Community Based Initiative / NetAid Brown Bag Lunch
20 October 2003
Norway Room, FF Building
UN Headquarters, New York

This lunch was the first in a series of seminars on community based approaches to sustianable development and the MDGs. The series asks, what and how can we learn from community based initiatives?

Speakers
Gerry R. L. Delaquis, LiFA - Access to Education in Rural Haiti
Wil Maheia, TIDE - Sustainable Development in Belize

Presentations for Downloading
Access to Education in Rural Haiti
Sustainable Development in Belize

Brown Bag Lunch Photo Journal
Click for larger image	Charles McNeill, UNDP's Senior Biodiversity Conservation and Poverty Reduction Advisor, and Sally Timpson, UNDP Senior Advisor, listen to the presenters.
Click for larger image	Gerry Delaquis, of LiFA, a project of the NetAid World Schoolhouse, begins his presentation on Access to Education in Rural Haiti.
Click for larger image	Wil Maheia, of Belize's Equator Prize 2002-winning TIDE, speaks on the importance of community-based conservation.
Click for larger image	Wil Maheia, of TIDE, answers a question from the audience.
Click for larger image	Erika Diamond, of Belize's TIDE, and Judy Bergsma, of The Nature Conservancy, listen to the presenters at UN Headquarters.
Click for larger image	An audience of approximately 40 individuals - including UN staff, representatives of NGOs, and members of the public - attended the first presentation in UNDP's new Brown Bag Lunch series on Community-Based Initiatives.

For further information on UNDP's Community Based Initiative, please contact:

Alejandro Ruiz-Acevedo
Energy and Environment Group
Bureau for Development Policy
United Nations Development Programme
405 Lexington Avenue, 4 th Floor
New York, NY 10174

Phone: (212) 457-1260
Fax: (212) 457-1370
Email: alejandro.ruiz-acevedo@undp.org

If you would like more information on NetAid and its work on community-based initiatives and the Millennium Development Goals, please visit www.netaid.org