Asia-Pacific Rural and Agricultural Credit Association (APRACA)
www.apraca.th.com/ Description:
APRACA is the establishment of a Regional Association that promotes cooperation and facilitates mutual exchange of information and expertise in the field of rural finance.[Back to top] Bangladesh: 1998 Poverty Assessment
wbln1018.worldbank.org/sar/sa.nsf/a ... 256881004e443c?OpenDocument#Poverty Country: Bangladesh
Description:
Reducing poverty is the central development challenge in Bangladesh. The 1998 Bangladesh Poverty Assessment answers several basic questions about counting the poor. As importantly, the poverty assessment addresses several questions about how to make the poor count in the choice, design, and implementation of public policies and programs whose aim is to reduce poverty. [Back to top] Banking With The Poor Network
www.bwtp.org/ Description:
The BWTP Network is a network of some 35 national policy institutions, commercial banks and NGOs from nine countries in Asia - namely Bangladesh, India, Indonesia, Malaysia, Nepal, Pakistan, Philippines, Sri Lanka and Thailand. Its objective is to link microfinance with the financial system. It pursues this objective through research, advocacy, policy dialogue, information sharing and capacity building.[Back to top] BRAC
www.brac.net/index.html Country: Bangladesh
Description:
BRAC works with people whose lives are dominated by extreme poverty, illiteracy, disease and other handicaps. With multifaceted development interventions, they strive to bring about a positive change in the quality of life of the poor people of Bangladesh.[Back to top] Byrraju Foundation
www.byrrajufoundation.org/ 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] Bytes for All
www.bytesforall.org/ Description:
An online newsletter which addresses issues such as internet solutions for all and the use of ICT in development.[Back to top] Center for Micro-Finance Nepal
www.cmfnepal.org Country: Nepal
Description:
The organization's goal is to promote awareness of and commitment to micro-finance (MF) best practices in Nepal within the community of donors, government and MF practitioners. [Back to top] Grameen Bank
www.grameen-info.org/ Country: Bangladesh
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.[Back to top] Hindu Kush-Himalayas: Poverty in Mountain Areas (International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development ICIMOD)
www.icimod.org.sg/focus/poverty/pov_toc.htm Description:
The Hindu Kush-Himalayan Region, extending 3,500 km over eight countries from Afghanistan in the west to Mynamar in the east, sustains approximately 140 million people and affects the lives of more than three times as many in the plains and river basins below. ICIMOD's mission is to help promote the development of an economically and environmentally sound mountain ecosystem and to improve the living standards of mountain populations in the Hindu Kush-Himalayan Region.[Back to top] India Development Information Network (Indev)
www.indev.org/ Country: India
Description:
The British Council’s initiative to address problems faced by development managers in accessing development information on India. The first of its kind in India, Indev holds and disseminates information that is crucial for decision-makers, researchers, academics and development managers and act as a gateway to development information on India.[Back to top] IndiaCares
www.indiacares.org/ Country: India
Description:
IndiaCares is a non-profit platform aiming to harness the power of the Internet to involve global citizens, especially Indians, in the crucial and significant social work of the Indian voluntary sector.[Back to top] Institute of Development Studies, Jaipur (IDSJ)
www.idsj.org/ Description:
IDSJ is a multi-disciplinary research organization. It takes cognizance of the macro environment, planning processes and strategies including their socio-economic dimensions and attempts to make timely interventions through research and dialogue. Particular attention is given to the study of processes, the impact of trickle down effects of growth, direct public interventions such as poverty and employment programs and the participatory efforts of voluntary organization with respect to the marginalized section of the society. The Institute is specifically concerned with regional issues relating to Rajasthan.[Back to top] Institute of Development Studies, Jaipur (IDSJ)
www.idsj.org/ Country: India
Description:
IDSJ is a multi-disciplinary research organization. It takes cognizance of the macro environment, planning processes and strategies including their socio-economic dimensions and attempts to make timely interventions through research and dialogue. Particular attention is given to the study of processes, the impact of trickle down effects of growth, direct public interventions such as poverty and employment programs and the participatory efforts of voluntary organization with respect to the marginalized section of the society. The Institute is specifically concerned with regional issues relating to Rajasthan. [Back to top] International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development (ICIMOD): Poverty in Mountain Areas
www.icimod.org.sg/focus/poverty/pov_toc.htm Description:
ICIMOD's mission is to help promote the development of an economically and environmentally sound mountain ecosystem and to improve the living standards of mountain populations in the Hindu Kush-Himalayan Region. The Hindu Kush-Himalayan Region, extending 3,500 km over eight countries from Afghanistan in the west to Mynamar in the east, sustains approximately 140 million people and affects the lives of more than three times as many in the plains and river basins below.[Back to top] Interviews with Poverty
www.kamat.com/kalranga/bhiksha/index.htm Country: India
Description:
A collection of documents and, mainly, photographs about poverty in India. [Back to top] MokshaYug Access (MYA)
www.moksha-yug.in/ Country: India
Description:
MOKSHA-YUG ACCESS (MYA) is a rural infrastructure and services company with a primary focus on microfinance. It launched operations on 12th April 2006 in Bagalkot taluk of Bagalkot District and has 75 employees working towards creating wealth for the rural poor.[Back to top] Myrada
www.myrada.org/ Country: India
Description:
Myrada's goal is to foster a process of sustainable change in favour of the rural poor through micro-credit initiatives.[Back to top] PanAsia
www.panasia.org.sg/ Description:
PanAsia is an initiative of the International Development Research Centre (IDRC), to help researchers and communities in the developing world find solutions to their social, economic, and environmental problems. IDRC connects people, institutions and ideas to ensure that the results of research it supports and the knowledge that research generates are shared equitably among its partners, North and South.[Back to top] Poverty in Bihar
www.bihartimes.com/poverty1.html Country: India
Description:
Articles and electronic discussion on poverty in the Indian state of Bihar. Related Sites:Development Alert: a new electronic newspaper sponsored by UNICEF with field reports and data on poverty in Bihar (India).
[Back to top] Poverty Reduction Project by CIDA
www.acdi-cida.gc.ca/poverty/asia Description:
Although there has been remarkable and unprecedented progress in reducing poverty in Asia over the last 25 years, the continent still accounts for three quarters of the world's poor. Even before the current economic crisis in Southeast Asia, poverty and inequity were still major issues for many Asians. CIDA's Asia Branch has begun a yearlong participatory process with staff and a variety of CIDA partners, to help the Branch better understand the complexities of poverty, determine lessons learned from poverty focused projects in the field and develop a new poverty reduction strategy. [Back to top] Pratham
www.pratham.org/ Country: India
Description:
Pratham is a grassroot charity that promotes preschool education of slum-dwelling children in India. Initiated by UNICEF in 1994, Pratham now serves 200,000 children in over 19 cities, including Mumbai, Delhi, Patna, Vadodara, and Bangalore. The goal of Pratham is to wipe out illiteracy from Indian slums by providing every 3-5 year old access to a Balwadi (Kindergarten) and bringing back dropout children into schools by tutoring and counseling. Pratham's Balwadi model is low cost, efficient and effective. It has worked in Mumbai for seven years and is rapidly expanding across India. The total need for the Indian slums is to provide preschooling to 20 million children. [Back to top] ProPoor
www.propoor.org/index.asp Description:
ProPoor is a non profit organization registered in Calcutta (India), Singapore and Atlanta, Georgia (USA).It has developed an important Internet portal of information on South Asian non governmental organizations, donors, events, projects, leaders, jobs and links. It also provides a free webpage to NGOs.[Back to top] Sahayata
www.indiaworld.co.in/home/sahayata/index.html Country: India
Description:
Public awareness effort on behalf of grassroots nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) in India serving disadvantaged people. Provides information for people interested in offering assistance. [Back to top] Self Employed Women’s Association (SEWA)
www.sewa.org/ Country: India
Description:
Founded in 1972, the Self Employed Women’s Association (SEWA) is a trade union organization comprised of poor, self-employed women workers. The organization’s headquarters is located in Ahmedabad, India. Total membership stood at 212,016 in 1996 with over three-fourths (162,781) concentrated in the northwestern Indian state of Gujarat. SEWA members are involved in a wide range of income-generating activities including weaving, laundering, pottery, tailoring, food-processing, craft-making, vending of merchandise and wares, construction, agriculture, and domestic work.[Back to top] Strengthening Micro Health Insurance Units for the Poor in India
www.microhealthinsurance-india.org Country: India
Description:
"Strengthening Micro Health Insurance Units for the Poor in India" is a consortium of not for profit research and business organizations sharing a common goal: help to establish health insurance for the poor in India using microinsurance. The project will focus on issues determining the demand for insurance among the poor (e.g. trust, preferred package design, willingness to pay, understanding of insurance principles) as well as on the supply side of microinsurance (pricing, product design, transaction costs, regulatory requirements etc.), with special emphasis on the schemes’ long term stability. [Back to top] Sustainable Development Networking Programme
sdnp.delhi.nic.in/ Source: UNDP, IDRC, Indian Ministry of Environment and Forests
Country: India
Description:
Sustainable Development Networking Programme (India) exists to facilitate the process of sustainable development by disseminating solutions, promoting good practices and strengthening democratic practices through a mechanism of information exchange between NGOs, government and research organisations, business establishments and civil society at large. The programme is funded by United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), International Development Research Centre (IDRC), Canada and the Ministry of Environment and Forests (India).
[Back to top] Sustainable Development Networking Programme (SDNP), Pakistan
www.sdnpk.org/ Country: Pakistan
Description:
The Sustainable Development Networking Programme in Pakistan was started in 1992 by UNDP and managed by IUCN. It has been working since then to promote access to information on sustainable human development by different sectors of society.[Back to top] Swayam Krishi Sangam (SKS)
www.sksindia.com/ Country: India
Description:
Swayam Krishi Sangam's mission is to empower the poorest of the poor to become self-reliant. SKS does this through a community-owned grameen (village) banking program that provides poor women loans for both income-generating activities as well as for emergencies.[Back to top] The World Bank In Nepal : Country Assistance Strategy 1999-2001
wbln1018.worldbank.org/sar/sa.nsf/d ... 43a1d28525694500670435?OpenDocument Source: The World Bank
Country: Nepal
Description:
This report carries a central message: Poverty in Nepal is deep and complex, and only a concerted effort to improve public interventions while mobilizing community initiative holds hope for a reduction in poverty. Despite the complexity of the poverty situation, more can be done to alleviate the indigence that oppresses roughly every other inhabitant of Nepal. [Back to top] Towards A South Asian Knowledge Network (TaskNet)
www.tasknet.nic.in/index.html Description:
Towards A South Asian Knowledge Network (TASKNET) is one of a series of conferences supported by the Global Knowledge Partnership. The TASKNET Conference focused on how South Asia can turn the information revolution into a force for economic development, social cohesion and poverty alleviation in the developing countries of the region.[Back to top] UNDP Bangladesh
www.un-bd.org/undp/ Source: United Nations Development Programme
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] World Bank in India
lnweb18.worldbank.org/sar/sa.nsf/India?OpenNavigator Country: India
Description:
This website is dedicated to providing up-to-date information on Bank-assisted programs, data, and publications relating to India. The website is part of the Bank's broader efforts to make information about Bank-assisted programs widely available to the public, and to share knowledge and stimulate debate about development issues in India and around the globe.[Back to top]
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