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West Africa News

West Africa News provides current affairs news, economic news and a variety of special reports relating to humanitarian aid, natural disasters and warfare all specific to West African countries including Mauritania, Nigeria, Cameroon, Ghana, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Liberia and Congo.

AccountAbility Rating

AccountAbility Rating, a tool developed by CRS Network and AccountAbility, measures the extent to which companies put responsible practices at the heart of their business, assessed across key domains. These domains include stakeholder engagement, strategy, governance, performance management, public...

Good Practice Reviews from the Overseas Development Institute

Good Practice Reviews from the Overseas Development Institute offers a series of good practice publications directed toward the humanitarian field.

Non-profit About

Nonprofits at About.com offers a broad range of information for non-profit organisations including accounting, fund-raising, IT support, management, public relations, volunteer information. The information is available in the form of informational resources, forums, chat provision, and listings.

Technology Donation Guidelines

These guidelines refer to an American community school, but may be useful to donors who wish to donate technological hardware to NGOs or similar organisations.

Guide for Effective Aid - Pan American Health Organisation (PAHO)

The South American branch of the World Health Organisation (WHO) has prepared a set of guidelines to assist relief organisations in sending effective aid to support disasters. The guidelines advise on what a relief organisation should do immediately after a disaster. Also listed are items that...

Minimum Standards for Education: Preparedness, Response, Recovery

Minimum Standards for Education in Emergencies Handbook, published by the Inter-Agency Network for Education in Emergencies, is a set of standards, indicators and guidance notes that articulate the minimum level of educational access and service to be attained in emergencies, through to early...

BBC Action Network

The Action Network is a place for UK citizens to address issues that concern them and to make contact with like-minded individuals.

Sustainable Resources 2004 An International Forum Connecting People with Hands-on Solutions to World Poverty September 27 - October 5 Boulder, Colorado

The Sustainable Resources 2004 conference provided a platform of exchange where poverty issues faced by the developing world could be addressed globally and solved locally. The programme of the conference was designed around the UN Millennium Development Goals. The event aimed to provide...

NGO Registry - Armenia

NGO Registry - Armenia, maintained by the NGO Centre, is a database of NGOs operating within Armenia.

Diplomatic List: Embassy and Consular Contacts in the USA

The Office of the Chief of Protocol publishes the Diplomatic List, which contains a complete list of the accredited diplomatic officers of foreign embassies within the United States, and publishes Foreign Consular Offices, a complete listing of the foreign consular offices in the United States.

Sports Volunteering in England 2002

This report, published in July 2003 by Sport England, builds on the base established by the Sports Council in 1995 with the publication of Valuing Volunteers in UK Sport (Sports Council 1996). The 1996 study was the first comprehensive investigation of the scale and value of volunteering in UK...

WelcomeEurope

WelcomeEurope provides a searchable database of European Union funding opportunities

US-Angola Chamber of Commerce

US-Angola Chamber of Commerce portal provides legal and trade information applicable to trade between the USA and Angola.

Pfizer Global Health Fellows: Expanding Access to Healthcare Through Cross-Sector Partnerships

Pfizer Global Health Fellows: Expanding Access to Healthcare Through Cross-Sector Partnerships, a case study, evaluates the response of Pfizer Inc. to the HIV/AIDs endemic. It focuses on the efforts of the its Fellows Program to support HIV/AIDS service NGOs in developing countries. In this...

World Travel Guide - Visa Information

The World Travel Guide visa information page provides information about visas needed for travel to countries around the world.

Dominica Information

A development information website, with a country profile on Dominica. Sections on poverty, trade, economics, aid and food security provide links to relevant pages. The site also includes a map section, and a list of government bodies.

Azerbaijan map

A map of Azerbaijan.

Tourism industry and poverty reduction: A business primer

Tourism industry and poverty reduction: A business primer, a policy briefing paper, explains why poverty does matter to tourism businesses and describes what companies – both in the originating and destination countries – can do to contribute to the global effort on poverty reduction.

ALNAP (Active Learning Network for Accountability & Performance in Humanitarian Action)

ALNAP is a network for humanitarian agencies, including members from donor, NGO, Red Cross/Crescent, UN and independent/academic organisations. The network is dedicated to improving the quality and accountability of humanitarian action, through the key themes of Evaluation, Learning, Participation...