Bookmarks
- Just published: Knowledge on the Move
- In this book, prominent researchers from both the North and the South explore emerging trends in their fields of research, including trade, migration, human rights, agriculture, climate and governance, as wll as the process of research communication itself.
- Global Policy In Brief
- Global Policy Forum is an independent policy watchdog that monitors the work of the United Nations and scrutinizes global policymaking.
- AfriGadget | Solving everyday problems with African ingenuity
- AfriGadget is a website dedicated to showcasing African ingenuity. A team of bloggers and readers contribute their pictures, videos and stories from around the continent. The stories of innovation are inspiring. It is a testament to Africans bending the little they have to their will, using creativity to overcome life’s challenges.
- Bluepeace Environmental NGO Maldives
- Bluepeace is made up of concerned individuals who wish to ensure that the natural environment is used wisely and continues to be available for the benefit and enjoyment of future generations. Bluepeace is strictly a non-governmental organization and registered in Maldives.
- Sciencebuster
- Researchers and Journalists worldwide share their knowledge to improve the conditions for people, planet and profit.
- CGAP’s top ten mobile banking and microfinance technology posts for 2009
- Views on mobile banking, information systems, and the countries and organizations that are working to make appropriate financial services available to poor people everywhere. Here are the ten most-read CGAP Technology Blog posts for the year….
- Oxfam KIC - Learning from practice, learning for change
- KIC is a partnership for learning. With KIC, the Oxfams wants to connect all counterparts and affiliates and engage in the active sharing of knowledge. KIC Projects foster learning with and between counterparts.
- International Journal of Qualitative Methods
- A peer reviewed journal published quarterly as a web-based journal by the International Institute for Qualitative Methodology at the University of Alberta, Canada, and its international affiliates.
- Citizen's Handbook
- Excellent resource for community organizing and local democracy.
- Change Management Toolbook
- The Change Management Toolbook is a premium resource for all change management related information, a place to network with other change practitioners.
- PARTICIPATION: sharing our resources, FAO
- Participation Website from FAO's Informal Working Group on Participatory Approaches and Methods to Support Sustainable Livelihoods and Food Security
- The Evaluation Café is a method for group facilitation | weitzenegger.de
- The Evaluation Café is a method for group facilitation that allows stakeholders of a project or programme to evaluate its impact in an informal brief session. The purpose of the Evaluation Café is to build and document stakeholders' views on success and impacts after a planned activity. The aim of the workshop is to clarify future expectations of strategic planning in the light of past experiences. Evaluation Café is a fast result-driven qualitative survey, seen as a participative way of focus group interview. This step-by-step guide by Karsten Weitzenegger helps you to run it successfully.
- International Initiative for Impact Evaluation :: 3IE ::
- This database covers impact evaluations conducted in low- and middle- income countries. The database includes studies that quantify impact using a counterfactual – implicitly or explicitly – with a focus on final welfare outcomes, using qualitative, quantitative or mixed methods.
- Netherlands Institute of International Relations Clingendael
- In a constantly changing global environment, Clingendael acts as a think-tank as well as a diplomatic academy in order to identify and analyze emerging political and social developments for the benefit of government and the general public.
- CIDSE international alliance of Catholic development agencies
- CIDSE is an international alliance of Catholic development agencies. Its members share a common strategy in their efforts to eradicate poverty and establish global justice. CIDSE’s advocacy work covers resources for development; climate change; food; agriculture and sustainable trade; and business & human rights.
- Weitzenegger's delicious.com | weitzenegger.de
- Weitzenegger's Bookmarks now have their own page. Come join my del.ici.ous Network and share Weblinks with me.
- Eradicate Hunger!
- The documents presented here provide proposals for policies and actions to eradicate hunger and malnutrition. They are based on the experiences and political work of social movements, non governmental organisations (NGOs) and others from all over the world during past decades and currently.
- Open development, open aid - Appropedia: The sustainability wiki
- Better transparency of aid spending.
- OpenAid | Public Online Monitoring for Better Aid
- OpenAid promotes aid transparency, government accountability and citizen participation.
OpenAid believes that local civil society involvement based on transparent information are essential to government accountability and good governance.
- Open Development
- Open space for sharing and dialogue for Open Development
- dataGob Governance Indicators Database
- The indicators used in DataGob are drawn from about 30 different publications of a variety of institutions, including multilateral organizations, NGOs, private firms, and think tanks.
- PREM Network - Poverty Reduction and Economic Management Network
- PREM contributes to the design of global and country policies and the building of institutions to achieve shared growth in developing countries.
- Governance & Anti-Corruption > WGI 1996-2009 Interactive > Home
- The Worldwide Governance Indicators (WGI) project
reports aggregate and individual governance indicators for 212 countries and territories over the period 1996–2008, for six dimensions of governance.
- Edge of Network
- With the principles of the edge of network in your toolkit, you'll be able to help your clients solve some fundamental problems effectively. The edge solves the core problem, helping you lead your clients towards the exciting web2.0 applications without frustration.
- Home (LenCD - Learning Network on Capacity Development)
- The African Capacity Building Foundation (ACBF) Technical Advisory Panels and Networks is a network of highly competent development practitioners, researchers, policymakers, and civil society leaders among others. It focuses on a wide range of topics that include financial management and accountability, public administration, economic policay and parliamentary institution.
- Campaign for Good Governance, Sierra Leone
- Campaign for Good Governance (CGG) exists to increase citizen participation in governance through advocacy, capacity building and civic education in order to build a more informed civil populace and a democratic State.
- BRIBEline: Business Registry for International Bribery and Extortion
- BRIBEline's purpose is to collect information about the official or quasi-official entities - governments, international organizations, security forces, state-owned enterprises, etc. - around the world that solicit bribes. BRIBEline focuses on demand-side bribery only; we do not request or collect information about those who pay, or offer to pay, bribes.
- World Bank Public Sector Governance
- A fundamental role of the World Bank is to help governments work better in our client countries. The Public Sector Group's objectives are based on the view that the Bank must focus more of its efforts on building efficient and accountable public sector institutions -- rather than simply providing discrete policy advice.
- Most Significant Change Technique – A guide to its use
- The most significant change (MSC) technique is a form of participatory monitoring and evaluation. It is participatory because many project stakeholders are involved both in deciding the sorts of change to be recorded and in analysing the data. It is a form of monitoring because it occurs throughout the program cycle and provides information to help people manage the program. It contributes to evaluation because it provides data on impact and outcomes that can be used to help assess the performance of the program as a whole.
- Access Info Europe
- International human rights organisation, based in Madrid, which works to promote a strong and functioning right of access to information in Europe and contributing to the development of this right globally.
- Online Resource Guide on Capacity Development Methodologies | CAPACITY4DEV
- A useful tool for searching through the literature on CD methodologies.
- GTZ Network Education and Youth
- The GTZ- Open Community Education & Youth is open to all practitioners, counterparts, research institutions, donors and interested consultants worldwide facilitating an inter agency exchange of experiences and best practices. The network links not only GTZ-supported education and youth projects, but it seeks working relations to other development institutions, as well.
- Project for Alternative Livelihoods in Eastern Afghanistan
- The Project for Alternative Livelihoods in Eastern Afghanistan is funded by the European Union and partnered with the Ministry of Rural Rehabilitation and Development (MRRD).
- Access to Insurance
- Purpose of the Initiative is to contribute to sound, effective and proportionate policies, regulation and supervision of insurance markets that facilitate growth of insurance for the low income clients.
- UNCDF Microfinance Distance Learning Course
- Through the self-training online tool, new staff of agencies working in development or staff engaged in other fields are able to expand their knowledge of microfinance as an important part of efforts to fight poverty and contribute to the achievement of the Millennium Development Goals
- FIRST Initiative - Strengthening Financial Sectors
- The Financial Sector Reform and Strengthening (FIRST) Initiative is a multi-donor grant facility providing technical assistance (TA) to promote financial sector strengthening.
- WAICENT - The World Agricultural Information Centre of FAO
- The WAICENT framework integrates and harmonizes standards, tools and procedures for the efficient and effective management and dissemination of high-quality technical information, including relevant and reliable statistics, texts, maps, and multimedia resources.
- European Network of Implementing Development Agencies (EUNIDA)
- On behalf of the European Commission, EUNIDA aims to develop capacity in partner countries in order to enable them to achieve sustainable development strategies.
- RECOUP: Research Consortium on Educational Outcomes & Poverty, Faculty of Education, University of Cambridge
- This portal provides you with information about the activities of the Research Consortium on Educational Outcomes and Poverty, including its partners, and progress with our research activities in Ghana, Kenya, India, and Pakistan.
- Global Development: Views from the Center
- Views from the Center features posts from Nancy Birdsall and her colleagues about innovative, practical policy responses to poverty and inequality in a globalizing world.
- Development and the crisis
- Vox - Research-based policy analysis and commentary from leading economists
- Further discussions on Migration and Stockholm programme at EU Council
- The Justice and Home Affairs Council, home affairs and migration ministers discussed the draft Stockholm Programme on the 30th November 2009. There was broad consensus on creating a more secure and open Europe where the rights of individuals are safeguarded. The ministers agreed that effective measures against cross-border crime must go hand in hand with guaranteed legal security for the individual. Police cooperation needs to be made more effective, for example by making better use of Europol, and the rights of individuals strengthened by measures including the EU’s swift accession to the European Convention on Human Rights.
- Small Enterprise Center - Palestine
- SEC is a non-governmental, non-profit organization that was created by and for the private sector and focuses its activities primarily on the SME sector. SEC fulfills its vision by delivering services to SMEs in support of their growth and the expansion of their business potentials, including income increase and creation of employment opportunities.
- pm4dev | elearn
- These are learning resources that contain practical advice and insight on the practice of modern project management in the development field.
- Global Governance Project (Glogov.org)
- The Global Governance Project (Glogov.org) is a joint research programme of twelve European research institutions that seeks to advance understanding of the new actors, institutions and mechanisms of global governance.
- GTAP Model: Labor Migration
- Data base for use in analysis of Labor migration issues. The result of this collaboration has been a bilateral matrix of the home and host regions of the World's 176.6 million international migrants and the development of the GMig2 model and Data Base. The data was used by the World Bank in their production of the 2006 Global Economic Prospects and has appeared in the Guardian and on Vox.
- FOREST CONSULTANT Timo Heikkila
- Timo Heikkila offers consultancies and services by experience on wood based energy, bio-energy, rural development, education, and environment care. And he is an excellent photographer, too.
- Zunia.org
- Zunia provides a space for professional learning and knowledge-sharing among development practitioners worldwide. Users can access and post news, events, best practices and publications that are searchable online and receive e-mail alerts on topics of their interest.
- CGVLibrary - Agriculture and Rural Development
- The CG virtual library (CGVlibrary) is a global link to leading research on food crops, livestock, fisheries, water resources, forestry, plant genetics, and food and nutrition policy. It includes resources from the online libraries of all the Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research (CGIAR) centers.
- Euro-Mediterranean Information System on know-how in the Water sector
- EMWIS is an initiative of the Euro-Mediterranean Partnership. It provides a strategic tool for exchanging information and knowledge in the water sector between and within the Euro Mediterranean partnership countries
- About Fair Politics - Fair Politics make development work
- Here you can monitor the European Parliament and see for yourself who has posed critical questions to the Commission since the new term! News and monitor items in the past months include the effects of the financial crisis on developing countries, intellectual property rights and health, 'blood diamonds', logging, biofuels and child labour. Which MEPs are taking efforts to put incoherencies or policies unfair to developing countries on the agenda?
- South African Monitoring and Evaluation Association
- SAMEA strives to cultivate a vibrant community that will support, guide and strengthen the development of monitoring and evaluation (M&E) as an important discipline, profession and instrument for empowerment and accountability in South Africa
- EU Turkey Financial Assistance Conference, 21 – 22 January 2010
- The conference will also act as a forum for the consultancy community to connect with each other to discuss opportunities for partnership for the upcoming contracts.
- Weitzenegger's Development Newsroom | weitzenegger.de
- In our consulting business we follow news and trends in international development cooperation. Here you can look with us on the message board with incoming headlines and background information from agencies and partners. There is also a Twitter channel showing related posts from the last hour or so. You also get quick access to headlines and TV stream from Euronews, BBC, IPS and Deutsche Welle TV.
- Poverty News Blog
- News and links about the struggle of the poor around the world. Half the world -- nearly three billion people -- live on less than two dollars a day.
- Global Envision | The Confluence of Global Markets and Poverty Alleviation
- Global Envision is a blog that examines how creating responsible market opportunities can lead to new solutions to global poverty. We work hard to offer timely content, analysis and discussion of the relationship between global markets and poverty alleviation. Sponsored by Mercy Corps.
- Development Studies Internet Resources
- Created by Prof. William A Joseph, Department of Political Science, Wellesley College, UK
- Good Governance - Danida DevForum
- The objective of this Danish website is to share and develop knowledge on good practices for development cooperation in support of good governance: Public Sector Reform, Decentralisation, Anti-Corruption, Access to Justice, Human Rights and Democratisation and Media
- Programme Migrations et Initiatives économiques
- Depuis 2001 et la mise en place du Programme Migrations et Initiatives Economique, le pS-Eau et le GAME appuient à la fois les projets des migrants dans les pays d'origine (dans le cadre d'une réinsertion ou d'un investissement à distance) mais aussi en France. Les migrants accompagnés sont originaires de différents pays africains
- Monde.org - la maison du développement
- The French aid agency wanted to provide information about development to the French-speaking community. In response, Development Gateway created a platform that systematically compiles resources on one Web site. It brings together content including news items, tenders, events, publications, and jobs. The site has more than 60,000 resources.
- Learn to peace here at TFF's home
- TFF is an independent think tank, a global network and a website for peace by peaceful means. From Sweden with passion.
- Incubators as Tools for Entrepreneurship Promotion in Developing Countries
- Jim Lobe's Blog - LobeLog.com
- Jim Lobe is best known for his coverage of U.S. foreign policy, particularly the neo-conservative influence in the Bush administration.
- The Immanent Frame
- The Immanent Frame is a collective blog publishing interdisciplinary perspectives on secularism, religion, and the public sphere.
- Society for International Development Forum » Climate change
- How is the debate perceived and experienced in developing countries? How is Copenhagen going to impact on development?
- Climate Justice Action
- climate-X-change wants to make networking easier. During the official UN-Climate-Conference in Copenhagen, thousands of acitivists from all over the world will gather in the streets. This is a great opportunity to meet, exchange ideas and strategies and to network with each other.
- Emerging Good Practice in Managing for Development Results Sourcebook
- By focusing on observable and replicable interventions, the Sourcebook aims to increase the understanding of MfDR and illustrate how many stakeholders are effectively implementing MfDR principles for greater development effectiveness.
- AFREA - African Evaluation Association
- AfrEA was founded in 1999 in response to a growing demand for information sharing, advocacy and advanced capacity building in evaluation in Africa.
- European Evaluation Society
- The primary goal of the European Evaluation Society is to promote theory, practice and utilization of high quality evaluation especially, but not exclusively, within the European countries.
- IDEAS - International Development Evaluation Association - Home
- IDEAS' mission is 'to advance and extend the practice of development evaluation by refining methods, strengthening capacity and expanding ownership', with a particular focus on developing and transitional economies.
- DAC Evaluation Resource Centre (DEReC)
- The DAC Evaluation Resource Centre (DEReC) is a one stop shop designed to give the evaluation and development community easier access to evaluation publications by the DAC Network on Development Evaluation and its members. DEReC currently holds over 800 full evaluation reports, Annexes and (when available) Executive Summary reports.
- International Organisation for Cooperation in Evaluation (IOCE)
- Organization for evaluation networks and societies that is committed to building a worldwide evaluation community.
- This is Africa
- Aid to Artisans | International Development For Artisan Groups
- Organsiation creates economic opportunities for artisan groups around the world where livelihoods, communities, and craft traditions are marginal or at risk.
- EarthTrends | Environmental Information
- EarthTrends is a comprehensive online database, maintained by the World Resources Institute, that focuses on the environmental, social, and economic trends that shape our world.
- Africa Data Dissemination Service
- The Goal of the Famine Early Warning Systems Network (FEWS NET) is to strengthen the abilities of foreign countries and regional organizations to manage risk of food insecurity through the provision of timely and analytical early warning and vulnerability information.
- GeoNetwork- The portal to spatial data and information
- GeoNetwork opensource allows to easily share geographically referenced thematic information between different organizations.
- Humanitarian Contact Management Directory
- Who does What Where/ Contact Management Directory
- Geographic Information Support Team (GIST)
- The Geographic Information Support Team (GIST) is an inter-agency initiative that promotes the use of geographic data standards and geographical information systems (GIS) in support of humanitarian relief operations.
- Pratical Guidebook for SME-VSE Entrepreneurs in Africa
- This website gives the entrepreneurs of VSE's/SME's useful and concrete references. It gives the strictly necessary information for a first orientation of the entrepreneur or entrepreneur-to-be with a view to improve her or his credibility and longevity as actor of the private sector.
- Hub rural
- The Hub’s goal is to assist West and Central African stakeholders to promote coherence in rural development programmes worldwide.
- Dimitra: improving the visibility of rural populations
- Dimitra is a participatory information and communication project which contributes to improving the visibility of rural populations, women in particular.
- Global Focus Aotearoa
- Global Focus Aotearoa is a specialist provider of information and education on global and development issues.
- Reuters AlertNet - Climate Change
- The humanitarian news network Reuters AlertNet has an excellent climate change site.
- Policy Innovations - The Carnegie Council's online magazine for a fairer globalization.
- To highlight the best new thinking on a fairer globalization.
- openDemocracy
- openDemocracy publishes high quality news analysis, debates and blogs about the world and the way we govern ourselves.
- SinksWatch
- SinksWatch is an initiative of the World Rainforest Movement to track and scrutinize carbon sequestration or 'sink' projects related to the Kyoto Protocol.
- Durban Group for Climate Justice
- The Durban Group for Climate Justice is an international network of independent organisations, individuals and people's movements who reject the free market approach to climate change.
- The DifferenTakes Issue Papers Series | Population and Development Program
- DifferenTakes is a series of occassional papers (produced by the Population and Development Program of Hampshire College, Massachusetts, USA) that is designed to bring alternative feminist analysis to the media, policymakers, advocacy organizations and activists.
- Dag Hammarskjöld Foundation
- The Dag Hammarskjold Foundation searches for and examines workable alternatives and perspectives for a socially and economically just, ecologically sustainable, peaceful and secure world.
- Carbon Trade Watch
- Carbon Trade Watch aims to provide a durable body of research to ensure that a holistic and justice-based analysis of climate change and climate policy is not forgotten or compromised.
- The Corner House
- Supports democratic and community movements for environmental and social justice.
- Countercurrents.org Educate ! Organize ! Agitate !
- n the truest spirit of independent internet journalism, we believe that whatever news, views and analysis given out from countercurrents should be independent in the truest sense of the word and free of biases.
- BLDS - British Library for Development Studies
- A specialist development library based at IDS.
- Bridge - Mainstreaming Gender Equality
- A specialist service supporting gender mainstreaming efforts by bridging the gaps between theory, policy and practice with accessible gender information.
- Eldis - Livelihoods Connect
- A service facilitating knowledge sharing and networking to enable the practical implementation of sustainable livelihoods approaches as a tool for poverty reduction.
- Institute of Development Studies - I-K-Mediary Network
- The I-K-Mediary Network is an emerging global network of organisations that play a knowledge and information intermediary role in development. These organisations all aim to increase access to and use of research in development contexts by providing portals, gateways or reporting services.
- AlterNet
- AlterNet's aim is to inspire action and advocacy on the environment, human rights and civil liberties, social justice, media, health care issues, and more.
- Latin American Information Agency (ALAI)
- The Latin American Information Agency (ALAI, for its Spanish acronym) is a communications organization committed to human rights, gender equality, and citizen participation in the development and public affairs of Latin America
- ZNet
- The ZNet list of authors is a who's who of the 'intelligensia' of the anti-globalization and social justice movements, or at least those who write in English.
- riseup.net
- riseup.net provides mail, lists, and hosting for those working on liberatory social change. We are a project to create democratic alternatives and practice self-determination by controlling our own secure means of communications.
- Portal Piqueteros
- Piqueteros is a movement of unemployed workers and/or poor from Argentina's de-industrialized suburban slums fighting to create a new economy.
- Our World Is Not For Sale
- Our World is Not for Sale (OWINFS) network is a loose grouping of organizations, activists and social movements worldwide fighting against the current model of corporate globalization embodied in global trading systems.
- La Via Campesina : International Peasant Movement
- La Via Campesina is the global alliance of rural movements, small- and middle-scale producers, agricultural workers, rural women, and indigenous communities from Asia, Africa, America, and Europe.
- IslamOnline.net- Islamic News
- Islam Online is a very useful and credible website for those interested in learning more about the movements and organizations in the Arab world.
- indymedia.org Independent Media Center
- Indymedia is a collective of independent media organizations and hundreds of journalists offering grassroots, non-corporate coverage.
- [babels.org]
- Babels is a network of volunteer interpreters and translators. It was born from the process of the Social Forums, experimental meeting spaces for movements and organizations from different countries and regions.
- Ghana Center for Democratic Development (CDD)
- Ghana Center for International Development (GCID) is a policy-oriented think tank and non-profit, non-partisan, and independent research organization based out of Accra, Ghana
- IFES - An international nonprofit organization that supports the building of democratic societies.
- IFES adopted the headline 'IFES-Democracy at Large' to encapsulate its growing work in building civil society, advancing human rights, good governance, and the rule of law.
