Issues in International Development Co-operation

• Health
  • The Palestine Children's Relief Fund is the only non-profit relief organization working to bring injured and sick children from the Middle East for free medical care that is not available to them in their homeland. Since 1991, over 75 children have come to the U.S. through the PCRF. The PCRF also arranges to ship medical equipment and supplies to institutions in Lebanon and Palestine.
  • African Index Medicus: "Printed knowledge [on medical matters] generated in African countries will be given global exposure in the African Index Medicus. It will promote African publishing by encouraging writers to publish in their country or regional journals, whereas now scientists and researchers in developing countries are competing for publication space in the few world-wide "prestigious" journals. The traditional North-South flow of information would be complemented by South-South and South-North communication: information on health problems in one country would be shared with those experiencing similar conditions."
  • HealthNet-SR, a "WWW site which attempts to facilitate information retrieval and access through Internet to various information sources within the country and outside. Items available by mid 1996: addresses and descriptions of health care institutions, ICD 10, AIHA page, projects, news, links to other medical resources, ..."
  • World Federation for Mental Health. The World Federation for Mental Health, established in 1948, is an international advocacy organization in consultative status to the United Nations and its specialized agencies on mental health issues. It works to promote better care for the mentally ill, to protect their human rights, and to focus attention on special mental health issues affecting refugees.
  • SatelLife (HealthNet)
  • World Health Organization
  • WHO/ICO Case Studies
  • European Union and health
  • International Health Program Office
  • Health Volunteers Overseas (HVO)
  • Health Information on SunSITE
  • The Environmental Health Project
  • Special Programme for Developing Countries
  • malaria antigens bibliography.html
  • Malaria Database
  • A Battle Plan for fighting tuberculosis
• Nutrition
  • The World Crisis Network is "part of a larger initiative to produce an ever increasing virtual learning environment where you can participate in one of the world's greatest challenges, helping provide food for the hungry in world where disaster, wars, disease and other problems are affecting the poorest children on our planet."
  • Hunger and Poverty Page
  • HungerWeb
  • Food for the hungry
  • FAO
  • The International Forum on Food Security
• Education
  • Advancing Basic Education & Literacy Phase 2 USAID created its worldwide project, Advancing Basic Educationand Literacy (ABEL), to address national and international concerns across the broad spectrum of basic education, formal education systems, early childhood education, and nonformal education for out-of-school youth and adults.
  • Det Noedvendige Seminarium, DNS (Necessary Teacher Training College), an alternative teacher education which includes study and travel in Asia and work as a teacher in southern Africa. Development, human rights and global partnership ar clear themes in the school's philosophy.
  • Conflict and Peace Courses: An annual season of practical courses led by Prof Johan Galtung, founder of Peace Studies. Each is designed to create or strengthen peoples' networks, aware of the need and equipped to intervene for peace.
  • Institute for Development Policy and Management 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."
  • Socrates International Consultancies is a small organization dedicated to cooperation and quality management in communication, education and information.
  • Forum on developing countries. This is an open space for people interested in education and communication for planning and design in developing countries.
  • AJA is a non-profit organization based in Brasilia, DF - Brazil, that offers professional training, skills and education to poor youths as well as adults - most jobless - men and women. AJA works equally with people of all races, and due its nondiscriminatory policies, AJA does not involves with religious nor political matters
  • The Water, Engineering and Development Centre (WEDC) Web
  • AID - Association for India's Development
  • ASHA, an action group for basic education in India
  • CRY
  • The Right Margin Foundation
  • Katha, literacy projects in a slum in New Delhi, India
  • Institute of Social Studies (ISS)
• Housing
  • Casa Alianza, is "an independent, nonprofit organisation dedicated to the rehabilitation and defense of street children in Guatemala, Honduras, and Mexico. Casa Alianza is the Latin American branch of the New York-based Covenant House. A leading advocate of children's rights in the region, Casa Alianza is headquartered in San José, Costa Rica. Founded in Guatemala in 1981, and expanded into Honduras and Mexico in 1986, Casa Alianza monitors and cares for about 3,000 street children, most of whom have been orphaned by civil war, abused or rejected by dysfunctional and poverty-stricken families, and further traumatized by the indifference of the societies in which they live."
  • The Water, Engineering and Development Centre (WEDC) Web
  • International Conference on Population and Development
  • Forum on developing countries. This is an open space for people interested in education and communication for planning and design in developing countries.
• Infrastructure
  • Chapel & York Provides materials for non-US charities to fundraise from US sources. Charities can be anywhere in the world and can be any size: the materials produced by Chapel & York will assist them in raising funds for their causes.
