Weitzenegger's Websites of the Month 2009

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June/July 2009

ACP Business Climate
http://bizclim.ning.com
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).On this newly established Professional Network , you can have your own page. On the main page, you find videos, pictures, blogs, links to published documents, BizClim-TV, events (e.g. workshop, conferences), publications (BizNews, e-zine), etc. Join in on NING!

AfricaAdapt - Knowledge sharing for climate change adaptation
http://www.africa-adapt.net
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.

African Economic Outlook
http://www.africaneconomicoutlook.org/en/
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. Beyond numbers and stats you will find news, events, resources and in-depth analyses of sectors critical to the continent’s advancement. Whether you are interested in macroeconomic developments, structural issues, governance, human development or just the raw figures, it is all here.

Barefootjobs.org - Job portal for social sector
http://www.barefootjobs.org
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.

Capacity Building Forum by WBI and InWEnt
http://capacitydevelopment.ning.com
The World Bank Institute and InWEnt Capacity Building International started this professional network for international partners in the development training and learning community with a shared agenda to improve the practice and metrics of capacity development programs. The online community originated from a High-Level Retreat on the Effectiveness of International Development Training. Here you can watch videos and listen to podcasts of the event and discuss the issues with experts and practitioners. Join in on NING!

CorpWatch: Holding Corporations Accountable
http://www.corpwatch.org
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.).

CTA's Knowledge for development
http://knowledge.cta.int
This website supports the policy dialogue on S&T for agricultural and rural development in African, Caribbean and Pacific (ACP) countries. It enables the ACP scientific community - primarily agricultural research and development scientists and technologists, policy makers, farmers and other stakeholders and actors - to share and review results of national and regional efforts and collaborate to harness science and technology for the development of agriculture in their countries.

DevWire.eu - the media portal to EU development cooperation
http://www.devwire.eu
The idea behind this site is to support journalists in their EU development coverage. This single entry point provides you with a comprehensive source of news and background - relevant, up to date and reliable.

Evidence-Based Policy in Development Network
http://ebpdn.org
This website is a key outcome of ODI's Civil Society Partnership Programme (CSPP), and 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.

ExportHelp - Promoting and supporting access to the European market
http://exporthelp.europa.eu
The European Commission runs a database for the explicit support of market players in developing countries who want to bring their products on the EU market. The database gives an overview on the EU´s preferential trade regimes established for developing countries as well as lists all tariffs, taxes and other requirements for goods destined for import.

GIGA Journals available free-of-charge on the Internet
http://www.giga-journal-family.org
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.

ilissAfrica - Africa Virtual Library on the Internet
http://www.ilissafrica.de
Finding relevant literature on a specific African topic or country – this is possible with the Internet Library Sub-Saharan Africa, which is now online and accessible to everyone. Users can search for books, anthologies, journal articles and Internet resources. They are then led directly to the corresponding website or shown at which library the book or journal article can be found. The portal is a joint project of the University Library in Frankfurt and the GIGA German Institute of Global and Area Studies in Hamburg.

ILO’s Synergies project
http://www.itcilo.org/synergies
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.

Knowledge Sharing Toolkit
http://www.kstoolkit.org
The Institutional Knowledge Sharing (KS) Project together with CGIAR Center partners has been experimenting with a range of KS tools and methods over the past five years and has recently been assembling these and many others into this toolkit. It is an evolving resource, continually updated, edited, expanded, and critiqued and it’s aimed at scientists, research support teams, and administrators working in international development agencies, with a special emphasis on those engaged in agriculture and agricultural research.

Microfinance Gateway launches new and improved website
http://www.microfinancegateway.org/
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. The latest in this series, Microfinance and the Environmental Bottom Line, explores the growing field of green microfinance.

Political Finance Database
http://www.idea.int/parties/finance/db/index.cfm
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. That makes it the largest collection of such information available. The database provides information on different themes like regulation and enforcement; public funding provisions; bans on sources of funding; and on disclosure rules and ceilings for income and expenditure.

