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The Civil Society Programme took place on Wednesday 11 May and Thursday 12 May and provided an opportunity for dialogue between civil society and EBRD staff, senior management, the President and Board Directors. It was an occasion for civil society stakeholders to learn more about the Bank and discuss issues of interest and concern regarding the EBRD’s policies and investment projects.
The Programme also featured multi-stakeholder roundtable sessions on key strategic themes related to the role of civil society as an important actor in transition and development processes. Special features of the Civil Society Programme 2016 were discussions on:
•25 years of Transition - The Role of Civil Society in Central and Eastern Europe and Central Asia
•Engaging civil society to promote transparent procurement
•EBRD’s Strategy for the Promotion of Gender Equality (2016-2020): the role of civil society
•Inclusion through skills and innovatiom
In addition, a panel organised by the youth organisation AIESEC looked at the role of youth in shaping the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development.
25 years of Transition: The Role of Civil Society in Central and Eastern Europe and Central Asia
A fire-side chat with Sergei Guriev, Professor of Economics, Sciences Po (incoming EBRD Chief Economist)
Civil society, operating in the space between public and private sectors, has played an important role in socio-political and economic transition processes around the world, including the EBRD’s traditional countries of operations. In 25 years since the establishment of the EBRD, civil society’s contribution to transition has varied across the post-communist transition region. In some countries, the work of civil society organisations (CSOs) has contributed to more democratic political systems and more open market based economies as a ‘reputational actor’ performing a ‘watchdog’ function and as a generator of ‘social capital’ necessary to sustain the change process through the difficult early years. In other countries, the focus of CSOs has been on providing a variety of social services particularly to disadvantaged and vulnerable people negatively affected by the transition process. Many civil society actors have been operating in restrictive regulatory environments, and have relied heavily on international donor funding.
What has been civil society’s input into promoting good governance, sustainable development and economic inclusion in EBRD’s traditional region over the past few decades? What are the key lessons learned, from both its successes and failures that can be applied to other countries embarking on a transition process? What steps could be taken to increase the role of civil society in promoting positive changes in societies and economies?
The discussion looked back at the key achievements and setbacks of the civil society sector in contributing to transition since the Bank’s establishment. It also reflected upon the challenges ahead for civil society in building well-governed, sustainable and inclusive economies and societies.
Through a programme funded by the Department for International Development, hairdressers – like those at the Eagle Salon in Chitungwiza near Harare, Zimbabwe - are trained to give advice on safe sex and the benefits of using female condoms.
Photo credit: Chris Morgan / Department for International Development
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The Adoremus Eucharistic Congress and Pilgrimage offered an impressive parallel programme. These images were taken at the youth event in the ACC Arena.
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HE Mr Azzeddine Farhane, Resident Representative of Morocco to the IAEA, at the launching of the IAEA Marie Sklodowska-Curie Fellowship Programme held at the Agency headquarters in Vienna, Austria. 9 March 2020
Photo Credit: Dean Calma / IAEA
Moderator:
Sophie Boutaud de la Combe, Moderator and IAEA Director, Office of Public Information and Communication, Director General’s Office for Coordination
PANELISTS:
Ms Karen Hallberg, Principle Researcher, Bariloche Atomic Centre, National Atomic Energy Commission and Professor, Physics, Balseiro, Institute, Argentina
HE Mr Xavier Sticker, Resident Representative of France to the IAEA
HE Ms Dominika Anna Krois, Resident Representative of Poland to the IAEA
The Trade Facilitation Programme (TFP) currently includes over 113 Issuing Banks in 26 countries in the EBRD region and more than 800 Confirming Banks worldwide. The event offered the opportunity to review and discuss industry challenges with leading specialists, including regulators and lawyers. It also featured the award ceremony for The Most Active EBRD TFP banks and Best Transactions of 2014.
