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Twelve Habits of Highly Effective ICT-Enabled Development Initiatives

Twelve Habits of Highly Effective ICT-Enabled Development Initiatives are a set of best practice guidelines for project management, which aim to ensure the internal health of initiatives harnessing ICT for development. Like the Real Access criteria, the 12 Habits can be used proscriptively for...

Ministers to Discuss Ways to Overcome Supply Side Constraints to Trade

Ministers to Discuss Ways to Overcome Supply Side Constraints to Trade, a news article, reports that trade and industry ministers from the world’s poorest countries met in Cambodia seeking solutions to common problems they face in integrating their economies into the global trading system.

Habitat ReStores

Habitat ReStores, affiliated with Habitat for Humanity, are retail outlets where quality used and surplus building materials are sold at a fraction of normal prices. Sales proceeds help local Habitat for Humanity affiliates fund the construction of Habitat houses.

United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation (UNESCO) Management of Social Transformations Programme

UNESCO Management of Social Transformations Programme website has a database of best practices, information explaining best practices and links to other best practice information.

Social Entrepreneurs: vital partners for business

"Social Entrepreneurs: vital partners for business", a news article, reports on a meeting of over 80 leaders from international business, non-governmental organisations and government to discuss how partnerships between social entrepreneurs and business can enable companies to address development...

United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) - Egypt

The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) - Egypt. This website provides information about the UNDP activities in Egypt, together with a country profile.

Brilliant Brokerage: tips for success

Brilliant Brokerage: tips for success, a booklet, is a guide to brokering business community partnerships. It demonstrates the value and importance of the brokerage role and identifies the key skills and processes required for effective delivery.

Business guide to development actors

Business guide to development actors, a report, provides guidance to development actors who aim to introduce the business community to potential partners in the development community. The main part of this guide consists of profiles of 30 organisations already engaging in collaboration with the...

Guide to Fair Trade

The Fair Trade system ensures that people along every step of the supply chain receive fair wages, that workers and communities are treated with dignity, and that artisans and producers take steps to preserve the environment. Fair Trade builds real and lasting relationships between producers in...

Sixty years of Fair Trade: A brief history of the Fair Trade movement

During its history of over 60 years, Fair Trade has developed into a widespread movement with recognition on a political and mainstream business level.

WHO Global Alert and Response (GAR) - Pandemic (H1N1) 2009

WHO provides an integrated global alert and response system for epidemics and other public health emergencies based on strong national public health systems and capacity and an effective international system for coordinated response. This webpage collates information relating to the H1N1...

Under the spotlight: Building a better understanding of global business-NGO partnerships

Focussing specifically on partnerships between business and NGOs, this paper aims to play its part in: * Revealing partnership potential; * Addressing the challenges that working outside one’s comfort zone invariably brings; and * Pushing forward the partnering agenda so that it starts to have...

Water and sustainable development: A business perspective

"Scarce, cheap, and wasted. In too many places water is a triple paradox," says this updated WBCSD paper on water, which was originally prepared for the UN Commission on Sustainable Development (CSD) in April 2004. Its message is straightforward: with no water there can be no business.

Community Based Disaster Risk Management (CBDRM) - Field practitioners' handbook

The concept of Community-based Disaster Risk Management (CBDRM) has emerged during the past two decades in South East Asian countries. The promoters included NGOs, citizen’s organizations, humanitarian agencies and government departments in different countries in the region.

Timberland partners with Big City Mountaineers to provide wilderness experiences

Timberland partners with Big City Mountaineers (BCM), an organization uniting volunteer mentors with urban youth for life-changing outdoor journeys.

Timberland mentors youth through City Year

Since 1988, Timberland is a founding sponsor of the not-for-profit organisation City Year, making it the first youth service corps launched entirely through private sector support.

Timberland mentors youth in France through Unis-Cite

As the longstanding partner of Unis-Cité since its inception in 1995, Timberland France has supported many activities such as supporting projects, organization of an art sale for the association and so on.

Seventh Generation and WAGES partner to form a cooperative in San Francisco

Seventh Generation, an American company that distributes household and personal care products, has partnered with Women’s Action to Gain Economic Security (WAGES) to launch a new worker-owned residential green cleaning cooperative in San Francisco.

Raising the Bar: Media Social Responsibility

This article, originally published two years ago, has now been adapted to include more recent research.

Allianz, UNDP and GTZ partner for a three-country study on Micro-insurance

In 2006, the United Nations Development Program (UNDP) approached Allianz to work together on a market potential study to analyse the demand, acceptability and affordability of microinsurance products.