Posts tagged "Developing Countries"

Education Group Gives $170 Million to 7 Countries

This is the VOA Special English Education Report, from voaspecialenglish.com | http A three-year effort in developing countries will seek to put twenty-five million children in school for the first time. Another goal of the Global Partnership for Education is to train six hundred thousand teachers. The partnership recently awarded nearly one hundred seventy million dollars in grants to seven countries. These were the first grants since the organization changed its name a few months ago from the Fast Track Initiative. Fast Track was founded in two thousand two. Charles Tapp is an adviser to the partnership. He says, “There had been a lot of evolution of the old Fast Track Initiative, which was essentially something of a donors club, I think. And what was clear from our perspective [was] that we were not just a funding entity. This was indeed a partnership.” The partnership includes almost fifty developing countries, as well as donors, civil society groups and teacher organizations. It also includes private companies, international development banks and United Nations agencies.The latest grants were awarded to Afghanistan, Ivory Coast, Guinea-Bissau, Mali, Moldova, Mongolia and Timor-Leste. Mr. Tapp says the grant to Afghanistan is worth almost fifty-six million dollars. He says the Afghan government “has made a very strong commitment of allocating as much of its own resources as it can for education. Historically, Afghanistan has had some very, very well-educated people …

It takes 635 gallons of water to make one hamburger, and we see opportunity. In this video from go.fidelity.com about the world’s water, Fidelity analyst Anna Davydova explains why. The need for clean fresh water is increasing rapidly, as populations rise and standards of living improve around the world. In some places — such as central California, the North China Plains, and parts of India — the demand for water is already outstripping the local supply. Because global water consumption is expected to increase rapidly over the next 20 years, water shortages may get more acute and more widespread, spurring more investments in desalination technologies, water reuse, and conservation. The results could have massive economic, ecological, and geopolitical consequences, creating investing opportunities in places you may never have considered. At Fidelity, we dig deeper into the big issues and hidden trends, using our global reach and expertise to give you smart investing ideas. Put the power of our insights to work for you at go.fidelity.com

Technorati Tags: countries, Developing Countries, Education, English Education, gives, Group, Hundred Thousand, Ivory Coast, million, Own Resources, Voa

Conservation Kingdom – Rainwater Collection Part 2

What is Rainwater Harvesting? Rainwater harvesting is collecting the run-off from a structure or other impervious surface in order to store it for later use. Traditionally, this involves harvesting the rain from a roof. The rain will collect in gutters that channel the water into downspouts and then into some sort of storage vessel. Rainwater collection systems can be as simple as collecting rain in a rain barrel or as elaborate as harvesting rainwater into large cisterns to supply your entire household demand. The idea of rainwater harvesting usually conjures up images of an old farm cistern or thoughts of developing countries. The reality is that rainwater harvesting is becoming a viable alternative for supplying our households and businesses with water. It’s not just for the farm anymore! There are many countries such as Germany and Australia where rainwater harvesting is a norm. Due to the green building movement, you will be seeing rainwater harvesting systems become more popular here in America. The collection of rainwater is known by many names throughout the world. It ranges from rainwater collection to rainwater harvesting to rainwater catchment. In addition, terms such as roofwater collection or rooftop water collection is also used in other countries. We believe that rainwater harvesting is a viable technology in an urban setting. All that is necessary to take advantage of this resource is to capture the free water falling on your roof and direct it to a …

Technorati Tags: Collection, Conservation, Developing Countries, Households, KINGDOM, Norm, Part, Rainwater

Cleantech: Challenges and Opportunities in Latin America

Google Tech Talk December 3, 2009 ABSTRACT Presented by Luis Aguirre-Torres. Latin America, which currently accounts for one fifth of the worlds greenhouse gas emissions, represents a great opportunity for investors and cleantech firms alike. The new trend towards incorporating renewable energy in the energy portfolio in most developing countries, in combination with international pressure to actively participate in the development and execution of a new global climate deal, make cleantech one of the largest business opportunities in Mexico, Brazil, Chile and Argentina among other Latin American countries. In recent months, Mexico published a new renewable energy program, focused on further developing the renewable energy and biofuel industry; in Brazil, the government is one of the most active participants in the end-of-the-year climate negotiations, and leads the rest of the Latin American countries in wind and biofuel developments. On the other hand, Chile, as well as Bolivia, have uncovered a great opportunity in the countries salt flatlands where Lithium can be found as a valuable natural resource necessary in the development of hybrid and electric vehicle batteries. Argentina, Colombia and Peru have turned their eyes to the biodiesel and second-generation biofuel market. Latin America, which currently accounts for one fifth of the worlds greenhouse gas emissions, represents a great opportunity for investors and cleantech firms alike. The new trend towards …
Video Rating: 4 / 5

