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1. Networks - Movements

The Alliance
The Alliance is a network that aims to invent, share, and practice new forms of collective action, from the local to the global scales, for increased control, together and with Nature, over the future of an increasingly complex and interdependent world. It is an open forum and communication interchange for all interested in circulating information that may be of interest and in starting up informal discussions. It connects to many interesting organisations.

BRHN - Balkans Human Rights Network
BHRN is the network of human rights institutions in the Balkans (40 organisations from Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Kosovo, Macedonia, Montenegro & Serbia) aiming to build closer ties together. Its mission is to promote conformity of national laws and practices to international human rights standards in the South Eastern Europe. BHRN does this by sustaining the region‘s strongest human rights network where organisations have joined efforts on education, information sharing, advocacy, dialogue and cooperation with state, professional organisations and the general public.

CIVICUS – World Alliance for Citizen Participation
CIVICUS is an international alliance that strengthens citizen action and civil society, especially in areas where participatory democracy and citizens' freedom of association are threatened. It provides a focal point for knowledge-sharing, common interest representation, global institution-building and engagement. Programs include: (a) civil society index program, assessing and strengthening national civil societies; (b) legitimacy and transparency program, focusing on improving governance of civil society organisations (CSOs); (c) participatory governance program, building capabilities of CSOs to engage more effectively with various authorities on governance issues; (d) Civil society watch program, mobilising quick, public responses to situations where the right to freedom of civic association is threatened; (e) Millennium Development goals program, convening civil society to use the MDGs as a unifying framework to galvanise joint mobilisation and activism; (f) Civil society knowledge development program, providing a global resource centre and information clearinghouse; (g) World Assembly program, to share ideas and experiences on strengthening citizen participation and civil society.

EAPN - The European Anti-Poverty Network
The EAPN is an independent network of NGOs and groups involved in the fight against poverty and social exclusion in the Member States of the European Union. Its primary activities are advocacy for the integration of the fight against poverty and social exclusion into all European Community policies, analysis of policies and programmes likely to impact on groups facing poverty and social exclusion, provision of information through its website on poverty and social exclusion in Europe; exchange and training for its members on networking and European policies.

Euforic - European Forum on International Cooperation
Euforic serves as a platform for information, communication and debate on global development issues focusing on the role of the European Union and its institutions. Euforic makes information on Europe‘s international cooperation more accessible; facilitates communication and dialogue among organisations involved in Europe‘s international cooperation; and brokers collaboration, learning and knowledge exchange on international cooperation issues.

Eurodad - European Network on Debt and Development
Eurodad is a network of 48 development NGOs from 15 European countries working for national economic and international financing policies that achieve ’poverty eradication‘ and ’the empowerment of the poor‘. By coordinating knowledge and resources, Eurodad aims to make campaigns, outreach, advocacy and programs on debt and finance, poverty reduction policies and empowerment more effective.

ESCR-Net - International Network for Economic, Social and Cultural Rights
ESCR-Net works to secure economic and social justice through human rights. It seeks to strengthen human rights, with a particular focus on economic, social and cultural rights and the development of tools for achieving their promotion, protection and fulfillment. ESCR-Net facilitates joint actions, enhances communications, develops new tools and strategies and builds solidarity across regions, in order to build a global movement to make human rights and social justice a reality for all. It works largely through a series of working groups that may have exchanges, workshops, projects and joint actions and develop tools and gather resources to strengthen the field of work. Topics covered are: budget analysis for ESC rights; Export Credit Agencies, Human Rights and Environment; Case Law Database; Social movements; women‘s ESC rights; and the Optional Protocol to the International Convention on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights. It also has an online database of judicial cases around ESC rights.

GROOTS Grassroots Organizations Operating Together in Sisterhood
GROOTS operates as a flexible network linking leaders and groups in poor rural and urban areas in the South and the North to nurture relationships of mutual support and solidarity among women engaged in redeveloping their communities. GROOTS seeks to complement and upscale development, training, organising and advocacy activities underway. These activities have focused on peer learning exchanges and documentation that share women-led strategies regarding: fostering participation; community livelihoods, enterprise, marketing, and micro finance strategies; housing, sanitation, water, transport and other infrastructure improvements; community accountable children and family support services; and strengthening women's direct involvement in local government's processes.

The Huairou Commission
The Huairou Commission is a network of grassroots women‘s organisations that partner with others interested in supporting the advocacy work of grassroots women for sustainable development. It proactively advocates for grassroots women at major international conferences, gains recognition of the knowledge of grassroots women, organises workshops on issues important to grassroots women at international conferences, supports empowerment and capacity building for groups on the ground, conducts a research project on grassroots practices and support peer learning and partnering academies.

