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The North Central Regional Center for Rural Development (NCRCRD) works with extension professionals, researchers, and their partners to enhance rural development outcomes in the twelve state north central region (see map above for the states). The NCRCRD is jointly funded by the USDA and Land Grant Universities in the twelve state region.
OECD: Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development
The mission of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) is to promote policies that will improve the economic and social well-being of people around the world.
Jeremy Hobbs, Executive Director of Oxfam International writes about how the push for growth can actually make matters worse for those 1 billion people in the world that are hungry.
Learning Regions and Cities have become a widely adopted concept in European education policies. Due to the different departures and pathways each of them has developed domain specific knowledge, in the area of social capital building, regarding good governance and institution building, stakeholder collaboration, public-private partnerships and transversal cooperations. R3L+ capitalizes on this diversity by bringing together actors from the respective countries in order to learn from each other and jointly elaborate a common quality framework for collaborative action.
There are 71 days to go until the RIO+20 conference in Brazil. This link provides details of a range of events within the conference including in food security and sustainable agriculture, sustainable cities and transition to a green economy, all of which may be of interest to Pascal subscribers.
The Society for Educational Studies (SES), established in 1951, is one of the leading societies for the advancement of scholarship, debate, and research in Educational Studies in the United Kingdom. It brings together students, teachers, academics, and researchers together with policy makers and analysts in one comprehensive organization. It exists to support the quality and status of research and scholarship in Educational Studies; sponsor the world class publication British Journal of Educational Studies; encourage debate and discussion, especially on policy issues; and act as a public voice for Educational Studies, particularly in responding to critical attacks upon the quality and integrity of the field.
TED is a nonprofit devoted to Ideas Worth Spreading. It started out (in 1984) as a conference bringing together people from three worlds: Technology, Entertainment, Design. Since then its scope has become ever broader. Along with two annual conferences -- the TED Conference in Long Beach and Palm Springs each spring, and the TEDGlobal conference in Edinburgh UK each summer -- TED includes the award-winning TEDTalks video site, the Open Translation Project and TED Conversations, the inspiring TED Fellows and TEDx programs, and the annual TED Prize.
The Talloires Network is an international association of institutions committed to strengthening the civic roles and social responsibilities of higher education. We work together to implement the recommendations of the Talloires Declaration and build a global movement of engaged universities.
TRE Networks (TRE = Transformative Regional Engagement) takes a different approach by bringing multiple, proven university programs together, and advocating that development program tools be purchased by regions. This strategy creates practical collaboration between programs and regional players, recognizes the unique context of each region, and allows TRE to quickly customize solutions that integrate regional and national partners' assets. This "pull" model directly cultivates regional transformation efforts across the regional landscape: in small and medium-sized industrial cities, in the urban core, and in rural areas.
UNESCO works to create the conditions for dialogue among civilizations, cultures and peoples, based upon respect for commonly shared values. It is through this dialogue that the world can achieve global visions of sustainable development encompassing observance of human rights, mutual respect and the alleviation of poverty, all of which are at the heart of UNESCO’S mission and activities.
The broad goals and concrete objectives of the international community – as set out in the internationally agreed development goals, including the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) – underpin all UNESCO’s strategies and activities. Thus UNESCO’s unique competencies in education, the sciences, culture and communication and information contribute towards the realization of those goals.
UNESCO’s mission is to contribute to the building of peace, the eradication of poverty, sustainable development and intercultural dialogue through education, the sciences, culture, communication and information.
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