- U.S. National Endowment for Democracy
- The National Endowment for Democracy (NED) is a US-based, congressionally funded, private organization primarily engaged in the writing and proffering of grants to a wide variety of pro-democracy agencies, NGOs, and programmes worldwide
- WorldCat [OCLC - Home]
- Meta search engine for online catalogs of libraries all over the world. Search for any book using a geographic location for the closest sources.
- The European Library
- This is the European Commission Union Catalogue referencing holdings of
a network of libraries. Material on European integration can be found
here.
- WAO - World Affairs Online
- Updated regularly, this is one of the largest bibliographical databases on social sciences in Europe, with more than 800,000 references to articles / chapters from periodicals and books, monographs, reports, and official publications.
- Nordic Libraries: Information servers
- This is an excellent starting point to search for libraries in Scandinavia and in the Baltic region.
- Libdex – Worldwide index of library catalogues, libraries & books
- A geographical index with links to world libraries, a library-type index, a link to telnet libraries via HYTELNET can all be found here.
- UB Karlsruhe: Karlsruhe Virtual Catalog KVK
- This service of the Karlsruhe Univeristy Library provides access to more than 75 million books and serials in library and booktrade catalogues
worldwide.
- BUBL LINK Catalogue of Internet Resources
- This handy subject guide to internet resources features abstract and catalogue record for each item, and links that are verified on a regular basis.
- UNHCR | Refworld | The Leader in Refugee Decision Support
- This is a reference portal of selected information sources dealing with refugee, asylum, human rights and related topics.
- ECMI Enriched Links database
- Weblinks concerning minority-majority relations in Europe.
- Development experts fear unchecked international land grabs in Africa
- Development experts are concerned that the combination of soft United Nations regulations, inefficient legal systems and compliant local elites are aiding foreign land grabs in Africa. | World | Deutsche Welle | 13.08.2009
- Devfinance MailingList Archive
- The liveliest discussion forum in rural and development finance. Read the archived messages or add a posting here in the Rural Finance Learning Centre.
- Development Finance Network (DeFiNe)
- DeFiNe is a global network of think tanks and academic establishments. Institutions belonging to DeFiNe come both from developing and OECD countries.
- AfricaNews - Business
- The business pages of the website Africa News compile daily economic news from all over the continent.
- CORPORATE AFRICA
- This Time magazine reports on African economies and daily news on economic issues in Africa and other regions of the world.
- Migration guide – BLDS – British Library for Development Studies
- BLDS Subject Guide on Migration
- Institute of Development Studies - Knowledge Services
- The IDS Information Department’s mission is to help people to understand and make sense of the complexities and realities of poverty and inequality.
- Asia Source 3 | Connect. Cooperate. Collaborate
- Asia Source 3 seeks to build the skills and networks of those in the region who are working within NGO and SME sector. The event brought together a wealth of resource persons, FOSS experts and activities, from the more technical to the more content oriented.
- Aid Effectiveness Portal ::: Together Making Aid Work
- Tihs Portal aims to support policy makers and practitioners working to boost the effectiveness of aid and its contribution to development.
- LenCD - Learning Network on Capacity Development
- LenCD is an open Learning Network on Capacity Development that links many initiatives globally and is supporting an evolving community of practice.
- CTA - Brussels Office Weblog - Migration and development
- This weblog shares information on key ACP-EU programmes and events from Brussels relevant to agriculture and rural development in ACP countries.
- People In Aid
- People In Aid is a global network of development and humanitarian assistance agencies. We help organisations whose goal is the relief of poverty and suffering to enhance the impact they make through better management and support of staff and volunteers.
- Climate Change Knowledge Network
- A very helpful introductory resource for anyone wishing to understand the complexities of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC). The website provides a wide range of resources on various climate policy issues and the Kyoto mechanisms. It also features a series of introductory briefings and glossaries to help you get familiar with the negotiation process.
- mandasoldiacasa.it
- An Italian website which provides comparative information on the costs of sending remittances with the aim of ensuring greater transparency and clarity of information and encouraging those operating in the market to improve the products and services offered to migrants.
- TckTckTck | The World is Ready
- TckTckTck is the hub for stories on how hundreds of millions of people around the world are coming together to show world leaders we are ready for a new climate deal.
- UK Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC)
- The Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) is the UK's leading agency for research funding and training in economic and social sciences.
- STEPS centre
- The STEPS Centre is a new interdisciplinary global research and policy engagement hub, funded by the UK’s Economic and Social Research Council.
- Research Into Use: Welcome to RIU
- LINK seeks to stimulate debate and share lessons on rural innovation policy and practice through research and advisory services.
- Ideas for growth - International Growth Centre
- The IGC promotes sustainable growth in developing countries by providing demand-led policy advice based on frontier research.
- A database of civil society self-regulatory initiatives - CSO database
- The One World Trust has launched a portal on civil society self-regulation which includes a database listing over 320 initiatives across 80 countries.
- International Research Initiative on Adaptation to Climate Change
- This Initiative will support the formation of multinational teams from Canada and from low and middle income countries, who will develop networks and programs of research. Successful applicants will initiate interdisciplinary and multisectoral collaborations with researchers, communities, practitioners and policy-makers in Canada and around the globe.
- Results-based management in ADB and the Asian-Pacific region
- ADB is improving its effectiveness in reducing poverty and promoting development in the Asia and Pacific region through managing for development results (MfDR).
- Twitter / @kweitzenegger/Development Cooperation
- Twitter Lists are a great way to organize the people you follow and discover new and interesting accounts. The idea is to allow people to curate lists of Twitter accounts. Other Twitter users can then subscribe to your lists.
- AiDA - knowledge, collaboration, information, partnerships
- European Microfinance Platform (e-MFP)
- A growing network of approximately 100 organisations and individuals active in the area of microfinance. Principal objective is to promote co-operation amongst European microfinance bodies working in developing countries, by facilitating communication and the exchange of information.
- CAPACITY4DEV
- This is EuropeAid's interactive platform that supports the European Commission's efforts to make technical cooperation more effective. The platform is an open forum where EC staff at country level and in headquarters, development practitioners, partner countries, other donors, academics and civil society representatives can share ideas and knowledge.
- African immigrants drift towards Latin America
- Which are the perspectives for a strenghtened south-south cooperation between Africa and Latin America on migration and development? SID Forum
- United Nations Environment Programme
- This centre provides a searchable database of various materials and Internet links related to integrated environmental and economic accounting, also known as green accounting. It supports the objectives and programme of work of the UN Committee of Experts on Environmental-Economic Accounting (UNCEEA).
- WatchBlog: Political News, Opinion and Commentary...
- WatchBlog is a multiple-editor weblog broken up into three major political affiliations, each with its own blog: the Democrats, the Republicans and the Third Party.
- Global Integrity
- Global Integrity is an independent, non-profit organization tracking governance and corruption trends around the world.
- Gapminder.org - For a fact based world view.
- Gapminder is a non-profit venture promoting sustainable global development and achievement of the United Nations Millennium Development Goals by increased use and understanding of statistics and other information about social, economic and environmental development at local, national and global levels
- The Bayesian Heresy is MTEF
- Economics, global development,current affairs, globalization, culture and more rants on the dismal science. "As usual, it's like being a kid in a candy store. I'm awed by the volume of high-quality daily links in general. Thanks!" - Chris Blattman
- Knowledge Network
- The active network of 21 partners of 11 countries will work together to improve the practices of governance.
- Post from the Computing for Global Development Workshop.
- LEDNA – Local Economic Development Network of Africa
- This network gives you access to peer checked, free, local economic development knowledge and practitioners in Africa and globally.
- Web2forDev: Web 2.0 for Development Gateway
- CTA's ICT4DEV site.
- Social Entrepreneurs | Find Social Entrepreneurs. Create Social Change.
- developmentdata.org
- Useful website with an extensive list of links to datasets that are freely available on the internet. The site is maintained by Gunilla Peterson and organized by topic (aid, education, health, migration, governnance, etc.).
- CEsA Technical University of Lisbon
- CEsA is a research centre of the Faculty of Economics and Management of the Technical University of Lisbon. It is specifically oriented towards the study of economic and social development in the so-called "developing countries"
- The African Studies Centre, Leiden
- The African Studies Centre in Leiden is the only academic research institute in the Netherlands devoted entirely to the study of Africa.
- Institute on Governance
- Canadian non-profit think tank, provides an independent source of knowledge and advice on governance issues, and seek to help organizations and societies realize their objectives through sound governance.
- crisscrossed blog
- This blog aims to explore and develop social changes through communication.
- Governance Focus
- A governance location focused on corporate and board governance, ethics, compliance, environment, development and social responsibility.
- GIGA German Institute of Global and Area Studies
- The GIGA German Institute of Global and Area Studies is a Hamburg-based research institute focused on political, economic and social developments in Africa, Asia, Latin America, North Africa, and the Middle East.
- Inter-réseaux Développement rural
- lieu de débats et d’échanges d’expériences sur le développement rural menés au sein d’un réseau d’acteurs impliqués sur ces questions en particulier dans les pays du Sud.
- The Centre for the Study of African Economies
- CSAE applies modern quantitative research methods to improve economic and social conditions for the poorest societies in the world
- Center for Global Development : Research Topics: Migration
- CGD conducts rigorous, independent research to examine the effects on migrants and their places of origin.
- SSRN Electronic Library
- SSRN eLibrary Database Search
- RePEc: Research Papers in Economics
- RePEc (Research Papers in Economics) is a collaborative effort of hundreds of volunteers in 69 countries to enhance the dissemination of research in economics. The heart of the project is a decentralized database of working papers, journal articles and software components.
- Inomics - The Internet Site for Economists
- At Inomics, economists find at a single stop all the professional information they need.
- Global Distribution of Poverty
- The Global Poverty Mapping Project seeks to enhance current understanding of the global distribution of poverty and the geographic and biophysical conditions of where the poor live.
- The International Forum of national NGO platforms
- This Forum aims at facilitating cooperation between national platforms and regional coalitions of NGOs at the regional, inter-regional and international levels through common advocacy and capacity building actions.
- UMCK E-learning portal
- The MFA Competence Centre has recently launched the E-learning Portal. In addition to the online activities provided for MFA staff, the new E-learning Portal offers a range of courses developed for external users.
- Policy Network new ideas for progressive politics
- International thinktank dedicated to promoting progressive policies and the renewal of social democracy. Launched in December 2000, Policy Network facilitates the sharing of ideas and experiences among politicians, policymakers and experts on the centre-left.
- Nordic Investment Bank - NIB
- The Bank offers long-term loans and guarantees on competitive market terms to its clients in the private and public sectors. NIB is an international financial institution owned by Denmark, Estonia, Finland, Iceland, Latvia, Lithuania, Norway and Sweden.
- European Development Finance Institutions - EDFI
- EDFI is the Association of European Development Finance Institutions, a group of 16 bilateral institutions which provide long-term finance for private sector enterprises in developing and reforming economies.
- Danish Industrialisation Fund for Developing Countries (IFU)
- IFU offers capital and advice to Danish joint venture enterprises in developing countries.
- Icelandic International Development Agency (ICEIDA)
- ICEIDA shall promote co-operation between Iceland and developing countries.
- Swedfund
- Swedfund is Sweden’s risk capital company specialised in investments in developing countries.
- Nopef - Nordiska projektexportfonden
- The specific aim of the fund is to strengthen the international competitiveness of Nordic enterprises by providing co-financing for feasibility studies that support export projects and the internationalisation of Nordic enterprises.
- Nordic Environment Finance Corporation Nefco
- NEFCO finances investments and projects primarily in Russia, Ukraine, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania and Belarus, in order to generate positive environmental effects of interest to the Nordic region.
- NORSAD Nordic - SADC SME financing
- The main objective of NORSAD is to contribute to the private sector development in the SADC region. Projects supported by NORSAD, should demonstrate beneficial economic development impact, as well as be socially and environmentally sustainable.
- CGAP Portal Eastern Europe
- CGAP Microfinance Centre for CEE and NIS.
- ILO Social Finance Unit
- Social Finance is about financial sector policies that set incentives to open up the financial to the working majority and create an enabling environment in which microfinance institutions can operate.
- Unitus MFI Center
- Unitus, an international nonprofit organization, works to reduce global poverty by increasing access to life-changing microfinance services.
- Blog PYMEscopio - elfinancierocr.com
- Emilio Zevallos V., es consultor internacional e investigador especialista en micro, pequeñas y medianas empresas de América Latina; además de trabajar temas de crecimiento y desarrollo económico, sector informal, desarrollo local y gestión de proyectos, con varios libros y publicaciones en revistas especializadas.
- PRO€INVEST
- Pro€Invest launched its new website. All information related to available tools of the Programme such as technical assistance will be easily accessible. New rubrics will also give you the opportunity to discover all activities and projects of intermediary and regional organizations that have worked with the Programme. Rubrics such as «Feedback on projects» and «News» will also give a particular online space to project owners for the promotion of their organization’s activities!
- Kabissa - Space for change in Africa
- Kabissa is a network of people who are working online and on the ground for positive change in Africa. Since 1999, thousands of us have used this site to take action and follow the results of our efforts.
- Biblioteca EUROsociAL - Programa EUROsociAL
- EUROsociAL is a technical cooperation programme of the European Commission to support social cohesion in Latin America through the sharing of experiences between public administrations responsible for the administration of Justice, Education, Employment, Taxation and Health.
- Fundación Compromiso, Argentina
- Fundación Compromiso has aspired to help social organizations attain autonomous management, convinced of the fundamental role these organizations play in the construction of a more democratic society.
- CEFIR Centro de Formación para la Integración Regional MERCOSUR
- CEFIR ha sido testigo y participe activo de los procesos de integración en América Latina, con un protagonismo especial en la constitución y evolución del MERCOSUR.
- Diaspora - Mobilizing the African Diaspora for Development Initiative
- The World Bank recently launched an initiative on Mobilizing the African Diaspora for Development in support of the AU and African Government agenda.
- BaFa' BaFa': A Diversity, Cross-Cultural Simulation
- In BaFa' BaFa' participants come to understand the powerful effects that culture plays in every person's life. It may be used to help participants prepare for living and working in another culture or to learn how to work with people from other departments, disciplines, genders, races, and ages.
- Omidyar Network ON
- Omidyar Network invests in and helps scale innovative organizations to catalyze economic, social, and political change.
- Institute for Strategic Clarity
- Strategic Clarity: your understanding of what is important and how to achieve it corresponds with reality
- Generative Change Community
- Exploring, nurturing, and promoting generative dialogic change processes
for an equitable and sustainable world.
- European Report on Development
- The European Report on Development is newly launched yearly publication which focuses on the design of effective development policies and aid interventions. It is framed within the joint initiative “Mobilizing European Research for Development Policies”.
- CSDMS - Centre for Science, Development and Media Studies
- CSDMS is Indias leading NGO working towards advocacy and promotion of Information and Communication Technology for Development.
- Practical Action - technology challenging poverty
- Practical Action - formerly ITDG - works with poor people to demonstrate practical answers to poverty
- ECOM-LAC - Federación Latinoamericana y Caribe para Internet y el Comercio Electrónico
- eCOM-LAC is a non-profit entity, which is dedicated to the development of the Internet and Electronic Commerce in the Latin America and Caribbean region, and to being the voice of the private ITC sector in international fora.
- Facebook | Karsten Weitzenegger Consulting
- Karsten Weitzenegger Consulting, an international consulting service working for sustainable development and the eradication of poverty, now has a Facebook page.
- RGE Monitor
- RGE's analysts define the key economic and geostrategic debates and continuously distill the best thinking on all sides. This intelligence, along with exclusive analysis from internationally-known experts, is accessed through a powerful Web interface that provides both focused snapshots and deeper perspectives.
- State of the Planet
- With close to a thousand scientists, researchers and staff representing the Earth Institute on every ocean and every continent, the full scope of our work is practically impossible to grasp in any single medium.
- From Poverty to Power by Duncan Green
- This blog is written and maintained by Duncan Green, Head of Research for Oxfam GB and author of 'From Poverty to Power'.
- Aid Watch | just asking that aid benefit the poor
- The Aid Watch blog is a project of New York University's Development Research Institute (DRI). This blog is principally written by William Easterly.
- African Arguments
- Hosted by the Royal African Society and the Social Science Research Council, we promise to make African Arguments Online the site of the most vigorous debates on Africa available on the web.
- UNV Online Volunteering Service
- The UNV Online Volunteering service connects volunteers with organizations working for sustainable human development.
- Chris Blattman's Blog
- Assistant Professor of Political Science and Economics at Yale on - Research, international development, foreign policy, and violent conflict.
- Scarlett Lion's Blog
- Photographer, writer, reporter. Going through life with an eye towards creating records and histories.
- Owen abroad: Home
- Owen Barder is the Director of aidinfo – a programme of Development Initiatives which aims to make information about aid more easily accessible.
- PelicanWeb's Journal of Sustainable Development
- Research Digest on Integral Human Development, Spirituality, Solidarity, Sustainability, Democracy, Technology, Nonviolence.
- Bridge-IT
- Bridge IT is a thematic networked, co-financed by the European Commission. It is about Migrants, ethnic minorities and Information and communication technologies in Europe.
- Visual Anthropology
- The Library contains more than 1700 publications related to visual anthropology. ethnographic film, photography, and visual culture.
- Stamp Out Poverty
- Stamp Out Poverty was launched in April 2005 at the time of Make Poverty History with a remit to work on new sources of development finance.
- Leading Group on Innovative Financing for Development
- The Leading Group, or the Leading Group on Solidarity Levies to Fund Development, is a body that brings together 55 countries, various international organisationd and non-governmental organisations. It is aimed at moving forward discussions about setting up innovative development financing mechanisms.
- EC-UN Joint Migration and Development Initiative (JMDI)
- The European Commission-United Nations Joint Migration and Development Initiative (JMDI) reflects the acceptance of and growing interest in the strong links between migration and development. This web-based knowledge management platform has been established to bring practitioners together in ‘communities of practice’, providing an open forum to share news and information.
- Africa - Making Finance Work for Africa
- Making Finance Work for Africa takes a panoramic view of Africa’s financial systems, both at the large scale (“finance for growth”) and the small scale (“finance for all”).
- Fundación Internacional y para Iberoamérica de Administración y Políticas Públicas (FIIAPP)
- Está al servicio de la acción exterior del Estado y trabaja en el ámbito de la cooperación internacional para el desarrollo.
- VENRO, the Association of German development non-governmental organisations
- VENRO, the Association of German development non-governmental organisations (NGOs), is the umbrella organisation of independent and church related NGOs working in the fields of development cooperation, emergency assistance, development education, and advocacy.
- ICCO Interchurch organisation for development cooperation
- ICCO’s mission is to work towards a world in which people live in dignity and prosperity, a world where poverty and injustice are no longer present.
- Yiadom
- This is for anything Ghana related both back home and in the UK.
- COMmunication with and among PARTners
- The ComPart homepage is a starting place for sharing information, knowledge and learning with and among colleagues and partners in the ICCO Alliance.
- MYC4
- MyC4 raises capital for African entrepreneurs, and in so doing is striving to become a significant tool in the fight to end extreme poverty. In December 2006, MyC4 received a grant of DKK 5 million (EUR 670,000) from the Danish Aid Agency (DANIDA) under the Ministry of Foreign Affairs to support the development of the MYC4 platform.
- South Asia Social Accountability Network (SasaNet)
- SasaNet aims to develop a cadre of trainers who can support various Governments and other interested organizations in using the social accountability tools and to assist them in piloting and learning crucial lessons in this aspect.
- Irenees.net - A website of Resources for Peace
- Irenees.net constitutes a tool for assessing know-how, emerging from the numerous initiatives for peace, destined to promote the exchange of knowledge and the transversal nature of the various approaches in order to elaborate an international expertise to aid in the progressive construction of an art of peace.
- African Rural Energy Enterprise Development (AREED)
- The United Nations Environment Programme has initiated an African Rural Energy Enterprise Development (AREED) initiative. AREED seeks to develop new sustainable energy enterprises that use clean, efficient, and renewable energy technologies to meet the energy needs of under-served populations, thereby reducing the environmental and health consequences of existing energy use patterns.
- DFID Community Linking Programme
- If you are involved in a UK community group that has a link with a group in a developing country, we want to hear your story.
- October 2009 from weitzenegger.de
- This monthly Newsletter brings you news for international cooperation professionals on economic and social development.
- Juris International
- Browse this website and find lots of useful legal links. Jurisint is a multilingual collection (English, Spanish, and French) of legal information on international trade.
- AL-INVEST V
- By boosting SMEs development, AL-INVEST plays an important role in enhancing EU-Latin America business relations, and strengthens the ties between EUROCHAMBRES and its Latin American counterparts.
- migropolis
- A survey on the global city using the urban territory of Venice as an exemplary paradigm that makes it possible to anticipate urban escalations to come.
- Global Entrepreneurship Monitor (GEM)
- The Global Entrepreneurship Monitor (GEM) is a not-for-profit academic research consortium that has as its goal making high quality international research data on entrepreneurial activity readily available to as wide an audience as possible.
- Rights-based approaches for conservation
- Rights-based approaches
Exploring issues and opportunities for conservation
- Executive Agency for Competitiveness & Innovation (EACI)
- EACI is an executive body composed by an international team of specialists on energy, transport, finance, environment, competitiveness and innovation from both the European Commission and the private sector.
- The Switch | Progressive Views on Sustainable Development
- The Switch covers various campaigns, new book releases, academic papers, policy processes and more. It takes a holistic and progressive approach to the sustainability debate and does not shy away from addressing controversial topics.
- Europe's World - The only Europe-wide Ideas Community
- Europe’s World is the only independent Europe-wide policy journal, produced in association with some over 100 leading European think tanks and academic institutions. Its aim is to give readers direct access to the latest in policy thinking across the EU, and encourage visitors to submit their own reports and comment on any of the contributions featured on the website.
