Run on a not-for-profit basis by partner organisations of the World Bank, for development information and knowledge sharing. Includes, DGCommunities. Subject links to documents over the web; also assists information sharing; AIDA. Directory listing development aid activities; DGMarket. Tenders, procurement opportunities, consulting opportunities; Country profiles, data and reports.
DFID - UK Department for International Development
UK Government Department for International Development. The section on DFID funded research includes theResearch4Development (R4D) Research Portal, which has a browsable and searchable list at Projects and Programmes.
Resource Guides with Access to more than 26,000 summarised documents from over 7,500 development organisations - all available free to download. Share your work with over 80,000 development practitioners.
A gateway to Internet resources useful for HE teaching and research work, "created by a network of UK universities and partners". Several sections are relevant to development studies. Intute also contains the Virtual Training Suite, "free Internet tutorials to help you learn how to get the best from the Web for your education and research." The Internet for Development tutorial is from Eldis; this page is very heavily indebted to it.
News from over 1,600 organisations concerned with human rights, combatting poverty, and other global issues, plus related resources (e.g. Topic guides, Country guides). IncludesOneWorld Partners database, a directory of 1,600 NGOs worldwide "to promote sustainable development, social justice and human rights", browsable by name and searchable by country, area of work, type of organisation and language.
Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD)
OECD consists of 30 "developed" countries. It conducts research and provides assistance to "developing" countries. Relevant parts of the site include Departments, Directorates, Centres and Agencies and Statistics Portal
Details of UN operations and organisations.
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For links to UN bibliographic and textual databases see the IDS Library UN databases Page
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For links to UN statistical databases see the IDS Library Statistics Page and the United Nations Statistics Divisionwebsite.
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Members of the University of Sussex can find a link to the UN Treaty Collection via the Indexes and Journal Collections page of the Electronic Library (Sussex username and password required).
USAID (U.S. Agency for International Development)
"The principal U.S. agency to extend assistance to countries recovering from disaster, trying to escape poverty, and engaging in democratic reforms ... supports long-term and equitable economic growth and advances U.S. foreign policy objectives." Site details USAID's work by topic and region/country. Includes link to the Development Experience Clearinghouse (DEC), a database of USAID funded technical and program documentation.
Details of World Bank activities, including:
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Publications. Access to the Online bookstore and to full text of Documents and reports (this is very useful for tracking down Research papers, etc).
- Data and Research. Statistics and other pieces of World Bank research.
