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Civic Engagement in the Digital Age

Civic Engagement in the Digital Age

pewinternet.org –

Social networking sites have grown more important in recent years as a venue for political involvement, learning, and debate. Overall, 39% of all American adults took part in some sort of political activity on a social networking site during the 2012 campaign. This means that more Americans are now politically active on social networking sites (SNS) than used them at all as recently as the 2008 election campaign. At that point, 26% of the population used a social networking site of any kind. more...

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D C to Open Development Technology Alliance on May 21, 2013

A website that help Indians save electricity bill

A website that help Indians save electricity bill

livemint.com –

Abhishek Jain has come a long way since he left a high-profile job in Deloitte to help Indians save electricity at home. His online initiative, bijlibachao.com, not only helps analyse electricity bills but also calculates how a consumer can save money by choosing the right colour for a room and correctly placing appliances. “An electricity bill is a confusing entity. If the bill is Rs. 2,000 - 3,000, let’s go pay it, but how it gets to Rs. 2,000 - 3,000 no one knows, and one just goes and pays more...

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D C to Open Development Technology Alliance on May 21, 2013

Latest ACP-EU updates: donors conference for Mali, EU Council on Agriculture and Fisheries, and Brussels Briefing

The international donors conference for Mali, the conclusions of the last EU Council on Agriculture and Fisheries, and the last Brussels Briefing "Linking food, geography and people" - these are the main topics of the last CTA Brussels newsletter. Discover it here: http://bit.ly/13HnmwB

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CTA Brussels on May 21, 2013

This is a natural weight loss supplements helps you reduce weight faster

This is a natural weight loss supplements helps you reduce weight faster

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Start by locating an amazing Liposom is that it talks more respecting Liposom Colon Cleanse Review. Liposom gently remove the waste from your system and then increase the body's absorption of essential minerals and vitamins in your diet. Before engaging in that, one must first take into consideration the following things. How do Liposom work? That's many further news on this activity. Liposom with herbal ingredients that help burn excess calories are mixed. It is one of the toughest some decoy more...

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kiuk kouk on May 21, 2013

Nepal: Country Partnership Strategy 2010-2012 Final Review Validation

Nepal: Country Partnership Strategy 2010-2012 Final Review Validation

This report validates the findings of the country partnership strategy (CPS) final review, assess the quality of the self-evaluation and identify lessons and recommendations to improve the design and implementation of the upcoming CPS, as well as the quality and accountability of future self-evaluations.

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licel calderon on May 21, 2013

Code for America

codeforamerica.org –

Code for America seeks to help governments in the United States to work better for everyone utilizing the people and the power of the web. Through its Fellowship, Accelerator, and Brigade, it seeks to build a network of cities, citizens, community groups, and startups, all equally committed to reimagining government for the 21st century. Code for America is a non-profit, and a new kind of organization. Its team is made up of web geeks, city experts, and technology industry leaders. Its staff more...

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John Daly on May 20, 2013

Preferences or Cultural Obligations: Reexamining The Source of Gender Differential in Resource Allocation and Child Well-Being

Preferences or Cultural Obligations: Reexamining The Source of Gender Differential in Resource Allocation and Child Well-Being

brookings.edu –

ABSTRACT The empirical literature examining intrahousehold resource allocation finds that mothers’ incomes have a larger impact on the well-being of children than fathers’ incomes. Although this finding is amenable to various interpretations, the most widely held view is that, as a matter of preference, women care more about the well-being of children than do men. This implies that policies that reallocate resources toward women are beneficial for the quality of children’s well-being. Many more...

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John Daly on May 20, 2013

Post-2015 Focus on Sustainable Development: How Education and Learning Can Play a Role

Post-2015 Focus on Sustainable Development: How Education and Learning Can Play a Role

brookings.edu –

"While the theme of the third meeting of the High-Level Panel on Post-2015 in Bali was on global partnerships, the meeting’s communiqué set up the handover from the high-level panel to the intergovernmental Open Working Group on the Sustainable Development Goals (OWG). The communiqué calls for “a single and coherent post-2015 development agenda that integrates economic growth, social inclusion and environmental sustainability”, and with good reason since the two development more...