- unstats | Millennium Indicators
- This site presents the official data, definitions, methodologies and sources for more than 60 indicators to measure progress towards the Millennium Development Goals
- Giresol - Portal Latinoamericano de Residuos Sólidos
- Todas las herramientas necesarias para su desempeño en la propagación de los conocimientos en torno a la Prevención y Gestión Integral de los Residuos Sólidos.
- Millennium Institute
- Millennium Institute (MI) is an independent and non-partisan nonprofit organization committed to promoting systems literacy and dynamic modeling tools to attain sustainable development worldwide.
- alternativedevelopment.net
- A new website has just been launched aimed at experienced development consultants, as a forum for them to exchange their views and hands-on experiences of development projects.
- Experience Development U.K.
- The UK's most comprehensive development sector guide, providing information on the latest in development research, news, events and jobs.
- Eurostep website on EU Country & Regional Programming to ACP countries
- This website is a tool for civil society actors in ACP countries and in Europe to follow the discussions on the programming of aid to ACP countries under the 10th European Development Fund (2008-2013). Indeed the European Commission is currently programming aid to 78 countries in Africa, Caribbean and the Pacific. The aid programme covers 22.8 billion euros over the 5 year period.
- DEEEP start for Development Education in Europe
- DEEEP is a 3-year programme that aims to increase the capacity of European NGDOs to deliver grassroots Development Education (DE) via methodological exchange, training, improved networking, elaboration of common policies and common projects.
- Center for Peace Mediation, European University Viadrina
- The Center for Peace Mediation, institutionally integrated at the European University Viadrina and cooperating with the Project Humboldt-Viadrina School of Governance, combines the theory and practice of international peace mediation.
- RISQ | Review of International Social Questions
- RISQ is an independent association of scholars, journalists, politicians, and activists who seek to render international political decision-making more inclusive, equitable, and responsible.
- FUN TUNA: Drunk People Yoga Positions
- I like Balasana.
- Training and Events for Development Professionals
- This site lists open training events related to development cooperation. It has world-wide entries, but concentrates on Europe.
- Weitzenegger's Donor Crawler
- Looking for an official document from a development agency? A policy paper? A certain project file? Search the mayor donor Websites here directly
- Weitzenegger's International Development Job Market
- Looking for a job in development cooperation? This Website gives you a list of professional opportunities around the world. Updated as you arrive.
- Weitzenegger's Web 2.0 for Development
- Let us use technology to enhance creativity, information sharing, and cooperation among people.
- Weaving a polyglot Internet - open and voluntary translation
- Voluntary contributions and the availability of an increasing number of free tools and online platforms facilitate the translation of valuable content in a number of languages.
- ICT and Robotics in Agriculture ICT-AGRI
- ICT-AGRI is the acronym for the project which has the full title “Coordination of European Research within ICT and Robotics in Agriculture and Related Environmental Issues”
- Integration Research Network (REDINT)
- Created in order to promote the strengthening of experience and capacity in research prepared by individual or team of experts from Latin American and Caribbean countries working in the region on subject areas referred to integration.
- Inter-American Development Bank
- The IDB, established in 1959 to support the process of economic and social development in Latin America and the Caribbean, is the main source of multilateral financing in the region.
- Institute for War and Peace Reporting
- IWPR produces fine reports from unstable parts of the world that are too often ignored by the mainstream media.
- AfrikECO.com : le portail des entreprises africaines
- afrikEco.com, le Portail de l'Arique et du Maghreb, offre un journal quotidien contenant des informations sur l'actualité, l'économie, les sociétés de 56 pays africains, ainsi qu'un annuaire sélectionnant leurs sites Internet et aussi une série de services.
- Sustainable Urban Development Network (SUD-Net)
- An innovative network of global partners working with actors and networks to promote a multi-lateral and inter-disciplinary approach to sustainable urban development.
- Prominstat
- The PROMINSTAT database is a comprehensive inventory of statistical datasets on migration, integration and discrimination in Europe and currently contains descriptions of more than 1,200 statistical datasets.
- Global Land Tool Network (GLTN)
- The Global Land Tool Network (GLTN)’s main objective is to contribute to poverty alleviation and the Millennium Development Goals through land reform, improved land management and security of tenure.
- UN-HABITAT E-Library | Reports
- Browse through UN-HABITAT’s library of reports, resolutions, declarations, training materials and best practices, by theme, or view them alphabetically and chronologically
- IMISCOE International Migration Integration Social Cohesion
- A multi-disciplinary research programme comprised of more than 500 researchers from 23 established European research institutes.
- MegaCity TaskForce of the International Geographical Union
- The task force focusses primarily on issues of continental and global scale, and on the restructuring of urban life over the long term, with particular reference to global change in environmental systems and the globalisation of economy, politics, and society.
- United Cities and Local Governments
- United Cities and Local Governments (UCLG) represents and defends the interests of local governments on the world stage, regardless of the size of the communities they serve.
- Migration Policy Group
- The Migration Policy Group is an independent non-profit European organisation committed to contributing to lasting and positive change resulting in open and inclusive societies in which all members have equal rights, responsibilities and opportunities in developing the economic, social and civic life of Europe's diverse societies.
- www.metropolis.org
- Metropolis promotes international cooperation and exchanges among members, i.e., local and metropolitan governments.
- Development and Peace Foundation, Bonn, Germany
- Building on the report "Our Global Neighbourhood" by the Commission on Global Govenrance, the Development and Peace Foundation (SEF) aims to shape policy responses to globalisation through an interdisciplinary and international approach.
- Global Peace Index
- The Global Peace Index is a ground-breaking milestone in the study of peace. It is the first time that an Index has been created that ranks the nations of the world by their peacefulness and identifies some of the drivers of that peace
- Microinsurance Innovation Facility
- Academic researchers are invited to submit proposals for research that will contribute new knowledge to support microinsurance development in developing countries.
- ILO and the global job crisis
- The International Labour Organization (ILO), a has launched a website which will present the most relevant analysis and information on the impact of the economic crisis on the world of work, and on policy responses to the job crisis.
- ilissAfrica
- The online library gives access to literature, internet resources, contacts and further information concerning African Studies.
- EADI Conference Report
- Report on “Global governance for sustainable development: Major challenges and unresolved issues” online available
- IFSH Institute for Peace Research and Security Policy
- The Institute for Peace Research and Security Policy is an independent research institution at the University of Hamburg
- Peace Research Institute Frankfurt (PRIF)
- PRIF´s work is directed towards identifying the causes of violent international and internal conflicts, carrying out research into the conditions necessary for peace, understood as a process of decreasing violence and increasing justice, and spreading the concepts of peace.
- Resource Conflict Monitor
- The Resource Conflict Monitor (RCM) monitors how resource-rich countries manage, administer and govern their natural resources and illustrates the impact of the quality of resource governance on the onset, intensity and duration of violent conflict.
- Body Politics in Development
- Body Politics in Development is about a lot more than "development."This is a book about today's complex international feminist movements.
- United Nations MDG Report 2009
- More than halfway to the 2015 deadline to achieve the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), major advances in the fight against poverty and hunger have begun to slow or even reverse as a result of the global economic and food crises, a progress report by the United Nations has found.
- United Nations Non-governmental Liaison Service
- The United Nations Non-Governmental Liaison Service (UN-NGLS) is an inter-agency programme of the United Nations mandated to promote and develop constructive relations between the United Nations and civil society organizations.
- BBC One-minute World News
- Watch the latest news summary from BBC World News. International news updated 24 hours a day.
- Rethinking Finance
- Rethinking finance puts forward alternative ideas and analyses, provides information about and comments on latest events, and gives an overview of civil society and other peoples' activities.
- The Barefoot Guide to Working with Organisations and Social Change
- This is a practical, do-it-yourself guide for leaders and facilitators wanting to help organisations to function and to develop in more healthy, human and effective ways as they strive to make their contributions to a more humane society.
- Gender Toolkit for International Finance Watchers
- Gender Action provides a vital and user friendly toolkit for civil society groups to incorporate gender perspectives into their work on the IFIs or any other projects.
- Africa Progress Panel Annual Report 2009
- The APP Annual Report states that the global economic crisis imported from the North is hitting Africa harder than any other region.
- Change at hand: Web 2.0 for development
- 2009 - Participatory Action and Learning
- Nobel laureate Stiglitz fears we'll be worse off after crisis than before
- Nobel-winning economist Joseph Stiglitz tells Deutsche Welle why the G8 needs to give grants to poor countries, what he thinks of tax cuts to combat the crisis and how banks have worked to resist regulatory reform.
- Gender in Value Chains
- This wiki on gender sensitive development of agro-value chains in developing countries deals with subjects such as sub-sector selection, gender-sensitive value chain analysis, the identification of intervention strategies, and case descriptions.
- NMS chemical and biological metrology website
- UK National Measurement System
Chemical and Biological Metrology Website
- ANSI Standards Portal: Standardization Resource for Global Trade
- The Standards Portal is an online resource designed to provide information and educational materials on standardization—including conformity assessment and mandatory technical regulations. The aim of the Standards Portal is to facilitate trade between the United States of America and the People’s Republic of China.
- ISONET
- ISONET is an agreement between standardizing bodies to combine their efforts in order to make information on standards, technical regulations and related matters readily available whenever it is required
- International Information Centre for Terminology
- With increasing specialization in business as well as in science and technology, specialized knowledge keeps growing, and with it the number of technical terms. With the right terminology, we can communicate in the ''right” way and understand each other correctly
- IQNet Association
- IQNet and its partners established a common database on certified/registered companies. All certificates/registrations contained in this database are issued by IQNet partners
- ComplianceOnline
- An information portal for compliance, standards and quality. A place users can visit to access the latest thinking, the most innovative ideas, the best practices and the largest repository of products in quality and compliance.
- The BIPM key comparison database
- The BIPM key comparison database is defined in the text of the MRA as the database maintained by the BIPM (Bureau International des Poids et Mesures) which contains Appendices A, B, C and D of the Mutual Recognition Arrangement.
- VIRM - Virtual Institute for Reference Materials
- ind a Reference Material by using the extensive searchable data base on RMs, find RM specialists, use the scientific HelpDesk, get the bimonthly VIRM Newsletter by e-mail, locate a publication/report in the Library (many are downloadable in pdf format), look for Conferences or training Workshops, RM related Projects, or Links. RM Producers and RM Users are invited to enter information on the site.
- ISO/IEC Information Centre
- Provides stakeholders with information about standardization, standards and related matters. This site of the ISO/IEC Information Centre serves as a portal to the main information given on various pages of the ISO and IEC Web sites e.g. the ISO and IEC Catalogues, provides an enquiry service for users and gives access to the Web sites of national standards organizations via WSSN.
- WSSN - World Standards Services Network
- World Standards Services Network (WSSN), is a network of publicly accessible World Wide Web servers of standards organizations around the world. Through the Web sites of its members, WSSN provides information on international, regional and national standardization and related activities and services.
- Multilingual dictionary on metrology
- by Tampere University of Technology, Finland
- SciDev.Net
- SciDev aims to provide reliable and authoritative information about science and technology for the developing world.
- dgCommunities:Nanotechnology for Development
- Development Gateway Portal
- The WWW Virtual Library: Technology Assessment
- The VL for Technology Assessment consists of links to resources on the use of new technologies within their societal context. Technology Assessment provides the basis for developing technological and organisational design alternatives and any required regulatory measures.
- anancy.net - CTA's Virtual Library
- Themes include Agricultural extension, Communication techniques and methods, Extension and training, Food security and agriculture
- Rural Innovation Systems - Royal Tropical Institute
- KIT Information Portal Rural Innovation Systems
- Value Chains for Development - Royal Tropical Institute
- KIT Information Portal Value Chains for Development
- Sustainable economic and social development - Royal Tropical Institute
- The primary focus is on stimulating pro-poor growth in rural areas while supporting social equity, environmental sustainability and sound economic development.
- Business for Development: Fostering the Private Sector 2007
- How can private enterprise help economies grow and reduce poverty? This question lies at the heart of our new book on ''Business for Development''.
- USAID Value Chain Training: MicroLinks
- The value chain training curriculum is designed to train USAID and project practitioners in the value chain approach and its applications.
- CANANEWS - Only the sun covers the Caribbean Better
- The Caribbean Media Corporation (CMC) is the region’s leading multimedia organisation dedicated to excellence in communication services, which include: Radio, Television, Print, Satellite Uplink Distribution, & New Media across the Caribbean, the USA, and around the world.
- ECLAC Caribbean Links Database
- Caribbean Links Database by Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC).
- Caribbean Regional Resources - LANIC
- Caribbean Regional Resources
- ACP Group of States
- The Secretariat of the African, Caribbean and Pacific Group of States.
- Caribbean Policy Development Centre
- Coalition of Caribbean non-governmental organizations
- Small Island Developing States Network
- SIDSNet responds to several critical challenges faced by small islands.
- América Latina. Portal Europeo REDIAL CEISAL
- América Latina - Portal Europeo es fruto de la cooperación entre las redes REDIAL (Red Europea de Información y Documentación sobre América Latina) y CEISAL (Consejo Europeo de Investigaciones Sociales de América Latina).
- Réseau Amérique Latine - GIS
- Un groupement d’intérêt scientifique (GIS) pour la diffusion de l’information et l’animation de la recherche française en sciences humaines et sociales sur l’Amérique latine.
- Development Advisors Network Caribbean Page
- News and Links for the Development Professional
- Caribbean Regional Negotiating Machinery (CRNM)
- The RNM is responsible for developing and maintaining a cohesive and effective framework for the coordination and management of the Caribbean Region's negotiating resources and expertise
- Caribbean Export Development Agency
- Together with Trade Promotion Organisations in the Region, market specialists in the Caribbean, Latin America, North America and Europe and our Trade & Investment Facilitation Office (TIFO) in Cuba, the Agency is dedicated to helping Caribbean enterprises increase their international competitiveness and export-earning capabilities.
- Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean
- Has a Bibliographic catalogue and hosts the Caribbean Digital Library.
- Association of Caribbean States
- The Convention Establishing the Association of Caribbean States (ACS) was signed on 24 July 1994 in Cartagena de Indias, Colombia, with the aim of promoting consultation, cooperation and concerted action among all the countries of the Caribbean, comprising 25 Member States and three Associate Members.
- IATI - The International Aid Transparency Initiative
- The International Aid Transparency Initiative (IATI) is a new initiative which aims to make information about aid spending easier to access, use and understand.
IATI will help those involved in aid programmes to better track what aid is being used for and what it is achieving – from the taxpayers in donor countries who provide the money, to those in developing countries who benefit from aid spending.
- DFID - Eliminating world poverty: Building our common future
- The UK’s new White Paper on International Development, Building our Common Future, argues that rather than turn away when things get tough we need to redouble our efforts. Development is not only morally right, but it is in our shared interest.
- EC Development Policies > 9 Intervention Areas > Migration and Development
- The EU's goal is to manage legal migration coherently and to address the root causes in countries with high emigration rates
- African Economic Outlook - Measuring the pulse of Africa
- This is the only place where African countries are examined through a common analytical framework, allowing you to compare economic prospects at the regional, sub-regional and country levels.
- Knowledge for Development
- This website supports the policy dialogue on S&T for agricultural and rural development in African, Caribbean and Pacific (ACP) countries.
- Connecting-Africa access to digital resources
- It provides access to digital resources (full-text of publications) by "harvesting" their descriptive metadata (records) using OAI-PMH (the Open Archives Initiative Protocol for Metadata Harvesting) in about 55 institutional repositories.
- Infothèque francophone
- The catalogue shows electonic full-text ressources relating francophone countries. Ressources en ligne et actualités scientifiques francophones
- Quarterly Index of African Periodical Literature )
- Articles in over 300 Journals published in 29 countries in Africa. (Nairobi Overseas Office, Library of Congress)
- Persée : Portail de revues en sciences humaines et sociales
- Persée is a program which was created for the digital publication of scientific journals in the field of the humanities (e.g. Cahiers d'Études africaines). The entire printed collection of journals is digitized and published online through a portal which offers access to the collections.
- The Development Job Portal
- Indevjobs is a leading development job portal making jobs available online to the development sector professionals in India and other countries.
- kstoolkit - Knowledge Sharing Toolkit
- Join the ICT-KM Program of the Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research (CGIAR), the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) and the KM4Dev Community in creating and growing this resource of knowledge sharing tools and methods.
- NGO-in-a-box | BaseBox
- The Base Edition of NGO-in-a-box is a collection of essential tools for running a small-to-medium sized NGO. You can use this toolkit to set up and coordinate your office, organise and manage projects, collaborate online and support your campaigns.
- Message in a box
- Do you want to create and distribute audio programmes, comic books, posters and newsletters? Set up a website or a blog to champion your issue
- BarCamp / Development Data Barcamp
- Come join a group of interested organizations to brainstorm about how to advance the conversation on making aid more transparent, improving access to data, and making knowledge and tools related to development easier to find on the internet.
- Worldchanging: Bright Green
- Worldchanging's website links readers to the first steps to change the world. It is created to be a resource for solutions-based journalism that takes a sustainability approach.
- Private Sector Enabling Environment Facility (PSEEF)
- The Private Sector Enabling Environment Facility (PSEEF) is an EU funded initiative under the Cotonou Agreement. From now on, the Facility will be promoted under the ACP Business Climate facility (BizClim).
- European Development Days, Stockholm 22-24 Oct 2009
- The European Development Days bring some 4000 people and 1500 organisations from the development community together on an equal footing.
- Africa | Time for Peace
- Africa Peace Foundation is non-political and non-profit making organisation aiming to promote sustainable peace in Africa by addressing the roots causes of conflicts with emphasis on political, social, economic and cultural aspects of conflicts.
- AfricaAdapt
- AfricaAdapt provides a means for researchers, policymakers, and all Africans affected by climate change to test new ways of sharing their experiences and challenges across barriers of distance, culture and language.
- Tapping Diasporas for Development - IRDC Canada
- A pilot project supported by IDRC is exploring new ways of tapping the energy and expertise of Canada's Ethiopian diaspora to boost development.
- Hot Sun Foundation
- Helping African slum youth produce short films of their stories, fictional and documentary.
- Music against poverty
- European Commission Youth Campaign site. Cool animations.
- Barefootjobs.org : Job Portal for non-profit sector
- This portal is been developed after lot of research and understanding of the social sector. It will endeavor to reduce the recruitment costs of the non-profits by providing a high-class technology based job portal.
- International Network of Engineers and Scientists for Global Responsibility (INES)
- The International Network of Engineers and Scientists for Global Responsibility (INES) is an independent non-profit organisation committed to influencing the role and the impact that science and technology have on society.
- Internet Library Africa
- With the help of ilissAfrica you will find literature, internet resources, contacts and further information concerning African Studies.
- UNDP on Economic Crisis
- The exposure and impact of the crisis varies across regions, countries and sectors, but it is becoming more apparent that what started as a financial crisis is turning into a human development crisis
- Chr. Michelsen Institute (CMI) - Research for Development and Justice
- Chr. Michelsen Institute (CMI) is an independent centre for research on international development and policy based in Bergen, Norway.
- Microfinance Gateway
- In response to user feedback, the Microfinance Gateway now offers interactive features, a new look and feel, and updated information on hot topics in microfinance. Microfinance Voices, a series of feature articles, focuses on current issues, trends and debates in the industry. Readers can now build conversations around these articles using the new Comments feature to voice their opinions and create dialogue around current topics.
- African Diaspora Marketplace
- The African Diaspora Marketplace (ADM) is a business plan competition designed to support the entrepreneurial spirit and resources of the U.S.-based African diaspora community to promote economic development in Sub-Saharan Africa by facilitating diaspora direct investment (DDI) in viable small and medium enterprises (SMEs).
- David Roodman’s Microfinance Open Book Blog
- This Open Book Blog is a way to share the writing of a book about the history and impacts of microfinance. CGD research fellow David Roodman posts and seeks feedback on draft chapters, burning questions, and useful sources.
- Civiblog - global civil society blog
- Civiblog is an international initiative with the aim of giving voice to individuals and organizations involved in global civil society.
- European Commission - Grants of the European Union
- EU funding will remain constant and will represent a safe haven for associations. The Financial Perspectives 2007-2013 represent a regular funding stream. EU funding provides concrete advantages compared with funds which are more exposed to market fluctuations and the financial crisis.
- Balkan Civil Society Development Network
- BCSDN is a network of 14 civil society organizations from 10 countries and territories in South East Europe (Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Kosovo, Macedonia, Romania, Montenegro, Slovenia and Serbia).
- europafrica
- This Site provides you with an up-date on the implementation and monitoring process of the Joint EU-Africa Strategy. It includes information about various events held on the topic, as well as a summary of recent contributions on the implementation.
- European Union at United Nations
- Delegation of the European Commission to the United Nations.
- IIFAC - Instituto Internacional de Facilitación y Consenso
- IIFAC trabajar con sede en México con grupos orientados al cambio tanto en el sector público como el privado, como también con redes nacionales e internacionales, ayudando a que mejoren su capacidad para colaborar y tomar buenas decisiones.
- Centro Latinoamericano para el Mapeo de Alcances (CLAMA)
- Mapeo de Alcances es un método integrado de planificación, monitoreo y evaluación de proyectos, desarrollado por la Unidad de Evaluación de IDRC.
- iScale social enterprise network
- iScale is a social enterprise network of organizations and people that develops, promotes, applies, and shares innovations for scaling impact.
- Building Resources in Democracy Governance and Elections
- The BRIDGE Project: Building Resources in Democracy Governance and Elections. A Course for Electoral Administrators, Contact us page for the BRIDGE Office, about the BRIDGE Office
- International Knowledge Network of Women in Politics
- The International Knowledge Network of Women in Politics (iKNOW Politics) is an online workspace designed to serve the needs of elected officials, candidates, political party leaders and members, researchers, students and other practitioners interested in advancing women in politics.
