Jaunumi

United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) project XEE/J20 “HIV/AIDS prevention and care among injecting drug users and in prison settings in Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania” announces call for grants from non-governmental and governmental organizations. The purpose of the UNODC grant scheme is to increase access to HIV/AIDS prevention and care services for vulnerable groups. Deadline for receiving of dully completed and signed applications (hard copies only, electronic versions to be provided upon request) is 15 June 2007. For further information please see Application for the Grant form and Guidelines for Grant Application.

Administration of the North Vidzeme Biosphere Reserve and the Vidzeme University College are pleased to invite you to the 1st International Scientific Conference “Economic, social and cultural aspects in biodiversity conservation” that will take place on the 23rd of November, 2006 in Valmiere, in premises of the Vidzeme University College.

The work group of the Global Environmental Facility and the United Nations Development Program project invite farmers, land users, responsible municipal officers of the Jelgava district and other interested parties to participate in an open discussion on land quality and other management problems in the premises of the Jelgava district council in 4 July 2006. As the soils of the Lielupe river basin are the most fertile in Latvia and are used for intensive agricultural activity, it is in the Svēte and Glūda municipalities of the Jelgava district that land degradation or the deterioration of the biological potential of the land has been observed, resulting from intensive and unsuitable agricultural activity.