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ACP Secretariat
http://www.oneworld.org/acpsec/

• The ACP Secretariat represents 71 African, Caribbean and Pacific countries that have signed the Lomé Convention with the EU. It supports the ACP institutions and provides administrative and technical assistance to the negotiating processes.

ACTIONAID
http://www.actionaid.org

AfPiC - Action for Peoples in Conflict
http://www.oneworld.org/afpic/

• AfPiC is a charity that works in different parts of the world to help victims of conflict caused by racial, ethnic, social, religious or cultural intolerance.

Africa Intelligence

• Paris based site covering the African continent, provides news in French and English

Africa Online
http://www.africaonline.com

• Web sites in Cote d'Ivoire, Ghana, Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda, Zimbabwe

Africa Policy Information Center
http://www.africapolicy.org

• The Africa Policy Information Center (APIC) provides accessible policy-relevant information and analysis around Africa issues and the U.S. role in Africa.

African Academy of Sciences
http://www.oneworld.org/aas

• The African Academy of Sciences (AAS) fosters excellence in scientific and technological endevours in direct support of social and economic development.

African Studies Quarterly
http://web.africa.ufl.edu/asq/

Africanews
http://www.africanews.org/

Africanews (Gender)
http://www.africanews.org/women/

Amnesty International
http://www.amnesty.org.uk

• One of the world's largest international voluntary organisations dealing with human rights. The UK Section has more than 125,000 members, 330 local groups and 900 affiliated organisations.

Anthropological Index Online
http://lucy.ukc.ac.uk/AIO.html

• Anthropological index to current periodicals in the Museum of Mankind Library

Anti-Slavery International
http://www.charitynet.org/~asi/

• Anti-Slavery International (ASI) promotes the eradication of slavery and slavery-like practices, and freedom for everyone who is subjected to them. ASI focuses on the rights of people who are particularly vulnerable to exploitation of their labour, notably women, children, migrant workers and indigenous peoples.

Anthropology Today
http://lucy.ukc.ac.uk/rai/at.html

• Magazine with a special emphasis on topical issues, films, applied anthropology, controversy, etc.

ASIACO 
http://news.asiaco.com/world/africa/woman_gender.shtml

• News articles on Women and Gender

Associated Press

wire stories via WashingtonPost.com

AVIVA
http://www.aviava.org/

• a FREE 'Webzine' run by an International group of Feminists based in London. Provides a free listings service for women everywhere, funded by advertising, and sponsorship.

AWID The Association for Women in Development 
http://www.awid.org

• A dynamic international membership organization committed to gender equality and a just and sustainable development process

AWOGNet: African Women Global Network : Women in Technology and Development
http://www.osu.edu/org/awognet/events

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BBC World News - Africa page
http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/world/africa

Best Practices Database
http://www.bestpractices.org/

• Searchable database containing over 650 solutions to the common social, economic and environmental problems of an urbanizing world. It demonstrates the practical ways in which communities, governments and the private sector are working together to eradicate poverty, provide shelter, protect the environment and support economic development.

BOND
http://bond.org.uk

BOND - NGO Newsgroups
http://www.bond.org.uk/links/regintro.html

BRIDGE
http://www.ids.ac.uk/ids/research/bridge/index.html

• An innovative information and analysis service specialising in gender and development issues. It's objective is to assist development professionals and organisations to integrate gender concerns into their work.

British Council
http://www.britcoun.org

• The British Council promotes wider knowledge of the UK and the English language and encourages cultural, scientific, technological and educational cooperation between the UK and other countries.

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• a website dedicated to advancing the policy and practice of capacity building in international development cooperation.

CDR
http://www.cdr.dk/

• The Danish Centre for Development Research carries out social science development research in Africa, Asia and Latin America. It supports development research through library and documentation services and offers consultancy services.

Centre of African Studies
http://www.ed.ac.uk/~centas/cas.htm

• Interdisciplinary centre promoting the understanding of Africa through masters and doctoral level teaching and through seminars, conferences, publications and networking across Scotland.

Centre for Alternative Technology
http://www.cat.org.uk/

• Educational charity striving to achieve the best cooperation between the natural, technological and human worlds.

