Mois : septembre 2009

Action on Aid, Trade and Dept

• AID/WATCH monitors the increased shift towards the negotiation of bilateral trade agreements. We work to expose where aid is used as a bargaining chip in trade negotiations particularly where further trade liberalisation becomes a condition for aid grants and loans. Our current focus is monitoring the push for a Pacific Agreement on Closer Economic Relations (PACER) alongside our civil society counterparts in the region.
• Read more about the Trade campaign … (full text Homepage and latest campaign news).

Campaigns; News; Governance; Get involved and support; Publications;
Where is your aid-money going; Constitution; Newsletter: in the right column;
Address: AID/WATCH, 19 Eve St., Erskineville, NSW, 2043, Australia;
Contact.

About: Find out about AID/WATCH’s purpose, values and vision as well as how to get involved.  Continuer la lecture de « Aid Watch »

Center za evropsko prihodnost

The Centre for European Perspective (CEP) is an independent and non-profit organization working on issues of peace, security, and socio-economic development and prosperity. It has been established by the Government of the Republic of Slovenia on 8 July 2004. Its original name, Centre for the European Integration Support, has been changed with the decision of the Slovenian Government on 26 April 2006.  The new name better corresponds to the scope of CEP’s activities. CEP was officially inaugurated on 23 May 2006, while the work of the Centre dates back to March of the same year. The Centre received a monetary donation from Slovenian Government for its work. However financial resources are also welcomed and sought from other national and international sources … (about 1/2).

english Homepage; slovenian Homepage; Sitemap;
News; Projects; Links;
Address: CEP, Grajska cesta 1, 1234 Loka pri Mengsu, Slovenjia;
Contacts.

About 2/2: … CEP MISSION: The main mission of CEP is to play an active role in promoting European and Euro-Atlantic integration processes by drawing on the expertise of Slovenian public and private sector and by engaging experts from across the EU. CEP’s mission is to work with:  Continuer la lecture de « Centre for European Perspective CEP »

Linked with Inside the Deal.

The Deal LLC is a diversified media company that is the authoritative voice of the deal economy.
We serve the global deal community-corporate and financial dealmakers, advisers and institutional investors-by providing business and financial news and information that offers fresh insights on the deal economy, a set of interrelated activities, focused on dealmaking of all kinds, whose purpose is to generate corporate growth in a continually changing global market … (full text Newsroom /MISSION STATEMENT).

Homepage;
Dealscape; Pipeline (for jobs, auctions, transactions /yahoo, articles, archives); Coorp. Dealmaker;
Magazine; Newsletter; Events; Videos; Products, Services; Advertise; Editorial content & submissions;
Addresses (1 of 3): The Deal.com, Headquarters, 105 Madison Avenue, New York, NY 10016, USA;
Contact.

About: Since 1999, The Deal LLC has covered the dealmaking across all its many mutations along with the ups and downs of economic cycles and business leaders. Through print, electronic media and events, we provide original content that serves the news, information and idea generation needs of corporate and financial dealmakers, advisers, intermediaries and investors … (full text).

Anveshi was set up in 1985 in Hyderabad by a small group of activist-scholars to provide resources to research and develop a feminist theory relevant to women’s lives in contemporary India. Today we are one of the foremost non-university research centers in India. Our work focuses on six research initiatives: education; health and health care systems; law and critical legal theory; dalits and minorities; development; and public domain … (about 1/2).

Homepage;
Research; Events; People; Short term;
Institutional Culture; Collaborations; Publications; Library; Newsletter;
Address: Anveshi Research Center for Women’s Studies, 2-2-18/49, D D Colony, Bagh Amberpet, Hyderabad 500013, India;
Contact.

About 2/2: …  Projects in these initiatives examine the shifts in development theory; the crisis of medicine in the Indian context; hegemonic perspectives in school textbooks; the question of secularism and minority in Indian politics; the problematic nature of law and rights in domestic violence; and thinking about what it entails to be a ‘Dalit woman’ in modern India.  Continuer la lecture de « Anveshi – Research Centre for Women's Studies »

your money can change the world – aussi en français

• … PlaNet Finance is an international NGO whose mission is to fight against poverty by developing microfinance.
• The private sector has backed PlaNet Finance since the beginning. Numerous companies contribute to financing its work, complementing the funds provided by international financial institutions. PlaNet Finance’s main sponsors include DEXIA, Cap Gemini, Organisation Internationale de la Francophonie (via the Fonds Francophone des Inforoutes), the World Bank (via InfoDev) and two private donors.
• PlaNet Finance’s aim is to become a microfinance plaform that brings together the various actors in the sector and, at the same time, serves to pool the resources needed to develop microfinance.
• Since it was founded, PlaNet Finance has continued to expand its operations and build on its experience with the aim of serving the growing number of actors in the microfinance sector and, consequently, to contribute in developing microfinance around the world … (full text History).

english Homepage; french Homepage; Sitemap;
News; Activities; Recruitment; Microfinance; Press; Donate; FAQs;
Address: PlaNet Finance, 13 rue Dieumegard, 93400 Saint Ouen, France;
Contact.

About: PlaNet Finance is an international organisation whose mission is to fight against poverty through the development of microfinance. As the microfinance expert, PlaNet Finance offers a set of services via eight independent and specialised units whose primary objective is to develop an inclusive financial sector:  Continuer la lecture de « PlaNet Finance »