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November 2008
  • Urban Environmental Management:
    • Tourism Gateway - Journals: added several new journals
    • Tourism Gateway - Declarations: Global Partnership for Sustainable Tourism Criteria

Do your bit: Focus on days highlighting international issues Check out International Days and Observances for November


GDRC Web access statistics for October 2008
Oct'08
October 2008
  • Sustainable Development:
    • Human Security - Documents: miniAtlas of Human Security
  • Urban Environmental Management:
    • Water Reousrces - Added GWP's IWRM Toolbox
    • Environment + Disasters: A complete re-design of this Special Feature was carried out.
    • Environment + Disasters: Document on "An Overview of Tools for Integrating Environment Management and Disaster Risk Reduction"

Do your bit: Focus on days highlighting international issues Check out International Days and Observances for October


GDRC Web access statistics for September 2008
Sep'08
September 2008

Read the September 2008 issue of GDRC's newsletter - MOSAIC
Do your bit: Focus on days highlighting international issues Check out International Days and Observances for September


GDRC Web access statistics for Agusut 2008
Aug'08
August 2008
  • Urban Governance:
    • The theme pages of Urban Governance were enhanced and given a face-lift!
  • NGO Cafe:
    • Kickstart an NGO: Created a section on academic resources and added 'European Civil Society Student Corner'
  • Microfinance:
    • Case Studies: Updated information for Sri Lanka
    • Documents: Microinsurance Innovation Facility
    • Case Studies: Cambodia Rural Economic Development Initiative for Transformation Microfinance Institution
    • Case Studies: Updated info for Cameroon, Congo, Burkina Faso and Benin.
    • Governance: Microfinance Transparency

Read the Agusut 2008 issue of GDRC's newsletter - MOSAIC
Do your bit: Focus on days highlighting international issues Check out International Days and Observances for August


GDRC Web access statistics for July 2008
Jul'08
July 2008

Read the July 2008 issue of GDRC's newsletter - MOSAIC
Do your bit: Focus on days highlighting international issues Check out International Days and Observances for July


GDRC Web access statistics for June 2008
Jun'08
June 2008
  • Sustainable Development:
    • Poverty - Grameen: Progress out of Poverty
  • Microfinance:
    • Training programmes - Microfinance Passport - Distance Learning Course
  • Sustainable Business:
    • Programmes and Initiatives - Link to Governance Metrics Intl.
    • Documents and reports - Added "State of the World 2008: Innovations for a Sustainable Economy"
    • Networks and Groups - Lineked to Network for Business Innovation and Sustainability (NBIS) and others
    • Organizations and Institutions - Linked to World Trade Point Federation and others

Read the June 2008 issue of GDRC's newsletter - MOSAIC
Do your bit: Focus on days highlighting international issues Check out International Days and Observances for June


GDRC Web access statistics for May 2008
May'08
GDRC celebrates its seventh anniversary this month!! May 2008
  • All GDRC:
  • Urban Environmental Management:
    • Sustainable Tourism - WLO: World Leisure Organization
    • Disaster Management - Many new links were added to different sections
  • NGO Cafe:
    • Bungee Jumps - NGO Databases/Directories - Wiser Earth
  • Microfinance:
    • Microfinacne Governance - Document on "Internal Control And Fraud Prevention"
  • Sustainable Business:
    • Documents and Reports - Corporate Register
    • Networks and Groups - Added links to blogs and newsletters

Read the May 2008 issue of GDRC's newsletter - MOSAIC
Do your bit: Focus on days highlighting international issues Check out International Days and Observances for May


GDRC Web access statistics for April 2008
Apr'08
April 2008
  • Urban Environmental Management:
    • Japan Urban Observatory - updated links and resources
  • Urban Heritage and Conservation:
    • Added links to Heritage-related Conventions, Recommendations and Declarations
  • NGO Cafe:
    • Kickstart an NGO: Resources on NGO Credibility was expanded.
  • Microfinance:
    • Training opportunities: School of Applied Microfinance, Nairobi, Kenya
    • Inspiring Ideas: Short Takes - Good Practices in Microfinance
    • Microfinance Governance: Imp-Act SPM Network: Making microfinance work for the poor and excluded

