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13-14 November - Green Growth and Sustainable Development Forum 2014.
For more information, visit: www.oecd.org/greengrowth/ggsd-2014.htm
Photo: Andrew Wheeler
In 2018, USAID launched the second-annual Digital Development Awards (the “Digis”) to recognize USAID projects that harness the power of digital tools and data-driven decision making. The Feed the Future Tanzania Land Tenure Assistance Project, implemented by DAI, was one of five winners chosen out of the 140 applicants.
Feed the Future Tanzania established the Tanzania Land Tenure Assistance activity to provide an affordable, transparent system of land registration. This activity uses USAID’s Mobile Applications to Secure Tenure (MAST) program to capture locally gathered GPS data, which is then mapped and registered by the District Land Office to provide official certification of village residents’ rights to occupy land parcels.
Recognizing the need for a way to track the sale and transfer of land rights, the project developed the Technical Register Under Social Tenure (TRUST) software, an open source program that allows District Land Offices and financial institutions to record all land transactions and even mortgages, creating a comprehensive and easily accessible digital record of all land rights.
Thanks to this new open source platform, USAID has transferred over 45,000 certificates documenting village land ownership in Tanzania to the TRUST database. This has opened the door for new agricultural investments and provided land owners with increased access to financial resources using their legal record of landholding as collateral. Building on the success, the program worked with the Government of Tanzania to ensure the sustainability of the open-source platform and seeks to expand its use in all districts, eventually using it as part of a national land management system.
Photos by Riaz Jahanpour for USAID / Digital Development Communications
The UCA Instructional Development Center and Provost's Office recognized four faculty members for distinctive growth in teaching methods as part of development activities they completed. A reception was held in their honor on Wednesday. The program was instituted this year, and the four faculty honored were Nina Roofe, Mitchum Parker, Susan Gatto and Julie Meaux.
13-14 November - Green Growth and Sustainable Development Forum 2014.
For more information, visit: www.oecd.org/greengrowth/ggsd-2014.htm
Photo: Andrew Wheeler
April 21, 2012 - Washington Dc., World Bank/IMF 2012 Spring Meetings., Closing Development Committee Press Briefing. Marek Belka is the Development Committee Chairman; Robert B. Zoellick World Bank President; Christine Lagarde IMF Managing Director. Photo: Simone D. McCourtie / World Bank
Photo ID: 042112-DevCommPress_015
New housing development in Stayner, ON (Clearview Township). After years of sluggish development in the community, new housed seem to be popping up like mushrooms!
Imagens em ordem cronólogica cobrindo as dinâmicas e trocas entre lideranças comunitárias e aliados técnicos de 16 países e representantes do TTC das comunidades do Caño Martín Peña em San Juan, Porto Rico. 28 de abril - 1 de maio, 2019.
Produce by Haitian farmers that were brought to the USAID post-harvest center to be cleaned, packaged and prepared for sale. Photo by Janice Laurente/USAID.
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I've played about with the White Balance on these shots to make them appear later in the day.
Canon EOS 60D and Sigma 17-50mm f/2.8.
Raw Conversion Adobe Camera Raw 8.1.
Post Processing Photoshop CS6
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In some ways I'm unlucky to work at a university out in the new development zone of Lushun, a city 40 minutes along the coast from Dalian. It means I have to get on a bus at 7 am every morning when my friends who work in Dalian are still sound asleep. In other ways I'm lucky. As the city is still a military base closed to casual foreign visitors, I'm one of the few who has first hand experience of it. With a new factory appearing every week and more universities scheduled to arrive in a few months, it's surely only a matter of time before the restrictions are lifted. In preparation for that, the area is recieving an enormous facelift and infrastructure cash injection. A new garden city covering 50 square kilometers is appearing before my eyes. What was waste ground is now a steel shed full of griding machinery. What was a field is now a row of empty apartments. What were formerly empty apartments are now filled with neon lights, barber's poles, bakeries, DVD shops, food stalls... The sense of expectancy and optimism is palpable, yet there is nothing particularly special about this development zone. There are hundreds just like it all across China. Is this what it felt like in the UK just after World War Two as enormous council estates and new towns blossomed ? These days these rural utopias are by and large wastelands of unemployment and social exclusion. What will become of these similar places here in China should the Communist Party's economic growth success story come off the rails is anyone's guess. So while I wouldn't trade living in Dalian city proper for being permanantly stuck out here, I'm glad to be working out here, bearing witness to a new city unfolding.
