ACCION International
www.accion.org/main.asp Region: Latin America and Caribbean
Description: ACCION International is a non-profit that fights poverty through microlending. Every day, millions of enterprising women and men struggle to better their lives by opening tiny businesses. They work exhausting hours yet they barely scrape by. What they need to break free is a little credit - a loan as small as $75. Now they can get it.[Back to top] ActionAid
www.actionaid.org/ Description: ActionAid focuses on long-term development, tackling the root causes of poverty. ActionAid works directly with communities on projects for 10 years or more to help them improve the quality of their lives. Based on its grassroots work with communities, ActionAid shares its practical experience and knowledge with
national and international agencies and governments. By contributing to debates on poverty issues and policy decision-making ActionAid advocates for change in favour of the poor.[Back to top] ASAP Africa
www.asapafrica.org/index.htm Region: Africa - Sub-Saharan
Description: ASAP, A Self-help Assistance Program, is a small not-for-profit organization with a big vision: a world without poverty. Its mission is to enable people living in Southern Africa to rise out of the cycle of poverty by becoming productive and self-reliant. [Back to top] Association for the Promotion of North-South Dialogue (NSD)
www.exposure-nsd.de/Home_English.htm Description: The Association for the Promotion of the North-South Dialogue (NSD) is committed to help eliminate poverty in the countries of the South and to combat marginalisation in the North as well as to help to sustainably secure the vital resources needed for development.[Back to top] ATD Fourth World Movement
www.atd-fourthworld.org/accueil-uk.html Description: The Movement has three major lines of action:
1. Grass roots presence and involvement among very oor families and communities, in housing estates, slums and shanty towns
2. Research into poverty undertaken with the people concerned
3. Campaigning and mobilising public opinion at local, national and international level.
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Tapori is the children branch of the ATD Fourth World Movement.
The Fourth World Youth Movement: A movement of young people of different backgrounds and nationalities united in the fight against extreme poverty and exclusion.
Fourth World Publications[Back to top] Australian Council for Overseas Aid (ACFOA)
www.acfoa.asn.au/ Region: East Asia & the Pacific
Description: ACFOA is the coordinating body for 90 Australian non-government organisations working in the field of overseas aid and development.[Back to top] Byrraju Foundation
www.byrrajufoundation.org/ Region: South Asia
Country: India
Description: The Byrraju Foundation seeks to build progressive self-reliant rural communities, with a holistic approach, by providing services in the areas of healthcare, environment, sanitation, primary education, adult literacy and skills development. The Foundation currently works to transform 142 villages in 5 districts of Andhra Pradesh - East Godavari, West Godavari, Krishna, Guntur and Ranga Reddy- and impacts 800,000 people.[Back to top] Canadian Centre for International Studies and Cooperation (CECI)
www.ceci.ca/ceci/info/eng/aindex.htm Description: The Canadian Centre for International Studies and Cooperation (CECI) is a non-profit corporation whose general mission is to contribute, through human and financial resources, to the advancement of people in the South and to promote sustainable and participatory development through international cooperation.[Back to top] CARE
www.care.org/ Description: CARE USA is a member of CARE International, a confederation of 10 national members in North America, Europe, Japan and Australia. CARE assists the world's poor in their efforts to achieve social and economic well-being. Their work reaches 24 million people in 62 nations in Africa, Asia, Latin America and Eastern Europe. Programs include emergency relief and rehabilitation; education; health and population: children's health, reproductive health and water and sanitation; and income: small economic activity development, agriculture and community development and environment.
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CARE programs and regions [Back to top] Carter Center
www.cartercenter.org/ Description: The Carter Center, in partnership with Emory University, is guided by a fundamental commitment to human rights and the alleviation of human suffering; it seeks to prevent and resolve conflicts, enhance freedom and democracy, and improve health. The Carter Center's Global Development Initiative (GDI) is based on the growing body of evidence that development strategies must encourage the economic empowerment of poor and vulnerable groups in society. Economic development pursued equitably and in conjunction with social development helps improve people's lives and sustain democracy[Back to top] Catholic Fund for Overseas Development (CAFOD)
www.cafod.org.uk/ Description: CAFOD is a partnership organization, working in over 1000 communities worldwide to tackle the causes of poverty regardless of race, religion or politics. CAFOD works hand in hand with local people to help them to respond to their own real needs, helping them to help themselves, and enabling them to work and plan for a better, safer future.[Back to top] Center for Economic and Social Rights (CESR)
www.cesr.org/ Description: CESR was established in 1993 to address a critical gap in human rights and activism in general. One of the first organizations to challenge economic injustice as a violation of international human rights law, CESR believes that economic and social rights -- legally binding on all nations -- can provide a universally accepted framework for strengthening social justice activism.[Back to top] Christian Aid
www.christian-aid.org.uk/ Description: Christian Aid works in over 60 countries helping people, regardless of religion or race, to improve their own lives and tackle the causes of poverty and injustice.