Impact Alliance
The Impact Alliance is a global capacity-building network that links organisations looking for high quality capacity building services in all sectors of development with others capable of delivering those services, and stimulates new standards of innovation and effectiveness in the capacity building field. It provides private space for service providers to share ideas and methods, and develop new ones. Its web-based portal site includes mechanisms to: find a service provider; browse a resource library of capacity building materials; participate in thematic discussions, and visit spaces designed by members.

MST - Brazil‘s Landless Workers Movement (Movimento dos Trabalhadores Rurais Sem Terra )
MST is the largest social movement in Latin America with an estimated 1.5 million landless members organized in 23 out 27 states. The MST carries out land reform in a country mired by unjust land distribution. Since 1985, the MST has peacefully occupied unused land where they have established cooperative farms, constructed houses, schools for children and adults and clinics, promoted indigenous cultures and a healthy and sustainable environment and gender equality. It organises and educates its members moving towards a sustainable socio-economic model that offers a concrete alternative to today's globalisation that puts profits before people and humanity.

NGO Information and Cooperation (NGOIC)
NGOIC is a web-based mechanism for information-sharing and cooperation among NGOs with a view to improving and facilitating NGO participation in the newly created United Nations Human Rights Council. NGOIC is offered as a free service to interested NGOs, and participation is voluntary. NGOIC is a civil society initiative, and is independent of governments and the UN secretariat.

OMCT - World Organisation against torture - Programme on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights
A global coalition of local human rights NGOs dedicated to the struggle against torture. OMCT disseminates information from its grassroots members at the international level to complement their local activities. It enables members to make better use of the relevant regional and international human rights mechanisms and fosters sharing of approaches and means of action. It seeks through its program on economic, social and cultural rights to enhance the prevention of torture, summary executions, enforced disappearances and other forms of cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment by addressing the vulnerability of certain groups facing destitute socio-economic situations, to such violations.

One World
OneWorld is a worldwide, fastest-growing civil society network online, supporting people’s media to help build a more just global society. Equalinrights is member of One World The Netherlands.

Peace and Collaborative Development Networking
This is a free professional networking site to encourage interaction between individuals & organizations worldwide involved in development, peace, human rights, conflict resolution and related fields. Members are encouraged to dialogue and share resources.

SDI - Slum Dwellers International
SDI is a network of people‘s organisations and support NGOs seeking to address the needs of the homeless. SDI centres around local saving schemes, which form an organisational platform for residents to explore and determine their development strategies to secure land tenure; basic services; housing and local economic development. Empowerment, participation and accountability are at the heart of SDI practice.

SARPN – Southern African Regional Poverty Network
SARPN is a non-profit organisation that contributes to effective reduction of poverty in the countries of the Southern African Development Community through creating platforms for effective pro-poor policy, strategy and practice. It promotes debate and knowledge sharing on poverty reduction processes and experiences in Southern Africa, bringing people together across the region to exchange ideas, and disseminating information.

SUR Human Rights University Network
Sur is a network of academics (from 43 countries) that enhances the critical contribution of universities to the global realisation of human rights through education, research, human rights legal strategies and advocacy. Sur‘s current initiatives are the Sur International Journal on Human Rights, exchanges and capacity-building events, education syllabus, long-distance learning initiatives, specialist database of human rights experts and research; promotion of pro bono and public interest law.

World Dignity Forum
The World Dignity Forum is a forum against racism, discrimination and exclusions based on caste, class, race, color, gender, ethnicity, religion, sexuality, ability/disability. The World Dignity Forum emerged as an invitation to discriminated people all over the world to initiate a People‘s World Process, against all forms of discrimination especially in India, Nepal, Sri Lanka in South Asia and the Asia-Pacific countries, which have serious forms of discriminations and exclusions.

WSF - World Social Forum
The WSF, which began in 2001, is an open meeting place where social movements, networks, NGOs and other civil society organisations opposed to neo-liberalism and a world dominated by capital or any form of imperialism come together to pursue their thinking, debate ideas democratically, formulate proposals, share experiences and network for effective action. It is premised on the belief that “another world is possible” and seeks in itself to be an alternative. The WSF has quickly become a global social movement, advancing the vision of a different, more sustainable form of globalisation which puts human beings and human dignity at the centre of concern.

2. Human rights / Development - Capacity building

Aim for human rights
Aim for human rights supports organisations which fight for human rights all over the world. Local organisations are often the first to notice that human rights are violated and start to act. Aim for human rights helps these organisations. It does so via trainings, knowledge transfers and sometimes financial aid. This enables their partner organisations to do more for the human rights in their community. Aim for human rights concentrates on the following themes: Women's human rights, human rights and business, enforced disappearances, human rights and European policy and human rights impact assessment (HRIA).

ARRC - Asia Pacific Regional Centre for Human Rights Education
ARRC serves as an institute and a network for human rights education (HRE) in the Asia-Pacific region, providing human rights training, workshops, development and exchange of materials, research and HRE campaigns. It seeks to establish a human rights consciousness amongst the people of Southeast Asia through human rights education with a special focus on countries that have had limited exposure in the past. ARRC's training, study sessions and other human rights education activities are based on the popular education principle of Paulo Freire‘s participatory education. ARRC uses visual arts, performing arts, and other creative education tools to promote learning and people's empowerment.

