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Workwithus.org Conference Listings

Scotland's voluntary sector website provides listings of conferences related to NGOs.

ACFID Code of Conduct

The ACFID Code of Conduct is a voluntary, self regulatory industry code for non government development organisations.

G3 Guidelines of the GRI Sustainability Reporting Framework

The G3 Guidelines of the GRI Sustainability Reporting Framework provide guidance for organisations to use as the basis for disclosure about their sustainability performance (organisation’s economic, environmental, and social performance), and also provide stakeholders a universally-applicable,...

Relief Competency Standards

The Relief Competency Standards are part of the Humanitarian Relief Training Package guidelines developed by World Vision to assist in increasing the capacity of relief workers in nations around the globe The Assessment Guidelines describe the assessment arrangements for determining whether an...

Enterprise Solutions to Poverty: Opportunities and Challenges for the International Development Community and Big Business

Enterprise Solutions to Poverty: Opportunities and Challenges for the International Development Community and Big Business, a report written by the Shell Foundation, argues that enterprise and business thinking must be placed at the heart of efforts to address poverty. The report concludes by...

International Non Governmental Organisations Accountability Charter

International Non Governmental Organisations Accountability Charter resulted from a gathering of INGOs to systematise and reduce the number of structures NGOs must respond to. The INGOs who are signatories to the Charter agree to abide by the following principles: respect for universal principles,...

Public-Private Partnerships for Development - A Handbook for Business

Public-Private Partnerships for Development - A Handbook for Business was developed to help businesses operating in developing countries to understand how to build public-private partnerships that will benefit their host country populations and participating firms.

Corporate Social Responsibility: An Implementation Guide for Business

Corporate Social Responsibility: An Implementation Guide for Business aims to provide practical guidance on CSR to companies operating in the international context. It contains information on how to assess the effects of business activities on others, develop and implement a CSR strategy and...

Quality and Accountability Initiatives: Questions and Answers

Quality and Accountability Initiatives: Questions and Answers, a web resource page, speaks to four of the most widely known inter-agency initiatives to improve accountability, quality and performance in humanitarian action: Active Learning Network for Accountability and Performance in Humanitarian...

Principles of Accountability for International Philanthropy

The Principles of Accountability for International Philanthropy, created by the Council on Foundations (COF) and the European Foundation Centre (EFC), are designed to increase the accountability and effectiveness of cross-border grantmaking. The document is intended as a voluntary and aspirational...

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 –...

Micro-Enterprise Online Library

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

Microfinance and Poverty Alleviation: United Nations Collaboration with Chinese Experiments

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

Unleashing Entrepreneurship: Making Business Work for the Poor

Unleashing Entrepreneurship: Making Business Work for the Poor, a report to the UN Secretary-General, addresses how the potential of the private sector and entrepreneurship can be unleashed in developing countries, and how the existing private sector can be engaged in meeting this challenge. The...

Virtual Library on Microcredit

The Virtual Library on Microcredit is an online resource published by the Global Development Research Centre. The Library collects articles, conference reports, case studies, publications on microcredit issues and lists of microcredit organisations. It also provides links to internet resources...

Malaysia NGO Directory

Malaysia NGO Directory, maintained by Mesara.net, provides ionline nformations and details about Malaysian NGOs.

Free trade helps reduce poverty, says new WTO secretariat study

Free trade helps reduce poverty, says new WTO secretariat study, a WTO news article published in 2000, reports a study published by WTO Secretariat that finds that trade liberalisation helps poor countries to catch up with rich ones and that this faster economic growth helps to alleviate poverty.

UN rapporteur and WTO head debate the impact of trade on hunger

UN rapporteur and WTO head debate the impact of trade on hunger, a news article, reports on the debate on the impact of trade on hunger between UN rapporteur and WTO head. Olivier De Schutter, UN Special Rapporteur on the Right to Food, argued that agricultural trade liberalisation hampers...

Iran's Export-Import Regulations

This is an internet directory which lists rules and regulations for importing and exporting goods in Iran. It provides internet resources on conditions and regulations in Iran.

Implementing sustainable private sector development: Striving for tangible results for the poor

The key challenge for private sector development in 2006 is showing tangible, significant results in poverty eradication. Donors, researchers and practitioners have been challenged to focus on making markets work for the poor to consider the underlying rationale of market development strategies and...