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DevCom invites all development communication practitioners to contribute with short Think Pieces illustrating successful approaches and strategies in communicating results of development. These Think Pieces will constitute background documents for debates during the IDB/DevCom Seminar on “Communicating Development Results” (23-24 April in Washington DC) and will be compiled into an exclusive DevCom publication “Good Practice [...]
New Sustainable Development Goals must involve grassroots initiatives
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