Children in Crisis.org

  • Children in Crisis was established in 1993 in the UK to give children in some of the world’s poorest countries the education they need to help transform their lives.
  • Worldwide, one in six children is denied an education. At the heart of our work is the belief that education is the best possible route out of poverty, bringing hope for a better future for families, communities and over time, whole societies … (about 1/2).

Homepage; Sitemap;
Our work; Schools; Cycling events; Events; Donate; Get involved;
Address: Children in Crisis, 206 – 208 Stewart’s Road, London, SW8 4UB, UK;
Contact.

About 2/2: … Children in Crisis’ vision is of a world where all children have access to education to enable them to fulfil their potential to live positive, healthy lives and contribute to the development of the societies in which they live.  Continuer la lecture de « Children in Crisis.org »

Child Poverty Action Group CPAG

fighting the injustice of poverty – CPAG is the leading charity campaigning for the abolition of child poverty in the UK and for a better deal for low-income families and children

CPAG’s aims are to:

  • Raise awareness of the causes, extent, nature and impact of poverty, and strategies for its eradication and prevention;
  • Bring about positive policy changes for families with children in poverty;
  • Enable those eligible for income maintenance to have access to their full entitlement.

To achieve its aims, CPAG’s current objectives, working where appropriate through effective partnerships and alliances with others, are to: … full text aims).

Homepage;
Citizens’ Rights Office; Publications; Newsletter; Annual reportJoin; Donations;
Map; Address: Child Poverty Action Group, 94 White Lion Street, London N1 9PF, UK;
Contact.

About: Raising awareness – Information and research: CPAG provides information about low-income families and the policies that affect them. Continuer la lecture de « Child Poverty Action Group CPAG »

Self Help Africa

  • Self Help Africa was formed in 2008 from a merger between two like-minded charities: UK NGO Harvest Help and Irish agency Self Help Development International.
  • The combined skills and complimentary experiences of 25 years of learning have been pooled together to form a strong, dynamic, and forward thinking new organisation. We now have the potential to have a greater impact overseas in improving the lives and circumstances of Africa’s rural poor.
  • … (full text about /history).

Homepage;
Where; Reports; Medias; Governance; News; Partners; Links; Help; Get involved;
Address: Self Help Africa, Westgate House, Dickens Court, Hills Lane, Shrewsbury, SY1 1QU, UK;
Contact.

Vision, mission & goal: Self Help Africa’s vision is of a rural Africa free from poverty and hunger. Continuer la lecture de « Self Help Africa »

Tanner Humanities Center

University of UTAH / College of Humanities

  • The Obert C. and Grace A. Tanner Humanities Center fosters innovative humanistic inquiry and scholarship. The Center’s public programs create opportunity for lively dialogue among scholars, students, and citizens on issues (from ancient to contemporary) pertaining to human condition.
  • Founded in 1988 in the College of Humanities as the University of Utah Humanities Center, the Center was endowed and renamed in 1995 through a generous gift from the family foundation of Obert C. Tanner, renowned entrepreneur, philanthropist, and late professor emeritus of philosophy.
  • … (full text about the Center).

Homepage;
Research support; Humanities Fellowship; Tanner Lectures on Human Values; Events; Calendar; Programs Interdisciplinary Studies;
Address: University Information Technology, 101 Wasatch Dr. #201, Salt Lake City, UT 84112, USA;
map; Contacts for Researche Interest Database.

About the Tanners: … As a boy, Tanner learned habits of hard work on his uncle’s farm, on railroad and construction crews, and in a lonely season herding sheep for his father in the Canadian Rockies. Continuer la lecture de « Tanner Humanities Center »

World Wide Web Virtual Library

This website has only one long page, full of links.

The page is maintained by the Center for Economic and Social Studies on the Environment, located at Université Libre de Bruxelles.
If you know of additional sources of information that would be appropriate for this page, or would like to maintain a specialty library, please leave a message.

  • Description: A comprehensive list of internet sites dealing with sustainable development, including organisations, projects and activities, electronic journals, libraries, references and documents, databases, directories or metadatabases;
  • keywords: sustainable development, index, environment, development, resources, internet, world wide web, sites, WWW, durable, sustainability, Virtual Library, ecological economics. (Last update: 29 July 2009).
  • … (a full long page of links).

