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UNDP UNEP Leadership and Skills Training for PEI Champions 15-17 May 2008, Nairobi Kenya
The Workshop, conceived by LEAD International in partnership with John Horberry from UNEP was attended by about 25 PEI champions and Senior Staff from Africa and Asia. Including Rwanda, Tanzania, Mozambique, Uganda, Nepal, Bhutan and Vietnam. The training session aimed to help PEI Champions become more effective at a) formulating compelling messages about poverty and environment b) widen the range of stakeholders that they engage with.
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LEAD EUROPE “Leadership for Sustainable Development” Programme 2008 LONDON SESSION, June 2008
 The LEAD Europe “Leadership for Sustainable Development” Programme 2008 began last week. An impressive cohort of Associates representing 13 nationalities and diverse professional sectors attended the training in London starting their journey to becoming LEAD Fellows.
The 2008 programme kicked-off with an exciting training session in London on “Leadership and Climate Change”, 9 - 13 June. We had contributions from more than 25 cross-sector professionals and leaders throughout the week to give a range of perspectives on key climate change challenges and opportunities. Key climate change issues explored included:
- The need for leadership on climate change
- Transition to a low-carbon society
- Financing a low-carbon transition
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Beyond Leadership: LEAD's new training programme
 LEAD has just launched Beyond Leadership, an innovative training programme in sustainability for leaders in the business community. Building upon existing expertise within the LEAD Network, this leadership development programme takes business leaders to learn from and work with LEAD Fellows in their own working environment. For example they can work with a LEAD Fellow in Brazil to set up a business plan to expand ecotourism in a nature reserve, on the shores of Lakshadweep in India helping fishermen to increase their income from tuna fishing in a sustainable way or in similar projects.
If you would like to be part of Beyond Leadership, please click here
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Extractive industry scrutinizes Equator Principles and IFC Performance Standards
 On the 4th April LEAD International hosted a one day course by Mehrdad Nazari. Mehrdad is a LEAD Fellow (Cohort 7), Director of LEAD Canada and Director of Prizma consultancy. Insights from Dr Martin Birley, a global expert in Health Impact Assessment were also brought to the table, where participants from a range of major organizations shared their experiences and opinion. Some of the social aspects which emerged from the discussions were demographics, local commerce & economy, employment, social infrastructure, resettlement, cultural property and use of local resources by the project.
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LEAD India: Training on Clean Development Mechanism & the Voluntary Carbon Market
LEAD India organised a one day training on the Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) and the Voluntary Carbon Market (VCM) in Pune, on 23 May. It was attended by twenty three representatives from community based organizations from around the country. A large number of the attendees were from the host organization BAIF, including employees working in Bhopal, Bihar, U.P, Karnataka, and Pune. There was also large representation from GRISERV-Gujarat, RRIDMA-Rajasthan, Lupin Foundation-Pune and Action for Community Empowerment-Pachora. Initial feedback suggested that the program was very well received with participants stating that they had gained a good understanding of CDM and VCM, and were confident that they would now be able to carry this forward through their organizations.
LEAD Pakistan: UNDP-GEF-SGP Environment Leadership Programme
LEAD Pakistan organised an International Training Session (ITS) on “Eco governance and Coastal Ecosystems” under the project titled “UNDP-GEF-SGP Environment Leadership Programme” in collaboration with AIT Extension, Thailand from 28 April till May 3, 2008.
LEAD Pakistan conducted a national training titled “UNDP-GEF-SGP Green LEADer -1” in Karachi, Pakistan, March, 2008 on the theme of “Climate Change: District Badin Perspective”. The three day training was hands on event that developed essential leadership skills within the context of good environmental governance.
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LEAD launched two Sustainability Stakeholders Focus Groups in China and India
Following a request from a major financial institution LEAD International prepared and delivered a review of a bank’s sustainability strategy, by providing perspectives from LEAD Fellows, representing different sectors. Two stakeholders Focus Group took place in New Delhi, India on April 30 and in Beijing at the LEAD China Offices on the 12 May.
LEAD would like to engage more in these activities which are an effective tool to get developing countries’ Stakeholders perspectives on sustainability issues and on other relevant topics.
If you would like to know more about, please contact Trevor Rees: trevor@lead.org
LEAD Fellows working together on a publication about Climate Change in Urban Areas
 The Publication will explore the linkages between leadership and climate change in a rapidly urbanising world. Drawing from LEAD Fellows’ experience and expertise on “Urbanisation and Climate Change” our main objective is to promote a discussion about the trends, challenges and solutions currently underway in different urban settings.