Remittance Prices Worldwide
http://remittanceprices.worldbank.org
The Remittances Prices Worldwide Website provides data on the cost of sending and receiving small amounts of money from one country to another. For the first time since the site was launched in September 2008, new data has been published. Plus, new features have been added to the site, including 14 new country-to-country corridors, categories that describe the extent of network coverage in recipient countries, and a new set of standardized measures of transfer speed.

SPM Network - Making microfinance work for the poor and excluded
http://www.spmnetwork.net/group/communitymanagedsavingsloangroups
The SPM Network connects individuals and organisations who are committed to managing and achieving social performance in microfinance. This is also a space for practitioners to share experiences, common challenges and key lessons learnt around social performance management (SPM). Join in on NING!

The African Good Governance Network (AGGN)
http://www.aggn.org
The AGGN comprises a group of highly educated African academics who have either studied in Germany or are still studying in Germany. AGGN members consider it their duty to actively promote the values of Good Governance and thus accompany the economic and political transformation process in sub-Saharan Africa.

The Global University Network for Innovation
http://www.guni-rmies.net/
The Global University Network for Innovation - GUNI is composed of UNESCO Chairs in Higher Education, research centers, universities, networks and other institutions highly committed to innovation in higher education. More than 100 institutions from around the world are GUNI members. There are a number of reports on higher education available on the GUNI website.

World Press
http://www.theworldpress.com
Want to be informed? Have a look at this website. World Press offers headlines and links to more than 5,000 news publications in more than 190 countries. Source: FITA.

May 2009

100 Useful Tools for Searching the Deep Web
http://www.weitzenegger.de/en/deepweb.html
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.

AiDA launches an Interactive Map
http://aida.developmentgateway.org/aida/viewMap.do
AiDA is one of Development Gateway's aid management tools, which supports the aid effectiveness agenda by publishing information on development activities to help donors coordinate and harmonize their development efforts. With the use of an interactive map generated with technology from Google, development practitioners now have access to a geographical interface for information normally available through the AiDA Web site. Users can click on any country in the world and view a summary of the development activities that are taking place there.

Development and Civilizations - Lebret-Irfed
http://www.lebret-irfed.org
International network of development actors coming from various cultural and spiritual roots and sharing common convictions. The Centre aims, through listening and dialogue, at contributing to the emergence of a more just and a more democratic society.

DIIS Migration Seminars launch new website
Get an overview of seminars, papers, links to resources, and media coverage online
http://www.diis.dk/sw74910.asp

EADI Research Monitor
http://www.eadi.org/index.php?id=1112
EADI offers a new information service focusing on research results produced by EADI
members. The March edition focuses on the financial crisis. Subscribe at http://www.eadi.org/index.php?id=1065

ExpatExchange
http://www.expatexchange.com
Are you an expatriate? Future expatriate? Recruiting agent? Take a look at one of the largest online communities for English-speaking individuals living outside of their countries. ExpatExchange’s network is a combination message board with discussions about being an expat in most countries and a directory of goods and services useful for expats. Source: FITA.

Focus on the Global South
http://focusweb.org
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.

Gateway Guide on Inclusive Growth
http://www.gsdrc.org/go/gateway-guides/inclusive-growth
The Governance and Social Development Resource Centre (GSDRC) has launched its
gateway guide on inclusive growth.

Genderindex.org: A New Way of Assessing on Gender Equality in Developing Countries
http://genderindex.org
The OECD Social Institutions and Gender Index (SIGI) is a new tool to measure these
hidden instances of gender discrimination.

ILO’s Synergies site
http://p31.itcilo.org/entdev/synergies/en
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.

MicroPlace
http://www.microplace.com
MicroPlace is a social business owned by eBay. We want to alleviate global poverty by offering investments that enable loans to hardworking poor people. You can invest as little as $20.

Migration seminars, Danish Institute for International Studies DIIS
http://www.diis.dk/sw73169.asp
This 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.

