2006 Training and Events for Development Professionals

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December 2006

International Seminar on Informal Institutions: What do we know, what can we do?
http://www.oecd.org
Paris, 11-12 December 2006, The World Bank's Paris offices, 66 Avenue d'Iéna
The Seminar will assess the role of informal institutions in the development process. It will address in particular the following questions: How do informal institutions such as traditions, customs and social norms affect development? What are the linkages and possible conflicts between informal and formal institutions? How can donors and partner countries foster the contribution of informal institutions to a more enabling environment for development? The OECD Development Centre & the Development Assistance Committee - Network on Governance (GOVNET)

GTZ at work: Economic development in the Palestinian Territories
http://www.gtz.de/en/unternehmen/17837.htm
Berlin, 14 Dec 2006, GTZ-Haus,
How can development cooperation help create economic opportunities for people in the Palestinian Territories? The evening of talks is part of the series 'GTZ at work”. In cooperation with the radio channel Inforadio Berlin, GTZ experts talk about their work in partner countries.

ILO Regional Conference on the development of service markets and value chains
http://www.bdsconference.jo
Amman, Jordan, 19-21 February 2007

Making service markets work for enterprise competitiveness
http://www.springfieldcentre.com/currentprogrammes.php
Phuket, Thailand, 4-9 March 2007, The Springfield Centre

Strategic Leadership for Microfinance
http://www.accion.org/hbs.asp
9–14 April 2007, at Harvard Business School, Cambridge, Massachusetts
Info: Amelia Kuklewicz, tel. +1 202-393-5113 ext. 1635 akuklewicz@accion.org

GTZ international conference on value chains
Berlin, Germany, 5 May - 2 June, 2007
Key topics include: VC and poverty reduction, VC and the private sector, VC and domestic, regional and export markets, VC and tools & methods. For details, contact Stefanie.Zinsmeyer@gtz.de

Tools of the Trade for Development Practitioners
http://www.mdi-nh.org
11 Jun 2007 - 29 Jun 2007, Manchester, New Hampshire, USA
Microenterprise and Development Institute,
Info: Emma LeBlanc, tel.: +1 603 644-3124 mdi@snhu.edu

International Microenterprise Development
http://www.snhu.edu/856.asp
School of CED at Southern New Hampshire University
In response to the increasing demands for flexible academic program delivery, the School of CED (Community Economic Development) is offering online courses in International Microenterprise Development. These courses are an expansion of the educational and training opportunities the School offers. The School currently offers international training through its Microenterprise and Development training institutes in New Hampshire and South Africa along with SCED's low-residency summer intensive Master's program. Each online course is 12 weeks long and taught by experts in the field.

November 2006

Research Seminar 'International Monetary Issues and Financial Markets'
http://www.hwwa.de
Hamburg, Germany, Friday, 17. November 2006, Hamburgisches Welt-Wirtschafts-Archiv (HWWA)

European Microfinance Week
http://www.microfinance-platform.lu
Luxembourg, 29 Nov 29 - 1 Dec, Luxembourg Agency for Development Cooperation

MDF and HPC jointly offer the course Value Chain Concepts
http://www.mdf.nl/en/training_course.php?country_id=nl&®ion_id=01&&course_id=VCC
Ede, The Netherlands, 15-19 January 2007
MDF and HPC jointly offer the course Value Chain Concepts. Given the high interest and satisfied participants of last year's courses, we offer this course once more at the MDF training centre in Ede. The Value Chain Concept is presented, discussed and practised in a structured and participatory way whereby due attention is given to the various approaches that exist among value chain development practitioners. The participants will practice Value Chain Analysis and Development tools and instruments to develop skills and understanding of the actual Value Chain Development practices as well as the process and management thereof. The course fee includes a new toolkit: CAPSA: Capacitating Sector Analyses, a CD-ROM providing an overview of the steps, tools, instruments and practical examples and case studies of Value Chain Development. This same CD contains a large number of research and policy papers in the field. Given the innovative stage Value Chaining is in, much attention will be given to presenting and discussion the recent trends and developments in the fields. Info: Hans Posthumus Consultancy (HPC), hans@hposthumus.nl

Making Service Markets work for Enterprise Competitiveness
http://www.springfieldcentre.com/currentprogrammes.php
Phuket, Thailand, 4-9 March 2007, The Springfield Centre

GTZ: International Conference on Value Chains
Berlin, Germany, 5 May- 2 June 2007
The meeting will foster exchange and cooperation between practitioners of different agencies and of different regions. Furthermore, the aim is to discuss how to further develop the value chain approach. A pre-meeting will give GTZ VC working groups the opportunity to exchange and to discuss regional experience. Key topics include: VC and poverty reduction, VC and the private sector, VC and domestic, regional and export markets, VC and tools & methods. Contact: Stefanie.Zinsmeyer@gtz.de

Ninth Annual MDI-NH, Microenterprise & Development Institute-New Hampshire
http://www.snhu.edu/746.asp
New Hampshire, USA, 11-29 June 2007
MDI-NH was founded in 1999 to focus on practitioner skill building in both financial systems and business development services more recently known as Pro-Poor Market Development. Emphasis is placed on the 'double bottom line.' We offer approaches to address the financial needs of poor families and their communities as well as building effective financial institutions that assure broad-based and long-term social and economic participation in the benefits that these institutions provide. Participants in the New Hampshire program will get an opportunity to learn from some of the top microfinance and BDS/PPMD practitioners in the field and network with peers from all over the globe. In the past seven years we have trained more than 700 practitioners from 85 countries and 425 INGOs, NGO's MFIs, Universities, Banks and other organizations.

Second National Conference of the BDS Donor Coordination Group, Kenya 2006
http://www.bdsknowledge.org
The BDS Donor Coordination Group of Kenya organised the Second National Conference 3-4 October 2006 in Naivasha, Kenya; the presentations covered the development of service markets and value chains, producer group dynamics, sector coordination and policy formulation. Key documents are available for download at the above link.

October 2006 Special Edition on Post-conflict economies

ALNAP Active Learning Network for Accountability and Performance in Humanitarian Assistance
http://www.alnap.org
ALNAP was established in 1997, following the multi-agency evaluation of the Rwanda genocide. It is a collective response by the humanitarian sector, dedicated to improving humanitarian performance through increased learning and accountability. The Evaluative Reports Database (ERD) is ALNAP’s key tool to facilitate information-sharing and lesson learning amongst humanitarian organisations.

