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World Travel Guide - Trinidad and Tobago page

An impressive, well structured country-by-country travel guide, with an entry for every nation in the world. The Trinidad and Tobago page has an overview of the country as well as detailed information on accommodation, climate, currency, obtaining visas, internal and international travel,...

World Travel Guide - Turkey page

An impressive, well structured country-by-country travel guide, with an entry for every nation in the world. The Turkey page has an overview of the country as well as detailed information on accommodation, climate, currency, obtaining visas, internal and international travel, international dialling...

World Travel Guide - Turkmenistan page

An impressive, well structured country-by-country travel guide, with an entry for every nation in the world. The Turkmenistan page has an overview of the country as well as detailed information on accommodation, climate, currency, obtaining visas, internal and international travel, international...

World Travel Guide - Ukraine page

An impressive, well structured country-by-country travel guide, with an entry for every nation in the world. The Ukraine page has an overview of the country as well as detailed information on accommodation, climate, currency, obtaining visas, internal and international travel, international...

World Travel Guide - United Kingdom page

An impressive, well structured country-by-country travel guide, with an entry for every nation in the world. The United Kingdom page has an overview of the country as well as detailed information on accommodation, climate, currency, obtaining visas, internal and international travel, international...

World Travel Guide - Uruguay page

An impressive, well structured country-by-country travel guide, with an entry for every nation in the world. The Uruguay page has an overview of the country as well as detailed information on accommodation, climate, currency, obtaining visas, internal and international travel, international...

World Travel Guide - Uzbekistan page

An impressive, well structured country-by-country travel guide, with an entry for every nation in the world. The Uzbekistan page has an overview of the country as well as detailed information on accommodation, climate, currency, obtaining visas, internal and international travel, international...

Dominica information

The Dominica country profile including information on governance, health and finance

Pan American Health Organisation - The DO'S and DON'TS of Humanitarian Supplies Management

Preparing and dispatching donated supplies This section provides detailed guidelines on preparing, dispatching and receiving supplies. This includes suggestions for preparing a packing list and recommendations for packaging goods. Packaging guidelines suggest that donors "make parcels of a weight,...

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...

Rebuilding our communities helping companies set priorities to aid long-term recovery

A community’s recovery from a disaster is a complex and long-term process that involves a range of activities and many participants. Recovery involves shortterm restoration of essential community services as well as long-term rebuilding and, ideally, mitigation against future crises.

Business Roundtable Partnership for Disaster Response

Business Roundtable first activated the Partnership for Disaster Response immediately following Hurricane Katrina. The Partnership is an effort to expand corporate commitment, beyond financial contributions, to respond to natural disasters. The Partnership’s goal is to enhance the efficiency of...

Partnership for disaster response

Partnership for Disaster Response aims to bring together the many resources and capabilities of the private sector to enhance and accelerate on-the-ground relief and recovery following major natural disasters in the United States and abroad.

Doing business with the poor - a field guide

Aid has its role in a needy world, but business, if undertaken responsibly, can be instrumental in providing long term, sustainable answers to poverty. _This thinking sees people in developing countries more as partners and clients, and less as recipients or aid beneficiaries._

Volunteering for Impact: Best Practices in International Corporate Volunteering

This paper produced for Pfizer and the Brookings Institute seeks to explore and understand the lessons learned among major corporations whose employees have engaged in international volunteering. While multiple studies have been published on domestic corporate volunteering activities, only a few...

The International Resource Centre

The International Resource Centre (IRC) was established as a global public resource website to assist professionals across the world to combat exploitation of children, specifically child pornography.

Private Sector Toolkit for Working with Youth, UN technical paper

In September 2000, World Leaders came together to sign the Millennium Declaration, setting out eight anti-poverty goals to be reached by the year 2015.One of the major challenges for achieving the Goals is the current and forecasted state of many countries’ youth populations.

Private Sector Toolkit for Working with Youth, UN technical paper

The Private Sector Toolkit for Working with Youth is part of a series of technical papers aimed both at strengthening youth participation at all levels through cooperation among various stakeholders, as well as at highlighting the role of youth as agents of development. Building on Youth...

Millennium Development Goals: 2010 Progress Chart

This chart presents an assessment of progress so far for selected indicators and regions, on the basis of information available as of June 2010. While some indicators reflect data as recent as 2010, others rely on older statistics, dating as far back as 2005.

The MDGs after the Crisis - Global Monitoring Report 2010

The global economic crisis has slowed the pace of poverty reduction in developing countries, and is hampering progress toward the other Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), says a new report from the World Bank Group and the International Monetary Fund.