The ACP-LG Platform is a website for information exchange open to all local governments and their associations across ACP countries. Readers will be able to share their experiences and draw from the knowledge of others for more effective local development practice on the ground.
» more InformationAgritrade is the essential resource website for ACP-EU agriculture and fisheries trade issues. This interactive site offers visitors the opportunity to learn about the latest critical trade issues as well as providing a platform for discussion and debate. As an Agritrade member you can create your own unique profile, connect with other members to build your network and tailor the information you receive to meet your needs.
» more InformationContactivity edited all 16 case studies, including reflection (analysis) papers and compiled and edited the final report: Capacity, Change and Performance Study Report (ECDPM Discussion Paper 59B) by Heather Baser and Peter Morgan.
» more InformationCapacity.org is a magazine, published three times a year in English, French and Spanish, with an accompanying website (www.capacity.org) and e-mail newsletter, Each issue focuses on a specific theme relevant to capacity development in international cooperation, with articles, interviews and a guest column, and annotated links to related web resources, publications and events. Editor in chief: Heinz Greijn. Publishers: SNV, ECDPM, UNDP. ISSN 1571 7496.
» more InformationContactivity edited the full text of the policy evaluation report entitled Country-led Joint Evaluation of the ORET/MILIEV Programme in China: The development- and environment-related export transactions programme for IOB, the policy evaluation department of the Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
» more InformationThis website is CTA's corporate website providing news and information about the Centre and access to its many portals and online information services.
» more InformationIOB, together with six Dutch NGOs and the Ghana Ministry of Health, carried out this evaluation in response to the demand by the Netherlands Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Dutch NGOs and their partners in developing countries for knowledge and insight that may contribute to capacity development policy. Its primary focus was therefore on learning, and cases were selected on the basis of criteria that stressed this focus. Contactivity edited the 'Synthesis Report' and six case study reports (NiMD, PSO, NCEA, MoH-Ghana, Agriterra and Partos).
» more InformationContactivity has a three-year frame contract to provide ESA with editing and design & layout services for the organization's scientific and technical publications. These include special publications (SP series), scientific and technical reports (STR/STM), training manuals (TM series), history reports (History Study Reports) and newsletters.
» more InformationIIASA, along with a number of international partners, is undertaking the Global Energy Assessment, a major initiative seeking to redefine the global energy policy agenda. This multi-year and multi-stakeholder activity aims to help decision makers address the challenges of providing energy services for sustainable development throughout the world. The GEA is being produced by independent scientific and technical experts and is subject to rigorous reviews independent of partisan interference. Contactivity has edited several of the GEA modules and will carry out the revised edit of the manuscript, based on feedback from the GEA team on the initial edit.
» more InformationIn 2007 Contactivity assisted HCME in developing a content management system for the renewal of its European, Middle Eastern and African websites. The websites feature five languages, the integration of a dealer locator in Japan, Google search and the integration of a mailing system and extranet for dealers.
» more InformationThis book, published in English and French in 2010, presents strategy papers developed by the leaders of eight African universities. The authors take into account their countries' diverse economic, historical, educational, social and political dimensions both to develop and to strengthen the capabilities needed to create and disseminate knowledge, and thus to increase their competitiveness on the global knowledge market. Editors: Damtew Teferra, Heinz Greijn. ISBN: 978 90 816145.
» more InformationWe created this business portal for Hivos as an extension of their current website but with new and different features and a different design. We integrated streaming video features and an image gallery.
» more InformationThis website enables users to calculate their CO2 emissions and compensate for it by directly checking out and paying by iDEAL. The calculator automatically calculates CO2 emissions by tallying electricity use, flight distances, gas consumption through car use, etc.
» more InformationThe Hivos website makes extensive use of social media tools developed by Contactivity. The custom-made adds-on include user profiles, blogs, notifications and (social) bookmarking, personalized homepages, integration with YouTube and Flickr, a function to import and invite new users, jabber integration for site reports via a chat client. The site also features a payment gateway extension to allow Dutch users to make their donations via the Dutch banking system iDEAL. Contactivity continues to help Hivos expand this website's functionality and maintain the content management system.
» more InformationICT Update, a magazine with an associated website and e-mail newsletter, is published six times a year, in both English and French. ICT Update focuses on ICTs and other new technologies for development and is widely distributed for free among professionals and policy makers in Africa, the Caribbean and the Pacific.
» more InformationThis guide to the Negotiated Approach in integrated water resources management addresses the immediate water needs we are facing. The book, published in 2011, envisages the meaningful and long-term participation of communities in all aspects of managing the water on which their lives depend. Editors: Rob Koudstaal, Christa Nooy and Vijay Paranjpye. ISBN: 978 90 77648 11 7.