Nationmaster
http://www.nationmaster.com
Do you want to rank and compare the countries of the world and don't have the time to collect the data? This website will help you save time! Select a category, browse the incredible list of available data and make your choice. In one click, you will get your country ranking. The website uses official sources such as the IMF, World Bank, CIA, UNICEF and UNCTAD. Source: FITA.

networklearning
http://www.networklearning.org
The purpose of this site is to make resources available, free, to NGOs working in the development or humanitarian fields. We make or find manuals that can help NGOs build skills, and suggest other websites with good resources.

Remittance Prices Worldwide
http://remittanceprices.worldbank.org
This World Bank 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.

Scientists Without Borders
http://www.scientistswithoutborders.org
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.'

Search for Trade Financing with FINDATA
http://www.intracen.org/dbms/CL_Search/CL_Search.Asp?DS=DATAFIN
A searchable database of financial institutions (major banks, credit insurance agencies, export credit agencies, etc.) in developing and transition countries that support international trade. You just select a country, financial product, and type of institution, and FINDATA will give you a list of institutions that fit your criteria. Source: FITA.

The Development Marketplace for African Diaspora in Europe (D-MADE)
http://www.dmade.org
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.

The Kwintessential Business Etiquette Guide
http://www.kwintessential.co.uk/resources/country-profiles.html
If you do business internationally you know that cultural etiquette is at least as important as price, inventory, and other factors in business deals. Every culture has different beliefs, ideals, and ways of doing things. You need to be aware of them if you're going to work closely with people from that culture. Kwintessential Country Profiles is a site that's been around for years, and it has great advice about how to handle cultural differences. There is also a page with useful phrases for some of the world's main languages. Source: FITA.

Transnational Institute (TNI)
http://www.tni.org
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.

Trustive world-wide WiFi access
http://tinyurl.com/trustive
The reality of WiFi is usually a fragmented service with different hotspot operators having their own log in methods, billing systems and coverage restricted to certain countries or even cities. The Dutch provider Trustive decided to overcome these challenges in order to improve this reality for the whole Trustive community. Following 5 years of heavy investment and the conclusion of strong roaming agreements with 70+ hotspot operators in 65+ countries, Trustive is now able to offer a seamless service that is both reliable and competitively priced across a unified and ever expanding network of 65,000 WiFi hotspots in 65+ countries, including 350+ airports.

Women in Global Business
http://www.wgba-business.com
The Women's Global Business Alliance - Peer Counsel is developing a collaborative network that provides opportunities for executive women to work and learn together. Created for senior-level executive women worldwide, WGBA promotes contacts and interaction between global business leaders that allows them to share their knowledge and expertise. Source: FITA.

March 2009

BRIDGE - Gender and Poverty
http://www.bridge.ids.ac.uk/reports_gend_pov.htm
BRIDGE Gender and Poverty publications include summaries of key materials, good practice cases, lists of tools and checklists and key online resources.

British Library for Development Studies Subject Guide on Poverty
http://blds.ids.ac.uk/guides/pov.html
This Guide provides quick access to BLDS resources through pre-designed searches of the catalogue's 150 000 plus records.

CROP Comparative Research Programme on Poverty
http://www.crop.org
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. Hosting CROPnet as open network.

Development Gateway - Poverty
http://topics.developmentgateway.org/poverty
Development Gateway topic pages are e-communities led by experts in the development field. They connect partners, members, organizations and other stakeholders by providing opportunities to exchange knowledge, know-how and opinions.

Eldis Resource Guide on Poverty
http://www.eldis.org/go/topics/resource-guides/poverty
Eldis Resource Guides provide 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 date with the latest in development research, policy and practice.

Evaluation Portal by Lars Balzer
http://www.evaluation.lars-balzer.name
At this Evaluation Portal you find hand-picked, human-edited, categorized information about the topic ''evaluation'' (and a bit about social science methods).

