The International Rescue Committee and Fundacion Paraguaya invite you to engage in a participatory learning event, the School-based Businesses workshop, to be held on Thursday September 10th, 2009 at the International Rescue Committee offices in Washington DC.
International Rescue Committee, Conference Room,
1730 M Street, NW – Suite 505, Washington DC
Thursday September 10th, 2009
The goal of the School-based Businesses workshop is to empower practitioners through learning and exchange to design programs that incorporate enterprise development initiatives that respond to market opportunities and are appropriate and feasible in educational programs. The objective of this workshop is to identify, promote and disseminate replicable approaches for market-based education provision and to consider the effectiveness of these strategies.
The IRC and the Fundacion Paraguaya are accepting proposals to present at this workshop until Monday, August 17th. For more information about presenting or attending this workshop, download the announcement attached below.
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Making Cents International is pleased to announce the 2009 Global Youth Enterprise Conference will take place in Washington, DC from September 29-30, 2009 at the George Washington University’s Cafritz Conference Center. This participatory and demand-driven learning event will convene 350 leading stakeholders in the fields of youth enterprise, employment, and livelihoods development; microfinance; education; and health. Members of all sectors will share their promising practices, unique approaches, and groundbreaking ideas that help youth develop the necessary skills and opportunities to start their own businesses or seek quality employment.
A whole half-day will focus on the new and growing field of Youth-Inclusive Financial Services. Don’t miss this unique opportunity to gain technical capacity, explore new partnerships, and share information with leading stakeholders from around the world. To view the conference program, see a list of sponsors, and register, please visit the conference website or contact Whitney Harrelson (whitney@makingcents.com; +1 202-783-4090).
Conference blogging: Keep updated on the conference through on-the-spot blogging on the Microfinance Insights blog.
On Thursday, December 4, 2008, from 12:00 p.m. to 1:30 p.m. the Center for Global Development and The Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies present a Massachusetts Avenue Development Seminar (MADS) featuring: Randall K. Q. Akee of the Institute for the Study of Labor, Bonn, Germany with Emanuela Galasso of the Development Economics Research Group, World Bank.
The seminar will address recent research led by Akee on measuring the effect of parental income on child outcomes. The research, conducted in the Eastern Cherokee Indian Reservation in the US, examined outcomes for the children of participants in a cash transfer program, and found that participants’ children had higher levels of education and lower incidence of involvement in minor crime than their peers.
Access the full research paper.
Unite For Sight’s conference convenes a committed vanguard of thousands from more than 60 countries. The conference challenges students, professionals, educators, doctors, scientists, lawyers, universities, corporations, nonprofits, and others, to develop innovative solutions to achieve global goals.
The conference will feature 200 Speakers, including Keynote Addresses by Dr. Jeffrey Sachs, Dr. Sonia Sachs, Dr. Susan Blumenthal, and Dr. Harold Varmus. Social innovation sessions by CEOs and Directors of Save The Children, Partners in Health, HealthStore Foundation, mothers2mothers, among others, are planned. In addition, “Young Leaders of Social Change” Speakers are featured on the agenda.
Join us as Catholic Relief Services (CRS) showcases innovative and
promising practices from its orphan and vulnerable children (OVC)
programming around the globe.
Who it is for: People interested in children, colleagues working in
organizations supporting orphans and vulnerable children around the
world, policy makers, and donors.
View the schedule.
