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International Initiatives To Promote Responsible Business: A Navigation Guide for Business
International Initiatives To Promote Responsible Business: A Navigation Guide for Business provides a user-friendly and impartial guide to help businesses to navigate their way through this maze. It seeks to articulate the key aspects of three cross-industry initiatives: The OECD Guidelines for...
Conference on global poverty: business solutions and approaches
Business Solutions and Approaches, a Harvard Business School conference on global poverty, explored ways in which serving the poor can be both a profitable business proposition and help improve the lives of the world's impoverished men and women. The conference focused on successful business...
Towards Global Partnerships
Towards Global Partnerships, a resolution adopted by the UN General Assembly, encourages partnerships between the UN and the private sector, outlines the principles that should govern such partnerships, and stresses the important role that the private sector can play in encouraging development and...
Canadian Code for Volunteer Involvement
Canadian Code for Volunteer Involvement is a road map for voluntary organisations of any size, that proposes strategies to effectively involve volunteers. In many organisations, support of volunteers through volunteer programs exists only at the periphery of the organisation. The Code proposes ways...
United Nations Assistance Misssion for Iraq (UNAMI)
The United Nations Assistance Misssion for Iraq (UNAMI) hosts a web portal for UN agencies and NGOs working in Iraq.
LDC Poverty Alleviation and the Doha Development Agenda: Is Tourism being Neglected?
LDC Poverty Alleviation and the Doha Development Agenda: Is Tourism being Neglected?, a WTO Staff Working Paper, does not deny the importance of agriculture or other LDC and developing country trade issues, but rather enquires; should the poverty alleviation potential of tourism now become a...
InterAction's Private Voluntary Organization Standards
InterAction's Private Voluntary Organization Standards is a code of best practice for InterAction's members. The standards relate to the activity of non-profit organisations in areas of governance, volunteer involvement, support from the private sector, fundraising, service and programme...
Fighting Poverty: A Business Opportunity - Report on the 10th International Business Forum
Fighting Poverty: A Business Opportunity - Report on the 10th International Business Forum, a conference report, provides a summary of the Forum's proceedings in respect to how business is addressing the Millennium Development Goals.
Doing business with the poor - a field guide
The Guide explores the way in which several leading companies, including Shell, Coca Cola and Procter and Gamble, are developing inclusive business models designed to assist them to create new revenue streams while serving the needs of the poor through sound commercial operations. The companies are...
European Foundation Centre Principles of Good Practice
The European Foundation Centre (EFC) Principles of Good Practice represent a shared vision of good practices and constitute a general recommendation to reinforce good practice, openness and transparency in the European foundation community. As such, they are intended to be of application both...
Business and Poverty:Bridging the gap
Business and Poverty: Bridging the gap, a report produced for the Resource Centre,an initiative of a number of UK business partners, addresses the issues involved in a comprehensive approach to poverty elimination in which the public, private and voluntary sectors work together to attack the...
ReliefWeb - Togo
A UN project serving the information needs of the humanitarian relief world. Includes a country-by-country guide, with an entry for Togo. It provides the latest updates about the country and its humanitarian situation.
Useful Information and Resources for Environmental Protection and Sustainable Development in Tunisia
This site provides news, information and resources regarding environmental protection and sustainable development in Tunisia. In particular, this link provides other useful organisations and links relating to Tunisia's environment and development, with links to other governmental and...
Making Agricultural Trade Reform Work for the Poor
Making Agricultural Trade Reform Work for the Poor, a position paper of the International Food&Agricultural Trade Policy Council (IPC), brings together what is known about the link between agricultural trade reform and poverty alleviation, and about how developing countries can successfully...
People In Aid Code of Good Practice
The People In Aid Code of Good Practice is a quality framework covering all aspects of human resources and people management. It comprises 7 principles, each with specific indicators. The Code supports continuous improvement of NGOs‘ HR practices, facilitates stakeholder engagement, and measures...
Formula for Corporate Funding
A Grants and Foundations Review article from the Charity Channel on how to find funding from corporate partners for events or special projects.
Information on Packing Products for Shipping
The web page is from the U.S. Government's export portal and contains useful information on packing products for shipping overseas. It also contains other related information such as tariff, import fees, inspections and Incoterms.
Achieving the Millennium Development Goals in Africa: Recommendations of the MDG Africa Steering Group
Achieving the Millennium Development Goals in Africa: Recommendations of the MDG Africa Steering Group, a report by the MDG Africa Steering Group, provides practical steps, strategies and programmes, with costings, needed to achieve the Millennium Development Goals in Africa. This report was...
From Challenge to Opportunity: The role of business in tomorrow's society
From Challenge to Opportunity: The role of business in tomorrow's society, a paper from the Tomorrow's Leaders group of the World Business Council for Sustainable Development (WBCSD), presents a fresh perspective on the role of business in society. The paper sets out a model through which companies...
Regional perspectives on "Sustainable Livelihoods and Business"
Regional perspectives on Sustainable Livelihoods and Business, a publication of the WBCSD, discusses the potential of Sustainable Livelihoods (SL) businesses - businesses that benefit the poor while opening new doors to companies’ activities. The report presents the features and findings obtained...