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The NGOs and Civil Societies of The watching groups of IFI watchnet.

IFIwatchnet is a groundbreaking initiative in international NGO networking, currently in its second year of operation. It connects organisations worldwide which are monitoring international financial institutions (IFIs) such as the World Bank, the IMF, and regional development banks. Formed in response to a call by civil society groups to maximise the effectiveness of their communications and networking efforts, it is rapidly developing into a key tool for ever increasing degrees of collaboration between IFIwatching groups at national, regional and international levels. With nearly 60 organisations from 27 different countries in every region of the world, it has huge potential to increase the ability of civil society to make global governance institutions accountable to the people they serve.

IFIwatchnet is not an NGO and it does not undertake monitoring or campaiging work itself, rather it supports the work undertaken by its participants. It aims to:

• Pool independent information about IFIs from a broad range of civil society sources and make it easier for people to find what they need;
• Improve communication between IFI-watchers, increasing mutual awareness of outputs and collaboration on activities;
• Increase the efficiency and effectiveness of IFI watching organisations through new information sharing approaches.

IFIwatchnet participant organisations monitor one or more of these global and regional IFIs: (full text).

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Linked with Jeanne Devos – Belgium.

MISEREOR was founded in 1958 as an agency « against hunger and disease in the world ». In its capacity as the overseas development agency of the Catholic Church in Germany, it offers to cooperate in a spirit of partnership with all people of goodwill to promote development, fight worldwide poverty, liberate people from injustice, exercise solidarity with the poor and the persecuted, and help create « One World ».

MISEREOR is mandated by the Catholic Church in Germany:

• to fight the causes of hardship and misery as manifested chiefly in countries of Asia, Africa and Latin America in the forms of hunger, disease, poverty and other forms of human suffering;
• thus enabling the people affected to lead a life of human dignity;
• and to promote justice, freedom, reconciliation and peace in the world.

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This Christian motivation should lead us not only to help and share with the poor, but also to undergo a process of spiritual renewal, becoming « richer » people through solidarity and community with the poor. It should also lead us to make a commitment to creating a more just and peaceful One World through responsible development of our own society. As such, MISEREOR is also a campaign, a « movement » in Germany, everywhere on the lookout for partners, friends and « fellow activists » in the fight against poverty.

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Linked with Jeanne Devos – Belgium.

Anti-Slavery International is the world’s oldest international human rights organisation. Its roots stretch back to 1787 when the first abolitionist society was formed. This broad-based society was at the forefront of the movements to abolish the slave trade (achieved in Britain in 1807) as well as slavery throughout the British colonies (achieved in 1833). (full text).

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About: http://www.antislavery.org.uk/homepage/antislavery/about.htm
Anti-Slavery International, founded in 1839, is the world’s oldest international human rights organisation and the only charity in the United Kingdom to work exclusively against slavery and related abuses. We work at local, national and international levels to eliminate the system of slavery around the world by:

• Urging governments of countries with slavery to develop and implement measures to end it;
• Lobbying governments and intergovernmental agencies to make slavery a priority issue;
• Supporting research to assess the scale of slavery in order to identify measures to end it;
• Working with local organisations to raise public awareness of slavery;
• Educating the public about the realities of slavery and campaigning for its end.

Linked with Jeanne Devos – Belgium.
Give to over 400 grassroots charity projects worldwide through GlobalGiving’s marketplace of good. 85-90% of your money is on-the-ground within 60 days. It’s a new way of giving (with updates from the field).

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About: GlobalGiving was founded by two former World Bank executives who decided to use the Internet to create a highly efficient marketplace. The GlobalGiving platform enables more funding to reach projects throughout the globe, and, at the same time, provides a more transparent, engaging way for donors to give.

Because we enable donors to give directly to projects, they know exactly where their money is going. Donors can see progress updates on most projects as funding is received and goals are met. Donations made through GlobalGiving are higher impact because:

• Money is going directly to a well-defined project versus supporting general operating expenses;
• Projects on globalgiving.com have exposure to thousands of donors, enabling us to aggregate multiple sources of funding for each project;
• Many projects on globalgiving.com are located in the developing world where a little money goes a long way We connect donors to projects via our « public » website, globalgiving.com as well as through custom giving services.

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Linked with Fatima Gazieva – Russian Federation.

Process of gathering information for data base on women’s movement of Russia started in 1990 before the 1st Independent Women’s Forum. In the beginning it was just a card-index. Founders of data base were the Moscow Center for Gender Studies (Anastasia Posadskaya, Valentina Konstantinova, Zoya Khotkina, Tatiana Dorokhina); SAFO (Natalia Filippova, Natalia Abubikirova, Marina Regentova, Natalia Lebedeva, Valeria Tukmanova, Olga Lipovskaya, Tatiana Poddubnaya, Elena Morozova); employees of the Institute of Philisophy of Academy of Sciences (Olga Voronina, Tatiana Klimenkova). By the time of the 2nd Women’s Forum (December 1992) Elena Kochkina, Elena Maslova and Lidiya S. Scobtsova joined the team. Data base was transferred to Tatiana Troinova’s computer. Later, in 1993-1995 Women’s Informational Project (Archive, Data Base, Library – ADL) was in charge of data base. The project was sponsored by the government of Germany through Frauenanstiftung Foundation. Programmers Lidiya Yourovskaya and Tatiana Evstifeyeva led by Tatiana Troinova devoted their brains and hearts to the program product called ZHISET+ (ЖИСЕТ+). (full text).

Contact: Women’s Information Network, Tatiana Troinova, telephone/fax: 7 095 291 2274; 7 095 291 5729, E-mail, website in russian.

Link: Union of Women of the Northern Caucasus.