» more InformationIn 2005 Contactivity assisted IRC in developing a new conceptual frame for its web presence and subsequently developed its website. In the following years, Contactivity developed various additional custom-made applications and helped in the technical maintenance of the content management system. The website retrieves much of its content from external databases.
» more InformationIn 2005 Contactivity assisted ISS in developing a new conceptual frame for its web presence and subsequently developed its website. In the following years, Contactivity developed various additional custom-made applications and helped in the technical maintenance of the content management system. The website retrieves much of its content from external databases and features a unique search functionality.
» more InformationA project mapping the IT infrastructure underlying ASC's websites, including a strategic advice regarding the Centre's strategic IT policy.
» more InformationThis bilingual website supports the policy dialogue on science and technology for agricultural and rural development in African, Caribbean and Pacific (ACP) countries. It enables the ACP scientific community – primarily agricultural research and development scientists and technologists, policy makers, farmers and other stakeholders and actors – to share and review results of national and regional efforts and collaborate to harness science and technology for the development of agriculture in their countries.
» more InformationIn this book, published in 2009, prominent researchers from both the North and the South assess the current state of building international research partnerships, embedding research in society and developing research capacities. They explore emerging trends in their fields of expertise, including trade, migration, human rights, agriculture, climate and governance. The editors of this book were Henk Molenaar, Louk Box and Rutger Engelhard. ISBN 978 90 9024 015 2
» more InformationLabforCulture is a fully interactive portal featuring multiple languages, personalized spaces, integration with external search engines, community blogs, forums and tools to add and manage user-generated content. After having developed the website in 2006, Contactivity continued to support LabforCulture in gradually expanding the functionality of its website and maintaining the content management system.
» more InformationA cross-media campaign to highlight WOTRO's unique position in the field of North-South research partnerships for development. The project includes interviewing researchers about their work in developing countries, interviewing winners of the Spinoza prize, reflecting on the relevance of their research for global development and publishing these interviews across a variety of media.
» more InformationContactivity helped NOREF with the conceptualization of its new website, facilitated the graphic design and built the actual website.
» more InformationWe created the 'Programmavergelijker' for IPP for the 2010 Dutch House of Representatives elections. The website was completely built on eZ Publish and can be maintained using this content management system as well. This CMS also makes it possible to generate party programmes and search by subject. Users can do a scan the information to discover which political party's views are closest to theirs.
» more InformationThis NWO-WOTRO website was completely built upon Wordpress as a CMS. On top of Wordpress, several features were made to embed YouTube videos and advanced image management. Furthermore, the website is integrated with MailChimp. The email-newsletter template and design was created by Contactivity also.
» more InformationContactivity assisted Sanoma Learning & Literature in developing their intranet.
» more InformationThis book is based on the exchanges that took places in a workshop entitled 'Providing Demand', held in Leiden, the Netherlands in 2004. This workshop brought together researchers from a variety of backgrounds from the South and the North, who provided different views on development policies and especially science and technology for development. The book is about changing social relationships and how social relations can impact succcessful science and technology policies. Editors: Louk Box and Rutger Engelhard. Published by Anthem Press in 2006. ISBN 1084331 227 1.
» more InformationThis campaign from Hivos enables website visitors to subtitle a video of a dictator and save it for other people to view. We also created a Facebook application, allowing Facebook visitors to directly create a video with their Facebook account. The website enjoyed huge popularity on various social media instantly after its launch.
» more InformationA one-off magazine highlighting the many and varied stories of what happens when fundamental and applied research meet tangible social needs in developing countries. The editorial management of this publication was in the hands of WiW (Wereld in Woorden), Haarlem, the Netherlands.
» more InformationThe Broker offers knowledge of global development issues and contributes to evidence-based policy making and action by encouraging exchanges between knowledge producers, policy makers and professionals. The Broker is a reliable source of information for all those concerned with development and globalization, especially in the fields of inclusive economy, food security, global commons, human security and civil society. The Broker's editor in chief is Frans Bieckmann.
» more InformationContactivity developed a website for TIN, the Dutch Theatre Institute, in 2007. This multilingual website includes a customized webshop, and makes extensive use of the object relation browse datatype to manage the homepage and landing pages. Contactivity has been taking care of the technical maintenance of the content management system since 2009.
» more InformationIn 2006 Contactivity assisted UNESCO-IHE in developing a new conceptual frame for its web presence and subsequently developed its website. In the following years, Contactivity developed various additional custom-made applications and helped in the technical maintenance of the content management system.
» more InformationContactivity edited the report entitled Unilateral Measures Addressing Non-Trade Concerns: A Study on WTO Consistency, Relevance of other International Agreements, Economic Effectiveness and Impact on Developing Countries of Measures Concerning Non-Product-Related Processes and Production Methods. Authors: Peter Van den Bossche, Nico Schrijver and Gerrit Faber. For DGIS Policy Coherence Unit (DGIS/CE).
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