ATTENTION FOR CIVIL SOCIETY ORGANISATIONS BASED IN THE SOUTH IF YOU HAVE NOT RECEIVED THE FOLLOWING ANNOUNCEMENT

ATTENTION FOR CIVIL SOCIETY ORGANISATIONS BASED IN THE SOUTH IF YOU
HAVE NOT RECEIVED THE FOLLOWING ANNOUNCEMENT:

REMINDER: DEADLINE FOR NEW ACCREDITATIONS TO RIO+20 CONFERENCE IS 20
FEBRUARY 2012

NGOs and other Major Groups´ organizations that are not yet accredited
to the United Nations and wish to participate in the United Nations
Conference on Sustainable Development (Rio+20) will be offered a one
time opportunity to become accredited to Rio+20.
The deadline for new accreditations is 20 February 2012. Once your
registration is approved, your organization can pre-register
representatives until the general deadline of 20 may 2012.
To begin accreditation please visit:
http://www.uncsd2012.org/rio20/index.php?menu=90
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fundsforngos.org

fundsforngos.org is an online initiative, working for the sustainability of NGOs by increasing their access to donors, resources, and skills. It uses technology to spread knowledge and increase capacity

NGOs around the world all face unique challenges in attracting and maintaining resources for their programs. Though development funding is a multi-billion dollar pie many barriers prevent NGOs from successfully vying for these funds. First, announcements of funding competitions are fragmented all over the web and difficult to identify. Second, competition is strong and the application process arduous. How can NGOs spend less time fundraising and more time running programs?

This was the founding concept for fundsforngos.org – to help reduce these barriers for NGOs and practitioners at all levels, and of all sizes and sophistication. Providing users with free alerts on funding availability was an important first step. Starting out only a few years back with a trickle of users, the website is now generating millions of page views.

http://www.fundsforngos.org/category/bilateral-funds-for-ngos/

The Development of Civil Society in Central Asia

http://94.126.106.9/R4D/PDF/Outputs/Urbanisation/R7649-report.pdf

Use of civil society organisations to raise the voice of the poor in agricultural policy

http://dfid-agriculture-consultation.nri.org/summaries/wp14.pdf

New IIED REDD Working Paper

Dear Colleagues

The International Institute for Environment and Development is pleased to announce its latest REDD Working Paper:

Pro-poor benefit distribution in REDD+

Essam, Yassin Mohammed

Ensuring the poor or the most vulnerable sections of society benefit from REDD+ is key to building both national and international legitimacy, and foster successful delivery of conservation and social objectives. Equitable benefit sharing issues at a community or household level are overlooked in both academic and non-academic literature compared to distributional issues at international level. Therefore, this paper aims to look at some of the issues related to benefit distribution at village and household level.

Find out more and download.

You can also read our blog that highlights the key points in the paper, REDD+ project design: 10 points to consider so the poor don’t lose out.