MED Info 7 (SEPTEMBER 1999)
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Málaga (Spain), 18th, 19thand 20th November 1999.
We would like to communicate you that the registration time is still open to participate on the Mediterranean Conference Protected areas, preservation of biodiversity and sustainable development in the Mediterranean to be held in Malaga (Spain) on 18, 19 and 20 November 1999.
You can participate in the Conference with an experience or project about the management and conservation of biodiversity which contributes to the sustainable development of local communities, in which your organisation is involved.
You can find a form for the presentation of your experience or project. You can also find and fill in this form on line on the following Web Site: www.medforum.org/malaga. You can ask for it by phone (+34 934 12 55 99).
We will select 20 of the experience and projects received, on different topics, to be presentd at the Conference by which submit them.
The deadline for reception of applications is Monday, 20 September 1999.
(We received the following text from Moustapha Chouikha (Africa). We publish it uncutly)
The moderator of the
african2000@egroups.com group would like to invite you to join the group.This is an invitation to be a part of history! You are cordially invited to join a great discussion team in preparation for the First International African Continental and Global Youth Assembly under the auspices of the Twenty-first Century African Youth Movement and collaborating organizations.
The gathering will take place in Freetown, the capital city of Sierra Leone from Monday, May 21 through Saturday, May 26, 2001. At this conference, young people from all over Africa and the African Diaspora will gather in Freetown, the Capital City of Sierra Leone, to celebrate PEACE (Participation Ensures Advancement and Concerns Everyone) and to map out strategies for African and African Diaspora youth collaboration.
The conference will focus on two projects: Access To Technology and the creation of an International Youth Business Mentoring Program. These two projects will be at the core of the working group to the Continental Youth Assembly.
You are receiving this email because you are an African or, a descendant of Africans and your input is valuable. You may also have a lot of ideas to contribute to the success of this movement and to the Assembly. Please feel free to be a part of this discussion group.
Two thousand years of history is at an end. We as a people must come to terms
with the end of the second millennium and define our needs for the third.
Let us give our time and support to the youth of Africa. Let us understand that the adults of today's generation were the youth of yesterday - the youth who fought to get us where we are today. Let us understand that poverty is a disease that can destroy our people in this age of greed and avarice. Let us build the link.spiritually, culturally, socially, politically and economically. We believe that those of us who will come forward and make this vision a reality will be on our way to fulfilling the many challenges and responsibilities that our ancestors called upon us to undertake.
The mission of the Twenty-first Century African Youth Movement is to inspire the youth of Africa and its Diaspora to establish a firm spiritual, cultural, social, political and economic link. Please join the discussion group.play your part.and leave the rest to history.
Sachsen-Anhalt (Germany), June 28 - July 2, 2000.
From June 28 to July 2, 2000 the International Council for Local Environmental Initiatives (ICLEI) will hold Global Cities21 - World Congress of Local Governments, in Sachsen-Anhalt, Germany. The Congress is being held under the patronage of Prime Minister Dr. Höppner, and is hosted by the Land of Sachsen-Anhalt, and organised with the support of Sachsen-Anhalt and the EXPO 2000 Sachsen-Anhalt GmbH.
I CONFERENCE AND PROJECT COORDINATOR
"URBAN ENVIRONMENT / LOCAL AGENDA 21"
The European Secretariat of the International Council for Local Environmental Initiatives (ICLEI) is seeking candidates for the position of Project Manager for international projects in the field of "Urban Environment, Local Agenda 21". Commencement date: as soon as possible/ early autumn 1999
Responsibilities include:
Tasks in relation to the coordination of events include:
Qualification required
Please send your application, including CV, description of main interests, references, supporting documents and photo, to:
International Council for Local Environmental Initiatives (ICLEI)
European Secretariat Eschholzstrasse 86 D-79115 Freiburg/ Germany Fax:
+49-761 / 3 68 92-19 E-mail: iclei-europe@iclei-europe.org
II. JUNIOR COORDINATOR,
EUROPEAN ECO-PROCUREMENT INITIATIVE
The European Secretariat of the International Council for Local Environmental Initiatives (ICLEI) is seeking candidates for the position of Junior Coordinator, European Eco-Procurement Initiative
The position is available from 15 September 1999
Responsibilities include:
Qualification required
Please send your application, including CV, description of main interests, references, supporting documents and photo, to:
International Council for Local Environmental Initiatives (ICLEI)
European Secretariat Eschholzstrasse 86 D-79115 Freiburg/ Germany Fax:
+49-761 / 3 68 92-19 E-mail: iclei-europe@iclei-europe.org
III. INTERNSHIPS ON OFFER
1. LOCAL AGENDA 21
2. ECOPROCUREMENT INITIATIVE
3. ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT SYSTEMS/ECOBUDGET PILOT PROJECT
Duration: 3-6 months, commencing between now and September
Qualifications required:
Framework conditions:
Getting a work permit may take up to 4 months.
When you would like to start/end the internship to:
International Council for Local Environmental Initiatives (ICLEI)
European Secretariat Eschholzstrasse 86 D-79115 Freiburg/ Germany
Fax: +49-761 / 3 68 92-19 E-mail: iclei-europe@iclei-europe.org
What is ICLEI?
