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| IDRC Bulletin ─ September 2005: Focus on Millennium Development Goals |
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In 2000, the United Nations (UN) Member States pledged to meet eight broad targets for development by the year 2015. The Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) seek to reduce poverty, child mortality, and disease prevalence while improving education, health, gender equity, environmental sustainability, and partnership. Five years into the initiative, the UN hosts its 2005 World Summit in September to evaluate progress toward meeting the MDGs. Along with items of general interest, this issue of IDRC Bulletin focuses on the MDGs and their themes.
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Brazil Unveils Two Model Forests
Brazil will safeguard the ecosystems of the Mata Atlantica forest, near the city of Ouro Preto in eastern Brazil, and the Pandeiros forest, in the north of the state of Minas Gerais using the model forest approach. | | http://www.idrc.ca/en/ev-84756-201-1-DO_TOPIC |
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The Andean Community Signs an Agreement to Prevent Biopiracy
The General Secretariat of the Andean Community (Comunidad Andina—CAN) and the Peruvian Society for Environmental Rights (Sociedad Peruana de Derecho Ambiental—SPDA) have signed a Memorandum of Understanding that will provide Andean countries with the tools needed to prevent biopiracy or wrongful appropriation of their genetic resources and traditional knowledge. | | http://www.idrc.ca/en/ev-86275-201-1-DO_TOPIC |
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New Ecohealth Newsletter
IDRC’s Ecohealth program initiative introduces its four-language, bi-annual publication Health Environment: Global Links newsletter. | | http://www.idrc.ca/en/ev-85652-201-1-DO_TOPIC |
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| Feature articles | Engendering Macroeconomic Policies
Is macroeconomic analysis gender-neutral? Many economists and others think not. Nilufer Cagatay is helping to train senior economists to consider gender in their approach to macroeconomics and international economic policy.
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| IDRC Books | Reforming the United Nations - Two IDRC Books Offer Insight
As the United Nations (UN) prepares for reform, IDRC presents two books that examine globalization, and the current state of the world. Both offer recommendations on how the UN could better respond to the 21st century, more effectively serve its member states, and fulfill its mission to address the problems of humanity. | | http://www.idrc.ca/en/ev-86734-201-1-DO_TOPIC |
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| Research and resources |
Fixing Health Systems
Linking research, development, systems, and partnership to reduce mortality. | | http://www.idrc.ca/en/ev-64404-201-1-DO_TOPIC |
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Africa Facts and Figures
Africa has become the focus of development agendas for governments, development organizations, and donors. A slideshow explains some of the challenges the continent faces, and the gains it has made in recent years. | | http://www.idrc.ca/en/ev-84239-201-1-DO_TOPIC |
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