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<div class="gmail_quote">From: <b class="gmail_sendername">David Legge</b> <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:D.Legge@latrobe.edu.au">D.Legge@latrobe.edu.au</a>></span><br><br><br>
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<p style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 6pt; TEXT-ALIGN: center" align="center"><b><font face="Arial" color="black" size="5"><span style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold; FONT-SIZE: 18pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">C</span></font></b><b><font face="Arial" color="black" size="4"><span style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold; FONT-SIZE: 14.5pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">ALL FOR PAPERS </span></font></b><b><font face="Arial" color="black"><span style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">International conference on </span></font></b><b><font face="Arial" color="black" size="5"><span style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold; FONT-SIZE: 16pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">“Meeting the Millennium Development Goals: Old Problems, New Challenges” </span></font></b><font face="Arial" color="black" size="5"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 16pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"></span></font></p>

<p style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 10pt; TEXT-ALIGN: center" align="center"><font face="Arial" color="black" size="2"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Co-hosted by Australian Council for International Development and La Trobe University </span></font><font face="Arial" color="#9a3100" size="2"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; COLOR: #9a3100; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Venue: Western Lecture Theatres, La Trobe University, <span>Bundoora</span> </span></font><font face="Arial" color="#31319a" size="2"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; COLOR: #31319a; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Monday 30</span></font><font face="Arial" color="#31319a" size="1"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 7pt; COLOR: #31319a; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">th </span></font><font face="Arial" color="#31319a" size="2"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; COLOR: #31319a; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Nov – Tuesday 1</span></font><font face="Arial" color="#31319a" size="1"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 7pt; COLOR: #31319a; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">st </span></font><font face="Arial" color="#31319a" size="2"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; COLOR: #31319a; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Dec 2009 </span></font><u><font face="Arial" color="blue" size="2"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; COLOR: blue; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><a href="http://www.latrobe.edu.au/humansecurity/MDGconference.html" target="_blank">http://www.latrobe.edu.au/humansecurity/MDGconference.html</a> </span></font></u><font face="Arial" color="blue" size="2"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; COLOR: blue; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"></span></font></p>

<p style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 10pt"><font face="Arial" color="black" size="2"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">The Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) are a United Nations partnership initiative to eradicate extreme poverty and other forms of disadvantage and human crises by 2015. Some progress has been made but major gaps are evident, for example in official development assistance, market access (trade), debt relief, gender equality, access to essential medicines and access to technology. The global financial crisis, rising food prices and climate change have significantly impacted achieving the MDGs. This conference will critically engage the Millennium Development Goals and the processes or rather possibilities for change. One key aim is to bring together development practitioners, academics, policy makers and the business community. </span></font></p>

<p style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 10pt"><font face="Arial" color="black" size="2"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">We now invite theme abstracts, paper abstracts, poster presentation abstracts and other forms of practitioner submissions for the conference that address conference objectives of innovation and reflection, Building on success and creating new partnerships for effectiveness. </span></font></p>

<p style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 10pt"><font face="Arial" color="black" size="2"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">For more information, possible themes and topics and modes of delivery please visit the website. </span></font></p>

<p style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 10pt"><b><font face="Arial" color="black" size="2"><span style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold; FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Final deadline </span></font></b><font face="Arial" color="black" size="2"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">for submissions is the </span></font><b><font face="Arial" color="maroon" size="2"><span style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold; FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: maroon; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">14</span></font></b><b><font face="Arial" color="maroon" size="1"><span style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold; FONT-SIZE: 6.5pt; COLOR: maroon; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">th </span></font></b><b><font face="Arial" color="maroon" size="2"><span style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold; FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: maroon; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">of August </span></font></b><font face="Arial" color="black" size="2"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">2009. Abstracts should be emailed Dr. Sue Chaplin, </span></font><span><u><font face="Arial" color="blue" size="2"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: blue; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><a href="mailto:s.chaplin@latrobe.edu.au" target="_blank">s.chaplin@latrobe.edu.au</a> </span></font></u><font face="Arial" color="black" size="2"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">,</span></font></span><font face="Arial" color="black" size="2"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"> with ‘MDG abstract’ in the subject line. </span></font></p>

<p style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 10pt"><font face="Arial" color="black" size="2"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Abstracts should include your name, institutional affiliation, contact details, preferred form of presentation and abstract of no more than 300 words. Applicants will be notified of acceptance by September 30</span></font><font face="Arial" color="black" size="1"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 6.5pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">th </span></font><font face="Arial" color="black" size="2"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">2009 at the latest. </span></font></p>

<p style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 10pt"><b><font face="Arial" color="black" size="2"><span style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold; FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Register online: </span></font></b><u><font face="Arial" color="blue" size="2"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: blue; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><a href="http://webpay.latrobe.edu.au/onestop/tranform.cgi?TRAN-NO=844" target="_blank">http://webpay.latrobe.edu.au/onestop/tranform.cgi?TRAN-NO=844</a> </span></font></u><font face="Arial" color="black" size="2"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"></span></font></p>

<p style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 10pt"><b><font face="Arial" color="black" size="2"><span style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold; FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Enquiries: </span></font></b><font face="Arial" color="black" size="2"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Dr. Gerhard Hoffstaedter, Institute for Human Security, La Trobe University, Bundoora, <span><b><span style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">Tel</span></b></span><b><span style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">: </span></b>+ 61 3 9479 2289, <b><span style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">Email: </span></b></span></font><u><font face="Arial" color="blue" size="2"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: blue; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><a href="mailto:g.hoffstaedter@latrobe.edu.au" target="_blank">g.hoffstaedter@latrobe.edu.au</a> </span></font></u><font face="Arial" color="blue" size="2"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: blue; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"></span></font></p>

<p style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 10pt"><font face="Arial" color="black" size="2"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Sponsored by: AusAID (Australian Government) </span></font></p>
<p style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 10pt"><font face="Arial" color="black" size="2"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Hosted by: Australian Council for International Development and La Trobe University</span></font></p>

<p><font face="Arial" color="black" size="2"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Supported by: </span></font></p>
<p style="MARGIN-LEFT: 36pt"><font face="Arial" color="black" size="2"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Deakin University</span></font></p>
<p style="MARGIN-LEFT: 36pt"><font face="Arial" color="black" size="2"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">International Women’s Development Agency</span></font></p>
<p style="MARGIN-LEFT: 36pt"><font face="Arial" color="black" size="2"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Oxfam Australia</span></font></p>
<p style="MARGIN-LEFT: 36pt"><font face="Arial" color="black" size="2"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Plan</span></font></p>
<p style="MARGIN-LEFT: 36pt"><font face="Arial" color="black" size="2"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Victoria University</span></font></p>
<p style="MARGIN-LEFT: 36pt"><font face="Arial" color="black" size="2"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">World Vision</span></font><font face="Arial" size="2"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"></span></font></p>
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