[weitzenegger.de] November 2009

[Karsten Weitzenegger]

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CONTENT

1. UN Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen
2. WDR 2010: Development and climate protection can go together
3. Oxfam: 'Rich countries must not raid aid to pay climate debt'
4. Survey on how to design a climate agreement
5. Strengthening EU development cooperation under the Lisbon Treaty
6. New reports assess EU policy coherence for development
7. Official launch of the ACP Migration Facility
8. Publications
9. Training and Events
10. Websites of the Month

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Take a Deep Thought
It always seems impossible until it's done. Nelson Mandela.
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1. UN Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen

Over a decade ago, most countries joined an international treaty -- the United Nations
Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) -- to begin to consider what can be
done to reduce global warming and to cope with whatever temperature increases are
inevitable. More recently, a number of nations approved an addition to the treaty: the
Kyoto Protocol, which has more powerful (and legally binding) measures. The Kyoto
Protocol is an international and legally binding agreement to reduce greenhouse gas
emissions worldwide entered into force on 16 February 2005.

The UNFCCC secretariat supports all institutions involved in the climate change
process, particularly the COP (Conference of the Parties), the subsidiarybodies and
their Bureau. To help countries meet their emission targets, and to encourage the
private sector and developing countries to contribute to emission reduction efforts,
negotiators of the Protocol included three market-based mechanisms – Emissions
Trading, the Clean Development Mechanism and Joint Implementation.

Related Weblinks:
United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change UNFCCC: http://www.unfccc.int
Denmark's COP15 website: http://en.cop15.dk
General press info: http://www.pressinfo.cop15.dk
COP15 calendar: http://www.calendar.cop15.dk
Official Tweets: http://twitter.com/cop15
Climate change in Google Earth: http://www.google.com/landing/cop15/
YouTube - Cop15's Channel: http://www.youtube.com/user/Cop15
SID Forum Update: http://www.sidint.net/intl-agenda/climate-change/

TckTckTck | The World is Ready: http://tcktcktck.org
TckTckTck is the hub for stories on how hundreds of millions of people around the
world are coming together to show world leaders we are ready for a new climate deal.

Interactive map and reporting system for the CDM
http://cdm.unfccc.int/Projects/MapApp
The CDM project map shows the location of CDM activities worldwide. Visitors can
travel around the globe and learn about the location and many details of each project.
In addition to this, a series of new graphs provide detailed breakdowns about the
range, distribution of such projects that highlight national participation, project
impacts and the status of project registration.
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2. WDR 2010: Development and climate protection can go together

Developing countries can shift to lower-carbon paths while promoting development and
reducing poverty – if they receive financial and technical assistance from high-income
countries. This is among the findings of the World Development Report (WDR) 2010,
published by the World Bank. It is key, thus the report, that industrialised countries
curb their carbon dioxide emissions and foster the development of alternative energy
sources. ''If developed countries act now, a ‘climate-smart’ world isfeasible, and
the costs for getting there will be high but still manageable”, says the report, which
was produced with an eye to the upcoming United Nations climate summit due
mid-December in Copenhagen, Denmark.

Developing countries face 75–80 percent of the potential damage from climate change.
They therefore urgently need help to prepare for the impacts – drought,fl oods and
rising sea levels. They also need assistance to intensify agricultural production,
combat malnutrition and disease, and build climate resilient infrastructure. The
current financial crisis cannot be an excuse to put climate protection onthe back
burner, the report warns. Source: World Bank, http://www.worldbank.org/wdr2010
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3. Oxfam: 'Rich countries must not raid aid to pay climate debt'

A new Oxfam report has warned that at least 4.5 million children could die unless
world leaders deliver additional funds to help poor countries fight the growing impact
of climate change, rather than diverting it from existing aid promises. The report,
'Beyond Aid,' also warns that at least 75 million fewer children are likely to attend
school and 8.6 million fewer people could have access to HIV/AIDS treatment if aid is
diverted to help poor countries tackle climate change. Without at least $50 billion a
year in addition to the 0.7 per cent of national income rich countries have already
pledged as aid, recent progress toward the Millennium Development Goals could stall
and then go into reverse. Source: Oxfam, http://tinyurl.com/yc5atwj
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4. CGDEV's Survey on how to design a climate agreement