Amelia Lee Zhi Yi, UN-NYG Mentoring Coordinator welcomes mentors and menses at the official closing event of the UN-NYG Mentoring Programme, held at the Agency headquarters in Vienna, Austria. 8 March 2019
Speech by Mentors and Mentees
Ms Patricia Gody-Kain - Mentor
Mr Christophe Xerri - Mentor
Ms Johanna Slaets - Mentee
Mr Joseph Hiess - Mentee
Ms Melissa Buerbaumer - Mentor
Photo Credit: Dean Calma / IAEA
UN NYG OFFICERS:
Chirayu Batra - President
Denis Subbotnitskiy - Vice President
Kirsten Virginia Glenn - Communications and Liaison Officer
Marianne Nari Fisher – Treasurer
Babatunde Adigun – Programme Manager
Amelia Lee Zhi Yi - Mentoring Coordinator
Rong Liu - Intern Coordinator
The UN-NYG Mentoring Programme is a project initiated by the UN-NYG and led by Ms Amelia Lee Zhi Yi, the UN-NYG Mentoring Coordinator. The programme is implemented with support from the IAEA Office of the Deputy Director General, Ms Mary Alice Hayward, Head of the Department of Management.
The key vision of the mentoring programme is to act as a platform for IAEA staff to strengthen their professional skills at the workplace and improve networking capacity through the cultivation of cross departmental and generational relationships.
The goals of the Mentoring Programme are to:
1. Strengthen staff resources through mutual learning experiences for mentors and mentees, to nurture high performance leaders with the capacity to “give back” at the workplace
2.Develop self-sustaining professional relationships between mentors and mentees that narrow the gap between different departments and age groups at the IAEA
Street lighting in the historical part of Odesa
The EU4Energy Programme aims to improve the quality of energy data and statistics, shape regional policy-making discussions, strengthen legislative and regulatory frameworks and improve access to information in the partner countries. The Programme forms a key component of the EU4Energy Initiative.
Find out more about how the EU4Energy Programme and stay informed at: www.eu4energy.eu
The British Touring Car Championship held at Rockingham on 14th September 2013
Rockingham Motor Speedway, a great venue name but is it a huge white elephant or jewel in the British Motorsport crowd? The track was opened in 2001 by the Queen and is now 12-years old. Although it is tidy and really well maintained, the whole venue has a feeling of neglect and almost desolation. Not physical neglect; as i said it is all really well looked after, but neglected from the original reason that it was designed and built for.
When the venue was first conceived in the late nineties, the hope was that if the first purpose built Oval circuit since Brooklands in 1907 was constructed in the UK, then top level American racing series would visit and compete here on a regular basis. The track and the venue infrastructure was carefully designed to meet the highly restrictive standards needed to comply with IndyCar and NASCAR regulations.
After all that effort and money was expended the IndyCar Series (the Cart Series in those days) did visit the newly completed circuit in 2001 and again in 2002. Set the track lap records and then never returned. The NASCAR series never visited and the ASCAR europeon stock car series, didn't really take off and this fizzled out as well. After 6-years of intermittent use, the full oval circuit finally fell silent at the end of the 2007 season.
The annual BTCC visit to the Northamptonshire circuit is one of the largest events held each year but even this is totally swamped by the sheer size of a venue designed for a much bigger type of motorsport altogether. This observation might be due to the fact that I have only ever visited Rockingham on the Saturday, but I have been to the qualifying day on a lot of other events and not had this feeling of isolation anywhere else.
The circuit can comfortably seat 52,000 spectators, but when only about 1000 turn up you can feel a bit lost in the whole environment. With only a few hardcore spectators in attendance, the circuit has all the charisma of a council estate car park, flat and unassuming.
The view from the main grandstand is spectacular with the whole of the circuit, if not most of the county, easily seen from any of the seats, but it is just so remote . I'm sure I am not alone in enjoying walking around different circuits and viewing the action close up from different viewpoints and corners. To really experience the racing, you cant beat getting really close to action and Rockingham just can't compete on this front.
