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United Nations Development Program
(UNDP):
UNICEF (United Nations
Children’s Fund):
Other UN organizations
(including, FAO, IFAD, UNEP, UNFPA, WHO)
Fourth World Conference
on Women - Beijing, September 1995
The World Summit for
Social Development - Copenhagen, March 1995
USAID This includes a Regional
information page, information on programs for promoting democracy
and environmental protection, etc..
UK Department for International Development (DFID)
Interaction
A coalition of over 150 US based non-profit organizations working
to promote human dignity and development in 165 countries around
the world. Interaction is the USA’s leading advocate for
humanitarian aid to the world’s poorer countries.
Oxfam UK
Oxfam aims to relieve poverty, distress and suffering; to educate
people about the nature, causes and effect of poverty; and to
campaign for a fairer world.
Environmental Defense Fund
Includes Rainforests and the World Bank, and Environment on the
World Stage.
IDEX: International Development
Exchange:
The goal of IDEX is "to build partnerships to overcome
poverty and social injustice by empowering people and communities
toward greater control over the resources and political and
economic processes that affect their lives". This is done
through small-scale grassroots development projects and education
of North Americans.
The Action Coalition
is a non-profit organization dedicated to facilitating the work
of individuals and organizations working towards justice, human
rights, a sustainable environment, and eradicating the worst
aspects of poverty.
The Progressive Directory,
presented by the Institute for Global Communications: “ your
gateway to environmental and progressive resources
worldwide”. Consists of five connected networks: PeaceNet;
EcoNet, ConflictNet, LaborNet, and WomensNet. Covers issues
ranging from Indigenous Peoples, Refugees and Agriculture and
Trade to Mushrooms and Mycology.
The
Hungerweb: seeks to provide useful information to four
publics: researchers, activists and advocates, educators and
trainers, and field workers. Its aim is to help prevent and
eradicate hunger and promote sustainable development by
facilitating and encouraging the free exchange of ideas and
information. A project of the Alan Shawn Feinstein World Hunger
Program of Brown University.
One World Online A
valuable site concerned with global justice, conflict, aid,
trade, education, health, human rights, and population: “a
worldwide conversation on sustainable human development”.
Gives access to mainly UK sources, including:
Also includes a search facility
The International
Institute for Sustainable Development (IISD), provides
Linkages, designed to be an electronic clearing-house for
information on past and upcoming international meetings related
to environment and development.
The International Development Research
Centre (IDRC) in Ottawa, includes pages on Internet Sites
Related to International Development. This site includes useful
listings under Africa; Bilaterals, NGOs, and Social Sciences.
Virtual
Library on International Development:
Contains a sampling of Internet resources of interest to people
in the International Development field. The Africa library is the
most developed.
The
World Wide Web Virtual Library:
Includes entries for African Studies; Anthropology; Asian Studies; Politics and Economics; Migration and Ethnic
Relations; Social Sciences; and Sociology. Search index also
available.
Participatory Action Research Network
Based at Cornell University, an international group of students,
faculty, and other practitioners who share an interest in
promoting high standards of intellectual and social integrity in
the practice of social research for social change. Includes links
to Internet Sites for Participatory
Action Research Practitioners
Centre for Social Anthropology and
Computing University of Kent at Canterbury. Includes
information on CSAC research projects, as well as links to:
Anthropology-related Gophers; Anthropology Newsgroups; WWW
Virtual Library for Anthropology; Ethnographics Lab(USC);
Theoretical Anthropology (Journal of the Institute fur
Volkerkunde, University of Vienna, Austria); Institute of Social
and Cultural Anthropology (Oxford).
Yahoo - A Guide to WWW The most
complete list of WWW sites in the INTERNET. Try under the
following:
Also includes search engines.
Other popular
search tools include Lycos
and the WebCrawler
Government Home pages
for: South Africa and Zambia
Uganda (
Unofficial) Home Page
Zambia National WWW
Server Includes The University
of Zambia
From
the University of Pennsylvania’s Department of African
Studies:
These sites link to maps, entries from World Fact Book, notes
on human rights, social and economic statistics languages, etc.
for African countries.
News and Infrmation on Kenya:
Kenya News From the Features Africa Network,
Habari (Swahili),
Uganda: New Vision, and Uganda News
South Africa:
Weekly Mail and Guardian
Zambia:
The Post (Zambian national newspaper)
Horn of Africa Bulletin from IGC - News
from the IGC networks (Peace Net/EcoNet).
Africa
Information Afrique Click on International Political Economy
Africa
Technology Forum
From the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
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