Dec 13 2011 in Originally posted on the GBI Portal, Women in Development by GBI Portal
Last week, the Institute of Medicine convened a 2-day workshop in Washington, DC to explore how new technologies, like the internet and mobile devices, can help to close knowledge management gaps to accelerate violence prevention in low and middle income countries. The workshop was facilitated by an ad hoc committee to examine: The use of [...]
Tags: 16 days, eric hersman, Gender-Based Violence, ICT4D, institute of medicine, IOM, mpreventviolence
Dec 1 2011 in Agriculture by GBI Portal
Initiated by the International Organization for Migration (IOM)’s Regional Office for Southern Africa and the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) through the President’s Emergency Fund for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR) in 2009, the Ripfumelo (“believe” in xiTsonga language) program is designed to reduce HIV vulnerability among farm workers in South Africa’s Limpopo and Mpumalanga [...]
Tags: agriculture, FAO, HIV/AIDS, ICTs, IOM, PEPFAR, Ripfumelo, South Africa, USAID