Our goal is to contribute to this debate by promoting an exchange of views about the central role leadership plays in addressing climate change in large cities. It is hoped the publication will inform key stakeholders and decision makers on why this is such an urgent issue, and where we should focus our resources and actions. Equally the publication will signal a way forward by presenting case studies about what is already working and how successful initiatives can be adapted to different parts of the world.
The Fellows involved are: Theresa Subban, Tiyok Prasetyoadi, Alexander Karpov, Erin Silsbe, Patricia Avila Garcia, Bharati Chaurvedi, Melita Rogelj, Nick Harrison, Tomas Moreira, Taranjot Gadhok.
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Sustainability LEADers Forum is launched in homage to Lord Holme
 Beyond Corporate Social Responsibility: Future scenarios in a rapidly changing society was the theme covered in the first meeting of the Sustainability Leaders Forum, on 22 May in London. The Forum is a result of Lord Holme’s vision to bring business leaders together to discuss key sustainability challenges and share ideas on how to address them. John Elkington, SustainAbility & Volans Ventures was the key note speaker on the day.
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LEAD India Fellow, Deepak Apte, a marine biologist with the Bombay Natural History Society, has received a one of the world’s top prizes for grassroots nature conservation – A Whitley Award - for his work to protect the marine life of the Lakshadweep archipelago. The prize was presented to him by HRH The Princess Royal (Princess Anne) at the Royal Geographical Society in London on 21 May 2008.
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Abey George and Theresa Subban have won a prestigious Commonwealth Professional Fellowship Award which will fund a three month research placement at the LEAD International Secretariat in London.
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Mr Muyiwa Odele, a LEAD AWA Fellow was appointed as a Programme Officer by the UNDP Nigeria Country Office as an Officer in Charge of Environment.
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Our dear friend and Chair of LEAD International, The Right Honorable Lord Holme of Cheltenham, Richard Holme passed away on Sunday 4 May 2008 at his home in Sussex UK.
As an eminent British politician and citizen of the world committed to sustainable development, he served on LEAD’s Board from 2002 to 2008, of which the last four years he was elected Chair.
He steered LI’s transition from its association with Rockefeller Foundation, to its current independent UK-based charity status. This financial and management transformation is all but complete, as Richard personally helped to groom Simon Lyster and his team for the ‘new LEAD’. A recurring adage he used in this process was to remind us that “whilst LEAD is not a business – it must always be business-like”.
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CHINA Earthquake: LEAD CHINAs response
After the devastating 8-magnitude earthquake on May 12 that killed tens of thousands across Sichuan province and western China, Fuping Development Institute/LEAD China responded quickly.
One of the LEAD fellows, Ms Yin Chuntao from Cohort-11 became the coordinator and contact person in Beijing of Chengdu 512 Earthquake Relief Service Center, and now she is in Chengdu for the design work of our reconstruction projects.
LEAD-China have set up an emergency fund which comes from staff's donations and fund raising. In the short term, half of the fund will be given directly to our local partners in Sichuan and Gansu province which will be used in local purchases of food, clean water, tents, masks and rubber gloves. The rest of the fund will be used in two long-term rural community reconstruction projects in Sichuan and Gansu province where LEAD-China already have project base.
LEAD-China is still calling for help from LEAD Fellows worldwide, any donation or advice is highly appreciated.
Mehjabeen ABIDI-HABIB elected Chair of LEAD International Board of Directors
LEAD is delighted to announce that Mehjabeen ABIDI-HABIB, former vice Chairperson of the Board of Directors of LEAD International, has been nominated Chair of LEAD International after the Right Honorable Lord Holme of Cheltenham, Richard Holme passed away on Sunday 4 May 2008.
Mehjabeen Abidi-Habib is a research scholar in human ecology at Government College University Lahore. Based in Pakistan, she has been a development practioner specializing in community development and natural resource management for 20 years. She is currently engaged in a PhD on environmental management as well as researching a forthcoming book, 'Water in the Wilderness: People, Biodiversity and Wetlands in Pakistan'with assistance from the Heinrich Boll Foundation.
Many congratulations to Mehjabeen for this well deserved nomination.
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LEAD International and its partners, the Bombay Natural History Society (BNHS) in India and LEAD Indonesia, have successfully completed (April 2005 April 2008) the two Darwin Initiative projects to conserve local biodiversity and improve fishing communities livelihood, 
