Practical Action UK - technology challenging poverty - Practical Action Latin America In Peru and Bolivia, we help communities set up small-scale technological solutions in remote areas where there is no access to basic services, including electricity, heating, clean water and sanitation. Western Africa Building on our recent extension of consultancy work into west Africa, Practical Action has recently set up an office to deliver impact at scale in Francophone west Africa. Eastern Africa Our offices in Kenya and Sudan work with communities to develop practical solutions in energy, agriculture and urban water and waste, reducing the impact of conflict and disasters. Southern Africa Our Southern Africa office works primarily in Zimbabwe, Zambia, Malawi and Mozambique, with an emphasis on improving access to clean drinking water and better sanitation in urban slums, increasing the productivity of smallholders in arid regions, and increasing energy access in rural and urban areas. South Asia UK office
RUCHI - Rural Centre for Human Interests EU finance and sustainable development Banking & Finance Reforming our financial system to make it safer, more sustainable, and socially useful. More Community Currencies Exploring alternative currencies. Jobs & Industrial Strategy Addressing structural imbalances in the UK labour market. Local Economies The benefits of flourishing local economies More Macroeconomics Creating a new macroeconomic strategy. Monetary Policy Improving understanding of how money is created and allocated. Social Return on Investment Measuring a broader concept of value.
People & Planet - UK student action on world poverty, human rights and the environment Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Social Justice - Australian Human Rights Commission The position of the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Social Justice Commissioner was created by the federal parliament in December 1992 – a response to the findings of the Royal Commission into Aboriginal Deaths in Custody and the National Inquiry into Racist Violence. It was also a response to the extreme social and economic disadvantage faced by Indigenous Australians. Social justice is about making sure that every Australian – Indigenous and non-Indigenous – has choices about how they live and the means to make those choices. The Commission's role includes reviewing the impact of laws and policies on Indigenous peoples, reporting on Indigenous social justice and native title issues and promoting an Indigenous perspective on issues. This work is led by Mick Gooda, the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Social Justice Commissioner.
EU Financial Reforms From January 2010 on, a consortium of six European non governmental organisations is working on the development impact of the financial crisis and of the current financial reforms in a joint project, “Towards a Global Finance System at the Service of Sustainable Development”. The project is co-funded by the European Union. The financial crisis originated in developed countries but also affects heavily emerging economies and developing countries. The Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) are under threat because poverty and unemployment increase dramatically as a result of the crisis. The EU should ensure that European rescue and stimulus packages remain coherent with development concerns, EU development policy and MDGs. In order to tackle the causes of the crisis and to reach a more sustainable economic development, new regulation and supervisory measures for the financial markets should be implemented at the EU and global level. Project Objectives > EU Financial Reforms News
Home of TEEB AgriCultures Network The Missing Dimension: How European Financial Reforms Ignore Developing Countries and Sustainability by Myriam Vander Stichele affiliation not provided to SSRNOctober 2, 2011 Abstract: On the eve of the G20 Summit in Cannes, SOMO has analysed the European Union’s financial reform process, agreed on by the G20, in its new report The missing dimension. How European financial reforms ignore developing countries and sustainability. SOMO concludes that the EU’s financial reforms have been not only much too slow and too weak – aggravating the debt and bank problems in the Eurozone. Number of Pages in PDF File: 46 Keywords: G20 Summit in Cannes, European Union’s financial reform process, The missing dimension, bank problems in the Eurozone, financial sector, lack of reform of food derivative markets, food prices working papers series Suggested Citation Vander Stichele, Myriam, The Missing Dimension: How European Financial Reforms Ignore Developing Countries and Sustainability (October 2, 2011).
Just Change India - Welcome to JC Just Change ......... A grassroots response to the global economy that has left the vast majority of people powerless, with little or no control over the factors that influence their lives. With growth and financial gain having become the driving force behind all economic activity, this faceless market economy has slowly eroded our sense of community. This radical trade initiative that links the local and global, goes beyond earlier initiatives like the Fair Trade movement and producer cooperatives, that have tried to address the problem of unfair markets. Just Change was born in India among the adivasi people of the Nilgiri Mountains as a response to the crash in tea prices.
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