Weitzenegger's Websites of the Month 2009

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February 2010

Access to Insurance Initiative
http://www.access-to-insurance.org
This website provides information on the Initiative and its sponsors and disseminates all knowledge that is created within the Initiative. The goal is to enhance broad-based, demand-oriented and sustainable access to insurance for low-income clients; thereby growing financial inclusion in the insurance sphere.

AfriGadget: Solving everyday problems with African ingenuity
http://www.afrigadget.com
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.

Andris Piebalgs - EU Commissioner for Development
http://ec.europa.eu/commission_2010-2014/piebalgs/index_en.htm
Andris Piebalgs is now teh Euroean Commissioner for Development. In his free time, he is also on Twitter: http://twitter.com/ECDevelopment

ASC Library dossiers - Nelson Mandela
http://www.ascleiden.nl/Library/Webdossiers/NelsonMandela.aspx
A web dossier to coincide with the 20th anniversary of Mandela’s release. It contains titles on and by Nelson Mandela from the library's online catalogue, including monographs, articles, and films.

BBC Guide to Development Speak
http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/specials/916_dev_speak/index.shtml
To guide you through the debate, the BBC World Service Trust has compiled a brief clickable index of terms that frequently appear in development-related discussions, policy and practice at all levels - local, national and international.

'Capacity is Development' Virtual Knowledge Fair
www.capacityisdevelopment.org
The United Nations Development Programme is pleased to announce the opening of the 'Capacity is Development' Knowledge Fair and invites you to share your experience. The knowledge fair seeks to collect experiences on policies, investments and programs that have proven successful in driving human and institutional capacity development in diverse settings around the world.

Directory of Development Organizations 2010
http://www.devdir-microfinance.org
The directory of development organizations 2010 is a comprehensive listing of 60.000+ development organizations dedicated to good governance, sustainable development and poverty reduction. Microfinance is highlighted.

EarthTrends Environmental Information
http://earthtrends.wri.org
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.

GTZ Open Community Education & Youth
http://www2.gtz.de/network/education-youth/open-community/index.asp
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. The website provides you with recent news and lessons learned from GTZ as well as from other development agencies and research institutions in the fields of education and youth.

id21's publication insights is now available electronically on Eldis
http://www.eldis.org/go/topics/insights/
insights is a thematic overview of recent policy-relevant research findings on international development. insights aims to make research accessible to non-academics and non-native English speakers. It is distributed free to policymakers and practitioners worldwide. Each issue goes out to over 20,000 subscribers mostly in sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia.

IMF Data Mapper
http://www.imf.org/external/datamapper/
The IMF has macroeconomic data for most countries. The IMF Data Mapper is a complementary tool. It projects the WEO data on to a map and offers a quick way to compare countries. You can use it, for example, to enhance a PowerPoint presentation: make a selection, copy the screen and add the image! It will make the presentation more dynamic and less academic than just a display of tables and figures. Source: FITA.

International Jobs - A new Twitter list
http://twitter.com/kweitzenegger/international-jobs
Twitter is without a doubt the best way to share and discover what is happening right now. Twitter Lists are Twitter’s long awaited ''groups” feature. They offer a way for you to bunch together other users on Twitter into groups so that you can get an overview of what they’re up to. It is quick and easy, yet has stunning results. After two month of existence, Twitter List already have changed the way people use the Web. Maybe it changes yours, too.

International Network for the Availability of Scientific Publications
http://www.inasp.info
INASP's work focuses on communication, knowledge and networks, with particular emphasis on the needs of developing and emerging countries.

International Public Management Network (IPMN)
http://www.ipmn.net
The purpose of the IPMN is to create and sustain a dialogue on emerging management concepts, methods and technology so that members and I can learn about innovation and change in public sector organizations throughout the world. The website includes the membership directory and a number of services to members, and a list server to permit rapid information flow among members. IPMN seeks to facilitate exchange and cooperative work among its members.

Local Economic Development Network of Africa LEDNA
http://www.ledna.org
Throughout this knowledge hub we aim to share as many resources on local economic development (LED) as possible - those that are free and in the public domain. We are not supporting any particular approach, rather presenting in an unbiased way as many approaches and experiences as we can that are in he public domain.

Market Place for International Development.
http://www.comminit.com/en/classifieds
Development Classifieds includes listings of jobs, consultants, requests for proposals, events, trainings, and books, journals, and videos for sale - related to all development issues and strategies. Development Classifieds is linked to The Communication Initiative (The CI)... a network of 75,000 people (and growing)...with 2 million individual user sessions (and growing) per year...from the full spectrum of development action in all possible contexts.

Monde.org - la maison du développement
http://www.monde.org/fr/
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.

ODI: European Development Cooperation Support Programme
http://www.odi.org.uk/edcsp
The programme has been established to support the debate on EU institutional and policy change by building an infrastructure of knowledge, contacts and information on EU development cooperation.

Practical Guidebook for SME-VSE Entrepreneurs in Africa
http://www.pme-guide.org
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. This website addresses the African as well as European entrepreneurs, as it concerns everybody wishing to develop an economic activity in Africa and who should be able to undertake the financial risk thereof.

The Access to Insurance Initiative
http://www.access-to-insurance.org
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.

UKCDS launches new website and newsletter
http://www.ukcds.org.uk
The UK Collaborative on Development Sciences (UKCDS) – which aims to maximise the contribution of UK research to international development – has launched a new website and e-newsletter for the development sciences community.

Weitzenegger's International Development Job Market
http://www.weitzenegger.de/new/jobmarket.php
Looking for a job in development cooperation? This Website gives you a list of professional opportunities around the world. Updated as you arrive. Click to get directly to the job notices. Here are also links to the relevant job market sites. We do this as a free service to the colleagues who contact us for finding jobs.

World Watch Magazine has a new online format
http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/534da32d#/534da32d/1
The January/February 2010 issue of World Watch looks at the recent resurgence in heavy dam construction worldwide, the new challenges that climate change poses to security policy, and shovel-ready ways to draw carbon out of the air. These stories and more are available in a newly enhanced electronic version of the magazine that offers readers an interactive, reader-friendly format that is more accessible and easier to navigate.

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