- Global Database of Quotas for Women
- Detailed information on quotas by region and country . A joint project of International IDEA and Stockholm University.
- ACE Electoral Knowledge Network
- Comparative Data provides a systematic collection of how countries manage their elections.
- International IDEA | Political Finance Database
- The International IDEA database on Political Finance Laws and Regulations contains information on the laws on funding of political parties for more than 100 countries in the world.
- International IDEA | Reconciliation Resource Network
- RRN promotes the exchange of policy-oriented thinking, practical experience and critical perspectives among the global community of reconciliation policymakers and practitioners
- Home: SSOAR
- On this website you will find a steadily growing collection of full-text social-science documents which you can access freely.
- Informationsplattform Open Access: Social Sciences
- In this section we have compiled some information on Open Access (OA) in the social sciences.
- Informationsplattform Open Access: Economics
- In this section we have compiled some information on Open Access (OA) in the field of economics.
- Informationsplattform Open Access: Political Science
- In this section we have compiled some information on Open Access (OA) in the field of political science.
- GIGA Journals Available Free-of-Charge on the Internet
- The four renowned academic journals of the GIGA German Institute of Global and Area Studies are now available online and free-of-charge. Every Internet user can now access the full content of the GIGA Journal Family at no cost, which means that the reach of the journals is now significantly greater.
- African Good Governance Network (AGGN)
- The African Good Governance Network (AGGN) comprises a group of highly educated African academics who have either studied in Germany or are still studying in Germany.
- Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
- Topics include worldwide migration, nuclear nonproliferation, regional conflicts, multilateralism, democracy building, and the use of force.
- LINK (Learning, INnovation and Knowledge)
- LINK is an initiative of the United Nations University which goal is to advance understanding of innovation for a new rural economy in developing countries through concepts, lessons and guidelines and by facilitating discussions amongst scholars, policymakers, development investors and practitioners dealing with rural development.
- IIFAC -International Institute for Facilitation and Change
- IIFAC's mission is to work with change-oriented groups in both the public and private sector, as well as with national and international networks, helping them to improve their capacity to collaborate and make good decisions.
- Pelican Initiative: Platform for Evidence-based Learning & Communications for Social Change
- Pelican seeks to liaise between professionals of different development-related backgrounds to enable them to share experiences and trigger discussions to address a key question: “How can we learn more from what we do while at the same time having the biggest possible impact on the social change processes in which we engage?"
- Worldmapper: The world as you've never seen it before
- Worldmapper is a collection of world maps, where territories are re-sized on each map according to the subject of interest.
There are now nearly 600 maps.
- Evidence-Based Policy in Development Network
- This website is a key outcome of ODI's Civil Society Partnership Programme (CSPP). This programme aims to establish a worldwide community of practice for think tanks, policy research institutes and similar organisations working in international development, to promote more evidence-based, pro-poor development policies.
- governancenews's Bookmarks on Delicious
- World Bank's Governance Matters blog's Bookmarks.
- The Broker Magazine
- The Broker aims to contribute to evidence-based policy making and better formulated research questions in the field of poverty reduction and international development.
- EU Country & Regional Programming to ACP countries
- This website is a tool for civil society actors in ACP countries and in Europe to follow the discussions on the programming of aid to ACP countries under the 10th European Development Fund (2008-2013).
- Training in Capacity WORKS for the Consulting Sector
- Capacity WORKS is now being systematically introduced in GTZ's international cooperation projects and programmes, and integrated into all the company's relevant standard instruments. AGEG offers the official training.
- Event Calendar by Rural 21
- Event Calendar on sustainable development and in context of the goals of the Millennium Declaration, mostly in Germany.
- DevWire.eu - the media portal to EU development cooperation
- The idea behind this site is to support you, as a journalist, in your EU development coverage. This single entry point provides you with a comprehensive source of news and background - relevant, up to date and reliable.
- ILAC Library | Institutional Learning and Change Initiative
- The mission of the ILAC Initiative is to strengthen the capacity of collaborative programmes to promote pro-poor agricultural innovation and to ensure that research and development activities are managed more effectively to contribute to poverty reduction.
- Rick On the Road
- Reflections on the monitoring and evaluation of development aid projects, programmes and policies, and development of organisation's capacity to do the same.
- Methods in social research
- This page lists FREE resources for program evaluation and social research methods.
- International Peace Institute
- Information on the issue of conflict prevention (a project of the International Peace Academy) as well as on "Greed and Grievance – Economic Agendas in Civil Wars". Also other downloads and seminar reports.
- CorpWatch
- Information on some of the global companies participating in the Global Compact, which have caused or contributed to violations of human rights and/or environmental catastrophes (BASF, Nike, Shell, BP Amoco, Novartis, Rio Tinto Inc.).
- Foreign Affairs and International Trade Canada (DFAIT)
- Information on projects in Afghanistan (post-war reconstruction). Under "Global Issues, peace & Security" you can find more information on disarmament, international law, peace-keeping measures and post-conflict Iraq.
- Business & Human Rights Centre
- Contains many reports on Global Compact partners and their violations of the principles of this scheme and/or criticism of their participation.
- AIUK : Business and Human Rights
- Gives detailed information on human rights and business and provides guidelines for large transnational corporations.
- AIID: Amsterdam Institute for International Development
- AIID aims at a comprehensive understanding of international development, with a special emphasis on the reduction of poverty in developing countries and transition economies.
- Partenariat pour le Développement Municipal (PDM)
- MDP is a partnership between African leaders and the community of sponsors in order to back up policies of decentralisation and re-inforcement of "African local authorities" abilities
- Metropolis - World Association of the Major Metropolises
- Metropolis represents regions and metropolitan areas. The Metropolis website promotes an exchange of knowledge within the network of members and collaborators.
- INTA - International Urban Development Association
- INTA is an international network that encourages the exchange of information, experience and best practices on urban development and renewal across the world.
- inura.org - INURA The International Network for Urban Research
- INURA is a non-governmental network involved in action and research in localities and cities, e.g. major urban renewal projects, the urban periphery, and the inner city labour markets.
- id21 - communicating development research
- The research reporting service addresses policymakers and development practitioners worldwide and offers free access to an online searchable database of recent research on international development issues.
- ICLEI - Local Governments for Sustainability
- ICLEI is an international association of local governments. Through campaigns and projects, training and consulting ICLEI intends to achieve improvements in global environmental and sustainable development conditions
- Homeless International - with CLIFF (Community-Led Infrastructure Finance Facility)
- Homeless International is a UK charity that supports community-led housing and infrastructure related development in partnership with local partner organisations in Asia, Africa and Latin America.
- United Cities and Local Governments
- United Cities and Local Governments supports international cooperation between cities and their associations, and facilitates programmes, networks and partnerships to build the capacity of local governments.
- Prague Institue - Global Urban Development
- It is devoted to research, teaching, discussion, publication, and action on issues related to urban development around the world.
- SD Gateway (Sustainable Development Gateway)
- The SD Gateway integrates the on-line information developed by members of the Sustainable Development Communications Network. It provides documents, a calendar of events, a job bank, a collection of mailing lists and other useful links.
- Inter-Agency Business Environment Knowledge Website
- The database is used to share documents and information about donor-supported work to enhance the business environment to achieve pro-poor growth - with a particular focus on aspects of the Business Environment that discriminate against small firms.
- Inter-agency knowledge website on the development of value chains, BDS
- The site is dedicated to the results being achieved through systemic approaches, particularly in Private Sector Development.
- GEFOP - groupe d’experts en formation professionnelle
- Le site du GEFOP, groupe d’experts en formation professionnelle, a pour vocation de permettre un meilleur partage des savoirs concernant la formation professionnelle entre le Nord et le Sud.
- Research & Evaluation for Development
- RE4D.net offers specialized research and evaluation services for the development community.
- DISCUSSION - Sustainable Livelihoods and Pro-Poor Market Development
- The Online Discussion on Sustainable Livelihoods and Pro-Poor Market Facilitation.
- International Grants and Funding Opportunities for Development Activities
- International Grants and Funding Opportunities for Development Activities. Selection of funding information on weitzenegger.de
- Cefe International
- The main global communication tool for all users and friends of CEFE and for all who are interested in entrepreneurship development.
- The World Future Council: WFC
- The Council addresses challenges to our common future and provides decision-makers with effective policy solutions.
- Pathways of women's empowerment
- What makes change happen in women’s lives?
- Bridge - Mainstreaming Gender Equality
- BRIDGE supports gender advocacy and mainstreaming efforts by bridging the gaps between theory, policy and practice with accessible and diverse gender information in print and online.
- IISD RS @ Bonn Climate Change Talks - June 2009
- Provides a variety of multimedia informational resources for environment and sustainable development policymakers, including daily coverage of international negotiations, analyses and photos
- SURVEY: The African Diaspora and Web 2.0 | Project Diaspora
- As part of our mission here at Project Diaspora, we are collecting data on the African Diaspora and its activities with regard to development and support. This survey will take less than 10 minutes and will help us get a better picture of the African Diaspora.
- IIMMHR | The International Initiative on Maternal Mortality and Human Rights
- IIMMHR is the first civil society human rights effort aimed at reducing maternal mortality.
- Outcome Mapping Learning community
- It acts largely as a dynamic platform for sharing knowledge and experiences relating to Outcome Mapping. Members come together to solve problems, to showcase and trade their discoveries and good practices, and to support one another in applying OM.
- METABASE - Bienvenidos - Bibliografía en red para Centroamérica
- MetaBase Bibliografía en red, es un servicio gratuito que le permite accesar y ubicar con facilidad y en un solo lugar recursos bibliográficos de diversas bibliotecas y centros de documentación de Centroamérica y México.
- EMVI: Biblioteca Virtual y Enciclopedia de las Ciencias Sociales, Económicas y Jurídicas
- Enciclopedia y Biblioteca Virtual de las Ciencias Sociales, Económicas y Jurídicas
- World Governance Assessment
- The WGA is a global, collaborative effort to improve the assessment and analysis of governance.
- Dag Hammarskjöld Foundation
- The Foundation’s work is guided by the search for ‘Another Development’ in support of democracy, human rights and security based on the social and economic transformation of institutions and societies.
- INSouth - Intellectual Network for the South
- INSouth embodies an understanding, from a South perspective, of the new and emerging issues in the international arena, and the challenges and opportunities they pose for the South.
- World's richest 1% own 40% of all wealth, UN report discovers
- World's richest 1% own 40% of all wealth, UN report discovers
- Poverty Facts and Stats — Global Issues
- More than 80 percent of the world’s population lives in countries where income differentials are widening
- Blue Moon Fund: Elevating the Human Condition in the Web of Life
- blue moon fund seeks to improve the human condition by changing the relationship between human consumption and the natural world.
- Afghan Civil Service Commission
- Capacity Development Secretariat (CDS) was established in 2006 after merging both Afghan Expatriate Program and Lateral Entry Program. The overall objective of CDS is to develop human resources, establish effective and efficient development programs implementation systems, support the Public Administration Reform (PAR) process and improve the common function areas in all ministries / agencies through plugging critical capacity gaps in the short and medium terms as well as supporting the long term capacity development through coaching and mentoring by national and international coaches / advisors.
- ICFTU - Trade Union Guide To Globalisation
- This “Trade Union Guide to Globalisation” aims to help trade unionists to participate actively in the urgent task of meeting these challenges. It sets out the meaning of globalisation for working people, describes the role and potential of the major actors in the global economy, and focuses in particular on the structures, campaigns, and policies of the international trade union movement and how international solidarity can make the difference.
- The Road to the Horizon
- A dynamic eBook reflecting on life as a serial expat, addicted traveller, desperate adventurer, wannabe sailor and passionate aidworker. (No, it is not me!)
- Owen abroad
- Thoughts from Owen in Africa
- Open Budgets Blog
- Anything opinionated below 500 words related to government budgets.
- Mostly Maurice
- On development, Rwanda and a muzungu's life in Africa.
- The Hauser Center's Blog
- Blog of The Hauser Center for Nonprofit Organizations at Harvard University on Humanitarian and International Development NGOs
- Chris Blattman's Blog
- Chris Blattman's Blog on International news, economic development, foreign policy, and violent conflict
- Examining international development, by Alanna Shaikh
- Blood and Milk is the blog about examining international development, by Alanna Shaikh
- weitzenegger.de | Deep Web Research Tools
- Ever heard of the Deep Web? It's a term for the part of the Internet that doesn't get indexed by the major search engines like Google and Yahoo. Some experts estimate that only one percent of the information on the Internet is picked up by these search engines. The rest of it is contained in specialized search engines, and there are lots of them. In fact, you can see a comprehensive list of them at 100 Useful Tips And Tools To Research The Deep Web Here you'll find links to search engines, databases, tutorials, networks, and tips that will help you find that elusive information you've been seeking.
- Remittance Prices Worldwide - The World Bank Group
- This Website provides data on the cost of sending and receiving small amounts of money from one country to another. Called remittances, these international transfers are often initiated by migrant workers
- Third SME Congress of the Americas on International Trade
- The Third SME Congress of the Americas on International Trade will take place in Cali, Colombia, May 28 - 29, 2009. The central theme will be "SME Trade Capacity Building in Challenging Times"
- devtrain - The EADI Training Database
- Search devtrain online, the EADI Training Database giving access to post- and undergraduate programmes and training courses with a focus on development issues from 28 European countries.
- GSDRC: Inclusive growth
- The Governance and Social Development Resource Centre (GSDRC) has launched its gateway guide on inclusive growth.
- Global Union Research Network - GURN
- he Global Union Research Network (GURN) is a platform for trade unionists and researchers dealing with the challenges of globalization from a labour perspective.
- The Synergies site — The Synergies Project
- The Synergies project site is intended as a platform on current applied research and practical implementation of linking financial services to business services that contribute to pro poor enterprise development, income and job creation.
- The Peace Through Commerce eConference - Business Fights Poverty
- The World Bank Institute and the Institute for Corporate Responsibility are currently holding the Peace Through Commerce eConference, March 23 - May 22, 2009. The free online conference focuses on the contribution responsible business and economic development can make towards building peace.
- DCED: Private Sector Development and the Financial Crisis
- This page aims to provide links to a selection of the many materials now being produced on the global financial crisis and its impact in developing countries.
- Scientists Without Borders
- The New York Academy of Sciences and the United Nations Millennium Project conceived of founding Scientists Without Borders, and the organization is now supported by a number of volunteers and partners. The organization 'aims to mobilize and coordinate science-based activities that improve quality of life in the developing world.'
- eLearning Africa 2009
- eLearning Africa is the most comprehensive conference on ICT for development, education and training on the Continent.
- Online Learning and Teaching Materials for Economics
- The Economics Network of the Higher Education Academy is one of 24 subject networks that promote high quality learning and teaching through the development and transfer of good practices.
- The Development Marketplace for African Diaspora in Europe (D-MADE)
- D-MADE) is a new and exciting opportunity to access grants financing entrepreneurial projects that are designed by Africans, to support the development of Africa. Based on the very succesful global Development Marketplace, for the first time such a programme will target Sub-Saharan Africa-wide members of the Diaspora living in Europe.
- Botswana Development Information Center (BDIC)
- The BDIC is a partnership initiative of the World Bank that includes the government, civil society organizations and development agencies active in Botswana.
- Invest wisely. End poverty. | microfinance at MicroPlace
- MicroPlace is a social business owned by eBay. We want to alleviate global poverty by offering investments that enable loans to hardworking poor people.
- State of the World Economy
- This webpage provides papers produced by the research programme State of the World Economy (SOWE).
- Global Crisis Debate | vox
- VoxEU.org is partnering with the UK government to collect the views of economists from around the world on what we should do to fix the global economy.
- Mandela Day 18 July 2009
- Mandela Day celebrates the idea that each individual has the ability to make an imprint, the power to transform the world.
- Dialnet
- Dialnet es un portal de difusión de la producción científica hispana.
- redalyc Red de Revistas Científicas de América Latina y el Caribe
- Red de Revistas Científicas de América Latina y el Caribe, España y Portugal Sistema de Información Científica Redalyc
- Microfinance comes under the microscope - Times Online
- Parminder Bahra finds doubts raised about the effectiveness of one of the big ideas in the fight against poverty.
- Economics and Economic Justice (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy)
- Presented are the theory of inequality and poverty measurement, welfare economics, the theory of social choice, the theory of bargaining and of cooperative games, and the theory of fair allocation.
- Refugees United
- Refugees United provides refugees with an anonymous forum to reconnect with missing family. We urge you to register with nick- names, scars, former locations and other markers identifiable to family and close friends.
- Migration seminars - DIIS
- The website presents an overview of the seminars, links to migration research resources, PowerPoint presentations and papers from previous events as well as suggested literature on seminar topics.
- A Development Charter for the G-20 - ODI Background paper
- The G-20 cannot deliver development, but its members can aim to promote development efforts rather than hinder them. The 12 short articles in this pack do not constitute an institutional position but, taken together, they outline a Development Charter for the G-20 to help poor countries tackle the effects of the global economic recession.
- EADI Research Monitor
- EADI offers a new information service focusing on research results produced by EADI members. The March edition focuses on the financial crisis.
- VillageDirect.Org
- VillageDirect.Org online and offline strategies are designed to leverage the powers of information and communication technologies, and make use of market based tools to scale-up and deliver more economic development services for more people then are currently being served.
- ICSC - Results of the Global Staff Survey on Recruitment and Retention
- Why staff joins or leaves the United Nations.
- UNRIC Cool Planet - Global warming and Copenhagen
- Launched by UNRIC, (UN Regional Information Centre for Western Europe), CoolPlanet2009 is a web-based European public information campaign on the environment.
- FINEP - Financiadora de Estudos e Projetos
- Promover e financiar a inovação e a pesquisa científica e tecnológica em empresas, universidades, institutos tecnológicos, centros de pesquisa e outras instituições públicas ou privadas, mobilizando recursos financeiros e integrando instrumentos para o desenvolvimento econômico e social do Brasil..
- Climate Change Costs Lives - video :: Oxfam GB
- Video from OXFAM about climate change.
- Value Chain Development - microLINKS Wiki
- The premise of USAID’s value chain approach is that enterprise development can reduce poverty and promote economic growth by integrating large numbers of micro- and small enterprises (MSEs) into increasingly competitive local, national or international value chains.
- NLH - Knowledge Management
- The aim of this site is to provide the best available evidence and practical examples of health professionals successfully sharing and applying knowledge and experience to their daily activities.
- Research for Development R4D
- R4D could become a vital link in your information chain, both for keeping in touch with other researchers’ work and for sharing your own DFID-funded research results.
- Centro de Estudios Distributivos, Laborales y Sociales Universidad Nacional de La Plata
- El CEDLAS se especializa en el análisis de la problemática distributiva y social de los países de América Latina y el Caribe a través de técnicas empíricas basadas en microdatos provenientes de encuestas.
- Office of Evaluation and Oversight, Inter-American Development Bank
- OVE conducts oversight reviews of corporate strategy, processes and instruments; provides normative guidance on evaluation issues; and contributes to evaluation capacity building in the region.
- NONIE- Network of Networks Impact Evaluation Initiative
- NONIE is a Network of Networks for Impact Evaluation comprised of the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development’s Development Assistance Committee (OECD/DAC) Evaluation Network, the United Nations Evaluation Group (UNEG), the Evaluation Cooperation Group (ECG), and the International Organization for Cooperation in Evaluation (IOCE) - a network drawn from the regional evaluation associations.
- Impact Evaluation Network
- The IMPACT EVALUATION NETWORK (IEN) is an initiative that aims to advance the state of knowledge and expertise regarding impact evaluation of different policies.
- V.E.R.N Vietnam Economic Research Network
- VERN is part of IDRC's Globalization, Growth and Poverty (GGP) Program Initiative, which is aimed at enabling developing countries to design appropriate domestic policies and international integration strategies for promoting more inclusive and equitable growth.
- PEP-GTAP South Asian Network on Economic Modeling
- SANEM aims to promote the production, exchange and dissemination of basic research knowledge in the areas of regional integration, multilateral and domestic trade liberalization, environment and poverty.
- CIREQ Centre interuniversitaire de recherche en économie quantitative
- Fondé en 2002, le CIREQ est un centre de recherche en économie et analyse quantitative qui fait le lien entre la théorie et la recherche appliquée et permet ainsi une meilleure compréhension de l'économie
- CECI, Montréal
- Le CECI combat la pauvreté et l’exclusion : il renforce les capacités de développement des communautés défavorisées ; il appuie des initia-tives de paix, de droits humains et d’équité ; il mobilise des ressources et favorise l’échange de savoir-faire.
- B R E A D Bureau for Research and Economic Analysis of Development
- B R E A D is a non-profit organization, founded in 2002, dedicated to encourage research and scholarship in development economics.
- Arab Planning Institute - Kuwait
- Arab Planning Institute is a non-profit regional organization whose primary mission is to advance the cause of economic and social development in the Arab countries through training, research, consultancy, expert-group meetings and publication.
- African Economic Research Consortium [AERC]
- AERC, established in 1988, is a public not-for-profit organization devoted to advanced policy research and training in economics.
- Poverty and Economic Policy (PEP) Research Network
- PEP brings together and provide technical and financial support to developing country researchers working to reduce poverty. T
- Center for Global Development
- CGD is an independent, not-for-profit think tank that works to reduce global poverty and inequality by encouraging policy change in the U.S. and other rich countries through rigorous research and active engagement with the policy community.
- International Confederation of Associations for Pluralism in Economics (ICAPE)
- Founded in 1993, ICAPE is a consortium of over 30 groups in economics working cooperatively to maintain diversity and innovation in methods, approaches, policy analyses, and higher education in the profession.
