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Good Practice Reviews from the Overseas Development Institute

Good Practice Reviews from the Overseas Development Institute offers a series of good practice publications directed toward the humanitarian field.

Non-profit About

Nonprofits at About.com offers a broad range of information for non-profit organisations including accounting, fund-raising, IT support, management, public relations, volunteer information. The information is available in the form of informational resources, forums, chat provision, and listings.

Technology Donation Guidelines

These guidelines refer to an American community school, but may be useful to donors who wish to donate technological hardware to NGOs or similar organisations.

Guide for Effective Aid - Pan American Health Organisation (PAHO)

The South American branch of the World Health Organisation (WHO) has prepared a set of guidelines to assist relief organisations in sending effective aid to support disasters. The guidelines advise on what a relief organisation should do immediately after a disaster. Also listed are items that...

Minimum Standards for Education: Preparedness, Response, Recovery

Minimum Standards for Education in Emergencies Handbook, published by the Inter-Agency Network for Education in Emergencies, is a set of standards, indicators and guidance notes that articulate the minimum level of educational access and service to be attained in emergencies, through to early...

Business UNusual

Business UNusual, a collaborative publication of the United Nations Global Compact Office and the Global Public Policy Institute, provides an overview of recent partnership activities in the United Nations, as well as the challenges the UN faces in its efforts to engage the private sector and...

BBC Action Network

The Action Network is a place for UK citizens to address issues that concern them and to make contact with like-minded individuals.

European Union Customs Regulations

All fifteen EU member states apply common customs regulations at the external borders of the EU. Once imported goods clear customs in the EU, they can move freely between member states. The regulations are regularly updated, and are listed and explained in the Taxation and Customs Union section of...

Business guide to partnering with NGOs and the United Nations: Executive Summary

Business guide to partnering with NGOs and the United Nations: Executive Summary, created in partnership between Dalberg, the UN Global Compact, and the Financial Times, provides an overview of the study of the partnership experiences of businesses with social actors - NGOs and UN agencies.

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

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

Sustainable Resources 2004 An International Forum Connecting People with Hands-on Solutions to World Poverty September 27 - October 5 Boulder, Colorado

The Sustainable Resources 2004 conference provided a platform of exchange where poverty issues faced by the developing world could be addressed globally and solved locally. The programme of the conference was designed around the UN Millennium Development Goals. The event aimed to provide...

US Agency for International Development (USAID) - Supports Economic Empowerment for the World's Poor Through Microfinance (press release)

The press release from USAID outlines the agency's involvement in micro enterprise development projects during the 1990s, and claims that ‛micro enterprise development, providing credit and economic opportunity to the disenfranchised poor, helps ensure that the benefits of economic growth are...

NGO Registry - Armenia

NGO Registry - Armenia, maintained by the NGO Centre, is a database of NGOs operating within Armenia.

Diplomatic List: Embassy and Consular Contacts in the USA

The Office of the Chief of Protocol publishes the Diplomatic List, which contains a complete list of the accredited diplomatic officers of foreign embassies within the United States, and publishes Foreign Consular Offices, a complete listing of the foreign consular offices in the United States.

Ceres Principles

Ceres Principles is a ten-point code of corporate environmental conduct publicly endorsed by companies as an environmental mission statement or ethic. Imbedded in that code of conduct is the mandate to report. By endorsing the Ceres Principles or adopting their own comparable code, companies not...

Directory of Funding Sources for Environmental NGO's

The Directory of Funding Sources for Environmental NGOs in Central and Eastern Europe (CEE) offers information about 164 different funding institutions. It covers 15 CEE countries in which the REC (Regional Environmental Center) is active and also some newly independent states. The directory was...

World Bank Group and International Monetary Fund (IMF): Spring Meeting, 14-15 April 2007, and Annual Meeting, 19-21 Oct 2007

The World Bank is a specialised UN agency with a mandate of reducing poverty globally. The World Bank supports the efforts of developing country governments to build schools and health centers, provide water and electricity, fight disease, and protect the environment. There are two annual meetings...

Kyoto Convention - Specific Annex J - Chapter 5: Relief consignments

The Kyoto Convention is an international customs agreement that was established in May 1973 to lay down recommendations for simplifying and harmonising customs procedures worldwide. Annex J5 of the Convention deals specifically with relief consignments, seeking to “ensure that the aid actually...

Sports Volunteering in England 2002

This report, published in July 2003 by Sport England, builds on the base established by the Sports Council in 1995 with the publication of Valuing Volunteers in UK Sport (Sports Council 1996). The 1996 study was the first comprehensive investigation of the scale and value of volunteering in UK...

WBCSD Annual Review 2010/2011

WBCSD’s 2010/2011 Annual Review looks back at the activities carried out in the past year and reflects on the challenges ahead. The review uses Vision 2050 as the red thread to show how the WBCSD’s work programme aligns with the pathway it describes, and the role of business in moving toward a...