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FOCALPoint: Canada's Spotlight on the Americas
Vol. 9, No. 6, juillet - août 2010
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Internship Posting: Communications Intern
New Policy Brief
The next stage of democracy promotion (English)
La promotion de la démocratie : poser de nouveaux jalons (French)
La próxima etapa de promoción de la democracia (Spanish)
Pablo Policzer
Carlo Dade Testimonial: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Email conversation on Feb. 3, 2010, between Margarita Mooney and Carlo Dade.
Call for submissions — Roundtable on “Education and Health: Public Policy, Local Projects and Social Development”
FOCAL’s Health and Education Program is organizing a roundtable discussion in October 2010. It will bring together academics, policy-makers and local development actors to generate discussion on the inclusion of health and education local development projects in the design and implementation of public policies in Bolivia, Colombia and Peru. FOCAL invites actors carrying out such projects to present them at this discussion. Submissions are accepted until Aug.15, 2010. Please see the call for submissions available in English and Spanish for more information or to consult the guidelines.
New Health Policy Paper
Bolivian maternal and child health policies
Erika Silva and Ricardo Batista
New Report
Focus Groups with Temporary Foreign Workers: Brandon, Manitoba
New Education Policy Paper
Indigenous population and differences in access to primary education in Bolivia
by Wilson Jiménez and Miguel Vera
New Governance Policy Paper
Summitry in the Americas: The end of mass multilateralism? by Richard Feinberg
Migration and Development Project
Successful launch of a new seminar series
Mapping the Media in the Americas web site online
See how media ownership, election results, political finance and demographics intersect in 12 countries of the Americas. Maps of Argentina, Brazil, Canada, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Dominican Republic, Guatemala, Mexico, Peru, Trinidad and Tobago, and Uruguay are available at www.mediamap.info.
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