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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 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.
Nayakrishi Andolon - New Agricultural Movement
Agricultural movement which promotes a natural sustainable way of farming. Nayakrishi has centers throughout Bangladesh where farmers can learn the alternative to chemical and genetically modified mainstream farming.
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Is global poverty reduction a political myth?
Tue Jul 13 2010 - Source: IPS
When the United Nations hosts a summit meeting of world leaders next September to assess the current state of its Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), it is expected to single out one of the major "success stories" of the day: a reduction in global poverty.
New tool aims to boost participatory governance
Mon Jun 28 2010 - Source: CIVICUS
Participatory governance is about empowering citizens to participate in processes of public decision-making that affect their lives. This site provides information on participatory governance practices and tools – all aimed at achieving more transparent, responsive, accountable and effective governance, at both the local and national level, through active citizen participation.
Grassroots women claimed cities at grassroots academy
Wed Apr 21 2010 - Source: Huairou
While the V World Urban Forum was taking place in Brazil in March 2010, women from over 20 countries exchanged their practices and experiences in the "claiming our cities, claiming our roles" Grassroots Academy. The participants came up with collective advocacy messages to influence policies and resource allocation to reflect the needs of poor women.

 
Millennium Development Goals - MDGs - Thu Jun 24 2010
  The Millennium Development Goals report
The world is still on track to achieve the Millenium Development Goal (MDG) target of cutting the rate of extreme poverty in half by 2015 says a new report by the United Nations a few months before a major General Assembly meeting is to review progress so far. Many countries are moving forward, but unmet commitments, inadequate resources, lack of focus and accountability, and insufficient dedication to sustainable development have created shortfalls in many areas. Some of these shortfalls were aggravated by the global food and economic and financial crises.
Fuente: UN

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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