The municipality of Sampaloc is a town of 13,000 people situated in the northern region of the Philippines. Local officials there are working to improve public services to their citizens with the goal of increased economic development and income generation for the municipality. In 2008, the town requested CESO’s assistance with formulating a municipal development plan. Included in this plan was advice on managing and improving their water supply system.
Residents in the town had limit...
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The Micronutrient Initiative (MI), a health-focused NGO based in Ottawa, and CESO have worked together for three years to accelerate universal iodization in Senegal. This joint initiative is intended help to reduce diseases related to a lack of iodine in West African populations. In Senegal, 75% of school-age children are deficient in iodine and almost 60% of women are anemic. To counteract these deficiencies that lead to child developmental disorders, the Micronutrient Initiative has focused...
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From December 20th to 22nd, 2012, fourteen women from the Senegalese communities of Kaolack, Passy, Kaffrine and Ndoffane learned how to make bags and pouches from recycled plastic bags. Initiated by RADI Kaolack and UGPR of Kaolack, the training was given by two experts from the Gambia who travelled to Senegal for this CESO project. As an important commercial hub in West Africa, Kaolack needs to meet the challenge of waste management. Currently the city is overrun by plastic bags threat...
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Nunavut, Canada's youngest territory, celebrated its birthday on April 1, 1999. Two years later, a partnership began that is helping to build a highly skilled public service in Canada's Far North. Through the CESO/Government of Nunavut (GN) Partnership Program, CESO provides Volunteer Advisors to the GN for on-site and off-site individual and team mentoring, peer support and coaching, workshops and other training and development initiatives. Since 2001, more than 150 short-term and multi-year...
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The Hardin ng Kalikasan Cooperative in Real, Philippines was established in 1997 with the help of the Sisters of Our Lady of Sion, an international organization. The 53 women of Hardin taught themselves skills in soap and paper-making using local materials like banana and coconut fibre, transforming the dried paper sheets into greeting cards, gift bags and journals. For several years, sales of these goods gave co-op members a reasonable source of income. However, following a devastating flood...
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