The Vrinda Handbook  -  Index

   General introduction: the scope of this manual and toolkit

• Introduction

• The Vrinda project

• The relevance of the project

• Who is writing this Handbook and How

• What is inside this Handbook

• The video resources linked to this handbook

• The Vrinda project Documentary

Development and Aid

  Development

• Defining Cooperation

• Defining Development -

• The factors causing poverty and suffering

• Human Rights and International Cooperation  

• Development assistance as social education 

• The participatory approach

• Cooperation and Communication

• Sustainable development

• Ethics and Politics

  Aid

• Defining Aid  

• Kinds of development aid -  Humanitarian aid   -   Development Aid  - 

• Linking relief, rehabilitation and development (LRRD)

  Actors and Other Stakeholders - Who is "on board" and why?

• Who provides aid

• The development aid organization

• Local Authorities and Civil Society

• Individuals as development cooperation actors

  Aid effectiveness

Issues - index  -

Actors and Other Stakeholders - Who is "on board" and why?

• 1 - National Governments and International Organizations –  their commitment to MDGs   (1)

• 2 - How can local policy actors contribute to the achievement of MDGs and other global policy objectives?  (6)

• 3 - NGOs as development actors: their role, their limits; their challenges (4)

• 4 - Our role as individuals - Can we as individuals contribute to the achievement of the Global Development Agenda?  (9)

Cooperation - What?

• 5 - Do developed and developing nations agree on the road map for global development?  Is there a difference in the way different cultures see "development"?  (3)

• 6 - Do cooperation for development action really benefits the target populations? How far they impact on the wider social settings? (2)

• 7 - What is the relationship between "Global" and "Local" agendas and responsibilities? (8)

Cooperation - How?

• 8 - What did we learn from the projects about coherence and incoherence of international policies? How to achieve Policy Coherence for Development.  How to design and manage successful cooperation programmes? (5)

Communication - How?

• 9 - Media and the international communication climate. Professional and ethical challenges. (10)

Cooperation and communication climates

• 10 - Sharing knowledge and resources. Why and how development actors support each other  (7)

Documentary scenes -  projects

front camera narration

Africa

-   AFRICA - Children are the wealth - The fisherman interviewing the journalist  (9)

-   Africa - Community Tourism - Number2 River  -  (7)

-   Africa - Family Homes Movement (Father Berton)  -  (4)

-   Africa - Father Osman Marah and the Pentecostal Church  (7)  (9)

-   Sierra Leone - Emergency Surgical Hospital - Goderich  - (4)

-   Sierra Leone - Mothers Preparing Mothers - Susan and Cline Bays  (1)

-   Sierra Leone - Unsustainable Growth - Kono Town   (7)

-   Sierra Leone - Women as Entrepreneurs - Petifu Chain  MDG3

-   Sierra Leone - Primary Health in Matholley Village  (5)

-  Africa - Need Assesment - Eugenio & Osman in Liberia and Guinea

INDIA

-  India - Corporate Social Responsibility - Bengaluru  

-  India - Employment as a Right - Varanasi  (1)

-  India - Green Hands- Coimbatore -  (7)

-  India - Krishnamurti Foundation - Rural School and Hospital -  (2),  (6)

-  India - Living with Dignity - Kolkata -   (6)

-  India - Millennium Village Project - Jharkhand -  (1)

-  India - Responsible Development - Varanasi     (9)

-  India - Right to Learn - Sarnath   (2)

-  India - Weaving Empowerment - Almora   (3)

Lebanon

-  Lebanon - Heritage and Community - Baalbek   (9)

-  Lebanon - Managing Waste - Bint Jbeil   (7)

-  Lebanon - Diffusing Conflicts - South Lebanon   (8)

-  Lebanon- MDG 3- Be (Maya) that change     (3)

SYRIA

-  Syria - Counselling Centres for Women - Damascus   (5)

-  Syria - Fostering Social and Economic Empowerment among Women    (3)

-  Syria - Improving Schools and Learning Environment - Damascus  (2)

-  Syria - Moving Hopes - Damascus  (4)

-  Syria - Palmyra, Italian Archeological Mission  -  (9) -

-  Syria - Preservation and Development - Citadel - Damascus    -  (9)

-  Syria - Preservation and Development - MAM - Damascus    -  (9)

-  Syria - Promoting Quality - Damascus   (8)

-  Syria - SKILLS - Training Young Syrian Journalists  (8)

-  Syria - Syrian Television Goal10

-  Syria - Valuing Water - Damascus  (7)

-  Syria - Youth & Heritage - Sweida  (9)

-  Syria - BESP - Business Environment Simplification Program  (8)

-  Syria - Village Business Incubator - Latakkia  (3)

Colombia

-  COLOMBIA - BOGOTA' - I diritti di accoglienza per i senza tetto    - (1)

-  Colombia - City Town villa del sol - Bario Raphael Ulive   -  (2)

-  Colombia - Community at Work - Jan Pablo II   -  (1)

-  Colombia - Indigenous Heritage   - (9)

-  Colombia - SANTANDER - Desplazados  -  (8)

Europe

Development Education

Backstage

Backstage - Dialoghi  interni al team di Eugad

Dialoghi con Francesco Brancatella

Backstage - Team work difficulties in Africa

The significance of music for Eugad

Backstage - All'ufficio di Armadilla di Roma -

Documentary  Script Episodes

Episode 1 - MDG 1 - Eradicate extreme poverty and hunger 
1 - National Governments and International Organizations –  their commitment to MDGs

Episode 2 - MDG 2: Achieve universal primary education  
6 --- Do cooperation for development action really benefits the target populations?

Episode 3 - MDG 3: Promote gender equality and empower women
5  Do developed and developing nations agree on the road map for global development?

Episode 4 - MDG 4 Reduce child mortality  
2   NGOs as development actors: their role, their limits; their challenges

Episode 5 - MDG 5: Improve maternal health -
8 -  How to design and manage successful cooperation programmes and projects?
 

Episode 6 - MDG 6: Combat HIV/AIDS, malaria and other diseases
2 - How can local policy actors contribute to the achievement of MDGs and other global policy objectives? 

Episode 7 - MDG 7: Ensure environmental sustainability
10  Sharing knowledge and resources. Why and how development actors support each other

Episode 8 - MDG 8: Develop a Global Partnership for Development 
7  What is the relationship between "Global" and "Local" agendas and responsibilities?

Episode 9 - New Goals 1 - Recognise and protect our diverse identities and our common heritage  
4 - Our role as individuals  Can we as individuals contribute to the achievement of the Global Development Agenda?

Episode 10 - New Goals 2 - Improve the health of the global communication climate 
9 - Media and the international communication climate. Professional and ethical challenges.

 Pundits

Riflessioni

   MDGs presentations

• Introduction to the Millennium Development Goals

• Goal 1: Eradicate extreme poverty and hunger

• Goal 2: Achieve universal primary education

• Goal 3: Promote gender equality and empower women

• Goal 4: Reduce child mortality

• Goal 5: Improve maternal health

• Goal 6: Combat HIV/AIDS, malaria and other diseases

• Goal 7: Ensure environmental sustainability

• Goal 8: Develop a Global Partnership for Development

Countries Presentations

The countries where we have been (so far)

• Country profile (template) 

• Colombia - Introduction 

• India - Introduction
  Lebanon - Introduction 

• Liberia - Introduction
  Sierra Leone - Introduction 

• Syria - Introduction