The Center for Global Development launched a survey on how to design a climate
agreement that is environmentally effective, economically efficient, and fair. The 15
questions about climate policy in this survey present you with some of the same
choices that climate negotiators are weighing, and that global leaders will tackle at
Copenhagen and beyond. An important goal of the survey is to discover on which aspects
of a climate agreement people from different backgrounds agree, and on which they
disagree. The Center hopes to discover on which issues there is agreementamong people
who share a commitment to development but come from different backgrounds, and on
which issues a consensus has yet to emerge.
http://www.join.cgdev.org/site/R?i=loPmIQsFmx3x-L5kZS-Nuw
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5. Strengthening EU development cooperation under the Lisbon Treaty

The expected introduction of the European Union’s (EU) Lisbon Treaty in2010 will
fundamentally alter how EU external action is conducted. This presents both risks and
opportunities for EU development cooperation. The general expectation of EU Member
States’ Senior Officials is that progress in EU integration and a stronger EU profile
in the world would strengthen EU development cooperation and improve policy coherence
for development This would also help to ensure better cooperation with partner
countries in the South. But there were varying assessments on how these aspirations
might best be achieved. See the ECDPM background document. Source: ECDPM.
http://dev.afflux.com/ecdpm/manager2/link.php?ID=1125
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6. New reports assess EU policy coherence for development

The European Commission published a progress report of the Policy Coherence for
Development (PCD) approach launched in 2005 as part of the European Consensus on
Development. The PCD review published in late September says that its framework
''allows for a systematic exploration of the effects that EU policies other than aid
might have on development and on the achievement of the MDGs. The European Commission
claims that these are ''powerful mechanisms to promote PCD”. Source: CTA.
http://www.eurodad.org/whatsnew/articles.aspx?id=3883
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7. Official launch of the ACP Migration Facility
http://www.acp.int/en/sg/migration09/acpmigration09_workshop.html
The ACP Migration Facility aiming to support the African, Caribbean and Pacific
countries to better understand and manage the flow of migration within their borders,
was officially launched on the 27th and 28th October in Brussels. This took place
during a workshop organised by the ACP Secretariat in collaboration with the European
Commission’s EuropeAid Cooperation Office (AIDCO). Source: ACP Secretariat.
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8. Publications | More: http://www.weitzenegger.de/en/publications.html

'Beyond Economics' - Launch of SID's Development journal
http://tinyurl.com/yg52pap
The latest issue of Development, the flagship journal of the Society for International
Development, has just been published. Entitled ‘'Beyond Economics' Volume 52 number 3
takes up the challenge of rethinking the culture of economics in the wakeof the
current financial crisis. It explores what needs to change in economic theory and
policy in order to address the food, finance, climate and (the less visible) care crises.

Africa Consolidates on Macro-economic Progress
http://www.uneca.org/gpad/agr2/macro-economicagrii.pdf
The second edition of the African Governance Report (AGR II) published bythe Economic
Commission for Africa (ECA) indicates that substantial progress has been achieved in
the macroeconomic environment. Growth rates, lower inflation rates and public finance
management improvements mark the economic plane in Africa.

Beyond Planning: Markets and Networks for Better Aid. Center for Global Development.
http://www.cgdev.org/content/publications/detail/1422971/
According to this document, the political economy of aid agencies is driven by
incomplete information and multiple competing objectives and confounded by
principal-agent and collective-action problems. Policies to improve aid rely too much
on a planning paradigm that tries to ignore, rather than change, the political economy
of aid. A considered combination of market mechanisms, networked collaboration, and
collective regulation would be more likely to lead to significant improvements. The
priority should be on reforms that put pressure on the aid system to evolve in the
right direction rather than on grand designs.

Busting the cluster myths
http://tinyurl.com/ybdfnmn
Conventional wisdom states that being part of a cluster is integral to companies
operating within certain sectors. Lara Williams at FDI Magazine investigates whether
business clusters justify the huge hype that surrounds them. Despite a common belief
that industry clusters are good for local economies, it is still not clear what the
concept means from a company perspective.

Do CCTs Lessen the Impact of the Current Economic Crisis? Yes, but...
http://www.ipc-undp.org/pub/IPCOnePager96.pdf
The recent financial and economic crisis has sparked a debate on whether conditional
cash transfer (CCT) programmes make families less vulnerable to that crisis. This link
between the crisis and CCTs was made because countries like Brazil, whichhave large
CCT programmes, were enduring the impacts better than most others. Produced by: The
International Policy Centre for Inclusive Growth

First European Report on Development
http://erd.eui.eu
The first European Report on Development (ERD), entitled 'Overcoming Fragility in
Africa – Forging a New European Approach', was launched on 22nd October. The report
focuses on the issue of fragility in its various dimensions, on its implications for
development policies and on the approaches to tackle it. The ERD is a multi-annual
process which aims to enhance a European perspective on development issues by building
common ground between the European research community and policy-makers.

