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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.

No role for World Bank in management of climate finance!
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NEWS
Selected news
Vain and void, neither G8 nor G20!
Thu Jul 01 2010 - Source: ALAI
As at previous meetings, the Toronto summit of the exclusive G20 club to which the world’s richest countries invited the heads of state of the major emerging countries once again raised great expectations only to conclude with an empty bubble. As in previous meetings since 2008 discussions focused on a way out of the crisis that favours creditors and great powers.
Smaller nations fear marginalisation by elite G20
Mon Jun 21 2010 - Source: IPS
The 27-member Global Governance Group (3G) is challenging the politically and economically powerful G20 not to marginalise the interests of small and medium-sized countries or undermine the United Nations in key decision-making.
Development aid: Robbing the poor to feed the rich
Thu Jun 10 2010 - Source: Pambazuka
In producing often 'negative resource transfers' (from developing to developed countries), development aid and official development assistance (ODA) essentially remain an exercise in taking money from poor countries for the purpose of enriching wealthier ones, writes Charles Abugre.

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