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.
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Amanitare
African Partnership for Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights of Women and Girls, which evolved from the need for a coordinated Pan-African effort to consolidate the skills, knowledge and institutional resources of groups and individuals active in the field of sexual and reproductive health, gender equality, and women's rights.
Arab & African Research Center - AARC
Initiative of a group of Arab African intellectuals concerned with a new reading in the economic, social, cultural and political realities of Afro - Arab societies and their relationship with Southern peoples.
Arab Social Science Research (ASSR)
ASSR is designed to link Arab social science research centers to one another and to the world through a virtual library specializing in social science resources.
Association for Water And Rural Development (AWARD)
The mission of this non-profit company is to promote and support equitable and accessible community water services and resources in the Sand River Catchment. AWARD seeks to do this by adopting approaches that focus on sustainable integrated development for water-based livelihoods. The site provides a number of links and Word documents to download with information about reports and projects. South Africa.
Bangladesh Rural Advancement Committee (BRAC)
BRAC has gradually evolved into a large and multifaceted development organisation with the twin objectives of alleviation of poverty and empowerment of the poor.
Batjha Youth Development
The goal of Batjha Youth Development is to empower disadvantaged youth and young adults in the rural areas north west of Randburg, South Africa.
Caribbean Policy Development Centre - CPDC
The membership of the CPDC includes 26 regional and national networks and agencies. Members come from the English speaking Caribbean, as well as Cuba, the Dominican Republic, Haiti and Puerto Rico.
Centre for African Settlement Studies and Development (CASSAD)
CASSAD operates using action projects, advocacy, research and human resources development as instruments to pursue poverty reduction and ensure sustainable development in Nigerian communities.
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 .
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Social Development
/Economy and Financial Affairs
- Wed Aug 13 2008
Better trade, not aid, say developing nations
"Stop throwing money at us carte-blanche; rather first engage us to determine our needs." This seems to be the message that ministers of middle-income countries are sending to the developed world.
Source:
Tralac
Social Development
/Economy and Financial Affairs
- Wed Jul 09 2008
Civil society for aid that works for poor
With a high level meeting on aid effectiveness set to take place later this year in Accra, Ghana, participants at the eighth CIVICUS Assembly in the Scottish capital wanted donors to stop dictating how aid should be used.
Source:
Inter Press Service (IPS)
"The history of development success shows that the crucible of change is primarily national and local, but rich countries, societies, and corporations carry a huge respon sibility. The deeply inequitable forms of global governance must be overhauled so that global phenomena such as climate change, capital flows, migration, conflict, or trade and investment are managed in ways that reduce poverty, inequality, and suffering".
Fuente:
OXFAM International
