Organizations ordered by alphabet: A to C
D-F * G-I *
J-L * M-O *
P-S * T-V *
W-Z
A
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.
- action five e.V.
Bonn action five e.V. is an NGO working in Bonn/Germany. We
send donations to projects in developing countries. We have
personal contact with the project, but we don't send people there.
Our work is completely voluntary. Our site shows you some of our
projects, our criteria for support of projects, our financial
report and more... In English, French and German.
- 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."
- 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."
- 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."
- Alternatives
is "a network of groups who work in Montreal for action and
communication about international development. Currently, this
site only exists in French but an English version should be
underway."
- Agency for
International Development: National Performance Reports
- Asian Development
Bank is "engaged in promoting the economic and social progress
of its developing member countries in the Asian and Pacific
region."
- ASEAN's
aim is "to promote the economic, social and cultural development
of the region through cooperative programmes; to safeguard the
political and economic stability of the region against big power
rivalry; and to serve as a forum for the resolution of
intra-regional differences."
- 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
- AID -
Association for India's Development: "Compassion wherever
there is suffering. Conviction that the compassion is strong
enough to eliminate the suffering entirely. The courage to make
this conviction a reality. This is AID."
- ASHA,
an action group for basic education in India
- Africa
- Asia
and Pacific Rim
- Amnesty International
- Austrian Debt Relief
Initiative 96's main objective is "to obtain a cancellation of
all ODA-credits owed by Severly Indebted Low Income Countries and
obtain a bilateral debt reduction for export credits for those
SILICs that are given priority in Austria's official development
aid (especially but not exclusively countries in Sub-Saharan
Africa). (Information in German and English)
- AUSTRALIA'S
DEVELOPMENT COOPERATION PROGRAM WITH VIETNAM
- AusAID
- Basic Facts and Figures about Australia's Aid Program "is
about Australians helping to build a better world in partnership
with the people of developing countries ... AusAID manages the
Australian Government's overseas aid program, which exists to
promote sustainable development in the world's 130 developing
countries."
B
C
- 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.
- CARE International is one of
the worlds largest independent, international relief and
development organisations and operates in more than 60 countries.
- Children's
Peace-full-Environment Foundation is holding an International
Conference for children and young people in Adelaide, Australia.
The children who are coming from all over the world will come
together to discuss issues related to peace and the environment
the end result being an official document containing the proposals
of the children which would then be sent to all the governments of
the world.
- 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.
- Caribbean Group for
Cooperation in Economic Development surprisingly, this is the
" Caribbean Region homepage for Cooperation in economic
development"
- Centre of
African Studies (CAS) "provides an entry point for those
interested in finding out more about the University of Edinburgh's
wide-ranging activities in teaching, researching and consulting on
African matters. The University is Scotland's leading centre for
Africa-related work across a range of disciplines including
anthropology, veterinary medicine, education, law and divinity."
- The Canadian
International Development Agency (CIDA) "is the federal agency
responsible for delivering Canada's Official Development
Assistance (ODA) program. It reports directly to the Minister for
International Cooperation and Minister responsible for La
Francophonie. The purpose of CIDA is to support sustainable
development in developing countries in order to reduce poverty and
to contribute to a more secure, equitable and prosperous world."
(English
and
French
version available)
- China
Development Briefing "reports on social development and
welfare in China, including issues such as rural development and
poverty alleviation, reproductive health and primary health care,
gender, education, environment, disability, child welfare, and
disaster relief."
- Consultative Group on
International Agricultural Research (CGIAR). "International
research centers (IARCS), supported by the CGIAR, are located in
12 developing and 3 developed countries. They specialize in
strategic research in food and agriculture, forestry,
agro-forestry, fisheries and food policy. They place equal
emphasis on productivity research and natural resource management.
They jointly employ some 1,000 scientists of 60 different
nationalities who are working at the centers or in over 200
locations in 40 developing countries, of which 8 are members of
the CGIAR."
- 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."
- Consultative
Group to assist the poorest (CGAP) is "a multi-donor effort to
address poverty through the support and promotion of micro-finance
programs."
- CSS
425
- Computers
in Developing Countries, Proceedings- 2/94
- The Commonwealth of
Learning - Women in Development
- CAA:
AWARE: July 1994
- The
1990 Congress of the Liberal International
- CRY strives to "make
people responsible for the situation of the deprived child and to
motivate them to collective action to change the situation,
thereby giving themselves and the child an opportunity to realize
their full potential".
- Centre for Development
and Environment (CDE): "The work of the Centre for Development
and Environment (CDE) is concerned with aspects of development and
environment in international cooperation. Its main focus is on
sustainable use of natural resources."
- Novartis
Foundation for Sustainable Development. "Activities include
project work in agriculture, health and social development;
compiling information on development issues"
- Computer
Networks in Developing Countries
- CRY
- The Contact Center
Network Nonprofit Directory "This directory is designed to
help people 'think globally and act locally.'"
- Centre for International
University Co-operation "manages international cooperative
programmes within research and education, and supports joint
action among Norwegian universities and colleges on issues of
internationalization."
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