Focuss.Info Initiative
http://www.focuss.info
Focuss.info provides a high quality search engine for practitioners, researchers and students in the area of global development studies. When these websites are available on the Internet, the Focuss.Info search engine indexes the hand-picked websites, with a focus on global development cooperation, and make these websites full text retrievable. In other words: start saving and sharing your favorite websites via social bookmarks spaces, such as Delicious or CiteULike, and report your social bookmark account to the Focuss.Info Initiative.

Free evaluation resources for developing countries.
http://earth.prohosting.com/elecon/evaldevel/evaldevelopment.html
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.

Global Donor Platform for Rural Development
http://www.donorplatform.org
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. Donors are committed to achieving increased development assistance impact and more effective investment in rural development and agriculture.

Global Poverty Research Group - GPRG
http://www.gprg.org
ESRC-funded multidisciplinary research group providing a framework for collaboration between the Centre for the Study of African Economies (CSAE) at Oxford University, and IDPM and CPRC at Manchester University.

Governance and Social Development Resource Centre
http://www.gsdrc.org
Funded by the UK Department for International Development, the 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.

GTZ's Poverty-related activities´
http://www.gtz.de/en/themen/uebergreifende-themen/902.htm
GTZ supports partners in developing countries as well as BMZ, other ministries and international organisations. This support is focussing on strategies for broad-based growth, the implementation of national poverty reduction strategies, poverty-oriented results monitoring and policy monitoring.

International Policy Centre for Inclusive Growth (IPC-IG), UNDP
http://www.undp.org/povertycentre/index.htm
Based in Brazil, IPC serves as the nexus for promoting, learning and knowledge sharing on key poverty concerns among developing countries to improve the living conditions of the world's poorest citizens. The Centre's mission is to facilitate South-South learning in development solutions by fostering policy dialogue; carrying out policy-oriented research; as well as conducting training and evaluation. Its vision is the attainment of high inclusive growth. See in particular research and publications on social protection and cash transfers.

Methods for Social Research in Developing Countries
http://srmdc.net
Website 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.

Poverty Assessment Tools
http://www.povertytools.org
This IRIS Center Website hosts updates and reports and discussions around developing and recommending poverty assessment tools. It also hosts a Poverty Assessment Tools listserv, where discussions are moderated and conducted with bounded timelines. Summaries of previous listserv discussions are also available.

PovertyFrontiers
http://www.povertyfrontiers.org
PovertyFrontiers is a USAID-supported Website dedicated to sharing knowledge and resources on poverty reduction, pro-poor growth, asset-based approaches to development, and poverty-related issues. PovertyFrontiers is also a forum for those involved in poverty reduction to exchange ideas and best practices.

Q-Squared: Combining Qualitative and Quantitative Approaches in Poverty Analysis
http://www.q-squared.ca
This Website is a great resource for those seeking information on poverty research, measurement and analysis. Q-Squared aims to promote better integration of qualitative and quantitative poverty research methods. The site links to a variety of commissioned publications presenting good practice in accurate poverty research, as well as information about training, news and events.

Research Methods Knowledge Base
http://www.socialresearchmethods.net/kb/contents.htm
This site is the home page for a number of additional Webpages, each of which provides brief, easily understood descriptions and illustrations of virtually any social research method you might want to use; covers the foundations of research, sampling, measurement, design, analysis, and the process of writing up a research report.

Social Science Information Gateway (SOSIG)
http://sosig.ac.uk
Provides selected, high quality information for students and researchers in the social sciences, business, and law; also provides links to over 50,000 social science Webpages.

Statistical Databases
http://unstats.un.org/unsd/databases.htm
Provides brief descriptions of and links to a wide variety of databases produced by Statistics Division, UN, and that are available with unrestricted access.

Statistical Sites on the World Wide Web, U.S. Department of Labor
http://www.bls.gov/bls/other.htm
Provides links for online access to statistical and other information from more than 70 agencies of the U.S. government and statistical offices of most countries throughout the world.

