July and August were two prolific months in terms of content creation for new web sites. We report the links of some of the new sites developed in collaboration between IPS World Service and the IT department.
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IPS, in cooperation with the UNDP Albania, organised a journalists’ seminar on June 18-19 as part of the IPS-UNDP Albania project. The seminar was attended by nine Albanian and three IPS journalists from the region: Claudia Ciobanu (Bucharest), Zoltan Dujisin (Budapest) and Vesna Peric Zimonjic (Belgrade). The three spent several days gathering information about Albania and writing reports for the project.

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IPS Africa is excited to announce the launch of two mini-sites. The first one, From Polls to Polls, is part of the Women and Elections in Africa project. This site will carry news and resources about women and elections in Africa. The second mini-site is the Southern Africa Water Wire which provides in-depth coverage of water and related issues in SADC. While focusing on SADC, the site will also link to water news in Africa and globally. A part-time editor, Steve Lang has been hired in Johannesburg to work on the project.

IPS has started to implement a new project in partnership with the Global Subsidies Initiative on subsidies and biofuels. This series will go on in the next few months.
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In March we restarted a series of stories on environmental and sustainable development issues, a continuation of a successful partnership with the International Federation of Environmental Journalists (IFEJ).
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