Centre for Comparative Labour Studies
http://www.warwick.ac.uk/fac/soc/complabstuds/complab.htm

• Established in 1993 to provide an interdisciplinary focus for the study of questions relating to labour. This includes the study of paid and unpaid labour, the past and the present, the local and the general. The Centre is committed to a consideration of comparative research relating to labour, based on class, race and gender.

Centre for Development Studies, Bath University
http://www.bath.ac.uk/Centres/CDS/

• The centre aims to stimulate and assist research in development studies of members of staff and graduate students in the Social Sciences, and to bring their work to the notice of others in the field.

CNN World News - Africa stories
http://www.cnn.com/WORLD/africa

CODESRIA: Council for the Development of Social Science Research in Africa  
http://www.wsi.cso.uiuc.edu/CAS/codesria/codesria.htm

The Communication Initiative
http://www.comminit.com

• a news and information gathering portal enhancing communication initiatives regarding Global Development, Health and other international issues. We are an online media resource centre supporting active communication organisations. Partners include: The Rockefeller Foundation, UNICEF, USAID, WHO, UNFPA, Johns Hopkins Center, BBC World Service, CIDA, Soul City and PANOS.

Community Development Society
http://www.mta.ca/research/rstp/year2000/en.htm

Conflict and Peace Forum
http://www.conflictandpeace.org/

• Founded 1997 for the purpose of bringing to light and promoting new ways of conflict transformation at every level. The body of work is based on an analysis of conflict as complex and by virtue of its complexity, equally able to be the cause of violence as the cause for development in a single person, a country or the globe. The task is to present - whether in complex emergency zones or television newsrooms - both possibilities.

• CSAE is one of the largest concentrations of academic economists and social scientists working on Africa outside the continent itself. The Centre produces The Journal of African Economies , published by Oxford University Press (OUP), as well as its own members' Working Paper Series and White Papers .

Centre for the study of Globalisation and Regionalisation
CSGR

• The Centre for the Study of Globalisation and Regionalisation (CSGR) is the largest research centre dealing with the study of globalisation and regionalisation in Europe. It has become an international site for research in this area.

• The supports and encourages many research interests and approaches. Over three decades, a wide range of research projects have been undertaken with the aim of producing results that will contribute to public debate and inform policy on the major media and communication issues of the day.

CIESN
http://www.ciesin.org/home-page/ciesin-home.html

• an organization dedicated to making Development information available to a wide range of users--researchers, policy makers, and the general public

• CODE Europe's programme of activities centres on support for two vital elements of the book chain in developing countries - the strengthening of library resources in rural areas, and the development of publishing in developing countries.

• The Commonwealth Foundation is an intergovernmental organisation of the Commonwealth with a mandate to work in the non-governmental sector. It supports exchange, training opportunities and the sharing of skills, experience and information.

• a centre which coordinates research effort on issues relating to international trade and development economics. In addition to the basic scientific work which the Centre has been engaged in, policy evaluations for some of the leading international agencies have been completed, including the World Bank, UNCTAD, ILO and Commonwealth Secretariat.

CRIN- Child Rights Information Network
www.crin.ch/

• CRIN is a global network of children's rights organisations seeking to support the effective exchange of information about children and their rights. It is supported by nine international organisations, known as the Facilitating Group and the Coordinator is based at Save the Children (UK)

• Columbia International Affairs Online (CIAO) is designed to be the most comprehensive source for theory and research in international affairs. It publishes a wide range of scholarship from 1991 on that includes working papers from university research institutes, occasional papers series from NGOs, foundation-funded research projects, and proceedings from conferences.

• Development Alternatives aims to promote sustainable development through a wide range of activities. Primary focus areas include development and marketing of environmentally sound and appropriate technologies, and design and implementation of environmental management strategies and institutional systems.

• The DFID (formerly the Overseas Development Administration), is the government department responsible for all aspects of development policy. It works to promote greater coherence between aid and development policies.

• an independent organisation concerned with poverty, aid, development cooperation and international relations. It works on policy analysis, NGO management, dissemination of information and academic research, advocacy and government relations, strategic planning and evaluation, stakeholder analysis. DI edits the Reality of Aid (Earthscan), produces DI Update and is managing the dissemination of the DFID funded Finance and Development Research Programme.

