The European Commission announced today that a consortium led by IPS with Friends of the Earth International (FOEI) has been selected to receive funding for a three-year project to undertake news reporting, opinion building and media training regarding climate change, biodiversity, food security and extractive industries.
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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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Organized by IPS and Fundación Carolina at the International University Menendez Pelayo (UIMP) in Santander, Spain, had wide impact among participants and in local media.
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A seminar for Latin American journalists on the MDGs was jointly organized by UNDP, the Municipality of Montevideo and IPS Latin America with the support of the Italian cooperation agency. The seminar was opened by Ricardo Ehrlich, Montevideo Mayor, and Conrado Ramos, Deputy Director of planning and budget of the municipality.
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In the frame of the initiatives organized for the MDGs mid-term review, Sabina Zaccaro in Rome coordinated for IPS the Local Governments’ International Mid Term Evaluation Conference on the U.N. Millennium Development Goals, a joint initiative of IPS, the Municipality of Rome and United Cities and Local Governments (UCLG), held in Rome on 22 and 23 June 2007. Mayors of all over the world attended the Conference.
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