ReliefWeb Training
http://www.reliefweb.int/rw/rwt.nsf/doc211?OpenForm
United Nations website providing information to humanitarian relief organizations. Updated daily. Links to training and materials.

AGEG training workshop Security Awareness – Operating in Unstable Environments
http://www.ageg.de/news-events/news-events.html#Security
Germany, Kirchheim/Teck, 11-13 October 2006, AGEG Consultants eG
This seminar aims at minimizing the risk of the involved international experts by a sensitizing for safety issues as well as by providing ''hands on” security strategies and tools. When acting in unstable environments, it is essential to develop security awareness and have at one’s disposal an appropriate set of security mechanisms, while avoiding exaggerated safeguarding at the same time. Fee: Euro 580. Info: Simona Scheibitz, Phone: +49-7021-97087-21, s.scheibitz@ageg.de

Online Course: Peace and Business
http://www.transcend.org/tpu/courses.shtml?x=164
The general aim of this course is to empower the participants to further their own personal contributions to building the economic infrastructure of a peaceful world either through their direct involvement in economic activities or through their engagement with other economic actors. At the TRANSCEND Peace University, the world's on-line university for peace and development studies.

Certificate Course in Conflict Analysis
http://www.usip.org/training/online/index.html
This self-study course in conflict analysis is the first in a series that will eventually include courses in negotiation, mediation and other activities related to conflict management—all available online.

Online Course: Transforming Civil Conflict
http://www.netuni.nl/intro_courses/index_tran_civi.html
Together with the Centre for Conflict Resolution, Department of Peace Studies in Bradford UK the Network University offers this four-week certificate course in Conflict Resolution five times a year. The aim of the program is to help prepare participants for work in conflict areas or to make their work there more effective: by giving them more insight into the processes in conflicts and the roles of different organisations.

Responsibility to Protect: Perspectives of the South and the North
http://www.frient.de/aktuelles/detail.asp?id=248
FriEnt-Workshop, 17.10.2006, Bonn, Germany

International Conference: Poverty Reduction in Conflict and Fragile States:
http://www.diw.de/deutsch/produkte/veranstaltungen/konferenzen/fragile_states/index.html
Perspectives from a Household Level
November 8-9, 2006, Washington D.C., United States

''Master in Peace & Conflict Studies'' in Germany
''Master of Peace and Security Studies - M.P.S.'' - Institut für Friedensforschung und Sicherheitspolitik an der Universität Hamburg (IFSH):
http://www.ifsh.de/IFSH/studium/mps.htm
Masterstudiengang ''Friedensforschung und internationale Politik'' – Universität Tübingen:
http://www.uni-tuebingen.de/pol/studmafip.htm
''Master of Peace Studies'' – Weiterbildungsstudiengang an der FernUni Hagen: http://www.fernuni-hagen.de/FRIEDEN
Masterstudiengang ''Friedens- und Konfliktforschung'' an der Universität Magdeburg: http://www.uni-magdeburg.de/ipw/fkf/index.html
''Internationale Studien/Friedens- und Konfliktforschung'' – Masterstudiengang an der Universität Frankfurt: http://www.gesellschaftswissenschaften.uni-frankfurt.de
Nebenfach Friedens- und Konfliktforschung sowie Master of Peace- and Conflict Studies an der Philipps-Universität Marburg: http://www.uni-marburg.de/konfliktforschung

Humanitarian Distance Learning Centre
http://www.hdlc.com.au
HDLS is an innovative training portal designed to support the global relief and development community.

International Peace Academy
http://www.ipacademy.org
Information on the issue of conflict prevention (a project of the International Peace Academy) as well as on ''Greed and Grievance – Economic Agendas in Civil Wars''. Also other downloads and seminar reports.

Good Practices Training Manual
http://www.drc.dk/fileadmin/uploads/pdf/English_site/Publications/good_practices_english.pdf
by The Alliance for Rights and Tolerance, Kosovo 2002

September 2006

The Master's Programme ''Transition Studies''
http://www.uni-giessen.de/zeu/TS/
of the Center for International Development and Environmental Research (ZEU) of the University of Giessen aims to train professionals to be able to work in interdisciplinary and international teams contributing to the improvement of the situation of transition countries. Application deadline for a start in the summer term of 2007: 15 January 2007.

International Migration and Development: Patterns, Problems, and Policy Directions
http://www.wider.unu.edu
UNU-WIDER Seminar by Anthony Shorrocks (chair), George J. Borjas, Jeff Crisp, and Andrés Solimano.
United Nations Headquarters, Dag Hammarskjöld Library Auditorium, New York, 12 September 2006.

Community Mobilisation & SHG Formation for Economic & Integrated Development
http://aidmat.com/idmat/index.htm
Agra, India, 27 September - 1 October 2006,
In the mission towards development process, AIDMAT invites you to the above 9th international workshop. It will be a great opportunity to meet delegates with dimensional experiences from multi cultural regions. There are early bird group offers prevailing and the seats are limited. For a detailed brochure and a nomination form for enrolment please contact: (Ms) Anupama Senior Manager – External Linkages IDMAT (Mobile) (0091) 9899 69 7483 anupama@aidmat.com

The Small Enterprise Education and Promotion (SEEP) Network annual general meeting
http://www.seepnetwork.org/section/ac2006
Washington D.C, 23-27 October 2006. This year, the conference theme is ''Investing in the Majority.” Most sessions are open to all.

The UK's Development Studies Association Annual Conference
http://www.devstud.org.uk/conference.htm
Reading, 11 November 2006, on the theme ''The Private Sector, Poverty Reduction and International Development''

'Development Days' of the European Commission
http://ec.europa.eu/comm/world/
The European Commission will launch its 'Development Days' from 13-17 November to establish stronger links with the public and further the cause of development cooperation. Location: Brussels; Theme: Africa on the Move. Please contact patrice.lenormand@cec.eu.int, georges.eliopoulos@cec.eu.int.

UNCTAD trade and development training course in Bangkok
http://p166.unctad.org/
Academics and researchers from universities and research institutions at UNCTAD member States in the Asia and Pacific region are invited to submit their candidatures for the next Training on Key issues on the International Economic Agenda to be held in Bangkok, Thailand, November 13 - December 1, 2006. Info: mohan.panicker@unctad.org

Workshop on Migration Latin America - Europe
http://www.eadi.org/detail_page.phtml?page=wg_europelatinamerica_call_2006
Louvain-La-Neuve, Belgium, 8 November 2006
by the EADI working group on "Europe and Latin America".