There is one spectator facility which is better than anywhere else in the country. That is the viewing area on the top of the pit garages, which gives you a fantastic view of the action and activity within the pit lane; something which you just don't get to see at any other circuit. If they could just provide spectator access overlooking the main overtaking location at the Deene hairpin and some access to the infield area , then Rockingham could once again be a spectacular place to view top flight motor racing.
The Jaguar programme began in the early 1960s, in response to a British requirement (Air Staff Target 362) for an advanced supersonic jet trainer to replace the Folland Gnat T1 and Hawker Hunter T7, and a French requirement (ECAT or École de Combat et d'Appui Tactique, "Tactical Combat Support Trainer") for a cheap, subsonic dual role trainer and light attack aircraft to replace the Fouga Magister, Lockheed T-33 and Dassault Mystère IV. In both countries several companies tendered designs: BAC, Hunting, Hawker Siddeley and Folland in Britain; Breguet, Potez, Sud-Aviation, Nord, and Dassault from France. A Memorandum of Understanding was signed in May 1965 for the two countries to develop two aircraft, a trainer based on the ECAT, and the larger AFVG (Anglo-French Variable Geometry).
Cross-channel negotiations led to the formation of SEPECAT (Société Européenne de Production de l'Avion d'École de Combat et d'Appui Tactique – the "European company for the production of a combat trainer and tactical support aircraft") in 1966 as a joint venture between Breguet and the British Aircraft Corporation to produce the airframe. Though based in part on the Breguet, using the same basic configuration and an innovative French-designed landing gear, the Jaguar was built incorporating major elements of design from BAC, notably the wing and high lift devices.
Production of components would be split between Breguet and BAC, and the aircraft themselves would be assembled on two production lines; one in the UK and one in France, To avoid any duplication of work, each aircraft component had only one source. The British light strike/tactical support versions were the most demanding design, requiring supersonic performance, superior avionics, a cutting edge nav/attack system of more accuracy and complexity than the French version, moving map display, laser range-finder and marked-target seeker (LRMTS). As a result, the initial Br.121 design needed a thinner wing, redesigned fuselage, a higher rear cockpit, and after-burning engines. While putting on smiling faces for the public, maintaining the illusion of a shared design, the British design departed from the French sub-sonic Breguet 121 to such a degree that it was effectively a new design.
A separate partnership was formed between Rolls-Royce and Turbomeca to develop the Adour afterburning turbofan engine. The Br.121 was proposed with Turbomeca's Tourmalet engine for ECAT but Breguet preferred the RR RB.172 and their joint venture would use elements of both. The new engine, which would be used for the AFVG as well, would be built in Derby and Tarnos.
Previous collaborative efforts between Britain and France had been complicated – the AFVG programme ended in cancellation, and controversy surrounded the development of the supersonic airliner Concorde. Whilst the technical collaboration between BAC and Breguet went well, when Dassault took over Breguet in 1971 it encouraged acceptance of its own designs, such as the Super Étendard naval attack aircraft and the Mirage F1, for which it would receive more profit, over the Anglo-French Jaguar.
The initial plan was for Britain to buy 150 Jaguar "B" trainers, with its strike requirements being met by the advanced BAC-Dassault AFVG aircraft, with France to buy 75 "E" trainers (école) and 75 "A" single-seat strike attack aircraft (appui). Dassault favoured its own Mirage G aircraft above the collaborative AFVG, and in June 1967, France cancelled the AFVG on cost grounds. This left a gap in the RAF's planned strike capabilities for the 1970s at the same time as France's cancellation of the AFVG, Germany was expressing a serious interest in the Jaguar and thus the design became more oriented towards the low-level strike role.
