Annual Report 1998

BALLERINA III Web/HTML Training Workshop Arendal, Norway. September 10-18 Fourteen participants from the 3 Baltic States learned how to put environmen- tal and sustainable development infor- mation on the web. The Eastern European programme of the Swedish EPA sponsored the event. The group SoE Reporting on the Internet Training Workshop Baku, Azerbaijan. September 12 - 20 Twenty-three participants from 13 organisations inAzerbaijan and 4 countries in Central Asia were trained. This workshop was a component in a feasibility study on environmental information systems inAzerbaijan. Workshop of the Consortium on Spatial Information for Agricultural Research Arendal, Norway. October 12-13 The aim of the workshop was to advance the planning of consortium activities. There were 18 participants representing 9 centres of the Consulta- tive Group on International Agricul- tural Research (CGIAR) and represen- tatives from 2 observer institutions. International Workshop on Poverty Mapping Arendal, Norway. October 14-16 This workshop focused on the possi- bilities of mapping poverty and subse- quently of producing a set of poverty maps on a global scale. 40 participants representing CGIAR, FAO, World Bank, USAID, Norwegian Foreign Ministry, UNEP and private research institutions participated. represented a mixture of NGOs, national ministries and agencies.

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