The conference invites practitioners and other experts from related communities of practice: urban development, housing, local economic development, enterprise development, microfinance, value chain development, livelihood security and social enterprise.

Together we will: Learn basic frameworks and vocabulary from different communities of practice Share perspectives and strategies for addressing urban poverty Explore opportunities and challenges for using value chain development to help era more...

Feature Writing Training Course Concluded

Rajshahi, 19 January:

All news media have been urged to produce more features for the sake of ensuring human rights, empowerment and development of the unprivileged and long-suffering indigenous communities of the northern region.

It was urged in the closing session of the sixth phase of the long term training course on community journalism held in Rajshahi on Saturday. Speakers also said, feature is one of the media of highlighting the real more...

Voices of Youth offers all children and adolescents, including the hard-to-reach, a safe and supportive global cyberspace within which they can explore, discuss and partner on issues related to human rights and social change, as well as develop their awareness, leadership, community building, and critical thinking skills through active and substantive participation with their peers and with decision makers globally. t started as a way for more than 3,000 young people from 81 countries to send me more...

This online full course will consider the claim that there is no such thing as race, with a particular emphasis on the question whether races should be thought of as natural kinds: is our concept of race a natural kind concept? Is the term 'race' a natural kind term? If so, is Appiah right to conclude that there are no races? How should one go about "analyzing" the concept of race? This course features an extensive list of readings with corresponding reading questions. This free Open Educational more...

Forced Migration Review (FMR) is free of charge and can be downloaded as a PDF document. It is published in English, Arabic, Spanish and French. FMR provides a practice-oriented forum for debate on issues facing refugees and internally displaced people in order to improve policy and practice and to involve refugees and IDPs in programme design and implementation.

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