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Alternative Development and Information Centre (AIDC) - An alternative information center doing research, education and training, as well as campaigning and lobbying on the macro issues affecting the development process in South Africa.
Alternatives - Action and communication network for international development.
Asian Development Bank (ADB) - ADB is a multilateral development finance institution dedicated to reducing poverty in Asia and the Pacific. ADB is owned by 67 members, mostly from within the Asian and Pacific region.
Association for the Taxation of Financial Transactions for the Aid of Citizens (ATTAC) - Fights for the regulation of financial markets, the closure of tax havens, the introduction of global taxes to finance global public goods, the cancellation of the debt of developing countries, fair trade, and the implementation of limits to free trade and capital flows.
Bank Information Center (BIC) - A non-governmental organization that provides information and strategic support to NGOs and social movements throughout the world on the projects, policies and practices of the World Bank and other Multilateral Development Banks (MDBs). BIC advocates for greater transparency, accountability and citizen participation at the MDBs.
BOND International Develoopment - A network of more than 280 UK based voluntary organisations working in international development and development education.
Center for Balkan Development - A network of more than a thousand people in the United States, Canada, and Europe working to help the region of the former Yugoslavia rebuild and create a peaceful and prosperous future.
Citizens Democracy Corps (CDC) - CDC's program of sustained enterprise and economic development in Russia and Central and Eastern Europe focuses on small and medium sized businesses that began as private companies or emerged from the privatization process. CDC is a nonprofit organization supported by the U.S. private sector, individuals, and U.S. Agency for International Development.
Collection on Critical Global Issues - Contains 210 publications (32,000 pages) in the fields of Agriculture and Land Management, Development, Environment and Sustainability, Food and Nutrition, Natural Resource Development, Science and Technology. Developed by the United Nations University Press.
Communication Initiative Network - Communication interventions for sustainable development. An advocate for the importance of communications in sustainable development.
Council for Urban Economic Development (CUED) - Provides a wide range of knowledge and expertise from real estate development to small business development, technology transfer and exporting. Its membership comes from cities of all sizes, urban counties, metropolitan regional agencies and public/private partnership organizations, utility companies, consultants and academics.
Deutsche Gesellschaft für Technische Zusammenarbeit GmbH (GTZ) - A government-owned corporation for international cooperation with worldwide operations. GTZ's aim is to improve the living conditions and perspectives of people in developing and transition countries.
Development Alternatives Inc. (DAI) -DAI distributes hundreds of millions of dollars of US government funds internationally, supplied through the United States Agency for International Development (USAID). It has been repeatedly accused of acting as a conduit for CIA spying, destabilisation and psyops operations—in Venezuela, Cuba, Bolivia and other South American states, as well as Eritrea, Ethiopia, Russia and Iraq.
Development Gap - Helping to maximize control by poor communities and sectors over their own development in the face of impositions from the North.
Development Gateway - Portal for development information and knowledge sharing worldwide. The tools on this website bring together people and organizations around the globe who are working to improve life in developing countries.
Earth Institute at Columbia University - Brings together talent from throughout the University to address complex issues facing the planet and its inhabitants, with particular focus on sustainable development and the needs of the world's poor. The Earth Institute is motivated by the belief that science and technological tools already exist, and could be expanded, to greatly improve conditions for the world's poor while preserving the natural systems that support life on Earth.
Earthrights International (ERI) - ERI's mission is to protect humans and their natural environment from abuses occurring in the name of development.
EcoViva - Works in partnership and solidarity with poor communities in Central America to achieve environmental sustainability, economic self-sufficiency, social justice, and peace.
Eldis - Development policy, practice and research. Browse more than 22,000 summarised documents from over 4,500 development organisations - all available free to download. Share your work with over 80,000 development practitioners.
EuropaWorld Plus - The online version of the Europa World Year Book and the nine-volume Regional Surveys of the World series. First published in 1926, the Europa World Year Book is renowned as one of the world's leading reference works, covering political and economic information in more than 250 countries and territories, from Afghanistan to Zimbabwe. The Europa Regional Surveys of the World offer in-depth, expert analysis at regional, sub-regional and country level.
Foreign Assistance and Arms Export Acts (.pdf; 507 pp.) - This volume of U.S. legislation and related material is part of a five volume set of laws and related material frequently referred to by the Committee on Foreign Relations of the Senate and Committee on International Relations of the House of Representatives, amended to date and annotated to show pertinent history or cross references.