Farmer feeding chicken with EU certified food. Beni Mazar, Mynia, November 12, 2014. PHOTO AFP © EU/NEIGHBOURHOOD INFO CENTRE
At the Community Activity Center on Camp Casey May 29, civilians and Soldiers of the U.S. Army Garrison Red Cloud and Area I attend a professional development session geared especially to those in leadership positions. The audience of 145 leaders heard briefings on a range of topics that included customer service, mentoring subordinates, administrative and maintenance matters, and leadership itself. Speakers included Col. John M. Scott, Commander, USAG Red Cloud and Area I, and other garrison officials. The afternoon was capped by an indoor supper of hot dogs and hamburgers.
Bernice Marshall, who is due to move to Bournville Gardens when it opens, visited the show apartments recently.
Right hand side photo showing the old stone-cladded retaining wall of unknown age, and the sealed portal of an air-raid precaution tunnel (ARP Portal 068) atop Wanchai Road, built under Ruttonjee Hospital. This tunnel shelter being idled for a very long time.
Top left photo, taken in 1964, showing the Ming Tak Commercial Building at 101-103A Wan Chai Road was not yet built (on Lots I.L. 434, I.L. 435 s.A, s.B, s.C, and R.P.), and the section of land at Ruttonjee Hospital close to these lots was not yet developed.
Lower left photo showing the last days of Ming Tak Commercial Building before it was knocked down in 2012
Any information about this sealed up air-raid precautions tunnel ? Further development of Ruttonjee Hospital a quarter of a Century ago may have caused damage to the lining of the air-raid precautions tunnel, possibly due to construction of the hospital new building foundation.
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The ITU World Telecommunication Development Conference (WTDC) Kigali, Rwanda, 6 to 16 June 2022.
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Meeting of the Forum Friends of the Africa Continental Free Trade Area
Børge Brende, President, World Economic Forum; Hakainde Hichilema, President of the Republic of Zambia; Thierry Déau, Chief Executive Officer, Meridiam, France; Tony O. Elumelu, Chairman, UBA Group, Nigeria; Wamkele Mene, Secretary-General, African Continental Free Trade Area Secretariat, Accra; Sara Menker, Chief Executive Officer and Founder, Gro Intelligence, USA; Patrice Motsepe, Founder and Executive Chairman, African Rainbow Minerals, South Africa; Member of Board of Trustees of the World Economic Forum; Jim Ovia, Chairman, Zenith Bank, Nigeria
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Sustainable Development Impact Meetings, New York, USA 19 - 23 September
In the Ngong Hills 22km outside of Nairobi, Kenya is the country’s first wind power plant. It consists of 6 wind turbines and is capable of generating up to 5.1MW of electricity. The power plant is run by the Kenya Electricity Generating Company (KenGen) and is part of the government’s plan to tap wind energy so that the reliance on hydro-power is not so heavy. The Ngong Hills 1 wind project is powered by 6 Vestas V52-850kW wind turbines and the project itself was in well before the expected completion date. There is now some thought being given to the possibility of expanding the energy capacity in Ngong Hills to 25.2MW by the end of 2012. KenGen is also looking towards carrying out a feasibility study for the development of another wind farm on the southern part of the hill which could mean that the company could be producing around 50MW of wind power within 3 years. In Lake Turkan, a relatively desolate spot in western Kenya without any transmission line networks, the African Development Bank Group is leading the process of financing one of the largest wind farm projects to be built in Africa, and the first of its kind in Kenya. The project includes building 365 wind turbines, reinforcing 200 km of roads and bridges which will make it possible to haul them to northeastern Kenya from the Indian Ocean port of Mombasa, and adding an estimated 426 km of transmission lines to connect and supply power to the national electric grid at an optimal point. The reliable, continuous clean power will add an additional 30% to Kenya's current total installed power. The project is forecast to reduce carbon emissions by 16 million tons during its 20-year lifespan. According to the Kenyan government’s projections through 2029, Kenya will need additional installed electric energy capacity of 2396 MW by 2020 and 7539 MW by 2029. To meet these needs, the country will have to import nearly half the energy for 2020 and more than one-quarter for 2029. The Kenyan government is seeking to
Teams comprised of students from the College of Engineering, Ross School of Business, School of Information, and Stamps School of Art & Design created new products for preteens, incorporating the use of active technology, to improve physical and mental health maintenance and outcomes. Photography by Philip Dattilo.
Teams comprised of students from the College of Engineering, Ross School of Business, School of Information, and Stamps School of Art & Design created new products for preteens, incorporating the use of active technology, to improve physical and mental health maintenance and outcomes. Photography by Philip Dattilo.