CIVITAS International
CIVITAS is an international NGO for civic education composed of academics, NGOs, governmental institutions from many countries and international organisations. It aims to strengthen effective education for informed and responsible citizenship in new and established democracies. CIVITAS works to maintain a worldwide network, using all available resources, including computer networking, international exchanges, conferences and workshops. It has established an online resource centre, Civnet, to raise the profile of civic education, promote it on the agendas of government policymakers, enrich the debate on teaching methodology, establish teacher-training programs, create and distribute teaching materials, and enabling networking and sharing of information.

CDRA - The Community Development Resource Association
CDRA is a South African NGO operating as a ’Centre for Developmental Practice‘. CDRA aims to bring about and support authentic, coherent and effective development practice amongst people, organisations and institutions working towards those forms of social transformation that most benefit the poor and the marginalised. CDRA offers an integrated service comprising action research through collaborative inquiry; a range of courses for development practitioners; organisational development support; and the production and dissemination of perspectives and lessons learnt.

Dignity International
Dignity International works with the poor and marginalised communities around the world on education and training (capacity building for human rights) programs focused on economic, social and cultural rights to promote and defend all human rights for all. Its work revolves around 4 programs: capacity building for ESC rights, regional support, globalisation and human rights and network and alliance building.

DTP - Diplomacy Training Programme
The DTP is an independent NGO (affiliated with the Faculty of Law, University of New South Wales, in Australia). It provides human rights education that seeks to advance human rights and empower civil society in the Asia Pacific region. It aims to do this through quality education and training, and building NGO skills and capacity. DTP adopts an applied human rights focus and a rigorous academic method, as well as providing innovative and practical skills-based training.

Fahamu South Africa
Fahamu is helping to build societies where there is a culture of respect for human rights and human dignity. It supports the struggle for human rights and social justice in Africa by stimulating debate, discussion and analysis on key issues of social justice and distributing news and information about the same. They also develop training materials, run distance-learning courses and support social justice advocacy through innovative use of information and communications technologies.

HREA - Human Rights Education Associates
HREA is an international NGO that supports human rights learning. It achieves this through; the training of activists and professionals; the development of educational materials and programming; research and evaluation; providing a clearinghouse of education and training materials; networking human rights advocates and educators; and community building through on-line technologies.

IDASA - The Institute for Democracy in South Africa
IDASA is an independent public interest organisation committed to promoting sustainable democracy in South Africa and elsewhere (sub-Saharan Africa) by building democratic institutions, educating citizens and advocating social justice. Its current programs concern the media, budgeting, community & citizen empowerment, governance and AIDS, local government, monitoring and research of government bodies, the right to know and migration.

IIE - Institute of International Education
IIE is an organisation that fosters sustainable development through training programs in energy, environment, business management and leadership development, and through scholarships. Of particular relevance, it has the International Human Rights Internship Program. This supports development projects, human rights organisations and training opportunities for individuals committed to human rights protection and promotion. It also facilitates experience exchange through gathering, analysing and disseminating information about organisations and activists. It has an ESC rights program that with Forum-Asia developed Circle of Rights—Economic, Social and Cultural Rights Activism: A Training Resource. It is now working on use of budget analysis as a tool for human rights activism: www.internationalbudget.org

IAC - International Agricultural Centre
IAC provides support to organisations and professionals in business, government and civil society to improve the livelihoods of rural people, enhance farming systems, develop sound agri-business opportunities, ensure access to safe and healthy food and establish forms of land and water management that support the maintenance of healthy ecosystems. To meet clients' needs, the IAC takes an integrated approach to capacity development, combining advisory services, training, seminars, action learning projects, network development and knowledge management.

International Human Rights Network
The International Human Rights Network is an Irish NGO that supports others in applying human rights based approaches in their work. The network applies and learns from human rights-based approach through: own-initiative projects of Network members; Consultancy services through the project management cycle. It also pools experience through a cycle of participatory activities including training, research and consultation and acts as an advocate for change. It further offers pro bono support for other not-for-profit organisations, which share the Network‘s core principles.

INTRAC - International NGO Resource and Training Centre
INTRAC provides training, consultancy and research services to organisations involved in international development and relief. It believes in the importance of civil society organisations working for sustainable development in a just civil society. It focuses on strengthening the organisational and management capacity of NGOs, analysing and disseminating information on global tends and supporting institutional development of the sector as a whole.

Management for Development Foundation
MDF Training & Consultancy is a worldwide operating management training and consultancy bureau in the Netherlands, Sri Lanka, Belgium, Tanzania and Vietnam. It enhances planning, organisation and management capacities of professionals and organisations in the development sector. MDF provides consultancy services for: project and program management; organisational development; institutional and sector development; and human resources development.

