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Women in Local Decision Making: Empowering Women and Men

THE Standing Committee of UCLG would like to celebrate the International Women’s Day by highlighting the commitment to work together with UN Women in increasing political participation of women in all spheres of government and starting with the local level. The leadership of the UCLG Standing Committee is composed of the chairs of the regional …

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Rio for Peoples: Strengthening People’s Capacity for Genuine Sustainable Development

THE Asia Pacific Research Network will address concerns on RIO+20 through a capacity development conference guided by researches that show the realities on the ground and address issues for more effective advocacy and engagement for genuine sustainable development towards and post-Rio+20. The event will be held in Hanoi, Vietnam from 11-13 APRIL 2012. For concept …

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International Trade Exhibition and Conference on Landscaping Technology and Services in Asia

LANDSCAPE Asia provides a platform which connects Landscape Architects, Developers, Contractors and key decisions makers, specifiers and buyers from the region. The trade exhibition provides these professionals with the opportunity to network, source, and procure services and supplies for the huge number of external land projects which have been planned or are in the pipeline. …

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Australian Government Published Climate Change Adaptation Actions for Local Government Report

THE Climate Change Adaptation Actions for Local Government report was developed as part of the Australian Government’s support for adaptation to climate change and aims to help to address the need to prepare Australian governments, vulnerable industries, communities and ecosystems to manage the unavoidable consequences of climate change. This report forms part of a suite …

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Workshop on “Enhancing Human Security: Developing Capacities to Protect and Assist Victims of Human Trafficking”

CIFAL Jeju/Jeju International Training Center(JITC) Enhancing Human Security: Developing Capacities to Protect and Assist Victims of Human Trafficking Seogwipo City, Jeju Province, Republic of Korea 28-30 March 2012 Human trafficking, the largest slave trade in history, is a crime against humanity that poses perennial threats to human security. It involves an act of recruiting, transporting, …

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UNITAR e-Learning Course: Governance in Urban Sanitation

THE Local Development Programme of the United Nations Institute for Training and Research (UNITAR) in Geneva, Switzerland will run a new online course on Governance in Urban Sanitation. This E- Course aims to enhance the capacity of local decision makers and sanitation professionals to make the most enlightened decisions and investments in the area of …

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Update on Rio+20

WITH the Earth Summit now 186 days away, preparations for the summit are due to intensify in the coming weeks. The second inter-sessional meeting for Rio+20 took place in New York on 15-16 December. This circular aims at explaining the main outcomes of the gathering whose main objective was to discuss the content and structure …

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UCLG ASPAC President Speech at Asia Water Summit

Wednesday, 23 November 2011 Keynote address Asia Water Summit Governor of DKI Jakarta Dr. Fauzi Bowo Jakarta 17th November 2011 Ladies and gentlemen, members of the Unites Cities and Local Government, participants of this inaugural Asia Water Summit, representatives from Government Ministries, exhibitors domestic and international present in this venue today, thank you for inviting …

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