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Issue 10 - Sharing knowledge and resources. Why and how development actors support each other?

Playlist on Youtube:   http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLF37885502BB9C321

Eugad Wiki:   

• What is the communication style that facilitates intercultural understanding?
• Media and the international communication climate. Professional and ethical challenges.
• Educators as creators of the cooperation climate amongst peoples. Does Global development require more competitive or more cooperative human resources?
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See the Manual Chapters: 

·                     Learning and Knowledge Management

Communication and Global Cultures

·               ·         The difference between "communication"  and "information"

·         The relational content of communication

issue  dealt with in  Episode 7 - MDG 7: Ensure environmental sustainability

Testimonials Manoj Kumar  Country Director of Concern Worldwide  was interviewd  by Stefano De Santis on December 2010   in River N 2, Freetown Peninsula, Sierra Leone.  CONCERN internal and external challenges: "There are difficulties to recruit expertise. Because of the war an entire generation in Sierra Leon missed the opportunity of education. So we recruit people also if they do not have the right kind of education and we build their capacities". The knowledge cycle -  Also if each contest is very different from another, still there are things learned in one place that are possible to be apply in other Countries.  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L8yCmRHvf6M&list=PLB670B648F6840C29&index=4&feature=plpp_video http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L8yCmRHvf6M&list=PLB670B648F6840C29&index=4&feature=plpp_video see full interview: http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLB670B648F6840C29

 

Testimonials C.B. Rao, a writer and a former United Nation officer was interviewed by Fausto Aarya De Santis in March 2011 in Varanasi, India Spirituality and International Solidarity Being Human and being Humane see full interview:  http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL9191985103316EA2

 

Testimonials Silvia Costa is an European Parlamentarian from Italy. She was interviewed in Brussels by Francesco Brancatella and Fausto Aarya De Santis on the 13th of July 2011 Sarebbe importante dare piu' fondi ai progetti perche' possano comunicare meglio see full interview: http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLE5B4D9EB8DECFFE4

 

Testimonials In Konu, Sierra Leone, we recorded a conversation between Francesco Brancatella, Italian journalist of  RAI, Stefano De Santis (progetto EUGAD)  and the Leoninan journalists of the local radio.  December 2010 How to bridge the capacity divide in media production between Europe and Africa? I was surprised by the European lack of will to know see full dialogue: http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLB74A33E6B026DDDF

 

Testimonials Danièle Smadja is the EU Ambassador to India. She was interviewed in Delhi on the 12th May 2010 by Fausto Aarya De Santis  Can knowledge and social harmony be considered as resources? Education is a fundamental right and that is very important. If you say that social cohesion is a resource to go up the economic ladder in the sense that it has to be available for all and it everyone should have the possibility to have it.  Even though we have a number of problems in Europe, even though we have a number of disparities in our society; social cohesion has been for many years in the heart of the architecture of the European Union. Social inclusion and social coherence has been in the heart of Europe and European policies. see full interview:   http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLAD2368FBDC1A2719

 

Testimonials Rajendra K. Pachauri , Nobel Peace Prize winner, is the Director General of the The Energy and Resources Institute, TERI. He was interviewed in New Delhi, India on the second week of February 2011 by Stefano De Santis Can you tell us of a good practice to show that change is possible.  TERI has launched a project called “lighting a billion lights”, because there are 1.5 billion people on earth who do not have access to electricity. So we have designed solar lanterns, we have trained a women in every village to charge these lamps and she rents them out at night… and it makes so much difference to their life. A women can cook without inhaling gas from the kerosene gas, carpenters can work for much longer, etc.  I have a lot of faith in young people. I think if the youth are educated, if the youth are informed then society will change. That is the real challenge. see full interview:  http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL1B4B968D8E371E8F

 

Testimonials Amitabh Behar is the National Campaign Conveyor of Wada Na Todo Abhiyan,  a national campaign to hold the government accountable to its promise to end Poverty, Social Exclusion & Discrimination Dialogue between cultures Communication Facilitating Intercultural understanding   see full interview:   http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL60DE523062A5383F

Testimonials Jean Drèze   s a development economist teaching and working in India. He was interviewed in Allahabad, India on the 23rd February 2011  Your Story and Finding a Balance between Economic Progress and .. Energy which Keeps You Going Your Decision to Live and Work in India see full interview: http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL46EDF7CD88112E51

 

