Events preview: This week in development cooperation

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 19: World Economic Forum on East Asia 2015 April 19-21 Jakarta, Indonesia 3rd Global Soil Week April 19-23 Berlin, Germany Seminar by Manabu Fujimura: Comparative Advantage in Rice Production: Viet Nam and Myanmar April 20 Tokyo, Japan Special High-level Meeting of ECOSOC with World Bank, IMF, WTO and UNCTAD April 20-21 New York, United States Cartagena Data Festival April 20-22 Cartagena, Colombia World Bank Launches New MOOC: Turn Down the Heat April 20-May 20 Online DIME Seminar Series : Transform Development April 21 Washington, D.C., United States Whose story is it anyway? April 21 London, United Kingdom Macroeconomics: Agglomeration and (the Lack of) Competition Apirl 21 Washington, D.C., United States Strengthening Health Governance for Human Rights April 21 Washington, D.C., United States Opportunities and Ambition: Transatlantic perspectives on current climate and energy policies April 21 Washington, D.C., United States Intergovernmental Negotiations on Post-2015 Development Agenda – Fourth Session April 21-24 New York, United States When Incentives Backfire: Spillover Effects on Food Choice April 22 Washington, D.C., United States Why Disability Inclusive Development Matters: The Promise of Social Inclusion April 22 Washington, D.C., United States World Health Assembly: Policy Scrup Series April 22 Online World Green Economy Summit 2015 April 22-23 Dubai, United Arab Emirates The situation of the Roma minority in third countries April 23 Brussels, Belgium Global Development Forum April 23 Washington, D.C., United States CEO Breakfast with Dana J. Hyde, CEO of the Millennium Challenge Corporation April 23 Washington, D.C., United States Seminar by H. E. Masud Bin Momen: Recent Economic and Political Development in Bangladesh April 23 Tokyo, Japan Addressing the Challenges to Ending Global Hunger April 23 Washington, D.C., United States Realizing Rural Resilience and Inclusive Growth by Reducing Risk: Is Agricultural Insurance the Key? April 23 Washington, D.C., United States Guide to preparing Intended Nationally Determined Contributions (INDCs) for Least Developed Countries April 23 Online Mesas técnicas regionales sobre pronósticos agroclimáticos en Córdoba, Colombia April 23 Córdoba, Colombia Recovery and Resolution Planning: From Experts to Experts April 23-24 Vienna, Austria Intrahealth International Presents: SWITCHPOINT 2015 April 23-24 Washington, D.C., United States Public Event on World Happiness Report 2015 April 24 New York, United States USAID Serbia issues new Annual Program Statement (APS) April 24 Belgrade, Serbia CBA9: 9th conference on community-based adaptation to climate change April 24-30 Nairobi, Kenya World Immunization Week 2015: Close the immunization gap April 24-30 Worldwide 2015 Arctic Council Ministerial Meeting April 24-25 Iqaluit, Canada Build Peace: Peace through Technology (Hosted by the UNDP) April 25-26 Nicosia, Cyprus International celebrations: Earth Day April 22 World Malaria Day April 25 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. Read more international development news online, and subscribe to The Development Newswire to receive the latest from the world’s leading donors and decision-makers — emailed to you FREE every business day.