Peace and security
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Enabling Corporate Investment in Peace
Enabling Corporate Investment in Peace: An Assessment of Voluntary Initiatives Addressing Business and Violent Conflict, and a Framework for Policy Decision-making, a briefing for corporate decision makers, reviews the provisions of voluntary codes, guidelines and initiatives that address the...
Oxfam
Oxfam is an international confederation of 15 organizations working together in 98 countries and with partners and allies around the world to find lasting solutions to poverty and injustice. We work directly with communities and we seek to influence the powerful to ensure that poor people can...
Australian Red Cross
The Australian Red Cross (ARC) is one of the 181 members of the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies, and works to improve the lives of vulnerable people in Australia and internationally. Their mission is to be a leading humanitarian organisation in Australia, improving...
Queen Elizabeth House - Oxford Department of International Development
Queen Elizabeth House is the University of Oxford’s centre for Development Studies, and the focus for the University’s research and teaching on these issues. Their objective is to conduct high level research which advances understanding of the complex economic, social and political processes of...
American Friends Service Committee (AFSC)
The American Friends Service Committee carries out service, development, social justice, and peace programmes throughout the world. In collaboration with local communities and neighborhoods, AFSC’s programs foster understanding and reconciliation, promote economic development and food security,...
The use of private security providers and services in humanitarian operations
A 2008 global survey of aid organisations conducted for this research revealed that the contracting of certain security functions to external professionals has become increasingly common among humanitarian operations worldwide. This trend has followed both the rise in aid worker violence and the...
Principles of International Charity
The Principles of International Charity were devised by US charities in response to an invitation from the US Treasury to propose ways of safeguarding charitable funds from diversion to terrorist uses. Eight broad principles have been identified to assist charities in developing their own...
Sphere Project
Sphere Project was launched in 1997 by a group of humanitarian NGOs and the International Red Cross and Red Crescent movement. Its aim is to improve the quality of assistance provided to people affected by disasters, and to enhance the accountability of the humanitarian system, through the Sphere...
Planting Seeds on Rocky Ground
This article is written by Experts from Afghan Government, Private Sector, and Academia Share Views on Investing in Conflict-Affected and Fragile States.
Investment and Political Risk in Conflict-affected and Fragile Economies
This chapter from the "World Investment and Political Risk 2010" report published by the Multilateral Investment Guarantee Agency focuses on the role that political risk perceptions play in influencing investment into conflict-affected and fragile economies.
How can Public–Private Cooperation contribute to sustainable economic development in Fragile States? – from policy to practice
The Dutch report presents the overall findings of the project ‘Public–Private Cooperation (PPC) in Fragile States’ carried out under the 2007 Millennium Accord on the Network for Peace, Security and Development. The Network aims to support and encourage the sharing of expertise and cooperation...
HOPE International Development Agency - Cambodia
The HOPE International Development Agency is a non-profit international development organisation working in Africa, Asia and the Americas. Headquartered in New Westminster, Canada, the Agency's projects are focused on the development of drinkable water sources, sustainable living, basic health and...
The Skoll Foundation
The Skoll Foundation is a social entrepreneurship organisation that aims to drive large-scale change by investing in, connecting and celebrating social entrepreneurs and other innovators dedicated to solving the world’s most pressing problems. Social entrepreneurs are proven leaders whose...
Caritas Internationalis - Liberia
Caritas Internationalis is a confederation of 162 Catholic relief, development and social service organisations working to build a better world. Caritas provides a beacon of hope for tens of millions of women, men and children in times of hardship and contributes to the development of social...
Association for Behavior & Knowledge Transformation (ABKT)
The Association for Behavior and Knowledge Transformation (ABKT) is an NGO established by a group of social entrepreneurs in Khyber Pukthoonkhawa, Pakistan. The organisation strives to improve the lives of under developed communities with a special focus on women, youth and children. ABKT aims to...
Rotary Club Moenchengladbach-Niers
Rotary is a worldwide organisation of business and professional leaders that provides humanitarian service, encourages high ethical standards in all vocations, and helps build goodwill and peace in the world. Approximately 1.2 million Rotarians belong to more than 32,000 clubs in more than 200...
United Nations Assistance Misssion for Iraq (UNAMI)
The United Nations Assistance Misssion for Iraq (UNAMI) hosts a web portal for UN agencies and NGOs working in Iraq.
World Education – Senegal
World Education (WE) is an international NGO headquartered in the US that provides training and technical assistance to to the nonformal educational sector in 50 countries worldwide. Projects are designed to contribute to individual growth, as well as to community and national development. In...
Concordia
Concordia is a local Iraqi NGO providing human rights advocacy, education and medical and social welfare referrals and coordination with nongovernmental and governmental partners for people in need.
Care South Rift Kenya
Care South Rift Kenya is a community-based organisation. The organisation promotes community based approaches to addressing conflicts in the Mau forest area, and works for peaceful ethical cohesion in the South Rift area of Kenya, bordering the Mau Forest complex. The organisation also aims to ...