Second development conference: Which financing for which development?
http://beagle.u-bordeaux4.fr/jourdev/AppelCommEN.html
Bordeaux, France, 23 November 2006, Deuxième journées du développement du GRES + ADEK
Since the beginning of the debt crisis in 1982, most developing countries have applied structural adjustment programs and have followed poverty reduction strategies initiated by the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the World Bank. These programs, inspired by the Washington consensus, have not been crowned with success, partly because they have denied the specificities of developing countries.Faced with widespread criticism, IFIs and industrialized countries have adjusted their position. Info: berr@u-bordeaux4.fr

Microenterprise Development in a Globalizing World: A USAID Learning Conference, June 2006
http://www.microlinks.org/ev_en.php?ID=10465_201&ID2=DO_TOPIC
The USAID Learning Conference, held from June 14-16, 2006 in Washington D.C., celebrated the achievements made in the microenterprise development field and shared ways to better address the needs of poor people by helping them harness the necessary resources to better provide for their families and enterprises. The conference webpage, hosted on the USAID microlinks site, includes presentations, session summaries, interviews with presenters and ongoing post-conference discussions.

MENA Regional Conference on Job Creation and Skills Development
http://jobsconf.filesharing.to
Proceedings of the World Bank Conference on Job Creation and Skills Development in the Middle East and North Africa region, December 2005.

August 2006

AGEG training workshop Security Awareness – Operating in Unstable Environments
http://www.ageg.de/news-events/news-events.html#Security
Germany, Kirchheim/Teck, 11-13 October 2006, AGEG Consultants eG
This seminar aims at minimizing the risk of the involved international experts by a sensitizing for safety issues as well as by providing ''hands on” security strategies and tools. When acting in unstable environments, it is essential to develop security awareness and have at one’s disposal an appropriate set of security mechanisms, while avoiding exaggerated safeguarding at the same time. Furthermore, it is essential to accept a direct responsibility for one’s own safety and security. Fee: Euro 580. Info: Simona Scheibitz, Phone: +49-7021-97087-21, s.scheibitz@ageg.de

Conducting Professional Focus Group Research
http://www.ageg.de/news-events/news-events.html#Focus
Germany, Kirchheim/Teck, 23-25 October 2006, AGEG Consultants eG
This three-day focus group training workshop is designed for individuals and organizations working in the field of international development and who wish to improve their capacity for conducting reliable group interviews for program evaluations, assessment of consumer or client needs, or basic research.

Value Chain Program Design: Promoting Market Solutions for MSMEs
http://www.actionforenterprise.org/training.htm
September 11-15, 2006 in Thailand
October 9-13, 2006 in Aachen, Germany
December 4-8, 2006 in Washington DC, USA
Action for Enterprise (AFE) is offering a five-day training workshop that presents the latest methodologies and practice for designing subsector and value-chain programs that incorporate strategies for sustainable impact. Participants will learn how to design programs that result in market solutions to MSME constraints such as market access, input supply, technology/product development, management training, policy reform, and access to finance. Examples will be used from enterprise development programs and practitioners worldwide. The training targets those who wish to improve their facilitation skills and design programs that respect the latest thinking in value chain and market development principles.

Inter-American forum on Microenterprise
http://www.iadb.org/foromic/
Ecuador, Quito, 13-15 September 2006
Access to new markets and better services for the majority
The title of this year's Forum reflects the increasingly important issue of ensuring that micro and small enterprises have access to new markets for their products, whether local or international, and to better financial and enterprise development services to support their pursuit of valuable business opportunities and improved livelihoods. The Microenterprise Forum 2006 will explore the issue of access to markets and services, as well as several other issues that are relevant and critical to the microenterprise sector, and numerous practitioners and experts in the field will present the latest developments, best practices and new methodologies.

ILO Annual Seminar on Business Services: Private Sector Development: What’s next?
http://www.bdsknowledge.org/dyn/bds/bdssearch.det
Thailand , Chiang Mai, 18-22 September 2006
How can our work in developing service markets and value chains benefit millions of people living in poverty?
How can we be sure to choose the most effective strategies?
What about the growing interest in business environment reform?
What does it take to stimulate the private sector to act?
What about post-natural disaster and post-conflict situations?
How do we measure poverty reduction?

FDIC 2006 International Consulting Engineering Conference
http://www1.fidic.org/news/
Budapest, 24-27 September
Designed around three complementary themes that tackle the new challenges in an era of accelerated change.

Building Financial Systems for the Poor: How Donors Can Make a Difference
http://cgap.org/direct/docs/MaliDonorCourseBrochure_2006_fr.pdf
Mali, Bamako, 30 Oct -2 Nov 2006, Training course by CGAP and UNCDF
The training is specifically designed for development professionals, policy makers, and staff who work for international NGOs and investors who would benefit from a deeper understanding of microfinance. The course targets development and government specialists who focus on areas such as pro-poor policies, poverty reduction, economic development, private sector and business development, livelihoods, employment promotion, and gender. It is equally useful for specialists in crisis prevention and recovery, environment, and health who seek a better understanding of how financial services are related to their spheres of work. The training will be held in French.

Making Value Chains Work for the Poor: Current thinking and future opportunities
http://www.intercooperation.ch/sed/download/SED_WS2007_pre_announcement.pdf
Switzerland, Gerzensee (near Bern), 11-12 January 2007
The now traditional SDC Small Enterprise Development (SED) Workshop is a learning and networking event. It aims at presenting new trends and good practices in the field of small enterprise development as well as allowing the participants to exchange information and experiences. The workshop will be held in Gerzensee. It is designed for SED specialists and programme managers, advisers and project staff dealing with SED, in the South and East. It is addressed mainly to the staff of Swiss Development Organisations (SDC, NGOs and other private organisations) or for consultants.

UNCDF Microfinance Distance Learning Program
http://www.uncdf.org/mfdl/index.php?_mode=students.home
The course explores why and how microfinance operations grow to provide financial services to poor and low-income people on a sustainable basis. The course brings together advice and best practices from successful practitioners and institutions around the world. The course was designed for working professionals who need to balance the demands of the job with new learning experiences.

