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The International NGO Training and Research Centre (INTRAC) has posted all of its materials given to participants at the Cypriot Civil Society Strengthening training courses.

Back in 2002, this article, "Why You Should Care About Records Management", by Terry Clayton, was published on the AWN web site. It's written especially for people in the field.

The USAID's Advisory Committee on Voluntary Foreign Aid (ACVFA)'s first public meeting in 2008 is Thursday, October 2, for the ACVFA's final public meeting of 2008.

Who answers to women?
Progress of the World's Women 2008/2009 [pdf]

Just back from a tour of Eastern Europe, and I'm really curious about any AWN members out there doing work in Romania, Macedonia, Albania or Bosnia and Herzegovina.

(1) Condoms: international workshop report
International HIV/AIDS Alliance, 2006.

The Educational Travel Foundation works "to facilitate the sustainable development of tourism through supporting the acquisition of tourism related qualifications and skills by local inhabitants of LD

Fighting at a refugee camp in Sudan's Darfur province prompted international aid workers to evacuate dozens of wounded people, U.N. officials said Tuesday.

Japanese aid worker kidnapped in Afghanistan;
may have already been freed

A small plane that broke apart in Guatemala as the pilot attempted an emergency landing, killing 11 of the 14 people aboard, was carrying members of a Utah-based humanitarian group who were on their w

Gender Equality for Development Effectiveness: National Development Planning in the Commonwealth of Independent States

A 2004 global evaluation of reproductive health in refugee and internally displaced settings showed that while significant progress has been made since 1995 in raising awareness and advancing the repr

"Foreign aid provides a windfall of resources to recipient countries and may result in the same rent seeking behavior as documented in the 'curse of natural resources' literature.

Attacks on aid workers over the last several years have increased in both ferocity and frequency, demonstrating that militants are increasingly holding humanitarian workers responsible for political d

UN-NGLS
United Nations Non-Governmental Liaison Service
http://www.un-ngls.org

NGLS Civil Society Observer
June/July 2008

Project Management for Non-Governmental Organizations (PM4NGOs)

Good resource both for people looking to network in order to get a job, and people looking to network in order to get more support for their organization's aid, relief or development work.

The report on the June Madrid ALNAP meeting, "A new agenda for news media and humanitarian aid", is available in both English and Spanish at the ALNAP w

(I know this is for academics, but the subject matter fits with AWN, so...)

WOMEN AND INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT PROGRAM
Michigan State University
Publication Series

*CALL FOR PAPERS*

Does your organization have an intranet that can be accessed by field staff? Or have you ever worked for an organization that has this? If so...