Issue No:  68/ October 2007

Budget: US $500,000 (inclusive of all six country studies)

Deadline: November 26, 2007

Individual applications are not accepted - researchers must be part of a country study team which includes those conducting the household surveys and those that write the country report. Researchers or institutes are not restricted, however, only to one bid. Individuals may apply as many times as they wish, as long as they are always part of a full country study team.

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New Publication: Political Institutions and Development

GDN announces the release of the second volume in the GDN Series published by Edward Elgar. ‘Political Institutions and Development: Failed Expectations and Renewed Hopes' challenges the cliché that ‘good institutions’ are essential for sustainable socio-economic development by focusing on the need to adapt potential solutions to local conditions. Edited by Natalia Dinello and Vladimir Popov,this volume explores the relationship between political institutions and development in diverse regions including the Commonwealth of Independent States, East and South Asia, and Latin America.

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GDN’s Ninth Annual Global Development Conference ‘Security for Development: Confronting Threats to Survival and Safety' will bring together nearly 600 researchers, policymakers and development practitioners from across the world to discuss the role of physical security as a precondition of human development. The conference will focus on pervasive threats, whose potential to cause physical or material damage shortens the planning horizons of individuals, communities and enterprises and challenges their survival. Threats to be addressed include violence (domestic abuse, violent crime, and civil conflict), and major calamities including pandemics and natural disasters (such as earthquakes, drought and floods). The conference will go beyond the recognition and identification of threats by highlighting responses in various parts of the world.

Key speakers include:

• H.E. Luisa Dias Diogo, Prime Minister of Mozambique, Mozambique
• Michael Spence, Stanford University, United States
• Hon. Min Mahinda Samarasinghe, Disaster Management and Human Rights Minister, Sri Lanka
• Jeffrey Sachs, Columbia University, United States (via videoconference)
• Paul Collier, Oxford University, United Kingdom
• Ajay Chhibber, The World Bank, United States
• Andres Penate, Formerly of the DAS Intelligence Unit, Colombia
• Bruce Davis, Australian Agency for International Development
• Paul Salem, Carnegie Middle East Center, Lebanon

Registration is currently open to participants! To attend the conference, visit our conference webpage at http://www.gdnet.org/ninth_conference and pay a registration fee of USD $100 online. GDN is not responsible for accommodation, meals or travel. The registration fee is non-refundable.

Information on the conference is available here: More>>

GDN invites applications for a brainstorming session in Buenos Aires focused on design and content of knowledge management workshops in Latin America and the Caribbean. This session aims to convene stakeholders interested in building knowledge management capacity; develop ideas on the design and content of future workshops; and identify organizations that will be actively involved in organizing these workshops.

Deadline for submissions: November 19, 2007

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Vacancy: Post-Doctoral Research Fellowships in Urban Climate Change

The newly created Global Urban Research Centre with support from the Ford Foundation is seeking to appoint two Post-Doctoral Fellows to work on urban climate change, international migration or HIV/AIDS. Each fellowship will be available for up to two years.

For inquiries and further details, contact Caroline Moser (caroline.moser@manchester.ac.uk )