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Christian Aid Reports: issues include debt in poor countries, business ethics, ethical trading, globalization, aid, human rights and governance, gender and participation. [Back to top] Development Gateway: Poverty Topic Page
www.developmentgateway.org/node/130670/ Description: The Development Gateway is a global information portal where people and organizations can share knowledge, engage in dialogues, build partnerships, and work together to reduce poverty.[Back to top] Earth Council
www.ecouncil.ac.cr/ Description: The mission of the Earth Council is to support and empower people in building a more secure, equitable and sustainable future.[Back to top] Enterprise Development International
www.endpoverty.org/ Description: Non-profit private voluntary organization established in 1985, enables the unemployed and underemployed poor in developing countries and the United States to become productive, self-supporting citizens. The Microenterprise Project provides small loans and business training to help the poor start income-generating enterprises.[Back to top] Eurodad
www.oneworld.org/eurodad/ Description: Eurodad is the European Network on Debt and Development. On the site there is information regarding various poverty reducing initiatives.[Back to top] European Anti Poverty Network
www.eapn.org/ Region: Europe and Central Asia
Description: EAPN is an independent coalition of non-governmental organisations (NGOs) and groups involved in the fight against poverty and social exclusion in the Member States of the European Union. The organisation represents more than 1,200 grassroots and umbrella organisations at national level and 25 European-wide organisations at European level, such as ATD Fourth World, Emmaus International, Save the Children, etc.[Back to top] Food for the Hungry
www.fh.org/ Description: Food for the Hungry is an international organization that exists to fulfill a mandate to help people overcome both physical and spiritual hungers. Its efforts include integrated, child-focused development and relief programs in more than 25 countries in Asia, Africa, and Latin America. Development efforts include programs that equip entire communities with the tools they need to pull themselves from poverty.[Back to top] Foundation for International Community Assistance (FINCA)
www.villagebanking.org/ Description: FINCA's mission is to support the economic and human transformation of families trapped in poverty through the creation of Village Banking groups. These are peer groups of 30 to 50 members-predominately women- who receive three critical services:
1.working capital loans to finance self-employment activities,
2.an effective mechanism for promoting family savings; and
3.a community-based system which provides mutual support and encourages self-worth.
FINCA launched the first Village Banking program in 1984.[Back to top] Freedom from Hunger
www.freefromhunger.org/ Description: Freedom from Hunger is an international development organization working in fifteen countries across the globe. Freedom from Hunger brings innovative and sustainable self-help solutions to the fight against chronic hunger and poverty. Together with local partners, it equips families with resources they need to build futures of health, hope and dignity.
[Back to top] Future Harvest
www.futureharvest.org/ Description: Future Harvest builds public understanding of the importance of international agricultural research to global peace, prosperity, environmental renewal, health, and the alleviation of suffering.[Back to top] Global Campaign for Education
www.campaignforeducation.org/ Description: Development NGOs and teachers unions operating in 180 countries have joined forces to launch the Global Campaign for Education (GCE). The GCE seeks to make governments liable for the fact that 125 million children world-wide are denied access to basic education and that moreover, one adult in every three - representing an additional 880 million people - is illiterate.[Back to top] Global Exchange
www.globalexchange.org/ Description: Global Exchange is a human rights organization dedicated to promoting environmental, political, and social justice around the world. Since their founding in 1988, Global Exchange has been striving to increase global awareness among the US public while building international partnerships around the world. [Back to top] Global Knowledge Partnership
www.globalknowledge.org/ Description: The Global Knowledge Partnership (GKP) is an evolving, informal partnership of public, private and not-for-profit organizations. Partner organizations are committed to sharing information, experiences and resources to promote broad access to, and effective use of, knowledge and information as tools of sustainable, equitable development. [Back to top] Globalegacy
www.globalegacy.com/ Description: Globalegacy is a catalyst in the transformation of developing communities in G-20 countries. It is mobilizing an alliance of the world's most influential institutions to invest their money, people, local resources and ideas in these communities to create long-term social and economic benefits.[Back to top] Grameen Bank
www.grameen-info.org/ Description: Grameen Bank (GB) has reversed conventional banking practice by removing the need for collateral and created a banking system based on mutual trust, accountability, participation and creativity. GB provides credit to the poorest of the poor in rural Bangladesh, without any collateral.