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John Daly on May 20, 2013

Good Things Grown in Scaled Packages: Africa's Agricultural Challenge in Historical Context

Good Things Grown in Scaled Packages: Africa's Agricultural Challenge in Historical Context

brookings.edu –

"In recent years agriculture has experienced a renaissance of attention among economists and policymakers, especially those focused on sub-Saharan Africa. This heightened attention has been driven partly by research insights, partly by policy initiatives, and partly by a recognition that governments and major international development institutions had been neglecting the issue for many years. It has also been motivated by emerging trends in particular countries like Malawi, which implemented an more...

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John Daly on May 20, 2013

Mastering the SME banking risk management frontier by Mandeep Vohra, Head of SME Banking Risk – Africa, Middle East and Pakistan at Standard Chartered Bank

Mastering the SME banking risk management frontier by Mandeep Vohra, Head of SME Banking Risk – Africa, Middle East and Pakistan at Standard Chartered Bank

Mandeep Vohra from Standard Chartered Bank outlines the various risk management approaches for banking SMEs and the need to have a distinct team of SME Risk specialist.This presentation was given during a conference jointly organized by The Arab Monetary Fund and IFC on “Building a High Performance Small Medium Enterprise Business in the Arab World” on 7-8 May 2013 in Dubai, UAE.

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SME Finance Forum to SME Finance Forum on May 20, 2013

Equal access participatory monitoring and evaluation toolkit

Equal access participatory monitoring and evaluation toolkit

betterevaluation.org –

This toolkit aims to help communication for development (C4D) organisations to demonstrate the impacts and outcomes of their initiatives, listen to their listeners, continuously learn, and feed this learning back into the organisation and its practices. It is a key outcome of the Assessing Communication for Social Change (AC4SC) project, which was a successful collaboration between Equal Access Nepal, Equal Access International, Queensland University of Technology and the University of Adelaide more...

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D C on May 20, 2013

Mobile phones unleash farmers in Uganda

Mobile phones unleash farmers in Uganda

csmonitor.com –

A powerful new mobile platform combining agriculture information and financial services specifically designed for smallholder farmers is going live in Uganda, helping farmers plow even more value from each acre. Based on AgriLife, a cloud-based platform, the platform will be accessible via mobile phone and provide two key, interconnected services: data collection and analysis about farmers’ production capability and history. It will also be an integration point for financial institutions, more...

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D C on May 20, 2013

Overcoming Constraints to SME Development in MENA Countries and Enhancing Access to Finance

Overcoming Constraints to SME Development in MENA Countries and Enhancing Access to Finance

The role of the Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises (MSME) sector cannot be over emphasized in terms of its contribution to GDP and employment generation, particularly in emerging economies. Studies indicate that formal SMEs contribute up to 45 percent of employment and up to 33 percent of GDP in developing economies (IFC: Scaling-Up SME Access to Financial Services in the Developing World 2010). These numbers are significantly higher when taking into account the estimated contributions of SMEs more...

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SME Finance Forum to SME Finance Forum on May 20, 2013

iHub Research’s Uchaguzi Monitoring & Evaluation Brief

iHub Research’s Uchaguzi Monitoring & Evaluation Brief

research.ihub.co.ke –

During Kenya’s 2013 General Election, Uchaguzi Kenya 2013, a joint initiative between SODNET, Ushahidi, CRECO, and Hivos (with support from CIDA), was used to help increase transparency and accountability through active citizen participation in the electoral cycle. Uchaguzi was coordinated through an ICT platform, which enabled Kenyans to keep an eye on the vote and provided avenues through which they could report, with any technology available to them, any incidences significant to the more...

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D C on May 20, 2013

Citizen Election reporting in Kenya was a breakthrough in online-offline collaboration

Citizen Election reporting in Kenya was a breakthrough in online-offline collaboration

ericahagen.com –

The Kenyan elections were more than a month ago, but a debate continues in the crisis mapping community about whether the various technologies deployed to track and respond to outbreaks of violence were a confused and possibly dangerous mess, or a successful contribution to what was ultimately a peaceful (if disputed) process. DO WE REALLY NEED ALL OF THOSE PROJECTS??? Do we really need 3 maps, 7 phone numbers, and several web-forms? Is that really such a crazy bad idea to have one coordinated more...

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D C on May 20, 2013

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