Pact
Pact is a networked global organisation with 18 field offices in Asia, Africa and Latin America that builds the capacity of local leaders and organisations to meet pressing social needs. It advocates its work as firmly rooted in the belief that local communities must be the driving force in ending poverty and injustice. Pact strengthens the capacity of grassroots organisations, coalitions and networks and forges linkages among government, business and the citizen sectors to achieve social, economic and environmental justice. Through training, technical assistance, organisational capacity assessment, mentoring and direct financial support, Pact also strengthens organisations' capacity to further development goals.

Training and Research Support Centre, Zimbabwe
The principal objective of the Center is to provide training, research and support services to develop social and organisational capacities within organisations to interact with the state and private sector on areas of social policy and social development. Recognising the major challenges to economic and social justice in Zimbabwe, the core areas of work are: Community based and participatory research, Community monitoring, General Research, Sectoral skills training, research skills training, material development, information resource centre, and web, IT and publications.

WLID - World Learning for International Development
WLID‘s engages in programmes in: education; civil society and social change; and training and exchange. These are designed to develop the skills of individuals and strengthen the capacities of local organisations as effective advocates and agents of progress and social change.

3. Human rights - monitoring or legal work

CEDHA - Center for Human Rights and Environment
CEDHA promotes greater access to justice, guarantees human rights for victims of environmental degradation, or non-sustainable management of natural resources, and prevents future violations. To this end, CEDHA fosters the creation of inclusive public policy that promotes socially and environmentally sustainable development through community participation, public interest litigation, strengthening democratic institutions and the capacity building of key actors.

International Budget Project
The International Budget Project supports the growth of civil society capacity to analyse and influence government budget processes, institutions and outcomes. It supports particular organisations focusing on the impact of the budget on poor and low-income people in developing countries or new democracies. It engages in international advocacy, provides training and technical assistance; measures and advances transparency and participation in the budget, ensures adequate funding for civil society budget work; acts as a hub of information on related civil society work and builds international and regional budget networks.

International Commission of Jurists
The ICJ provides legal expertise at both the international and national levels to ensure that developments in international law adhere to human rights principles and that international standards are implemented at the national level. The ICJ is composed of sixty eminent jurists, representatives of the different legal systems of the world. The ICJ conducts three programmes to implement its objectives: (a) national implementation of international human rights standards - monitoring and technical assistance; (b) evolving law - adding precision to human rights standards, clarifying the relationship with other areas of law and proposing new international standards where required; and (c) promoting and protecting standards - to ensuring that existing international standards, and the systems that exist to protect and promote them, are maintained and strengthened.

LST - Law and Society Trust (Sri Lanka) - Economic Social and Cultural Rights Programme
A non-profit organisation based in Sri Lanka that engages in research, advocacy and training to make the law play a more meaningful role in society. It uses the law as a tool for social change in the struggle against underdevelopment and poverty. It has an Economic Social and Cultural Rights program that promotes renewed interest in social, economic and cultural rights by all. It conducts related projects and research within the South Asian countries and aims towards the effective monitoring and implementation of selected rights periodically within Sri Lanka.

PSRS Monitoring and Synthesis Project
This project was a 3-year project (June 2001-2004) commissioned by the Department for International Development (DFID UK) to advise DFID staff on key issues arising in the implementation of PRSPs, based on a synthesis of information about progress in-country. It aims to streamline information demands and synthesising relevant information on PRSPs and monitor progress regularly on PRSP implementation in selected countries and provide short-run feedback and longer term in-depth analysis for DFID on a number of key areas of interest.

SALIGAN (Alternative Legal Assistance Center)
SALIGAN is a legal resource NGO that does developmental legal work with farmers, workers, the urban poor, women, and local communities in the Philippines. SALIGAN seeks to effect societal change by working towards the empowerment of these groups through the creative use of the law and legal resources.

Social Watch
Social Watch is an international network of national citizen‘s groups that follow up the fulfillment of internationally agreed commitments on poverty eradication and equality. The national groups submit an annual report on the progress or regression towards these commitments, undertake lobbying initiatives to hold the national authorities accountable for their policies; promote a dialogue about national social development priorities and seek to embrace others into the national groups.

4. Human rights / Development – Research and Policy

Center for Human Rights and Global Justice (New York University (NYU))
The Center was established to bring together and expand the rich array of teaching, research, clinical, internship, and publishing activities undertaken within the NYU Law School on issues of international human rights law. The Center aims both to stimulate cutting edge scholarship on the part of faculty, students, fellows and visitors and to make original and constructive contributions to on-going policy debates in this field. It aims to end the marginalisation of much of the human rights debate by relating it directly to the most pressing issues on the globalisation and social justice agendas in the contemporary era.

