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• Indigenous Peoples Rights and Sustainable Development

  0 comments Jul 6, 2011

  There are an estimated 370 million indigenous peoples in the world in over 90 countries. The lands that indigenous communities live on and the resources that surround them are central to their faith, way of life, and cultural, spiritual, ancestral and intellectual traditions. As developing countries work to augment their economic growth and corporations continue [...]

• Doing no harm

  0 comments Mar 17, 2010

  It’s imperative when doing international development work not to impose our paradigm on theirs. Last week I listened to a Millennium Promise webinar on sustainable energy sources for rural villages in Africa- very impressed by their quantitative and qualitative research and knowledge- Vijay was among the world’s foremost experts on the subject, and extremely knowledgeable [...]