As a membership association, ICLEI is an international community of about 350 local authorities dedicated to achieving tangible improvements in the global environment. In Europe some 140 local authorities and 8 municipal associations have joined. ICLEI members are interested in and working towards measurable environmental performance. These members work together to develop new models and tools for addressing priority environmental problems and disseminate these results through ICLEI's networks and international campaigns. ICLEI serves as the international environmental agency for local government, offering research, technical assistance and training services to its member local authorities as well as to other local, regional, national and European authorities. The types of services provided by ICLEI on a contractual basis include:
For further information on ICLEI: http//www.iclei.org.
Stefanie Lay
Office Manager
Secretary to the European Director
ICLEI European Secretariat
Eschholzstrasse 86
D-79115 Freiburg/Germany
Phone: +49-761 / 3 68 92-0 E-Mail: iclei-europe@iclei-europe.org
Fax: +49-761 / 3 68 92-19 WWW: http://www.iclei.org
ICLEI´s International Training Centre (ITC)
Eschholzstrasse 86
D-79115 Freiburg/Germany
Phone: +49-761 / 3 68 92-20
Fax: +49-761 / 3 68 92-29
E-Mail: training.centre@iclei-europe.org WWW:
http://www.iclei.org
Amman, Jordania.
4-11 October 2000
IUCN Elections. Call for nominations. The members are invited to:
The deadline to receive the proposals is January 15th, 1999. It will be convenient to send the proposals a long time before the deadline.
Environment and Development in the Mediterranean Intensive Training Programme for Mediterranean Journalists
Tampere (Finland), August-September 1999
November-December 1999
Introduction
Possibilities for the general public to get information on questions and the situation regarding the environment in the South and East of the Mediterranean remain very limited. To improve this situation we propose an intensive training programme in the field of the environment intended mainly for Maghreb journalists (Tampere) and for those of the Middle East (location still remains open). Journalists from all Partnership, countries are invited to take part in this training.
This training programme will be organised by TAPRI (Tampere Peace Research Institute), by DMJ (Media and Journalism department), both of Tampere University, as well as by REMFOC (Euro-Maghreb Network for Training in Communications skills), Paris-Algiers, and Fortem Internatíonal, Paris-Oran.
Organisations such as Blue Plan (Sophia Antipolis, France) and "Environment and Development" (specialised review, Beirut, Lebanon) as well as a Syrian NGO (Damascus) have expressed their will to join these efforts. In addition, the International Federation of Journalists of the Environment and Università del Mediterraneo (Rome) with its Review RIVE, will contribute to the distribution of the results.
Objectives
The aims of this intensive programme are to give specific training to journalists who already have experience on the environment.
Firstly, the training programme aims to increase their knowledge of the problems of the environment in the Mediterranean. It concentrates on these questions at the local and national level as well as on their international dependence.
Secondly, the training programme aims to improve their capacity to produce texts on the problems of their environment.
Thirdly, the programme aims to facilitate contacts between journalists specialised in questions of the environment in the various Mediterranean countries to increase their expression capacity.
Fourthly, the specific aim is to be able to make the general public and civil society more aware of questions concerning the environment.
Structures and duration
The training phases last a week (7+2 days) each and take place in three phases:
The first phase is devoted to an exposition and exchanges on the environmental problems at regional and local levels.
The second phase is devoted to, identifying, analysing and improving the functions and skills of the environmental journalists of the region.
The last phase is devoted to production by the participants of a booklet on the subject of the seminar.
Place and date
The first phase of this training programme is planned to take place in Tampere under the auspices of the TAPRI in August-September 1999. The second phase will take place in November-December 1999 the place remains still open.
Participants and organisation
For each of the phases about forty participants of various newspapers of their region already having a preliminary professional experience on the subject of the environment are invited. This involves the main national newspapers in Arabic and European languages of various countries such as El Watan in Algeria, Le Matin in Morocco, Le Temps in Tunisia, and Al Ahram in Egypt.
The intention is that all the countries of the South and the East of the Mediterranean are represented among the participants as well as those of Member States of the EU who are interested.
The co-ordinators are the organising institutes as well as the representatives of the organisations which cooperate in this programme. They will be supplemented by some journalists, professionally specialised in questions of the environment.
In Lebanon, the review "Environnement et Développement" which cooperates with this training, has a print run of 28.500 copies and is distributed in 22 countries, the RIVE Review is distributed to almost a hundred Mediterranean universities.
European Commission, DG IB A4, April 1999
The European Centre for Nature Conservation (ECNC) is established in 1993 with the purpose to further European nature conservation by bridging gap between science and policy. ECNC has become a renowned expertise centre offering support to the development, review and implementation of European nature conservation policies.
The World Rainforest Movement is a global network of citizens' groups of North and South involved in efforts to defend the world's rainforests against the forces that destroy them. It works to secure the lands and livelihoods of forest peoples and supports their efforts to defend the forests from commercial logging, dams, mining, plantations, shrimp farms, colonisation and settlement and other projects that threaten them.
