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Joining Forces for Change: Demonstrating Innovation and Impact through UN-Business Partnerships

Joining Forces for Change: Demonstrating Innovation and Impact through UN-Business Partnerships, a publication by the UN Global Compact Office, presents a case for partnering with the UN in addition to listing case studies of successful UN-business partnerships. The partnerships presented in the...

Center for International Disaster Information (CIDI)

Center for International Disaster Information (CIDI), operated under a grant from USAID and IBM, is a resource for the public, as well as US government agencies, foreign embassies and international corporations. The website provides guidelines for giving effective material donations to relief...

Internet Centre for Corruption Research

The Internet Centre for Corruption Research is a joint initiative of the University of Passau (Germany) and Transparency International. It hosts the TI-Corruption Perception Index, a comparative assessment of a country's integrity performance, along with related academic research on corruption. The...

Map Quest Inc.

Map Quest Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of America Online Inc, provides detailed maps and driving directions for the US, as well as an online world atlas.

United Nations Common Supply Database (UNCSD)

The UNCSD is a registry of suppliers available to all UN and World Bank procurement personnel, and is the main supplier database of UNDP, UNICEF, UNHCR, UNOPS and WFP. The United Nations represents a global market of approximately USD 4.6 billion annually for all types of goods and services. The...

Integrated Regional Information Networks (IRIN)

The Integrated Regional Information Networks (IRIN), is an initiative of the UN to provide constantly updated news and analysis for the humanitarian community (with respect to natural and man-made disaster situations). The networks target decision-makers in relief agencies, host and donor...

Volunteer.Monster.com

Volunteer.Monster.com is a site which lists volunteering resources and articles and includes a database of volunteering opportunities.

Jordanian Yellow Pages

The Jordanian Yellow Pages allow for a search under "NGO" which provides a list of local charities with contact details. Using this directory you can search by name, activity, area and city.

Annotated list of funding sources

A list of organisations that cooperate with the IAVCEI in various ways. The page includes information about the organisations and their activities. It may be useful for organisations seeking information about IAVCEI-related activities.

One for all and all for one: Intra-organizational dynamics in humanitarian action

A significant proportion of humanitarian assistance is now delivered by NGOs which have in effect become federated trans-national organisations, alliances of members from different countries, all seeking to provide assistance in times of crisis. This report describes research carried out to better...

Doing Business with the Poor: A Field Guide

Doing Business with the Poor: A Field Guide encourages "sustainable livelihoods (SL) business", that is, doing business with the poor in ways that benefit the poor and benefit the company. It discusses how successful SL business models focus on core competencies, partner across sectors and localise...

Principles of Corporate Citizenship

The Principles of Corporate Citizenship address the activities of transportation and logistics companies. The principles include compliance through integrity, optimising shareholder value over time, transparency and accountability, social justice in the workplace, global corporate citizenship,...

Joint evaluation of the international response to the Indian Ocean tsunami: Synthesis Report

Joint evaluation of the international response to the Indian Ocean tsunami: Synthesis Report examines the successes and failures as well as the constraints within which the response occurred between the first eight and 11 months of the response. It does this by distilling the findings and learning...

Millennium Development Goals Report 2008

Millennium Development Goals Report 2008 is a report based on a master set of data that has been compiled by an Inter-Agency and Expert Group on MDG Indicators led by the Department of Economic and Social Affairs of the United Nations Secretariat, in response to the wishes of the General Assembly...

Taking IT Global - Malaysia

Taking IT Global is a web-based platform for ideas and expression and a resource that provides opportunities for young people to network and develop projects with others. There are 170,000 members globally, with 904 in Malaysia. The site provides country-based information, and is available in many...

Time Zone Converter

Time Zone Converter converts the time from one location to another selceted location.

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

UNCTAD-TRAINS is a comprehensive computerized information system at the HS-based tariff line level covering tariff, para-tariff and non-tariff measures as well as import flows by origin for more than 140 countries. The country notes summarize the trade control measures adopted by Senegal which...

REACT

REACT, Responding to Emergencies with Appropriateness, Coordination and Timeliness, is Global Hand's disaster response initiative.

OT Africa Line (OTAL)

OT Africa Line (OTAL), a liner operator, transports cargo from Northern Europe to a range of West African coastal ports from Nouakchott in Mauritania to Soyo in Angola It is now operates under the DELMAS brand.

FEWS NET

FEWS NET (Famine Early Warning Systems Network) is an information management activity developed and funded by USAID. Focusing primarily on countries in Sub-Saharan Africa, FEWS NET aims to strengthen the abilities of African countries and regional organisations to improve food security by...