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The Grameen Bank Replication Program supports and promotes GB replication projects all over the world [Back to top] Gray Doves International
www.graydoves.com/ Description: Gray Doves International is a worldwide network of volunteers concerned about elderly women who lack an extended family or the ability to fend for themselves. These are the people left out of the budget when it comes to aid programs. They are not orphans, they are not victims of natural disasters, nor are they eligible for economic development grants etc. In a sense, they are helpless victims against poverty.[Back to top] HelpAge International
www.helpage.org/ Description: New guidelines published by HelpAge International aim so assist agencies working with older people in disasters and humanitarian crisis. Older people, especially older women, are a significant vulnerable group hit by disaster and civil conflict. Yet aid agencies often lack the capacity and expertise to address their needs. The results can be discrimination and unnecessary hardship. [Back to top] Hivos International
www.hivos.nl/english/index.html Description: Hivos is a development organization which stands for emancipation, democratization and poverty alleviation in developing countries. For this purpose financial support is given to 706 local private organizations in 30 countries in Africa, Asia and Latin America. Their activities aim at economic independence, art and culture, sustainable development, gender, aids prevention and human rights.[Back to top] Hunger Notes
www.worldhunger.org/ Description: Hunger Notes is a quarterly print, and online publication of WHES. It has been published for 24 years. The mission of WHES is to undertake programs which: inform the community of people interested in issues of hunger and poverty, the public, and policymakers, about the causes, extent, and efforts to end hunger and poverty in the United States and the world; further understanding which integrates ethical, religious, social, economic, political, and scientific perspectives on hunger and poverty; facilitate communication and networking among those who are working for solutions; promote individual and collective commitment to solutions to the hunger and poverty which confront hundreds of millions of the people of the world. [Back to top] InterAction
www.interaction.org/ Description: InterAction, the American Council for Voluntary International Action, is a coalition of more than 150 non-profit organizations working worldwide -and one of the U.S.'s leading advocates for humanitarian assistance to the world's poor.[Back to top] Intermediate Technology Development Group (ITDG)
www.itdg.org/ Description: Intermediate Technology (IT) is an international development agency and British registered charity which works with rural communities in Africa, Asia and Latin America. Its aim is 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.
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ITDG Publishing: information for development. [Back to top] International Center for the Eradication of Poverty (ICEP)
www.eradicatepoverty.com/ Description: This is a community based Centre that works at a grassroots level with linkages to academic institutions. It forges working relationships between community groups, individuals and researchers to deal with issues related to poverty at a policy as well as operational level.
The Center attempts to address poverty by: a) Lobbying governments and politicians, b) Undertaking some hands-on self-employment projects through various community based groups; and c) Undertaking Research and Development work.[Back to top] International Council on Social Welfare (ICSW)
www.icsw.org/ Description: The International Council on Social Welfare (ICSW) is a global non-governmental organization which represents a wide range of national and international member organizations that seek to advance social welfare, social justice and social development. ICSW's basic mission is to promote forms of social and economic development which aim to reduce poverty, hardship and vulnerability throughout the world, especially amongst disadvantaged people.[Back to top] International Development Exchange
www.idex.org/ Description: International Development Exchange (IDEX) builds partnerships to overcome economic and social injustice. IDEX works toward people's greater control over their resources, political structures, and economic processes that affect their lives.[Back to top] International Solidarity Fund of Cities against Poverty
www.internationalcitiesfund.org/ Description: The cities of Bamako (Mali), Geneva (Switzerland) and Lyon (France) initiated, on March 5 2001, in Lyon the first “International Solidarity Fund of Cities against Poverty.” The main objective is to prompt shared cooperation between partner-cities of the North and the South, involving financial commitments backed by technical support and shared expertise.[Back to top] Jubilee 2000
www.jubilee2000uk.org/ Description: The Jubilee 2000 campaign calls on the leaders of the world's richest countries to make a once-off cancellation of unpayable Third World Debt. That is, debt which is held by the poorest countries in the world and can never be repaid, or which can be repaid at the cost of great human suffering.
