2010 MDG Review Summit

Posted by Vincenzo on September 20, 2010 under Articles, News | Be the First to Comment

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Officially called the High-Level Plenary Meeting of the General Assembly, the review summit on the Millennium Development Goals convenes in New York between 20 – 22 September 2010.
The summit is an opportunity to re-energise the global commitment to achieve the eight time-bound goals and agree on a concrete action plan towards meeting the Goals by their target date of 2015.
Achieving the MDGs is possible. We have the experience, the technology, the money and the plan to address the challenges systematically. What we need is the will to put it into action.
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New testimonial for ‘Defining Development’ – A new form of competition, the Humanitarian Competition.

Posted by Fausto Aarya De Santis on May 28, 2010 under Articles, News | 3 Comments to Read

Against a global competition based on military, political or economic force, Tsunesaburo Makiguchi – a forward-thinking geographer, educational theorist and religious reformer, founder, in 1930, of the Soka Gakkai -  defined a new form of competition, what he termed the humanitarian competition.

Makiguchi saw this shift not as merely representing a change in the venue or form of competition, but a qualitative transformation, from a winner-takes-all style of competition, to one conducted within a consciously acknowledged framework of cooperation, what today might be called a “win-win” mode of competition.

This concept of Humanitarian Competition, introduced by Makiguchi about one century ago, has been deepened and developed nowadays by Daisaku Ikeda, the current President of Soka Gakkai, with its Peace Proposal to the United Nations (2009)

→ Read the Article - http://www.eugad.eu/wiki/index.php?title=Humanitarian_Competition:_a_key_paradigm_for_the_twenty-first_century

→ Read about Development Aid – http://www.eugad.eu/wiki/index.php?title=Defining_Development

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Draft Manual chapters on “Designing and Managing Program and Projects” published on the Wiki

Posted by Stefano on May 12, 2010 under Articles, News | Be the First to Comment

The draft version of the manual articles on  Managing Programs and on Designing and Executing Projects have been published on the Wiki.     See ⇒ http://www.eugad.eu/wiki/index.php?title=Manuals.