Resilience Development Forum STARTS TODAY IN Jordan

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The Resilience Development Forum (RDF) will be held at the Dead Sea, Jordan from 8 to 9 November 2015. The RDF's goal is to create a fundamental shift in the way the international community is responding to the continuing crisis in Syria and the surrounding region. It is organized annually by UNDP

TRUST WOMEN CONFERNCE, 17-18 NOVEMBER,LONDON

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Trust Women is a women focused conference organized every here by Thomson Reuters Foundation. The theme of this year is "Empower women worldwide and fight modern-day slavery"

DO YOU WANT TO TEST YOUR IDEA? TRY WITH DIY

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Development Impact & You is a toolkit with 30 tested tool on how to "how to invent, adopt or adapt ideas that can deliver better results". The toolkit was designed by NESTA, the British charity promoting social innovation in partnership with Quicksand and STBY with the support of Rockefeller Foundation.

WE ARE ENTERING AN ERA OF DEMOGRAPHIC CHANGE: WORLD BANK/IMF REPORT

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The World Bank and IMF published on the 6th of November the Global Monitoring Report 2015/2016 : Development Goals in an Era of Demographic Change. “The World Bank Group President Jim Yong Kim said that With the right set of policies, this era of demographic change can be turned into one of sustained development progress,”

MICHELLE OBAMA'S REMARKS ON "LET GIRL LEARN" INITIATIVE AT WORLD INNOVATION EDUCATION SUMMIT,WISE, DOHA

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The American First Lady traveled to Qatar at WISE to talk about girls' rights to education. She said “If we truly want to get girls into our classrooms then we need to have an honest conversation about how we view and treat women in our societies and this conversation needs to happen in every country on this planet, including my own"

A PARALYMPIC CHAMPION AND LAWYER IN NEW TRUDEAU GOVERNMENT: SHE WILL BE IN CHARGE OF SPORTS AND DISABILITY

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Carla Qualtrough won three bronze medals in swimming at the 1988 and 1992 Paralympic Games. She is a lawyer, vice-chair of B.C.'s workers' compensation appeal tribunal, former legal counsel for both the B.C. and Canadian human rights commissions. She is visually impaired from birth

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LET'S EMBRACE SPORTS

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Sport is transformational at society level but first and foremost at personal level. A passionate plea for improving our lives through sports.

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