Jubilee 2000 calls for a fresh start for the new Millennium, which means lifting the burden of debt and channeling the resources freed into basic services: education and health. [Back to top] Jubilee Action
www.jubileeaction.co.uk/ Description: Jubilee Action is working to protect the rights of children at risk and the persecuted church world-wide by supporting aid and awareness programs. Jubilee Action is a church based independent and inter-denominational registered charity and a company limited by guarantee. It supports projects in countries such as Brazil, Burma, India, Iraq and the Philippines. In doing so, it seeks to build hope and change lives.[Back to top] Jubilee South
www.jubileesouth.net/ Description: Jubilee South is a coalition of Jubilee Debt campaigns and social movements from Africa, Asia and Latin America.[Back to top] Micro-Credit Summit
www.microcreditsummit.org/ Description: Available in English, French and Spanish. The goal of the microcredit summit fulfillment campaign is to ensure that 100 million of the world’s poorest families, and especially women in those families, receive credit for productive self-employment by the year 2005. Links to:
1- Micro-credit success stories
2- Summit newsletter
3- Publications and Resources
4- A searchable councils database. Can search by individual, country or council in order to locate development agencies or even particular development personnel in any country! Related Sites:Microcredit Summit +5 The Microcredit Summit +5 will offer an opportunity for microcredit practitioners, advocates, donors, and others committed to the Summit's goal to assess progress, identify challenges, and reaffirm their commitment to the nine-year campaign.
[Back to top] Millennium Forum
www.millenniumforum.org/ Description: The Millennium Forum will bring together civil society representatives from all over the world to consult about the future of the peoples of the world in relation to the great global challenges that must be confronted by the United Nations in the 21st Century. The eradication of poverty, including debt cancellation and social development, is among the six major themes which will be addressed by the forum. [Back to top] Norwegian Peoples Aid (NPA)
www.npaid.org/ Description: Norwegian People's Aid (NPA) is one of Norway's largest non-governmental organizations, founded in 1939 by the Norwegian labor movement. Based upon the principles of solidarity, unity, human dignity, peace and freedom, NPA is involved in more than 400 projects in 30 countries.
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The Reality of Aid 2000: up-to-date information on official aid, examining how that aid is spent, assessing its impact and analyzing its shortcomings.
Coalition for Global Solidarity and Social Development: In preparation for the World Summit for Social Development +5 the Coalition for Global Solidarity and Social Development is being launched to promote grass-roots participation and involvement in the social summit. [Back to top] Opportunity International
www.opportunity.org.au/ Description: Opportunity International is a not-for-profit aid organization which fills the credit gap by making loans to help poor people start and expand their own small enterprises. Co-founded by an Australian businessman who pioneered microenterprise methods in Indonesia in the 70's, today the Opportunity Network has created more than one million jobs worldwide.[Back to top] Oxfam America
www.oxfamamerica.org/art1716.html Description: Oxfam America is dedicated to creating lasting solutions to hunger, poverty and social injustice through long-term partnerships with poor communities around the world. [Back to top] Oxfam Great Britain
www.oxfam.org.uk/ Description: Oxfam is a development, advocacy, and relief agency working to put an end to poverty world-wide. Policy papers are available.[Back to top] Oxfam International
www.oxfam.org/ Description: Oxfam International, founded in 1995, is an international group of 11 autonomous non-government organizations. Member organizations are of diverse cultures, history, and language, but share the commitment to working for an end to the waste and injustice of poverty - both in longer-term development work and in times of urgent humanitarian need.