CPRC - Chronic Poverty Research Center
CPRC is an international partnership of universities, research institutes and NGOs which exists: to focus attention on chronic poverty; to stimulate national and international debate; to deepen understanding of the causes of chronic poverty; and to provide research, analysis and policy guidance that will contribute to its reduction. CPRC expects its research and analysis to result in policy relevant findings useful to all those working to combat poverty.

Carnegie Council on Ethics and International Affairs
Among other activities the Carnegie Council works on global social justice. It seeks to be the voice for ethics in international policy. The Council convenes agenda-setting forums, creates educational opportunities and provides on-line resources for teachers and students, journalists, international affairs professionals, and concerned citizens.

CROP – Comparative Research Program on Poverty
CROP is a global network of researchers and experts on poverty that provide an arena for interdisciplinary and comparative research on poverty in developed and developing countries. It organizes regional workshops, conferences, promotes joint research projects and publications, links poverty researchers and disseminates information about poverty research.

CPARN - The Cornell Participatory Action Research Network
CPARN is a network of students, staff, faculty and community members committed to the study and promotion of participatory action research (PAR) as an important framework for understanding and addressing human problems. It joins professional practitioners and organization or community members in research designed to produce useful social action. Its primary activities are hosting seminars for researchers and various other open events.

The Development Gap
The Development GAP has sought to close the wide gap that between Third World local realities and the perception of Northern policymakers who have not experienced those realities. Its program is shaped to define and promote, in conjunction with Southern organisations, alternative development approaches that are environmentally, socially and economically sustainable and to collaborate with Northern policymakers and program officials interested in promoting Third World economic development rooted in local realities and priorities. It also educates U.S. policymakers, the media and the public about economic-reform measures causing ecological and economic devastation in the South (page last updated 1 November 2004, accessed 13 February 2006).

Citizenship DRC - The Development Research Centre on Citizenship, Participation and Accountability
Citizenship DRC is an international research partnership (network of 7 research institutions and civil society organizations in Angola, Bangladesh, Brazil, India, Nigeria, South Africa and the UK) exploring new forms of citizenship that will help make rights real. It aims to increase understanding of how to support the efforts of poor and marginalised groups to define and claim their rights. It has three current research programs: deepening democracies in States and localities, local-global citizen engagement and violence, participation and citizenship. It also focuses on projects concerning realising rights and claiming accountabilities.

Focus on the Global South
Focus on the Global South is a program of development policy research, analysis and action. It aims to consciously and consistently articulate, link and develop greater coherence between local community-based and national, regional and global paradigms of change. It strives for a link between development at the grassroots and “macro” levels. Areas of focus are: trade; peace and security; finance and development; and alternatives.

GDN Global Development Network
GDN is a global network of research and policy institutes working together to address the problems of national and regional development. GDN: supports multidisciplinary research in social sciences; promotes the generation of local knowledge in developing and transition countries; produces policy; builds research capacity to advance development and alleviate poverty; facilitates knowledge sharing among researchers and policymakers; and disseminates development knowledge.

Global Poverty Research Group
The GPRG is a research group of economists, political scientists, sociologists and anthropologists that conduct multi-disciplinary research investigating issues of poverty, inequality and the quality of life. Research centres around: poverty, intra-household allocation and well-being; income opportunities, inequality and the poor; human capital institutions and well-being; social capital, the provision of public services and social safety nets; and governance, norms and social outcomes.

IDS - Institute of Development Studies
The IDS is a leading organisation for research, teaching and communications on international development. It seeks to understand and explain the world, and to try to change it – to influence as well as to inform. Through the work of the Participation, Power and Social Change Team, it serves as a global centre for research, innovation and learning in citizen participation and participatory approaches to development.

International Centre on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights
This is an action-research centre and international fellowship dedicated to the promotion and advancement of economic, social and cultural (ESC) Rights. It raises the profile of ESC rights through fostering debate and innovative thinking, and pursuing research, lobbying and advocacy on pivotal ESC rights issues. Current priorities are the Optional protocol to the international covenant on ESC Rights, national ESC rights reporting, increasing awareness of the influence of International Financial Institutions and multinational corporations on ESC rights and facilitating synergies among civil society organisations.

IDEA - International Development Ethics Association
IDEA is an international, cross-cultural group of philosophers, development and environmental theorists, and practitioners that applies ethical principles to the theory and practice of global, national, and local development and to relations between the "North" and "South". It effects ethically sound development policies, institutions, and practices; and promotes solidarity, mutual support, and interchange among those development theorists and practitioners throughout the world who are seeking to implement ethically better development paradigms and strategies.

IDRC - The International Development research Centre
IDRC is a public corporation created by the Parliament of Canada to help developing countries use science and technology to find practical, long-term solutions to the social, economic, and environmental problems they face. IDRC provides funds and expert advice to developing-country researchers working to solve critical development problems. It also builds local capacity in developing countries to undertake research and innovate. It supports research in environment and natural resource management, information and communication technologies for development; innovation, policy and science; and social and economic policy. It has offices in Kenya, Senegal, Egypt, India, Singapore and Uruguay.

