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The Future of Telecenter Sustainability: A Multi-Sector and Multi-Stakeholder Approach July 24, 2008 On July 24, IREX’s Technology for Civil Society speaker series continued with a presentation from Klaus Stoll, Senior Executive Vice President of the Community Access Foundation.	Russian and US Professionals Collaborate to Advance Russian Child Welfare June 25, 2008 by Jesse Horner This spring, the USAID-supported Assistance to Russian Orphans (ARO) program, administered by IREX, sent a group of six Russian child-welfare professionals to the Children’s Aid Society (CAS) in New York City to observe US models and share lessons learned in family-based (foster) care for orphans, as well as to forge new working relationships.
Ukraine’s Librarians Coordinate Massive Internet Readiness Assessment June 24, 2008 This spring, IREX Global Libraries - Ukraine staff and the Ukrainian Library Association (ULA) hosted a workshop in Kyiv to kick off a large-scale needs assessment of public libraries. This assessment is part of the planning phase of the Global Libraries program, funded by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.	Yemeni Women’s Leadership Center Wins UNICEF Funding and National Recognition May 22, 2008 UNICEF recently selected the Girls World Communication Center (GWCC), an IREX partner, as its contractor to produce a national Newsletter on Girls Education in Yemen. The award came after UNICEF’s decision to extend the 2007 Newsletter program, highlighting GWCC’s high esteem as a women’s rights organization and effective program implementer.
Mobile Cinema Brings Constructive Dialogue to Bangladesh's "Media Dark Space" March 28, 2008 Just after evening prayers on a cool spring night in February, thousands of Bangladeshis young and old tumbled into a village school yard, chattering excitedly. Sitakunda, a community of 5,000 people in the country’s poorest province, has no electricity, and the arrival of a high-tech cinema truck promising an evening’s entertainment generates a great deal of local buzz.	Using Technology to Advance Missions of Advocacy and Social Service NGOs February 19, 2008 On February 19, IREX hosted Teresa Crawford, Director of the Advocacy and Leadership Center, Institute for Sustainable Communities as part of its Technology for Civil Society Speaker Series.
Achieving Dreams in Yemen: Female Factory Worker Becomes Influential Teacher February 12, 2008 Young women in Yemen are securing professional, economic, and leadership opportunities that were unobtainable to them before their participation in the Young Women’s Leadership Program (YWLP).	Building a Housing Reform Movement in Russia from the Ground Up February 5, 2008 In the Russian town of Chita, the Municipal Institute of Public Government demonstrates the impact a real civic movement, armed with good research, can have on a community. Using their own research on self-government and housing rights in the city, the institute helped create a genuine civic initiative advocating for the creation of a community council in the city’s Severny microregion.
New Projects in Moldova and Bangladesh Focus on Media’s Role in Promoting Transparency and Combating Corruption January 7, 2008 The path toward democracy and good governance is often blocked by endemic corruption, which is aided by a political culture that does not value transparency in government. Over the last several years, donors and implementers have increasingly recognized this vital link and developed projects to fight corruption through the promotion of transparency. IREX has begun work on two new projects that recognize the importance of media in this struggle.	Transforming an “Informal Neighborhood” in Kosovo November 22, 2007 The town of Peja, Kosovo has a number of “informal neighborhoods” – urban enclaves that have been left out of municipal planning processes and budgets.