- Poverty Action Lab
- The Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab serves as a focal point for development and poverty research based on randomized trials. The objective is to improve the effectiveness of poverty programs by providing policy makers with clear scientific results that help shape successful policies to combat poverty.
- Feminist Economics
- Feminist Economics is a peer-reviewed journal that provides an open forum for dialogue and debate about feminist economic perspectives.
- Global Equity Initiative - Harvard University - Home
- The Global Equity Initiative seeks to advance the understanding and tackle the challenges of equitable global development. Global inequity - both among people and nations – is among the greatest challenges of our times.
- Global Development And Environment Institute (GDAE)
- A center of expertise in economics, policy, science and technology.
- Centre For Development Alternatives (CFDA), India
- Centre For Development Alternatives (CFDA), a well-known academic research Centre in India, started working in 1999. It has acquired credibility as a serious research centre in Development Studies in a short span of its life.
- Institute of Development Research (IDR) Addis Ababa University
- Based in Addis Ababa University, the Institute of Development Research (IDR) is a pioneer development research institute in Ethiopia, and has been carrying out and promoting development research, teaching and research in social sciences since 1972
- CSC - Capability and Sustainability Centre
- The CSC is a new centre at the Von Hügel Institute at Cambridge University. Its aims are to provide a forum for collaborative research and interdisciplinary discussion tackling human and sustainable development, and their links, from a capability perspective.
- Niehaus Center for Globalization and Governance
- The Center strives to develop a tight-knit intellectual community at Princeton and promote ties between the academic and policy communities involved in globalization and international governance issues.
- UNU-WIDER : United Nations University
- WIDER is the first research and training centre established in 1984 in Helsinki by the United Nations University (UNU). UNU is an international academic organization which promotes the UN's aims of peace and progress by providing a framework for bringing together leading scholars from around the world to tackle pressing global problems.
- International Association for Feminist Economics (IAFFE)
- The International Association for Feminist Economics (IAFFE) is a non-profit organization that seeks to advance feminist inquiry of economic issues and to educate economists and others on feminist points of view on economic issues.
- World Affairs and the Global Economy
- The Center for World Affairs and the Global Economy (WAGE) is a research center that brings together scholars from economics, political science, public policy, sociology, business, law and other fields to study contemporary processes of globalization and international economic integration.
- Human Development and Capability Association
- Human Development and Capability Association promotes research from many disciplines on key problems including poverty, justice, well-being, and economics.
- Going To School > Projects > Be!
- Be! an Entrepreneur is a multimedia project to inspire millions of young people from low-income groups in India to choose to become entrepreneurs & to create businesses that solve the social, economic and environmental problems they face in their lives
- It Begins with Me. It Begins with You. It Begins with Us.
- This blog has been created at the start of the 2009 evaluation of UNHCR’s Age, Gender and Diversity Mainstreaming strategy.
- CDA Collaborative Learning Projects
- CDA is best known for its development of the peace and conflict impact assessment tool known as "Do No Harm" analysis.
- A Quick Guide to Do No Harm | A Peacebuilder's Journal
- Conflict transformation, sustainable change and civil society development
- Job Vacancies in United Nations and International Organizations
- Vacancy Announcements from the United Nations and other International Organizations, compiled by UNjobs Association of Geneva.
- Austrian Study Center for Peace and Conflict Resolution (ASPR)
- he ASPR aims to contribute to the promotion of peace and peaceful conflict resolution and to the dissemination of practical ideas for peace, including its developmental and environmental aspects.
- EDIRC - Economics Departments, Institutes and Research Centers in the World
- The index is organized by countries and fields, to avoid too long a download. Included are economics departments research centers and institutes in universities, as well as finance ministries, statistical offices, central banks, think tanks, and other non-profit institutions where mainly economists are working.
- CDE - Centre for development and environment, Berne
- The work of the Centre for Development and Environment (CDE) is concerned with aspects of development and environment in international cooperation
- Technical Cooperation among Developing Countries (TCDC)
- TCDC is the execution and management of developmental activities and projects by institutions of developing countries in which they share one another's experience and technical capacities and utilize, whenever necessary, advice and financial support from external sources including organizations of the United Nations development system
- Third World Network (TWN)
- The Third World Network is an independent non-profit international network of organizations and individuals involved in issues relating to development, the Third World and North- South issues.
- African Academy of Sciences
- AAS aims to be the engine for driving scientific and technological development in Africa.
- swisspeace: swisspeace home
- The SPF is a nonprofit, nongovernmental organization conducting academic research and policy work in the field of conflict prevention and resolution.
- KFPE Commission for Research Partnership with Developing Countries, Berne
- KFPE is dedicated to promoting research partnerships with developing and transition countries. In this way, it wishes to contribute to sustainable development.
- Trainers and Presenters Place
- Ed Canela's place where presenters and trainers can relax and share notes, tips and tricks!
- The Funding Site, South Africa
- initiative of the GreaterGood South Africa Trust that aims to support the development of an effective social capital market by providing a social broking and information service.
- Global Policy Network
- The Global Policy Network (GPN) provides information to the general public on the state of working people in the global economy. It also exchanges information and facilitates coordinated research and analysis among its contributing organizations.
- Independent Media Center | www.indymedia.org
- Indymedia is a collective of independent media organizations and hundreds of journalists offering grassroots, non-corporate coverage.
- PROBOLIVIA
- Pro Bolivia resalta la valorización y reconocimiento de las Unidades Productivas a través de la Inversión y el Desarrollo Productivo.
- IDLO Microfinance Forum » Official forum of the IDLO Microfinance Initiative
- If you have a particular legal or regulatory query that you would like
us to consider, we are happy to format the issue so that it can be an
online discussion on the site.
- The Output Outcome Downstream Impact Blues
- Terry Smutylo's recording of the Impact Blues
- Directory of Learning Professionals on Twitter
- This Directory lists (in alphabetical order by Twitter username) learning professionals from both education and corporate training, as well as other related professionals and e-learning products and services on Twitter.
- Social Impact
- Social Impact is a global social enterprise dedicated to helping international agencies, civil society and governments become more effective agents of positive social and economic change.
- The Peace Through Commerce® eConference - Business Fights Poverty
- This eConference will explore the contribution that responsible business and economic development can make towards building peace.
- La Concertation
- Concertation is a partnership of organizations involved in the promotion of Mutual Health Organizations (MHOs) in West Africa. The Concertation’s objective is to share experiences, competencies, and information on MHO development work in West and Central Africa.
- International Alliance
- This new alliance represents a platform for advocacy, exchanges, knowledge sharing, know-how and information about questions regarding the extension of social protection in the world.
- ACYM - América Cooperativa y Mutual
- ACYM (América Cooperativa y Mutual) is a regional network of mutual and cooperative organizations, that promotes the exchange and the study of experiences between the actors involved in providing social protection services.
- Amin - ASIA Micro Insurance Network
- AMIN is a network of micro-insurance practitioners organised by the most important micro-insurance schemes in Asia. It covers 8 countries and groups 22 of the most important organizations in the civil society conducting micro-insurance projects in the region.
- Policy Jobs - World Think Tanks
- Comprehansive list of think tanks from selected countries across the world.
- Policy Library - International Development
- Policy Library is a social, economic and foreign policy resource - updated daily with the latest jobs, research, and events. It's members reach an audience of hundreds of thousands of policy makers, politicians, academics and students.
- BRIDGES FOR INCLUSION
- Bridges objective is to make more clear and effective the relationship between employment, social welfare and social inclusion and to enhance strategies and practices, particularly those coming from the fields of inclusive entrepreneurship, social economy and local development, where this positive relation can be concretized.
- CIARIS Learning and Resources Centre on Social Inclusion
- CIARIS has a history of knowledge development on social inclusion issues, people, information and communication technologies. CIARIS aims to strengthen practicioners' capacity to design, plan, manage and evaluate projects and policies to fight social exclusion and hence promote decent work.
- Strategies and Tools against social Exclusion and Poverty (STEP)
- STEP is a global programme of the Social Security Department centered on the poor and excluded populations in the informal economy as well as in the rural sector. STEP works in two complementary fields: extension of the social security in the field of health and the approaches integrated of fight against social exlusion into local level.
- ILO'S Actions to Eradicate Poverty
- This site describes the actions undertaken by the ILO to combat poverty, in concert with other United Nation bodies.
- Poverty eradication - UN-DSPD site
- The UN Secretariat's Division for Social Policy and Development (DSPD) seeks to strengthen international cooperation for social development, particularly in the areas of poverty eradication, productive employment and decent work and the social inclusion of older persons, youth, family, persons with disabilities, indigenous peoples, persons in situations of conflict and other groups or persons marginalized from society and development.
- Independent Expert on human rights and extreme poverty -Annual reports
- As determined by the Human Rights Council, the independent expert will continue to examine the relationship between the enjoyment of human rights and extreme poverty, paying particular attention to issues of discrimination and the situation of women, children, persons with disabilities and other vulnerable groups.
- The Poverty & Human Rights Centre
- The Poverty and Human Rights Centre is committed to eradicating poverty and promoting social and economic equality through human rights.
- networklearning.org
- A resource website for development NGOs that collects and provides manuals, field books and training courses free to Southern based organisations.
- Development Youth Prize
- The Development Youth Prize is a school competition focusing on development cooperation in Africa and open to 16 -18 years old European students. The winners will be rewarded with a trip to Africa.
- Focus on the Global South
- Focus combines policy research, advocacy, activism and grassroots capacity building in order to generate critical analysis and encourage debates on national and international policies related to corporate-led globalisation, neo-liberalism and militarisation.
- Portaal van de Vlaamse Noord-Zuidbeweging
- Voor 11.11.11 is ontwikkeling geen gunst voor enkelen, maar een recht voor iedereen. Ontwikkeling betekent een waardig leven in al zijn aspecten. Het gaat veel verder dan armoedebestrijding of een minimale bevrediging van materiële basisbehoeften.
- Transnational Institute
- International network of activist-scholars committed to critical analyses of the global problems of today and tomorrow, with a view to providing intellectual support to those movements concerned to steer the world in a democratic, equitable and environmentally sustainable direction.
- Catalogue SUDOC
- Le catalogue du Système Universitaire de Documentation est le catalogue collectif français réalisé par les bibliothèques et centres de documentation de l'enseignement supérieur et de la recherche.
- DCLI - Centre International Lebret-Irfed
- Un réseau international d’acteurs engagés pour le développement de tout l’homme et de tous les hommes.
- International Fellowship of Reconciliation
- Founded in 1919 in response to the horrors of war in Europe, IFOR has taken a consistent stance against war and its preparation throughout its history.
- The OECD Social Institutions and Gender Index
- The Social Institutions and Gender Index (SIGI) is a new composite measure of gender equality, based on the OECD’s Gender, Institutions and Development Database.
- weitzenegger.de | Ex-Ante Poverty Impact Assessment (PIA)
- PIA is a process which helps policy-makers to understand the intended and unintended consequences of their interventions. Here you can find links to manuals, best practice and resources to carry out this method.
- Guest Post: Why Policy Coherence Matters to the Next Billion
- Join the dialogue about foreign assistance under a new presidential administration of the US&A
- NextBillion.net | Development through Enterprise
- NextBillion.net is a website and blog bringing together the community of business leaders, social entrepreneurs, NGOs, policy makers and academics who want to explore the connection between development and enterprise.
- FoRS - České fórum pro rozvojovou spolupráci / Czech Forum for Development Co-operation
- FoRS organises seminars and conferences on the occasion of the Czech Presidency of the Council of the EU.
- End Poverty 2015 | We are the generation that can end poverty
- The United Nations Millennium Campaign supports and inspires people from around the world to take action in support of the Millennium Development Goals. Join the UN Millennium Campaign and be part of the generation that puts an end to poverty.
- Doha Declaration on Financing for Development:
- Outcome document of the Follow-up International Conference on Financing for Development to Review the implementation of the Monterrey Consensus, Doha, Qatar, from 29 November to 2 December 2008.
- Donor Platform for Rural Development
- Since the creation of the Global Donor Platform for Rural Development in 2004, major bilateral and multilateral development agencies are united in a coordinated endeavour to get the rural development agenda right.
- Fostering Global Responsibility
- The project entitled “Fostering Global Responsibility: Building a Development Policy Knowledge Network to enhance NGO Public Outreach Initiatives in EU New Member States” funded by the European Union aims at fostering new linkages among Non-Governmental Development Organizations (NGDOs) and leading development think tanks in New Member States.
- UNDP | Virtual Resource Centre - Ex-ante Policy Impact Assessment
- This UNDP website has been launched and is being maintained as one of the components of the regional project on ex-ante Impact Assessment funded by UNDP Bratislava Regional Centre for Europe and the Commonwealth of Independent States and the Local Government and Public Service Support Initiative of Open Society Institute, Budapest. Under the “best practices” heading, the Virtual Resource Centre aims to show a selection of key steps and ideas in the ex-ante impact assessment process, drawn from the work of key institutions or recorded in countries implementing the ex-ante impact assessment process in their policy formulation.
- escpool : Economic and Social Cohesion
- This is a pool of Newsletters from different sources relevant to promote economic and social cohesion in Turkey, European Cohesion Policy, and EU Structural Funds.
- Afrobarometer Africa Public Opinion Research Home Page
- The Afrobarometer is an independent, nonpartisan research project that measures the social, political, and economic atmosphere in Africa.
- European Development Research Network
- The European Development Research Network (EUDN) links members of different development research institutions, particularly in the field of development economics, from Europe with the rest of the World.
- Centre for Poverty Analysis
- The Centre for Poverty Analysis is a professional service provider promoting a better understanding of poverty related issues in Sri Lanka.
- DIAL : Etudes économiques et sociales sur les pays en développement - enquetes statistiques
- DIAL is a research centre in Development Economics.
It is funded by IRD (Research Institute for Development) and AFD (French Agency of Development).
- Innovations for Poverty Action
- Innovations for Poverty Action (IPA) is a nonprofit organization that creates and evaluates approaches to solving development problems, and disseminates information about what works and what does not to policymakers, practitioners, investors and donors around the world.
- PovertyFrontiers.org: Poverty Frontiers
- PovertyFrontiers.org is USAID's knowledge sharing resource on poverty reduction, asset-based approaches to development, and poverty-related issues.
- UNDP | Poverty Reduction
- UNDP advocates for nationally-owned solutions to reduce poverty and promote human development. We sponsor innovative pilot projects; connect countries to global good practices and resources; promote the role of women in development; and bring governments, civil society and outside funders together to coordinate their efforts.
- Capacity.org
- Web magazine-cum-portal intended for practitioners and policy makers who work in or on capacity development in international cooperation in the South.
- ACBF - The African Capacity Building Foundation
- The African Capacity Building Foundation (ACBF), based in Harare, Zimbabwe, is an independent, capacity-building institution
- Engaging the Diaspora to Deal with Brain Drain
- Studies show that effectively managing the diaspora has played a large role in capacity development by creating jobs, raising incomes and generating disciplined, efficient workforces that have in turn provided a platform for economic growth. This section of the website deals with the issues related to management of diaspora and dealing with brain drain.
- Global Economic Governance Blog
- Research, debate into how global markets and institutions can better serve the needs of people in developing countries. The three core objectives of the programme are: * to conduct and foster research into international organizations and markets as well as new public-private governance regimes; * to create and maintain a network of scholars and policy-makers working on these issues; * to influence debate and policy in both the public and the private sector in developed and developing countries.
- Global Voices Online
- Global Voices is a leading participatory media news room for voices from the developing world. Begun in 2005 as a simple blog hosted at the Berkman Center for Internet and Society at Harvard University, Global Voices has grown into a vibrant global community of more than 150 active volunteer authors and translators and more than 20 freelance part- time regional and language editor
- Celebrate Africa
- Two Nigerian sisters touring African continent documenting its good news stories.
- WBI Capacity Development Resource Center
- The Capacity Development Resource Center includes various sub-pages that provide information on different tools, instruments and methodologies.
- UNDP | Capacity Development
- UNDP is responding to the growing demand for capacity development support by helping governments, civil society and other partners to build the skills, knowledge and experience they need to improve peoples’ lives.
- Concern Worldwide
- Concern Worldwide is a non-governmental, international, humanitarian organisation dedicated to the reduction of suffering and working towards the ultimate elimination of extreme poverty in the world’s poorest countries.
- AfriMAP Library
- AfriMAP’s library database contains resources on themes related to good governance and accountability in Africa.
- South African Institute of International Affairs
- The South African Institute of International Affairs (SAIIA) promotes public debate and independent policy analysis on international affairs and issues affecting Africa, through conferences, reports and its publications. SAIIA's programme on Governance and the APRM has many useful background documents on the APRM process.
- International Center for Transitional Justice
- The International Center for Transitional Justice (ICTJ) assists countries pursuing accountability for past mass atrocity or human rights abuse. It provides comparative information, legal and policy analysis, documentation, and strategic research to justice and truth-seeking institutions, nongovernmental organizations, governments and others.
- International Freedom of Expression eXchange (IFEX)
- IFEX monitors attacks on journalists and others who report on corruption, as well as initiatives to improve transparency, access to information and open government.
- IDASA - Institute for Democracy in South Africa
- The Institute for Democracy in South Africa (Idasa) is an independent public interest organisation committed to promoting sustainable democracy in South Africa and elsewhere by building democratic institutions, educating citizens and advocating social justice.
- Hurisearch portal — Hurisearch portal
- HuriSearch is the only comprehensive search engine specialised in human rights information.
- Human Rights Watch
- Human Rights Watch (HRW) is an independent nongovernmental organization that defends individuals and organizations against human rights abuses.
- Global Witness
- Global Witness campaigns to achieve real change by challenging established thinking on seemingly intractable global issues. They work to highlight the link between the exploitation of natural resources and human rights abuses, particularly where resources such as timber, diamonds and oil are used to fund and perpetuate conflict and corruption
- Droit-Afrique.com - Accueil
- Droit-Afrique.com is a site dedicated to the laws of francophone Africa, principally those regulating financial and tax matters.
- Centre for Human Rights, University of Pretoria, South Africa
- The Centre for Human Rights of the Faculty of Law of the University of Pretoria, is one of the most active human rights institutions on the African continent. The primary focus area of the Centre is human rights law in Africa.
- Partnership Africa Canada
- A periodic newsletter about the implementation of the African Peer Review Mechanism (APRM) produced by Partnership Africa Canada.
- The United Nations Human Rights Treaties
- Bayefsky.com provides acceess to a comprehensive range of data concerning the application of the UN human rights treaty system by its treaty monitoring bodies since their inauguration in the 1970's.
- Affiliated Network for Social Accountability (ANSA-Africa)
- ANSA-Africa is a network jointly created by the World Bank and the Human Sciences Research Council (HSRC) of South Africa
- Africa Governance, Monitoring and Advocacy Project (AfriMAP)
- AfriMAP, the Africa Governance Monitoring and Advocacy Project, is an initiative of the Soros Foundation Network’s four African foundations, and works with national civil society organizations to conduct systematic audits of government performance in three areas: the justice sector and the rule of law; political participation and democracy; and effective delivery of public services.
- Plataforma Democrática | América Latina
- The Democratic Platform is an initiative devoted to strengthening Latin American democratic institutions and culture by fostering pluralistic debate on the social and political transformations of the region and the world
- United Nations Research Institute for Social Development: Home
- UNRISD is an autonomous UN agency engaging in multidisciplinary research on the social dimensions of contemporary problems affecting development.
- Evidence-Based Policy in Development Network
- Website aimed at building a world-wide community of those committed to building more evidence-based,pro-poor development policies. The site includes discussion forums, details of projects and partner organisations, and a resource section that covers reports, toolkits, presentations and other useful materials.
- Codesria Homepage
- CODESRIA was established in 1973 as an independent Pan-African research organization with a primary focus on the social sciences, broadly defined.It is recognised not only as the pioneer African social research organisation but also as the apex non-governmental centre of social knowledge production on the continent.
- The Development CAFE - Bridging Grassroots with Policy
- The aim of the CAFÉ is to bring together opinions and resources from across the globe that could be mutually beneficial to social science professionals. The cafe membership is free and on invitation and certain cases by request too.
- CEDDET Centro de Educación a Distancia para el Desarrollo Económico y Tecnológico
- La Fundación Centro de Educación a Distancia para el Desarrollo Económico y Tecnológico (Fundación CEDDET) es una organización sin ánimo de lucro dedicada a la cooperación al desarrollo que fue creada a iniciativa del Ministerio de Economía y Hacienda de España y el Banco Mundial.
- FORUM | International Forum on Development Service | Forum International du Volontariat pour le Developed
- International FORUM on Development Service is a network of organisations engaged in international volunteering and personnel exchange.
- Development Crossing - Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) & Sustainable Development
- Development Crossing is a fast-growing network of professionals engaged in corporate social responsibility and sustainable development. The site enables users to create profiles, manage blogs and discussions, create groups and events, and directly network with several thousand professionals around the world.
- DevDir - directory of development organizations
- The directory of development organizations, listing 53,750 development organizations, has been prepared to facilitate international cooperation and knowledge sharing in development work, both among civil society organizations, research institutions, governments and the private sector.
- ECONIS-ZBW - German National Library of Economics
- The ZBW - German National Library of Economics - Leibniz Information Centre for Economics is the world'Äs largest specialist library for economics, with more than four million publications in printed or electronic format and subscriptions to 25,000 journals.
- LACEA: Latin American and Caribbean Economic Association
- The Latin American and Caribbean Economic Association or Asociación de Economía de América Latina y el Caribe (LACEA) is an international association of economists with common research interests in Latin America.
- Institute for Social & Economic Research (ISER)
- The Institute for Social and Economic Research (ISER) specialises in the production and analysis of longitudinal data - evidence which tracks changes in the lives of the same individuals over time. ISER is a department of the University of Essex and is core-funded by the University and the UK's Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC).