Read the April 2008 issue of GDRC's newsletter - MOSAIC
Do your bit: Focus on days highlighting international issues Check out International Days and Observances for April


GDRC Web access statistics for March 2008
Mar'08
March 2008
  • Environmental Decision-Making:
    • Documents and Reports - Environmental Decision Making, Science, and Technology
  • Sustainable Development:
    • Poverty - Comments added to the 'Causes of Poverty' section
    • Voices - a number of contributions to the 'Sustained Voices' section were added
  • Urban Environmental Management:
    • Footprints - new information added to Virtual Water resources
    • Sustainable Tourism - WSSD-Johannesburg Plan of Implementation: Sustainabel Tourism
    • Sustainable Tourism - Several additions were made to 'Organizations, Networks and Initiatives'
    • Water - Updates to World Water Day: 22 March
    • Water - Source Water and Sanitation News Service
    • MEAs and Cities - Added document, "Negotiating and Implementing MEAs: A Manual for NGOs"
  • NGO Cafe:
    • Kickstart an NGO: Special feature on Accountability - Humanitarian Accountability Partnership
    • Flash: A new feature on "New Books on NGOs" added
  • Microfinance:
    • Environment Colours of Microfinance - Updated and added case studies
    • Financing Microenterprises - Added link to microLINKS
    • Internet Resources - Added links to World Savings Banks Insitute et al.
    • French edition - added document, "Portée et performances financières ... " by Zacharie ELOUNDOU OWONA

Read the March 2008 issue of GDRC's newsletter - MOSAIC
Do your bit: Focus on days highlighting international issues Check out International Days and Observances for March


GDRC Web access statistics for February 2008
Feb'08
February 2008
  • Sustainable Development:
    • UN-DESD - a number of additional resources were added, including resources from the 2007 Tbilisi+30 event
  • Urban Environmental Management:
    • Green Construction - Marrakech Taskforce on Sustainable Construction
    • Sustainable Tourism - List of Journals was updated
    • Sustainable Tourism - Added 'Davos Declaration on Climate Change'
  • Urban Governance:
    • Programmes and Institutions - "Our Global Neighbourhood" - Report of the Commission on Global Governance
  • NGO Cafe:
    • Kickstart an NGO: Ashoka's Citizen Base Initiative
    • Flash!: SANGONet's NGO Pulse
  • Microfinance:
    • Case Studies - a number of case studies and country files were added
    • Microfinance and Disasters - Link added to QUICK Centre - Knowledge Sharing Platorm on Microfinance in Post-Disaster Situations
  • Informal Sector:
    • Defining the Informal Sector - Men and Women in the Informal Economy
  • Technology Transfer:
    • Initiatives and Info Reources - List of national initiatives added
  • Sustainable Business:
    • Networks and Groups - Added section on newsletters

Read the February 2008 issue of GDRC's newsletter - MOSAIC
Do your bit: Focus on days highlighting international issues Check out International Days and Observances for February


GDRC Web access statistics for January 2008
Jan'08
January 2008
  • Urban Environmental Management:
    • Sust. Tourism - link added to Hospitality, Tourism, and Travel Research Community Discussion Forum
  • Urban Governance:
    • Programmes and Institutions: World Bank's new blog on 'People, Space and Deliberation'
  • Microfinance:
    • Case Studies - Mozambique: "The Microfinance Market In Maputo ... "
    • News and Events - MicroCapital News
    • Training - Link to Academy of Microfinance Development in Asia (AMiDA)
  • Technology Transfer:
    • Initiatives and Info Resources - List of technology newsletters

Read the January 2008 issue of GDRC's newsletter - MOSAIC
Do your bit: Focus on days highlighting international issues Check out International Days and Observances for January


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