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What are we doing to tackle world poverty?The Department for International Development (DFID) is the part of the UK Government that manages Britain's aid to poor countries and works to get rid of extreme poverty.
We are headed by a Cabinet minister, one of the senior ministers in the Government. This reflects how important the Government sees reducing poverty around the world. We have two headquarters (in London and East Kilbride, near Glasgow) and 64 offices overseas. We also have over 2500 staff, almost half of whom work abroad.
Why is the UK Government involved in development?
More than a billion people, one in five of the world's population, live in extreme poverty. This means they live on less than 65p a day. Ten million children die before their fifth birthday, most of them from preventable diseases. More than 113 million children do not go to school.
In a world of growing wealth, such levels of human suffering and wasted potential are not only morally wrong, they are also against our own interests. We are becoming much closer to people in faraway countries. We trade more and more with people around the world.
Many of the problems which affect us, war and conflict, international crime, refugees, the trade in illegal drugs and the spread of diseases like HIV and AIDS, are caused or made worse by poverty in developing countries. Getting rid of poverty will make for a better world for everybody.
DFID Values
DFID's values define the way in which we intend to live up to our strategic aim of halving world poverty by the year 2015. They also provide a framework for improved performance. Our values are:
ambition and determination to eliminate poverty
diversity and the need to balance work and private life
ability to work effectively with others
desire to listen, learn and be creative
professionalism and knowledge
Our policies and processes support and underpin these values. And, it is, of course, vital that our behaviours reflect and underline them too.
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Institute for Development Policy and Management,established in 1958, is the UK’s largest University-based International Development Studies department, with over seventy Manchester-based professional, administrative and associated staff.
Its objective is to promote social and economic development, particularly within lower-income countries and for disadvantaged groups, by enhancing the capabilities of individuals and organisations through education, training, consultancy, research and policy analysis.
In recent years it has been increasingly recognised that the quality of policy and institutional design represents a key constraint to development. The Institute offers, within a friendly and supportive atmosphere, the services of a wide range of people specialising in the practical problems of policy formulation and implementation, organisational design and management, backed up by specialist library and computing facilities and by forty-five years of institutional experience. The combined field experience of members of the Institute covers over sixty countries in Asia, Africa, Latin America/Caribbean and the Pacific. Much of this experience has been gained in work for national and international agencies where the focus has been on finding workable solutions to development problems and strengthening institutional capacities. For More Details Visit:
www.manchester.ac.uk ,
www.manchester.ac.uk/idpm
Datamatio
n Foundation is a non-profit, apolitical, non-partisan registered Charitable Trust (Trust Deed # 3258 dated March 8, 2001) with its head office at Delhi. The Foundation has been actively engaged in advocating, designing and implementing innovative Information and Communication Technology enabled initiatives to help meet Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) defined by the United Nations as below :
Eradicating extreme poverty and hunger
Achieving universal primary education
Promoting gender equality and empowerment of women
Reducing child mortality
Improving maternal health
Combating HIV/AIDS, malaria and other health disorders
Ensuring environmental sustainability
Developing a global partnership for development
The Foundation targets women, economically and socially disadvantaged communities and youth in India and other developing countries. Gender equality, youth empowerment and poverty alleviation dovetailed with the MDGs are the main goals of the Trust .For More Details Visit:
www.datamationfoundation.orgOrganizers
The Indian Association for Women in IT is a non-profit professional association, for men & women who have an interest in Women in Information Technology. It is a national association with headquarters in Annamalainagar, Chidambaram. This association will be referred to as IAWIT. The goal of this association is to create a critical mass of women professionals in information technology through various empowerment programmes. Its primary activities include organizing national and international conferences (i) to promote the participation of young women students to take part actively in Information Technology; (ii) to encourage girl children in the rural and urban communities to develop a greater interest and pursue carriers in information technology related fields; (iii) and to serve as a gateway for unemployed graduate women to get career related information in Information Technology related fields. In the last years, four international conferences were organized under the themes : (i) current status of women in IT in India (2002) : (ii) women in the digital era: opportunities and challenges (2003); (iii) women in e-governance (2004); (iv) Gender issues in the e-society(2005).
The details of the conferences are available at our website:
Madurai Kamaraj University, established in 1966, has 18 Schools comprising 72 Departments. The Directorate of Distance Education of the University has a student strength of about 1.30 lakhs. The University has 109 affiliated Colleges (9 Autonomous) including other approved institutions and 7 evening colleges. There are centres which promote research potential of teachers. Extension activities are carried out through Department of Youth Welfare, NSS, SC/ST cell and Adult Education programmes.
Madurai Kamaraj University, (originally known as Madurai University) was named after the historical city of Madurai, the ancient capital of the Pandyan rulers and the seat of three famous Tamil academies going back to the beginnings of the Christian and even perhaps an earlier Era, was inaugurated on 6th February 1966 at the heart of the city. Its nucleus was the Extension centre of the University of Madras located at Madurai.
Two years later, the foundation stone for a new campus was laid by Dr.Zakir Hussain, the then President of India on Madurai - Theni road, 13 kilometers to the west of the city. Since then the campus has grown into a beautiful University township with an extensive area of about 750 acres, appropriately called in Tamil "Palkalainagar". And in 1978, the name of the University was changed to Madurai Kamaraj University to honour one of the most illustrious sons of our country. The two components of the name may signify the pride in the hoary tradition of the Tamils and the present concern to live up to their ideals.
KINS Foundation is a Public Charitable Trust established in 1998 at Gandhigram,Dindigul District, Tamilnadu, India. The term Kins here, refers to persons whomsover evince concern or are concerned in achieving the aim of the objectives of the Foundation.
The objectives are :
I. To work with the people living below poverty line, women, dalits, adivasis and deprived sections, towards a just andequitable society.
II. To work towards a clean and healthy environment required to enhance the socio-economic standard of people in the lower strata of the society for particularly women and children, illiterated,youth, etc., aspiring for betterment in life.
III. To work towards education relevant to our objectives and strive to build necessaryeducational materials and information for dissemination. This includesopening of schools, Training centers, institutions of higher learningetc.,
In consonance to the spirit of the objectives the Foundationstrives to foster entrepreneurship culture among women, youth, people inpoverty, unskilled/unemployed the aged etc., through skill trainingprogrammes leading to self-employment and employability.
Kins Foundation is the Practice School Partner of Gandhigram Rural University of its Degree programme for B.Sc., Catering Science and HotelAdministration.
The Foundation also offers craft courses approved by government of Tamil Nadu, for rural youth in Catering Technology and Hotel Management and also gets them job placements in various starstatus hotels in four southern states of India. It includes specialprogrammes for SC/ST candidates.
Kins Foundation is an approved Centre for Family Counselling and to conduct training programmes as well for the Family Counsellors.
Kins Foundation is involved in a project called Co-Divine Project for Community, Digital, Visual and Voice Narrative Enactment Project - undertaken by Stanford University U.S.A.at Gandhigram and its Managing Trustee Prof. P.K. Kothandapani is amember and a Co-chair, Co-DiViNE Project AdministrativeCouncil.
Kins Foundation also conducts various Skill Training Programme for SHG members sponsored by District Rural Development Agency(DRDA), Tamil Nadu Corporation for Development of Women (TNCDW), TamilNadu Adi Dravida Housing Development Corporation (TAHDCO), Central &State Social Welfare Boards (CSWB), Institutions, NGOs etc.,
KinsFoundation organizes and conducts Seminars/Workshops etc in varioustopics and themes in Universities/Colleges/Institutions.