IIED – International Institute for Environment and Development
IIED is an international policy research institute and non-governmental body working for more sustainable and equitable global development. IIED works in partnership with others in the developing world, to have a real impact on policy and practice at local, national and global levels. IIED works to ensure that the voices of the vulnerable and marginalised are heard. It focuses its programs on natural resources, climate change, human settlements (urban poverty, urban-rural links), sustainable markets and governance.

IISD - International Institute for Sustainable Development
IISD promotes change towards sustainable development by advancing policy recommendations on international trade and investment, economic policy, climate change, measurement and assessment and natural resources management. Through research and effective communication of findings, the IISD engages government, business, NGOs and other sectors to develop and implement policies simultaneously beneficial to the global economy, the global environment and to social well-being.

The Institute for Development Policy and Management (IDPM)
The IDPM within Manchester University is the UK‘s largest University-based International Development Studies department. It promotes social and economic development, particularly within lower-income countries and for disadvantaged groups, by enhancing the capabilities of individuals and organisations through education, training, consultancy, research and policy analysis. Its primary activities are academic programs; professional development programs in development policy and management; research into major issues of development policy and practice; and consultancy work.

ODI - Overseas Development Institute
ODI is Britain's leading independent think-tank on international development and humanitarian issues. It inspires and informs policy and practice which lead to the reduction of poverty, the alleviation of suffering and the achievement of sustainable livelihoods in developing countries. It engages in high-quality applied research, practical policy advice, and policy-focused dissemination and debate. It has a number of different programs:

(i) Poverty and Public Policy Group
ODI's Poverty and Public Policy Group contributes through research, advice and communication to measures that work effectively towards eradicating poverty on a global scale. PPPG interests span all aspects of public policy for poverty reduction, including "upstream" policy and management issues and "downstream" analysis of the causes of poverty and social exclusion. Its primary activities are poverty analysis; managing poverty reduction at country level (focus e.g. on PRSPs) and new approaches to poverty-focused aid.

(ii) Rights in Action Group
This Group seeks to assess the practical value of human rights for poverty reduction and humanitarian protection and promote better exchange and understanding between the 'aid' and 'human rights' communities.

Q2 Combining Qualitative and Quantitative Approaches in Poverty Analysis
Q2 is a research program supported by the International Development Research Center, Canada. It promotes improved integration of qualitative and quantitative approaches to poverty assessment in the developing world through sharing and networking, national capacity building and piloting Q2 methodologies in Vietnam.

5. Human Rights – Advocacy

The Advocacy Project
The Advocacy Project is a non-profit organisation that serves the needs of civil society - particularly community based advocates for peace and human rights. It focuses on supporting campaigns and campaigning networks, disseminating information on partners‘ campaigns, lobbying for partners‘ campaigns, policy analysis and in particular, helping NGOs and networks become self sufficient in the use of information and communications technologies and offering communications services.

Asian Centre for Human Rights
Asian Centre for Human Rights aims to promote and protect human rights and fundamental freedoms in the Asian region through investigations, research, campaigning and lobbying on country situations or individual cases and promoting the economic, social and cultural rights through rights-based approaches to development. The main themes of ACHR are anti-terror laws and due process, child rights, torture, globalisation, refugees and national human rights institutions.

CLC - Community Law Centre (South Africa)
The CLC seeks to realise the democratic values and human rights of South Africa's Constitution through high quality research, advocacy and education. The Centre specialises in critical constitutional and human rights issues, with projects covering gender, children, socio-economic rights, prison reform, privatisation and local government. It engages in applied research on socio-economic rights produces a topical quarterly Journal, the ESR Review (Economic and Social Rights in South Africa).

GCAP - Global Call to Action against Poverty
GCAP is a worldwide alliance committed to making world leaders live up to their promises, and to making a breakthrough on poverty. It is an advocacy campaign that calls for a major increase in the quality and quantity of aid, debt cancellation, trade justice and national efforts to eliminate poverty and achieve the Millennium Development Goals that are sustainable as well as democratic, transparent and accountable to citizens.

Global Rights
Global Rights is a human rights advocacy group that partners with local activists to challenge injustice and amplify new voices within the global discourse. Its strategies for change are: exposure of human rights violation; community mobilisation; human rights legal work; advocating legal and policy reform and international advocacy.

Afronet - Inter-African Network for Human Rights and Development
Afronet is a Zambia based NGO working on human rights in Africa. Its program includes networking, action-oriented programs, advocacy, and the establishment of a multi-country online communication system to expedite human rights information and dissemination. It also supports the Southern Africa Human Rights NGO Network (SAHRINGON).

JDC - Jubilee Debt Campaign
JDC is a coalition of local/regional groups and national organisations that focus on changing UK government policy on debt, including to ensure that the maximum influence is brought to bear on the World Bank and International Monetary Fund (IMF). It advocates for the cancellation of unpayable and unfair debts that poor countries owe to rich countries. The movement also advocates for trade justice, and an increase in improved aid.

