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Invitation for Comments on World Bank President's speech
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Following is an invitation to participate in a open Internet discussion
with Jim Wolfensohn, President of the World Bank. On June 11, 1997 Mr.
Wolfensohn gave this year's Arnold Goodman Lecture in London as the guest
of The Charities Aid Foundation. You are in a unique position to respond to
his points or to place questions before him and the greater development
community on the role of the World Bank.
To participate:
1) go to http:/www.charitynet.org/ThinkTank.html
2) read Jim Wolfensohn's speech and the questions and answer part of the
presentation
3) go to topics for discussion.
[Topic 1] "What do people see as the role of the individual citizen in
development?"
Panelist: The Lord Dahrendorf (Lord Dahrendorf is Pro Vice Chancellor of
the University of Oxford, Warden of St. Anthony's College, Oxford and a
Governor of the London School of Economics, having been the latter's
director from 1974 to 1984. Lord Dahrendorf was a Trustee of the Ford
Foundation from 1976 to 1988 and chairman of Friederich Naumann Stiftung
from 1982 to 1988.)
[Topic 2] "What are the criteria by which we can judge the effectiveness of
development aid?"
Panelist: Murray Culshaw (Murray Culshaw is a development worker with a
long association with India and lives in Bangalore. His extensive
development experience is concentrated around Asia, and India primarily,
and to a lesser extent in East Africa. His professional background lies in
technical skills training with a rural bias; the socio-economic
rehabilitation of disabled persons; voluntary organisations management,
including five years as Director of Oxfam in India); and management
consultancy.)
[Topic 3] "Given the limited funding available, what possibilities are
there for fostering improved standards of living in economically
developing societies, whilst decreasing exploitation of these societies by
industrial ones?"
Panelist: Brion Battin Black (Brion Battin Black is the Director of the
International Counsel on Institutional Development, an European based
management and marketing consultancy for NGOs. He is also the moderator of
the International Philanthropy listserv group ([log in to unmask]) and an elected
member of EUCONSULT. and Mr. Black holds a degree in South Asian Social
and Economic Development, and over the past 20 years has served as counsel
to or Director of Development for The Rockefeller University, Columbia
University, The World-Wide Fund for Nature International and Greenpeace
International. In the early 70s he worked in rural India for the South
Asian Development League. His areas of expertise include strategic
planning, large gift fundraising and assisting the development of
philanthropic planning for individuals of wealth.)
Mr. Wolfensohn made reference to this Internet ThinkTank in his speech and
has pledged to periodically read, and perhaps reply to, comments received.
Please make your views known!
For more information, contact:
Brion Battin Black, Director-Europe ETHOS/ICID
International Counsel on Institutional Development
Neukircher M=FChle 28
D-45239 Essen-Werden, Germany
Tel/Fax (++49) 201 40 60 62; E-mail [log in to unmask]
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Deadline approaching for submission of abstracts for CCIH'97
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The deadline for the submission of abstracts for the Fourth Canadian
Conference on International Health (CCIH) is quickly approaching.
Abstracts must be submitted before June 27, 1997. The theme for this
year's conference is "Women, Health, and Development". It encompasses
the following sub-themes: gender as a determinant of health;
reproductive health; safe motherhood; human rights; addressing violence and
creating a culture of peace; health needs and priorities; economic
determinants of health; and participatory mobilization and empowerment. The
conference will be held
November 9-12, 1997 in Canada's National Capital Region of Hull/Ottawa. The
Canadian Society for International Health (CSIH) and the Canadian
University Consortium for Health in Development(CUCHID) will co-host the
event. The Call for Abstracts forms and details on the conference are
available on CSIH's website at: http://www.csih.org/ccih/ccih.html
To obtain a hardcopy of the Call for Abstracts form, or for more
information on the conference, contact:
Deborah Shnay, Conference Coordinator, Canadian Society for
International Health, 170 Laurier Ave. West, Suite 902, Ottawa, Canada K1P
5V5. Tel: (613) 230-2654, ext. 307; Fax: (613) 230-8401;
E-mail: [log in to unmask]
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