Council on Global Issues

Linked with Science for Peace.ca, with International Holistic Tourism Education Centre IHTEC, and with International Peace Bureau IPB.

  • Welcome to the Home page of the Council on Global Issues, an Internet based, not for profit think tank for a sustainable civilization. The main purpose of the group is identifying crucial global problems, their root causes, feasible solutions, and ways to implement desirable futures.
  • INVITATION: You are invited to join the Council on Global Issues (CGI) in the exploration of the current world problems. CGI would like you to participate in discussions, in writing papers, and in other activities applying systems sciences and holistic methodologies on global issues. – Systems science is based on integral thinking, and includes the properties of complex wholes, which are different from the sum of the parts … (full text Homepage and recent activities).

Issues and problems; Download handbook; References;
Address: Council on Global Issues, 142 Balsam Avenue, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, M4E 3C1;
Contact.

Who we are: The Council on Global Issues is focussed on the application of systems and complexity sciences to the better management of dilemmas facing humanity. Continuer la lecture de « Council on Global Issues »

Ethik-Zentrum, Uni Zürich

in german – Das Ethik-Zentrum in Zürich ist das erste seiner Art in der Schweiz. Es betreibt und koordiniert an der Universität Zürich die Lehre und Forschung in der Ethik. Im Ethik-Zentrum sind das Institut für Sozialethik (Theologische Fakultät), die Arbeits- und Forschungsstelle für Ethik (Philosophisches Seminar) und der Institut für Biomedizinische Ethik (Medizinische Fakultät) vereinigt … (ganzer Text der deutschsprachigen Homepage.
(with a Homepage in english: Centre for Ethics, University of Zurich).

Sitemap;
Arbeits- und Forschungsstelle für Ethik; Institut für Sozialethik; Institut für Biomedizinische Ethik; Ethikkommission;
Agenda; Veranstaltungen; Board and staff; Corti Fellowship; Newsletter (de, fr, en); Buchpublikationen; Zeitschriften; Bibliotheken;
Adresse: Ethik-Zentrum der Universität Zürich, Zollikerstr. 117, CH-8008 Zürich, Switzerland;
Kontakte.

Ethikkommission der Universität Zürich: Aufgaben: Mit dem § 66 der Universitätsordnung wurde am 19. Mai 2000 die Ethikkommission der Universität Zürich ins Leben gerufen.   Continuer la lecture de « Ethik-Zentrum, Uni Zürich »

Global Compact of the United Nations

in many languages

  • The United Nations Global Compact is a strategic policy initiative for businesses that are committed to aligning their operations and strategies with ten universally accepted principles in the areas of human rights, labour, environment and anti-corruption. (Homepage).
  • Corporate Citizenship in The World Economy, 6 pdf pages.

Key Documents and Core UN Agencies (about, scroll down and click on links);
Participate; Communicate; Participants, Stakeholders; Local Networks; Issues; News, events; Foundation; UN homepage;
Contacts.

About: Overview of the UN Global Compact – The UN Global Compact is a strategic policy initiative for businesses that are committed to aligning their operations and strategies with ten universally accepted principles in the areas of human rights, labour, environment and anti-corruption. By doing so, business, as a primary agent driving globalization, can help ensure that markets, commerce, technology and finance advance in ways that benefit economies and societies everywhere.  Continuer la lecture de « Global Compact of the United Nations »

International Council for Science ICSU

The International Council for Science (ICSU) is a non-governmental organization with a global membership of national scientific bodies (119 members) and international scientific unions (30 members) … (about 1/2).

Homepage; Sitemap;
Resources; Membership; Member Zone; Calendar; Press;
Address: International Council for Science ICSU, 5 rue Auguste Vacquerie, 75116 Paris, France;
Contact.

About 2/2: Introduction: The International Council for Science (ICSU) is a non-governmental organization with a global membership of national scientific bodies (119 members) and international scientific unions (30 members). Continuer la lecture de « International Council for Science ICSU »

Chemonics.com

(in arab, english, espanol, français, portugues and russian)

Linked with US aid, with Famine Early Warning Systems Network FEWS Net, and with US aid Partners with Swedish Development Agency.

Chemonics is an international development consulting firm that promotes meaningful change to help people live healthier, more productive, and more independent lives. Around the world, we design and implement projects in financial services, private sector development, health, environmental management, gender, crisis prevention and recovery, democracy and governance, and agriculture … (full text Welcome Page).