Foundation for Global Community - The core of activity at the Foundation for Global Community centers around a diverse collection of projects, including: ARISE, (Afghanistan Retraining Initiative for Self-Employment), The Business and Sustainability Team, The Valley of Heart's Delight, Personal Development Courses (Marriage in Changing Times, Exploring a Sense of Place, the Enneagram, and Children and Nature), and Israeli-Palestinian Initiative: Framework for a Public Peace Process.
Focus on the Global South - Focus uncovers ways that dominant arrangements and institutions marginalise the vast majority of people in the global south - including the South in the North and promotes alternative ideas, paradigms, institutions and global and regional arrangements based on expanding equity, sustainability and democracy at national, regional and international levels.
Global Subsidies Initiative - A project designed to put the spotlight on subsidies and the corrosive effects they can have on environmental quality, economic development and governance.
Grassroots International (GRI) - An independent agency committed to progressive social change. Provides cash grants and material aid to partners in Africa, the Middle East, Latin America and the Caribbean who are bringing about social change by helping people in their own communities address the root causes of their problems.
Humanity Development Library - A large collection of practical information aimed at helping reduce poverty, increasing human potential, and providing a practical and useful education for all: 1,230 publications - books, reports, and magazines - in various areas of human development, from agricultural practice to economic policies, from water and sanitation to society and culture, from education to manufacturing, from disaster mitigation to micro-enterprises.
Human Development Reports - Independent reports commissioned by the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP). The product of a selected team of leading scholars, development practitioners and members of the Human Development Report Office of UNDP, these reports provide analysis and policy recommendations for more than 130 countries.
Inter-American Development Bank (IADB) - Regional multilateral development institution established in December of 1959 to help accelerate economic and social development in Latin America and the Caribbean.
InterAction - The largest alliance of U.S.-based international development and humanitarian nongovernmental organizations. With more than 160 members operating in every developing country, we work to overcome poverty, exclusion and suffering by advancing social justice and basic dignity for all.
International Development Exchange (IDEX) - A social change organization, challenging social and economic forces that marginalize people worldwide, building alliances with partner organizations to confront global systems of inequality.
International Finance Corporation (IFC) - Promotes sustainable private sector investment in developing countries as a way to reduce poverty and improve people's lives. IFC is a member of the World Bank Group and is headquartered in Washington, D.C.
Jubilee Debt Campaign - Demands an end to the scandal of poor countries paying money to the rich world. Calls for 100% cancellation of unpayable and unfair poor country debts.
Mekong River Commission (MRC) - An intergovernmental body created by an agreement between the four countries sharing the Lower Mekong Basin: Cambodia, Lao PDR, Thailand and Viet Nam."Promotes and coordinates sustainable management and development of water and related resources for the countries' mutual benefit."
Millennium Development Goals - The eight MDG which range from halving extreme poverty to halting the spread of HIV/AIDS and providing universal primary education, all by the target date of 2015 - form a blueprint agreed to by all the world's countries and all the world's leading development institutions. The complete MDG database can be accessed here.
Millenium Project - Commissioned by the United Nations Secretary-General in 2002 to develop a concrete action plan for the world to reverse the grinding poverty, hunger and disease affecting billions of people.
Peace Corps - More than 7,000 Peace Corps volunteers are serving in 77 countries, working to bring clean water to communities, teach children, help start new small businesses, and stop the spread of AIDS.
RealWorldBank.org (RWB) - An initiative of a group of researchers, NGOs, web developers, and film-makers. It aims to promote a diverse range of views about development issues, particularly those of the people most affected bydominant economic models and excluded from discussions about them.
ReliefWeb - Clearinghouse for those needing timely information on humanitarian emergencies and natural disasters. Designed to help the humanitarian community improve its response to emergencies.
Schumaker UK - Promotes human scale and sustainable systems for social, economic and environmental development: economic globalisation, new economics, sustainable systems, sustainable education, intermediate technology, alternative technology, renewable energy, climate change, global warming, local ecosystems, local democracy, sustainable farming, organic agriculture, complementary medicine and ecological footprints.
Seva - A donor-supported non-profit foundation building partnerships to respond to locally defined problems with culturally sustainable solutions throughout the world.
South Africa Development Fund (SAFD) - Works in partnership with community-based organizations to provide financial and technical support to communities disadvantaged by decades of apartheid policies.
