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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
International Center for Tropical Agriculture (CIAT)
CIAT is a not-for-profit organization that conducts socially and environmentally progressive research aimed at reducing hunger and poverty and preserving natural resources in developing countries. Colombia.
International NGO Forum on Indonesian Development (INFID)
INFID is an instrument to facilitate communication between NGOs inside and outside Indonesia in order to promote policies to alleviate structural poverty and to increase the capacity to improve conditions of the poor and disadvantaged.
International Young Development Foundation
The organization's aim is to help poor people -especially children- to build up their lives. Sri Lanka.
Iraqi Al-Amal Association
The activities of the Association are directed towards improving the social conditions and the social fabric of the people. They are based on needs assessment studies. Iraq.
Islamic Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization -ISESCO
IESCO promotes cooperation among Member States in the fields of education, science, culture and communication. Morocco.
Kaleyewa House
The mission is to improve the welfare of older persons in Nigeria by promoting family/community care as opposed to institutional care which isolates the elders.
Kibera Community Youth Programme
This site deals with youth from slum areas of Kenya known as Kibera.
Land Research Action Network (LRAN)
Network of researchers and social movements committed to the promotion and advancement of the fundamental rights of individuals and communities to land, and to equitable access to the resources necessary for life with human dignity.
Landless Workers Movement
Organization representing the rights of hundreds of thousands of landless peasants, who have taken onto themselves the task of carrying out a long-overdue land reform. Brazil.
MA'AN Development Center
MA'AN's mission is to work towards sustainable human development through: the development of Palestinian human resources; institutional building; conducting developmental research; the creation of sustainable agricultural models.
Movement for National Land and Agricultural Reform - MONLAR
Network of farmer organizations, NGOs and people’s organizations in other sectors to response to the serious socio-political and economic crisis that emerged in Sri Lanka at the end of 1980s.
MWENGO
Reflection and development centre in Eastern and Southern Africa. Its mission is to strengthen the capacities of NGOs in Eastern and Southern Africa to articulate and implement a development agenda rooted in African experience and analysis. Zimbabwe.
Myrada
A NGO managing rural development programmes in three States of South India and providing on-going support including deputations of staff to programmes in six other States. It also promotes the Self Help Affinity strategy in Cambodia, Myanmar and Bangladesh.
Naandi Foundation
Naandi is a not profit organisation working for Child Rights, Safe Drinking Water and Livelihoods for small and marginal farmers.
National Centre for Advocacy Studies (NCAS)
NCAS is an organisation that works towards a participatory, people-centred policy environment and a transparent and accountable governance; so as to advance equitable social change and distributive justice. India.
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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
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