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newsafrica.com
http://www.newafrica.com/news/gender/

• backgrounders and interviews on Africa

• Africa stories (requires free registration)

• Founded in 1920, the National Bureau of Economic Research is a private, nonprofit, nonpartisan research organization dedicated to promoting a greater understanding of how the economy works. The NBER is committed to undertaking and disseminating unbiased economic research among public policymakers, business professionals, and the academic community.

• The Natural Resources Institute of the University of Greenwich is an internationally recognised centre of expertise in research and consultancy in the environment and natural resources sector. The Institute carries out research and development on behalf of international donor agencies. Most of NRI's work provides support to development assistance programmes and contributes to environmentally sound management of physical and biological resources ('natural capital') for use by future generations.

• Rising poverty, choking pollution and community breakdown? Don't believe those who say there is no alternative. Promotes practical and creative approaches for a just and sustainable economy.

Novartis
http://www.foundation.novartis.com/
http://www.foundation.novartis.com/

• The Novartis Foundation for Sustainable Development is engaged in programmes in the developing countries that directly contribute to an improvement in the quality of life of the poorest people.

• The Network Startup Resource Center (NSRC), a non-profit organization, has been involved for the past decade with the deployment and integration of appropriate networking technology in various projects throughout Asia, Africa, Latin America and the Caribbean, the Middle East, and Oceania.

• magazine reports on the issues of inequality and world poverty and to bring to life the people, ideas and action in the fight for world justice.

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• Africa information from 350 global justice organizations

• brings together the more professional and academic of the thousands of documents on the OneWorld Online super-site.

Overseas Development Council
http://www.odc.org/

• The Overseas Development Council is an independent, international policy research institution based in Washington, DC, that seeks to improve decision making on multilateral cooperation to promote more effective development and the better management of related global problems.

•  international reputation for consultancy and research work overseas. Alongside working with many of the major national and international agencies in over 70 countries, the group provides specialist and interdisciplinary training, both in and outside the UK, in many aspects of development work. Drawing on a wealth of experience from faculty members of The School of Development Studies at the University of East Anglia, The Overseas Development Group offers expert training, consultancy and research facilities to a broad spectrum of development interests.

• an independent non-governmental centre for development research and a forum for discussion of the problems facing developing countries.

• a Paris-based intergovernmental organisation whose purpose is to provide its 29 Member countries with a forum in which governments can compare their experiences, discuss the problems they share and seek solutions which can then be applied within their own national contexts. The Organisation is thus entirely at the service of its Member countries. It forms a homogeneous entity in that each Member country is committed to the principles of the market economy and pluralistic democracy.

OXFAM UK&I
http://www.oxfam.org.uk

• Oxfam is a development and relief agency working to put an end to poverty world-wide. Oxfam believes that poverty is not inevitable: it can be tackled, and must be ended. In partnership with local groups, Oxfam works with poor people to help them help themselves.

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• The primary mission of the Programme for Arms Control, Disarmament and Conversion is to document and to serve as a facilitator for policy initiatives that reduce the impact of weapons and violence on human, political and economic development.

• a source of news, opinions and perspectives from developing countries. It provides information on a wide range of environmental and social development topics including briefings and features on HIV/AIDS, new information technologies, gender and reproductive health, environment.

• The Poverty Research Unit at Sussex (PRUS) aims to develop existing and new areas of poverty research. We try to contribute to a better understanding of poverty, its causes and alleviation, in the developing as well as the industrialised world

• News items in French

• People & the Planet is jointly sponsored by the UNDP, the WCU, the WWF and the IPPF. All are united in the belief that people, their consumption, their technologies and their numbers, interact with the environment of our planet in ways which need to be explored.

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Queen Elizabeth House, Centre for Development Studies, University of Oxford.
http://units.ox.ac.uk/departments/qeh/

• Queen Elizabeth House is the  Development Studies is an inter-disciplinary and multi-disciplinary enquiry into changes and transformation in less developed parts of the world. While recent intellectual and political developments have tended to restrict theoretical models and policy changes into a single model of development, the aim of QEH is to question this tunnelling of choices by encouraging teaching and research which adopt a variety of approaches, always maintaining rigorous standards.

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ReliefWeb
http://www.reliefweb.int/w/rwb.nsf

• ReliefWeb is a project of the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA), and is acknowledged as the premier online source of information on natural disasters and complex emergencies. ReliefWeb’s mandate is to strengthen the response capacity of the humanitarian relief community through the timely dissemination of reliable information on response, preparedness and disaster prevention. This is accomplished by providing guaranteed access to time-critical reports, maps and financial contributions to both decision makers at headquarters and to relief teams in the field.

Royal Anthropological Institute
http://lucy.ukc.ac.uk/rai/

• The RAI publishes journals, has a privileged link with the Museum of Mankind Library (British Museum), has a film lending library and an extensive photographic collection, gives awards for outstanding scholarship, organizes lectures and meetings, and manages a number of trust funds for research.