Stakeholder Forum - UN organization supporting international civil society organisations concerned with sustainable development. It includes organisations representing all the major groups recognised by the UN including business, labour, parliamentarians, local government, NGOs, indigenous peoples, women, youth, farmers and scientists.
SUNS - South North Development Monitor - Information and analyses on international development issues with particular focus on North-South and South-South negotiations.
Sustain - Alliance for better food and farming. Advocates food and agriculture policies and practices that enhance the health and welfare of people and animals, improve the working and living environment, enrich society and culture and promote equity. WRepresents 100 national public interest organisations working at international, national, regional and local level.
Sustainable Development Dimensions - News and resources provided by the Sustainable Development Department, Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.
Third World Network (TWN) - An independent non-profit international network of organizations and individuals involved in issues relating to development, the Third World and North- South issues.
U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) - An independent agency that provides economic, development and humanitarian assistance around the world in support of the foreign policy goals of the United States.
UN Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) - UNCTAD is the focal point within the United Nations for the integrated treatment of trade and development and the interrelated issues in the areas of finance, technology, investment and sustainable development.
UN Development Programme (UNDP) - UNDP's mission is to help countries in their efforts to achieve sustainable human development by assisting them to build their capacity to design and carry out development programmes in poverty eradication, employment creation and sustainable livelihoods, the empowerment of women and the protection and regeneration of the environment, giving first priority to poverty eradication.
UN Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC) - Established under the United Nations Charter as the principal organ to coordinate economic, social, and related work of the 14 UN specialized agencies, functional commissions and five regional commissions. The Council also receives reports from 11 UN funds and programmes. ECOSOC serves as the central forum for discussing international economic and social issues, and for formulating policy recommendations addressed to Member States and the United Nations system. It is responsible for:
promoting higher standards of living, full employment, and economic and social progress;
identifying solutions to international economic, social and health problems;
facilitating international cultural and educational cooperation; and
encouraging universal respect for human rights and fundamental freedoms.
UN Environment Programme (UNEP) - Works to encourage sustainable development through sound environmental practices. Its activities cover a wide range of issues, from atmosphere and terrestrial ecosystems, the promotion of environmental science and information, to an early warning and emergency response capacity to deal with environmental disasters and emergencies.
UN Millenium Development Goals (MDG) - 1) Eradicate extreme poverty and hunger, 2) Achieve universal primary education, 3) Promote gender equality and empower women, 4) Reduce child mortality, 5) Improve maternal health, 6) Combat HIV/AIDS, malaria and other diseases, 7) Ensure environmental sustainability, 8) Develop a global partnership for development. Fact sheets, brochures, news and press releases, documentation and background.
UN Sustainable Development Department - Serves as a global reference centre for knowledge and advice on biophysical, biological, socio-economic and social dimensions of sustainable development.
What is Sustainable Development? - Information from around the world on how to deal with such crucial issues as climate change, cleaner production, waste, poverty, consumerism, natural resource management, and governance.
William Easterly - William Easterly is Professor of Economics at New York University, joint with Africa House, and Co-Director of NYU's Development Research Institute. He is also a non-resident Fellow of the Center for Global Development in Washington DC. William Easterly received his Ph.D. in Economics at MIT. He spent sixteen years as a Research Economist at the World Bank. He is the author of The White Man's Burden: How the West's Efforts to Aid the Rest Have Done So Much Ill and So Little Good (Penguin, 2006), The Elusive Quest for Growth: Economists' Adventures and Misadventures in the Tropics (MIT, 2001), 3 other co-edited books, and 46 articles in refereed economics journals.
World Bank Bonds Boycott Campaign - Criticisms against the World Bank and the IMF from popular movements and organizations and information on the World Bank Bond Boycott Campaign.
World Bank Data and Research - Provides access to working papers, current studies, and datasets from the World Bank Group.
World Bank: Millenium Development Goals - Targets set for reductions in poverty, improvements in health and education, and protection of the environment. The goals have been adopted by the World Bank, the International Monetary Fund, the members of the Development Assistance Committee of the OECD, and many other agencies.
World Bank Research Observer - Debates key issues in development economics and developmental policy and surveys literature and the latest World Bank research.
World Business Council for Sustainable Development (WBCSD) - A coalition of 165 international companies united by a shared commitment to sustainable development via the three pillars of economic growth, ecological balance and social progress.
World Development Movement (WDM) - Campaigns against the root causes of poverty. Researches and develops new, positive policy options to support sustainable development.
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