| SDNP
conducts Website Development and Management workshop
for DSW- Germany and EC/UNFPA in Pakistan |
January
10, 2002 |
The German Foundation for World Population (DSW) and EC/UNFPA
Initiative for Reproductive Health in South Asia organized
a training workshop on "Management and Development
of Websites" in collaboration with the Sustainable
Development Networking Programme (SDNP), a project of UNDP
working under the aegis of IUCN-The World Conservation Union,
Pakistan, at UBITEC Computer Centre, Karachi from January
7-9, 2002.
This Web Development workshop conducted by Mr. Asad-uz-Zaman
from SDNP Karachi, provided the participants guidelines
on how to create Web pages; procedures to create graphic
images; and methods of creating static web pages by using
various software. Besides these, Internet searching techniques,
Internet security issues and web management issues were
also discussed at the workshop.
Twelve different NGOs and institutes from Islamabad, Karachi,
Lahore, and Mardan were present in the workshop. They represented
the 115 NGOs/CBOs which constitute the RHI in Pakistan.
These include:
1. All Pakistan
Women's Association (APWA)
2. All Mothers
Now Society (AMEN)
3. Behbud
Association of Pakistan
4. Bunyad
Literary Community Council
5. Caritas
Pakistan
6. Community
Support Concern (CSC)
7. Frontier
Primary Health Care (FPHC)
8. Health
and Nutrition Development Society (HANDS)
9. Marie
Stopes Society (MSS)
10. Pakistan Voluntary
Health & Nutrition Association (PAVHNA)
11. Shirkat Gah
12. World Population
Foundation (WPF)
These NGOs participated in the workshop as a part of the
EC/UNFPA funded initiative's aim of capacity building of
national NGOs involved in community based reproductive health.
DSW cooperates with multilateral and bilateral agencies
and foundations, and with NGOs working in the field of population
and development. SDNP-IUCN, working under its agenda of
using Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs)
for development, was commissioned by DSW to conduct this
training in Pakistan.