- African Economic Research Consortium (AERC)
- The African Economic Research Consortium (AERC), established in 1988 is a public not-for-profit organization devoted to the advancement of economic policy research and training. AERC's mission is to strengthen local capacity for conducting independent, rigorous inquiry into the problems facing the management of economies in sub-Saharan Africa.
- CIPPEC - Centro de Implementación de Políticas Públicas para la Equidad y el Crecimiento
- The Center for the Implementation of Public Policies Promoting Equity and Growth (CIPPEC) is a private, non-profit organization that strives to create a more just, democratic, and efficient State in Argentina to improve the quality of life for all Argentine citizens. To improve the quality of public policies in Argentina, CIPPEC has diverse strategies of action: it carries out analysis, advising and implementation, promotion and impact, monitoring and evaluation.
- EconPapers
- EconPapers provides access to RePEc, the world's largest collection of on-line Economics working papers, journal articles and software.
- Comparative Research Programme on Poverty (CROP).
- CROP is an international research programme initiated in 1992 by the International Social Science Council. It is now one of the major programmes of the Council.
- Make Poverty History
- Brings together a wide cross section of over 200 charities, campaigns, trade unions, faith groups and celebrities who are united by a common belief that 2005 offers a unprecedented opportunity for global change.
- Young Lives — Young Lives
- An international research project that is recording changes in child poverty over 15 years.
- Swansea University - Centre for Development Studies
- Research in the Centre focuses on the social and political dimensions of development and current research foci include health and social policy, civil society and development, rural livelihoods, resource management, international migration and the social dimensions of conflict.
- Chronic Poverty Research Centre (CPRC)
- The Chronic Poverty Research Centre (CPRC) is an international partnership of universities, research institutes and NGOs.
- Global Poverty Research Group: GPRG home page
- The GPRG is an Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) funded research group of economists, political scientists, sociologists and anthropologists undertaking a multi-disciplinary programme of work investigating issues of poverty, inequality and the quality of life.
- Q2 - Combining Qualitative and Quantitative Approaches in Poverty Analysis
- Q2 - Combining Qualitative and Quantitative Approaches in Poverty Analysis - is a research program supported by the Micro Impacts of Macroeconomic and Adjustment Policies (MIMAP) program of the International Development Research Centre (IDRC), Canada.
- Wellbeing in Developing Countries (WeD): ESRC Research Group
- WeD is a multidisciplinary research group set up in 2002 with funding from the ESRC, dedicated to the study of poverty, inequality, and the quality of life of poor countries. The research group is based at the University of Bath and draws on knowledge and expertise from three different departments
- WBI Governance & Anti-Corruption
- This site contains a host of mainly World Bank published papers as well
as news articles, working papers, case studies and data sets. It has
information about World Bank programmes
- ICDL international centre for distance learning
- The literature database contains bibliographic information on over 12,000 books, journal articles, research reports, conference papers, dissertations and other types of literature relating to all aspects of the theory and practice of distance education.
- UN-Habitat Best Practices Database
- This searchable database contains over 3,800 proven solutions from more than 140 countries to the common social, economic and environmental problems of an urbanizing world.
- Brooks World Poverty Institute - The University of Manchester
- A multidisciplinary centre of global excellence researching poverty, poverty reduction and inequality in both the developing and developed worlds.
- Participation Resource Centre
- Over 5000 documents, books and videos are held in the Participation Resource Centre which comprises the collections of the Participation, Power and Social Change Group at the Institute of Development Studies (IDS) and the International Institute for Environment and Development (IIED)
- Poverty guide - BLDS - British Library for Development Studies
- British Library for Development Studies Subject Guide on Poverty provides quick access to BLDS resources through pre-designed searches of the catalogue's 150,000 plus records.
- Bridge - Publications - Poverty
- BRIDGE Gender and Poverty publications include summaries of key materials, good practice cases, lists of tools and checklists and key online resources.
- Poverty Action Network of Civil Society Organizations in Ethiopia
- PANE is actively working on policy research and has contributed to the development of the second PRSP- the Plan for Accelerated and Sustained Development to End Poverty (PASDEP).
- International Crisis Group
- Working to prevent conflict worldwide.
- United States Institute of Peace: Committed to the Prevention, Management, and Peaceful Resolution of International Conflicts
- The United States Institute of Peace is an independent, nonpartisan institution established and funded by Congress. Its goals are to help prevent and resolve violent international conflicts, promote post-conflict stability and development, and increase conflict management capacity, tools, and intellectual capital worldwide.
- James Martin Center for Nonproliferation Studies (CNS)
- CNS combats the spread of weapons of mass destruction (WMD) by training the next generation of nonproliferation specialists and disseminating timely information and analysis.
- Online Evaluation Resource Library
- This library was developed for professionals seeking to design, conduct, document, or review project evaluations.
- GSDRC: Governance and Social Development Resource Centre
- Governance and Social Development Resource Centre (GSDRC) aims to help reduce poverty by informing policymaking and enhancing professional knowledge in relation to governance, conflict and social development.
- Active Learning Network for Accountability and Performance in Humanitarian Action (ALNAP)
- ALNAP is a collective response by the humanitarian sector, dedicated to improving humanitarian performance through increased learning and accountability.
- Partnership in Statistics for Development in the 21st Century (PARIS21)
- Partnership in Statistics for Development in the 21st Century (PARIS21) was launched to act as a catalyst for promoting a culture of evidence-based policymaking and monitoring in all countries, and especially in developing countries.
- The Evaluation Cooperation Group
- The Evaluation Cooperation Group was established by the heads of evaluation in multilateral development banks in 1996
- Development Co-operation Directorate (DCD-DAC):Department
- The Development Assistance Committee (DAC, www.oecd.org/dac) is the principal body through which the OECD deals with issues related to co-operation with developing countries.
- Aid Harmonization.org
- This website provides practical information for development practitioners interested in the harmonization of operational policies, procedures, and practices.
- www.MfDR.org - About Managing for Development Results
- Managing for development results (MfDR) is a management strategy that focuses on using performance information to improve decisionmaking. MfDR involves using practical tools for strategic planning, risk management, progress monitoring, and outcome evaluation.
- IDEAS: Economics and Finance Research
- Largest bibliographic database dedicated to Economics and available freely on the Internet. Over 700'000 items of research can be browsed or searched, and over 600'000 can be downloaded in full text!
- Free Statistical Software
- This page lists primarily statistical software, along with mapping, spreadsheets, database, stuff to do data analysis or management.
- Research Methods Knowledge Base
- The Research Methods Knowledge Base is a comprehensive web-based textbook that addresses all of the topics in a typical introductory undergraduate or graduate course in social research methods.
- Methods For Social Researchers In Developing Countries
- Web site to make the contents of Methods for Social Researchers in Developing Countries available free to researchers in developing countries, where books are too expensive for faculty, students, or even for libraries to buy.
- FLOSS in Education | Nigeria ICT Forum of Partnership Institutions
- Nigeria ICT Forum of Partnership Institutions, An initiative of Nigerian Research & Higher Education Institutions
- Evaluation Portal - Portal Overview
- At this Evaluation Portal you find hand-picked, human-edited, categorized information about the topic "evaluation"
- Free evaluation resources for developing countries
- Gene Shackman created this site to work with a coalition of evaluators and evaluation organizations to provide evaluation, consulting or training resources to organizations and evaluators in developing countries.
- Sierra Leone: Anti Corruption Commission
- The mission of the Anti-Corruption Commission is the effective prevention and control of corruption in all its forms in Sierra Leone.
- Irregular-Migration Database
- The database is supported by a set of country reports that provide a more comprehensive picture of irregular migration in Europe in the 21st century.
- GTZ Online-Bücherei Nachhaltige Wirtschaftsentwicklung
- Die Online - Bücherei Nachhaltige Wirtschaftsentwicklung bietet ihnen ausgewählte Handbücher, Arbeitsmaterialien, Dokumentationen von Workshops und Konferenzen, Fachliteratur sowie Erfahrungsberichte und Diskussionspapiere aus den Vorhaben der GTZ und anderer EZ-Institutionen.
- Aid Effectiveness Portal
- AidEffectiveness.org aims to support policy makers and practitioners working to boost the effectiveness of aid and its contribution to development in their countries
- Anti-bribery resource guide
- The BIAC Anti-Bribery Resource Guide, developed by the BIAC Task Force on Anti-Bribery and Corruption makes available to business associations and companies relevant instruments and initiatives in the field of anti-corruption which define legally binding obligations on states and companies, reflect a relevant commitments against bribery and/or offer guidance and assistance to companies' in their fight against bribery and corruption.
- businessanticorruption
- Business Anti-Corruption Portal for small and medium sized companies operating in emerging markets and developing countries
- Antenna Foundation English page
- The Antenna Foundation is one of the oldest internet service providers in the Netherlands. Antenna has been providing services and hosting for NGOs worldwide since 1986.
- http://www.agromisa.org/
- Agromisa was established in 1934, and is linked to Wageningen University and Research Centre. Our aim is to exchange knowledge information on small-scale sustainable agriculture and related topics. Our target group is the underprivileged population in rural areas. Agromisa's main objective is to strengthen the self-reliance of the target group and to improve their livelihood by sharing experience and knowledge.
- United Nations Capital Development Fund
- UNCDF contributes to the achievement of the Millennium Development Goals in Least Developed Countries through a variety of innovative approaches in both local development and microfinance.
- International Institute for Communication and Development (IICD)
- IICD is a non-profit foundation that specialises in information and communication technologies (ICT) as a tool for development.
- Free Management Library
- The Library provides easy-to-access, clutter-free, comprehensive resources regarding the leadership and management of yourself, other individuals, groups and organizations. Content is relevant to the vast majority of people, whether they are in large or small for-profit or nonprofit organizations.
- The Journalists Toolbox
- This free site from the Society of Professional Journalists contains thousands of links helpful for reporters, editors, educators or anyone else doing research.
- Regional Integration Observatory — United Nations Economic Commission for Africa (UNECA)
- The observatory on regional integration intends to help fulfill the needs of a platform to provide holistic information and knowledge about Africa's integration agenda and processes.
- UNIDO PSD toolbox
- Online tool for practitioners, project managers and government officials in different areas of Private Sector Development.
- COPLA | Comercio y Pobreza en Latinoamérica / Trade and Poverty in Latin America
- Comercio y Pobreza en Latino América (COPLA) is a 2-year project funded by the UK Department for International Development. It explores the linkages between trade, poverty and social exclusion. Although there is an active debate in the region on the relationship between trade liberalisation on poverty, little attention has been paid to the different impacts on marginalised groups, whether they be women, youth, indigenous minorities or the rural poor.
- Local/Regional Economic Development (LRED), GTZ Guide
- Are you living in a place where economic development is not as dynamic as it should be? Where many persons are desperate for more income, but there seems to be no opportunity to earn it? So what are you going to do about it? Are you going to wait for the promised effects of globalization and liberalization to trickle down? Or will you wait for central government to solve your problems? Or are you going to take things into your own hands, or to persuade other local actors to go along? If you are opting for the latter, you might find some interesting ideas in this LRED-Reference Guide.
- Latest corporate research | Crocodyl
- Crocodyl is a collaboration between nonprofit organizations
such as Center for Corporate Policy, CorpWatch, Corporate
Research Project, other contributing organizations and
individual contributors from around the world.
- intercluster
- InterCluster strategies are designed to respond to this desire for organisational structure on a European scale, so as to gain competitive strengths on high value-added international markets.
- INSME - Portal
- The International Network for Small and Medium Sized Enterprises-INSME is a non profit Association open to international membership. Its mission is to stimulate transnational cooperation and public and private partnership in the field of innovation and technology transfer to SMEs.
- mesopartner.com
- mesopartner is a knowledge firm that specialises in territorial development, competitiveness and innovation. Our strategic intent is to be globally acknowledged as an innovator in territorial development, partnering with strategic customers and associates through capacity building and coaching, as well as programme design, method and tool development and capture, knowledge management, and problem solving.
- My (Partial) Policy Wish List for 2009: Development Dreaming or Practical Possibilities?
- CGD president Nancy Birdsall offers her wish list of six straightforward policy initiatives that could make life less difficult for poor people in the developing world while also benefiting the majority in high-income countries.
- CIPE Development Institute
- CIPE launched an innovative and cost-free Internet platform for personal study and classroom use. The CIPE Development Institute is a joint effort with CIPE partners and distinguished global scholars.
- SOMO Stichting Onderzoek Multinationale Ondernemingen
- Established in 1973, the Centre for Research on Multinational Corporations (SOMO) is a non-profit Dutch research and advisory bureau. SOMO investigates the consequences of Multinational Enterprises' (MNEs) policies and the internationalisation of business worldwide.
- Freedom of Information Advocates Network
- The Freedom of Information Advocates Network is an international information-sharing network of organizations and individuals working to promote the right of access to information.
- Alianza Social Continental | Hemispheric Social Alliance - Aliance Sociale Continentale
- La Alianza se conformó para intercambiar información, definir estrategias y promover acciones conjuntas.
- Seattle to Brussels Network
- The S2B network was formed in the aftermath of the WTO's 1999 Seattle Ministerial to challenge the corporate-driven agenda of the European Union and other European governments for continued global trade and investment liberalisation. It has also developed as a response to the increasing need for European coordination among civil society organisations.
- Knowledge Ecology International
- KEI is an organization that searches for better outcomes, including new solutions, to the management of knowledge resources.
- 3D three
- 3D -> Trade - Human Rights - Equitable Economy promotes collaboration amongst trade, development and human rights professionals, to ensure that trade rules are developed and applied in ways that promote an equitable economy.
- IATP | Trade Observatory
- Trade Observatory is a project of the Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy, a Minneapolis-based nongovernmental organization.
- Dialogue Social Enterprise
- The mission of Dialogue Social Enterprise is to facilitate social inclusion of marginalized people on a global basis. See the Exhibition on non-verbal communication
- GenderStats
- A one stop source of information on gender at the country level.
- Child Development Index
- Holding governments to account for children's wellbeing
- GEMDEV Groupement d'intérêt scientifique pour l'étude de la mondialisation et du développement
- Featuring news, events, call for papers of research institutes in the Ile-de-Franceis region.
- International Institute for Environment and Development | policy - research - climate - ecology - urban - economics - sustainability
- The new IIED website has been designed to allow easier access to both research, and free access learning resources.
- Fundación Taigüey
- Su propósito de impulsar, desarrollar, asesorar, acompañar y evaluar procesos de transformación social a nivel comunitario, promoviendo metodologías participativas y el uso de tecnologías apropiadas
- Association Haïtienne pour le Développement des TICs (Haiti)
- The mission of the Association is to promote and integrate ICTs 1) in
institutions to make them more competitive and more prone to innovation and 2) in the daily life of people to improve their
quality of life.
- Caribbean ICT Stakeholders Virtual Community
- The Caribbean ICT Virtual Community (CIVIC) is a permanent virtual forum of Caribbean ICT stakeholders.
- RED-X Real-time Economic Development
- RED-X offers innovative facilitation services that increase the success rates in local or regional economic development.
- Improvement and Development Agency for local government (IDeA)
- The IDeA works for local government improvement so councils can serve people and places better. It is owned by the Local Government Association and belongs to local government.
- Settling Into Motion
- Within this international program, the ZEIT-Stiftung grants six to eight Ph.D. scholarships per year. Applicants must be Ph.D. students of – in a broad sense – social sciences.
- GCG Revista Globalizacion-Competitividad-Gobernabilidad
- La revista Globalización, Competitividad y Gobernabilidad de Universia/Georgetown tiene como objetivo convertirse en la fuente principal de nuevas ideas sobre como los procesos de globalización afectan la competitividad y gobernabilidad de las empresas y países latinoamericanos y como los gerentes y políticos pueden diseñar mejores estrategias que beneficien a sus empresas y países.
- Independent European Development Portal
- The portal is supported by civil society organisations from across Europe and the South.
- Pipl - People Search
- Pipl's query-engine helps you find deep web pages that cannot be found on regular search engines. Not convinced yet? try searching for people and you'll see the difference.
- IMF--Dissemination Standards Bulletin Board--SDDS Home Page
- These pages provide key information about economic and financial data disseminated by member countries that subscribe to the IMF's Special Data Dissemination Standard (SDDS).
- General Data Dissemination System (GDDS)
- This site provides information on economic, financial and socio-demographic data disseminated by countries participating in the GDDS.
- Business Growth Initiative, USAID
- USAID’s Office of Economic Growth of the Bureau for Economic Growth, Agriculture and Trade (EGAT/EG) has established the Business Growth Initiative (BGI) project to promote best practices in enterprise development as a critical element for Economic Growth.
- COPAC Committee for the Promotion and Advancement of Cooperatives
- COPAC is a successful and on-going partnership between representatives of the cooperative movement, farmers´ organizations, cooperative development agencies, and the United Nations and its agencies
- ILO - Employment - Job Creation and Enterprise Development
- The Job Creation and Enterprise Development Programme is dedicated to unlocking the enormous potential of enterprises to create decent, long-lasting jobs.
- WWW Virtual Library: Evaluation
- The WWW Virtual Library: Evaluation is an online database of high quality Internet resources related to social policy evaluation.
- Monitoring and Evaluation NEWS
- A news service focusing on developments in monitoring and evaluation methods relevant to development programmes with social development objectives. Managed by Rick Davies, since 1997.
- Evaluation Checklist Project
- This site provides evaluation specialists and users with refereed checklists for designing, budgeting, contracting, staffing, managing, and assessing evaluations of programs, personnel, students, and other evaluands; collecting, analyzing, and reporting evaluation information; and determining merit, worth, and significance.
- International Program for Development Evaluation Training (IPDET)
- Executive training program in development evaluation based in Ottawa, Canada.
- Red de Cajas de Herramientas
- Un portal de Internet para el fortalecimiento de la competitividad de la MIPYME
- Nucleus Approach - Approch Nucleus - Metodologia Empreender - Nukleus Ansatz
- The web site shall serve as platform for the exchange of ideas and
experiences for the further development of the Nucleus Approach.
- Research for Development
- R4D is a free access on-line database containing information about research programmes supported by DFID. R4D provides you with the latest information about research funded by DFID, including news, case studies and details of current and past research in over 20,000 project and document records.
- a c c e s s d o v e l o p m e n t s e r v i c e s
- ACCESS has mandate to provide services under two broad thematic areas of Microfinance and Livelihood.
- America'S Programm
- Promoting a U.S. foreign policy based on international cooperation, demilitarization and respect for basic human rights.
- www.oikos-international.org - oikos International
- oikos is the international student organisation for sustainable economics and management and a leading reference point for the promotion of sustainability change agents.
- Network of Europeans for Electoral and Democracy Support (NEEDS)
- The Network of Europeans for Electoral and Democracy Support (NEEDS) brings together some of the leading European organisations and individuals involved in the field of democratisation and election observation
- Gender Action
- Gender Action's mission is to promote women's rights and gender equality and ensure women and men equally participate in and benefit from Financial Institution (FI) investments in developing countries.
- World Development Report 2009
- World Development Report 2009 highlights today's biggest development challenges at the local, national, and international levels.
- ZNet Top
- ZNet is a huge website with thousands of files and diverse facilities. The ZNet top page provides a good overview of all features and especially the newest content. ZNet is a component of Z Communications.
- The Reality of Aid network
- The Reality of Aid project is the only major north/south international non-governmental initiative focusing exclusively on analysis and lobbying for poverty eradication policies and practices in the international aid regime.
- weitzenegger.de | Careers
- Job Offers and Expert Database for international development cooperation professionals.
- Global Partnership on Output-Based Aid
- The Global Partnership on Output-Based Aid (GPOBA) is a partnership of donors and international organizations working together to support output-based aid (OBA) approaches.
- The New York Times - Breaking News, World News & Multimedia
- The good news to come.
- Women Advancing Microfinance International
- The mission of Women Advancing Microfinance International is to advance and support women working in microfinance through education and training ...
- Progressio Foundation - Welcome!
- From ethical investment to sustainable business, from private equity for development to social enterprise, from venture philanthropy to civil society, and several other fields, we have mapped out a new world of enterprise.
- NewsforDev | News for Development
- NewsforDev is a project of the Technical Centre for Agricultural and Rural Cooperation ACP-EU (CTA) that employs RSS and e-mail news technology to bring knowledge and information to agricultural development practitioners in ACP countries.
- Globalhealthfacts.org - Global data on HIV/AIDS, TB, Malaria, and more
- GlobalHealthFacts.org provides free, up-to-date and easy-to-access data by country on HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis, malaria and other key health and socio-economic indicators.
- ACCION International - The Center for Financial Inclusion - Microfinance
- Can commercial microfinance institutions organize themselves to protect the interests of their poor clients? The Center for Financial Inclusion at ACCION International is launching its activities today with a focus on answering that provocative question, among others.
- Libweb - Library WWW Servers
- Updated daily. Libweb currently lists over 7700 pages from libraries in 146 countries.
- Sustainable Europe Research Institute - Providing knowledge for better decisions
- The Sustainable Europe Research Institute (SERI) is a Pan-European think tank exploring sustainable development options for European societies.
- The Nordic Africa Institute in Uppsala, Sweden
- Nordiska Afrikainstitutet in Uppsala is a research, documentation and information centre on modern Africa for the Nordic countries.
- Institute of Developing Economies, Japan
- The Institute of Developing Economies (IDE) aims to make intellectual contributions to the world as a leading center of social-science research on developing regions.
- Herorat.org Rats detecting landmines and disease.
- APOPO’s mission is to train and disseminate sniffer rats to save human lives- by detecting landmines and disease.
- International Migration and Development - UNFPA
- Migration website of the United Nations Population Division.
- MicroFinance Transparency
- MFTransparency will be the venue for the microfinance industry to publicly demonstrate its commitment to transparency, integrity and poverty alleviation.
