NEWS
January 17 & 18, 2012 -
INFORSE South Asia Regional Meeting
November 28 - December 9, 2011
INFORSE participated
as NGO observer at UNFCCC COP17, Durban, South Africa. INFORSE
participation included: Exhibition and a Side Event on Friday,
December 2, 2011. Several INFORSE-Asia members participated
(e.g. INSEDA, WAFD, and AIWC from India).
See more at INFORSE at COP17
November
1-2, 2011 -
INFORSE South Asia Regional Workshop
See
article on the workshop in Sustainable Energy News No. 72 "A
Vehicle for Cooperation: INFORSE Regional Workshop", November
1-2, 2011,
New Delhi, India,
page 7. SEN
72 (pdf file)
September
29, 2011 -
INFORSE
India
National
Workshop
October
10, 2011 - INFORSE India
National Workshop
August
3, 2011, INFORSE
Coordination Meeting in Nepal
Jan
2011 - June 2012
INFORSE
Participates in the "Southern Voices" climate capacity
building programme with focus on South Asian and African INFORSE
regions and NGOs
29
November - 10 December, 2010
INFORSE
participated as NGO observer at the
UNFCCC COP16, Cancún, México.
Among the
INFORSE members, the delegates were:
- Emil Bedi, INFORSE-Europe Coordinator /FAE, Slovakia
- Raymond Myles, INFORSE-South Asia Coordinator /INSEDA, India
- Secou Sarr, ENDA, INFORSE-Africa Coordinator
- Pierre Dembele, Mali Folkecenter / HELIO International
- GERES, France
Read more at INFORSE-Europe's
website.
3
December, 2010:
Launch
of a new NGO project “Southern Voices Capacity Building Programme”
The 2011-2012 Southern Voices programme is coordinated by CARE Denmark and is
funded by DANIDA. INFORSE-Asia is participating. Among the involved INFORSE
organisations are:
From Asia: INSEDA, India;
From Europe:
The Danish Organisation for Sustainable Energy (VE); From Africa: ENDA and Mali
Folkecenter.
Read
more about the new Project at the Project's
website.
PICTURE:
Top from left: William
Chadza, CEPA, Civil Society Network on Climate Change, Malawi; Boubakar
Fall, CLACC fellow, ENDA, Senegal; Emmanuel Seck, CAN West Africa,
ENDA, Senegal; Hannah Reid, IIED; Ange David Baime, JVE, Ivory Coast,
member of WANET CSD; Sherpard Zvigadza, CLACC fellow, ZERO, Zimbabwe;
Poul Erik
Lauridsen, CARE Denmark; Pierre Dembele, WANET CSD, Mali Folkecenter,
Mali; Maiga Mahamadou
Farga, CLACC Fellow, Amade Pelcode, Mali; Mónica Lópes
Baltodano, Suswatch, Nicaragua.
Bottom from left: Moussa Na Abou Mamouda, AfricaAdapt,
ENDA, Senegal (previous CLACC Fellow); Sanjay Vashist,
CAN South Asia; Charles Meschack, Tanzania Forest Conservation
Group, member
of Accra Caucus on REDD and Forests; Achala Chandani,
CLACC Fellow Bangladesh, Caritas Bangladesh; Taukei Kitara,
TuCAN,
Tuvalu;
Vivian Lanuza, Suswatch, Guatemala, Fundacion Solar;
Raymond Myles, INFORSE South Asia, Inseda, India; Marstella
Jack,
CAN Micronesia; Maria Isabel Olazabal, Ibis Central America;
Peter
With, Coordinator, Southern Voices Capacity Building
Programme; Mahima Njaidi, Mjumita Forest Network, Tanzania;
Raja Jarrah,
Care Tanzania, Accra Caucus; Betty, Mjumita Forest Network,
Tanzania; Oumar Tankari, Care Niger; Maïmouna Konaré,
FEMNET Mali, AWLAE; Elvin Nyakura, CLACC Fellow Kenya, ACTS.
December
7-18, 2009
INFORSE participated as NGO observer at
UNFCCC COP15 in Copenhagen, Denmark. INFORSE
also
had an exhibition stall and a side event both at the Bella Center
and
at the Klimaforum
at the DGI-Center.
From the INFORSE-Asia, Coordinators and National Focal points participated:
INSEDA (India),
WACF (India), CRT (Nepal), and ISEP (Japan).
Read more on the INFORSE-Asia participation at COP15:
- INFORSE
at COP15
- December
14, 2009,
COP15 Side Event at the Bella Center
Proceedings and Pictures
- December
9, 2009, COP15 side Event at the Klimaforum09
Pictures and Proceedings
- INFORSE exhibitions at Klimaforum09 and
at the Bella
Center.
December
15, 2008
INFORSE participated as NGO observer at UNFCCC
COP14, December 1-12, 2008. INFORSE also had an exhibition
stall and a side event.
From the INFORSE Asia Coordinators and National
Focal points participated: INSEDA, AIWC (India), CRT (Nepal), ISEP
(Japan).
Read more on the INFORSE participation at the conference at COP14
January
2008
INFORSE-South
Asia CD Published
Sustainable
Energy Solutions for Poverty Reduction
Result of an INFORSE project 2005-08.
The CD includes the Manual in 5 languages: English, Hindi,
Nepalese, Bangladeshi, Singhalese.
Order
a copy at: INFORSE
order page or at INFORSE-South
Asia Coordinator (INSEDA in India), or at the project
partners e.g. IDEA
from Sri Lanka, CRT from Nepal,
Grameen Shakti from Bangladesh, OVE in
Denmark.
Find contacts under "Search Members & Contacts" on
the left side of this page.
July, 2008
INFORSE news from Sustainable
Energy News 61 page 8:
- IDEA from Sri Lanka
is inviting international volunteers.
Read
more on IDEA at successes
under Sri Lanka and the Project
on Poverty Reduction Manual, or
at the Current Situation
under Sri lanka.
- Road
2020 Haribon Rainforestation Campaign in the Philippines
- Ashden Award to Grameen Shakti and TIDE
- Solar Energy Leads in Indian Climate Action Plan
January 23-24, 2008
Workshop in Bangladesh
Contact: Grameen
Shakti, Email: g_shakti@grameen.net
or Raymond Myles, INSEDA,
INFORSE South Asia Coordinator
May 24-26, 2007
Workshop:
INFORSE-Capacity Building Project National Workshop
of NGOs in RETs for Poverty Reduction in India
Venue: Om
Shanti Retreat Centre, Manesar, Gurgaon, India
Program: (37kB
word file)
Proceedings:
(pdf
file 470kB) or (word
file 1.7MB)
April-May 2007
UN CSD Conference:
INFORSE South-Asia organisations participated on the UNCSD 15, 2007.
Please read
on this here.
March
2005 - January 2008
INFORSE
organisations were focusing
on a project on renewable energy
and poverty reduction in Sri
Lanka, Nepal, Bangladesh and
India. The
organisations collected successful
examples of sustainable energy
for poverty reduction and have
developed guidelines
for choosing the best solutions
in given local circumstances. Follow
the project's achievements:
