Tuesday, April 8
HIV/AIDS in Sub-Sahara Africa
Indigenous Land Rights, Latin America
Empowering through Microfinance
Developing a Microfinance Model
Thursday, April 10
Group Presentation
Questions for Roundtable Discussion:
1. What conditions stimulate a healthy relationship between benevolent outsiders and potentially skeptical communities?
2. How can independent auditors assess the success of microfinance programs other than relying on loan repayment rates?
3. In what conditions is it effective for governments to distribute free ARVs?
4. What are the requirements for governments and indigenous communities to achieve an acceptable land rights solution?
http://www.orionmagazine.org/index.php/articles/article/161/
An interesting article discussed in our group about the negative impacts of NGOs on indigenous land tenure.
http://www.orionmagazine.org/index.php/articles/article/161/
Here's and article I found worthwhile to read while pondering question #2 on microfinance
“Assessing the community economic impact of microfinance institutions” by Gary Woller and Robert Parsons http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qa3906/is_200208/ai_n9112576
are you sure the link doesn't work? It just worked for me.
Ok the link to my presentation should be working now. You can find more information at microfinancegateway.com
Can Cell Phones Help End Global Poverty? http://www.nytimes.com/2008/04/13/magazine/13anthropology-t.html?pagewanted=4&_r=1&hp
New York Times, April 11, 2008
A short blurb entitled "Brazil opens condom factory to help preserve the Amazon rain forest" They opened a factory to produce condoms from the rainforest - providing jobs and 100 million condoms to be distributed for and anti-Aids program:
http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2008/04/08/america/LA-GEN-Brazil-Condom-Factory.php