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Education Now: Oxfam's new campaign to secure the right to education worldwide. [Back to top] People 2 People: Partnership of NGOs
www.people2people.org/ Description: A partnership of NGOs reporting on poverty eradication initiatives worldwide. Includes library with case studies, published papers, and conference reports on sustainable development. [Back to top] Plan
www.plan-international.org/ Description: Plan is an international humanitarian, child-focused development organisation without religious, political or governmental affiliation.[Back to top] PlaNet Finance
www.planetfinance.org/rcs/PlanetFinance/Site/Web/Fr/Accueil/index.jsp Description: PlaNet Finance is a new international non-profit organization that supports the development of the micro-finance and micro-enterprise sector by using the Internet. The final aim of PlaNet Finance is to contribute to poverty alleviation.[Back to top] PovertyFighters.com
www.povertyfighters.com/ Description: PovertyFighters.com uses the click-to-donate model to help provide micro-loans to women trying to move their families out of third world poverty. The site has many inspirational borrower stories.[Back to top] Relieve Hunger
www.relievehunger.com/links.asp Description: The Relieve Hunger web site is trying to use the power of the Internet for the benefit of the most unfortunate people in the world. It does that by providing links to web sites allowing visitors to give for free simply by viewing a few ads, and by sending visitors to other web sites in exchange of referral fees (click-through fees or commissions) paid by these other web sites to the United Nations Children's Fund. [Back to top] RESULTS: Ending Hunger and Poverty
www.action.org/ Description: Nonprofit, grassroots citizens' lobby that identifies sustainable solutions to the problems of hunger and poverty--in the United States and around the world--and works to generate the resources necessary to make those solutions succeed. RESULTS trains volunteers to speak powerfully with their elected officials, the media and others in their community to have members of Congress be leaders and spokespersons for the end of hunger and poverty. RESULTS volunteers meet with their members of Congress, launch letter-writing campaigns, host press conferences, and work with the media in order to promote proven solutions to the problems of hunger and poverty.
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RESULTS Canada [Back to top] Save the Children
www.savethechildren.net/homepage/ Description: The International Save the Children Alliance currently comprises 26 organizations around the world. Working in over 100 countries, Save the Children is the largest independent movement for children. Save the Children works for a world which respects and values each child, a world which listens to children and learns, a world where all children have hope and opportunity.[Back to top] Social Watch on poverty eradication and gender equity
www.socwatch.org.uy/ Description: An NGO watchdog system aimed at monitoring the commitents made by govermments at the Copenhagen Social Summit and the Beijing World Conference on Women.[Back to top] Society for International Development (SID)
www.sidint.org/ Description: Created in 1957, SID is a global network of individuals and institutions concerned with development which is participative, pluralistic and sustainable. SID has members in 115 countries, and it works with more than 200 associations, networks and institutions involving academia, parliamentarians, students, political leaders and development experts, both at local and international levels. SID has a holistic, multidisciplinary and multisectorial approach to development and social change.[Back to top] SolvePoverty.com
www.solvepoverty.com/ Description: Visitors to SolvePoverty.com are invited to click on a button in order to help educate a poor child or to create a job for a poor person. The donations are free to visitors and paid for by corporate sponsors. SolvePoverty.com is managed by Opportunity International Australia on behalf of the Opportunity International Network[Back to top] Sustainability Watch
www.suswatch.org/ Description: Sustainability Watch (SusWatch) is a network of non-governmental organizations (NGOs) and civil society organizations (CSOs) in Africa, Asia and Latin America. Sustainability Watch is working to promote governmental accountability on sustainable development, through ongoing qualitative monitoring and constructive dialogue at the national and international levels.
[Back to top] Sustainable Development International
www.sustdev.org/ Description: The website aim is to provide the latest news relating to poverty alleviation through sustainable development. It offers daily news, special features, and free access to leading corporate social responsibility reports.[Back to top] Tear Australia
www.tear.org.au/ Description: TEAR is a movement of Australian Christians which has been responding to the needs of poor communities around the world for more than 25 years. Rather than establish its own projects, TEAR Australia's policy is to support the relief and long-term development initiatives of indigenous community-based Christian groups. Priority is given to those programs which strive to fully involve the most marginalized members of each community.[Back to top] The Aspen Institute
www.aspeninst.org/ Description: Washington, D.C. based Economic Research institute whose policy programs include an "Economic Opportunities Program" and a "Rural Economic Policy Program". Links to Institute’s Publications.[Back to top] The Beggar's Hand
www.worldbank.org/library.thinkquest.org/25009/ Source: Think Quest Team
Region: East Asia & the Pacific
Country: Philippines
Description: This website talks about poverty in the Philippines and how it compares to other regions in the world. It covers factors such as the people involved, causes of poverty, results and possible solutions. Furthermore, there are first-hand anecdotes from people who have seen poverty and lesson plans for teachers. [Back to top] The Hunger Project
www.thp.org/ Description: The Hunger Project is a global movement -- men and women from every continent, race, religion and level of opportunity -- committed to the end of hunger.[Back to top] The Hunger Site
www.thehungersite.com/cgi-bin/WebObjects/CTDSites Description: The Hunger Site is an innovative new tool to help feed the hungry. Visitors to the site are invited to donate a serving of food by clicking on a button. The donations are paid for by corporate sponsors. The Hunger Site has chosen to give the donations it generates via the internet to the United Nations World Food Programme.
