Agenda

From Africa Recovery, Vol.16 #2-3 (September 2002), page 34

28-29 September 2002, Washington, DC (USA) -- Annual Joint Meetings of the IMF and World Bank. See website <www.imf.org/external/am/index.htm>.

3-4 October 2002, Madrid (Spain) -- 3rd World Conference of Rural Women, organized by the Institute for Women and co-financed by the European Social Fund. Tel (34-91) 445-3086, e-mail <cmmujer@presencia-inter.com>.

3-6 October 2002, Guadalajara (Mexico) -- 9th International Forum on Women's Rights and Development: Re-inventing Globalization. E-mail <forum@awid.org>, website <www.awid.org>.

8-11 October 2002, Montreux (Switzerland) -- World Summit on Internet and Multimedia. Tel (41-21) 925-8030, fax (41-21) 925-8035, e-mail <info@internetworldsummit.org>, website <www.internetworldsummit.org >.

16-17 October 2002, Washington, DC (USA) -- A Humanitarian and Development Crisis: Addressing the Challenges for PVOs and NGOS, sponsored by some 20 organizations working in collaboration with the USAID Team for Multisectoral Approaches to HIV/AIDS. Website <http://sara.aed.org/pvo-aids/>.

27-31 October 2002, New Orleans (USA) -- First International Congress on Child Migration. Website <www.nottscc.gov.uk/child_migrants/congress/index.htm>.

7-9 November 2002, Montclair, New Jersey (USA) -- Internalist vs. Externalist Interpretations of African History and Culture. Contact Sally Garson, tel (973) 655-7516, e-mail <garsons@mail.montclair.edu>.

10-13 November 2002, New York (USA) -- The Microcredit Summit +5, to review progress toward the goal of reaching 100 million of the world's poorest families, especially women, with credit. Website <www.microcreditsummit.org/plus5>.

17-22 November 2002, Arusha (Tanzania) -- 3rd Pan-African Conference on Malaria will focus on scientific progress and potential in malaria research. Tel (202) 331-2000, fax (202) 331-0111, e-mail <malariaconference@courtesyassoc.com>

21-22 November 2002, Timisoara, (Romania) -- International Conference on Preventing Hydrological Disasters. Contact Gheorghe Cretu, tel/fax (49-56) 221481, e.mail <ger@mail.dnttm.ro>, website <www.utt.ro/pfhd>.

1-3 December 2002, Kathmandu, (Nepal) -- International Conference on Information Technology, Communications Development. Contact Dr. Alfred Diebold, e-mail <alfred.diebold@fesnepal.org>.

5-8 December 2002, Washington, DC (USA) -- African Studies Association, 45th Annual Meeting. Tel (732) 932-8173, e-mail <ldjones@rci.rutgers.edu>.

6-7 December 2002, Berlin (Germany) -- Conference on the Human Dimensions of Global Environmental Change. Contact Frank Biermann, Potsdam Institute, e-mail <biermann@pik-potsdam.de>, website <www.environmental-policy.de>.

8-12 December 2002, Kampala (Uganda) -- 10th General Assembly of the Council for the Development of Social Science Research in Africa (CODESRIA), on the theme "Africa in the New Millennium." Fax (221) 824-5795, e-mail <general.assembly@codesria.sn >.

WHAT HAS TAKEN PLACE

26-28 June 2002, Geneva (Switzerland) -- Diversification of Production and Exports in Commodity-Dependent Developing Countries, an UNCTAD expert meeting. Tel (41-22) 917- 5790, e-mail <mehmet.arda@unctad.org>.

1-4 September 2002, Johannesburg (South Africa) -- African Conference on Social Aspects of HIV/AIDS Research. Contact Dr. Steven Chandiwana, e-mail <chandiwana@blair.co.zw>.

7-11 September 2002, Alexandria (Egypt) -- Youth Employment Summit. Website <www.youthemploymentsummit.org>.