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SANGONET 
http://www.sn.apc.org/

• A regional electronic information and communications network for development and human rights workers

• fights worldwide injustice against children and young people, defending their rights and promoting their needs.

•  information about ongoing research and development projects in the field of health and development. The SHARED database contains informaiton fromof both the European Commission as well as Developing Countries. It allows scientists and policy makers to analyse and compare information, look at relevance, opportunity and gaps, find new partners and, in all, make better decisions.

• continues to consolidate its position as the major national centre for the study of subjects concerned with Asia and Africa.The School has well established research programmes in cultures of Asia and Africa, and in the social sciences and humanities, including law, political studies, economics, anthropology and sociology, art and archaeology, music, religious studies, linguistic, geography and development studies.’

Strategies for Hope
http://www.actionaid.org/stratshope/

• Strategies For Hope aims to promote informed, positive thinking and practical action by all sections of society, in dealing with HIV and AIDS.

• The School of Urban Development and Policy has brought together a range of closely related courses in planning, architecture, housing, estate management, human geography and environmental policy. Although it may be a simplification, it could be said that the School deals with the 'non-hard hat' aspects of urban development.

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• Tear Fund is a Christian Relief and Development agency

Third World Women 

• Articles, books, and reference materials about women in the "Third World."

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UN Africa Centre for Women
http://www.un.org/Depts/eca/divis/acw/index.htm

UN Internet Gateway on the Advancement and Empowerment of Women:
http://www.un.org/womenwatch/

UN Development Fund for Women
http://www.unifem.undp.org

UN Economic and Social Development: General Information on Women http://www.un.org/ecosocdev/geninfo/women

UNDP: Links on Poverty, Environment, Gender and Governance: http://www.undp.org/toppages/focus%20areas/focus.htm

USAFRICA - africa news
http://www.usafricaonline.com/news.htm

UNED-UK
http://www.oneworld.org/uned-uk/

• UNED-UK - "the promotion of global environmental protection and sustainable development, particularly through support of the UN Environment Programme, the UN Development Programme, the UN Commission on Sustainable Development, and all other relevant UN and inter-governmental institutions"

• Founded in 1946, UNICEF advocates and works for the protection of children's rights, to help the young meet their basic needs and to expand their opportunities to reach their full potential.

• an autonomous agency engaging in multi-disciplinary research on the social dimensions of problems affecting development

UCL 
http://www.ucl.ac.uk/Anthropology/

• part of the United Nations and upholds the vision of the United Nations Charter. It is committed to the principle that development is inseparable from the quest for peace and human security and that the United Nations must be a strong force for development as well as peace.

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• Voluntary Service Overseas (VSO) is a charity that sends aid to developing countries - not in the form of money, food, clothing or equipment, but in the form of expert volunteers . The right people with the right skills who are committed to ensuring lasting, sustainable improvements where they are most needed.

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Women3rdWorld

• The site offers articles and information about women's lives in developing countries. It focusses on health, economic, social, political, and other issues. Links to other sites about women in developing countries are also provided.

Women's Environment and Development Organization

• WEDO is an international advocacy network actively working to transform society to achieve a healthy and peaceful planet, with social, political, economic, and environmental justice for all through the empowerment of women, in all their diversity, and their equal participation with men in decision-making from grassroots to global arenas.

WomensNet
http://

• WomensNet supports women's organizations locally, nationally and worldwide by providing and adapting telecommunications technology to enhance their work.

• The World Bank's goal is to reduce poverty and improve living standards by promoting sustainable growth and investment in people. The Bank provides loans, technical assistance and policy guidance to developing-country members to achieve this objective.

World Bank Development Forum
http://www.worldbank.org/devforum/

World Bank Group: African Region on Gender  http://www.worldbank.org/aftdr/bp/GENDER/gendtest.htm

World Food Programme, Women and Gender
http://www.wfp.org/info-themes-women-home.html

WomensNet
http://www.igc.org/igc/womensnet/

• supports women's organizations worldwide by providing and adapting telecommunications technology to enhance their work

• encourages main external and internal actors in war-torn countries to collectively analyse the complex interactions between peace-keeping, relief, rehabilitation and development activities, and between local, national and external actors. Participatory action-research is used as a tool to jointly define policies that could lead to a better integration of different forms of international assistance — humanitarian, economic, political, military — and to a better alignment of such assistance with local and national efforts.

• WaterAid's vision is of a world in which all people have access to safe water and sanitation. WaterAid aims to work through partner organisations to help poor people in developing countries achieve sustainable improvements in the quality of life by improved domestic water supply, sanitation and associated hygiene practices.

World Health Organisation
http://www.who.ch/

• A specialized agency of the United Nations with 191 Member States, WHO promotes technical cooperation for health among nations, carries out programmes to control and eradicate disease and strives to improve the quality of human life.

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