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International NGOs and Networks
Better Aid
Betteraid.org is a campaign website that aims to provide information and updates on aid effectiveness issues, especially related to the CSO parallel process towards the Third High Level Forum on Aid Effectiveness in Accra September 2008 reviewing the Paris Declaration.
Bretton Woods Project
The Bretton Woods Project works as a networker, information provider, media informant and watchdog to scrutinise and influence the World Bank and International Monetary Fund (IMF).
Campaign against the IDB for life, justice & diversity
The primary goals of this hemispheric campaign are to raise awareness through popular education and strengthen the ties of collaboration among organizations working on issues related to the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB).
Center of Concern - COC
The work of Center of Concern during the past several years has been directed at analyses of globalization through the lenses of gender, class and race, with a concern for human rights, especially economic and social rights.
Committee for the Abolition of the Third World Debt - CADTM
International network of activists who are working to develop and implement radical alternatives to contribute to the protection and recovery of fundamental human rights all over the world.
EURODAD
European Network on Debt and Development.
Financing for Development - Civil Society Engagement
Forum on the Future of Aid
The Forum is an online community dedicated to research and opinions about how the international aid system currently works and where it should go next.
Gender Action
Organization dedicated to promoting gender equality and women's rights in all International Financial Institution (IFI) investments such as those of the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund - two of the largest public sources of development financing in the world.
IFI Watchers Network
The IFI Watchers Network connects organizations worldwide which are monitoring international financial institutions such as the World Bank and International Monetary Fund.
International Network for Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (ESCR-Net)
ESCR-Net is an emerging coalition of organizations and activists from around the world dedicated to advancing economic, social and cultural rights. This website contains four interactive, searchable databases (or directories) of organizations and individuals, project and activities, regional and domestic case law, and events.
Japan Network on Debt and Poverty
The network on debt and poverty, formerly Jubilee 2000 Japan, is working to solve problems related to the unjust debts of impoverished countries. It works with people and organizations from both the South and the North.
Jubilee
Jubilee provides up-to-date, accurate research, analyses, news and data on international debt and finance.
New Rules for Global Finance
Coalition of development, human rights, labor, environmental, and religious organizations and scholars dedicated to the reform of the global financial architecture in order to stabilize the world economy, reduce poverty and inequality, uphold fundamental rights, and protect the environment.
New Rules for Global Finance Coalition
It is a coalition of development, human rights, labor, environmental, and religious organizations and scholars dedicated to the reform of the global financial architecture in order to stabilize the world economy, reduce poverty and inequality, uphold fundamental rights, and protect the environment.
Office of the Chief Economist (OCE)
Research department of the Inter-American Development Bank, with information and publications on economic research and development policy in Latin America.
Rethinking Finance
Rethinking finance is a website of several international civil society organisations and individuals that contribute to its content, keeping it a place of lively debate and up to date information.
Structural Adjustment Participatory Review International (SAPRIN)
SAPRIN is a global network established to expand and legitimize the role of civil society in economic policymaking and to strengthen the organized challenge to structural adjustment programs by citizens around the globe.
The Jus Semper Global Alliance
The Living Wages North and South Initiative (TLWNSI) constitutes the sole program of The Jus Semper Global Alliance (TJSGA). TLWNSI is a long-term program developed to contribute to social justice in the world by achieving fair labour endowments for the workers of all the countries immersed in the global market system.
The Reality of Aid
The Reality of Aidproject aims to contribute to more effective international aid and development cooperation strategies to eliminate poverty, based on principles of North/South solidarity and equity.
 
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The Doha Non-governmental organization Group on Financing for Development (DNG) is an international coalition of civil society organizations serving as the NGO facilitating body to the official UN Financing for Development (FfD) process and engaged in the monitoring of the various agenda items of the Monterrey Consensus.
INSouth embodies an understanding, from a South perspective, of the new and emerging issues in the international arena, and the challenges and opportunities they pose for the South.

The Robin Hood Tax
Solidarity and respect for Popular Sovereignty: Haiti is calling

NEWS
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To the governments and organizations gathered in Montreal on the situation in Haiti
Tue Jan 26 2010 - Source: La Via Campesina
A large group of organizations reject the militarization of Haiti, calling on governments and international organizations to immediately and unconditionally cancel the country’s external debt.
High-level Dialogue on Financing for Development
Wed Jan 20 2010 - Source: UN NGLS
NGO in consultative status with ECOSOC as well as those that were granted ad hoc accreditation to the International Conference on Financing for Development (ICFfD), its follow-up process and the Doha Review Conference are eligible to apply for this event, which takes place on 16-17 March 2010 at the UN Headquarters in New York.
Heads up on the World Bank and IMF annual meetings
Fri Oct 02 2009 - Source: Eurodad
Civil society groups are organising events from 2nd October until the 7th October. Some of these events will take place at the Civil Society Policy Forum organised at the premises of the official Bank and Fund meetings. Others will take place at the Bilgi University and other venues outside the Istanbul Congress Centre.

UN Conference on the world financial and economic crisis and its impact on development The global financial crisis: implications for the South Gender in economics The Bank of the South: An alternative to the IFIs?
Financing for Development Initiative for Integration of Regional Infrastructure in South America - IIRSA External debt The G8 Summit 2005
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