Development Cooperation News (DCN) is published
electronically twice a year with an aim to enrich awareness of society and policymakers
in Latvia about global interconnection, challenges and initiatives to solve
them both globally and locally. Thus, DCN features current development
cooperation topics from the perspective of practitioners, opinion leaders and
policy-makers.
The 1st issue
is dedicated to financing for
development. It gives a chance to remind us and our readers about Riga
Roundtable international conference Financing for
Development: Role of EU Member States that was organized on June 11-12-2015 by the Green Liberty, Latvian Green
Movement and Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Latvia and about the
3rd International Conference on Financing
for Development that was held in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia on July
13 to 16, 2015. This global and local news is published in the section EVENTS
that jointly with other sections: POSITIONS, EXPERIENCE, OPINIONS, and
RESOURCES shapes the structure of Development Cooperation
News.
This 1st
issue is looking for answers on the following questions: How to finance equality among people and sustainable planet? What is an
opinion of Latvian policy makers about financing for global development? To what
extent micro credits can reduce poverty? What are we ready to sacrifice to get
bigger investments?
Development Cooperation News is one of is one
of the activities of Media4Development (DCI-NSAED/2014/338-309) that
is a joint project between Mondo (Estonia), Green Liberty (Latvia), Estonian
Public Broadcasting Company (Estonia), People in Need (Czech Republic), MVRO
(Slovakia), House of Europe (Lithuania), VIKES (Finland) and BAAG (UK/Ireland)
funded by the European Commission. The aim of the project is to raise the awareness of the general public
about global interdependencies and challenges through media.
The publication Development Cooperation News is the sole responsibility
of Green Liberty, the content of articles is responsibility of the authors and
can in no way be taken to reflect the views of the European Union.
The next – 2nd issue of Development Cooperation News will be about climate
change.
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