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New EU initiative to protect biodiversity and fight wildlife crime

On the International Day for Biological Diversity today, the Commission is launching a major new initiative to halt biodiversity loss and eradicate poverty in developing countries. The EU Biodiversity for Life (B4Life) flagship initiative is designed to help the poorest countries protect ecosystems...

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Capacity4dev Team posted Information 22 May 2014
Group: Biodiversity for Life
Christophe Yvetot on the EU-Africa Business Forum

Christophe Yvetot is the Director of the UNIDO Representational Office to the European Union. UNIDO attended and organised three sessions at the fifth EU-Afica Business Forum , which took place in Brussels in April 2014. In the video below Mr Yvetot speaks about the event, explaining the importance...

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Capacity4dev Team posted Information 21 May 2014
Group: UNIDO Brussels - United Nations Industrial Development Organization
Syria - 3 Years On

In March 2014, the World Food Programme (WFP) and the European Commission launched a poster campaign to raise awareness on the Syria crisis. Posters were placed around the Brussels metro system in French and Dutch. In order to evaluate the success of this poster WFP devised a survey looking at the...

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Capacity4dev Team posted Information 30 April 2014
Group: Public Group on Fragility and Crisis Situations
Youth Employment

A panel on ‘ Productive work for youth ’ met during the EU Dev Days in November 2013 to discuss how to get young people, particularly in developing countries, into quality jobs. Three experts spoke with capacity4dev about an online module developed by Hewlett-Packard to impart business and ICT...

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Capacity4dev Team posted Information 18 March 2014
Group: Public Group on Employment, VET and Social Protection
Small Farmers, Big Business

Following the European Development Days 2013 session on Small Farmers, Big Business , Brecht Lein and Thembi Maunze spoke to capacity4dev.eu about a smallholder farmers project in Zimbabwe, which aimed to make seed available to smallholder famers and to improve food security in Zimbabwe. In this...

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Capacity4dev Team posted Information 24 February 2014
Group: Agriculture & Rural Development
Addressing Climate Change in Myanmar: Video interviews with Government of Myanmar and UNEP

At the GCCA Global Policy Event, Mr Than Aye , from the Myanmar Government Ministry of Environmental Conservation and Forestry, and UNEP's Regional Climate Change Coordinator for Asia, Mozaharul Alam spoke to capacity4dev.eu, explaining the steps that are being taken to respond the effects of...

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Capacity4dev Team posted Information 13 February 2014
Group: Myanmar Economy
Addressing Climate Change in Myanmar: Video interviews with Government of Myanmar and UNEP

At the GCCA Global Policy Event, Mr Than Aye , from the Myanmar Government Ministry of Environmental Conservation and Forestry, and UNEP's Regional Climate Change Coordinator for Asia, Mozaharul Alam spoke to capacity4dev.eu, explaining the steps that are being taken to respond the effects of...

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Capacity4dev Team posted Information 12 February 2014
Group: GCCA+ Community
Video: The Centre of Excellence at Fayoum Farmer Field School in Egypt

At the European Development Days 2013, we had the pleasure of meeting Hatem Megahed Abdalla Farghali, who explained the work of the Centre of Excellence of the Farmer Field School in Fayoum , in the southern suburbs of Cairo, and how this model is being used for other areas of rural developent in...

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Capacity4dev Team posted Information 10 February 2014
Group: Agriculture & Rural Development
EDDs 2013 - The Power of Young Voices campaign

On 26th November 2013, the European Development Days hosted an interactive lab session featuring the Power of Young Voices campaign . The Power of Young Voices campaign is an EU funded initiative launched by the charity Leonard Cheshire Disability (LCD) in 2006. It gathers over 1200 young disabled...

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Capacity4dev Team posted Information 10 February 2014
Group: Disability and Development Network
Empowering the Youth of Today

Radoslav Šoth works in Public Relations and Campaigns for Young European Leadership, a non-profit organisation created by young people for young people that focuses on youth empowerment. In this interview with capacity4dev.eu he explains the work that Young European Leadership is doing and speaks...

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Capacity4dev Team posted Information 7 February 2014
Group: Youth in Development