Global Value Chains, Technology Transfer and Local Firm Upgrading in Non-OECD Countries
http://www.giga-hamburg.de/workingpapers
Drawing on innovation and growth models as much as on value chain literature, Juliane
Brach and Robert Kappel outline an analytical model for empirical research on local
firm upgrading in non-OECD countries and technology transfer within global value
chains. GIGA Working Paper No 110.

GTZ Value Chains Promotion Guideline from El Salvador
Volume 1: Private sector (Entrepreneurs)
http://www2.gtz.de/dokumente/bib/gtz2009-0215en-value-chains-private-sector.pdf
Volume 2: Business Development Service Providers (BDS)
http://www2.gtz.de/dokumente/bib/gtz2009-0216en-value-chains-bds.pdf
The objective in this GFA guide by Carmen Langner and Wolfgang Demenusis to lead in a
direct and practical way to the development and promotion of value chainsin the
Salvadoran context. It emphasizes in opportunities and benefits that a chain promotion
can offer entrepreneur actors, explaining its won role and the support they can get
from different institutions. Volume 2 is addressed to BDS providers.

Handbook on Women-owned SMEs:
Challenges and Opportunities in Policies and Programmes
http://www.globalknowledgepartnership.org/gkp/index.cfm/elementid/3596
In this book, a number of authors who come from different parts of the world and who
have complementary experience, venture into issues confronting WOEs with respect to
knowledge and competence development. Discussing and comparing the situation of WOEs
in different countries and under varying circumstances, the contributionsto this book
assume a global outlook.

Joint evaluations - Challenges and Opportunities
http://www.sadev.se/Uploads/Files/338.pdf
This SADEV study was commissioned by OECD DAC Evaluation Network.
With an increasing number of donors having experience in working jointly on
evaluations, it is a valuable exercise to capture these donors’ perceptions of joint
evaluation work. This should pave the way for finding opportunities and approaches for
overcoming remaining obstacles, permitting an increased reliance on – and hence
increased participation in – joint evaluations.

Private sector led growth and development cooperation
http://www.diis.dk/sw85609.asp
This DIIS paper goes through the history of and rationale for support to the private
sector, and it identifies a number of distinct approaches to the subject.Moreover,
the paper discusses these approaches in the context of the Paris Declaration and notes
a conspicuous lack of coherence between the approaches to private sector development
and the principles of the Declaration.

Social Watch Report 2009 - Making finances work: People first
http://www.socialwatch.org/node/799
People first, Over sixty reports from civil society organizations around the world
show that the only way out of the current ecological and economic crisis is to invest
in people.

The Global Economic Crisis Hampers Human Development. How?
http://www.ipc-undp.org/pub/IPCOnePager95.pdf
For developing economies the current crisis means reduced demand for their exports, a
decline in capital inflows and lower income from tourism. This One Pager discusses the
transmission of the crisis from changes in aggregate variables to its impact on
progress towards human development. The focus is on African economies. Produced by:
The International Policy Centre for Inclusive Growth.

Theory, General Equilibrium, Political Economy and Empirics in Development Economics
http://tinyurl.com/ycqz5kq
Daron Acemoglu argues in this paper that economic theory plays (should play) a central
role in formulating models, estimates of which can be used for counterfactual and
policy analysis. He emphasises why relying solely on instruments for thistype of
analysis may be insufficient, and discusses why, in certain instances, counterfactual
analysis based on microdata that ignores general equilibrium and political economy
issues may lead to misleading conclusions.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. October 2009.
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9. Training and Events | More: http://www.weitzenegger.de/en/training.html

Follow the major development cooperation events on our
Event Calendar: http://www.weitzenegger.de/en/training.html
See job opportunities from all over at Weitzenegger's International Development Job
Market
http://www.weitzenegger.de/new/jobmarket.php

UMCK E-learning portal (DANIDA Danmark)
http://www.open-e-learning.danida-dccd.dk
The MFA Competence Centre has recently launched the E-learning Portal. Inaddition to
the online activities provided for MFA staff, the new E-learning Portal offers a range
of courses developed for external users. Now available: Gender Equality in Practice,
Anti-corruption E-learning Course, Travel Security and Safety.