NCAS - National Centre for Advocacy Studies, India
NCAS is a social change resource centre that works towards a participatory, people-centred policy environment and a transparent and accountable governance so as to advance human rights, equitable social change and distributive justice. It aims to strengthen rights-based and people-centered advocacy in the global South.

Rights and Humanity
Rights and Humanity (The International Movement for the Realisation of Human Rights and Responsibilities) advocates the use of human rights principles and legal norms as a coherent framework for poverty elimination, for the realisation of sustainable human development, and the achievement of an equitable international environment. It focuses on ’progress‘ rather than ’blame‘; ’empowerment‘ rather than ’welfare‘; ’education‘ rather than ’condemnation‘.

6. Resources / Communication

(a) General

D-Groups - Development through Dialogue
D-groups brings groups together as an online community to facilitate dialogue on a broad range of issues around international development. D-groups holds online tools and services to support the activities of a group, a network, or a community.

MANDE - Monitoring and Evaluation News
MANDE is a news service that focuses on developments in monitoring and evaluation methods relevant to development projects and programs with social development indicators.

OHCHR - Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights
The OHCHR is the focal point for all human rights activities at the UN, mandated to promote and protect the full realisation by all people, of all human rights. It undertakes research, prepares reports, works with Governments through technical assistance programs and otherwise engages to promote and protect human rights. This website is a portal to the resources of all of the UN human rights mechanisms, such as the special rapporteurs and the Commission on Human Rights. See also Official Website for the United Nations system http://www.unsystem.org, with directory to websites of UN organisations.

World Hunger Education Service
Produces an online magasine, Hunger Notes, which provides information on the causes, extent and efforts to end hunger and poverty globally. The magasine also facilitates networking and communication for those working in the struggle against hunger and poverty.

(b) Human rights

AAAS – Advancing Science Serving Society
An international non-profit organisation dedicated to advancing science around the world by serving as an educator, leader, spokesperson and professional association. AAAS publishes the journal Science, as well as many other scientific publications. Of particular interest is its focus on rights and development budget analysis, sustainable development, human rights and projects on ESCR Monitoring Systems and Thesaurus of Economic, Social, and Cultural Rights: Terminology and Potential Violations

Choike - a Portal on Southern Civil Societies
Choike is dedicated to improving the visibility of the work of NGOs and social movements from the South. It serves as a platform where citizen groups can disseminate their work and at the same time enrich it with information from diverse sources, from the perspective of Southern civil society. Choike also contains a directory of Southern NGOs and in-depth reports on key issues around development and human rights.

ConnectaSur - a portal for human rights in the South
The ConectaSur portal seeks to strengthen respect for human rights around the world by stimulating dialogue, exchange of information and cooperation on human rights particularly in the southern hemisphere (Africa, Asia and Latin America). The portal prioritises the dissemination of local knowledge and best practices. It also seeks to strengthen understanding of and capacity to work with the United Nations. It has an online library of resources for activists and directory of human rights organisations in Portuguese.

The HIV/AIDS Impact on Education Clearinghouse
The Clearinghouse is coordinated by the International Institute for Educational Planning/UNESCO supported with funds from UNAIDS. It supports professionals in educational planning and management in the context of HIV/AIDS by systematically collecting the latest studies and research, and disseminating the information through the website, its electronic newsletter and related products, CD-ROMs or hard copies of documents.

Human Rights Forum
This is part of the World News Network containing news surrounding all human rights issues.

Human Rights Internet
HRI empowers human rights activists and organisations, educates governmental and intergovernmental agencies and other actors, on human rights issues and civil society. It achieves this by facilitating the application of new technologies for human rights; producing and providing access to human rights databases and a comprehensive documentation center; conducting research; producing human rights resources; fostering networking and cooperation among civil society organisations; strengthening civil society access to and participation in international fora; and providing technical assistance, training and education programs.

Human Rights Research and Education Center, University of Ottowa
This Centre connects to many human rights E-journals, resources (including legislation and jurisprudence on a broad range of areas) and websites.

New Tactics in Human Rights
The New Tactics in Human Rights project promotes tactical innovation and strategic thinking within the international human rights community as a means to expand options and possibilities of what can be done. It encourages the use and sharing of as wide a range of tactics as possible.

Participation.net
Participation.net is a global, online space for sharing ideas about the participation of people in development, citizenship, governance and rights. The webpage is enriched with documents on areas including the human rights based approach, accountability, citizenship, participation, etc.

Toolkit Citizen Participation
Toolkit Citizen Participation is a group of global civil society and local government organisations working to promote participatory local governance. The site offers information on tools, which promote citizen participation, a forum for discussions and articles.