July 2006

7th Annual Seminar on Business Services: Private Sector Development - what's next?
http://learning.itcilo.org/entdev/BDSSEMINAR/pub/home.aspx?l=Eng&IdSezione=0
Chiang Mai (Thailand), 18 to 22 September 2006
The Annual Seminar has become an opportunity for field-based practitioners to catch up, quickly and enjoyably, with the latest thinking at the global level, in many areas that touch on their work. As in previous years, the agenda is being put together by Jim Tanburn and Aly Miehlbradt; themes to be covered in the 2006 Seminar include:
- Opportunities at the ''Base of the Pyramid''
- Developing post-crisis economies and markets in pro-poor ways
- Current thinking in developing financial markets
- Learning from service markets in OECD economies
- Stimulating services in very weak and rural markets
- Selecting market interventions for maximum leverage
- Reforming the business environment to enhance competitiveness
- Assessing impacts on small businesses and poverty
- Current thinking in value chain development
- Financial service markets - and BDS

Private Sector Development and Peacebuilding: Exploring Local and International Perspectives
http://www2.gtz.de/wbf/doc/PSDPeace_Berlin_draftagenda.pdf
Berlin, Germany, Sep 13 - Sep 15, 2006
Objectives
- Highlighting the domestic private sector's contributions to peacebuilding in conflict-affected countries
- Exchanging international experiences on private sector development and economic growth in conflict and post-conflict countries
- Facilitating cross-learning between peacebuilding and Private Sector Development (PSD) practitioners
- Promoting international recognition of this new area of development policy and practice
Hosted by the German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ), the UK Department for International Development (DFID), Gesellschaft für Technische Zusammenarbeit (GTZ), together with International Alert.
Registration Form: http://www2.gtz.de/wbf/doc/Registration_PSDPeace.doc

Building Financial Systems for the Poor: How Donors Can Make a Difference
http://cgap.org/direct/docs/MaliDonorCourseBrochure_2006_fr.pdf
Bamako, Mali, Oct 30 -Nov 2, 2006 / Training course by CGAP and UNCDF
The training is specifically designed for development professionals, policy makers, and staff who work for international NGOs and investors who would benefit from a deeper understanding of microfinance. The course targets development and government specialists who focus on areas such as pro-poor policies, poverty reduction, economic development, private sector and business development, livelihoods, employment promotion, and gender. It is equally useful for specialists in crisis prevention and recovery, environment, and health who seek a better understanding of how financial services are related to their spheres of work. The training will be held in French. Info: Natasa Goronja, ngoronja@worldbank.org, Gretel Guzma, gguzman@worldbank.org

Value Chain Program Design: Promoting Market Solutions for MSMEs
http://www.actionforenterprise.org/training.htm
Thailand , Sep 11 - Sep 15, 2006 / Action for Enterprise (AFE)
Action for Enterprise (AFE) is offering a five-day training workshop that presents the latest methodologies and practice for designing subsector and value-chain programs that incorporate strategies for sustainable impact. Participants will learn how to design programs that result in market solutions to MSME constraints such as market access, input supply, technology/product development, management training, policy reform, and access to finance. Examples will be used from enterprise development programs and practitioners worldwide. The training targets those who wish to improve their facilitation skills and design programs that respect the latest thinking in value chain and market development principles.

Social Entrepreneurship and Social Enterprise Course
http://www.oxbiz.org/Oxford%20Events/Social%20Entrepreneruship2.pdf
This course, for practitioners only, will teach the practice of developing social enterprises. Using the Socratic method (questions only), participants will marketing, operations, and the finance of their socially welfare-improving ideas.

Annual Anti-Corruption Program
http://www.icgg.org
University of Passau; October 7-14 2006
The Economics of Corruption - A University Lecture on Good Governance and Reform

Bangkok Conference on Reform of the Business Environment - Call for Papers
http://www.sedonors.org/about/story.asp?newsid=142
Bangkok, 28 November to 1 December
The linked document provides some background on the conference and describes its main objectives and topics of interest. This document also invites donor agencies, governments, private sector representatives, non-government organizations, consultants and academics to submit a brief proposal for any papers they wish to present at this conference.

FIDIC Annual Conference in Budapest
http://www1.fidic.org/news/
The 2006 International Consulting Engineering Conference in Budapest on 24-27 September is designed around three complementary themes that tackle the new challenges in an era of accelerated change.

GTZ Seminar: Strategies and Practices Toward a More Enabling Business and Investment Climate in Africa - Making Reforms Work
http://www2.gtz.de/wbf/doc/Seminar_Report_BEE_SA.zip
On 22-25 May 2005, GTZ hosted a seminar entitled 'Strategies and Practices Toward a More Enabling Business and Investment Climate in Africa - Making Reforms Work'. This seminar followed a similar GTZ-seminar held in Manila in 2005, but was this first of its kind for GTZ in Africa.The objective of the seminar was to provide participants - who were mainly GTZ-funded projects operating in Africa - with practical approaches, tools and methods they can apply in their work which help them better understand, assess and improve the business and investment climate (BIC) for private sector development. The focus of the seminar was on 'making reforms work' - sharing experiences and practices that improve the effectiveness of GTZ-support for BIC reform in Africa.

10th Africa Forum on Rural Development: Programme-based Approaches in Productive Sectors
http://www.africaforum.info
Swakopmund, South Africa, Oct 30 - Nov 3, 2006 /
The forum looks at the particular challenges of the PBA concept when applied to a sector where most of the necessary investment and initiative comes not from public but from private sources. Hosts of this 10 th Anniversary Forum are the Ministry of Agriculture, Water and Forestry and the Ministry of Lands and Resettlement of Namibia. Overall coordination is by GTZ. Registration: Witta Kroll, registration@africaforum.info

Local and Regional Economic Development to Overcome Poverty in Asia
http://www2.gtz.de/wbf/doc/Programme_LRED_Conference_03_May_2006.doc
Vientiane, Lao PDR Nov 22 - Nov 24, 2006 / BMZ, SDC, GTZ, IFAD, ILO, InWent and Cities Alliance
The conference will bring together development practitioners to discuss the experiences, opportunities and challenges for LRED to overcome poverty in Asia. Conference Secretariat: Iris Richter iris.evelin.richter@web.de

SID International Programme 2006-7
http://www.sidint.org
The Netherlands, 22 -23 October 2006, Society for International Development
International Conference on 'One Year After the UN Millennium Summit' ''Global Security and Sustainable Human Development: Delivering on Our Promises''
The second major SID event leading to the SID 50th anniversary celebrations will bring together leaders of the international development community and the SID network to look at issues such as global security and the respect for freedoms, human rights and national sovereignty. This meeting will feature a critical look at development cooperation, social and economic justice, poverty and security, one year after the World Summit. The two-day Conference will be followed by 'The Day of the UN' celebrations on 24 October and third annual Night of the UN organized by NCDO.