• The Development and Project Planning Centre (DPPC) is one of the UK's oldest and largest university centres for development studies, specialising in the planning and management of development projects and current development policy issues.

• Development in Practice is a forum for practitioners, policy makers, and academics to exchange information and analysis concerning the social dimensions of development and humanitarian action.

• Devline is an information hosting and systems development service for development professionals, run by the Institute of Development Studies.

• The new DevMedia site includes features that allow you to easily access resources related to communication for development and democracy; to contribute documents, reports and web addresses; to browse and add events to a calendar ; and to subscribe to DevMedia Digest to receive a monthly update and review of new information on the site

• an information and support network promoting cross-cultural understanding, especially through greater access to the media. Based in London, England, it is open to individuals and organisations throughout the world.

Economic Commission for Africa  
http://www.un.org/Depts/eca/afrinews.htm

• News by country and links to African newspapers

ENDA: Synergy Gender and Development
http://www.enda.sn/synfev/synfev.htm

Equality Now

• an international human rights organization dedicated to action for the civil, political, economic and social rights of girls and women.

• EADI is an NGO which groups development institutes in Europe to stimulate exchange of information, promote interdisciplinary studies, encourage cooperation between social science researchers and collaboration between researchers in north and south.

ECDPM - European Centre for Development Policy Management
http://www.oneworld.org/ecdpm/

• Through capacity building, the promotion of policy dialogue, and the provision of information, ECDPM aims to improve cooperation between Europe and countries in Africa, the Caribbean, and the Pacific.

• The Electronic Development and Environment Information System is a directory and gateway to information resources, including links to organisations, databases, bibliographies, research documentation, library catalogues and full-text publications. .

• an information clearinghouse on enterprise development, entrepreneurship, business, finance, international trade and the economy in this new age of cyberspace and globalization. Main focus is on micro, small and medium scale enterprises, cooperatives, community economic development, both in developed and developing countries. ENTERWeb lists and rates Internet resources in these areas, and complements search engines by providing shortcuts in identifying important sources of information

EuFoRIC - Europe's Forum on International Cooperation
http://www.oneworld.org/euforic/

• a cooperative effort to improve access to information and expertise on aid policy and management in Europe.

ESRC - Economic and Social Research Council
http://www.esrc.ac.uk/

• The ESRC is the UK's largest independent funding agency for research and postgraduate training into social and economic issues. This site also features REGARD - a national database service containing in-depth information on social science research, funded by the Economic and Social Research Council

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Freedom Forum
Freedom Forum - Africa section

Forum
http://obelix.polito.it/forum/welcome.htm

• Forum: Habitat in Developing Countries is an internet resource aimed at providing information to researchers and professionals working for the improvement of the built environment in developing countries, and at facilitating communications among them.

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Global Fund for Women

• Feminist perspectives and advocacy in development

Global Information Infrastructure Commission: 
http://www.gii.org

• Forging a New Construct for Public and Private Sector Cooperation

Guardian and Observer
Guardian & Observer

• Africa stories from two leading British newspapers. Registration required

• GASPP is a five year research, advisory, education and public information programme concerned with the globalisation of social policy and the social content of global politics

• the home of a growing partnership and dialogue focused on harnessing knowledge and information as tools of sustainable and equitable development and mobilizing the innovations and resources of the information revolution as tools to empower the world's poor.

• the largest rural credit institution in Bangladesh. They use credit as the entry point for breaking the vicious circle of poverty and as a catalyst in the overall development process.

HAIN - Health Action Information Network
http://www.hain.org

• a non-governmental organisation involved in health research information, education and training. It works mainly with government and non-government groups involved in health and development work.

• Healthlink Worldwide (formerly AHRTAG) promotes sustainable health policies and practices by working in partnership to provide information on health and disability issues in developing countries, through print and electronic media, resource centre services, and training.

