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The first World Tolerance Summit has been announced for November 15 to 16, 2018, in Dubai, United Arab Emirates. The conference, whose theme is "Prospering from Pluralism: Embracing Diversity Through Innovation and Collaboration," will be held under the patronage of H.H. Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, vice president and prime minister of the UAE, and bring together more than 500 leaders from around the world.

With the EU's General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) now law, is your NGO fully compliant?

ProjectSimply has created a free e-guide to help NGOs make some of the necessary changes required by the legislation.

The guide explains how the law affects NGOs and provides 13 steps your organization can take now to be compliant with GDPR.

Since 1994, APSA International, a Mauritius-based NGO, has been working to improve the prevention and management of diabetes in the country and Africa. It is committed to scaling up its activities and is seeking NGO partners to help it expand its reach to more communities in the region and globally.

For more information, please see www.wango.org/NGONews/May18/APSA_International.pdf.

The Building a Better Response (BBR)* online course aims to build the knowledge of NGO workers and other humanitarian actors in the international coordination system for large-scale emergencies, humanitarian leadership, basics of humanitarian funding and planning, and other areas of importance to humanitarian response.

Learners who successfully complete the course will be granted a certificate from the Humanitarian Academy at Harvard University.

NGO staff, as well as other humanitarian actors, who are engaged in humanitarian response, or who may benefit from increased knowledge in order to be better prepared for future emergencies, are invited to take this course.

*The BBR project is funded by the US Agency for International Development (US AID), Office of US Foreign Disaster Assistance (OFDA), and is implemented through a consortium of the International Medical Corps, Concern Worldwide, and the Harvard Humanitarian Initiative.

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