The April Edition - World Water Day, Global Warming and Climate Change, Follow up on World International Women's Day

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Dear friends and colleagues

Welcome to our third newsletter for 2007. We´ve warmed up now and in this edition we focus on two of the biggest global challenges of the moment - Global Warming and Water.

Thanks to human development and the globalised nature of our existence, climate change and access to clean fresh water present twin, related problems for human existence on earth at a scale we haven´t know previously. Overcoming these challenges and enacting solutions will require the best of us - good will, altruism, cooperation, collaboration, social innovation, wisdom, and perhaps most importantly, courage and hope.

As young professionals, we have a central role to play in addressing the climate and water challenges. We have skills and expertise; we have power in our communities and in our work places; we have resources at our disposal that many others in our societies do not have; we have grown up in a globalised world and have some insight in to the interconnection of the lives of those on the planet; and, hopefully, we have the motivation to step up to the challenge given the potential impact of global warming and water scarcity on the next 50-70 years of our lives.

In addition to our themes of climate change and water, we do some follow up on last month´s International Women´s Day theme. There are opportunities and resources for you as always, and also information on the IYPF´s 2006 Annual Report and our search for an Interim Director.

We continue our `Top Lists´, letting you know about some `hot´ new books, reports, blogs and websites, and giving you some ideas for how you can contribute to making the world a better place in April and May, such as participating in Global Youth Service Day, joining up to the global campaign for education and the campaign to end water poverty, and completing the We the People survey on the Millennium Development Goals.

Wishing you courage and hope
Cameron Neil, IYPF CEO


IN THIS EDITION

IYPF Organisational News - Interim Director Sought, Taking up the Climate Challenge, 2006 Annual Report, IYPF Memberships

Member Activities & Projects - Network of African Youths for Development

Top Lists for April - IYF Releases Latest Learnings on Employee Engagement; Appropedia; Global Youth Service Day; Global Campaign for Education

Partner Activities and Events - Awakening Global Action

IYPF Communities - HIV/AIDS and Agriculture Conference; WDR 2008 Conference on Agriculture for Development; Millenium Development Goals at the Crossroads: We the People 2007; MDG Indicators

April 2007 Themes - Global Warming & Climate Change; World Water Day;
Follow-Up on World International Women's Day

Opportunities and Resources - Conferences, Events and Knowledge

About IYPF - Who are we? How can you get involved?