In the new environment sensitive atmosphere after Rio, two Northern agencies that aid research projects in the developing world are being compelled to question the dimensions of their role.

Despite the Asian Development Bank setting up a social dimensions unit to liaise with NGOs and involve them in projects the bank funds, Asian NGOs are unconvinced of the bank's seriousness.

Despite hectic campaigning by the groups opposed to the Narmada dam plus a hefty boost from the anti-dam salvo fired by Bradford Morse and Thomas Berger, who formed a two-member independent review

IN A RECENT speech, Prime Minister Narasimha Ra called upon voluntary agencies to participate actively in the country's rural development programmes and gave a categorical assurance it "is not

Africa's success at Rio summit in securing international support for a proposed desertification convention seems to be short lived as Northern governments show reluctance to provide funds.

Worried by the steady erosion of India"s wealth of genetic diversity, a major expansion project will quadruple storage capacity in the national gene bank

MOST CITY dwellers are acutely aware of the growing problem of pollution. Now, action against this scourge seems to be heating up. Hyderabad's polluted Hussain Sagar lake may get a new lease of life

The World Bank is sponsoring two projects to upgrade technical courses in Indian technical training institutes

If the World Bank does not withdraw from the Narmada dam, it will undermine the credibility it gained from setting up the review team. US NGOs now want a permanent mechanism to investigate appeals by affected people

HELPED along with generous grants from the World Bank and Japan to green the Aravallis, plus its own sizeable forestry budget, the Rajasthan government has embarked on an ambitious compensatory

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