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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.
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.
59th ABU General Assembly and Associated Meetings 2022
25 November - 30 November 2022
New Delhi, India
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Throughout the 20th century, global water use has increased in the agricultural, domestic and industrial sectors. Evaporation from reservoirs has increased at a slower rate. Projections indicate that both global water use and evaporation will continue to increase.
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The Civil Society Programme took place from Thursday 14 May through Friday 15 May. The Programme in 2015 introduced a new approach to the flagship event of the EBRD engagement with civil society.
For the first time, CSOs had the chance to shape the Civil Society Programme through a social media consultation. In addition, CSOs were invited to submit proposals for the organisation of discussion panels dedicated to issues of specific interest to the Caucasus region and stakeholders in the EBRD.
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.
2018年度實習計劃 — "與立法會議員暢談"環節
2018年度实习计划 — "与立法会议员畅谈"环节
2018 internship programme - "Meeting with Members" sessions (2018.06.05)
Faculty Development Programme in association with Information and Communication Technology Academy of Tamilnadu.
The Avison Ensemble is performing at Bamburgh Castle on Saturday, 4th September 2010 a programme of Jacobite rebellion music by Charles Avison and Handel. Bamburgh Castle is the perfect setting for the concert as it has strong links with the Jacobite Rebellion of 1715.
We're celebrating our first anniversary of joining Flickr and want to show you the amazing venues we've played and recorded in during the year, most of them in the North East region and some in London. Thanks to all of you who've joined us for concerts in these beautiful venues and for looking at our photos. Here's to another great year coming up of concerts, images and films. Hope to see you soon and look forward to sharing more inspiring images with you ... Our next concert is in Bamburgh Castle and we've included some images of this stunning castle too!
The Avison Ensemble is the outstanding period instrument orchestra based in Newcastle upon Tyne, which plays and popularises the music of Charles Avison (1709-1770) and other English classical composers of the Baroque period, such as Garth, Arne and Herschel. The Ensemble also performs Purcell, Handel, Vivaldi, Corelli, Geminiani, Pergolesi, Teleman, Rameau, Bach, Mozart, Haydn and Beethoven.
As the weather gets colder and the days shorter, it can be not easy to stay motivated to keep up with our fitness goals. If you're based in London and struggling to keep on track with your weight loss programme, don't worry - help is at hand. There are a number of great weight loss programmes available in the capital, so you're sure to find one that suits your needs.
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If you're looking for something a bit more structured, there are also a number of weight loss programmes that offer weekly or monthly group meetings. These can be a great way to stay motivated, as you'll be surrounded by like-minded people who are all working towards similar goals.
No matter what type of weight loss programme you're looking for, London has a great selection to choose from. So, there's no excuse not to get started on your fitness journey today!
When it comes to weight loss programmes, London has a lot to offer. Whether you're looking for a group programme or something more personalised, there's sure to be something to suit your needs.
One of the great things about weight loss programmes in London is that there are often a number of different goals that you can choose from. So, whether you're looking to lose weight, tone up or get fit, there will be a programme to suit you.
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No matter what your reasons for wanting to lose weight, a weight loss programme in London is a great way to get started on your fitness journey. So, what are you waiting for?
When it comes to starting a weight loss programme, the most important thing is to find one that will cater to you. This means finding a programme that fits your lifestyle, goals and budget.
There are a lot of weight loss programmes in London, so it can be tricky to know where to start. But don't worry, we've got you covered.
Here are the three best weight loss programmes in London, based on your needs:
If you're looking for a weight loss programme that is affordable and flexible, then the London slimming club could be perfect for you. For just £30 a month, you can attend as many classes as you like, and there are no contracts.
If you're looking for a weight loss programme that is more comprehensive, then my: swim programme could be perfect for you. For £199 a month, you'll get unlimited access to a range of classes, a personalised fitness plan and one-to-one coaching.
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No matter what your needs are, there is a weight loss programme in London that is perfect for you. So, what are you waiting for? Start your fitness journey today.
Faculty Development Programme in association with Information and Communication Technology Academy of Tamilnadu.
Awards Evening
Rebecca Scott, Busy Bumbles
Best New Programme Award
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59th ABU General Assembly and Associated Meetings 2022
25 November - 30 November 2022
New Delhi, India
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The Schools Olympic Programme is a pioneer idea that comes in response to the prestigious initiative of HH Sheikh Tamim Bin Hamad Al Thani, the Heir Apparent and President of QOC in an attempt to link sports activities with others, beside encouraging school students to practice sport as an integral part of their daily life.“Sport and Culture” as the official logo for the SOP third edition.
Photographs / Shahjahan Moidin / QOC
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.
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.
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.
Programme of Action for Cancer Therapy (PACT) Briefing for Member States at IAEA 53rd General Conference.
Vienna International Centre
(Vienna, Austria, 16 September 2009)
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Photo Credit: Dean Calma/IAEA
Souvenir programme: Grand Bazaar and Garden Party in aid of the new G.F.S. Lodge and Hostel (12/12).
Hankinson & Son, The Square.