Microfinance Training of Trainers: 3rd Blended Distance Learning Course
http://www.adbi.org/event/1840.microfinance.blended.learning/
Distance Learning 03 August 2006 - 30 November 2006
ADBI, the Tokyo Development Learning Center of the World Bank, and the United Nations Capital Development Fund (UNCDF) launched the Microfinance Training of Trainers (MFTOT) Course in 2005. The main goal of the MFTOT is to increase the number of accredited microfinance trainers in the Asia Pacific Region.

Practical Skills and Tools for Microfinance Managers and Consultants
http://www.samtraining.org
Short Course 11 September 2006 - 22 September 2006
The course is designed to provide MFIs with applicable and actionable skills using CGAP and Microsave toolkits as the core curriculum.

June 2006

Guide for training in Enterprise development
http://www.ruralfinance.org/servlet/CDSServlet?status=ND02NTM4JjY9ZW4mMzM9KiYzNz1rb3M~
A tool available online from the Rural Finance Learning Centre
This training guide provides the material for a seven day training course in enterprise development, which is intended for the staff of NGOs and other organisations, including government departments, whose mandate is to promote "income-generation" or "micro-enterprises" among poor people.

Access to new markets and better services for the majority
http://www.iadb.org/sds/foromic/?language=English
Quito, Ecuador 13 - 15 September 2006
The title of this year's IDB Forum reflects the increasingly important issue of ensuring that micro and small enterprises have access to new markets for their products, whether local or international, and to better financial and enterprise development services to support their pursuit of valuable business opportunities and improved livelihoods. The Microenterprise Forum 2006 will explore the issue of access to markets and services, as well as several other issues that are relevant and critical to the microenterprise sector, and numerous practitioners and experts in the field will present the latest developments, best practices and new methodologies.

Gender Equity & Micro Enterprise Development
http://www.aidmat.com/idmat/gendergoa.html
9th International Workshop, 3 July - 8 July, Khajuraho, India

The Role of Intellectual Property in Raising Financing Opportunities for SMEs
http://www.insme.org/page.asp?IDArea=1&page=upcoming_training_programmes
Jul 11 - Jul 12, 2006 / Geneva, Switzerland
Free of charge for any interested participants, whether or not Member of the International Network for Small and Medium Sized Enterprises INSME.

Master of Arts in Development Management
http://eadi.org/database/database/?dataset=training&table=data&id=43
Start and finish date: August 2006 - March 2008
Location of study: Ruhr-Universitaet Bochum, Germany

MSc in International Development
http://eadi.org/database/database/?dataset=training&table=data&id=258
Start and finish date: duration: one academic year
Location of study: University of Bath

Conference on the West African EPAs
http://www.dgroups.org/groups/CoOL/docs/EPAs-ECOWAS-FES_Mtg_12-160605.doc?ois=no
Dakar, June 12-16 - Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung sub-regional conference on the West African EPA. The conference will bring together researchers and policy makers to further contribute to informed debates, policy formulation and negotiation positions with regard to the West African EPA. Together the two groups will hopefully also be able to identify gaps in the current empirical basis and areas for further policy oriented research.

E-Conference: The Role of Development Communication in Sustainable Tourism
http://www.devcomm.org
May 29-June 9, 2006
he World Bank has started an E-Conference on “The Role of Development Communication in Sustainable Tourism”. You are still invited to participate and enrich this conference with your experiences and case studies. The E-Conference is hosted on the Forum section of the World Bank Development Communication Webpage.

FIDIC'S 2006 International Consulting Engineering Conference
http://www.consulting2006.org/
Budapest, 24-27 September
designed around three complementary themes that tackle the new challenges in an era of accelerated change. Keynote speakers will explore best practice procurement, trends within the industry that impact on member firms and the key ingredients for delivering quality projects.

May 2006

The European Union and Africa: A New Strategy – a New Policy?
http://www.bonnerimpulse.de/index.php?option=content&task=view&id=133&Itemid=116
Bonn, Tuesday, 30 May 2006, 9:00 am to 6:30 pm
Deutsche Welle – Gremiensaal, Kurt-Schumacher-Str. 3, 53113 Bonn, Germany
‘‘The EU and Africa: Towards a Strategic Partnership”. This is the ambitious title of a new strategy for Africa that the EU adopted last December. It is aimed at promoting sustainable development in Africa, based on a ‘‘strong political dialogue between equal partners”, as Louis Michel, the EU Commissioner for Development and Humanitarian Aid, recently explained. One prominent feature of the Africa strategy is an attempt to improve co-ordination between the Commission’s various Africa strategies and policies and the EU Member States. Organized by EADI, VENRO and the German Development Institute (DIE).

2006 Private Sector Development Forum
http://psdforum.worldbank.org
The theme of the 2006 Private Sector Development Forum was ‘‘Markets and Growth: What, Where, When and How?’‘ The three day event was held in Washington, D.C. April 4-6 and discussed issues such as: how much does informality matter, can the private sector help overcome conflict, where do we stand on privatization, how can we evaluate the effectiveness of our aid programs, what will be the impact of increased South-South investment, how can we improve the governance of state-owned enterprises, how can we increase access to finance and legal protection, what will be China's impact on Latin America, how can Africa's export potential be tapped, what surprises do China and India have in store for us, how can the private sector help fight the costs of corruption, and much more. Forum presentations, pictures and video are now available online.

2006 Business Seminar: Capital Markets and Financial Instruments for Development
http://www.iadb.org/biz/
Inter-American Development Bank, Washington, D.C.
Business Seminar on Capital Markets and Financial Instruments for Development at the Bank's Washington, D.C. headquarters on Thursday, June 8, 2006.