European Microfinance Week 2009, Meet the makers of sustainable finance
http://www.e-mfp.eu
Luxembourg, 24-29 November 2009, Abbaye de Neumunster
The European Microfinance Week 2009 is a forum open to all European microfinance
professionals interested in microfinance in developing countries, where key players
provide an overview of the latest issues in a sector which has diversified into a
variety of financial services with social objectives. Participants will have the
opportunity to meet and share experience with European players from key sectors:
financial institutions, NGOs and universities, as well as representativesof
policy-making bodies.

Workshop: Promoting Global Value Chains: The Role of Governance
http://www.eadi.org/index.php?id=1120
Maastricht, Netherlands, 26-27 November 2009
EADI Working Group on Industrialisation Strategies in co-operation with Maastricht
School of Management.

Impact Evaluation Workshop
http://tinyurl.com/yz48uzt
Bonn, Germany, 1 December 2009, 11-17 h, German Development Institute DIE
The German Development Institute together with the Ministry for Economic Corporation
and Development will host a workshop on current trends in Impact Evaluation. The event
will start with a Public Lecture of Howard White, Director of the International
Initiative for Impact Evaluation (3IE), one of the leading experts of impact
evaluation in the field of Development Corporation. Howard White will inform about the
recent trends in impact evaluation and about the function of the organization he is
currently heading. Must register with Gisela Kuhlmann, Gisela....@die-gdi.de.

Annual Joint Conference of the French Development Agency (AFD) and the European
Development Network (EUDN)
http://www.afd.fr/jahia/Jahia/lang/en/home/EUDN2009
Paris, France, 9 December 2009
The conference aims at covering the issue ''Fragmentation in a GlobalizedWorld'' by
adopting the standpoint of major regions of the world: Asia, Europe, Middle-East,
Sub-Saharan Africa et Latin America.

Enterprise Development through Value Chains and Business Service Markets:
A Market Development approach to Pro-Poor Growth
http://marketdev.itcilo.org
online, 15 March - 30 November 2010
This ILO-ITC course ramps-up your enterprise development program using the experience
from effective enterprise development programs that have reached tens or hundreds of
thousands of small enterprises, helping them to grow and improve the lives of owners
and employees. A well experienced team of international experts will support you along
the learning process. Practical tools and strategies for developing valuechains and
business service markets are delivered to you at a distance and in person.

4th ValueLinks Introductory Training Seminar
http://www.idc-aachen.de/english/2_4.html
Oestrich-Winkel, Germany, 12-16 April 2010
The objective is to enhance the skills of participants in designing, implementing and
monitoring value chain upgrading projects. The know-how covers both technical subjects
and facilitation skills working with groups of entrepreneurs, business associations
and public institutions.

International Executive Master in Development Studies (IMAS)
http://graduateinstitute.ch/executive/imas
Course at The Graduate Institute Geneva
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10. Websites of the Month | More Weblinks: http://delicious.com/weitzenegger

African Arguments Online
http://africanarguments.org
Hosted by the Royal African Society and the Social Science Research Council, African
Arguments Online shall get the site of the most vigorous debates on Africa available
on the web. This is a counterpart to the African Arguments book series.

African Rural Energy Enterprise Development (AREED)
http://www.areed.org
AREED, an inititive of the United Nations Environment Programme seeks to develop new
sustainable energy enterprises that use clean, efficient, and renewable energy
technologies to meet the energy needs of under-served populations, thereby reducing
the environmental and health consequences of existing energy use patterns.

Capacity4Dev.eu
http://capacity4dev.ec.europa.eu
An interactive website supporting the European Commission's reform of technical
co-operation. The platform is an open forum where EC staff at country level and in
headquarters, development practitioners, partner countries, other donors,academics
and civil society representatives can share ideas and knowledge. Responding to a
strong demand for exchange and cross fertilisation, this new website, hasbeen set up
to support the EC's effort to reform the way it works with technical cooperation and
facilitate communication on the issue. It works - I did register with success, and new
users are coming in.

Development Data
http://www.developmentdata.org
Useful website with an extensive list of links to datasets that are freely available
on the internet. The site is maintained by Gunilla Peterson and organizedby topic
(aid, education, health, migration, governance, etc.). The data linked toare provided
by reputable international organisations and research institutions and data
documentation is available for all the data.