Williams & Hopkins, Old Christchurch Road.
Attendees of the hugely successful 'Educating Ourselves' programme outside Ballymaconnelly Orange Hall, Rasharkin (20 June 2013). The programme is facilitated by the Grand Orange Lodge of Ireland through community education officer David Scott
Training of farmers based on poster n11b “How to manage soil nutrients”(November/2021). ©️Areli Cerón Trejo
59th ABU General Assembly and Associated Meetings 2022
25 November - 30 November 2022
New Delhi, India
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Martin Frick, Senior Director for Policy and Programme Coordination, UN Climate Change speak at Can we walk the talk? Why landscape approaches struggle to grow – and how to give them a boost interactive session, Global Landscapes Forum Bonn 2019.
Photo by Pilar Valbuena/GLF
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2017年度實習計劃 — 參觀主題展覽"回顧與展望"
2017年度实习计划 — 参观主题展览"回顾与展望"
2017 internship programme - Tour of the thematic exhibition on "Looking Back and Ahead" (2017.07.04)
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.
Page from the theatre programme for a production of "Annie Get Your Gun" at the Hippodrome Theatre, Keighley, staged by Keighley Amateur Operatic and Dramatic Society in October 1952. This page includes cast portraits of Leonard M. Stockdale as Chief Sitting Bull, Frederic W. Pye as Colonel William F. Cody ('Buffalo Bill), and John H. Crabtree as Major Gordon Lillie ('Pawnee Bill'). The portraits were taken by local photographer N. K. (Keith) Howarth of K. C. P. Studio on East Parade.
Keighley Amateur Operatic and Dramatic Society's production of "Annie Get Your Gun" played at the Hippodrome Theatre in Keighley for six nights (and a Saturday matinee) from Monday 13th October 1952. The musical had lyrics and music by Irving Berlin, on the book by Herbert and Dorothy Fields. The audience were probably familiar with the musical as the MGM film version had only come out in the UK almost exactly two years earlier. The KAODS production was produced and directed by Douglas T. Bailey, with musical director R. Lewis Scargill.
The story is loosely based on the life of real-life sharpshooter Annie Oakley. Annie (played by Marian Walker) and her brother Jake (Dennis Crocker) meet up with 'Buffalo Bill' (Frederic W. Pye) and his Wild West Show when it visits Cincinnati. Annie's sharpshooting skills attract Bill's attention and he signs her up for the show. Annie falls in love with fellow performer Frank Butler (Edwin Smith), whose position in the show she is inadvertently usurping, leading Frank to leave the show. Indian Chief Sitting Bull (Leonard M. Stockdale) finances the show on a European tour (which, in the real world, included Keighley in its itinerary!) which is a financial disaster. Ultimately Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show combines with the show of Pawnee Bill (John H. Crabtree), which has recruited Frank. Annie and Frank settle their professional rivalry and reunite.
The show also starred Alan Shuttleworth, Frank Hopkinson, Norman Raistrick, Geoffrey Rundle, Marjorie J. Riley, Elsie Greenwell, Keith Marsden, Jean Sellars, Jesse G. Hamshaw, Anne Irving, Mary Wade, F. Bottomley, J. Street, L. Waite, J. D. Lee, A. Ridding, Janet Ogden, Eric S. Butterfield, Arthur Hague, N. Moulding, J. Derek Lee and Gwenda Binns. The dancing mistress was Irene Ogden.
The 40-page programme was printed by The Keighley Printers Ltd. of High Street, Keighley. It measures approximately 188 mm by 246 mm. The programme was part of an anonymous donation given in 2022.
Non-European journallists invited as part of the Media Travel Programme on Day 1 of the International Transport Forum’s 2016 Summit on “Green and Inclusive Transport” in Leipzig, Germany on 18 May 2016.
CFA organised a “National Seminar on Changing Landscape and Growing Financial Crisis in the Power Sector” on September 1st & 2nd, 2018. The venue for the programme is USO International Centre (USOIC), USO House, USO Road, 6, Special Institutional Area, New Delhi-110067 and the session will start from 9:30 AM.
This two day seminar will bring together experts, activists and journalists, who are monitoring and raising issues related to power sector to understand current landscape and changes in policies, failure of the regulatory mechanisms, growing burden on Public Sector Banks due to NPAs in electricity sector, etc. and fruitless attempts to solve the deepening financial crisis by the government in this sector.
In the past few years, a major shift has taken place in the power sector on several fronts including environment clearance, national forest policy, coal mining regulation, power purchase agreement (PPA), fuel supply agreement (FSA) and policies of financial institutions. In India, the shift started with Electricity Act, 2003 which unbundled the State Electricity Boards in three separate companies for generation, transmission and distribution along with delicensing the thermal power sector giving a free hand to private companies to expand power projects. This model was imposed by the World Bank which aimed to bring the private companies into the safer and profitable zones.