Training Course on SME-Export Consortia
http://www.itcilo.org/consortia
26- 30 June 2006, ILO ITC Turin, Italy, Language: English
One week training course on how to create and run SME Export consortia. This course is offered in a collaborative effort of the United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO), the International Training Center of the International Labour Organization (ILO ITC) and the Italian Federation of Export Consortia (Federexport). Total fees: 2575 US$, partial fellowships available.

Deutsche Börse Training Center has training courses on numerous capital market subjects
https://trainingscenter.deutsche-boerse.com/index.php?lang=en
The Trainingscenter of Deutsche Börse Group, one of the most successful exchange organizations worldwide, opens the door for you via its Learning Portal to courses on all aspects of the capital market, and exchange systems. At the Learning Portal, you can browse, or book directly the course of your choice:

European Capacity-Building Programme for International Development Cooperation 2006
http://www.agrar.hu-berlin.de/sle/
SLE's European Capacity-Building Programme in Berlin, Germany is designed to meet the needs of young professionals for short-term training in the area of development cooperation. The training offered will allow them to face the increasing complexity of development assistance, which requires up-to date knowledge and practical skills. SLE is well integrated in the development cooperation network. Participants of the programme will have various opportunities to make connections with stakeholders in development cooperation. The Programme is directed at professionals working in the field of development cooperation in governmental and non-governmental organisations, and in academia. By selecting participants from different countries with various professional and cultural backgrounds, the programme follows the intercultural and interdisciplinary approach vital for development cooperation. Info: Sabine.Doerr@agrar.hu-berlin.de

International Poverty Centre Conference: The Many Dimensions of Poverty
http://www.undp-povertycentre.org/md%2Dpoverty/
Brasilia, 29-31 August 2005
Organised by the UNDP's International Poverty Centre, this conference will gather more than 50 well-known specialists in poverty and inequality, as well as policy practitioners and development stakeholders to discuss analytical, theoretical and empirical issues. During three days, the conference will have more than 10 sessions discussing: the relevant dimensions of poverty; the various measurement perspectives of a multidimensional approach to poverty; the different ways of quantifying multidimensional poverty; the empirical case studies of multidimensional poverty; the policy implications of a multidimensional poverty analysis; the relevance of a multidimensional approach to poverty in national consensus building.

Eschborn Dialogue: Knowledge Powers Development
http://www.gtz.de/en/13459.htm
5+6 September 2006, Eschborn, GTZ HQ
Knowledge Powers Development – Sharing experience, shaping the future Knowledge is the key to mastering the challenges of the future in international cooperation. It is a topic of fascinating complexity that affects all areas of life. All development is based on knowledge. That is why GTZ is devoting this year’s Eschborn Dialogue to the theme Knowledge Powers Development – Sharing experience, shaping the future. Knowledge as a factor of production is becoming increasingly important, because economic growth depends primarily on a growth in knowledge. Conversely, the lack of access to knowledge is always an obstacle to development. GTZ is a company that concerns itself with knowledge and learning in a variety of ways. As a learning organisation, GTZ lives from the experience and knowledge it gains in projects and programmes in partner countries. It mainstreams the knowledge of its staff members and GTZ-specific experience within the company. At this year's Eschborn Dialogue, GTZ will thus be inviting representatives of politics, business, academia and civil society to discuss the manifold aspects of knowledge with development experts. Concrete work experience and new theoretical approaches show ways of facing the challenges of the future. A varied programme of side-events will allow participants to experience the topic at first hand. And finally, the Eschborn Dialogue offers a forum for the face-to-face discussions and exchanges of views without which the dissemination of knowledge would be unthinkable.

April 2006

Conducting Professional Focus Group Research
http://www.ageg.de/news-events/news-events.html
23-25 October 2006, AGEG Training Center, Kirchheim, Germany
With Janet Mancini Billson, Ph.D., and Martin Steinmeyer.
This intensive, three-day AGEG focus group training workshop is designed for individuals and organizations working in the field of international development and who wish to improve their capacity for conducting reliable group interviews for program evaluations, assessment of consumer or client needs, or basic research. Cost 1.290 Euro (including VAT, early bookers only pay 1.190 Euro, including VAT).

Course Value Chain Concepts
http://www.mdf.nl/en/register.php?dm=nl&sub=4
22-26 May 2006, Ede, The Netherlands
Content of this MDF Training & Consultancy and Hans Posthumus Consultancy event: Private Sector Development, Sub Sector Analyses, From Value Chain Analysis to Development, Value Chain Development, alue Chain Development Practice. The previous mix of theory and case work are practised in the Real Life Cases brought in by the participants, enabling discussions and learning form each other. The course is closed with action planning and evaluating the course. The course fee includes a new toolkit: CAPSA: Capacitating Sector Analyses, a CD-ROM providing an overview of the steps, tools, instruments and practical examples and case studies of Value Chain Development. This same CD contains a large number of research and policy papers with respect to Value Chain Analyses and Development. Given the innovative stage Value Chain Development is in, much attention will be given to presenting and discussion the recent trends and developments in the field of Value Chain Development. More information can be found at www.mdf.nl and www.hposthumus.nl or by mailing to hans@hposthumus.nl

Summer Academy on Local Economic Development
http://www.mesopartner.com/summer-academy/mesopartner_LED_Summer-Academy.pdf
24 -28 July 2006, Duisburg, Germany
Register with mesopartner, Registration form at www.mesopartner.com/summer-academy/mp-Summer-Academy_Registration.doc. Additionally, you may also check out our websites www.mesopartner.com and www.paca-online.org for more details and information on previous Summer Academies.

Value Chain Program Design: Promoting Market Solutions for MSMEs
http://www.idc-aachen.de/2_4_3.html
9-13 October, 2006, Aachen, Germany
Action for Enterprise (AFE) and IDC Unternehmensberatung GmbH (IDC) are offering a five-day training workshop that presents the latest methodologies and practice for designing subsector and value-chain programs that incorporate strategies for sustainable impact. Participants will learn how to design programs that result in market solutions to MSME constraints such as market access, input supply, technology/product development, management training, policy reform, and access to finance. Examples will be used from enterprise development programs and practitioners worldwide. The training targets those who wish to improve their facilitation skills and design programs that respect the latest thinking in value chain and market development principles.

