Events

• Unblocking results: can aid get public services flowing?
  Date	03/06/2013
  City	London
  Country	United Kingdom
  Summary	Hosted by ODI

• Event:AfDB Supports the Africa Remittances and Money Transfer Markets Forum
  Date	05/06/2013
  City	Praia
  Country	Cape Verde
  Summary	Remittances represent a rising source of finance for the continent and hold immense potential as drivers of economic growth and development. A recent study, Leveraging Migration for Africa: Remittances, Skills, and Investments, conducted by the African Development Bank (AfDB) in collaboration with the World Bank shows that remittance flows into Africa reached US $40 billion in 2010 and have quadrupled since 1990. African remittances currently account for 2.6 per cent of GDP, a figure that in some countries equals or even exceeds both foreign direct investment and aid.

• Event:World Environment Day 2013
  Date	05/06/2013
  City	Global
  Country	Global
  Summary	World Environment Day ('WED') is celebrated every year on 5th june to raise global awareness of the need to take positive environmental action

• Event:World Oceans Day
  Date	08/06/2013
  City	Global
  Summary	On World Oceans Day people around the planet celebrate and honor the body of water which links us all, for what it provides humans and what it represents. Be a part of this growing global celebration! }} People around the world depend on a healthy, clean ocean in order to survive and thrive. World Oceans Day is the official UN-designated international day of ocean celebration. On June 8th each year, we celebrate the ocean, its importance in our lives, and how we can protect it. WorldOceansDay.org aims to help you make a difference in your life, community, and world by taking action to protect our ocean—for present and future generations. Despite the huge challenges facing the world’s ocean, by working together we can achieve a healthy ocean that provides for the billions of humans, plants and animals which depend on it every day. The two-year theme for 2013 and 2014 is together we have the power to protect the ocean! For the next two years we ask you to celebrate the ocean and strive to protect it. Connect with your family, friends, community, and the entire planet on World Oceans Day to take action and create the future you wan

• Event:Nutrition for Growth
  Date	09/06/2013
  City	London
  Country	United Kingdom
  Summary	The event will bring together business leaders, scientists, governments and civil society to make the ambitious financial and political commitments needed to reach millions more pregnant women and infants with the right nutrition at the right time, and reduce cases of stunting and deaths from severe acute malnutrition.

• Event:7th World Environmental Education Congress
  Date	09/06/2013
  City	Marrakech
  Country	Morocco }} From June 9th to June 14th, Marrakech will host the 7th World Environmental Education Congress. Co-organized by the Mohammed VI Foundation for Environmental Protection and the WEEC Network, this year's theme is '''Environmental Education in Cities and Rural Areas: Seeking Greater Harmony''' The scale and pace of migration is rising at an unprecedented rate. Migrants flee poverty, hunger, cultural intolerance, conflict, and the effects of environmental deterioration. They also seek new opportunities. In the end, most migrants move from rural areas to urban centres and with this in-migration cities grow. Like an organism, cities exchange material, energy, and information, within themselves and with rural areas. When they consume too much, too fast, they are unsustainable. Both cities and rural areas suffer from abandonment, changing social relationships, and growing discrepancies in lifestyles and opportunities. Still, rural-urban migrations can bring benefits, freeing rural lands from congestion and fragmentation. But, perhaps most interestingly, distinctions between cities and rural areas are becoming blurred—physically and culturally. This theme puts critical socio-ecological issues before an audience of environmental educators. It provides us with context for critical questions: What is education to do? What is an appropriate educational response to these complex problems? How can education develop learners’ imagination, resilience, and will to act wisely in the face of seemingly impossible challenges? In thinking about urban, rural, and hybrid realms, the theme opens up educational questions about the value of seeing the world from different vantages. What are urban learners missing when they do not have access to rural knowledge? What are rural learners missing when they do not have access to urban knowledge? And, what new knowledge is being constructed in hybrid spaces between? This theme is also a metaphor for broad educational questions. What vantage points are absent from education where you learn and work? What experiences are missing? What values influence educational decisions? What do we need to change in our own educational context to create more complete educational experiences? To enable a more active citizenry? For more information, please visit the website of the event [http://www.weec2013.org/en/ here]

• Event:Global Wind Day
  Date	15/06/2013
  City	Global
  Summary	Global Wind Day is a worldwide event that occurs annually on 15 June. It is a day for discovering wind, its power and the possibilities it holds to change our world. }} In more than 75 countries around the world, wind farms are in operation, generating energy from a clean and renewable source. Thousands of individuals are involved in the production of energy from the wind, but for many people, wind energy is a mystery. Global Wind Day is the day when you can visit wind farms, meet experts, attend events, take actions to support wind energy and find out everything you want to know about wind energy. The European Wind Energy Association – EWEA – and the Global Wind Energy Council – GWEC – coordinate the Global Wind Day through a network of partners. The day started as a European one in 2007 and went Global in 2009. On 15 June, hundreds of public events are organised all over the world. Click [http://www.globalwindday.org/about-wind-day/ here] to access the website {{#widget:YouTube
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• Event:Day of the African Child
  Country	South Africa
  City	Soweto
  Date	16/06/2013
  Summary	16 June every year: Commemorating children killed protesting in Soweto in 1976.

• Event:HBSC 30th Anniversary Meeting
  Country	Scotland
  City	St. Andrews
  Date	20/06/2013
  Summary	30th Anniversary HBSC Meeting (Closed event)

• Event:Africa Gathering 2013
  Date	21/06/2013
  City	London
  Country	United Kingdom }} Hosted by the BBC Africa Team, Africa Gathering celebrates its fifth anniversary with a conference showcasing the rise of African women in the technology sector in Africa, and ideas that have emerged in recent times across the continent, and to discuss some of the challenges still present around funding and investment. Also this year, through a special series of themed presentations, the event will highlight and debate the rise of women in technology across Africa. Africa Gathering 2013 will be a key event for women innovators and investors who want to discover and invest in African technology ecosystems. Click [http://www.africagathering.org/events/africa-gathering-2013/ here] for more information about this event [[Category:Gender Equality]] [[Category:Education and Skills]]

• Event:Workshop on Methodologies for stakeholders inclusion and activation of deliberative processes
  Date	26/06/2013
  City	London
  Country	UK }} On 26 June 2013 the Office for National Statistics (ONS) will host a workshop on Methodologies for stakeholder inclusion and activation of deliberative processes in London. It will feature presentations from several countries on their approach to stakeholder inclusion and provide participates with an opportunity to discuss best practice. The outcomes from this event will feed in to a set of guidelines and methodologies for stakeholder inclusion at the EU level. For further information please contact Sophie Ebid (sophie.ebid@ons.gsi.gov.uk). '''See the full Programme, [http://www.eframeproject.eu/uploads/media/Programme_Stakeholder_Inclusion_workshop.pdf here].''' '''Contact: sophie.ebid@ons.gsi.gov.uk'''

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