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Role of Employee Engagement in Disaster Response: Learning from Experience

Role of Employee Engagement in Disaster Response: Learning from Experience, a report, discusses the role of businesses in the relief, recovery and reconstruction process, of natural disasters. It presents an eight point plan for developing an employee engagement approach to disaster response....

Virtual library on international development - Cambodia page

A collection of links to international development resources on the internet, including lists of NGOs, government organisations, development statistics, and related documents.

Doing Business with the World: The New Role of Corporate Leadership in Global Development

Doing Business with the World, a publication of the World Business Council for Sustainable Development (WBCSD), describes how companies can contribute to global sustainable development through their core businesses in a way that is profitable for the companies and good for development.

UNOCHA Customs Directory

To assist those requiring information for shipping goods during disasters, UNOCHA provides contact details for the state customs departments. Where available, this online directory also lists customs regulations that are relevant to humanitarian cargo.

BBC micro enterprise article: "Tales of Africa's entrepreneurs"

BBC News Online says that while the world's leaders are "thrashing out strategies to improve the plight of the poor in Africa", many aid agencies are stressing that genuine progress must come from "small-scale projects as well as large international initiatives". The article then tells the tale of...

United Nations Calendar of Conferences and Meetings

The calendar of conferences and meetings of the United Nations is prepared by the Meetings Control Section of the Department for General Assembly and Conference Management. Conferences can be searched by date, venue, or year.

Travelocity

This web-based travel organisation has a facility for booking flights. It allows the user to be flexible with dates, as it will search for the cheapest fare within a certain period.

Baltic Sea Customs Conference - Lithuania

Representatives from the customs administrations of the Baltic Sea States together with the EU Commission attended this conference. They discussed and evaluated the progress made since the previous Conference in 1999. The site contains contact details for customs offices in Lithuania and ten other...

Communitybuilders.nsw - Funding Sources

The NSW Government's Community builders web site offers links for funding sources.

Relief Web - Israel page

The Relief Web is a UN project serving the information needs of the humanitarian relief world. The Web includes a country-by-country guide, with an entry for Israel. Topics include disaster history, vulnerable groups and other related information reported by different media and organisations. There...

A.T.A. Carnet for the Temporary Admission of Goods

The term "A.T.A. carnet" (Admission Temporaire - Temporary Admission) means the document produced as the Annex to the ATA Convention, Brussels, 6 December 1961 and, in this case in Australia, implemented in 1963. The Convention and Carnet are designed to facilitate the importation of goods which...

United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) - Country-by-country

This United Nations organisation provides a country-by-country guide to the latest statistical data on poverty indicators. Statistics are given under topics such as education, nutrition, mortality, and water and sanitation. All the data comes from the appropriate United Nations agency whenever...

Article: Materials for the Arts (MFTA)

News story about a New York based gifts-in-kind organisation with a 22,000 sq. foot warehouse. MFTA provides arts materials to support schools, other educational establishments, and non-profit organisations in the local area.

Mongolia map page

A United Nations map resource, with general maps of Mongolia, and geographical maps, showing disaster-related features. Includes maps showing the areas affected by recent natural disasters.

Microcredit Summit

Micro credit programmes offer small loans, and other financial services such as savings, to very poor people for self-employment projects that generate income, allowing them to care for themselves and their families. The Micro credit Summit Campaign brings together micro credit practitioners,...

Harvard Business Page: Micro enterprise article

In this HBS Working Knowledge interview, Senior Research Fellow Jed Emerson, co-author of a new book on nonprofits, discusses the challenges of the community-based enterprise.

Rough Guides

Rough Guides is based on a series of travel books that offer cultural and historical information about countries around the world. Their trend is to offer opinionated recommendations about things to do, places to go, local music and food. The website also has guides to music genre, and an online...