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Handbook for emergencies, second edition

Effective emergency preparedness and response is a major priority of UNHCR. Crises have caused widespread human suffering and put great demands on UNHCR, prompting them to develop an effective response mechanism. Having dispatched over 300 missions throughout the world since 1992, UNHCR now has in...

Hotelnet

Hotelnet is a site that lists hotels in the United Kingdom, Europe, North America, and other countries around the world. The site also includes a currency converter, and a useful travel links section.

UNCTAD (United Nations Conference on Trade and Development) - TRAINS (TRade Analysis and INformation System) - Thailand page

The TRAINS country notes summarise the trade control measures, tariffs and other import regulations.

Guidelines for Emergency Humanitarian Assistance Project Proposals and Reports

The Guidelines for Emergency Humanitarian Assistance Project Proposals and Reports are for agencies seeking emergency funds to support short-term international humanitarian assistance. The guidelines clarify the types of projects for which they have been developed (ie. short-term responsive...

Humanitarian Assistance in Disaster Situations - A Quick Guide for Effective Donations

Humanitarian Assistance in Disaster Situations - A Quick Guide for Effective Donations, a guidebook, is designed to assist donors and recipients to make decisions that will have the greatest long-term benefit to countries affected by natural or complex disasters.

Responsible investment: a force for poverty alleviation

The current crisis offers the opportunity to rethink the contribution that investors can make to eradicating global poverty. Oxfam believes that investors have a critical role to play in poverty alleviation, through supporting economic growth, building infrastructure, and helping to create a...

Choike

Choike is a portal dedicated to improving the visibility of the work done by NGOs and social movements from the South. It offers a directory of NGOs organised in categories and sub-categories, a search engine that enables finding information in the directory's web sites, a selection of materials...

Microcredit and other loan programs in protracted refugee situations

Aid agencies recognise the need to support refugees’ own efforts to pursue livelihoods, but there are few livelihoods resources available. Microcredit and other types of loan programs have not been widely attempted, because refugees and IDPs are considered too geographically unstable –...

UNCTAD (United Nations Conference on Trade and Development) - TRAINS (TRade Analysis and INformation System) - Nicaragua page

The TRAINS country notes summarise the trade control measures, tariffs and other import regulations.

Enabling Corporate Investment in Peace

Enabling Corporate Investment in Peace: An Assessment of Voluntary Initiatives Addressing Business and Violent Conflict, and a Framework for Policy Decision-making, a briefing for corporate decision makers, reviews the provisions of voluntary codes, guidelines and initiatives that address the...

More Than Making Money – Listing of Standards, Guidelines and Principles Relevant to Corporate Impacts

More Than Making Money – Listing of Standards, Guidelines and Principles Relevant to Corporate Impacts, a listing produced by Business in the Community (BITC) and Corporate Citizen, consists of standards, guidelines and principles relevant to corporate impacts such as benchmarkable standards,...

Canadian International Development Agency - Ghana page

This site provides an overview of the current situation in Ghana and contains some interesting statistics about aid and development in the country. The site is provided by CIDA, the Canadian international development agency.

Armenian Customs Service

Armenian Customs Service, the website for the state customs administration of Armenia, provides information about customs regulations.

Guidelines for building business coalitions against HIV/AIDS

The Guidelines for building business coalitions against HIV/AIDS provides practical, operational, timely and relevant guidance to companies and/or leaders in the private sector who want to combine forces in the fight against HIV/AIDS. It includes lessons learned and examples to those interested in...

Micro-Enterprise Online Library

Micro-Enterprise Online Libary, published by National Institute for Social Science Information, provides an online micro-enterprise research library.

Workplace Code of Conduct

Workplace Code of Conduct, formulated by the Apparel Industry Partnership, addresses issues related to the eradication of sweatshops in the United States and abroad. The Code is a set of standards defining decent and humane working conditions.

Information on Ioaveni, Moldova

This is an information page about the town of Ioaveni in Moldova. It includes statistics and historical information about the town.

Customs Regulations - Eastern European Countries, Africa and Iraq

Customs Regulations - Eastern European Countries, Africa and Iraq - for fifteen countries are listed on this website of Vidotrans-HTG Relief Transports. Each country page has customs information, such as the types of goods that are prohibited or restricted, as well a list of documents that are...

Microfinance and Poverty Alleviation: United Nations Collaboration with Chinese Experiments

Author: Susan H. Holcombe Xu Xianmei Date:1996-10

UNCTAD (United Nations Conference on Trade and Development) - TRAINS (TRade Analysis and INformation System) - Tunisia page

The TRAINS country notes summarise the trade control measures, tariffs and other import regulations.