Serita Jakes shares how important the role of faith becomes when we are faced with trauma in life, and Stephen Easton chose to hang out with the wrong crowd as a young teenage, a decision that had negative consequences… The Christian Broadcasting Network CBN www.cbn.com
Video Rating: 2 / 5

Technorati Tags: America, challenges, Christian Broadcasting Network, Cleantech, Developing Countries, Google, Greenhouse Gas Emissions, Latin, Latin America, Latin American Countries, Natural Resource, opportunities

ORBIS Flying Eye Hospital Staff Ophthalmologist Recruitment Video

The ORBIS Flying Eye Hospital (FEH) is a unique mobile teaching and operating facility on board a DC-10 jet aircraft that travels to developing countries worldwide to share the gift of sight. Our Flying Eye Hospital staff travel up to 45 weeks per year to countries such as Syria, Nigeria, Laos, Nepal, Mongolia, Guatemala, and Peru. The FEH Staff Ophthalmologist facilitates the Flying Eye Hospital ocular disease programs in developing countries and ensures that the predetermined medical objectives of the program are achieved by actively participating in the design, planning, implementation and evaluation of the Flying Eye Hospital programs. This clinical non-surgical position focuses on screening patients, teaching local medical staff, delivering patient care, conducting site planning visits, participating in the development and evaluation of specific program objectives, and performing hands-on administrative and logistical program preparation activities. It requires extensive international travel, mostly to developing countries. For more information about ORBIS and this employment opportunity, please visit our website: www.orbis.org. To apply, email your resume or CV and cover letter to HR@orbis.org. ORBIS is an Equal Opportunity Employer. As a global organization we welcome qualified applicants from diverse backgrounds and cultures. produced by: Perry Athanason/ORBIS International
Video Rating: 5 / 5

Technorati Tags: Dc 10, Developing Countries, flying, hospital, Medical Staff, Recruitment, Staff, Video

Cool How Do Resources Work images

Check out these how do resources work images:

Andris Piebalgs


Image by European External Action Service – EEAS
European Commissioner for Energy, Andris Piebalgs, attends the event on Sustainable Energy for All Initiative to celebrate achievements and gather support on the next phase.

"Ladies and Gentlemen,

As EU Commissioner for Development and Cooperation, let me begin by saying how happy I am to be participating in today’s high-level event.

Up to this day, more than 61 countries committed themselves to the initiative, creating a momentum that gives the international community a clear responsibility to achieve the three Sustainable Energy for All objectives. I’m confident that this movement will strengthen, as access to sustainable energy is understood as a driving force for growth and sustainable development.

The time for discussion is now over.

We have to turn intentions into concrete actions that will bring modern energy to the World’s poorest citizens, and catalyse renewable energy and energy efficiency across the globe.

The EU’s commitment to this initiative is clear.

In Europe, with our 20-20-20 initiative; 20% renewable energy in our energy mix; a 20% improvement in energy efficiency, and a 20% cut in greenhouse gases, all by 2020 and now transformed into binding legislation, we will achieve the aims set out by the Secretary General at home, ten years ahead of the target date.

But we are also committed to playing our role globally to achieve the wider objectives of the initiative.

The EU is uniquely well placed to do this, as by far the Worlds’ largest provider of official development assistance, and the world leader in renewable and electricity technologies.

At the EU Summit on Sustainable Energy for All in April 2012 President Barroso set the ambitious goal for the European Union of helping developing countries to provide 500 million people with access to sustainable energy services.

So, the EU is transforming this pledge into concrete action.

