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Facts and trends
BMZ proposal for reforming voting rights at the World Bank
How fast the world population
After Cancún: future of G21 uncertain
Building democracies from outside takes a long time
Development Policy Media Prizes 2003
EU Commission to integrate development fund in the EU budget
Negotiations between EU and ACP states
SPD Forum: 'One World starts at home
New framework for GTZ projects: “Impact and objectives are crucial”
11/2003
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[ SPD Forum: 'One World starts at home' ]
The development cooperation programmes and initiatives of the Federal States and local authorities open doors for development policy in an area where it is otherwise too rarely found: at grass-roots level at home. This sentiment was expressed by Development Minister Heidemarie Wieczorek-Zeul at the SPD One World Forum conference staged at Willy Brandt House in Berlin on October 7. At it, under the motto 'One World starts at home', a good hundred participants discussed the development policy work of Federal States as well as local government organisations.
An initiative called Tagwerk came in for particular praise. On July 15, students from a total of 279 schools throughout Rhineland-Palatinate went into companies and offices to do a full day's work and earn money for development policy projects in Rwanda. This is a very valuable exercise – the delegates in Berlin heard – not just because of the money raised but also because of the long-term focus on One World issues in schools and the publicity such events generate.
Looking forward to the upcoming world conference on renewable energies in June 2004 in Bonn ('renewables 2004'), the participants voted in favour of state and local authorities playing an intensive part in the preparation process, among other things by arranging a conference on the role of local authorities. Konstantin Woinoff
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