Practises:  Conflict and Disaster Management, Democracy and Governance, Education;
Project News; Jobs; Current projects;
Address: Chemonics.com, 1717 H Street, NW, Washington, D.C. 20006, United States;
Contact.

About: Chemonics is an international development consulting company that helps governments, businesses, civil society groups, and communities promote meaningful change so people can live healthier, more productive, and more independent lives.  Continuer la lecture de « Chemonics.com »

Famine Early Warning Systems Network FEWS Net

(also in espanol, français, portugues)

Linked with US aid, with Chemonics.com, and with US aid Partners with Swedish Development Agency.

  • 1): Famine Early Warning Systems Network (FEWS NET ) is a lead organization in the field of prediction and response to famines and other forms of food security. Funded by the United States Agency for International Development (US aid) since its creation in 1985, it analyzes a variety of data and information, such as market prices of food, precipitation and crop failures to predict when and where food insecurity will occur, and issues alerts on predicted crises … (full long article on wikipedia)… (*);
  • 2): FEWS Net’s english Homepage on the US aid website;

Who; Why; Approach; Products, services and its Catalogue; Livelihoods; Markets, Trade; Login; Partners: NOAA and USGS;
Contacts and addresses of regionals and by countries;
Contact with US aid: Gary Eilerts, e-mail.

About: The Famine Early Warning Systems Network (FEWS NET) is a USAID-funded activity that collaborates with international, regional and national partners to provide timely and rigorous early warning and vulnerability information on emerging and evolving food security issues.  Continuer la lecture de « Famine Early Warning Systems Network FEWS Net »

African Technology Development Forum ATDF

Of the world’s total population of 6.5 billion, 5.8 billion people, or 90%, have little or no access to most of the products and services many of us take for granted; in fact, nearly half do not have regular access to food, clean water, or shelter. Design for the Other 90% explores a growing movement among designers to design low-cost solutions for this “other 90%.” (about /online resources).

Homepage; Sitemap;
Steering group; Advisors; Partners; Trade; Innovation; Entrepreneurship; Journal; Newsletter; Knowledge: Technical docs, Policy docs;
Addresses: ATDF, P.O. Box 31484, Lusaka 10101, Zambia; – Or: ATDF, Chemin de Précossy 17, 1260 Nyon, Switzerland;
Contacts.

About /Objectives: The African Technology Development Forum (ATDF) is a volunteer organisation that was established in 2002 by Constantine Bartel (UNCTAD), Victor Konde (UN African Commission) and Philipp Aerni (University of Bern and ETH Zurich). Continuer la lecture de « African Technology Development Forum ATDF »

African Development Forum ADF

  • In an attempt to encourage Britain’s African and Caribbean Christian community to become more actively involved in the issue of poverty in Africa, African and Caribbean Church leaders joined together and formed the African Development Forum.
  • The African Development Forum (ADF) was founded in 2006 and its team implemented in 2007. ADF’s motto simply states ‘We believe in Africa’.  The vision is to mobilise the African and Caribbean Christian community and wider Diaspora to confront and respond to poverty by challenging unjust structural systems which keep millions of Africans poor.  ADF seeks to contribute to economic and social progress in Africa through education and advocacy activities. (Homepage /our Vision).

Events (also on Homepage);
Partners; Reports; Newsletter; News; Trade stories; Global warming; HIV in Africa;
Contact.

Focus Areas: Economic Justice – Working with and through our partners, ADF will engage with the global movement calling for rich country governments and institutions to implement pro-poor and pro-development trade policies. Continuer la lecture de « African Development Forum ADF »

Impact Alliance IA

also in french and spanish

The Impact Alliance is a global action and learning network committed to strengthening the capacity of individuals and organizations to generate deep impact within the communities they serve.  We do this through assisting our members to improve the quality, scale and social impact of their services and programs … (about 1/2).

english Homepage; Sitemap;
News; Initiatives; Events; Resources; Members; Groups; Join;
Address: Impact Alliance Secretariat, 1200 18th Street NW, Suite 350, Washington, DC 20036, USA;
Contact.

About 2/2: … Our mission is to inspire, inform, and improve practice and performance within organizations leading to the reduction of poverty and the achievement of sustainable livelihoods.  Continuer la lecture de « Impact Alliance IA »