A Better World for All
www.paris21.org/betterworld/ Source: United Nations, OECD, IMF, World Bank
Description: "A Better World for All" reports on progress towards the International Development Goals, serving as a joint United Nations, World Bank, IMF, and OECD contribution to the G-8 meeting in Okinawa on July 22, 2000.[Back to top] ACC Network on Rural Development and Food Security
www.accnetwork.net/ Source: United Nations Administrative Committee on Coordination (ACC)
Description: The ACC Network is a mechanism for World Food Summit follow-up and aims to mobilize support for government efforts to implement the World Food Summit Plan of Action and rural development and food security programs, reinforce ties between UN organizations and other stakeholders, foster synergy and avoid duplication of efforts, and exchange and disseminate information, experiences and best practices.[Back to top] ADB: Poverty Reduction
www.adb.org/Poverty/ Source: The Asian Development Bank
Region: East Asia & the Pacific
Description: Poverty reduction is a strategic objective of the Bank. Poverty remains a trap for more than 950 million people in the Asian and Pacific region, with a large part of this total facing absolute poverty. The total number of poor in the region represents nearly three quarters of all the world's poor[Back to top] African Development Bank (AFDB)
www.afdb.org/ Source: The African Development Bank
Region: Africa - Sub-Saharan
Description: The African Development Bank Group is a multinational development bank supported by 77 nations from Africa, North and South America, Europe and Asia. Established in 1964, its mission is to promote economic and social development through loans, equity investments, and technical assistance.[Back to top] Arab Gulf Programme for United Nations Development Organizations (AGFUND)
www.agfund.org/ Source: Arab Gulf Programme for United Nations Development Organizations (AGFUND)
Region: Middle East and North Africa
Description: The Arab Gulf Programme for United Nations Development Organizations (AGFUND) is a regional developmental institution established in 1981. AGFUND is concerned with the support of sustainable human development efforts, targeting the neediest groups in developing countries, particularly women and children.[Back to top] Caribbean Development Bank (CDB)
www.caribank.org/web_staging.nsf/pages/hp1 Region: Latin America and Caribbean
Description: The purpose of the Caribbean Development Bank is to "contribute to the harmonious economic growth and development of the member countries in the Caribbean (hereinafter called the "region") and to promote economic co-operation and integration among them, having special and urgent regard to the needs of the less developed members of the region."[Back to top] Central American Bank for Economic Integration (CABEI)
www.bcie.hn/ Region: Latin America and Caribbean
Description: CABEI is the multilateral bank for the integration and development of Central America, whose purpose is to contribute in the raising of the quality of life of the population, providing financial and technical cooperation resources, so as to satisfy the needs of these countries within a culture of service and regional vision.
[Back to top] Cities Alliance: Cities Without Slums
www.citiesalliance.org/citiesalliance/citiesalliancehomepage.nsf/?Open Description: Cities Alliance is a global alliance of cities and their development partners committed to improve the living conditions of the urban poor through action in two key areas:
City development strategies which reflect a shared vision for the city's future and local priorities for action to reduce urban poverty.
Citywide and nationwide slum upgrading – moving upgrading to scale. [Back to top] Consultative Group to Assist the Poorest (CGAP)
www.cgap.org/ Source: Multilateral and bilateral donor agencies
Description: The Consultative Group to Assist the Poorest (CGAP) is a consortium of 27 bilateral and multilateral donor agencies who support microfinance. Its mission is to improve the capacity of microfinance institutions to deliver flexible, high-quality financial services to the very poor on a sustainable basis.[Back to top] Development Bank of Southern Africa (DBSA)
www.dbsa.org/ Region: Africa - Sub-Saharan
Description: The Development Bank of Southern Africa was established in 1983. In 1996 the Bank was transformed to ensure that it met the needs of the new South Africa and the SADC region. Its mandate is to finance sustainable development in partnership with the public and private sectors; focus on investments in the area of infrastructure; and respond to development demands and act as a catalyst for investments.