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The Kids AIDS Site: Seeks to help provide HIV care, education and counseling to pregnant women and mothers with newborns. Visitors to the site will donate free care to help reduce the transmission of HIV from mother to child and HIV education. Donations are made to the Elizabeth Glaser Pediatric AIDS Foundation's Call to Action Project.
The Rainforest Site: Seeks to help protect our environment. Visitors to The Rainforest Site can save a free area of rainforest. The donations are made to the Nature Conservancy's Adopt an Acre® program. [Back to top] United Nations Environment and Development UK Committee (UNED-UK)
www.unedforum.org/ Description: UNED-UK has as its primary objective the promotion of global environmental protection and sustainable development, particularly through support of the UN Environment Programme, the UN Development Programme, the UN Commission on Sustainable Development, and all other relevant UN and inter-governmental institutions.[Back to top] Viatru
www.viatru.com/ Description: Viatru has formed The Visible Commerce Forum (VCF), an online collaboration dedicated to support entrepreneurs in developing communities. The VCF hopes to level the playfield of opportunities for artisans and entrepreneurs who meet the criteria of sustainable business practises.[Back to top] VITA
www.vita.org/ Description: For over four decades VITA has empowered the poor in developing countries by providing access to information and knowledge, strengthening local institutions and introducing improved technologies. Its particular focus is on support to entrepreneurs in the private, public and community sectors and on facilitating connectivity and technical information exchange between and among individuals and organizations.[Back to top] Women in Informal Employment, Globalizing and Organizing (WIEGO)
www.wiego.org/ Description: WIEGO is an international research and advocacy group founded by the Self-Employed Women’s Association (SEWA), the United Nations Development Fund for Women (UNIFEM), and the Harvard Institute for International Development (HIID). The organization furthers its main objective of improving the socio-economic prospects of female informal sector workers through collecting statistics on female workers, conducting research on informal sector issues, supporting the formation and development of organizations for female workers, and promoting policies and programs which improve the position of female workers in the labor market. An integral part of their work includes international advocacy, networking, and communication.[Back to top] Women's Learning Partnership for Rights, Development, and Peace (WLP)
www.learningpartnership.org/ Description: WLP works to empower women and girls in the Global South to re-imagine and re-structure their roles in their families, communities, and societies. WLP seeks to achieve this goal through leadership training, capacity building, and helping women generate as well as receive information and knowledge.[Back to top] Women's Opportunity Fund
www.womensopportunityfund.org/ Description: The Women's Opportunity Fund provides loans, via trust banks, and training to poor women in developing countries for them to start small businesses. [Back to top] World Faiths Development Dialogue (WFDD)
www.wfdd.org.uk/ Description: The World Faiths Development Dialogue is a dialogue between people of the world's religious or spiritual communities and the World Bank, on the subject of poverty and development. It arose at a conference of religious leaders, held in London in February 1998 and jointly chaired by the Archbishop of Canterbury and Mr. James Wolfensohn, President of the World Bank.[Back to top] World Neighbors
www.wn.org/ Description: World Neighbors is a grassroots development organization working side by side with the poorest of the poor in hundreds of rural villages in Asia, Africa and Latin America. World Neighbors helps people find practical solutions to the problem of meeting their basic needs. World Neighbors’ goal is to lessen the effects of hunger, disease and poverty.[Back to top] World Social Forum
www.forumsocialmundial.org.br/eng/index.asp Description: The World Social Forum is a new international arena for the creation and exchange of social and economic projects that promote human rights, social justice and sustainable development. It will take place every year in the city of Porto Alegre, Brazil, during the same period as the World Economic Forum.[Back to top] World Summit for Social Development 2000/WSSD + 5
www.earthsummit2002.org/wssd/ Source: UNED-UK
Description: Web site covers 5 year review of the World Summit for Social Development (WSSD+5 / Copenhagen+5) in Geneva in June 2000. It provides a forum for all stakeholders allowing exchange of ideas and co-ordination of activities towards and beyond the Copenhagen review.[Back to top] World Vision
www.wvi.org/home.shtml Description: World Vision is a humanitarian aid agency. World Vision provides emergency relief that assists people caught in conflict or disaster as well as working with community based development projects. It funds hundreds of relief and community development projects in 95 countries.
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