- Fighting Corruption Business Guide
- This practical Guide explains Collective Action, its benefits, and how to use it. The Guide is intended primarily for use by anyone with responsibility for a major project or market, and who operates in an environment where corruption is, or may be present.
- Young Global Leaders
- The Forum of Young Global Leaders is a newly formed, unique, multi-stakeholder community of the world’s most extraordinary leaders who are 40 years old or younger and who are ready to dedicate a part of their time and energy to jointly work towards a better future.
- Martindale's 'The Reference Desk' - International Art, Business, Science & Technology
- There are links to almost anything you can imagine, including: online calculators, language tutorials, science facts, photography how-tos, gardening tips, recipes, music downloads, maps, world clocks, patent & trademark databases, ship schedules, airline booking, medical dictionaries, drug databases, and much more.
- Lex Mercatoria: International Commercial Law & E-Commerce Infrastructure Monitor (1993 -> 2007 :) ---->
- One of the first sites on the law-oriented Web sites, Lex Mercatoria is a portal to international commercial law resources. There are pages and pages of resources at this site, in categories like: International Economic Law; International Tax & Financial Regulation; International Trade Law; Carriage Transport & Maritime Law; and much more.
- China Vitae
- China Vitae has a database with biographies of more than 3000 current Chinese political, military, business, academic, and media leaders.
- Choose the Best Search for Your Information Need
- This page has a handy reference chart that shows exactly what the strengths of each search engine are. If you need facts, opinions, timely information, an answer from a specific academic discipline, help defining your topic, or other search parameters, this page will show you exactly which search engine is the best to use. There are links to each search tool, so there's no delay when you want to do a search. I'm going to bookmark this page, so I can use it to target my searches better.
- Cuil
- Cuil claims to be the largest search engine in the world, and that it searches three times as many pages as Google.
- BizCLIR Business Climate Legal and Institutional Reform
- This site is a dynamic knowledge development and knowledge sharing tool to improve the impact of USAID's efforts on Business Climate Legal and Institutional Reform. The site will host information for development practitioners including: country assessments, best practices, publications, and expert opinions.
- Africa Commission
- The Africa Commission focuses on how to create more jobs and further economic growth in Africa in the years to come.
The overall focus will be on youth, employment and economic growth.
- UNEP Atlas on Africa's environment
- A unique and powerful publication which brings to light stories of environmental change at 104 locations spread across every country in Africa.
- OnlineWomen
- ONLINEWOMEN is a project of the Center for Asia Pacific Women in Politics (CAPWIP).
- InterConnection, Computer recycling, reuse, donations, Websites and Technology Assistance for non profits, schools and non governmental 0rganizations NGOs in Developing Countries,
- A non-profit group that donates websites, computers and provides internet training to organizations dedicated to benefiting the local community or environment in developing countries.
- Appropriate Technology
- Quarterly magazine covering new practical technologies, policies and ideas to eliminate poverty and hunger. Topics include agriculture, energy, rural building and construction, economic and sustainable development activities, water and sanitation, education and training
- Mamud.com - Development communication and ethnoveterinary medicine - Evelyn Mathias and Paul Mundy
- Development communication, Ideas and information sources for better communication in developing countries
- VeoSearch: Multi search engine working for Sustainable Development
- VeoSearch is a search engine financing projects towards Sustainable Development through your online searches.
Every search generates advertisement revenues. 50 % of these revenues are distributed to the charities presented on our site. They are engaged in at least one of the three main pillars of Sustainable Development: social work, environment protection or sustainable economics.
- Novethic - Le media expert du developpement durable
- Novethic est un centre de ressources et d'expertise sur la responsabilité sociétale des entreprises et l'investissement socialement responsable.
- Aprodev
- APRODEV is the association of the 17 major development and humanitarian aid organisations in Europe, which work closely together with the World Council of Churches.
- MDG MONITOR :: Tracking the Millennium Development Goals
- The MDG Monitor shows how countries are progressing in their efforts to achieve the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). With the 2015 target date fast approaching, it is more important than ever to understand where the goals are on track, and where additional efforts and support are needed, both globally and at the country level.
- Achieving the Millennium Development Goals in Africa
- The MDG Africa Steering Group was convened in September 2007 and brings together the leaders of multilateral development organizations to identify the practical steps needed to achieve the Millennium Development Goals and other internationally agreed development goals in Africa.
- UNDG - MDGNet
- MDGNet is a platform for practitioners to exchange information and experience about issues such as the design and implementation of policies and strategies in support of achieving the MDGs, monitoring and reporting of MDG progress, and MDG advocacy and campaigning activities, and others.
- United Nations Millennium Development Goals - High-level Event
- High-level Event, UN Headquarters, New York, 25 September 2008
- Have your say! Blog on the high level event on MDGs
- The themes covered by this Blog are drawn from the UN Secretary-General's background note "Committing to action: Achieving the MDGs"
- Poverty Assessment Tools
- In all countries with a USAID-certified Poverty Assessment Tool, USAID’s microenterprise implementing partners must use their country-specific tool to measure the share of their clients who are very poor, and must report the results to USAID through the Microenterprise Results Reporting (MRR) system.
- weitzenegger | Booksmarks | Mister Wong
- Karsten Weitzenegger saves social bookmarks in German language at Mister Wong. Several groups are connected to this free service.
- ProPoor: Serving South Asia
- ProPoor is an internet portal that provides information, resources and news about development work in South Asia.
- BLDS Updates - British Library for Development Studies
- BLDS is europe's largest research collection on economic and social change in developing countries
- Boulder Institute of Microfinance
- The Boulder Institute of Microfinance is a nonprofit organization founded in 2004, to create a platform for dialogue and critical thinking in microfinance.
- Rural Finance Learning Centre (RFLC)
- Rural Finance is about providing financial services for people living in rural areas. This Learning Centre aims to assist organisations in developing countries to build their capacity to deliver improved financial services which meet the needs of rural households and businesses.
- International Initiative for Impact Evaluation :: 3IE ::
- 3ie seeks to improve the lives of poor people in low- and middle-income countries by providing, and summarizing, evidence of what works, when, why and for how much.
- World Competitiveness Center
- WCC is publisher of the IMD World Competitiveness Yearbook since 1989. In addition to publishing the world’s most renowned and comprehensive annual report on the competitiveness of nations, the experts have developed several services and projects, all linked to the competitiveness of nations or regions.
- UNICO - The University Companies Association
- Unico was founded in 1994 to represent the Technology Exploitation companies of UK Universities. It provides a forum for exchange and development of best practice.
- Collegio Carlo Alberto
- BRICK is a research unit of the Collegio Carlo Alberto specializing in the economics of complex dynamics in innovation, knowledge and structural change
- globADVANTAGE - Center of Research on International Business & Strategy
- The globADVANTAGE – Center of Research on International Business and Strategy in the Instituto Poltécnico de Leiria (globADAVANTAGE – I.P.Leiria) was created in 2007 as a research center for the study of international business and corporate strategy. Researchers focus on issues of importance to international trade, international investment, international strategy and global competitiveness.
- Europa InterCluster
- Europa InterCluster is above all a platform for all interclusters, providing a pool of resources.
- Centre for International Competitiveness
- The Centre for International Competitiveness focuses on researching and exploring the competitiveness of economies and businesses.
- European Commission - EIT
- The European Institute of Innovation and Technology (EIT) is a new initiative which aims to become a flagship for excellence in European innovation in order to face the challenges of globalisation.
- IPC | International Poverty Centre
- IPC is pleased to announce a new section on its website where you will find its publications organized by 16 thematic areas.
- XING - Microfinance - Forum
- Use this forum to discuss financial technology, find employment, identify training opportunities and events, share knowledge resources with fellow members of the microfinance industry.
- LED Knowledge - Local Economic Development
- This website is an online space for sharing the experiences and resources of people and organizations supporting local economic development processes at the local level.
- Samea - South African Monitoring and Evaluation Association
- SAMEA strives to cultivate a vibrant community that will support, guide and strengthen the development of monitoring and evaluation (M&E) as an important discipline, profession and instrument for empowerment and accountability in South Africa.
- Diaspora volunteering - About VSO - VSO
- Diaspora Volunteer Scheme - Call for ethnic and religious NGOs to get involved in volunteering.
- Future Supply Chain 2016 Downloads | Future Supply Chain 2016
- Future Supply Chain 2016," a study conducted by Capgemini, looks at how supply chains will need to change to move into the future.
- Competition and Development: The Power of Competitive Markets: International Development Research Centre
- This website demonstrates the importance of true and fair competition to sustainable development. The site provides an overview of competition law and policy in developing countries, results of IDRC-funded research, and the important lessons that have been learned.
- Democracy and Governance | The Communication Initiative Network
- Where communication and media are central to Democracy and Governance.
- International journal of microfinance and business development
- Enterprise Development & Microfinance (EDM) provides a forum for those involved in designing and running enterprise development and microfinance programmes in developing countries. EDM is essential reading for managers of projects, providers of technical assistance, consultants to projects, policymakers and staff of donor agencies.
- Business Fighting Corruption
- This website and the “Fighting Corruption through Collective Action”guide are the result of an on-going collaboration of businesses and non-governmental organizations, led by the World Bank Institute.
- Growing Inclusive Markets - Home Revised
- Growing Inclusive Markets (GIM) is a new initiative led by the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) with an unprecedented coalition of thinkers and actors in the fields of business, academia and human development.
- CARMA - Carbon Monitoring for Action
- CARMA reveals the carbon emissions of more than 50,000 power plants and 4,000 power companies in every country on Earth.
- Global Development Matters
- Global Development Matters is designed to engage U.S. citizens and leaders in examining how rich world policies affect global poverty reduction.
- Center for Global Development : Initiatives: Active: Migration and Development
- The Migration and Development initiative is continually extending and refining its efforts through rigorous research conducted in cooperation with some of the world’s top migration scholars.
- eponews.net — News on Development & International Co-operation
- eponews.net - the news & views channel of epo.de - delivers you with news (in particular from NGOs) and views on international development.
- Accra HLF3
- Developed and developing countries agreed to take bold steps to reform the way aid is given and spent. After three days of intense negotiations, they endorsed the Accra Agenda for Action.
- International Economic Development Council
- The International Economic Development Council (IEDC) is a non-profit membership organization dedicated to helping economic developers do their job more effectively and raising the profile of the profession.
- German Development Institute (GDI)
- The German Development Institute / Deutsches Institut für Entwicklungspolitik (DIE) is one of the leading Think Tanks for development policy world-wide.
- Whose Ownership? Discussion
- With the support of the OECD Development Centre, we will ask leading thinkers about aid effectiveness to kick off weekly discussions on two themes: "inclusive ownership" and "leadership and capacity".
- Global Climate Campaign
- This webpage has been set up to publicise and promote plans for demonstrations on climate change, to coincide with the United Nations Climate Talks(COP13/MOP3) in Poznan, Poland, December 1st to 12th 2008.
- ONE | International
- ONE is an advocacy and campaigning organization supported by more than 2 million people and growing, from all walks of life all around the world, uniting as one against extreme poverty.
- Quick Centre
- The QUICK Centre is a knowledge sharing platform for microfinance practitioners in natural disaster surroundings.
- ProFI Porgramme, Indonesia
- ProFI is a comprehensive micro-finance program. The idea is to promote more accessible, affordable, and effective micro-financial institutions (MFIs) for low-income people
- GPPi -Enhancing Transatlantic Governance of Disaster Relief and Preparedness
- The Raising the Bar Project is designed to enhance transatlantic coherence and cooperation in humanitarian action.
- Development Studies Association: Conference 2008
- Development Studies Association Annual Conference in London.
- Science without Borders | science.without-borders.org
- The portal intends to connect Europe and Africa and wants to become a big international networking opportunity
- Jatropha Platform - The Global Exchange for Social Investment
- Jatropha projects offer the chance to realize triple-bottom-line investments with significant social, environmental and economic returns.
- world economy & development
- World Economy & Development In Brief is a high-quality information service on globalisation, North-South relations, and international ecology.
- UNDP | Oslo Governance Centre
- The Oslo Governance Centre [OGC] was established in 2002 as part of UNDP's global policy network for democratic governance.
- European Development Cooperation 2020
- The EDC2020 project combines both research and communication aspects. Its aim is to encourage close collaboration between researchers and policy makers and therefore it enhances the co-operation with reputable European development research institutes.
- Deutsches Institut für Menschenrechte
- The Institute provides information about the human rights situation within and outside of Germany. It aims to prevent human rights violations, and contributes to the promotion and protection of human rights.
- Institute for Transportation and Development Policy
- The ITDP was founded in 1985 to promote environmentally sustainable and socially equitable transportation worldwide.
- 13TH INTERNATIONAL ANTI-CORRUPTION CONFERENCE
- At the 13th International Anti-Corruption Conference (IACC), leading practitioners and experts on sustainability, governance, and transparency will meet to discuss the role of corruption and governance in the crucial questions that will make or break a sustainable future.
- PLATFORM2
- Platform2 is a global volunteering experience funded by the Department for International Development and run by Christian Aid, Islamic Relief and BUNAC.
- THE WORLD BANK - An Online Atlas of the Millennium Development Goals
- Fancy new website by the World Bank on MDG progress.
- UNDP Poverty Networks
- Poverty Networks are web-based platforms that provide space for sharing and disseminating development-related information and initiatives. Below you will find information on IPC’s collaborating networks, which help foster dialogue between researchers, policymakers, civil society and multilateral organisations.
- UN Economic and Social Council
- The goal of the Forum was to position the United Nations Economic and Social Council as a principal forum for global dialogue and policy review on the effectiveness and coherence of international development cooperation.
- SDC - Employment and the economy
- The Swiss SDC is committed to approaches and methods for economic development that promote socially and ecologically sustainable economic growth.
- PACA
- PACA is a fast-growing and innovative approach to local and regional economic development.
- IFC MPDF - Mekong Private Sector Development Facility
- Mekong Private Sector Development Facility (MPDF)
- MALICA - Markets and agriculture linkages for cities in Asia
- MALICA - Markets and agriculture linkages for cities in Asia
- IPSARD
- Institute of Policy and Strategy for Agriculture and Rural Development (IPSARD)
- International Development Enterprises (IDE)
- International Development Enterprises (IDE) is a non-profit development organization dedicated to helping the poor invest their way out of poverty.
- Kenan Institute Asia (K.I.Asia)
- The Kenan Institute Asia (K.I.Asia) works in a variety of ways to promote sustainable development in Asia.
- Country Studies
- This website contains the on-line versions of books previously published in hard copy by the Federal Research Division of the Library of Congress as part of the Country Studies/Area Handbook.
- Migration Policy Newsgroup on Yahoo
- An inter-disciplinary newsgroup open to all migration researchers.
- Euro-African Association for the Anthropology of Social Change and Developmen
- APAD, the Euro-African Association for the Anthropology of Social Change and Development, is a network promoting dialogue between African and European researchers in the social sciences as well as with developments agents.
- Will diaspora networks challenge development cooperation?
- Discussion: Will diaspora networks challenge development cooperation?
- europafrica.org
- News and resources on teh joint EU-Africa Strategy.
- WageIndicator.org
- WageIndicators in the largest economies in the world help you find out if you're being paid fairly for your job, with a free online salary checker, pay comparators and work and wages advice.
- The Funny Pages :: Funny pictures, jokes and articles
- Your source for hilarious multimedia and written content. Here you will find funny pictures, signs, games, jokes and more!
- Monbiot.com
- "So what can I do?" is a common response to George Monbiot's book, The Age of Consent. Here is his blog.
- Development Researcher
- A blog for development researchers and research users.
- Atanu Dey on India’s Development
- Hi, I am Atanu Dey. Thanks for visiting my blog on India’s economic development. I work as an economist at Netcore Solutions in Mumbai.
- Microcredit foundation EKI, Bosnia and Herzegovina
- EKI is one of the leading microcredit institutions in BiH with a vision aiming to reduce economic causes of poverty.
- KIT publication on Dgroups - Royal Tropical Institute
- This report covers a research study of Dgroups which took place from September 2006 to July 2007.
- XING Forum - Microfinance Industry
- Use this forum to discuss financial technology, find employment, identify training opportunities and events, share knowledge resources with fellow members of the microfinance industry.
- EADI Portal
- This portal presents the collective knowledge and expertise of EADI's member Institutes. EADI-Portal is an online database containing research outputs and information about research programmes of organisations in our network.
- Country Resources - knowledge, collaboration, information, partnerships
- The Development Gateway Foundation partners with locally owned Country Gateways in nearly 50 countries. Country Gateway Web sites focus on local and national development.
- Sustainable Micro-finance for Women's Empowerment
- This website is intended as ongoing resource which will grow over time to enable gender experts and micro-finance specialists to work together to develop realisable ways forward.
- EURADA - European Association of Development Agencies
- EURADA , the Association of Regional Development Agencies is a non profit-making organisation aiming to promote regional economic development.
- weitzenegger.de - Online Translation
- There are a number of free online machine translation tools that will allow you to get the gist of a document, without having to have it professionally translated.
- ASCII Generator
- Converts your text into ASCII-Images. Funny for teens in love.
- Global-E - a global studies journal
- Global-E - a global studies journal
- PREMA - Profitable Environmental Management
- PREMA is an integrated concept for the promotion of environmental management designed for micro, small- and medium-sized enterprises (SME) in developing and industrialised countries.
- peacebusiness : peacebusiness
- Private sector development is critically important for the long-term economic recovery of economies affected by conflict. Domestic and international businesses have important roles to play in this effort.
- newsbox : NewsBox
- Here we collect all kind of newsletters relevant for international cooperation and economic development.
- Diaspora and Brain Gain
- Here we collect newsletter and stuff on the Diaspora and Brain Gain discussion
- PRCNU : CULP Alumni
- This is the Alumni Network of graduates from the Caribbean University Level Programme (CULP, Spanish: Programa Caribeño de Nivel Universitario - PRCNU).
- dgCommunities: 26 learning games
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Jeff Cobb has a fantastic web site called Mission to Learn. Among the myriad of useful articles and discussions featured on Mission to Learn is an article that lists 26 educational video games you can get for free online
- GTZ-Economic Development in Subsahara Africa
- The GTZ-Community Sustainable Economic Development in Subsahara Africa is open to all practitioners, counterparts, research institutions, donors and interested consultants worldwide facilitating an inter agency exchange of experiences and best practices.
- GTZ-Economic Development in Asia
- The GTZ-Community Sustainable Economic Development in Asia is open to all practitioners, counterparts, research institutions, donors and interested consultants worldwide facilitating an inter agency exchange of experiences and best practices.
- GTZ-Economic Development in MENA
- The GTZ-Community Sustainable Economic Development in Middle East and North Africa (MENA) is open to all practitioners, counterparts, research institutions, donors and interested consultants worldwide facilitating an inter agency exchange of experiences a
- Worldometers - real time world statistics
- How many people have been born this year? How many cars have been produced? How much CO2 has polluted the atmosphere? How many people have died due to lack of safe water? Find statistics and both good and bad news here!
- The Sierra Leone Diaspora Network (SLDN)
- The Sierra Leone Diaspora Network (SLDN) is a multi-disciplinary, non-partisan, non-denominational team of highly skilled professionals dedicated to
addressing & influencing economic, environmental and social issues and processes in our home country.
- Diaspora African Forum
- Diaspora African Forum exists "to invite and encourage the full participation of Africans in the Diaspora in the building of the African Union, in its capacity as an important part of the Continent"
- The Diasporain Science & Technology
- Mobilising and Engaging African Diaspora In Science and Technology For Africa
Networking and Reconnecting the Skills, Knowledge and Linkages.
- foraus.de - BiBB Forum für Ausbilder
- foraus.de bietet seinen Besuchern neben aktuellen Informationen rund um die Ausbildung, eine moderne Online-Weiterbildung sowie den Erfahrungsaustausch mit Expertinnen und Experten in der Berufsausbildung.
- Who Should I Cheer For? Euro 2008
- WhoshouldIcheerfor.com ranks all the teams playing in Euro 2008 to find the most supportable - based on a whole load of facts and figures - the results might surprise you! What about the coolest flag design (probably Portugal)? Maybe the best holiday des
- June 2008 from weitzenegger.de
- This monthly Newsletter brings you news for international cooperation professionals on economic and social development.
- Alternative Channel – Laugh at racism - SOS Racisme (Act Responsible)
- This ad is a part of ACT Responsible collection
- Alternative Channel – Inclusive business: profitable business for successful developement (SNV LA)
- Poverty is still the biggest challenge facing the world today, SNV-LA uses inclusive business for making a sucessful and sustainable developement.
- Alternative Channel – What voice for the citizen through the Internet?
- ITV How the United Nations uses the Internet to dialogue with social networks in the world?
What voice for the citizen through the Internet? Intervie with Amy Weesner, member of the ICT Strategic Planning Team for the Chief Information Technology Officer
- Internet Tools | weitzenegger.de
- Internet Tools for International Cooperation
Usable Internet tools for Anti-Virus, Business Tools, Calculators, Converters, Computer stuff, Translation, and Search.
- Africa Progress Panel
- The aim of the Africa Progress Panel is to focus world leaders' attention on making the most of the growing number of opportunities for progress in Africa. It will also comment on the challenges African governments, the G8 and other international partners
- Global Business Summit 2008
- B4E, the Global Business Summit for the Environment, is the leading international conference focusing on business and the environment. B4E 2008 will highlight the most urgent environmental challenges facing the world today and discuss business-driven solu
- Centre for technology, innovation and culture TIK
- The Centre studies production and dissemination of knowledge - broadly defined as the development of and interaction between science and technology, innovation and entrepreneurship - through inter-disciplinary linkages between the social sciences and the
- Changemakers | Open Sourcing Social Solutions
- Changemakers is an initiative of Ashoka: Innovators for the Public that focuses on the rapidly growing world of social innovation. It provides solutions and resources needed to help everyone become a changemaker and presents compelling stories that explor
- CLIMATE-L.ORG
- This is a knowledge management project for international negotiations and related activities on climate change run by the International Institute for Sustainable Development (IISD).