Europe’s World
http://www.europesworld.org
Europe’s World is the only independent Europe-wide policy journal, produced in
association with some over 100 leading European think tanks and academic institutions.
Its aim is to give readers direct access to the latest in policy thinkingacross the
EU, and encourage visitors to submit their own reports and comment on anyof the
contributions featured on the website.

Gapminder.org - For a fact based world view.
http://www.gapminder.org
Gapminder is a non-profit venture promoting sustainable global development and
achievement of the United Nations Millennium Development Goals by increased use and
understanding of statistics and other information about social, economic and
environmental development at local, national and global levels.

Irenees.net
http://www.irenees.net
Irenees.net constitutes a tool for assessing know-how, emerging from the numerous
initiatives for peace, destined to promote the exchange of knowledge and the
transversal nature of the various approaches in order to elaborate an international
expertise to aid in the progressive construction of an art of peace.

Kabissa launches new interactive Website
http://www.kabissa.org
Kabissa, an online network of over 1400 organisations working for positive change in
Africa, has recently launched a new website. The new site provides a central platform
for those with an interest in development issues in Africa to collaborateand share
ideas, through discussion groups, blogs and other interactive tools.

LenCD - Learning Network on Capacity Development
http://sites.google.com/site/lencdorg/
LenCD is an open Learning Network on Capacity Development that links manyinitiatives
globally and is supporting an evolving community of practice. Its objectives are to
facilitate the sharing of lessons and distill quality criteria for good practice;
promote research, share experiences, monitor outcomes and carry out otherempirical
work; foster country-level, regional and international dialogue and collaboration;
promote the mainstreaming of capacity development issues into agency operations; and
act as a key partner to advance the OECD/DAC’s capacity development agenda. You are
welcome to join.

MyC4
http://www.myc4.com
MyC4 raises capital for African entrepreneurs, and in so doing is striving to become a
significant tool in the fight to end extreme poverty. MYC4 is an online marketplace
that connects you directly with African entrepreneurs, who lack capital to develop
their businesses. We see a huge business potential in Africa waiting to be triggered.
MYC4 is the explosive.

New EU website goes live
http://europa.eu
The European Commission has launched a revamped version of its Europa website. After
two years of analysis and review, the EU executive hopes its new central web portal
will make for a simpler, more organised experience for EU citizens.
DG Development (http://ec.europa.eu/development/services/news_en.cfm) nowoffers an
I-Center (http://ec.europa.eu/development/icentergen_en.cfm) with personal Document
and Media Library, Publication catalogue and more features to come.

PostAdjust - Making the life easier for people making the world better
http://www.postadjust.org
Postadjust helps people living at duty stations around the world do things they would
have no problem doing at home. PostAdjust is open to staff of UN organizations, NGOs,
Diplomatic missions and other international development organizations. Members can
search vacancies from all UN-agencies and major Development Organizations, sell, rent
or buy everything they need to adjust to their situation, find updated, useful and
entertaining information about their duty station – and share their knowledge.

Pro€Invest
http://www.proinvest-eu.org
All information related to available tools of the Pro€Invest Programme such as
technical assistance will be easily accessible. New rubrics will also give you the
opportunity to discover all activities and projects of intermediary and regional
organizations that have worked with the Programme.

South Asia Social Accountability Network (SasaNet)
http://www.sasanet.org/
The SasaNet website is the electronic voice of the South Asia Social Accountability
Network and a key tool in capacity building and communication efforts of institutions
and individuals interested in social accountability. The website offers a
comprehensive knowledge base which includes conceptual information, set of tools, best
practices and case studies for facilitating enhanced social accountability in governance.

The European Microfinance Platform [e-MFP]
http://www.e-mfp.eu
e-MFP is a growing network of approximately 100 organisations and individuals active
in the area of microfinance. The principal objective is to promote co-operation
amongst European microfinance bodies working in developing countries, by facilitating
communication and the exchange of information. e-MFP members include banks, financial
institutions, government agencies, NGOs, consultancy firms, researchers and universities.

Twitter List: Development Cooperation
http://twitter.com/kweitzenegger/development-cooperation
Twitter Lists are a great way to organize the people you follow and discover new and
interesting accounts. The idea is to allow people to curate lists of Twitter accounts.
Other Twitter users can then subscribe to your lists. Check out my new list on
development cooperation news. Tell me if you want be part of it.





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