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Lors de leur stages au Bangladesh avec VOICE en 2008, Aude Leroux-Lévesque et Parker Mah ont pu réaliser un court documentaire.

Les « reflect circles » sont une initiative de l’organisme VOICE, au Bangladesh, qui vise une plus grande éducation des femmes bangladaises en milieu rural. Chaque jour, plusieurs femmes se retrouvent pour apprendre à lire, écrire et compter, et pour discuter d’enjeux qui font partie de leur vie quotidienne. Voici un portrait de femmes en soif de connaissances et d’un projet qui, après seulement un an, connait un franc succès.

Learning is a two-way street – or so the members of Nomadic Massive experienced during a short jaunt to Brazil last November, a follow-up to a similar visit here by Brazilian hip hop artists earlier in 2008. The multi-ethnic, socially-engaged hip hop collective, based in Montreal, hit the road with more than just a few performances on the agenda – a heavy dose of musical and cultural exchange were also in the mix. They paid a visit to the
Brazilian chapter of the international hip hop awareness group Universal Zulu Nation, held an informal talk at Fundação Casa, a juvenile youth detention center in São Paolo, and hung out with legendary b-boy Nelson Triunfo. But what marked them the most was more intangible : an exposure to a society that was open to discussing hip-hop as a valid cultural phenomenon, from government officials all the way to street level.

Bangladesh has a long history with the Asian Development Bank (ADB), having received cumulative public sector loans to the tune of 11,4 billion
since 1973.

Almost half of this money has gone towards the energy and transport sectors, with less than 10 percent devoted to water supply and sanitation, public policy, health and social sectors combined. In 2007 alone, the ADB approved over 1,1 $ billion in loans, of which half is earmarked for energy infrastructure projects.

Learning is a two-way street – or so the members of Nomadic Massive experienced during a short jaunt to Brazil last November, a follow-up to a similar visit here by Brazilian hip hop artists earlier in 2008. The multi-ethnic, socially-engaged hip hop collective, based in Montreal, hit the road with more than just a few performances on the agenda – a heavy dose of musical and cultural exchange were also in the mix. They paid a visit to the
Brazilian chapter of the international hip hop awareness group Universal Zulu Nation, held an informal talk at Fundação Casa, a juvenile youth detention center in São Paolo, and hung out with legendary b-boy Nelson Triunfo. But what marked them the most was more intangible: an exposure to a society that was open to discussing hip-hop as a valid cultural phenomenon, from government officials all the way to street level.

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Bangladesh receives hundreds of millions of dollars a year in foreign aid money, but much of it is ineffective due to such issues as poor project management. This video poses the question "is foreign aid really necessary ?" and takes an informal look at the current picture of foreign aid in Bangladesh —its problems and contradictions— through the eyes of four local experts : Mr. Saiful Huq, General Secretary of the Worker’s Party of Bangladesh, Dr. Anu Muhammad, Professor of Economics at Jahangirnagar University, Dr. Piash Karim, Professor of Sociology at BRAC University, and Ahmed Swapan Mahmud, Executive Director of VOICE Bangladesh.

Bangladesh has a long history with the Asian Development Bank (ADB), having received cumulative public sector loans to the tune of 11,4 billion
since 1973.

Almost half of this money has gone towards the energy and transport sectors, with less than 10 percent devoted to water supply and sanitation, public policy, health and social sectors combined. In 2007 alone, the ADB approved over 1,1 $ billion in loans, of which half is earmarked for energy infrastructure projects.

Depuis la fin des années 1990, les acteurs du développement international observent un vaste mouvement de refonte du système d’attribution de l’aide canadienne. Les programmes d’aide ont subi d’importantes restructurations avec l’adoption d’un modèle de gestion axée sur les résultats (GAR). Cette tendance remet en cause la légitimité des
programmes jeunesse, dont les objectifs ne sont pas toujours facilement mesurables.