ILO BDS Conference: Private Sector Development – What's Next?
http://www.bdsknowledge.org or http://training.itcilo.it/bdsseminar
18-22 September 2006, Chiang Mai,
ITC ILO is preparing to write the 2006 Reader, as a snapshot of what the industry as a whole is doing now - and which will also serve as background reading for the Seventh annual Seminar on Business Services. The Reader this year will be broader than in the past with the aim of updating practitioners and donors on the various directions that those in the fields of market development, BDS and small enterprise development are going in. It will show how practitioners are applying ''market development” principles to a range of fields with the aim of making changes in systems that benefit the poor and help economies grow. If you have input, urgently send your information to Jim Tanburn at reader@tanburn.com.

AFRICITIES – CITEXPO The Cities and Local Governments Pan-African Event
http://www.citexpo.info
18-22 September 2006, Nairobi, Kenya –
Taking place only every three years, the CITEXPO Exhibition and AFRICITIES Summit are organised in collaboration with the executive bureau of the United Cities and Local Governments of Africa (UCLGA). The Pan-African event acts as a showcase of products, services, investment, expertise and experiences, giving practical solutions to the needs of cities and local governments. ''Access to basic services in African local governments for the implementation of the Millennium Development Goals” is the theme of the 2006 exhibition. CITEXPO is the perfect place to build relationships with African political and international business leaders. After the success of previous events in the Ivory Coast, Namibia and Cameroon, 120 selected exhibitors will enhance their activities in Nairobi with 5000 delegates.

INTRAC: Share Your Capacity Building Success Stories
http://www.intrac.org/pages/CB_SuccessStories.html
INTRAC will be holding a major conference on the subject of the changing environment for Civil Society Capacity Building in December 2006. One of our premises is that capacity building works. That is, that concrete planned interventions to support organisational development do bring about the hoped for changes in the medium and long-term. To make the case, we need to supply evidence from our own and others' capacity building practice. In the lead up, therefore, INTRAC is searching for Capacity Building Success Stories: Impact from Practice. We're particularly interested in gathering cases from capacity building pracitioners from the South and East and are offering incentives to busy pracitioners with stories to share. To submit by 28 April 2006 contact praxis@intrac.org

Eschborn Dialogue: Knowledge Powers Development
5-6 September 2006, GTZ, Eschborn, Germany
http://www.gtz.de/en/top-themen/3047.htm
Knowledge Powers Development – Sharing experience, shaping the future Knowledge is the key to mastering the challenges of the future in international cooperation. It is a topic of fascinating complexity that affects all areas of life. All development is based on knowledge. That is why GTZ is devoting this year's Eschborn Dialogue to the theme Knowledge Powers Development – Sharing experience, shaping the future. Knowledge as a factor of production is becoming increasingly important, because economic growth depends primarily on a growth in knowledge. Conversely, the lack of access to knowledge is always an obstacle to development. GTZ is a company that concerns itself with knowledge and learning in a variety of ways.

World Bank Private Sector Development Forum 2006 held
http://rru.worldbank.org/psdforum/default.aspx
On April 4th, the World Bank Group welcomed over one thousand participants and speakers to its Private Sector Development Forum. The purpose of these biannual forums is to provide an all important update on private sector development work and innovations in the World Bank Group and around the world. The title of the 2006 Forum was ''Markets and Growth: What, Where, When, and How?'' The sessions asked what policy reforms have most impact, in which countries, how they should be sequenced, and how they should be done. With an emphasis on job creation and fighting corruption, the Forum opened with a plenary on where the world is going, and ended with an outside panel on the costs of corruption and the role of the private sector in fighting it.

March 2006

Training on SME CLuster and Network Development: Principles and Practice
http://www.unido.org/file-storage/download/?file_id=48197
24 April to 5 May 2006: ILO Centre, Turin, Italy
The overall objective of the course is to provide practitioners in the field of SME and local economic development with the necessary skills to promote the development of ''underachieving'' SME clusters, networks and business associations.

Working Group on Linkages and Value Chains
http://www.sedonors.org/groups/group.asp?groupid=4
Expert group meeting on the 10-12 April 2006
During 2005, the Working Group generated a range of information resources, relating particularly to the relevant work of some member agencies. The Group also published an Information Resources Update in March 2005, covering various news items relevant to the theme. At the Annual Meeting in Cairo, in December, a proposal was discussed, and the Working Group subsequently made a presentation about progress so far, and plans for the future. Terms of Reference were developed, for hiring a consultant to review the work of member agencies in more detail, and to provide some insight into where there might be synergies or overlaps.

NEW!! Strategic Planning 10-12 April, London, UK
http://www.intrac.org/training.php?id=43
This strategic planning course is designed to help organisations establish a set of key measurements, match these measurements with targets, and plan appropriate resource levels. Setting up a monitoring performance system is also covered in this course. Contact: training@intrac.org

Studies on the impact of trade agreements on sustainable development: assessment and prospects
http://www.gret.org
14 April - Paris, France:
Organised by the French Ministry of Ecology and Sustainable Development, and GRET, Research and Technological Exchange Group. The seminar, which will be given in French and English, aims specifically to bring together experts involved in impact assessments and sustainable development (the ministries of EU member states, international organisations, and research institutes, the private sector, and NGOs) so as to take stock of impact assessments and reflect on operational ways to improve this tool. For further information, contact Isabel Berest, tel: +33 1 40 05 61 51; berest@gret.org

Training on SME Export Consortia Development
http://www.unido.org/file-storage/download/?file_id=48198
26-30 June 2006 , ILO Centre, Turin, Italy
The objective of this course is to provide practitioners in the field of SME and export promotion with the necessary knowledge and skills to promote export consortia.

Future events in BDS
Have a look at the extensive list of forthcoming events on the BDS knowledge website
http://www.bdsknowledge.org/dyn/bds/bdssearch.details?p_phase_id=241&p_lang=en&p_phase_type_id=6

February 2006

Workshop: poverty reduction, equity, and growth: new issues and findings, Germany
http://www.eldis.org/cf/rdr/rdr.cfm?doc=DOC20891
Kiel Institute of World Economics/Institut fur Weltwirtschaft (2006)
On April 28 2006, the Poverty Reduction, Equity and Growth Network (PEGNet) will hold a workshop, poverty reduction, equity, and growth: new issues and findings at the Kiel Institute for World Economics, Kiel, Germany.

Scholarships for MA students from Africa
- Deadline 1 March 2006 -
http://www.ascleiden.nl/research/MPhil/
In close cooperation with Leiden University, the African Studies Centre offers a two-year Research Masters in African Studies (MPhil). The degree qualifies graduates for further research in academia at PhD level, or for positions in policy-making and/or in management, for example in the NGO sector.

