The 5th International Workshop on Resource Mobilisation (IWRM) is an annual workshop organised by the Resource Alliance. The workshop is taking place at the Birchwood Executive Hotel, Johannesburg, South Africa, 26th-28th March 2004. 220 attendees from 45 countries worldwide have already booked to attend this year's IWRM making it the largest and most international to-date. The reputation of the IWRM is obviously spreading worldwide, as delegates from countries ranging from Malaysia and India to Egypt and Ecuador are travelling to South Africa to attend this leading international forum for training and policy discussion on local resource mobilisation.

Secondary and primary schools across Burundi reopened on Monday after teachers suspended a strike that began on 5 January. "We accepted to return to work for the love of Burundi's children, we wanted to prove our goodwill unlike the government which, instead of resolving the teachers' problems, complicates it," Philbert Ngenzahayo, a representative of the National Council of Secondary Education Staff, said on Monday. However, he said the teachers would resume the strike if the government refused to accede to their demands for better wages and housing allowances.

The Double Bottom Line (DBL) is a relatively new concept for business leaders. The authors of this report think of DBL businesses as entrepreneurial ventures that strive to achieve measurable social and financial outcomes. As the lines between grantmaking and investing continue to blur, the idea of measuring social return concurrent with traditional financial accounting has caught on among investors, funders and entrepreneurs. Additionally, there has been widespread movement toward more tangible accountability for the social impact created for each invested or granted dollar. Unlike the business community, where generally accepted principles of accounting and legal infrastructures help manage the reporting of financial returns, there is no comparable standard for social impact assessment.