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FOCALPoint: Canada's Spotlight on the Americas
Vol. 9, No. 5, julio - agosto 2010
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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 September 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
Éxitos y Fracasos de las Políticas Bolivianas de Salud Materno-Infantil
Erika Silva y Ricardo Batista

New Report
Focus Groups with Temporary Foreign Workers: Brandon, Manitoba

New Education Policy Paper
Población indígena y diferencias en el acceso a la educación primaria en Bolivia
Wilson Jiménez y 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.