The Chronic Poverty Research Centre (CPRC)
http://www.chronicpoverty.org
This international partnership of universities, research institutes and NGOs was established in 2000 with initial funding from the United Kingdom's Department for International Development (DFID).

UN Secretariat's Division for Social Policy and Development (DSPD)
http://www.un.org/esa/socdev/social/poverty/
The Division 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.

UNEG United Nations Evaluation Group
http://www.unevaluation.org
This site hosts the Country Level Evaluation Database and the UNDP Evaluation Resource Center (ERC). UNEG has many links to external evaluation resources including evaluation associations and societies, international organisations, training resources and governments.

Virtual Resource Centre on ex-ante Impact Assessment
http://europeandcis.undp.org/pia
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.

Web Pages that Perform Statistical Calculations
http://statpages.org
Provides over 600 links, including nearly 400 pages that perform calculations, and growing; a source of information on almost anything you might need in conducting analyses and calculations, including links to interactive statistics, free software, books and manuals, and demonstrations and tutorials.

February 2009

AWN Advice Pages – no need to be afraid to ask!
http://www.aidworkers.net/?q=advice
There are so many diverse issues that Aid Workers grapple with: practical issues about logistics and project management, issues regarding the wider implications of aid and development work, and personal issues about handling stress, what to expect from our employers and our own career goals. The AWN Advice Pages provide lots of advice on various issues faced by aid workers. Have a look. The pages are written by aid workers themselves and, if you would like to contribute to any topic, there is more information on the advice pages on how to do so.

AidBlogs: the good news or the bad?
http://www.aidworkers.net/?q=blogs
AWN’s AidBlogs make depressing reading for peace in 2009. Aidworkers are blogging about the worsening situation in Gaza and about the displacement of over 11 million people in Central and East Africa as a result of violence, wars, political turmoil and natural disasters.

3D -> Trade - Human Rights - Equitable Economy
http://www.3dthree.org/en/index.php
3D 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. 3D believes that the human rights framework provides strong tools for ensuring a more equitable economy.

Business Planet: new data map on Entrepreneurship
http://rru.worldbank.org/businessplanet/default.aspx?pid=8
Business Planet, an interactive Google map, now includes data on new business creation around the world. Measures of entrepreneurial activity are based on the number of total and newly registered corporations. Click on color markers to learn more about each country.

Crisis Talk
http://crisistalk.worldbank.org
The World Bank has established a new blog on emerging markets and the financial crisis. Crisis Talk features opinions on what solutions may be possible, what shape the financial sector may take in the future, and how the crisis affects the real economy.

Crocodyl - Collaborative Research on Corporations
http://www.crocodyl.org
Crocodyl is an evolving compendium of critical research, posted to the public domain as an aid to anyone working to hold corporations increasingly accountable. The aim is to stimulate collaborative research among NGOs, journalists, activists, whistleblowers and academics from both the global South and North in order to develop publicly-available profiles of the world's most powerful corporations.

EURADA European Association of Development Agencies
http://www.eurada.org
The European Association of Development Agencies (EURADA) has a membership of about 150 regional development agencies from across the European Union. Agencies from almost all the Member States of the EU are EURADA members.

GEMDEV Newsletter
http://www.gemdev.org/actualite.php
Featuring news, events, call for papers of research institutes in the Ile-de-Franceis region. Issued in French by the Groupement d'intérêt scientifique pour l'étude de la mondialisation et du développement.

GenderStats has Gender Data by The World Bank and others
http://go.worldbank.org/YMPEGXASH0
A one stop source of information on gender at the country level. A compilation of data on key gender topics from national statistics agencies, United Nations databases, and World Bank-conducted or funded surveys.

GTZ-Community: Results-Based Monitoring and Evaluation
http://www2.gtz.de/monitoring/
This website provides you with recent news and best practices from GTZ as well as from other development agencies and research institutions. Its core is a comprehensive database with more than 200 online documents covering various aspects on Results-Based Monitoring and Evaluation.

