work with Nepali communities.

Added by Zunia on September 09, 2010

A Fair Chance at Life: Why Equity Matters for Child Mortality

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reliefweb.int –

This new report from Save the Children, A Fair Chance at Life, draws attention to one of the most pressing development challenges of our age – the toll of preventable child deaths in the world’s poorest countries, which in 2008 claimed nearly 9 million lives. This is a scandalous waste of human potential, and a cause of enormous suffering to the families and communities that are affected.Progress towards the fourth Millennium Development Goal (MDG) – a two-thirds reduction in child mortality by more...

Added by Zunia on September 09, 2010

The Greening of Water Law: Managing Freshwater Resources for People and the Environment

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reliefweb.int –

Water is an inseparable component of life, both human and environmental. It forms a relationship based on the intricacies of both the hydrologic cycle and the interdependencies of all life on Earth. When water resources are degraded, they can impact every form of life, including human life. The challenge, therefore, is to overcome the need for competition and to find ways to harmonize the water requirements of people with those of the natural environment.

Added by Zunia on September 09, 2010

Rising Global Interest in Farmland - Can It Yield Sustainable and Equitable Benefits?

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reliefweb.int –

The report builds on the World Bank Group's commitment to support efforts by client countries to improve agricultural output, fight hunger, boost incomes of the poor, and foster economic and environmental services. The Bank has worked with Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) and United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) and other stakeholders, and used early findings from the research to develop seven voluntary more...

Added by Zunia on September 09, 2010

Narrowing the Gaps to Meet the Goals

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reliefweb.int –

A special report on a new study by UNICEF shows that an equity-focused approach to child survival and development is the most practical and cost-effective way of meeting the health Millennium Development Goals for children.

Added by Zunia on September 09, 2010

UN spotlights the empowering effect of boosting women's literacy

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unmultimedia.org –

One in six adults that's over 790 million people, the majority of whom are women, can still not read or write, according to the head of the UN's Cultural and Education agency, Irina Bokova. Speaking at an event in New York on Wednesday to mark International Literacy Day, Ms. Bokova says this reflects one of the most persistent injustices of modern times.In a number of countries, she points out, less than 50 per cent of women are literate therefore it is impossible to break the cycle of extreme more...

Added by Zunia on September 09, 2010

A better way to measure global poverty

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The Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative (OPHI) of Oxford University and the Human Development Report Office of the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) today launched a new poverty measure that gives a ‘multidimensional’ picture of people living in poverty, which its creators say could help target development resources more effectively.The new measure, the Multidimensional Poverty Index, or MPI, was developed and applied by OPHI with UNDP support, and will be featured in the more...

Added by John Daly to Monitoring and Evaluation on September 08, 2010

The Web Is Dead. Long Live the Internet

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Two decades after its birth, the World Wide Web is in decline, as simpler, sleeker services — think apps — are less about the searching and more about the getting. Chris Anderson explains how this new paradigm reflects the inevitable course of capitalism. And Michael Wolff explains why the new breed of media titan is forsaking the Web for more promising (and profitable) pastures.Wired. September 2010

Added by John Daly on September 08, 2010

The Use of Social Network Analysis Tools in the Evaluation of Social Change Communications

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communicationforsocialchange.org –

by Rick Davies (April 2009).This paper was produced for the Communication for Social Change Consortium, as a contribution to their paper for UNAIDS on reviewing approaches to monitoring and evaluation and advocating an expanded monitoring and evaluation framework for social change communication. All rights to this paper are with the Communication for Social Change Consortium (www.cfsc.org).]Contents1.Background..2. What is Social Network Analysis? A brief introduction..3. The use of SNA in the more...

Added by John Daly to Monitoring and Evaluation on September 08, 2010

Who Are the MDG Trailblazers? A New MDG Progress Index

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In this working paper, the authors introduce an MDG Progress Index to assess how on or off track countries are toward MDG targets. They find evidence of dramatic achievements by many poor countries, such as Honduras, Laos, Ethiopia, Uganda, Burkina Faso, Nepal, Cambodia, and Ghana. These countries’ performance suggests that they may achieve most of the highly ambitious MDGs. Moreover, sub-Saharan Africa accounts for many of the star MDG performers. Interestingly, poor countries perform nearly more...

Added by John Daly to Monitoring and Evaluation on September 08, 2010

Eradicating Polio: Let's Finish the Job

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Jeff Rakes, the CEO of the Bill and Melinda Gates foundation, writes: "Since 1988, when the world set the goal of eliminating the disease forever, the number of polio cases has gone down by 99 percent. Just two decades ago, the disease was circulating in 125 countries. Now, there are only four countries that have yet to control transmission of the polio virus."When we invest in polio eradication, we not only save lives, we also save money. In the United States alone, polio vaccination more...

Added by John Daly on September 08, 2010

MDG SEPTEMBER SUMMIT: Eminent Personalities Galvanize Support

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global-perspectives.info –

"The United Nations is leaving no stone unturned to galvanize action toward achieving by 2015 the global anti-poverty targets known as the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). "In run-up to a gathering of heads of government and state at the UN in September 2010, Secretary-General has set up an advocacy Group of eminent persons. "A 'real collection of superheroes in defeating poverty' has been chosen to serve on the Group, co-chaired by Rwandan President Paul Kagame and Spanish Prime Minister more...

Added by John Daly on September 08, 2010

Low-income countries to benefit from advocacy by UN-appointed eminent persons

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un.org –

"Development problems plaguing the world’s poorest countries (LDCs) will occupy the minds of the Group of Eminent Persons appointed by Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon earlier this week as they examine obstacles to economic progress and recommend new paradigms for transforming low-income economies.“'The Group of Eminent Persons will give visibility to the problems of LDCs [least developed countries],' Cheick Sidi Diarra, the United Nations High Representative for the Least Developed Countries, more...

Added by John Daly on September 08, 2010

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