|
|
European Academy of Environmental Affairs
Purpose: Publication of conference proceedings
Amount: US$15,000
Approved: February 9, 1998
The grant was used to finance the publication of the proceedings
of an international conference on Climate Changes - Causes and Consequences,
that was held in Bonn, Germany in November 1997. Organized by the European
Academy of Environmental Affairs in close cooperation with the European
Academy of Sciences and Arts and the Environment Policy Project (USA),
the meeting gave both advocates and critics of the 'greenhouse hypothesis'
an opportunity to present and discuss their ideas.
The Global Meeting of Generations (GMG)
Purpose: To encourage dialogue across the generations
Amount: US$50,000
Approved: November 18, 1998
The grant will help finance a four-year program of international dialogue among the generations, which aims at developing a plan of action for improving the human condition. The program is sponsored by the Washington, DC.-based International Development Conference (IDC), which believes multi-generational perspectives should be brought to bear on development issues. To this end, IDC seeks to bring leaders and potential leaders of both younger and older generations together with decision-makers from North and South to discuss various development issues. Working with leading international youth and senior citizens' organizations, as well as with major international development agencies, IDC is to organize the first GMG in Washington, DC. in January 1999.
|
|
|
Demographic structures are changing rapidly in developing countries: The proportion and number of both the very young and the elderly are rising.
|
Study: The World Trade Organization and the Developing Countries
Purpose: To study the possible effects of the World Trade Organization (WTO) Agreement on developing countries
Amount: US$100,000
Approved: May 26, 1998
The grant was made to finance the publication of a study whose
objective was to analyze the policies and procedures of the WTO and to
assess their impact on the economies of developing countries, including
the OPEC member states. After providing background information on the
WTO, with particular emphasis on "the rules of the game" and
the decision-making process within the organization, the study focuses
on issues and decisions of particular relevance to the developing countries.
It concludes with a series of strategy recommendations designed to help
developing countries derive maximum advantage from the new regulations.
|
|
|
A busy container port. Will the new regulations governing world trade work to the advantage or disadvantage of developing countries?
|
United Nations Economic Commission for Africa (UNECA)
Purpose: To sponsor conference attendance
Amount: US$50,000
Approved: March 16, 1998
The grant helped sponsor the attendance of African resource persons
at the international conference on African Women and Economic Development:
Investment in our Future, held in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia from April
28 to May 1, 1998. Some 500 delegates attended the meeting, which brought
together politicians, policy-makers, and representatives of regional,
national, and international organizations as well as NGOs to discuss the
economic empowerment of women and their potential contribution to Africa's
economy in the next century.
African women raise the children, tend the crops, carry the water and earn as much as 70% of the family income, but often lack any say in the decision-making process.
|
|
|