Its countries of operation are: Angola, Namibia, Botswana, South Africa, Lesotho, Swaziland, Malawi, Tanzania, Mauritius, Zambia, Mozambique and Zimbabwe.[Back to top] EBRD
www.ebrd.org/ Region: Europe and Central Asia
Description: The EBRD seeks to help its 26 countries of operations to implement structural and sectoral economic reforms, promoting competition, privatisation and entrepreneurship, taking into account the particular needs of countries at different stages of transition. Through its investments it promotes private sector activity, the strengthening of financial institutions and legal systems, and the development of the infrastructure needed to support the private sector.[Back to top] EU Development Directorate General
europa.eu.int/comm/development/index_en.htm Source: European Union
Description: The EU Development Directorate General deals with development cooperation between the European Community and a large number of developing countries in Africa, the Caribbean and the Pacific, the ACP states, a group which includes many of the poorest countries in the world. The objectives of development cooperation are:
1.to foster the sustainable economic and social development of the developing countries;
2.to promote their smooth and gradual integration into the world economy;
3.to campaign against poverty; and
4.to develop and consolidate democracy, the rule of law and respect for human rights[Back to top] EU Joint Service for the Management of Community Aid to Non-Member Countries (SCR)
europa.eu.int/comm/europeaid/redirect.htm Source: European Union
Description: The Joint Service for the management of Community Aid to Non-Member Countries (SCR) was set up by a European Commission decision in 1997, becoming operational by stages as from 1 July 1998. Its task is to manage all aspects - technical and operational, financial and accounting, contractual and legal - of the Community's aid to non-member countries, and it is also responsible for audits and evaluations.Related Sites:Comparative Study of European Aid for Poverty Reduction The Comparative Study of European Aid for Poverty Reduction seeks to assess the contribution of and the relationship between ten EU Member States and the European Commission to the poverty reduction objective, including any evidence of EU-wide coordination or ‘synergy’ in this field. The primary objective of the study is to learn lessons of experience from European donors and to make these available to donor and recipient officials. [Back to top] EuropeAid Co-operation Office
europa.eu.int/comm/europeaid/index_en.htm Source: European Union
Description: EuropeAid Co-operation Office's mission is to implement the external aid instruments of the European Commission which are funded by the European Community budget and the European Development Fund.[Back to top] Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO)
www.fao.org/ Description: Since its inception in 1945, FAO has worked to alleviate poverty and hunger by promoting agricultural development, improved nutrition and the pursuit of food security - the access of all people at all times to the food they need for an active and healthy life. FAO offers direct development assistance, collects, analyses and disseminates information, provides policy and planning advice to governments and acts as an international forum for debate on food and agriculture issues.
[Back to top] IFAD: Rural Poverty Report 2001
www.ifad.org/poverty/ Source: International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD)
Description: In its new "Rural Poverty Report 2001" the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) highlights the need to focus poverty reduction policies on rural areas. The rural poor are at a disadvantage because of a series of factors such as remoteness, lack of education and health care, insecure and unproductive jobs, high fertility and discrimination as women or ethnic minorities. Thus, IFAD argues, the rural poor need policies that will secure entitlements to land and water, policies that will provide access to microfinance, technology and markets, as well as opportunities to participate in decentralized resource management. Related Sites:Asia and the Pacific: Regional Assessment of Rural PovertyCentral and Eastern Europe and the Newly Independent States: Regional Assessment of Rural PovertyEastern and Southern Africa: Regional Assessment of Rural Poverty Western and Central Africa: Regional Assessment of Rural Poverty[Back to top] ILO: Strategies and Tools against Social Exclusion and Poverty Programme (STEP)
www.ilo.org/public/english/protection/socsec/step/index.htm Source: International Labour Organization
Description: As a tool in the fight against poverty and social exclusion, STEP's aim is to support the development of the social economy. STEP carries out activities on all five continents and concentrates its efforts on improving the quality of life of the poorest and the socially excluded.
