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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Centre for Media Studies
CMS is an independent multi-disciplinary research and development organisation. Research areas include: media, communications and social and development issues. India.
Centre for Rural Technology
A professional non-governmental organisation engaged in developing and promoting appropriate technologies effective in meeting the basic needs of the rural mass and improving their life support systems. Nepal.
China Association for NGO Cooperation - CANGO
Network of Chinese NGOs to address poverty alleviation, environmental protection and social development in China’s poor, remote, and minority-inhabited areas.
Civil Society for Poverty Reduction - CSPR
Civil society anti-poverty advocacy network of over 140 organisation working for pro-poor development in different parts Zambia.
Coastal Rural and Urban Poor Development Association (CRUPDA)
CRUPDA’s mission to build capacity of the men women and children particular and weaker section of the society in general so that they can realize their rights, through mobilization, increased, building capacity, ensuring participation, advocacy and lobbying. Bangladesh.
Common Concern Network (CCN)
The vision of Common Concern Network (CCN) is peaceful coexistence and a poverty-free society. Its aim is to promote peace and sustainable agricultural development in Nigeria.
Council for the Development of Social Science Research in Africa (CODESRIA)
Pan-African non-governmental organisation. CODESRIA's principal objectives are facilitating research, promoting research-based publishing and creating multiple fora geared towards the exchange of views and information among African researchers.
Desarrollo Institute
The institute is made up of a highly qualified group of individuals specializing in economics, social studies, and administration, with a counsel of development experts to advise them. Paraguay.
Development Resources Centre (DRC)
DRC was conceived as an organisation geared to the transition, working to strengthen civil society in South Africa's transformation. South Africa.
Dhaka Ahsania Mission
Dhaka Ahsania renders humanitarian services to the causes of suffering people, working on human displacement through its Refugee Counseling Services. The organization works too towards sustainable human development. Bangladesh.
Duta Awam Foundation
Duta Awam assist Indonesian farmers/peasants to solve their problems, to secure their rights.
Economic and Social Research Foundation (ESRF)
Independent not-for-profit non-governmental research institute for capacity building in economic and social policy analysis. The main objective of ESRF is to build and strengthen human and institutional capabilities in economic and social policy analysis and decision-making and to enhance the understanding of policy options within the Government, public sector, donor community and in the growing national non-governmental sector mainly, but not only in Tanzania.
Economic Research Forum for the Arab Countries, Iran and Turkey - ERF
ERF’s mission is to provide an institutional mechanism to initiate and fund policy-relevant economic research, to disseminate the results of research activity to scholars, policymakers, and the business community, and to function as a resource base for researchers through its databank and documentation library.
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Social Development
/Economy and Financial Affairs
- Mon Sep 29 2008
Aid Effectiveness and the Forums in Accra
Three Forums on the issue of aid effectiveness were held in Accra, the capital of Ghana, from August 30 to September 4 2008.
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Choike
Social Development
/Economy and Financial Affairs
- Mon Sep 22 2008
Poverty is not decreasing as the World Bank claims
On the eve of a UN presidential meeting on poverty reduction the mainstream consensus that globalization is reducing poverty around the world was challenged today by Social Watch, a network of 400 civil society organizations in 70 countries. The World Bank latest estimates, announced last August, claim that extreme poverty has been reduced by half in the last 25 years and that therefore the internationally agreed goals for 2015 can be met.
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Social Watch
Within the framework of the European Social Forum 2008, Peter Waterman analyzed the iniciatives put forward by trade unions and the labour agenda. In a special document, he develops critical opinions on the international union hegemons. Furthermore, he submitted his proposal "a global charter movement" to develop a declaration or manifesto on labour, relevant to all working people, under the conditions of a radically transformed and highly aggressive capitalism, neo-liberalised, networked and globalised.