- Countdown 2010
- A powerful network of active partners working together towards the 2010 biodiversity target. As a partner, AGEG Consultants support projects and programmes towards biodiversity conservation and improvement of local livelihoods world-wide in collaboration
- Impact International - Creating Sustainable Enterprise
- Impact are global leaders in sustainable business transformation and people development. Our learning journeys and training solutions inspire new thinking and generate the meaningful dialogue needed to create and develop sustainable enterprise. Impact hel
- DFID - Development: Making it happen
- As DFID publishes the Annual Report for 2008, here are some examples of the ways in which the Department for International Development is working to help eliminate world poverty.
- Welcome to FindaJobinAfrica
- Africa's employment zone connecting employers, recruitment agencies and jobseekers. The website was founded in 1999 by Africans on the conviction that African's problems must be owned by Africans with the solution driven by African's. One of the challenge
- UCB Libraries | GovPubs | Foreign Information by Country
- Resource Guide by the University Libraries of Colorado at Boulder Wordmark, USA
- FORUM FINANCES & DEVELOPPEMENT
- Un portail francophone dédié au financement du développement.
- Global Disaster Alert and Coordination System
- The GDACS provides near real-time alerts about natural disasters around the world and tools to facilitate response coordination, including media monitoring, map catalogues and Virtual On-Site Operations Coordination Centre.
- IRIS Center at the University of Maryland
- IRIS is a research and advisory center located in the Department of Economics at the University of Maryland, College Park, USA. It works understand and facilitate economic growth and democratic development in poor and transition countries, focusing on the
- Enterprise & Industry online magazine - home
- The new Enterprise & Industry on-line magazine will provide regular updates on policy development, on legislative proposals and their passage to adoption, and on the implementation and review of regulation affecting enterprises. Articles will cover issues
- sept - uni-leipzig: Home
- The Small Enterprise Promotion Network (SEPneT) is an alumni network of more than 200 experts from over 70 countries specialized in SME issues. All members have studied in Germany.
- Imp-Act: Making microfinance work for the poor and excluded
- The Imp-Act Consortium is global group of organisations working to promote and support the management of social performance by MFIs. ''We are a catalyst for change in microfinance understanding and practice. By connecting practitioners around the world we
- The Microinsurance Centre :: Home :: Main
- This site is intended to provide practical tools to assist in the success of these relationships between regulated insurers, and MFOs and banks. It is focused on a partnership model of microinsurance provision.
- GDRC | The World Wide Web Virtual Library on Microcredit and Microfinance
- Repository of information on alternative, non-conventional financial systems and microfinance/microcredit issues.
- Conectafrica’s Weblog
- This Online PhD investigation on Fair Tourism really goes for tourism development in Africa, using Web 2.0 technology. It is in Spanish language.
- Weitzenegger's Cheat Sheet - OANDA Customizable Currency Cheatsheet
- Keep your travel budget under control by knowing exact values in your home currency. This Traveller CheatSheet displays a handy list of conversion units from one currency to another and is designed to be printed out and carried while travelling. Choose da
- AGEG Consultants eG - International Consulting Services - Job Opportunities with AGEG Consultants
- AGEG Consultants eG constantly offers job opportunities in different fields of development cooperation. We are either implementing projects or are tendering for new projects.
- Friedensfrauen weltweit
- Ein neues Internetportal lädt Sie dazu ein, in deutscher Sprache 1000 Frauen und ihre unterschiedliche Friedensarbeit kennen zu lernen. Hinter der symbolischen Zahl 1000 stehen viele weitere ungenannte Frauen. Das Engagement der FriedensFrauen, ihr Mut,
- weltweitwandern.at - Trekking, Wandern, Ladakh, Marokko, Wüste, aktive Wanderreisen, Veranstalter, Mongolei, Madeira
- Das Projekt ''Empowerment - Tourismus in zwei Richtungen'' von Weltweitwandern und respect wurde mit dem steirischen TRIGOS 2008 als verantwortungsvolles Unternehmen ausgezeichnet. Ziel des Projekts ist es, den ReiseleiterInnen von Weltweitwandern zu erm
- EUROPA - Allgemeine & berufliche Bildung - Erasmus Mundus
- Erasmus Mundus ist das Kooperations- und Mobilitätsprogramm der EU im Bereich der Hochschulbildung, das für die herausragende Stellung der Europäischen Union im Bildungsbereich rund um die Welt wirbt. Es fördert europäische Masterstudiengänge von h
- ENSA
- ENSA fördert den entwicklungspolitischen Schulaustausch zwischen Deutschland und Entwicklungs-/Transformationsländern. ENSA bietet einen finanziellen Zuschuss für Flugkosten und Aufenthalt an und führt Vor- und Nachbereitungsseminare für die reisende
- GTZ - Online - Library Sustainable Economic Development
- Latest Entries in this Library.
- GTZ - URBANET Online-Library
- URBANET - Online-Library - Latest Entries
- Aperçu thématique - Globalia
- Globalia est la sélection de sites Internet sur les questions Nord/Sud des centres de documentation d'Alliance Sud. Elle aborde les grands enjeux mondiaux au-travers de neuf grandes thématiques, de l'agriculture aux questions sociales en passant par le
- Entwicklungspolitik
- Hier hat das Chapter in Hamburg der Society for International Development Kurzmeldungen des Monats zur internationalen Entwicklungszusammenarbeit ausgewählt.
- Focuss.info | Your starting point on the Internet for your research in international development cooperation and studies
- Start using FOCUSS as of today and make it your access point to development matters. Every 1000th search query will be rewarded with one of the many FOCUSS surprise bags.
- UN chief moving `at full speed' on food crisis
- U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said Monday he is moving at full speed pushing efforts to tackle the world food crisis. Ban said he will hold the first meeting of his recently formed United Nations task force on food next Monday. He also said he is sen
- Entwicklungszusammenarbeit - ZUM-Wiki
- DOCON Directory of Consulting Firms - docon.info
- This is a list of consulting firms active in international development cooperation, sorted by country of origin or registration. Here you can find consultants, consortium partners or employers. This information is compiled from public short-list of the Wo
- Web 2.0: Soziales Engagement und Entwicklungspolitik
- WAND.com - Directory of suppliers and traders of any products and services
- The specificity of the WAND product and service categories allows more accurate search and classification than any other business directory platform on the Internet. The categories can be split off into industry segments to create vertical directories. Ov
- Home — Global Hand
- Global Hand is a matching service helping corporate/ community groups partner with NGOs: a non-profit brokerage facilitating public/ private partnership. Finding appropriate partners, in this context, can be difficult. The library has been set up to conne
- Alex Weir's Website - www.cd3wd.com - alexweir1949@yahoo.com - computer programmer, mechanical engineer, appropriate technologist. 3rd world technology and databases. last updated 2008/04
- CD3WD is a 3rd World Development private-sector initiative, mastered by Software Developer Alex Weir. Major online and offline sections on Livestock, Training, Metalwork, Auto Mechanics, Wind, Solar, other Alternative Energies. You can browse and/or downl
- Knowledge Network of Women Cooperatives
- This web-based network will make it possible for women entrepreneurs to learn from each other about business opportunities, market trends, and to market their products. Membership in the knowledge network is open to women’s cooperatives, women’s busin
- Informal Economy Resource Database
- This database contains over 500 ILO entries directly or indirectly related to the informal economy and decent work. The database is searchable by country, keyword, ILO author unit and date. Each entry contains information about the resource, and usually i
- The Internet Site for Economists
- Inomics is an Internet service especially tailored to the needs of economists. At this site you can find job openings for economists, conference announcements, a human-edited directory as well as a database of research papers in economics.
- IPC | International Poverty Centre
- IPC is a joint project between the United Nations Development Programme and the Brazilian Government to promote South-South Cooperation on applied poverty research and training. It specializes in analyzing poverty and inequality and offering research-base
- ACP-EU-TRADE - Nsn
- The NSN comprises universities and policy-oriented institutions from European and ACP countries. Its overall aim is to contribute to creating in ACP countries a cadre of professionals able to provide sound policy advice on trade and development matters, t
- Data.org - Debt AIDS Trade Africa
- DATA is an advocacy organization dedicated to eradicating extreme poverty and AIDS in Africa. DATA argues that supporting Africa is essential to our economic and national security interests. However, at the core of DATA's beliefs is a view that these issu
- Free Online Courses and Tutorials for Everyone!
- You will find lots of resources on this site, many of them free of charge. Business Education, Money, Science, Careers, Professional, Life, Art/Entertainment, Fitness/Health, Fun and Games; these are some of the categories, and each one has many subtopics
- African Presidential Archives and Research Center at Boston University
- APARC has three core programs: the African Presidents in Residence Program, the Public Papers/Private Conversations Project, and the Annual African Leaders' State of Africa Report. The goal of the program is to give former democratically elected African l
- Global | Regoverning Markets
- The overall aim of the Regoverning Markets programme is to provide strategic advice and guidance to the public sector, agri-food chain actors, civil society organizations including economic organizations of producers, and development agencies on approache
- Entwined - Mistra
- This project examines the role of private and governmental environmental policies under the trade regime from both a positive and a normative point of view. It focuses in particular on the treatment of trans-boundary problems. Its ultimate aim, first, is
- The Róbinson Rojas Archive.- Dependency Theory, US Imperialism, capitalist, economic, terrorism, globalization, sustainable development, poverty, sustainability, research methods, environment, human rights, China, Asia, Africa, Latin America. Puro Chile.
- Created and managed by Dr. Róbinson Rojas, this academic site promotes excellence in teaching and researching economics and sustainable development, and the advancing of describing, understanding, explaining and theorizing. This site also contains books,
- Enterprise: For a second chance policy
- You are an owner of a small or medium-sized enterprise or self-employed. You invest 15 minutes of your time. You gain a preventive screening of your business that might save you a lot of time and money in the future! This really is an official EC site.
- Whither EC Aid?
- European Centre for Development Policy Management (ECDPM) and Actionaid launched this new project website.
- Children in CEE/CIS: TransMONEE database
- The TransMONEE database is an annually updated database containing a wealth of general social and economic statistics and indicators of child well-being across the 27 countries of the CEE-CIS region, collected directly from the national statistical office
- Quick Centre - Home
- This is a knowledge sharing platform for the practitioners of microfinance in disaster surroundings. A new knowledge centre and knowledge sharing platform on microfinance in disaster surroundings has been established for the practitioners' community. The
- KITE - - Newcastle University
- KITE brings together Newcastle University’s extensive research capabilities on innovation management and enterprise, incorporating research on the social, economic, managerial,
organisational, and cultural aspects of information and communications tech
- ETH - SMI - Chair of Strategic Management and Innovation
- The chair focuses research and teaching in the fields of Strategic Management and Innovation. As an academic field, Strategic Management is concerned with the long-term competitiveness and performance of a corporation. It examines and explains why some co
- Using Training to Build Capacity for Development | Homepage
- Visit this World Bank site for free resources for training providers and donors, providing guidelines on training design, participant selection, targeting of training content to organizational needs and monitoring and evaluation of training.
- Home: ip4inno
- ip4inno is a project funded by the European Commission as a part of the Sixth Framework Programme for Research and Technological Development. Its main aim is to help small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) enhance their understanding and use of intellec
- GIPOL Growth Innovation Policy
- GIPOL is a collaboration project between NIFU STEP, Norwegian School of Management, University of Agder and University of Lund. It is financed by the Norwegian Research Council and lasts from 2007 until 2010. The main aim of the project is to analyze mode
- SEEP: FRAME
- SEEP's FRAME Tool and companion manual, Measuring Performance of Microfinance Institutions (the Framework), represent an initiative towards reaching global standards for microfinance performance monitoring and reporting. The FRAME Tool and Framework compl
- EU Donor Atlas 2008
- The EU Donor Atlas is based on the data on ODA provided by the DAC International Development Statistics online: DAC online (for annual aggregates) and Creditor Reporting System online (for aid activities) as of January 2008 -covering data for the years up
- Knowledge web on SMEs and Entrepreneurship - Knowledge Web on SMEs and Entrepreneurship
- EIM carries out a long term research program on small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) and entrepreneurship, which is being financed by the Dutch Ministry of Economic Affairs. Some major themes are nascent entrepreneurship, business start-ups, high gro
- Data Base of Evaluation Studies Undertaken by EU Member States and the European Commission in External and Development Cooperation (from 2000)
- Since October 2007, CUTS Centre for International Trade, Economics & Environment (CUTS CITEE) has been posting latest developments, news items, etc on trade and development issues onto its site. They are gathered from various sources and put under three h
- Welcome to Commonwealth Micro Finance
- Commonwealth Micro Finance (CMF) has been established by the Commonwealth Business Council (CBC) to provide a range of financial services including international remittances, micro-savings, micro-loans and other banking services for individuals and small
- Register Form - News & Information - CAN
- CAN has just launched a FREE directory of social entrepreneurs, social enterprises and enterprising charities in the UK. Sign up today if you want to be listed.
- AiDA - knowledge, collaboration, information, partnerships
- The database on development activities, AiDA, now includes activities funded by the Gates Foundation, the Open Society Institute, and the Soros Foundation Network. These non-traditional donors fund over 3,800 activities. As a tool for aid effectiveness, A
- Practical Action - African Voices in Europe
- Practical Action has launched a new website - African Voices in Europe - to expose the failures of European aid and set out a new agenda for Improving aid for Africa's poorest communities. African Voices in Europe exposes the failures of EC aid to reach f
- WIKINOMICS | HOME
- Today, encyclopedias, jetliners, operating systems, mutual funds, and many other items are being created by teams numbering in the thousands or even millions. While some leaders fear the heaving growth of these massive online communities, Wikinomics expla
- Main Page - Wikigender.org
- On the occasion of International Women's Day, the OECD Development Centre launched this new interactive website to share and exchange information on gender equality issues.
- Vision Era-net - VISION Era-Net Innovation Policy Publication Portal launched!
- This portal is a unique collection of publications related to innovation policy. The Innovation Policy Portal provides a valuable source and unique of information for both practitioners and researchers alike. The database consists of over 50 research repo
- Theoretical Economics
- Theoretical Economics aims to become the leading journal in economic theory. It differs from existing journals in one major respect: all content is freely available
- Library - Right to Food Knowledge Centre of FAO
- This Library is a unique repository of information on the Human Right to Adequate Food and Freedom from Hunger. It provides catalogued documentation to assist the implementation of the Right to Food at national level. The aim of the Right to Food Virtual
- GURTEEN KNOWLEDGE
- David Gurteen hosts on his personal website the Gurteen Knowledge Community, a global learning community of over 15,000 people in 154 countries. The main themes of the site are knowledge management, learning, creativity, innovation and personal developmen
- Le Réseau des plates-fomes multifonctionnelles
- MFP has been recently launched in Senegal with the financial support of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. The MFP is a national / subregional programme based in Senegal. It aims to bring energy to the poorest rural areas and thus contributes to pover
- Poverty Action Lab
- The Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab (J-PAL) serves as a focal point for development and poverty research based on randomized trials. The objective is to improve the effectiveness of poverty programs by providing policy makers with clear scientific r
- MicroFinance Network - Home
- MFN is an international association of leading microfinance institutions. Through the MFN, 39 members from 31 countries share ideas, experiences, and innovative solutions to the challenges they face in search of continuous growth and progress. MFN members
- Mentori
- Mentori connects you online with people from developing countries who value your expertise. Its simple. You can volunteer anytime, anywhere, from any computer. Mentori offers the Diaspora the opportunity to do a ''virtual return” home.
- IFC SME - Improving the Business Enabling Environment
- Here IFC collects, summarizes, and analyzes various data on the successes and failures of business environment reform efforts, and develop practical guides for designing and implementing these reforms. They are currently focusing on business registration,
- Welcome to the Humanitarian Practice Network
- HPN is an independent forum for humanitarians to share and disseminate information, analysis and experience. It has specialist resources for practitioners and policy makers alike and facilitate debate through regular events and the Online Exchange discuss
- Geneva Trade & Development Forum
- The GTDForum seeks to provide an enduring platform – and a novel experience – for reflection, innovation, debate and dialogue. It will address the specific challenges and opportunities of developing countries trying to reap the benefits and heal the w
- European Microfinance Platform
- Sharing the vision that everyone on this globe has access to inclusive financial services, microfinance is a solution. e-MFP, as a multi-stakeholder and well connected European microfinance community, has the mission to promote innovative and inclusive fi
- Eldis - EU trade policy
- This Resource Guide provides easy structured access to our extensive collection of research and policy documents. All are editorially selected, summarised and available free to download in full text. Resource guides are intended to help you keep up to dat
- Eldis Home
- The Eldis Community is a free on-line community where you can meet others involved in international development, discuss issues that are important to you and share useful resources. Anyone with an interest in development issues can join the site free of c
- EASYPol On-line resource materials for policy makers
- Interactive multilingual repository of downloadable resource materials for capacity development in policy making for food, agriculture and rural development. EASYPol is maintained by the FAO Agricultural Policy Support Service.
- Classifieds Services | The Communication Initiative Network
- DB Classifieds includes information relevant and helpful to people and organisations involved in international development. As part of the Classifieds service, organisations can now post training and events related to international development in the Clas
- Business Fights Poverty
- From the team behind Business Action for Africa and Mentori, Business Fights Poverty is a professional network for all those passionate about fighting world poverty through the power of good business. I joined this recently and will invite you personally.
- BWTP Banking With The Poor Network
- The Banking With The Poor Network is a network of some 30 national policy institutions, commercial banks and NGO's from nine countries in Asia.
- The Association for International Agriculture and Rural Development
- The Association for International Agriculture and Rural Development (AIARD) is an association of professionals and practitioners in international development with experience and intellectual and institutional capabilities to articulate and address broad-b
- loband
- loband is a service that simplifies web pages, in order to make them download faster over slow Internet connections. The simplified page viewed through loband will contain the same text information as the original. The formatting of the simplified page wi
- Home - Rapid Response - The World Bank Group
- Rapid Response is the World Bank Group’s knowledge hub on financial and private sector development in developing countries. This site offers best practice public policy advice for private sector led growth and financial market development in developing
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- DOCON Directory of Consulting Firms - docon.info
- GDLN - Global Development Learning Network
- Global Campus 21
- feez.org | Fortbildungsprogramm Evaluation in der EZ
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- f.ize | Forum Internationale Zusammenarbeit für Nachhaltige Entwicklung
- DAN. World development consultants' collaboration network
- AITEC - Association Internationale de Techniciens, Experts et Chercheurs
- Tired of re-inventing the wheel? We are ... | Aid Workers Network
- Kodis / Vetnet
- Microfinance Gateway
- Small Business Portal: entrepreneurship, small business, international trade, finance, employment
- AdmiNet- cyberdocumentation center , main portal
- AdmiNet aims to be a Cyber-Documentation Center delivering general information about governmental authorities and public services.
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- Sociologia.de
- Intute: Social Sciences
- Intute: Social Sciences is the subject group of Intute that provides Web resources for education and research for the social sciences, including law, business, hospitality, sport and tourism. Intute: Social Sciences has been created by bringing together t
- Altermondes
- Site-portail du Réseau des centres de documentation Ritimo
- NORRAG - Network for Policy Research, Review and Advice on Education and Training
- NORRAG Network for Policy Research, Review and Advice on Education and Training connects practitioners worldwide.
- Management of Social Transformations
- International Institute for Sustainable Development (IISD)
- Institute of Development Studies - Institute of Development Studies (IDS) Homepage
- GEMDEV
- http://www.die-gdi.de/die_homepage.nsf/Pstartd?OpenPage
- News from EADI
- The World Wide Web Virtual Library: Sustainable Development
- Trialog - Welcome to TRIALOG!
- SD Gateway (Sustainable Development Gateway)
- OneWorld.net
- OneWorld International anchors and supports the growing network of OneWorld centres. It facilitates strategic and intellectual leadership for OneWorld network.
- NetAid: Educating, inspiring and empowering young people to fight global poverty. NetAid is an initiative of Mercy Corps.
- NEDS - Netzwerk entwicklungsbezogener Dokumentationsstellen der Schweiz
- B&D Übersicht
- International Relations and Security Network ISN
- Home — interportal.ch
- id21 - communicating development research
- A fast track reporting service summarising the findings and policy implications of the latest UK-based development research.
- Global Development Network - promoting development research
- European DataBank Sustainable Development
- The EU-LDC Network - The EU-LDC Home Page
- entwicklungspolitik online
- Eldis - Your Gateway to Development Policy, Practice and Research
- A broad-based gateway to development information, providing easy access by web and email to a wide range of high quality online resources.
- Dev-Zone - Change for a Just World
- Dev-Zone is an independent Aotearoa New Zealand based resource centre on international development and global issues.
- Development Gateway : Gateway Portal
- cinfo
- The Global South@www - An Independent Monthly e-Journal for Global Interdependence.
- IRIN • humanitarian news and analysis from Africa, Asia and the Middle East - updated daily
- The Integrated Regional Information Networks (IRIN), part of the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA), provides reports on a wide array of political, economic and social issues affecting humanitarian efforts.
- IPS - Inter Press Service News Agency
- Entwicklungspolitik Blog
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- AGEG Consultants eG - International Consulting Services - Home
- Die AGEG in Kirchheim unter Teck ist seit mehr als 20 Jahren eine Genossenschaft im Bereich der Entwicklungszusammenarbeit. Mehr als 75 selbständige Fachkräfte planen, implementieren, beraten und evaluieren durch die AGEG in Entwicklungsprojekten. Infor
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