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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...

Anti-Corruption Gateway for Europe and Eurasia

The Anti-Corruption Gateway is an online resource that serves as an easily accessible repository of anti-corruption project documentation, legislation and news. It also presents regional and international agreements and survey results from Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union and has...

How Can My Company Help? - A Guide for Country Managers in Responding to Natural Disasters

How Can My Company Help? - A Guide for Country Managers in Responding to Natural Disasters is intended to help companies prepare for a local corporate response to crises in their country or region. The guide includes information on building partnerships with relief agencies, assessing on-the-ground...

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...

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...

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,...

European Union Humanitarian Aid Links

A page of links to EU documents on humanitarian aid. Contains over 60 documents showing the amount of aid that the EU has distributed to each country and describing the type of projects that the EU is involved in.

Relief Web - Afghanistan page

A UN project serving the information needs of the humanitarian relief world. Includes a country-by-country guide, with an entry for Afghanistan. Topics include disaster history, geography and economics, infrastructure, and media links. Also has a list of other country profiles websites and links to...

Relief Web - Azerbaijan page

A UN project serving the information needs of the humanitarian relief world. Includes a country-by-country guide, with an entry for Azerbaijan. Topics include disaster history, geography and economics, infrastructure, and media links. Also has a list of other country profiles websites and links to...

Relief Web - Bangladesh page

A UN project serving the information needs of the humanitarian relief world. Includes a country-by-country guide, with an entry for Bangladesh. Topics include disaster history, geography and economics, infrastructure, and media links. Also has lists of links to other country profiles, to related UN...

Relief Web - Bhutan page

A UN project serving the information needs of the humanitarian relief world. Includes a country-by-country guide, with an entry for Bhutan. Topics include disaster history, geography and economics, infrastructure, and media links. Also has a list of other country profiles websites and links to...

Relief Web - Bulgaria page

A UN project serving the information needs of the humanitarian relief world. Includes a country-by-country guide, with an entry for Bulgaria. Topics include disaster history, geography and economics, infrastructure, and media links. Also has a list of other country profiles websites and links to...

Relief Web - Cambodia page

A UN project serving the information needs of the humanitarian relief world. Includes a country-by-country guide, with an entry for Cambodia. Topics include disaster history, geography and economics, infrastructure, and media links. Also has a list of other country profiles websites and links to...

Relief Web - Czech Republic page

A UN project serving the information needs of the humanitarian relief world. Includes a country-by-country guide, with an entry for the Czech Republic. Topics include disaster history, geography and economics, infrastructure, and media links. Also has lists of links to other country profiles, and...

Relief Web - Dominica page

A UN project serving the information needs of the humanitarian relief world. Includes a country-by-country guide, with an entry for Dominica. Topics include disaster history, geography and economics, infrastructure, and media links. Also has a list of other country profiles websites and links to...

Relief Web - Fiji page

A UN project serving the information needs of the humanitarian relief world. Includes a country-by-country guide, with an entry for Fiji. Topics include disaster history, geography and economics, infrastructure, and media links. Also has a list of other country profiles websites and links to...

Relief Web - Ghana page

A UN project serving the information needs of the humanitarian relief world. Includes a country-by-country guide, with an entry for Ghana. Topics include disaster history, geography and economics, infrastructure, and media links. Also has lists of links to other country profiles, and to related UN...

Relief Web - Republic of Korea page

A UN project serving the information needs of the humanitarian relief world. Includes a country-by-country guide, with an entry for the Republic of Korea. Topics include disaster history, economics, infrastructure, and media links. Also has a list of other country profiles websites, related news...

Customs Regulations - Egypt

This overview of Egypt customs regulations states that one can import "Household goods duty-free for government, oil company and Aid Project personnel, provided a Letter of Guarantee is submitted approving the import and stating that the shipment will be re-exported".

Relief Web - Romania page

A UN project serving the information needs of the humanitarian relief world. Includes a country-by-country guide, with an entry for Romania. Topics include disaster history, geography and economics, infrastructure, and media links. Also has a list of other country profiles websites and links to...