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Scaling Up Poverty Reduction and Global Learning Process, Shanghai, 25-27 May 2004
This World Bank conference brought together some 600 participants around a series of success stories in development, highlighting approaches that work in poverty reduction. The conference, held in Shanghai, was part of a nine-month global learning process, resulting in a searchable database of more...
Aid For Trade Second Global Review: Programme
Aid For Trade Second Global Review: Programme, an audio/visual summary, provides the proceedings of this conference which focused upon maintaining the momentum of Aid for Trade mandate, agreed at the WTO's Hong Kong Ministerial Conference in 2005. This mandate aims to help developing countries, and...
New guidelines to help investors measure success of microfinance institutions
According to this news article, socially responsible investors are choosing to invest in microfinance to help alleviate poverty. By means of often very small loans, financial services, and technology, microfinance helps the poor, often women, to start self-sustaining businesses in order to escape...
Harnessing Private Sector Capabilities to Meet Public Needs: The Potential of Partnerships to Advance Progress on Hunger, Malaria and Basic Education
Harnessing Private Sector Capabilities to Meet Public Needs: The Potential of Partnerships to Advance Progress on Hunger, Malaria and Basic Education, a report of the WEF, discusses the four main ways in which businesses typically engage in the process of economic development: core business...
ACT Guiding Principles on Material Aid
ACT Guiding Principles on Material Aid, a policy guide, outlines ACT International's principles on material aid donations, the responsibilities of donors and implementing ACT members, and specifications relating to particular material aid categories.
Survival Guide
The Survival Guide is a web based resource containing practical advice and information for anyone hoping to volunteer or work overseas. The Guide contains over 200 sections on topics such as travel, health insurance, cross-cultural learning, security, health care, communications, clothes, danger...
Foundation for Economic Education
A research organisation that studies the moral and intellectual foundation of a free society and shares its knowledge with individuals everywhere. Founded in 1946, the society educates the world on the principles of free-market economics, including the importance of private property and individual...
Real Access Criteria
Real Access Criteria are used to frame the analysis of all issues surrounding ICT access and use, including the aspects that are often overlooked. They are designed to anticipate or detect the reasons that ICT development initiatives, government e-strategies, or grassroots projects fail to achieve...
Private sector participation for sustainable water service management
Following the findings of the Rüschlikon-Conference a process was initiated to find ways in which the private sector participation (PSP) projects could be evaluated in order to develop further and to improve the rules of the game for PSP. Based on field experience it should be possible to elaborate...
MicroLINKS
The MicroLINKS page provides links to websites that offer internship opportunities with organisations working in microenterprise.
Free Management Library
The Free Management Library (FML) provides an easy-to-access and comprehensive database of basic and practical managerial and business information for leaders and managers running large and small non-profit and for-profit organisations with very limited resources. The FML currently lists...
National Center for Charitable Statistics (Data Web)
The NCCS is the national repository for data on the non-profit sector in the United States. Data is made available for non-commercial research purposes through the NCCS Data Web.
Humanitarian Shipments: Technical Advice for U.S. Exporters
This website sets out the legal requirements for humanitarian shipments from the USA and provides advice to organisations intending to make such shipments, both businesses and NGOs, and points out that all organisatons must conduct proper due diligence on the importer or receiving organisation to...
Funding for NGOs
The website discusses the fundraising issue. A number of courses are also provided there.
Business Contributions to UN Emergency Relief Efforts: An Orientation Guide
Business Contributions to UN Emergency Relief Efforts: An Orientation Guide describes the role of various UN agencies during an emergency, and identifies ways in which companies can support relief efforts in a timely and appropriate manner, through cash contributions, in-kind donations, or...
UNICEF - Ghana page
UNICEF provides the latest statistical data on Ghana, including indicators of the current poverty situation in the country. Statistics are listed under topics such as education, nutrition, mortality, water and sanitation. All the data comes from the appropriate United Nations agency whenever...
ISO 26000
ISO 26000 is a voluntary international standard providing guidance on social responsibility. It will add value to existing social responsibility work by developing an international consensus on the social responsibility concept and the issues that organisations need to address. ISO 26000, which is...
World Directory of Development Organisations and Programs
World Directory of Development Organisations and Programs, created within the Project "Cooperating for Vooperation", promotes mutual cooperation, dissemination of data and exchange of experiences among organisations, associations and informal groups whose activity is development related. The...
Key issues in emergency needs assessment
Over 50 representatives from governments, multilateral agencies, NGOs, regional bodies, research institutes and consultancy firms gathered at WFP's Rome headquarters in October 2003 for the third technical consultation on strengthening emergency needs assessments. A series of technical workshops...
University of Texas Map Library - Turkmenistan page
A large database of maps from around the world. Has a political and relief maps for Turkmenistan, and links to other sites with similar maps. Other relevant maps include political and transport maps for Central Asia and time-zone maps.