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Humanitarian Assistance in Disaster Situations - A Quick Guide for Effective Donations

Humanitarian Assistance in Disaster Situations - A Quick Guide for Effective Donations, a guidebook, is designed to assist donors and recipients to make decisions that will have the greatest long-term benefit to countries affected by natural or complex disasters.

Responsible investment: a force for poverty alleviation

The current crisis offers the opportunity to rethink the contribution that investors can make to eradicating global poverty. Oxfam believes that investors have a critical role to play in poverty alleviation, through supporting economic growth, building infrastructure, and helping to create a...

Choike

Choike is a portal dedicated to improving the visibility of the work done by NGOs and social movements from the South. It offers a directory of NGOs organised in categories and sub-categories, a search engine that enables finding information in the directory's web sites, a selection of materials...

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 –...

UNCTAD (United Nations Conference on Trade and Development) - TRAINS (TRade Analysis and INformation System) - Nicaragua page

The TRAINS country notes summarise the trade control measures, tariffs and other import regulations.

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...

More Than Making Money – Listing of Standards, Guidelines and Principles Relevant to Corporate Impacts

More Than Making Money – Listing of Standards, Guidelines and Principles Relevant to Corporate Impacts, a listing produced by Business in the Community (BITC) and Corporate Citizen, consists of standards, guidelines and principles relevant to corporate impacts such as benchmarkable standards,...

Canadian International Development Agency - Ghana page

This site provides an overview of the current situation in Ghana and contains some interesting statistics about aid and development in the country. The site is provided by CIDA, the Canadian international development agency.

Armenian Customs Service

Armenian Customs Service, the website for the state customs administration of Armenia, provides information about customs regulations.

Asksport

Asksport provides information on a number of sports related issues such as sports ticket sales, sports equipment sales and sports marketing. Asksport also provides a variety of information on becoming a charity, making donations to charities and the acquisition of sports equipment for those with...

Guidelines for building business coalitions against HIV/AIDS

The Guidelines for building business coalitions against HIV/AIDS provides practical, operational, timely and relevant guidance to companies and/or leaders in the private sector who want to combine forces in the fight against HIV/AIDS. It includes lessons learned and examples to those interested in...

Micro-Enterprise Online Library

Micro-Enterprise Online Libary, published by National Institute for Social Science Information, provides an online micro-enterprise research library.

Workplace Code of Conduct

Workplace Code of Conduct, formulated by the Apparel Industry Partnership, addresses issues related to the eradication of sweatshops in the United States and abroad. The Code is a set of standards defining decent and humane working conditions.

Information on Ioaveni, Moldova

This is an information page about the town of Ioaveni in Moldova. It includes statistics and historical information about the town.

Microfinance and Poverty Alleviation: United Nations Collaboration with Chinese Experiments

Author: Susan H. Holcombe Xu Xianmei Date:1996-10

UNCTAD (United Nations Conference on Trade and Development) - TRAINS (TRade Analysis and INformation System) - Tunisia page

The TRAINS country notes summarise the trade control measures, tariffs and other import regulations.

Emergency Field Handbook: A Guide for UNICEF Staff

The Emergency Field Handbook is structured around UNICEF’s Core Commitments for Children in Emergencies. These commitments outline the organisation’s role in providing protection and assistance to children and women. They make a clear distinction between life-saving interventions that should be...

Medical Missions Programme - University of Notre Dame

Medical Missions Programme - University of Notre Dame web site provides information on volunteering with independently-sponsored domestic and international medical missions.

Equator Principles

The Equator Principles (EPs) are a credit risk management framework for determining, assessing and managing environmental and social risk in project finance transactions. Project finance is often used to fund the development and construction of major infrastructure and industrial projects.The EPs...

Unleashing Entrepreneurship: Making Business Work for the Poor

Unleashing Entrepreneurship: Making Business Work for the Poor, a report to the UN Secretary-General, addresses how the potential of the private sector and entrepreneurship can be unleashed in developing countries, and how the existing private sector can be engaged in meeting this challenge. The...