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 May 4: Launch of European Report on Development 2015 May 4 Brussels, Belgium UNNExT Workshop on Trade Facilitation and Paperless Systems for Agrifood Products May 4 Almaty, Kazakhstan International Conference on Soil May 4 Tirana, Albania 2015 Global Flood Partnership Conference May 4-6 Boulder, Colorado, United States Annual Energy Sector Mission in Cooperation With the PSLO Network May 4-7 Washington, D.C., United States Restorative Justice: The Promise, The Challenge Training Course May 4-12 Washington, D.C., United States The Summer Peace Building Institute: Helping Your Organizations Change Our World May 4 Washington, D.C., United States 9th German-African Energy Forum – European Power for Africa May 4-5 Hamburg, Germany CReCER 2015: Preserving Economic Gains and Investing in the Future May 4-8 Quito, Ecuador The 12th Overview Course of Financial Sector Issues: Building Financial Sectors that Support Development May 4-8 Washington, D.C., United States DIME Seminar Series: Nation Building Through Compulsory Schooling During the Age of Mass Migration May 5 Washington, D.C., United States Health and Species Protection: Converging or diverging objectives? May 5 Brussels, Belgium Live Chat: Financial Diaries of Smallholders May 5 Online The Quality of Life Conference May 5-6 New York City, United States Seminar on Poverty Measurement May 5-6 Geneva, Switzerland ESCWA Second Session of the Arab High-Level Forum on Sustainable Development May 5-7 Manama, Bahrain Round Table Meetings for the NEPAD Gender Climate Change Agriculture Support Program May 5-7 Yaoundé, Cameroon Ebola One Year Later: What Have We Learned for the Way Forward? May 6 Washington, D.C., United States How can Companies Uphold Freedom of Association and the Effective Recognition of the Right to Collective Bargaining? — From Principle to Action May 6 Online Poverty and Applied Microeconomics Seminar May 6 Washington, D.C., United States Investor Sophistication and Capital Income Inequality May 6 Washington, D.C., United States European Business Summit 2015 May 6-7 Brussels, Belgium European Civil Protection Forum May 6-7 Brussels, Belgium Realizing a Fair Migration Agenda: Labor Flows Between Asia and Arab States, Asia Tripartite Meeting May 6-7 Bali, Indonesia World Economic Forum on Latin America 2015 May 6-8 Riviera Maya, Mexico MSF Scientific Day: Innovative Approaches & Technology in Humanitarian Action May 7 London, United Kingdom Public-Private Partnerships: Joining Core Business Interests With Global Development May 7 Washington, D.C., United States Popular Representations of Development: Creating Global Alliances or Reproducing Inequalities? May 7 London, United Kingdom Lessons Learned From the Response to Mali’s Interconnected Crises May 7 Geneva, Switzerland Transportation for Sustainability – An International Conference May 7-8 Washington, D.C., United States 2015 Danube Water Conference: Water Services — The State of the Sector May 7-8 Vienna, Austria Digital Youth Summit 2015 May 7-9 Peshawar, Pakistan International Conference: Towards a Research Agenda for Global Food and Nutrition Security May 8 Milan, Italy International celebrations: World Press Freedom Day May 3 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.