Mois : juillet 2010

(Found on Weitzenegger’s Newsletter/websites of the moment, June 2010)

IOCE is a loose alliance of regional and national evaluation organisations (associations, societies and networks) from around the world that collaborate to:

• build evaluation leadership and capacity in developing countries,
• foster the cross-fertilisation of evaluation theory and practice around the world,
• address international challenges in evaluation, and
• assist the evaluation profession to take a more global approach to contributing to the identification and solution of world problems … (Overview 1/2).

Homepage;
Members; News; Events; Resources; Jobs; Links;
Contacts.

Overview 2/2: … We invite all regional and national professional evaluation associations, societies and networks to join us!  We also invite everyone interested in evaluation to make use of our resources, to participate in our initiatives and to contribute to our goals through your evaluation organisation.   Continuer la lecture de « International Organisation for Cooperation in Evaluation IOCE »

together for a better world – also in german, french and italian

• VISION: We want a world in which all people can live self-determined lives in dignity and safety while respecting the environment.
• MISSION: We help disadvantaged people and communities in developing countries to actively improve their living conditions. (head of Frontpage).

english Welcome Page;
Programmes, projects; Professional Competences; Jobs; Membership; Donations; Major donors;
Addresses (1 of 3): Helvetas – The Swiss Association for International Cooperation, Weinbergstrasse 22a, P.O. Box, CH 8021 Zurich, Switzerland;
Contacts.

About: Helvetas was founded in 1955 as the first private organisation for development co-operation in Switzerland. Helvetas is a denominationally and politically independent association, supported by approximately 38’000 members, more than 40’000 sponsors and 15 regional volunteer groups.  Continuer la lecture de « Helvetas – Swiss Association for International Cooperation »

(Found on Weitzenegger’s Newsletter/websites).

• KM4Dev is a community of international development practitioners who are interested in knowledge management and knowledge sharing issues and approaches, and who seek to share ideas and experiences in this domain.
• The community traces its origins back to two face-to-face workshops held respectively in February and June 2000. Participants from the two workshops wanted to continue discussing among themselves and asked Bellanet/IDRC to create an electronic forum where this could take place. The KM4Dev mailing list and website came to be in the summer of 2000. To subscribe to KM4Dev, send a blank email to km4dev.org. mailto:join.km4dev-l@dgroups.org … (about 1/2).

Homepage;
Events; Groups; Core Group; Members; Community Knowledge; Workshops; Resources; Docs, Links; We on wiki;
Contact.

About 2/2: … A volunteer Core Group was created in May 2004 to further support the community and help respond to its needs. Continuer la lecture de « Knowledge Management for Development km4dev.org »

Hessische Stiftung für Friedens- und Konfliktforschung – site mainly in german

• The Peace Research Institute Frankfurt PRIF was founded in 1970 by the government of the state of Hesse as an independent foundation. Its constitution guarantees PRIF full academic freedom. PRIF does not carry out any commissioned research. With more than 70 members of staff PRIF is the largest as well as the oldest peace research institute in Germany.
• PRIF´s work is directed towards identifying the causes of violent international and internal conflicts, carrying out research into the conditions necessary for peace, understood as a process of decreasing violence and increasing justice, and spreading the concepts of peace … (full text PRIF).

Homepage; Sitemap;
Peace Education; Programmes; Press, events; Newsletter; Links; Member of the Leibniz Association;
Address: PRIF, c/o Hessische Stiftung Friedens- und Konfliktforschung HSFK, Baseler Str. 27-31, D-60329 Frankfurt am Main, Germany;
Contact.

What is Peace Research: The hope that the end of the Cold War would bring about a peaceful period in world history has not been fulfilled. Instead, this period has seen numerous conflicts, previously suppressed by the Communist regime, confrontation with the Eastern Bloc and the fear of nuclear war.  Continuer la lecture de « Peace Research Institute Frankfurt PRIF »

Source is an International Information Support Centre designed to strengthen the management, use and impact of information on health and disability

• Vision: Source will be a key point of access to up-to-date, relevant information on international health and disability. It will be composed of a well-maintained, comprehensive, catalogued physical collection and regularly reviewed electronic material.
• Mission: … (about 1/2 /left column).

Homepage; Sitemap;
News, projects; Add Resource; Publications; Newsletter; Supports; Partners; Librarty;
Address: Source International Information Support Centre, 2nd Floor, Institute of Child Health, 30 Guilford Street, London WC1N 1EH, UK;
Contact and map.

About 2/2: Source is a collaborative venture of the Centre for International Health and Development (formerly CICH), a department within an academic institution; Healthlink Worldwide, a non-governmental organisation (NGO) working to strengthen information and communication on health and disability; Handicap International, a disability and development NGO; and Exchange, a networking and learning programme on health communications for development. Continuer la lecture de « SOURCE – International Information Support Center »