Gremlins in the system
We’ve migrated to a new server and the gremlins have deleted posts since early 2021. We are down in the engine room fixing this.
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Managing markets to reduce gender bias and maximize community benefits
“It is crucial that local governments ensure markets are safe spaces for women. Many marketplace vendors are women. Marketplaces offer women the opportunity to advance their socioeconomic status, protect their livelihoods and improve overall well-being. But the gender bias built into markets’ organizational structure and management culture impedes women from taking these opportunities. In fact,
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Budgeting – why the deficit is only part of the story
This blog is the first in a series on public financial management (PFM). We start by identifying the principles of financial management from the experience of an individual. Later we will investigate how the personal and organisational interact. Much of the focus of political discussions is on the budget surplus or deficit. Figure 1 US
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Achievements for 2020 #6
Dr Jane Stanley attended WUF10 before the lock down, and this resulted in firm commitments to form a new Pacific Partnership involving EAROPH, UN Habitat, UN ESCAP, CLGF, ICLEI, Compass Housing and some universities. Jane is now on the Steering Committee for this PP-NUA Partnership. We have secured the support of various interns and volunteers
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Achievements for 2020 #5
Kerry McGovern has contributed to the United Nations Asset Management Manual. It is yet to be published but, once completed, will be available on the UN Department of Economic and Social Affairs website. In 2020, she was named as the Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) Champion for Prosperity by the United Nations Association of Australia –
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Achievements 2020 #4
Dr Jane Stanley also worked with the Commonwealth Local Government Forum (CLGF) on an European Union (EU) funded program for training local government in Small Island Developing States. In 2019 we delivered training in person within Kiribati and the Cook Islands. The third target country was the Marshall Islands, but the COVID-19 emergency made a
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Achievements in 2020 #3
Dr Penny Burns hosted the Talking Infrastructure Workshop, in Adelaide in February 2020 on ‘Modern Monetary Theory and its relevance for Infrastructure Decision Making’. She contributed to the “Reshaping Infrastructure” issues Paper May 2020 by Climate Works Australia and to the United Nations Manual on Local Government Asset Management in August 2020. She gave a
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Achievements in 2020 #2
Kieren McGovern has been coordinating a UNDP-ADB Asia Pacific project that formulates Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) national implementation snapshots for country programming. See the Indonesia Snapshot, https://sdgsnapshot.org/indonesia Once COVID hit he worked on the UN response grants and the Asia Pacific UNDP led socio-economic impact assessments that now number 22. To end the year he
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Achievements in 2020 – #1
2020 has been a big year. In this series of posts, we share some of our achievements in 2020. Dr Jane Stanley provided training in how to conduct questionnaire based surveys in PNG, and then converted this to a training manual when back in Australia. She oversaw and analysed several baseline surveys (for the Settlement
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Local Economic Development in the Pacific Islands Framework for a Blue and Green Economy
Dr Jane Stanley is a speaker at this morning’s webinar hosted by the Pacific Partnerships – New Urban Agenda. You can join using this link. https://us02web.zoom.us/j/84836602923 Jane is sharing her experience on the role of Local and National Government for the informal Sector in the Pacific.
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