The European Commission now is ready to make the goals of this initiative a reality, with several hundred people in its offices across the globe mobilised for this effort. Only two weeks ago, a senior team of EU and World Bank representatives visited Kinshasa to discuss projects around the Great Lakes. They discussed the last steps for financing the Ruzizi II hydropower project and started working on the development of the Inga River potential. We are working with Rwanda, Burundi and the DRC to establish a regional Energy Plan, creating the conditions for investment to flow into an area that could be the green powerhouse of central Africa.

Cooperation is already ongoing in many countries. In Ghana, for example, we are assisting the government to establish a Renewable Energy Fund and together with the KfW and AFD we are discussing with the energy ministry which energy programmes to support until 2020.

In Burkina-Faso the EU is supporting the construction of 22 MW solar power plant with 96 000 solar panels for an amount of 63 million Euro. Through this project the EU will help to provide sufficient electricity to more than 400 000 people.

We will also further assist our partners in the development of National Energy Action Plans over the next 6 to 18 months.

An EU technical assistance facility of 65 million Euro is already in place and we intend to mobilise at minimum 400 million Euros for energy-related actions in African countries, all over the next 2 years, and this through leveraged innovative financial instruments that should result in concrete investments of 4-8 billion Euros on the ground.

With the implementation of our Agenda for Change, mapping out priorities for EU development assistance from 2014 onwards, we can expect to add another several hundred million Euro to this figure for sustainable and inclusive energy investments every year, again highly leveraged, again results in investments on the ground in terms of billions of Euros.

These are just examples of the efforts that the EU is taking on the ground, turning objectives into fact.

But that is not all.

The EU also strongly supports the need for global coordination of our efforts in this area.

Only by working together will we achieve the ambitious objectives set by the Secretary-General.

In this context, I am happy to announce that we are willing in principle to support a coordination mechanism with both significant financing and seconded staff, once its structure and competencies have been clarified, and subject to the respect of relevant legal requirements.

I am looking forward to discussing further how best coordination can be ensured.

Each and every one of us has a responsibility to make this initiative a success and to deliver on what we promised.

The challenge for donors, governments, the private sector and civil society in industrialised and developing countries is enormous. But the battle will be worth it. You can count on the European Union to do its bit to mobilise its resources to reach the Sustainable Energy for All goals."

( Photo: EU/AFP/ Andrea Renault )

Technorati Tags: Cool, Developing Countries, Energy Efficiency, Greenhouse Gases, images, Ladies And Gentlemen, Momentum, Pledge, Renewable Energy, Resources, Secretary General, Sustainable Development, work, Work Images, World Leader

Cool Resources For The Future images

Check out these resources for the future images:

092311-BRZ-Rudd_042F


Image by World Bank Photo Collection
WASHINGTON, September 23, 2011 – Australian Minister for Foreign Affairs, Kevin Rudd, and World Bank Group President, Robert B. Zoellick, today signed a landmark Partnership Framework, paving the way for Australia and the World Bank to work more closely to help the world’s poorest people.

The new partnership will focus on future cooperation, including helping developing countries manage their environment, water natural resources, and vulnerability to natural disasters. It will also provide greater support for the development of the private sector in developing countries. Photo: © Simone D. McCourtie/World Bank

Technorati Tags: Cool, Cool Images, Cool Resources, Cooperation, Developing Countries, Foreign Affairs, Future, images, Natural Disasters, Natural Resources, Paving The Way, Photo Collection, Private Sector, Resources, Vulnerability, World Bank

Nice Resource For A Future photos

Some cool resource for a future images:

092311-BRZ-Rudd_036F


Image by World Bank Photo Collection
WASHINGTON, September 23, 2011 – Australian Minister for Foreign Affairs, Kevin Rudd, and World Bank Group President, Robert B. Zoellick, today signed a landmark Partnership Framework, paving the way for Australia and the World Bank to work more closely to help the world’s poorest people.

The new partnership will focus on future cooperation, including helping developing countries manage their environment, water natural resources, and vulnerability to natural disasters. It will also provide greater support for the development of the private sector in developing countries.
Photo: © Simone D. McCourtie/World Bank

Technorati Tags: Australia, Cooperation, Developing Countries, Foreign Affairs, Future, Natural Disasters, Natural Resources, Nice, Paving The Way, Photo Collection, photos, Private Sector, resource, Vulnerability, World Bank

Cool Resources For Future images

Some cool resources for future images:

092311-BRZ-Rudd_029F


Image by World Bank Photo Collection
WASHINGTON, September 23, 2011 – Australian Minister for Foreign Affairs, Kevin Rudd, and World Bank Group President, Robert B. Zoellick, today signed a landmark Partnership Framework, paving the way for Australia and the World Bank to work more closely to help the world’s poorest people.