[Back to top] International Labour Organization: Poverty Eradication
www.ilo.org/public/english/comp/poverty/index.htm Source: International Labour Organization
Description: The fight against poverty and for social justice lies at the heart of all the ILO's concerns. Indeed, high quality employment is the most effective means to reduce poverty in a sustainable manner. The task for the international community, as set out more than fifty years ago by the Philadelphia Convention, was to carry on the "war against want", both within nations and by concerted international effort. This site describes the actions undertaken by the ILO to combat poverty, in concert with other United Nation bodies.
[Back to top] International Monetary Fund (IMF): Poverty Reduction Strategy Papers (PRSPs)
www.imf.org/external/np/prsp/prsp.asp Source: International Monetary Fund (IMF)
Description: The PRSPs are prepared by the member country in collaboration with the staffs of the World Bank and the IMF as well as civil society and development partners. The annual updated documents describe the country's plan for macroeconomic, structural, and social policies for three-year economic adjustment programs to foster growth and reduce poverty.[Back to top] Islamic Development Bank (IDB)
www.isdb.org/ Region: Middle East and North Africa
Description: The purpose of the Bank is to foster the economic development and social progress of member countries and Muslim communities individually as well as jointly in accordance with the principles of Shari'ah i.e., Islamic Law.
[Back to top] OECD's Development Assistance Committee (DAC)
www.oecd.org/dac/ Source: Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD)
Description: The Development Assistance Committee (DAC) is the principal body through which the OECD deals with issues related to co-operation with developing countries. The DAC is one of the key forums in which the major bilateral donors work together to increase the effectiveness of their common effort to support sustainable development.
Related sites:
Shaping the 21st Century: The Contribution of Development Co-operation. This report sets forth strategic orientations for development co-operation into the 21st century. It recalls the importance of development for people everywhere and the impressive record of human progress during the past 50 years. It suggests a set of basic goals as a vision for the future, and proposes strategies for attaining that vision through partnerships in support of self-help efforts, improved co-ordination and consistent policies.
Paris 21:
Partnerships In Statistics for development in the 21st Century, a new international process to build statistical capacity as the foundation for effective development policies.
OECD Observer: Development Goals 2000 Articles on the International Development Goals. [Back to top] Poverty Mapping
www.povertymap.net/ Description: The project "Improving Methods for Poverty and Food Insecurity Mapping and its Use at Country Level" pools know-how, data and technical skills of the three international organizations -FAO, CGIAR and UNEP/GRID- plus various other international expert institutions to provide the public with poverty maps from the global to the subnational level.
[Back to top] Tanzania: UNDP Country Office
www.tz.undp.org/ Source: United Nations Development Programme
Region: Africa - Sub-Saharan
Country: Tanzania
Description: UNDP supports the efforts of Tanzanians to fight poverty. UNDP draws on global best practices to build national capacity to manage the development process. It supports national aid initiatives by forming strong partnerships and empower the poor to help themselves. A central part of its work is to support aid coordination. In Tanzania, UNDP's focus areas are Poverty reduction strategies, Governance, and HIV/AIDS. Environment, Gender Equality and Information and Communications Technology feature prominently in all these areas. [Back to top] TeleFood
www.fao.org/food/default-e.htm Source: FAO
Description: TeleFood is FAO's annual campaign of broadcasts, concerts and other events dedicated to helping to reduce the number of hungry people in the world. The campaign centres around the observance of World Food Day, marking the founding of FAO on 16 October 1945.[Back to top] The Inter-American Development Bank: Poverty and Inequality
www.iadb.org/sds/pov/index_pov_e.htm Region: Latin America and Caribbean
Description: The mission of the Unit is to provide technical leadership for the Bank's work in the area of poverty reduction and to contribute to the quality enhancement of the Bank's lending and non-lending activities so as to increase their poverty reduction impact. The Unit is also responsible for tracking the Bank portfolio with respect to how loans meet the poverty-targeted investment criteria and for highlighting best practice cases of poverty targeting within projects.