Testimonials Roberto Gualtieri is an elected member of the EU Parliament.   He was interviewed by Stefano De Santis on 12th July 2011 in Brussels, Belgium Sarebbe importante riuscire a far vedere il lavoro sul campo della cooperazione internazionale Sarebbe bello avvicinare i cittadini europei ai processi di cooperazione internazionale see full interview: http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL0BE30E492F840050

 

Testimonials Julian Parr,  Regional Manager, South East Asia for Oxfam GB. ggest challenges that development economies have, like India, is that they have a huge young population where more than 50% are less than 15 years old. So, India has to now create jobs at a scale it has never faced before and in order to do that is has to skill its workforce up. India is at the moment famous for its intellectual experts but that is just the tiny tip of the iceberg... so it is going to be about vocational training, access to the internet, only 5% of Indians access the internet.   It is getting that access to knowledge and resources that is a huge challenge.  5 - Do you think knowledge and social harmony can be considered as resources?   The most important companies today, value themselves on intellectual capital, you are as strong as your workforce. The same applies for nation states, you are as strong as your population. So unless you educate your population, unless you empower them and build intellectual capabilities and capacities that is where you ultimate strength is.   see full interview: http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLF143F55954667298

Testimonials Montek Singh Ahluwalia is the Deputy Chairman of the Planning Commission, Government of India. He was interviewed in Delhi on the second week of April 2010 by Fausto Aarya De Santis Can knowledge and social harmony be considered as resources?  Distinguishes between embodied and disembodied knowledge, and believes the first is a resource for a country but the latter is only a tool available to everyone but of no use to anyone. see full interview:   http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL073E7C62882137D9

 

Testimonials Jyoti Sapru was interviewed by Fausto Aarya De Santis in May 2010  in New Delhi, India Knowledge and Social Harmony as Resources see full interview: http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL8D888077C6583305

Testimonials J.M. Balamorugan  is a Indian Government Official taking a 4-5 year service with Civil Society.  and is the CEO of Isha Foundation. I think it is important for people to change sector so that they can learn from the other sector and bring back their experience. Why do you think it is important for people to do that and how can we make systems more flexible to allow that? This flexibility is very important in whatever we do. Because after a period of time we tend to be inflexible, rigid in our way of working and we tend to assume we know things and we have lots touch with reality. Whatever sector one is working in they need to know the role of the other agencies, they need to spend time with the other agencies. They need to get involved with the other agencies; and what better way than to actually spend time working with them. When you work with them you are actually able to learn from the prospective of the other agencies and you are able to bring back the experience in your own working. Do you think we should ask institutions to allow people to work in a different ambience and then come back to them? Yes, it should be built as part of the system itself in the organization, that a person gets to spend a certain period of time in a sector with which he is connected. Like if I am a computer company which is giving solution to municipal bodies, this person should spend some time with the municipal bodies and understand how the whole thing works; so that whatever he designs as system is more closer to reality. Organizations should have a flexibility to provide this kind of facility for their staff. see full interview: :http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL19CD1F8E78885101

 

Testimonials Sadhguru  is a yogi and the founder of the Isha Foundation. e was interviewed in Coimbatore in the last week of February 2011 by Fausto Aarya De Santis Relationship between Spirituality and a Desire for Inclusive Growth Do you think there is a link between spiritual search and the desire for inclusive growth? The very basis of spirituality is inclusiveness, because exclusiveness comes because of physicality, because physicality means boundaries, boundaries means explosiveness. Boundaries means you are on one side, I’m on the other side. Spirituality means going beyond the physical, going beyond the physical naturally means going beyond boundaries, going beyond boundaries is inclusiveness, isn’t it?  Right now people are struggling to think in   exclusively. That struggle is not needed if your experience of life becomes absolutely inclusive. That is the spiritual process. Is it going boundary less or making a greater boundary? Boundary –less. Non-physical means boundaryless. Is spirituality the only way forward or can non-spiritual people also have a dire of inclusive growth?   There is no one who is non-spiritual. Either you can be consciously spiritual or non-consciously spiritual. Can you just be physical? There are other dimensions of who you are. Physical is what you have gathered over a period of time, is that so? Whatever you gathered is can be yours but it cannot be you, isn’t it? Right now you sit on this stone and say this is my stone. After some time, if you sit long enough, you say, “this is me”. That is madness, isn’t it? That is what is happening with your body and your mind. Whatever you collect, whatever you accumulate it can be yours but it can never be you. If you get out of that foolishness, if you get out of that illusion, then you are spiritual. Whatever you are not conscious of does not exist for you, that is a problem with life, isn’t it? Right now behind you a huge elephant is standing. Don’t turn back and see! Such a big animal; you are not conscious of it so it does not exist for you, isn’t it? Life is like this, only what you are aware of exists for you, what you are not aware of does not exist for you. Spiritual process means that whatever this is [the whole you], you are aware of; that you do not want to leave this piece of life unexplored, that you want to know it through and through. That is the spiritual process. see full interview: http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL28E8330ACA2CE4E6