The new partnership will focus on future cooperation, including helping developing countries manage their environment, water natural resources, and vulnerability to natural disasters. It will also provide greater support for the development of the private sector in developing countries.
Photo: © Simone D. McCourtie/World Bank

092311-BRZ-Rudd_017F


Image by World Bank Photo Collection
WASHINGTON, September 23, 2011 – Australian Minister for Foreign Affairs, Kevin Rudd, and World Bank Group President, Robert B. Zoellick, today signed a landmark Partnership Framework, paving the way for Australia and the World Bank to work more closely to help the world’s poorest people.

The new partnership will focus on future cooperation, including helping developing countries manage their environment, water natural resources, and vulnerability to natural disasters. It will also provide greater support for the development of the private sector in developing countries.
Photo: © Simone D. McCourtie/World Bank

092311-BRZ-Rudd_005F


Image by World Bank Photo Collection
WASHINGTON, September 23, 2011 – Australian Minister for Foreign Affairs, Kevin Rudd, and World Bank Group President, Robert B. Zoellick, today signed a landmark Partnership Framework, paving the way for Australia and the World Bank to work more closely to help the world’s poorest people.

The new partnership will focus on future cooperation, including helping developing countries manage their environment, water natural resources, and vulnerability to natural disasters. It will also provide greater support for the development of the private sector in developing countries.
Photo: © Simone D. McCourtie/World Bank

Technorati Tags: Cool, Cool Images, Cool Resources, Cooperation, Developing Countries, Foreign Affairs, Future, images, Natural Disasters, Natural Resources, Paving The Way, Photo Collection, Private Sector, Resources, Vulnerability, World Bank

General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT) and North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA)

The General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT) is a multilateral agreement regulating international trade. According to its preamble, its purpose is the “substantial reduction of tariffs and other trade barriers and the elimination of preferences, on a reciprocal and mutually advantageous basis.” It was negotiated during the UN Conference on Trade and Employment and was the outcome of the failure of negotiating governments to create the International Trade Organization (ITO). GATT was signed in 1947 and lasted until 1993, when it was replaced by the World Trade Organization in 1995. The original GATT text (GATT 1947) is still in effect under the WTO framework, subject to the modifications of GATT 1994. The Uruguay Round began in 1986. It was the most ambitious round to date, hoping to expand the competence of the GATT to important new areas such as services, capital, intellectual property, textiles, and agriculture. 123 countries took part in the round. The Uruguay Round was also the first set of multilateral trade negotiations in which developing countries had played an active role. Agriculture was essentially exempted from previous agreements as it was given special status in the areas of import quotas and export subsidies, with only mild caveats. However, by the time of the Uruguay round, many countries considered the exception of agriculture to be sufficiently glaring that they refused to sign a new deal without some movement on agricultural products. These …

Technorati Tags: agreement, Agricultural Products, American, Developing Countries, Free, General, North, Trade

Cool Resource For A Child images

A few nice resource for a child images I found:

#DearG8, we want our children to continue growing these gardens.


Image by Oxfam International
Soon there will be nine billion of us on the planet. Our societies must grow to meet our needs, so we can put enough food on the table for everyone.

Already, almost a billion of us go to bed hungry every night. Not because there isn’t enough. But because of the deep injustice in the way the system works. And because too many of the ways we grow today are using up and destroying the natural resources on which we all rely.

Join Oxfam’s GROW Campaign to ensure that everyone on the planet will always have enough to eat.

This week at the G8 Summit, we’re asking world leaders to join smallholder farmers and developing countries to fight hunger by delivering on their previous pledges and recommitting for the future.
www.oxfam.org/g8-2012

Technorati Tags: Child, Cool, Cool Images, Developing Countries, Farmers, Food On The Table, G8 Summit, hunger, images, Injustice, Natural Resources, Oxfam, Oxfam International, Pledges, resource, World Leaders