[Back to top] UNAIDS: Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS
www.unaids.org/ Source: United Nations
Description: As the main advocate for global action on HIV/AIDS, UNAIDS leads, strengthens and supports an expanded response aimed at preventing the transmission of HIV, providing care and support, reducing the vulnerability of individuals and communities to HIV/AIDS, and alleviating the impact of the epidemic.[Back to top] Understanding Children's Work
www.ucw-project.org/ Source: International Labour Organisation, Unicef and the World Bank
Description: The Inter-Agency Research Cooperation Project: Developing New Strategies for Understanding Children's Work and Its Impact stems from the recommendations in the Agenda for Action adopted at the Oslo International Conference on Child Labour in 1997. Its objectives are to improve child labour research, data collection and data analysis; to enhance local and national capacity for child labour data collection and research; and to improve the assessment of existing interventions in this field.
[Back to top] UNDP Bangladesh
www.un-bd.org/undp/ Source: United Nations Development Programme
Region: South Asia
Country: Bangladesh
Description: The website provides access to the latest information on programs, projects, publications and other activities of UNDP Bangladesh. UNDP’s activities in Bangladesh primarily focus on poverty alleviation through the following broad areas of cooperation: community empowerment; food security; sustainable environment and natural resource management; governance; and the advancement of women. [Back to top] UNDP: Bureau for Development Policy (BDP)
www.undp.org/bdp/ Source: United Nations Development Programme
Description: BDP's organizational function within UNDP is to provide technical leadership and policy guidance. In the areas of organizational leadership, BDP seeks both to perform a "think-tank" function and to take a lead role in making UNDP a less hierarchical, more responsive learning organization.
[Back to top] UNDP: Human Development Report
www.undp.org/hdro/ Source: United Nations Development Programme
Description: The Human Development Report was first launched in 1990 with the goal of putting people back at the center of the development process in terms of economic debate, policy and advocacy. The goal was to go beyond income to assess the level of people’s long-term well-being, to bring about development of the people, by the people, and for the people, and emphasizing that the goals of development are choices and freedoms. The Human Development Report is commissioned by UNDP and is the product of a selected team of leading scholars, development practitioners and members of the Human Development Report Office of UNDP.Related Sites:Human Development Report 2002: Deepening Democracy in a Fragmented World Human Development Report 2001: Making New Technologies Work for Human DevelopmentHuman Development Report 2000: Human Rights and Human DevelopmentHuman Development Report 1999: Globalization with a Human Face[Back to top] UNDP: NetAid
app.netaid.org/ Source: United Nations Development Programme
Description: NetAid is a long-term effort to build a community of conscience dedicated to providing basic needs: food, shelter, legal protection, human rights and health care. The initiative includes concerts by world-class artists in London, New York and Geneva.[Back to top] UNDP: Poverty home page
www.undp.org/poverty/ Source: United Nations Development Programme
Description: UNDP addresses poverty as a denial of human rights. Good health, adequate nutrition, literacy and employment are not favors or acts of charity to be bestowed on the poor by governments and international agencies. They are human rights, as valid today as they were 50 years ago when the Universal Declaration of Human rights was adopted. UNDP defines poverty from a sustainable human development perspective. Poverty is the denial of various choices and opportunities basic to human development. These include the ability to lead a long, creative and healthy life, to acquire knowledge, to have freedom, dignity, self-respect and respect for others, and to have access to the resources needed for a decent standard of living.
Related sites:
UNDP Poverty Report 2000: A new global strategy against poverty needs to be mounted—with more resources, a sharper focus and a stronger commitment. Based on commitments made at the 1995 World Summit for Social Development, developing countries are being encouraged to launch full-scale campaigns against poverty. Yet despite having set ambitious global targets for poverty reduction, donor countries are cutting back on aid and failing to focus what remains on poverty.[Back to top] UNDP: Social Development and Poverty Elimination Division (SEPED)
www.undp.org/seped/index.htm Source: United Nations Development Programme
Description: SEPED is comprised of four units that are responsible for one area of focus and/or themes. The Poverty and Sustainable Livelihoods unit (PESL) focuses on research in the field of macro-economic policy and poverty reduction, poverty indicators and surveys, the Poverty Strategies Initiative, and sustainable livelihoods. The Gender in Development Programme (GIDP) is responsible for gender mainstreaming within both the Organization and its programmes. The Civil Society Organizations and Participation Programme (CSOPP) is responsible for strengthening UNDP’s policy and operational methods to collaborate effectively with actors of civil society as well as mainstreaming participatory methodologies for development. The HIV/AIDS and Health Development Programme is responsible for providing policy and programming guidance in this field.