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IPS: Inter Press Service
http://www.ips.org

ISIS International: Breathing Feminism into Cyberspace
http://www.sequel.net/~isis/

IDD
http://www.bham.ac.uk/IDD/

• The International Development Department of the School of Public Policy provides degree courses, training, consultancy and research services to a world-wide range of government and non-government clients at national and sub-national levels. The Department is committed to the promotion of effective public management and good governance, and to the generation of new thinking in the fields of development policy and management.

International Development Select Committee
http://www.parliament.uk/commons/selcom/indhome.htm

• The International Development Select Committee is the UK House of Commons committee on International Development.

I2K (Information to Knowledge) Center
http://www.kcenter.com

• The i2K Center offers members an intranet-based tool to manage and share information, and to monitor, evaluate and report on their project activities. The i2K Intranet enables members to work collaboratively on projects even if the participants are geographically dispersed. The Intranet provides access to an electronic library or Knowledge Base and MER - Project Management Software. Through our Intranet, i2K will help improve communications between communities, projects, sectors, field offices, partner organizations and donors.

• one of Europe's leading centres for research and teaching on Third World development.

• The Institute for Development Policy and Management (IDPM) is a multi-disciplinary group within the University of Manchester specialising in training, consultancy and research in management and development in less developed countries. Its main objective is to promote social and economic development by enhancing the professional competence of individual managers and policy-makers, and by strengthening the organisations in which they work through a variety of activities in the UK and overseas.

Institute for International Economics
http://www.iie.com

• The Institute for International Economics is a private, nonprofit, nonpartisan research institution devoted to the study of international economic policy. Since 1981 the Institute has provided timely, objective analysis of key international economic problems and proposed concrete solutions to them

IIED - International Institute for Environment and Development
http://www.oneworld.org/iied/

• an independent, non-profit organisation which promotes sustainable patterns of world development through collaborative research, policy studies, consensus building and public information.

IISD - Linkages
http://www.iisd.ca/linkages/

• IISD - A Multimedia resource for Environment and Development Policy Makers

• Relevant information on indigenous knowledge (IK), scattered along the Internet, is searched, indexed and made available on the Indigenous Knowledge Pages.

Informal credit
http://www.soc.titech.ac.jp/titsoc/higuchi-lab/icm/

• The virtual Library on Microcredit

INFO 21
http://www.undp.org/undp/info21/index.htm

• INFO 21 - This site serves as a repository and resource tool for UNDP's country offices, the new global hub for colleagues within UNDP and in other multilateral organisations and institutions worldwide, as well as for a host of other partners in the private sector, civil society organisations, the academic community and the media.

• widely recognised as one of the most influential business schools in the world. Its global scope and multicultural diversity make it the model for international management education

• a leading alternative news organisation with a network of correspondents in more than 100 countries and tele-communications links to 1,200 media outlets.

• Intermediate Technology (IT) aims to enable poor people in the South to develop and use skills and technologies which give them more control over their lives and which contribute to the sustainable development of their communities.

Lusa News in English

• coverage of Portuguese-speaking Africa

• committed to the integration of theory and practice in business management. Their research strategy promotes world-class research in areas of real concern to business managers, enabling them to improve their ability to manage successfully in the face of continually changing and increasingly complex markets.

• The Department of Social Policy and Administration's research is extensive and interdisciplinary. It applies a range of social science disciplines to the study of social policy issues. Special research centres have been established within the Department to study voluntary organisation, health, education, personal social services, and city design (see separate entries). The Department also has close links with research at LSE on housing and social exclusion.

• The mission of the London School of Hygeine and Tropical Medicine is to contribute to the improvement of health world-wide through the pursuit of excellence in research, postgraduate teaching, advanced training and consultancy in international public health and tropical medicine.

MandE NEWS
http://www.mande.co.uk/news.htm

• News service oriented towards NGOs, focusing on developments in monitoring and evaluation methods that are relevant to development projects with social development objectives.

Microcredit Summit
http://www.microcreditsummit.org/

Microfinance Gateway
http://nt1.ids.ac.uk/cgap/index.htm

• The Gateway regards itself as a one stop microfinance information hub. It is a forum for MFI practitioners, NGOs, donors and others to learn about microfinance topics and to share their knowledge. Access to the on-line library with an extensive collection of over 2000 documents and practical tools including 500 documents available on-line.

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