Local/Regional Economic Development (LRED)
http://www2.gtz.de/wbf/lred/news1.asp
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. Source: GTZ-NEDAnews

January 2009

Comercio y Pobreza en Latino América (COPLA)
http://www.cop-la.net/
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.

UNIDO Private Sector Development Toolbox
http://www.unido.org/psd-toolbox/
This online tool for practitioners, project managers and government officials in different areas of Private Sector Development has a overview on UNIDO PSD methodologies and policies, please select one of the following intervention areas: SME Clusters & Networking Development, Export Consortia, Responsible Entrepreneurship & CSR

INNOVERSIA Portal
http://innovacion.universia.net/inicio-0.html
Innoversia is the new portal of Universia, the most important network of universities in Latin America, and Neos, the first private technology transfer office in Chile, conceived to increase and promote in Latin America the technological development and innovation. This portal aims to bring together SMEs, researchers and industrialists working in the field of innovation in order to provide solutions to technological and innovation problems.

International Institute for Environment and Development
http://www.iied.org
The new IIED website has been designed to allow easier access to both research, and free access learning resources.

Mesopartner - Local Economic Delivery
http://www.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.

PRO INNO Europe
http://www.proinno-europe.eu
PRO INNO Europe® is an initiative of Directorate General Enterprise and Industry which aims to become the focal point for innovation policy analysis, learning and development in Europe, with the view to learning from the best and contributing to the development of new and better innovation policies in Europe.

RED-X South Africa
http://www.red-x.co.za
RED-X offers innovative facilitation services that increase the success rates in local or regional economic development. The consequence (of greater success rates in LRED) is increased economic growth, employment and income levels.

Remittance Prices Worldwide: new Website in English and Spanish
http://remittanceprices-espanol.worldbank.org
Remittance Prices Worldwide Website provides data on the cost of sending and receiving small amounts of money from one country to another. These international transfers are often initiated by migrant workers. The site covers 120 ''country corridors'' worldwide. The corridors studied flow from 14 major remittance sending countries to 67 receiving countries, representing around 60% of total remittances to developing countries. Access the site in English or Spanish.

The Child Development Index
http://www.savethechildren.org.uk/en/7129.htm
What does the Child Development Index tell us about how children are faring around the world? Are some countries making good progress in improving child well-being? Is it getting worse in other countries? Save the Children's new Child Development Index is the world's first and only tool to answer these questions. It combines each country's performance in three areas specific to children, to produce a score on a scale of 0 to 100. Aimed at holding governments to account for children's wellbeing

Thomas Global
http://www.thomasglobal.com
TG has a database of hundreds of thousands of industrial suppliers and products around the world. Each company listing has an address and phone number, plus a link to the company's Web site. If you register for a free account you can also save your searches, and create contact lists from the searches you run. Source: FITA.

Trade Observatory
http://www.tradeobservatory.org
Since 1999, Trade Observatory (formerly WTO Watch) has been documenting the World Trade Organization, the North American Free Trade Agreement, the Free Trade Area of the Americas and other international trade agreements and institutions. Additionally, Trade Observatory posts the work of IATP and other organizations working toward fairer trade systems and alternative approaches to globalization. This is a project of the Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy, a Minneapolis-based nongovernmental organization.

Who's Talkin? Now you can find out
http://whostalkin.com
A search engine for social networks that can help you find out what people are saying about topics that are of interest to you. All you do is type in a keyword, and you'll get a list of links to any recent comments involving that keyword in blogs, networks, forums, news media, etc. This is useful not only as a Public Relations strategy, but also as a way of researching new ideas, products, and markets.

WTO launches new Database on Regional Trade Agreements
http://rtais.wto.org/?lang=1
The WTO has launched a new database on regional trade agreements (RTAs). This contains all the relevant documentation received by the WTO following notification by a WTO member that an RTA has been established. The database can be searched by country, region, legal provision, date of notification or entry into force of the RTA. Summary tables of all RTAs currently in force, containing various types of information, can be easily exported by users of the database.

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