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Weather.com

This site provides hourly to monthly national & regional weather forecast in the US and the cities over the world with the satellite map. A number of weather apps are available to download. Spanish, Portuguese, French, German and Italian are also provided in the site.

nfpjob.co.uk

nfpjob.co.uk is an online jobs board dedicated to the not-for-profit sector. The website hosts all levels of positions for many UK charities.

United Nations System Key Focal Point - Youth

United Nations System Key Focal Point - Youth web page provides youth resources within the United Nations System.

Sigma Guidelines - Putting Sustainable Development into Practice: A Guide for Organisations

The Sigma Guidelines provide clear, practical advice to organisations to enable them to make a meaningful contribution to sustainable development. The guidelines help organisations to effectively meet challenges posed by social, environmental and economic dilemmas, threats and opportunities and...

WTO Director-General Mike Moore calls for increased trade liberalisation to help finance development

WTO Director-General Mike Moore calls for increased trade liberalisation to help finance development, a news article, reports that the then WTO Director-General Mike Moore said trade liberalisation can make a huge contribution to the generation of resources for the financing of development. But Mr...

Business and malaria: a neglected threat?

Business and malaria, a report of the Global Health Initiative (GHI) of the World Economic Forum, is the largest and most comprehensive report ever on the impact of malaria on business. The report found that 72% of Sub-Saharan African businesses are affected by malaria. In response, the GHI...

OECD Principles of Corporate Governance

OECD Principles of Corporate Governance are intended to assist OECD and non-OECD governments in their efforts to evaluate and improve the legal, institutional and regulatory framework for corporate governance in their countries. The Principles also provide guidance and suggestions for stock...

Dare to Lead: public health and company wealth

This is the first in a series of briefing papers analysing the human development impact of transnational corporations (TNCs). The series aims to examine the links between trade and poverty eradication and to illustrate the challenges facing industry as a whole in contributing more systematically to...

Niger Phonebook

Africa Phonebooks Niger is a web site that provides yellow and white page telephone information for Niger. Entries are listed by name, city or classification. Chinese, Dutch, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese, Spanish, Russian and Svenska are also provided.

Directory of UN Agencies in Morocco

This site provides a directory of and information about all UN agencies in Morocco.

UN Global Compact Principles

The UN Global Compact Principles document consists of 10 principles in the areas of human rights, labour, the environment and anti-corruption that the Global Compact asks companies to embrace, support and enact, within their sphere of influence.

Alertnet: Iraq page

Disaster relief website with information about Iraq, including facts on the climate, population, language and ethnic groups. Also has a political profile, detailed information on the communication and transportation infrastructure, and human development and economic statistics.

Quality of Money: Donor Behaviour in Humanitarian Financing

Quality of Money: Donor Behaviour in Humanitarian Financing, a report, discusses the factors involved in steering donor behaviour for international humanitarian action. The report states that the lack of standard donor definitions, priorities, time-frames, and reporting requirements places the onus...

Australian Agency for International Development (AusAID) - Accreditation Criteria

Listed on this website are criteria for accreditation with AusAID. The criteria have been developed in consultation with the Australian Council for Overseas Aid (ACFOA) and the NGO community. They state that “[A charity must have] formally adopted and be compliant with the ACFOA Code of Conduct for...

Canadian Tax Act (relevant to NGOs)

This bulletin discusses the tax consequences of making a gift in kind to charity or others and the valuation of that gift.

Iraq Map

The UN Iraq map site shows authorised entry points into Iraq for humanitarian supplies. The map is provided by the UN Oil for Food Programme.

Directory of Social Change (DSC)

The Directory of Social Change (DSC), set up in 1975, is an independent source of information and support to voluntary and community sectors worldwide. The DSC provides training courses and publications (including online information and CD-ROMs) on fundraising, management, organisational and...

Guidelines to Bhutan Customs Rules and Regulations

This site provides information for those importing goods to Bhutan on the following topics: prohibited goods, tax and regulations.

ECHO Manual for the Evaluation of Humanitarian Aid

ECHO Manual for the Evaluation of Humanitarian Aid provides the evaluation practice, methods, and theory utilised by the European Community Humanitarian Office (ECHO) to assess humanitarian aid operations.

Linking Business with Pro-Poor Development

Linking Business with Pro-Poor Development explores two key questions, How can business be pro-poor? and How can such partnerships be made sustainable? The document showcases how an innovative private-community partnership transformed the livelihoods of highly vulnerable families in far flung...