With the cancellation of both the BAC TSR-2 tactical strike aircraft and Hawker Siddeley P.1154 supersonic V/STOL fighter, the RAF were looking increasingly hard at their future light strike needs and realizing that they now needed more than just advanced trainers with some secondary counter insurgency capability. At this point, the RAF's proposed strike fleet was to be the American General Dynamics F-111s plus the AFVG for lighter strike purposes. There was concern that both F-111 and AFVG were high risk projects and with the French already planning on a strike role for the Jaguar, there was an opportunity to introduce a credible backup plan for the RAF's future strike needs – the Jaguar. As a result, by October 1970, the RAF's requirements had changed to 165 single-seat strike aircraft and 35 trainers.
The Jaguar was to replace the McDonnell Douglas Phantom FGR2 in the close air support, tactical reconnaissance and tactical strike roles, freeing the Phantom to be used for air defence. Both the French and British trainer requirements had developed significantly, and were eventually fulfilled instead by the Alpha Jet and Hawker Siddeley Hawk respectively. The French, meanwhile, had chosen the Jaguar to replace the Aeronavale's Dassault Étendard IV, and increased their order to include an initial 40 of a carrier-capable maritime version of the Jaguar, the Jaguar M. From these apparently disparate aims would come a single and entirely different aircraft: relatively high-tech, supersonic, and optimised for ground-attack in a high-threat environment.
The Trade Facilitation Programme (TFP) currently includes over 100 issuing banks in the EBRD region and more than 800 confirming banks worldwide. The event gave 250 guests the opportunity to review and discuss current market challenges with key industry specialists, regulators and representatives from the World Trade Organization, the International Chamber of Commerce HQ and the local, national ICC committees industry. It also featured the highly popular annual award ceremony for ‘The Most Active EBRD TFP Banks’ and ‘Deal of the Year’.
San Francisco Ballet: McIntyre/Dawson (Programme D)
San Francisco Ballet presents Programme D with works of Trey McIntyre, David Dawson at Sadler’s Wells Theatre. 6-7 June 2019.
Your Flesh Shall Be a Great Poem
Composer: Chris Garneau
Choreography: Trey McIntyre
Costume Design: Reid Bartelme and Harriet Jung
Lighting Design: James F. Ingalls
Dancers: Benjamin Freemantle, Isabella DeVivo, Steven Morse, Jaime Garcia Castilla, Jennifer Stahl, Sasha De Sola, Lonnie Weeks, Esteban Hernandez, Alexandre Cagnat
Anima Animus
Composer: Ezio Bosso
Choreography: David Dawson
Scenic Design: John Otto
Costume Design: Yumiko Takeshima
Lighting Design: James F. Ingalls
Dancers: Wona Park, Sofiane Sylve, Carlo Di Lanno, Luke Ingham, Joseph Walsh, Wei Wang, Kamryn Baldwin, Elizabeth Mateer, Elizabeth Powell, Skyla Schreter
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This is from 1975. Lulu was one of my favourite singers so was great to see her in person. We are downsizing, so I’m going through all of my stuff and getting rid of some things but photographing them before I do. In the late 1980s we lived in London and our landlord was involved with the English National Opera so we were given free tickets to these wonderful events. The theatre programmes are the UK and Australia, mostly from the 1980s and 1990s.
The final Beyond Nashville series which did not touch the Barbican and centred on the Spitz, Spitalfields.. I managed to see Centromatic who followed the unannounced Long Winters from Seattle and a couple of other acts in cluding Warren Malone.
Official closing event of the UN-NYG Mentoring Programme, held at the Agency headquarters in Vienna, Austria. 8 March 2019
Speech by Mentors and Mentees
Ms Patricia Gody-Kain - Mentor
Mr Christophe Xerri - Mentor
Ms Johanna Slaets - Mentee
Mr Joseph Hiess - Mentee
Ms Melissa Buerbaumer - Mentor
Photo Credit: Dean Calma / IAEA
UN NYG OFFICERS:
Chirayu Batra - President
Denis Subbotnitskiy - Vice President
Kirsten Virginia Glenn - Communications and Liaison Officer
Marianne Nari Fisher – Treasurer
Babatunde Adigun – Programme Manager
Amelia Lee Zhi Yi - Mentoring Coordinator
Rong Liu - Intern Coordinator
The UN-NYG Mentoring Programme is a project initiated by the UN-NYG and led by Ms Amelia Lee Zhi Yi, the UN-NYG Mentoring Coordinator. The programme is implemented with support from the IAEA Office of the Deputy Director General, Ms Mary Alice Hayward, Head of the Department of Management.
