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Dear WA Subscribers,
The range of work and activities for poverty alleviation the Alliance
partners are engaged in and their successes, deserves better
presentation. I have therefore begun working with a consultant on an update of our promotional
brochure and some of you have already been contacted by him for inputs.
We hope to have a draft ready by the end of June and a final product
ready by the end of July 2011.
We will have our annual consultations with Sida on the 14 June 2011, so
if you have any particular issue that you would like to put forward to
Sida please do not hesitate to contact me or any of the regional
partners.
Dr. Sharon Pollard from the Association for Water & Rural Development (AWARD), a NGO in South Africa, is visiting Wetlands Alliance as part of a short sabbatical to foster collaborative learning and
engagement on community-led research (known as Tai Baan in Thailand and
Salaphoum in Cambodia). If anyone would like to contact her, she is based at the Corin Asia office at AIT on
sharon.rae.pollard@gmail.com.
As part of its efforts to build local Alliance partners’ capacities
in rural business development through market value chain analysis and
micro-finance, AIT/AOP facilitated an initial visit of “Hand in Hand
India” to Kratie and Stung Treng. “Hand in Hand” is a development organization that aims to eliminate
poverty by creating enterprises and jobs. A core component of its
approach is the creation of Self Help Groups (SHGs). Through this, in
rural South India alone, over 660,000 (as of April 2011) women have been
mobilized and nearly 540,000 micro and family-based enterprises
created, of which over 6,100 are SMEs, i.e. having at least three
employees each.
You can find more information about Dr. Pollard's and Hand in Hand's work on the webpage. I wish you all a pleasant month ahead!
Best Regards,
Hans Guttman
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