Related site:
United Nations Development Programme (UNDP): Sustainable Livelihoods Programme
The Gender in Development Programme
The Civil Society Organizations and Participation Programme
The HIV/AIDS and Health Development Programme[Back to top] United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD)
www.unctad.org/index.htm Source: United Nations Conference on Trade and Development
Description: Established in 1964 as a permanent intergovernmental body, UNCTAD is the principal organ of the United Nations General Assembly dealing with trade, investment and development issues. Its main goals are to maximize the trade, investment and development opportunities of developing countries and assist them in their efforts to integrate into the world economy on an equitable basis
Related Sites:UNCTAD Poverty Alleviation page UNCTAD’s main objective: contribute to national and international efforts to prevent, alleviate and reduce poverty, particularly where it is more acute, as well as to the formulation of related national and international policies, bearing in mind the diversity of country situations, including the particular problems of the least developed countries and the most vulnerable population groups.
Poverty Reports prepared by the UNCTAD secretariat The Least Developed Countries Report 2002 The report shows that extreme poverty is pervasive and persistent in most LDCs, and that the incidence of extreme poverty -denoted by the $1 a day poverty line- is highest in those LDCs that are dependent on primary commodity exports.
[Back to top] United Nations Research Institute for Social Development (UNRISD)
www.unrisd.org/ Description: UNRISD is an autonomous UN agency engaging in multidisciplinary research on the social dimensions of contemporary problems affecting development. Through its research, UNRISD stimulates dialogue and contributes to policy debates on key issues of social development within and outside the United Nations system. [Back to top] United Nations: Decade for the Eradication of Poverty 1997-2006
www.un.org/esa/socdev/poverty/poverty.htm Source: United Nations
Description: In December 1995, the General Assembly proclaimed the First United Nations Decade for the Eradication of Poverty (1997-2006). In December 1996, the General Assembly declared the theme for the Decade as a whole to be "Eradicating poverty is an ethical, social, political and economic imperative of humankind." [Back to top] United Nations: International Day for the Eradication of Poverty 2000
www.un.org/events/poverty2000/ Source: United Nations
Description: In 1992, the General Assembly, welcoming the fact that certain NGOs, on the initiative of one of them (the French-based International Movement ATD Fourth World), had, in many States, observed 17 October as World Day for Overcoming Extreme Poverty, declared that date the International Day for the Eradication of Poverty. [Back to top] United Nations: International Day for the Eradication of Poverty 2001
www.undp.org/idep/index.html Source: United Nations
Description: The theme for this year's IDEP commemoration is the role of Information and Communications Technology (ICT) in poverty reduction. [Back to top] United Nations: Official Web Site Locator
www.unsystem.org/ Source: United Nations
Description: Official WEB Site Locator for the United Nations System of Organizations. The list is in alphabetical order by agency name.[Back to top] World Food Programme (WFP)
www.wfp.org/index2.html Description: Hunger afflicts one out of seven people on Earth. WFP is the frontline United Nations Agency whose
mission is to provide: Food for life to sustain victims of man-made and natural disasters; food for growth to improve the nutrition and quality of life of the most vulnerable people at critical times in their lives; and food for work to help build assets and promote the self-reliance of poor people and communities, particularly through labor-intensive works programs.[Back to top] World Summit on Sustainable Development
www.johannesburgsummit.org/index.html Source: United Nations
Description: Johannesburg Summit 2002 – the World Summit on Sustainable Development – will bring together tens of thousands of participants, including heads of State and Government, national delegates and leaders from non-governmental organizations (NGOs), businesses and other major groups to focus the world's attention and direct action toward meeting difficult challenges, including improving people's lives and conserving our natural resources in a world that is growing in population, with ever-increasing demands for food, water, shelter, sanitation, energy, health services and economic security. [Back to top]
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