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    Event preview: This week in development cooperation

    What’s happening this week in international development? Some highlights include World Earth Day, World Malaria Day and the Africa Clean Energy Summit in Nigeria. Check our our preview for more noteworthy events.

    By Devex Editor // 21 April 2014
    A community in Kisumu, Kenya celebrates World Malaria Day in 2010. Photo by: U.S. Army Africa / CC BY

    The future of international development cooperation is not just hashed out in dusty field offices and ramshackle schools and hospitals, but also at a variety of events, celebrations and other gatherings. Below are some of the most noteworthy events for the week starting April 21:

    The Use of Special Development Regions to Improve Governance in Honduras and Beyond
    April 21
    Washington DC, United States

    SAIS Global Issues in Agriculture Speaker Series presents Dr. Patricia Wolff on "Development in Haiti: A Long and Winding Road"
    April 21
    Washington DC, United States

    Intersessional Meeting for 3rd International Conference on SIDS
    April 21 – 25
    New York, United States

    Interactive Dialogue on Harmony with Nature
    April 22
    New York, United States

    Twenty-First Century Trade Policy: Pushing the Limits of International Cooperation
    April 22
    Washington DC, United States

    Women at Work - Breaking through Asia's Glass Ceiling
    April 22
    Online

    Linking the Fate of the Oceans to the Future of Food Security
    April 22
    Washington DC, United States

    Workshop: Global Outlook of Modern Contractual Systems
    April 22
    Moscow, Russia

    Twenty-First Century Trade Policy: Pushing the Limits of International Cooperation
    April 22
    Washington DC, United States

    Africa Clean Energy Summit
    April 22 - 24
    Abuja, Nigeria

    Regional workshop for the Asia-Pacific regions on nationally appropriate mitigation actions
    April 22 - 25              
    Vientiane, Thailand

    Global Ocean Action Summit
    April 22 - 25
    The Hague, Netherlands

    Financial Inclusion, Regulation, and Education
    April 23
    Tokyo, Japan

    Opening & Closing a Field Office
    April 23
    Washington DC, United States

    Workshop on the Fair Recruitment Initiative
    April 23 - 24
    Turin, Italy           

    UNESCAP and UNECE Inter-regional Workshop on Energy Efficiency Investment Projects
    April 23 - 24
    Bangkok, Thailand                   

    Sub-Saharan Africa Solar Conference 2014
    April 23 - 24
    Accra, Ghana  

    10th Annual Meeting of the OECD LEED Forum on Partnerships and Local Development
    April 23 - 25
    Stockholm, Sweden

    Fourth Meeting of the Pacific Biosphere Reserve Network
    April 23 - 25
    Nadi, Fiji

    Sixth International Parliamentarians' Conference on the Implementation of the ICPD Programme of Action (IPCI)
    April 23 - 25
    Stockholm, Sweden

    2014 Forest Communicators Network Meeting
    April 23 - 25
    Berlin, Germany

    The Ninth Annual Richard H. Sabot Lecture: An African Miracle? Implications of Recent Research on Growth Economics
    April 24
    Washington DC, United States

    African leaders in Dialogue
    April 24
    Johannesburg, South Africa

    Myanmar: The New Economic Powerhouse in Southeast Asia?
    April 24 - 25
    Tokyo, Japan

    Employment issues will top agenda during OECD LEED Forum on Partnerships and Local Development
    April 24 - 25
    Stockholm, Sweden        

    Ensuring Stable and Peaceful Societies in the Post-2015 Development Framework
    April 24 - 25
    New York, United States

    Collaborative Partnership on Sustainable Wildlife Management Meeting
    April 24 - 27
    Milan, Italy

    8th International Conference on Community-based Adaptation
    April 24 - 30
    Kathmandu, Nepal

    Seminar by Hiro Lee: Agricultural Policy Reforms and the Implications of Trans-Pacific Partnership for Japan
    April 25
    Tokyo, Japan

    Cass R. Sunstein: "The Most Dangerous Man in America"
    April 25
    Durham, North Carolina

    Global Justice and the Global South
    April 25 - 27
    Dublin, Ireland

    International celebrations

    Earth Day
    April 22

    World Malaria Day
    April 25

    World Immunization Week
    April 23 - 30

    Know of an upcoming event that might be of interest to the international development community? Leave a comment below or email us at news@devex.com.

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