IPS – Inter Press Service is pleased to share its plans on the occasion of the upcoming Rio+20, the new UN conference on sustainable development that will take place in June 2012 in Rio de Janeiro.

IPS will implement an ambitious communication program that aims to maximize the exchange of ideas among participants in Rio and decision makers, opinion leaders, academics and CSO leader at home; and the dissemination of information to the general audience in Brazil and worldwide.

TerraViva Earth Summit, Rio de Janeiro, 3 June 1992

IPS is gathering a team of journalists to produce the conference newspaper TerraViva, which was launched precisely at the United Nations’ first world summit devoted to “Environment and Development”, in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil – The Earth Summit, in 1992.

During Rio+20, the TerraViva conference newspaper will be published with three printed editions (16 pages, 20,000 copies daily in English and Portuguese) at the venue and 10 virtual editions online, primarily in English and Portuguese, supplemented by selections in Spanish, French, Arabic, Japanese, Swahili and other working languages of IPS.

TerraViva online editions will be distributed electronically to 150,000 subscribers in Brazil and a further 150,000 recipients across the Americas, Africa, Europe, the Middle East and Asia-Pacific, as well as a targeted distribution within international organizations.

Once again we are offering non-governmental organisations, institutions and companies the opportunity to advertise events and products in TerraViva, the conference’s main and most reputed daily publication. By advertising with us, you ensure the best publicity for your event or product at the massive Rio+20 gathering.

Your ad payment will contribute to support production costs and the extraordinary effort of bringing over to Rio journalists from Asia, Africa, the Caribbean, Europe and Latin America, to ensure a balanced reporting of Rio+20 multiple events and complex issues.

In the run-up to Rio+20, IPS is producing special coverage that you can read at Refraiming Rio.

For information on rates and any other details, please write to ipsterraviva[at]ipsnews.net.

Kimberly has a strong international background in editing, evaluation and tracking the impact of communication, and has worked with IPS in the past consulting on marketing and evaluating IPS EU projects.

Kimberly has worked with many international organizations, development agencies and media including the International Institute for Environment and Development (IIED), UK Department For International Development (DfID), Practical Action, Overseas Development Institute (ODI), Earthscan, the Water, Engineering and Development Centre (WEDC), Institute of Development Studies (IDS), International Forum for Rural Transport and Development (IFRTD), SCF Canada, Plan International, the World Bank, UNDP, FAO, BBC, TVE and OnePlanet Pictures.

Kimberly has a B.A. in English from Queen’s University, Canada, speaks Spanish and French and is a dual British-Canadian national.

IPS is an international communication institution with a global news agency at its core, raising the voices of the South and civil society on issues of development, globalization, human rights and the environment. It can be accessed at www.ipsnews.net.

Dear clients and IPS users,

As you may have noticed, we have been experiencing technical difficulties during this trial phase of our new website and platform. We apologise for any inconvenience this has caused. We’re working hard to troubleshoot the issues and look forward to your thoughts about all of the new features once it’s live again. In the meantime, you can still access our stories at http://www.ipsnews.net.

Sincerely,

The IPS team

Echoing one of the priority themes of the CSW this year IPS reports from India and Bangladesh – Rural Women Are Leading the Way – Will the World Follow? An interview with Liane Schalatek, of the Heinrich Böll Foundation in North America looks at one dimension of this issue – Climate Funding Needs Gender Equity.

Gender budgeting is another focus of the meeting and IPS reports from Warsaw on Little Money to Promote Gender Equality in Eastern Europe.

Inter Press Service (IPS) Asia-Pacific, in partnership with the ASEAN Studies Centre and with the support of the International Development Research Centre, is inviting journalists to submit creative, original ideas for proposals for in-depth features on development issues around the Association of South-east Asian Nations (ASEAN) and its role in the region.

The ‘Reporting Development in ASEAN’ reporting series has 10 slots open to journalists who are nationals of the 10 ASEAN countries. The series is open to journalists writing in local languages and/or English, reporting from their countries.

Deadline for submission of applications: 17 March 2012

Media reportage around ASEAN closely follows high-profile events and official meetings. Often, this leaves little room for in-depth analysis and critical investigative study of development issues around the regional organisation’s goals and role in the daily lives of its constituency ­ even as its aim of an ASEAN community by 2015 nears.

Thus, with the goal of creating more space for issue-based reporting around ASEAN, story proposals for the ‘Reporting Development in ASEAN series must directly focus on analysis and investigative study of the role and impact and ASEAN’s plans for regional integration — and its interventions on development  ­ on the lives and livelihoods of its peoples even as its aim of an ASEAN community by 2015 nears. They must also have regional or transnational scope/relevance.

Applicants need to submit the following: -application form -story plan form -clippings of three published and bylined articles

Applications and inquries are to be sent to: ipsasiapacificdesk@me.com

You can download here:

- The pdf brochure.

- The story plan form.