FORTHCOMING
EVENTS - May 2006 |
| Advocacy
Seminar on Child Domestic Workers |
| Advocacy
Seminar on Child Domestic Workers CUTS Centre for Consumer Action, Research & Training (CART), Jaipur, in partnership with Save the Children (UK) is implementing a project titled ‘Hum Bhi Bachche Hain’ (we too are children) on Child Domestic Workers (CDWs). The one-year project was formally launched in July 2005. To share the learnings from the project with a wider audience and to take the key findings and issues forward, a state level advocacy seminar will be organised at HCM-RIPA, Jaipur, Rajasthan, on May 26, 2006. The participants included Government officials, teachers and students from partner schools, representatives of donor agencies/civil society organisations (CSOs) working on child issues and representatives of social organisations etc. For further information please contact: |
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Outreach
Meetings in Uttaranchal under
Farmers’ Rights Programme (Phase-II) May 19-21, 2006, Uttarkashi and Lwali, District Pouri, Uttaranchal, India Two outreach meetings are scheduled to be held at Uttarkashi on May 19 and Lwali (District: Pouri) on May 21, 2006 under the Farmers’ Rights Programme (Phase-II). The meetings aim to sensitise the grassroots stakeholders of the region on the issues of Access & Benefit Sharing (ABS) and Prior Informed Consent (PIC). The farmers of the region as well as the representatives of the organisations working on farmers’ issues are expected to participate in the outreach meetings. For further information please contact: |
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‘Involvement
of Consumers in Power Sector Reforms in Rajasthan’ The 12th Circle Level Training Workshop under the second phase of the CUTS-FES programme will be organised at Udaipur, Rajasthan, India, on May 17, 2006, with the support of Friedrich Ebert Stiftung (FES), New Delhi. In the workshop, sessions on capacity building in power reforms, awareness regarding the power reforms, power tariff settings, role of consumer organisations in power reforms would be taken up for discussions. For further information please contact: |
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District
level de-briefing Meeting of Public Expenditure Tracking CUTS Centre for Consumer Action, Research & Training (CUTS-CART), and CUTS Centre for Human Development (CUTS-CHD), in partnership with South Asia Social Accountability Network (SASANet) of the Word Bank is implementing a project on ‘Participatory Expenditure Tracking Survey on Mid-day Meal Scheme’ (MDMS) in Chittorgarh, Rajasthan, since October 2005. The project was formally launched at Chittorgarh, Rajasthan, on October 21, 2005. The initial survey was conducted among various stakeholders through 221 Government and Government Assisted Primary Schools covering 14 blocks of Chittorgarh. To analyse and deliberate on the key findings of the survey, a de-briefing meeting is scheduled to be held in Chittorgarh, Rajasthan, on May 11, 2006. For further information please contact: |
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CUTS International CUTS International facilitates civil society actions
for initiating research and advocacy activities on competition policy
and law in several parts of the developing world, especially in Africa
and Asia. |
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Strategic
Review WTO’s Trade Related Technical Assistance Activities CUTS Centre for International Trade, Economics & Environment (CUTS-CITEE), in association with the World Trade Organisation (WTO), will organise the ‘Mid-term Review meeting of the Strategic Review of WTO-TRTA at Geneva, Switzerland, on May 02, 2006. |
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Circle-level
Orientation of CUTS-FES Power Sector Reforms As part of commencing the activities of the Phase II of CUTS-Friedrich Ebert Stiftung (FES) Project on 'Involvement of Consumers in Power Sector Reforms’, daylong orientation workshops will be organised in 12 identified circles of Rajasthan, India, from June 18, 2005 to May 20, 2006. The second workshop, in the series, will be organised in Sawai Madhopur on June 18, 2005. The major objective of the programme is to facilitate an active involvement of consumers in the power sector reforms.
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