Tools During the last decade the United Nations have accumulated a wide range of knowledge and experience in mainstreaming human rights into its work. The Practitioners Portal on HRBA – www.hrbaportal.org – is an atpools together that body of knowledge and experience, and makes it accessible to UN practitioners through a single entry point. The initiative grew out of a need to harness the body of knowledge and experience gathered by the UN system in strengthening human rights at the country level, so that these lessons can be applied in the future. The application of this knowledge and learning is vital to improve the quality of human rights mainstreaming work.   http://hrbaportal.org/

Other Resources Manuale del governo italiano su sviluppo sosteniibile e difesa dell'ambiente :http://www.minambiente.it/opencms/export/sites/default/archivio/notizie/Linee_guida_ScuolaxAmbiente_e_Legalitx_aggiornato.pdf   http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ix-1XFQDlUU

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Good practice   In over 15 years Environmental Foundation for Africa (EFA) , an Organization which aims to protect and restore the environment in West Africa, specializes in environmental awareness raising and capacity building at the national, regional and international levels using high impact communications tools and training programs to build an environmentally conscious society motivated to maintain the integrity of nature in Africa. Recently EFA started a new Cooperation partnership for the FoSED project (March 2009 - February 2014, communities in the Bo, Pujehun and Kenema districts - Sierra Leone). Page of description of the main activities of Fosed project: Good practice - Food security and economic development - EFA/Sierra Leone - MDG 1, 7   Page of description of the main activities of Fosed project: http://www.TVP.eu/wiki/index.php?title=Good_practice_-_Food_security_and_economic_development_-_EFA/Sierra_Leone_-_MDG_1,_7   EFA website: http://www.efasl.org.uk/index.htm

Good practice   As a good example of the way how to concretely and succesfully promote Development for Environmental Sustainability through a Participatory approach, see the Tiwai Island Wildlife Sanctuary programme. Tiwai is a small island, 12 kmq, situated on the Moa River, bordering the Gola Rainforest Reserve (Sierra Leone), characterized by a unique environment, with an extraordinary biodiversity of plants and animals, some of the rarest wildlife in the world. Page of description of the main activities of Tiwai Island project: Good practice - Tiwai Island Wildlife Sanctuary - EFA/Sierra Leone - MDG 1, 7   Website of Tiwai Island Wildlife Sanctuary: http://www.tiwaiisland.org/ Good practice for the TVP Manuals: http://www.TVP.eu/wiki/index.php?title=Good_practice_-_Tiwai_Island_Wildlife_Sanctuary_-_EFA/Sierra_Leone_-_MDG_1,_7

Testimonials Antonio Bellia is the Artistic Director of Festival Sicilia Ambiente and President of Demetra Produzioni. He has been working for environment issues for a long time He believes that, in order to face the environmental issues, citizens must first be informed . They need to develop awareness for environment issues, a subject very often not included in usual TV and magazines schedules, and this purpose might be reached through a specific Festival , i.e. Festival SiciliAmbiente, where documentaries related to environmental issues were played, for 4 days long. Besides documentaries, other initiatives were held together with Associations and Institutions. See Legambiente for the initiative “change of bulbs” (free replacement of incandescent bulbs with low consumption bulbs); local, national and European Associations for the initiative “cycle routes” (amateur and professional competitions); creative labs on the seaside, of sensitization towards sea environment, for the youngest children. Moreover, a collection of purposes and ideas to support environmental sustainability was developed during the Festival, and presented to the local Municipality in the last evening of the Festival, so that local Municipality was engaged to put in practice at least one of those ideas/purposes asked for by the citizens.   Read more in his interview (italian language) Full written interview: http://www.TVP.eu/wiki/index.php?title=Interview_to_Antonio_Bellia Audio interview: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wAYwlfP2RKQ  Part 1, Language: Italian -  Purpose of Festival Siciliambiente, the First Documentary Festival, and Media role in promoting a Culture for Environmantal Sustainability

See also

• Italy - How Educators can contribute to MDGs? Playlist    http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL3CF2CBA19D7049FD&feature=view_all  -

• Italy - Modena - OST to promote local intercultural dialogue Playlist http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL6D77477CAAB69722