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This Network is a group of trade union-linked researchers from all over Africa. It provides information and services to both the public and African Labour researchers.
It is a Sri Lankan voluntary organization helping the 100,000 homeless people on the coastline of Sri Lanka.
Regional network on human settlements and urban issues consulted by many UN agencies.
An organization consisting of Arab NGOs and national networks active in the fields of social development, human rights, gender, and the environment.
International network of citizens’ organizations struggling to eradicate poverty and the causes of poverty, to ensure an equitable distribution of wealth and the realization of human rights.
NGO sites
Centre for Civil Society
The Centre, established in the Faculty of Community and Development Disciplines, promotes the study of the non-profit sector as an area of scholarship activity en South Africa .
Centre for Health and Population Research (ICDR,B)
Its mission is to develop and disseminate solution to major health and population problems facing the world. Bangladesh.
Centre for Media Studies
CMS is an independent multi-disciplinary research and development organisation. Research areas include: media, communications and social and development issues. India.
Centre for Rural Technology
A professional non-governmental organisation engaged in developing and promoting appropriate technologies effective in meeting the basic needs of the rural mass and improving their life support systems. Nepal.
China Association for NGO Cooperation - CANGO
Network of Chinese NGOs to address poverty alleviation, environmental protection and social development in China’s poor, remote, and minority-inhabited areas.
Civil Society for Poverty Reduction - CSPR
Civil society anti-poverty advocacy network of over 140 organisation working for pro-poor development in different parts Zambia.
Coastal Association for Social Transformation Trust - COAST
Working in the southern coastal areas of Bangladesh, COAST Trust provides services to people living in one of the world’s most dangerous cyclone zones. Bangladesh.
Coastal Rural and Urban Poor Development Association (CRUPDA)
CRUPDA’s mission to build capacity of the men women and children particular and weaker section of the society in general so that they can realize their rights, through mobilization, increased, building capacity, ensuring participation, advocacy and lobbying. Bangladesh.
Collective for Research and Training on Development - Action
Regional organisation based in Lebanon and working in several countries in the MENA region. It focuses on gender equality and social justice.
Common Concern Network (CCN)
The vision of Common Concern Network (CCN) is peaceful coexistence and a poverty-free society. Its aim is to promote peace and sustainable agricultural development in Nigeria.
Community Trust Fund - CTF
CTF endeavors to protect human rights, promote equality, assist the poor, provide emergency disaster relief assistance, and help all people affected by the ongoing civil war in Sri Lanka regardless of religion, ethnicity, or cultural background. Sri Lanka.
Council for the Development of Social Science Research in Africa (CODESRIA)
Pan-African non-governmental organisation. CODESRIA's principal objectives are facilitating research, promoting research-based publishing and creating multiple fora geared towards the exchange of views and information among African researchers.
Desarrollo Institute
The institute is made up of a highly qualified group of individuals specializing in economics, social studies, and administration, with a counsel of development experts to advise them. Paraguay.
Development Network of Indigenous Voluntary Associations
DENIVA is a registered, indigenous, non-profit making network of Ugandan Non-Governmental and Community Based Organisations.
Development Resources Centre (DRC)
DRC was conceived as an organisation geared to the transition, working to strengthen civil society in South Africa's transformation. South Africa.
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NEWS
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Sri Lanka: five years after tsunami, many still without shelter
Tue Dec 29 2009 - Source: IPS
Sri Lanka's Reconstruction and Development Agency has since wound down as has the massive reconstruction effort. Still many are without homes they could call their own.
BCI 2009: no progress in the global fight against poverty
Fri Dec 18 2009 - Source: Social Watch
The countries and regions of the world are becoming increasingly polarised in spite of their international commitments to fight poverty. This is what emerges from the 2009 Basic Capabilities Index (BCI) published by Social Watch.
G8 countries show total lack of political will to address the global food crisis
Thu Nov 19 2009 - Source: La Via Campesina
The blatant absence of the heads of states of the G8 countries in the World Food Summit, held in Rome from 16 to 18th of November, was one of the key causes of the total failure of this summit.

 
UN Conference on the world financial and economic crisis and its impact on development - Sun Feb 21 2010
The food, environmental and economic crises have challenged civil society organizations and the communities they serve. A broad-based survey, financially supported by the UN, measured the impact of the crises on the operating capacity of CSOs around the world and their expectations as they look ahead.
Fuente: NGO Committee for Social Development

Cairo +15 - International Conference on Population and Development (ICPD) UN Conference on the world financial and economic crisis and its impact on development Financing for Development Poverty
Global labour rights Agriculture and food sovereignty Social security reform The right to adequate housing
Millennium Development Goals - MDGs    

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