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AID WORKER DIARY: Mapping Bolivia's floods
28 Jan 2008 14:55:00 GMT

Facilitator's Guide: Understanding Humanitarian Aid Worker Responsibilities: Sexual Exploitation and Abuse Prevention

I don't want to steer anyone away from the AWN advice pages as far as contributing material to help aid workers in their work (more contributors are w

The UN General Assembly and various UN agencies give each year several "international year of" designations.

Oxford Brookes University and Université de Paris XII Val de Marne are interested in providing a new Postgraduate Certificate award in 'Humanitarianism and Conflict' which would be studied by Distanc

In August 2008, more than 200 women’s rights organizations, women’s empowerment organisations, gender advocates and experts from all regions of the world attended the Accra International Women’s

Some 500 media experts from over 100 countries are attending the 2nd Global Forum for Media Development (GFMD) in Athens.

There are several AWN advice pages set up to offer specific advice on networking, partnering and coordinating with different players in aid and develo

Two gunmen equipped with AK-47 assault rifles and a hand grenade stopped a humanitarian convoy in Sudan’s war-ravaged Darfur region on December 4, beat up the aid workers and stole money in the late

"Creating Gender-Sensitive Migration Policy: Best Practices and Lessons Learned"

The Global Development Commons is asking for people to vote online for the most useful mobile tools that have been proposed for enhancing international development through the USAID Development 2.0 Ch

Noting that 80 percent of those with different abilities live in developing nations, UN chief Ban Ki-moon has highlighted the important role that can be played by people with disabilities in fighting

Event in Washington, DC, USA
Monday, December 15, 2008
4:00pm--5:30pm

As part of the series on "Demographics and Development in the 21st Century," Center for Global Development presents

You can easily share who you are with other AWN members via the AWN web site, even if you don't post to the AWN forum.

Just:
-- log in to the AWN web site

A reminder that the Aid Workers Network hosts a series of advice pages written by AWN members, and among these is a very detailed page on

Afghanistan has one of the worst infant and maternal mortality figures in the world.

Kabul, Nov 30: An Afghan woman employee of the UN has been killed in eastern Afghanistan, according to newswires.

The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has its Guide for Staff Relations with Civil Society Organizatio

The Bank is soliciting a wide variety of inputs to inform the future direction of its Website.

Please find below some of the latest information posted on UN Non-Governmental Liaison Service (NGLS)' special web site dedicated to the International Review