The sixth edition of Green Development News is out. Green Development News (EN ) Green Development News (FR ) 2018, the year of Sustainable Consumption and Production: this issue zooms in on the green economy. Please send us your feedback in the space below, your opinion matters. Earlier editions...
Don't miss the chance to share with us your comments and questions! The Steering Committee will meet this Wednesday in Brussels to exchange on progress of the development of the learning material...
The main focus of activities until the end of 2017 has been the completion of developing the 12 Community Health Units and establishing the DHIS2 tracker in each of these units. The project is just about finishing this now and is beginning to analyze the data coming in from the units. They have had...
Dear IESF members, Do you want to know more about online Communities of Practice like the IESF Group and how they work? A free 2-hour online webinar will be organized by Capacity4Dev on this topic next Wednesday 7 February 2018, from 11.30 to 13.00 CET . The IESF Group is part of a larger family of...
Lionel Waye-Hive gazes out across the clear blue sea just a few metres from his beachfront home on the island of La Digue, one of the many which make up the Seychelles archipelago. It’s a tourist paradise - golden sand, sparkling water and palm trees. But Lionel is a troubled man. “Fifteen years...
"The SPHaĂŻtiLab project represents a real added value for the health system, and more specifically the laboratory system in Haiti". This is the main conclusion of the mid-term external evaluation of this public health project. SPHaĂŻtiLab is one of the key projects which support the development of...
Each year, nearly 100 million people find themselves pushed into extreme poverty because of health-related expenditures. Capacity4dev spoke to health programme managers at the EU Delegations to Nigeria, Ethiopia, South Africa and Timor-Leste to find out what each country is doing to address the...
Rodrigues, a self-governing territory 500 km from the main island of Mauritius, face one of the less well known impacts of climate change - sea water contamination. Farmer Jacques Ravena casts a gloomy eye over his fields, where scanty patches of vegetables struggle to grow between large expanses...
Not many tourists visit the beaches of Comoros, but if they do, they might be greeted by a strange sight: the volcanic beaches of Comoros are strewn with giant boulders and pock-marked with craters. Unlike the famously beautiful coastlines of other Indian Ocean islands such as the Seychelles or...
10 years ago the European Union launched a Global Climate Change Alliance to support developing countries and small island developing states adapt to climate change. Today the changing climate is recognised as one of the main global challenges and by fighting it many local communities end up...
Entrepreneurship and vocational training programs are a key leverage to support informal workers, create job opportunities and facilitate social integration and are at the core of various development projects and initiative. Following this approach, from the 15th to the 23th of January 2018, Save...
The Policy Forum on Development started off the New Year with the first Regional Meeting Europe which was held in Ghent (Belgium) on 15 and 16 January 2018. More than 100 representatives from local authorities (LAs), civil society organisations (CSOs) and European institutions came together to...
We have compiled a summary of the most important discussions, available in English , French, Spanish and Russian . A blog article and a summary article were published on Capacity4Development. In addition, we have summarised the key messages in English and Russian . You can also browse through the...