The The SEEP Network has uploaded videos of the 3 plenary sessions on Thursday and Friday of the 2008 SEEP Annual Conference.
- Keynote: Sustainable Financing for Small and Medium Enterprises
Tor G. Gull, Oikocredit
- Marketplace for the Retail Microfinance Investor
Christina E Leijonhufvud, J.P. Morgan; Tracey Turner, MicroPlace; Shari Berenbach, Calvert Foundation
- Mainstreaming Sustainability: How can Large Corporations Change the way we do Business?
Edward Millard, Rainforest Alliance; Dennis Macray, Starbucks; John Cheetham, Unilever; Jeff Morgan, Mars
The notes are still available as well; visit the Annual Conference website to read the SEEP Scribes notes and scroll through the panelists’ powerpoint presentations.
Have feedback? Email us at annualconference@seepnetwork.org.
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Jayantha Gunasekera Team
Jayantha Gunasekera
Team Leader – Markets and Livelihoods Programme
Practical Action (Sri Lanka, India, Pakistan)
Dear MaFI members,
An e-conference is organized by the Practical Action Sri Lankaand scheduled to be started on 18th November, 2009. We would like to introduce the theme and the program for your information. Your participation is greatly valued in this learning workshop, and do share this information with your colleagues, partner organizations and researchers working in the field of disasters and livelihood development. To join this interesting discussion please visit http://www.pdldforum.org/
Introduction to the E-conference:
PDLD Forum is waiting to hear from you, about your work and the learning!
Post disaster livelihood development has become an increasingly discussed and debated topic during the recent past due to the increasing no and frequency of disasters and failures in rebuilding livelihoods of the affected poor segments. In general, practitioners introducing post-disaster livelihood development interventions engage in replacing lost assets, delivering training, credit and other services directly. In general post disaster livelihood development do not necessarily pay attention to the vulnerabilities of affected communities. In-appropriate interventions observed to be distorting the livelihood systems in the post-disaster situations due to negligence and ignorance of vulnerabilities due to social and political realities in such situations. With the aim to create a debate among donors and rebuilding practitioners and to facilitate sharing of existing knowledge to focus on addressing vulnerabilities in the post-disaster livelihood development efforts, an e-conference is organized from 18th November 2009, covering three sessions:
i) Understanding the context [November 18 – 20, 2009]
ii) Discussion based on South Asian case studies and participants’ experience [November 23-30, 2009]
iii) Reflections, conclusions and recommendations [December 02 – 04, 2009]
PLEASE REGISTER NOW! @ http://pdld.freeforums.org
All the participants will be awarded a certificate of participation and an e-version of the report based on the discussion will also be shared.
Best regards
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Totally valid point. Again, look at who is behind major media and you may begin to see why those kinds of limitations are being imposed. Now, what can we do about it? First be educating ourselves to the realities of the web as it has commercialized (it was not always commercial). And how can we look for ways to ensure that the web remains a means of communication rather than becomes controlled by the commercial and other less than constructive message makers. How do we avoid the web becoming “Big Brother” rather than just an open tool for enhancing global communications? Any suggestions?
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