Research institutions
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Bioforce Development Institute
The Bioforce Development Institute has been providing training, orientation, and expertise to logistics and administrative managers working in international humanitarian organisations since its foundation. Bioforce Development Institute has a team of trainers (with both field and training...
European Summer School on EU Law and Policy on Immigration and Asylum, Brussels, 4-15 July 2011
The Summer School is an initiative of the Odysseus Network, an academic network established to carry out analysis of and research on the legislation of EU member states relating to immigration and asylum. The Summer School included seminars covering the relevant legislation of the 21 member states...
Emergency Nutrition Network (ENN)
ENN seeks to improve effectiveness of emergency food and nutrition interventions through identification and dissemination of lessons learnt in the course of operational practice and through research and evaluation. Its publication, Field Exchange, was developed as the main means of achieving this....
Centre Djoliba
Centre Djoliba was founded in 1964 to promote the local, social, cultural and economic development of Mali and to strengthen the process of democratization within the country. Centre Djoliba is involved in sensitization campaigns, documentation and research to eliminate female genital mutilation...
Headington Institute
The Headington Institute provides psychological and spiritual support to relief and development workers worldwide. They specialise in training workshops and education materials to help humanitarian workers understand and cope with traumatic stress, offer counseling, orientation and debriefing and...
Menno Simons College
Menno Simons College is a Mennonite educational establishment, located on the campus of the University of Winnipeg. Aspiring to embody Christian values of justice, peace and service in its teaching, Menno Simons College is a pioneer in international development and conflict resolution studies.
University of Aberdeen
The University of Aberdeen is the third oldest university in Scotland (and the fifth oldest in the UK). A world-class institute with a distinguished research pedigree, teaching centres include geography and the environment, sustainable rural development, aquaculture and coastal sustainability,...
University College Utrecht (UCU)
University College Utrecht (UCU) is Utrecht University's international Honors College. Specializing in undergraduate education, it offers the Utrecht BA (Bachelor of Arts) or BSc (Bachelor of Sciences) Honors degrees. UCU boasts a highly diverse student body, with only 2/3 of its 650 students being...
Royal Agricultural College
The Royal Agricultural College is a leading university college offering education and training for the agricultural, land, food business, equine and property industries. Royal Agricultural College welcomes students from all backgrounds, cultures and faiths.
Centre for Micro-Finance (CMF)
The objectives of the Centre for Micro-Finance (CMF) are to provide knowledge management services to the microfinance practitioners and institutions, undertake research and studies on microfinance and related development issues, raise public awareness on sustainable microfinance and to provide...
Aesthethika
Aesthethika is an online journal devoted to the interdisciplinary study and research of culture, subjectivity and aesthetics. Aesthethika was created by the faculty and the doctoral students from the University of Buenos Aires, Argentina and the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign,IL, USA.
The Social Enterprise Conference
The Social Enterprise Conference is annual event jointly produced by the Harvard Business School (HBS) and the Harvard Kennedy School of Government (HKS). Since its inception, the conference has been entirely student run. The student team responsible for producing the event has grown with the...
Microcredit and other loan programs in protracted refugee situations
Aid agencies recognise the need to support refugees’ own efforts to pursue livelihoods, but there are few livelihoods resources available. Microcredit and other types of loan programs have not been widely attempted, because refugees and IDPs are considered too geographically unstable –...
Disaster Database Project
The Disaster Database Project is a collection of data on man-made and natural disasters around the world. Its focus is to capture critical data on events and to facilitate further exploration of incidents. As a living database, entries change as additional material on an event becomes available. It...
Foundation for Economic Education
A research organisation that studies the moral and intellectual foundation of a free society and shares its knowledge with individuals everywhere. Founded in 1946, the society educates the world on the principles of free-market economics, including the importance of private property and individual...
Heidelberg Institute of International Conflict Research (HIIK)
The HIIK is a private organisation, dedicated to the research, documentation, and analysis of international conflicts. The HIIK was founded in 1991 to continue the work of the research project KOSIMO (Conflict-Simulation-Model) and continues to update the KOSIMO-database.
Development in Practice Journal
Development in Practice Journal's web site provides a forum for debate and the exchange of ideas among developmental practitioners, policy makers, academics and activists worldwide.
University of Texas Map Library
The University of Texas Map Library, also known as the Perry-Castaneda Library Map Collection, includes geographical, historical, and other types of maps from around the world.
Markkula Centre for Applied Ethics
The Markkula Centre for Applied Ethics provides a spectrum of resource for people and organisations wanting to study and apply an ethical approach to crucial issues facing the world. The Centre supports research, assists faculty in integrating ethics into courses, and helps businesses, schools,...
Iraq Information
Iraq Information website is maintained by Eldis, one of a family of knowledge services from the Institute of Development Studies in Sussex (UK), and contains a country profile on Iraq. The website has sections on maps, government bodies listing, poverty, trade, economics, aid and food security.