Learn about IRRI's progress in the last year on their project to help develop and supply farm households in Africa and South Asia with new breeds of stress-tolerant rice. Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation … [Read more...] about 2010 Progress Report: Stress-Tolerant Rice for Farm Households in Africa and South Asia
Call for Proposals: Burma Project/Southeast Asia Initiative
The Burma Project/Southeast Asia Initiative welcomes proposals from organizations working to promote human rights, independent media, and civil society in the region. Open Society Institute: Available Grants … [Read more...] about Call for Proposals: Burma Project/Southeast Asia Initiative
NY Times: Asia Foundation Continues Work in Afghanistan Despite Recent Violence
An article in The New York Times reports that non-governmental aid groups have vowed to stay in Afghanistan despite the recent slaying of 10 foreign relief workers. The article cites The Asia Foundation as one such group, and one of the oldest American agencies working in Afghanistan. Read the full … [Read more...] about NY Times: Asia Foundation Continues Work in Afghanistan Despite Recent Violence
Call for Applications: Central Asia and Caucasus Research and Training Initiative
The Open Society Institute invites academics in the social sciences and humanities to apply for fellowships supporting scholarly development in Central Asia, Afghanistan, and Mongolia. Open Society Institute: Available Grants … [Read more...] about Call for Applications: Central Asia and Caucasus Research and Training Initiative
The sixth round of funding now open to apply for the Tsunami Regional Trust Fund
The United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (UNESCAP) had established the Tsunami Regional Trust Fund in 2005 in response to the destructive Indian Ocean Tsunami which occurred in December 2004. The Fund is the outcome fo the need for an effective regional disaster … [Read more...] about The sixth round of funding now open to apply for the Tsunami Regional Trust Fund
Wenhui Award for Education Innovation: Reaching the Marginalized in Basic Education
The UNESCO Asia-Pacific Programme of Educational Innovation for Development (APEID) and the National Commission of the People’s Republic of Chaina for UNESCO have jointly established the UNESCO-APEID Wenhui Award for Educational Innovation. Individuals and institutions from the UNESCO member states … [Read more...] about Wenhui Award for Education Innovation: Reaching the Marginalized in Basic Education
Taiwan Foundation for Democracy: 2010 Asia Democracy and Human Rights Award
The Taiwan Foundation for Democracy offers the Asia Democracy and Human Rights Award for an individual or an organization making concrete and significant contributions to the advancement of democracy and human rights in Asia through peaceful means. It will provide recognition to the award winner and … [Read more...] about Taiwan Foundation for Democracy: 2010 Asia Democracy and Human Rights Award
Asia-Pacific Child Rights Award
The Asia-Pacific Broadcasting Union (ABU), Cable & Satellite Broadcasting Association of Asia (CASBAA) and UNICEF have launched the Asia-Pacific Award for Television 2010. This annual award is given to the best television programming on children’s rights produced within the Asia-Pacific region … [Read more...] about Asia-Pacific Child Rights Award
Call for Pre-Proposals: Gender and Citizenship in the Information Society: An Asia-wide Research Program
IT for Change, a nonprofit organization located in India has announced a call for pre-proposals under its Gender and Citizenship in the Information Society, an Asia-wide research program organized with the support of the International Development Research Centre (IDRC). Individual researchers or … [Read more...] about Call for Pre-Proposals: Gender and Citizenship in the Information Society: An Asia-wide Research Program
Call for Pre-Proposals: Gender and Citizenship in the Information Society: An Asia-wide Research Program -2
The objectives of the Gender and Citizenship in the Information Society: An Asia-wide Research Program are: to understand how emerging techno-social paradigms, shaped by new information and communication technologies (ICTs), recast the citizenship of marginalised women; to examine the challenges to … [Read more...] about Call for Pre-Proposals: Gender and Citizenship in the Information Society: An Asia-wide Research Program -2