European Union, Latin America and Caribbean Business Summit
http://www.eulac2006.com
Vienna ? Austria, May 11 ? 13, 2006, Belvedere Castle
The EU-LAC Business Summit takes place in Vienna on May 12th, 2006 and convenes Chief Executive Officers from both continents. The Business Summit provides an excellent forum to encounter business opportunities, but also to analyse and discuss urgent requests from the business communities of Europe, Latin America and the Caribbean with regard to bilateral trade relations and direct investment. EU-LAC Business Summit Office, Hotline: +43 664 4023030 Conference fee: Euro 840,?

Participatory Monitoring and Evaluation
http://www.iirr.org
This course is intended for development leaders and executives who design and manage community-based development programs or projects, and extension officers and field personnel that implement them. The course provides a facilitative learning environment conducive to a cooperative yet challenging self-assessment and shared discourse about conventional and participatory monitoring and evaluation (PM&E) concepts and practices.

IX Inter-American Forum on Microenterprise
http://www.iadb.org/sds/foromic/?language=English
Quito - Ecuador, September 13-15, 2006
Info: foromic@iadb.org

Techno-Fair - New Technologies for Microfinance
http://www.capaf.org/Technofoire_Dakar2006.html
Dakar - Senegal, 23-25 February 2006

Asia Microfinance Forum
http://http//www.bwtp.org/asiamicrofinance/
Beijing - China, 21-24 March 2006

Governance and Companies Involvement in Cluster Initiative
http://www.competitiveness.org/article/view/742
Lyon - France, October 9 to 13, 2006

WAIPA World Investment Conference 2006
Washington, DC - USA, 8-9 March 2006
The Rise of New Players and New Forms of FDI. A workshop will present successful experiences of investment promotion agencies from the Balkans and Africa.

Macroeconomic Policy in the Franc Zone: What can the European Central Bank Learn from Africa?
http://www.oecd.org/document/44/0,2340,en_2649_33731_36063212_1_1_1_1,00.html
Paris - France, 21 February 2006, 3-5 p.m., Room 4, OECD HQ,
Seminar organised by the OECD Development Centre and WIDER

January 2006

Professional Management of International Development Co-operation (promic) 2006
http://www.promic-training.com
AGEG Coop., the German Association of Development Consultants and PARTICIP Ltd., Consultants for Development and Environment, are pleased to announce the first training programme for Professional Management of International Development Co-operation: promic. promic is a comprehensive, international training course taking into account the most recent trends in this field. It is designed to provide you with a coherent set of tools for an effective management of development interventions. The training course consists of 4 modules with an optional fifth module and will take place, three times between March and July 2006, at different venues: Brussels, Bratislava and Berlin. To join the promic mailing list in order to be continuously updated on programme information and further offerings or to receive a hard copy of the 2006 brochure, please send us an e-mail to info@promic-training.com

Academia de Verano sobre Desarrollo Económico Local
http://www.mesopartner.com/academia-verano/index.html
6.-10. March 2006, Buenos Aires, Argentina
Evento diseñado para estimular el intercambio entre diferentes especialistas en DET provenientes de distintas partes del mundo.
Compartir nuevas ideas surgidas de las prácticas de consultoría de Mesopartner y de otros profesionales reconocidos académicamente. Se estima que participen de este intercambio veinticinco participantes que trabajan en DET, provenientes de países de Latinoamérica. Costo: 1.600 EUR. Consultas: Ute D. Mayer, AdV@mesopartner.com

Devcareers - Vacancies in international co-operation
http://eadi.org/devcareers
EADI has launched DevCareers - This new service of EADI gives job seekers direct connection to potential employers in international co-operation. See
It covers: academic & teaching positions in development related fields, consultancy jobs, jobs related to humanitarian aid and development cooperation, jobs at international aid agencies and development NGOs, research fellowships in development related fields.

New seminar programme of cinfo
http://www.cinfo.ch/index_e.html
The Center for Information, Advice and Training - Professions relating to International Cooperation has published its new seminar programme for 2006. See

devtrain online: EADI training database
http://www.devtrain.org
Search devtrain online, the EADI Training Database giving access to post- and undergraduate programmes and training courses with a focus on development issues from 28 European countries.

Training events on Development Gateway
http://topics.developmentgateway.org/mdg/calendar/default/viewListEvents.do?intcmp=903
You can search and even add an event yourself.

AGF Lecture: Professor Dennis J. Snower on ''New Directions for Labour Market Policy”
http://www.agf.org.uk/events/Invitation%20Snower%20PDF.pdf
We have the pleasure of inviting you to our Anglo-German Foundation lecture in Berlin on 17 January 2006 with Professor Dennis J. Snower, President of the Kiel Institute for World Economics , who will speak about labour market policies and present his views on the necessary reforms.

2nd edition of the Training Academy Forum (2-5 March, Germany): registrations open
http://www.eurochambres.be/academy/application_Training06/EUROChambres-MUNICH.pdf
Chamber managers/experts directly involved in training and education activities are invited to join the 2nd Academy Forum on Vocational Training & Education on 2-5 March 2006 in Westerham (Germany). Contact: Julie Hertsens, hertsens@eurochambres.be Online Registration: http://www.eurochambres.be/academy/academy.php?id=046

AFD/EUDN CONFERENCE: Financing Development: What Are the Challenges in Expanding Aid Flows?
http://www.afd.fr/jahia/Jahia/home/Home_conference/lang/en
The Agence Française de Développement (AFD) and the European Development Research Network (EUDN) organized their third conference: ''Financing Development: What are the Challenges in Expanding Aid Flows?” on December 14th, 2005 in Paris. The programme and papers are all available for download on the conference Website.

Competitiveness Partnership - Public-Private Dialogue
http://www.competitiveness.org/article/view/700
The World Bank and the DFID are organizing a workshop on Public-Private Dialogue in Paris, February 1-2, 2006 in The World Bank Paris Conference Center. The aim is to bring together key stakeholders from widely diverse sectors, including both local and central governmental agencies and private sector advocates, ranging from non governmental organziations, scholars, donors and leading experts in the field in a workshop to examine Public-Private experiences and initiatives currently under way around the workd adn determine which strategies are working and which aren't and why.

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