  • Regional Telecommunications Restructuring Program. "The RTR program objective is to help ensure that SADC member states realize the significant economic and social benefits of a modern information infrastructure and have the resources, both technical and financial, to develop it."
• Computers
  • FUNREDES information system is an NGO dealing with the dissemination of New Information and Communication Technologies in the Developing Word. Its web site includes more than 300 original documents about the development of non profit Internet in Latin America and the Caribbean, with a special focus on methodological issues for appropriate network development in the South.
  • HP Sustainable Future Program which has been launched by HP "in an effort to accelerate global access to information for economic development, environmental protection, and social equity".
  • Right Margin Foundation
  • TOOL Foundation " consists of a group of Dutch organizations dedicated to the advancement of the socio-economic conditions of underprivileged groups in developing countries. To achieve this aim, the TOOL organizations promote technology transfer to many countries throughout the world. With the promotion of technology transfer, TOOL encourages the South-South exchange of knowledge. For this purpose TOOL is an active member of a large number of technology networks in the South. Our activities are principally directed at local capacity building and exchange and dissemination of technical information."
• Women in development
  • International Gender, S&T; Policy Information Map is "a listing of organisations, institutes, networks, activities, reports, journals, film and other resources available on the World Wide Web on international policy issues in gender, science and technology. It is intended to facilitate policy research and collaboration on issues relating to gender, science and technology policy, at national, regional, and international levels."
  • Gender, Science and Technology: International Policy Issues "is an international policy research network of scientists and technologists who work together on issues of importance to women in international science and technology. GSD coordinates an international network of groups and individuals involved in international gender, S&T.; It also works with several international groups and associations in pursuit of its objectives to promote women's creativity, abilities, and perspectives in the development and implementation of S&T; around the world."
  • Home Page on Women, Trade and Globalization: "a clearing house of information on organisations, activities and publications on women, globalization and trade."
  • Young Women and Democracy Programme - Main index
  • The road to Beijing
  • The Commonwealth of Learning - Women in Development
  • UNIFEM - United Nations Development Fund for Women
  • Fourth Conference on Women
  • SAWNET homepage
  • The Global Fund for Women
  • The Fourth World Conference on Women
  • A TRIBUTE TO TIBETAN WOMEN'S ASSOCIATION
  • Katha, literacy projects in a slum in New Delhi, India
• Ecology/Environment
  • Greenpeace is "an independent, campaigning organisation which uses non-violent, creative confrontation to expose global environmental problems, and to force the solutions which are essential to a green and peaceful future.."
  • Partners of the Americas - Brasilia/Washington DC chapter, "The Partners of the Americas chapter linking socioecologically concerned citizens in Brasilia with concerned citizens in Washington D.C. This site relates our community development projects in Brasilia and also includes many information about alternative solutions appropriate for the communities, microcredit, links to related sites etc. And if you know some information relevant for the community leaders that soon will be reaching the Internet, please send it to us, we will translate and include it in our site. Thanks.".
  • Island Systems is "a community-oriented environmental management and development company. We work with community organizations all over the Greater Caribbean to create jobs while supporting sound community stewardship of local environmental resources."
  • Earth Times on-line is "the leading global newspaper on the environment and sustainable development, has launched a daily Web edition. Contents of the daily edition will be especially useful to students and teachers, and to policy-makers, business leaders, nongovernmental organizations, diplomats, and journalists. There is no charge for using Earth Times material, and the paper welcomes reciprocal links."
  • Climate Change Fact Sheet 204
  • Development / Environmental Education Subject Page
  • Bicycles as Sustainable Development Aid [Kornmann]
  • Centre for Development and Environment (CDE)
  • INFORSE, the International Network for Sustainable Energy
  • International Institute for Sustainable Development (IISD)
• Agriculture
  • The Special Programme for African Agricultural Research (SPAAR) emerged as an initiative in the mid eighties to enhance agricultural production in Africa by increasing donor co-ordination in the field of agricultural research. The SPAAR Information System (SIS) was developed as a tool to come to grips with the increasing number of activities. It complements the registration of national funded projects in database CARIS managed by FAO. At present over 5400 projects are recorded in SIS which are now also available on various CD-ROMs (AGRISEARCH-Silver Platter and DAI-INDIX/IDRC).
• Demography
  • Population distribution and sustainable development
  • CAA: AWARE: July 1994
  • Demography (Univ. of Bristol U.K.)
  • Africa
  • Asia and Pacific Rim
  • South America
  • UN Population Fund
  • World Demographic Trends
  • UN Population Commission
  • International Conference on Population and Development
  • Population Information Networking
  • International Institute for Sustainable Development
  • Thailand Geography and Demographics
  • WorldFactBook
• Transportation: suggestions welcome!
