Since its conception in 2006, the Global Engagement Summit has hosted undergraduates and recent graduates from over 40 counties and 50 universities, with more than 35 global nonprofits for five days of exchange and capacity building at Northwestern University, in Chicago, IL. Through workshops, direct mentorships with nonprofit leaders, and outcome opportunities, GES delegates develop projects in microfinance, community development, global health, sustainable engineering, and many other change-b more...

REQUEST FOR PROPOSALS
Deadline: 19 January 2009

The Fund for Global Human Rights seeks to increase the flow of financial resources to on-the-ground human rights organizations and to strengthen human rights movements and communities in countries around the world. This RFP invites proposals from human rights organizations based in Burundi, Guinea, Pakistan, and Uganda only. Please look at the Request for Proposals (application packet) located on http://www.globalhumanrights.org/for-grantees f more...

The European Union's Youth in Action Program website features descriptions of previously funded programs in order to facilitate the sharing of best practices and ideas. Featured projects range from peace-building to youth parliament documentaries, Roma inclusion and much more.

Children in Latin America and the Caribbean attending primary and secondary schools, especially those in rural areas and in urban slums, achieve levels of school completion, knowledge and skills that are inadequate
to compete in a world where mathematics, language, and communication skills as well as flexibility, creativity, and the capacity to work cooperatively are increasingly fundamental for economic growth and social development.
Within this context, this paper summarizes experience to da more...

'Nowadays, the Roma community is one of the most disrespected and
disadvantaged groups in Europe. The Roma people face extreme discrimination from many majorities of the countries where they live, and Roma youth people really suffer from it. They become closed and distant to other communities. They avoid communication and contact with people from other ethnicities and communities. The main reasons for that is lack of education, a high rate of unemployment, poverty, low social and low economical more...

Google has announced a competition that would fund upto 5 projects with a budget of $2million per project. This is what Google says about the project...

'Why this project?

Never in history have so many people had so much information, so many tools at their disposal, so many ways of making good ideas come to life. Yet at the same time, so many people, of all walks of life, could use so much help, in both little ways and big.

In the midst of this, new studies are reinforcing the simple w more...

Roma needs to overcome bureaucratic and discriminatory barriers that keep Roma out of main stream society by ensuring that public policies and services work for Roma. Education, health and employment policies need to be modified to reap the benefits of a prospering Europe.

To address these issues, Roma Education fund has been built and the Czech Republic government recently launched a Social Inclusion Agency, monitoring and evaluation how Roma is faring under such programs is difficult due t more...

This document, available in both PDF and HTML formats, reports how well the world is doing in meeting its commitments to children. UNICEF analyzes progress towards the Millennium Development Goals in four priority areas for children: promoting healthy lives; providing a quality education; combating HIV and AIDS; and protecting against abuse, exploitation, and violence. The Web site includes accompanying video and a photo essay.

Since their first participation in the UN Operation in the Congo in the early 1960s to ongoing UN peace missions in Liberia, Côte d’Ivoire, Democratic Republic of the Congo, and Lebanon, thousands of men and women of the Ghana Armed Forces and Police have proudly served as United Nations and ECOWAS peacekeepers.

To build on Ghana’s four decades of experience and competence in peace support operations, the Ghana Ministry of Defence in May 1998 approved the establishment of an internationa more...

The West Africa Peacebuilding Institute (WAPI) organized annually by West Africa Network for Peacebuilding (WANEP) is taking place at the Kofi Annan International Peacekeeping Training Centre (KAIPTC) in Accra from 4th - 23rd September 2005. In welcoming participants from various organizations and institutions including Civil Society and Government personnel from Africa, the Executive Director of the WANEP, Emmanuel Bombande emphasized on the to need to build capacity for conflict prevention in more...