These changes have pushed for privatization in the power sector favouring the big companies often going against the interest of people. The private developers setting up thermal power plants took undue advantage of the situation and forced the state power utilities to sign PPA for a period of 25 years with a deemed generation clause, where this clause forced the power distribution companies (Discoms) to pay for the power that they may not consume during the lean periods. These thermal power plants are spread all over the river basins across India and have been grabbing the land and forests for the projects and mining. There is a fight to control the natural resources of the country whether it is land, forests, minerals or rivers. The coal-based power projects apart from causing massive displacement also hugely impact the livelihoods of communities, who in most cases are farmers, Adivasis and Dalits. These projects also adversely impact the environment causing serious health concerns for people and destruction of ecology. The energy needs of urban India is being fulfilled at the cost of land and livelihoods of rural communities.
The expansion of power projects is not only affecting the environment and natural resources but also robbing the public of their own money through companies taking huge loans from the banks for these projects and not repaying them. However, this robbing of public money is not limited to the power sector alone. Currently, the Indian banks are facing a financial crisis due to a staggering amount of stressed assets (Gross NPAs + Restructured Advances). Indian banks’ gross Non-Performing Assets (NPAs), or bad loans, stood at Rs 10.25 lakh crore as of 31 March 2018. Last quarter, the pile has grown by Rs 1.39 lakh crore or 16 per cent from Rs 8.86 lakh crore as on 31 December 2017. In the RBI’s Financial Stability Report, the apex bank said that the Gross NPA (GNPA) ratio of Scheduled Commercial Banks (SCBs) is likely to rise in the current fiscal.
The problem of NPAs in power sector was highlighted in 2017 through two key power projects – Coastal Gujarat Power Limited (4000MW) owned by TATA Power and Adani’s Mundra Thermal Power Project (4660MW), which were incurring massive losses and asked the state government to bail them out. The trend of the government bailing out private companies with public money is growing day by day. In March 2018, a report was published by the Parliamentary Standing Committee on Energy to focus on the ‘Stressed/Non-Performing Assets’ in the electricity sector. The committee identified 34 thermal power projects worth Rs. 1.74 lakh crore were on verge of becoming NPAs. It is worthwhile to note that out of these 34 thermal power plants, 32 power plants belonged to the private sector, while only two were from the public sector. Apart from that, the committee highlighted that Stressed Assets were around 17.67% (Rs. 98,799 crores) of the total advances in the thermal power sector.
These projects have been given loans in tune of lakhs of crores rupees by Indian banking and non-banking institutions. The current government made a number of unsuccessful attempts to resolve this mounting financial crisis, including a number of mechanisms such as Insolvency & Bankruptcy Code (IBC), Bad Bank Formula, Project Sashakt, etc. Now the government has set up a committee headed by cabinet secretary to look into the matter. It raises the questions on the intentions of the government whether they really want to resolve this or making some visible attempt due to an upcoming election.
The consequences of this situation are that the stressed assets of banks are compounding due to the haphazard expansion of projects by power companies, which are eventually being bailed out by the government through public money. On the one hand private companies are robbing the public money and on the other hand, they are ignoring the social and environmental impacts of these projects.
Speakers included:
Praful Samanatara,
Senior Activist & Environmentalist Odisha Soumya Dutta, Environmentalist ,Beyond Copenhagen Collective, New Delhi
Dr. Shoibal Chakravarty,
ATREE) Bangalore
Paranjoy Guha Thakurtha,
Senior Journalist
Rajesh Kumar,
Centre for Financial Accountability
Shreya Jai,
Senior Journalist Business Standard
Er. Shailendra Dubey ,
All India Power Engineer Federation (AIPEF) Er. Padamjit Singh
All India Power Engineer Federation (AIPEF)
Jesu Rethnam
Senior Activist, Coastal Action Network Tamilnadu
Prabir Purkayastha
Senior Journalist, News click
Ashok Shrimali
Senior Activist Mine Mineral and People, Gujarat
Nitin Sethi
Senior Journalist Business Standard
Philip Cullet,
Water polices expert
Rajkumar Sinha
Senior Activist, Bargi Bandh Visthapit Avam Prabhavit Sangh, Madhya Pradhesh
Diwan Singh, Environmentalist, River policy experts, New Delhi
Gaurav Dwivedi,
Centre for Financial Accountability
Srinivas Krishnaswamy,
Economist Vasudha Foundation
Sanjay Mangala Gopal
Senior Activist & Renewable Energy expert
Prof. E. Somanathan
Economist, Indian Statistical Institute Delhi
Linda Chhakchhuak,
Independent Journalist, Shillong
Er. K. Ashok Rao
All India Power Engineers Federation (AIPEF) Er. Shailendra Dubey ,
All India Power Engineers Federation (AIPEF)
Joe Athialy
Centre for Financial Accountability
Com. Thomas Franco,
Former General Secretory AIBOC
Er. K. Ashok Rao
All India Power Engineers Federation (AIPEF)
Cover of Gala matinee of Colonel W. de Basil's ballet in aid of the Royal Melbourne Hospital and Children's Hospital : His Majesty's Theatre, Thursday, May 9th, 1940. Collection of the Research Library, National Gallery of Australia.
Cover illustration by Daryl Lindsay
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.