The key vision of the mentoring programme is to act as a platform for IAEA staff to strengthen their professional skills at the workplace and improve networking capacity through the cultivation of cross departmental and generational relationships.
The goals of the Mentoring Programme are to:
1. Strengthen staff resources through mutual learning experiences for mentors and mentees, to nurture high performance leaders with the capacity to “give back” at the workplace
2.Develop self-sustaining professional relationships between mentors and mentees that narrow the gap between different departments and age groups at the IAEA
On 9th March 2018, ESCP Europe's London School and Campus hosted its 13th Annual Gala Dinner Dance.
Staged at The Landmark London five-star hotel, the event attracted record numbers for what is a highlight of the Campus' annual programme and calendar.
With 10 different degree programmes represented and over 350 guests, focus was placed on the School's achievements over the preceding 12 months and the success of its diverse student community.
A highlight of the evening was the award for London Student Society of the Year based on a student vote linked to four core values: Student Life, Community Building, Creativity and ESCP Europe Spirit. The award was shared by the Eventures Association-Regatta and UNITED, the London arm of the diplomatic society that organises the School's participation in the Model UN conference in New York. Both teams won a case of fine wine, generously donated by Tannin & Oak in West Hampstead.
In presenting the evening's awards, Prof. Mercado, Dean of the London Campus, also highlighted two other Societies for their activism and initiative throughout the year: Cheer Up, the society campaigning for patients with cancer; and the Women in Finance Society, who we celebrated on our Facebook page to coincide with International Women's Day on 8th March.
Guests unanimously agreed that the Gala was a huge success, with many already looking forward to next year's event.
'I flew from Paris to live the Gala experience organised by the London campus. I was very impressed by the location and I enjoyed very much the reception. During dinner I caught up with the friends I met in my first year of the Master in Management who are now studying in London, and this was definitely the best part. A memorable location with the best company!' – Alba, Master in Management student
'This event was absolutely amazing. I'm participated for the first time and I found it astonishing. I truly felt that I was taking part in something special, surrounded by incredible smart people and with a magic atmosphere. It was a pleasure to have the chance to network with students from other masters and to strengthen friendships. The Gala represents for me a sense of belonging to the ESCP Europe community. I will definitely participate again.' – Davide, MSc in Marketing & Creativity student
'Our journey at ESCP Europe has only just begun, but the London Campus Gala marked a milestone on our journey. It is easy to say that dressing up in an impressive location alongside your best friends regardless of the occasion is always a pleasure; however, what made this evening special was the atmosphere created by the range of guests, from students to academic staff.' Pascal, Bachelor in Management (BSc) student
Thank you to everyone who joined us at this very special event and dressed to impress!
International Olympic Committee President Thomas Bach attends the public launch of The Recommendations Programme with athletes at the Olympic Museum in Lausanne, Switzerland. After a group photograph with the athletes President Bach attends a roundtable discussion.
Stéphane Lambiel : Switzerland: Figure Skating
Photograph by Ian Jones/IOC
The 1972 Football League Cup Final took place on 4 March 1972 at Wembley Stadium and was contested by Chelsea and Stoke City.