• Democracy
  • The 1990 Congress of the Liberal International
  • Project on Demilitarization and Democracy
• Human Rights
  • African Human Rights Resource Center "This human rights resource center contains a collection of international human rights materials with a particular focus on Africa as well as a collection of global International Human Rights Instruments -- treaties, declarations, and other materials -- together with authoritative citations."
  • Human Rights Web Resources "this page contains names of human rights organizations, other organizations doing substantial amounts of human rights work, and resources (such as libraries and internet-based information) of use to human rights activists and researchers."
  • Human Rights and related resources "this library provides links to other useful Internet sites containing information about human rights, the United Nations, international organizations, government sources, as well as many other relevant resources."
  • World Federation for Mental Health. The World Federation for Mental Health, established in 1948, is an international advocacy organization in consultative status to the United Nations and its specialized agencies on mental health issues. It works to promote better care for the mentally ill, to protect their human rights, and to focus attention on special mental health issues affecting refugees.
  • Amnesty International
• Development Policy
  • German Foundation for International Development The DSE provides a forum for development policy dialogue and offers initial and advanced training of specialists and executive personnel from developing and transitional countries. In addition, it supports experts of German technical and cultural cooperation, and their families, in their preparation for assignments in developing countries. The DSE maintains Germany's largest documentation and information centre on development cooperation issues in Germany.
  • People-Centered Economic Development seeks to develop localized people-centered economics globally.
  • The Interuniversity Institute (INU) serves as a point of "exchange about the issues of cooperation between living civilizations (Western, Arabo-Islam, Hindustani and Chinese) as well as issues of globalization."
  • "The New Face of Development" International Development Conference "... this year (January 13-15, 1997) focuses on "The New Face of Development" and will address concerns about worldwide development, global and political realities, ways of alleviating poverty, innovative financing for social development and new technology."
  • Latitudes, The McGill Journal of Developing Areas Studies: "The purpose of this journal is to provide a forum though which to bring the public, the McGill community and Canadian universities the best work of McGill students on topics related to developing areas. The journal increases awareness and stimulate more informed opinions regarding the interdependency of developing and developed worlds by opening discourse on issues related to developing areas. Not only does its distribution increase awareness but it also provides a valuable research tool for students. The journal maintains an independent posture and does not advocate any particular interest or ideology."
  • Ministry for Foreign Affairs; Department for International Development Cooperation of Finland
  • The International Development Co-operation Committee. "The task of the IDCC is to effectively manage and coordinate foreign official development assistance to South Africa."
  • International Gender, S&T; Policy Information Map is "a listing of organisations, institutes, networks, activities, reports, journals, film and other resources available on the World Wide Web on international policy issues in gender, science and technology. It is intended to facilitate policy research and collaboration on issues relating to gender, science and technology policy, at national, regional, and international levels."
  • Gender, Science and Technology: International Policy Issues "is an international policy research network of scientists and technologists who work together on issues of importance to women in international science and technology. GSD coordinates an international network of groups and individuals involved in international gender, S&T.; It also works with several international groups and associations in pursuit of its objectives to promote women's creativity, abilities, and perspectives in the development and implementation of S&T; around the world."
  • Socrates International Consultancies is a small organization dedicated to cooperation and quality management in communication, education and information.
  • African Policy Information Center's primary objective is "to widen the policy debate in the United States around African issues and the U.S. role in Africa, by providing accessible policy-relevant information and analysis usable by a wide range of groups and individuals. APIC is the educational affiliate of the Washington Office on Africa (WOA), a not-for-profit church, trade union and civil rights group supported organization that works with Congress on Africa-related legislation."
  • Department for Policy Coordination and Sustainable Development's main objective is "to facilitate better integration and coordination of the work of the United Nations in the economic and social sphere by providing support to the central policy-making bodies and coordination processes on the various aspects of development."
  • Europe's Forum on Resources for International Cooperation - EUFORIC. "EUFORIC is a "one-stop shop" where European resources on international development cooperation can be found. It is also a place where like-minded agencies (official and non-governmental) can publish and disseminate their information. This resource is based on contributions from agencies in Belgium, Denmark, Germany, Ireland, the Netherlands, Spain, and the United Kingdom".
  • Overseas Development Council (ODC). "ODC is a private, non-profit international policy research institute that seeks to inform and improve the multilateral approaches and institutions--both global and regional--that will play increasingly important roles in the promotion of development and the management of related problems. This site provides information about our Program of Independent Multilateral Research, U.S. Program, and archive of our publications and links to other resources on development."
  • Overseas Development Institute is "an independent non-governmental centre for development research and a forum for discussion of the problems facing developing countries. The research programme is oriented towards improving policies and their implementation both within developing countries and at the British, European Union and international level."

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