Chelsea went into the match as strong favourites having won the FA Cup and the UEFA Cup Winners' Cup in the previous two seasons, whereas Stoke were attempting to win their first major trophy. Terry Conroy put Stoke into the lead early on, but Chelsea hit back through Peter Osgood just before half time. Stoke got the decisive final goal from veteran George Eastham to end their 109-year wait for a major honour
UNFPA, the United Nations Population Fund, jointly with UNICEF, lead the largest global programme to accelerate the abandonment of Female Genital Mutilation (FGM). In line with Zero Tolerance Day for FGM on 6 February 2017, UNFPA lead a mission to Kenya's Narok County to document UNFPA’s active participation to encourage the abandonment of the practice. Female Genital Mutilation, FGM, involves altering or injuring the female genitalia for non-medical reasons. It negatively impacts a girl’s psychological, emotional and physical well-being, education, health and gender equality rights, and is internationally recognized as a human rights violation. Maasai culture, often praised and used as a tourist attraction, encourages FGM which is views as the key to success in all aspects of life. Many Maasai families cannot afford to give their children formal schooling, so to protect their daughters from lives of poverty, they choose to marry them off at a young age. Because Maasai girls are traditionally considered children until they are circumcised, it is seen as imperative for a Maasai girl to undergo the circumcision rite before she is married making FGM a precursor to child marriage. This strongly ingrained cultural belief propels families to go to great lengths to complete the circumcision. Both FGM and child marriage negatively impact long-term poverty reduction and development outcomes. In collaboration with World Vision Kenya as an implementing partner UNFPA identify Narok County in Maasailand as one of eight targeted counties in Kenya where UNFPA-supported interventions are transforming and saving lives of women and girls in the county.
Normally at race meetings i rely heavily on the event programme to identify the race cars and drivers, in this instance after photographing this prog it got lost, ID has been a problem but thanks to the wonders of the WWW i hope most of the following are accurate.
This event is the opener of the VSCC race circuit season, this 2013 meet was fantastic and included a tribute to George Abecassis and his cars.
Shot at the VSCC Spring Start, Silverstone 20-21 April 2013 REF:90C-553
Slade Harbour:
Slade Harbour, immediately adjacent to the castle, was built in the 1860’s as part of the Famine Relief Works Programme, a sometimes controversial famine-era scheme which offered corn to near-starving peasants in return for work.
Working conditions were sometimes frightful, and the infrastructural schemes often pointless, but, in fairness, the schemes did carry many families through those tragic years when the potato crop failed.
Long serving Groundsman Bill Moor's Benefit Match attracted a gate of just under 20,000 people who witnessed Millwall beat Celtic 3-2 in a bruising encounter in 1949.
UNCTAD/TrainForTrade Port Management Programme: Training of Trainers Workshop of the English-speaking Network in Belfast, Northern Ireland from 3-9 July 2019.
The workshop was co-organized by Belfast Harbour Commissioners, with the support of Dublin Port Company and the Port of Cork Company.
32 senior managers (including 12 women) from the member ports of the English-speaking network of the Programme (Indonesia, Ghana, Malaysia, Nigeria, and the Philippines), as well as prospective port member (Kenya) and representative form the PMP French-speaking network (Cameroon), exchanged experiences and knowledge on the contents and delivery of modules 5 - 8 of the course on Modern Port Management.
Certificates were awarded to the successful candidates.
THE UK COACH RALLY IS AT BLACKPOOL THIS WEEKEND, SHAME ABOUT THE WEATHER!
AS I AM UNLIKELY TO ATTEND ANY MORE COACH RALLIES I HAVE SCANNED THE COVERS AND PAGES OF INTEREST OF PREVIOUS RALLIES BEFORE I DISPOSE OF THEM.
The programme for the Third Miscellaneous Concert of the Birmingham Musical Festival at Birmingham Town Hall on 8th Sept 1864.
It opened with world première of Arthur Sullivan's cantata - Kenilworth, conducted by the composer.
The soloists were Helen Lemmens-Sherrington (soprano), Elizabeth Annie "Bessie" Palmer (contralto), William Hayman Cummings (tenor) and Charles Santley (baritone).
Parts two and three of the concert featured singers including -
Signor Mario, Charles Santley, Sims Reeves, Adelina Patti, Marie Titiens