University of Minnesota Human Rights Library
This library houses one of the largest collections of core human rights documents. The site also provides access to more than four thousands links and a unique search tool for multiple human rights sites.

(c) Development

Capacity
Capacity.org is a web magasine-cum-portal intended for practitioners and policy makers who work in or on capacity development in international cooperation in the South with a focus on both ’why‘ of capacity development – fostering debate on policy debate questions – and the ’how‘ of capacity development - learning from practical experiences in the field.

Directory of Development Organisations
This is an internet resource guide on development organisations, updated to 2006. It aims to promote interaction and active partnership among key development players within civil society. It contains information on international, government and financial institutions; private sector support organisations; training and research centers; civil society organisations; development consulting firms, information providers; and grant-makers.
Africa; Asia and the Middle East; Europe; Latin American and the Caribbean; North America; Oceana.

Eldis ’Gateway to Development Information‘
Eldis aims to share on-line the best in development policy, practice, events and research. It is directed towards researchers, development practitioners and policy workers at national and international levels and is part of the Institute of Development Studies, Sussex knowledge services.

id21 - Communicating Development Research
id21 communicates the latest UK-sourced international development research to policymakers & practitioners worldwide. It focuses on solutions to policy concerns such as poverty, education, civil society, transport, water, natural disasters, food security, gender violence, agriculture, climate, trade, democracy human rights and HIV/AIDS. It also produces an insights publication on the latest thinking and provides space to express views.

One World South Asia
The OneWorld network is an on-line development and human rights news and resource centre. It reflects globally and produces content in 11 different languages. It strives for a strong proportion of Southern produced documents to widen the participation of the world's poorest and most marginalised peoples in the global debate.

OKN - The Open Knowledge Network
OKN is a human network that collects, shares and disseminates local knowledge. It aims to be a leading African network catalysing community access and sharing local content using modern and traditional information and communication technologies to support development and poverty alleviation, and strengthen the value and use of local knowledge. It is active in Africa, South Asia and Latin America. Using the OKN system, people can create digital content in their own language and exchange it through networks. It uses a wide range of community dissemination tools, such as radio, drama, puppetry and simple drawings) to increase its impact.

ProPoor
ProPoor is committed to the dissemination of information and promotion of sustainable development initiatives, in response to the needs of under represented and marginalised sectors of society in the South Asia. It has a comprehensive Internet portal containing information about South Asian NGOs, funding agencies, events, projects, jobs opportunities in social development and success stories.

SANGONet
SANGONeT focuses on information communication technologies (ICTs) in order strengthen civil society capacity to find long-term and sustainable solutions to Southern Africa‘s development problems. It facilitates access to and shares information, builds capacity, raises awareness, enhances reach and impact, and links people and organisations through the use of ICTs in Southern Africa. It offers a portal to the South African NGO sector. This is designed to develop institutional capacity through information; map NGOs and their activities; create a community space for exchange; and promote the benefits of ICTs in support of the work of civil society.

Siyanda, Mainstreaming Gender Equality
Siyanda is an online resource centre of gender and development materials that supports practitioners in implementing gender programs and mainstreaming gender equality concerns, whether they are gender specialists or not. It facilitates ease of identifying and downloading relevant materials, and supports a culture of sharing information and materials on gender and development among people in this field.

The Communication Initiative
The Communication Initiative (The CI) network is an online space for sharing the experiences of, and building bridges between, the people and organisations engaged in or supporting communication as a fundamental strategy for economic and social development and change. It does this through a process of initiating dialogue and debate and giving the network a stronger, more representative and informed voice with which to advance the use and improve the impact of communication for development. This process is supported by a web-based resource of summarised information and several electronic publications, as well as online research, review and discussion platforms providing insight into communication for development experiences.

7. Development

COC - Center of Concern
A faith based organisation that focus‘s on research, analysis, networking, public education and advocacy, aimed at advancing more just, sustainable and authentically human development for all, especially for the marginalised and those in poverty. It has projects in education for justice, food security, women (including economic, social and cultural rights), human rights, corporate accountability, racial justice and rethinking Bretton Woods.

Concern - Concern Worldwide
Concern seeks to enable absolutely poor people to achieve major and sustainable improvements in their lifestyles. To this end, Concern works with the poor themselves and with local and international partners who share their vision to create just and peaceful societies where the poor can exercise their fundamental rights. Concern engages in long-term development work, responds to emergency situations and undertakes development education and advocacy on poverty related issues.

ENDA - Environmental Development Action in the Third World
ENDA is an international non-profit organisation based in Dakar that collaborates with grassroots groups in search of alternative development models on the basis of the experience, expectations and objectives of marginalised peoples. Fighting poverty is the primary principle behind ENDA activities. It works in mutual decision-making processes to develop replicable models of progress, uniting action, research, training and communication. It also engages in international debates to render third world positions visible and influential.

UNDP - United Nations Development Program
UNDP aims to reduce poverty by engaging in global and regional advocacy and analysis to increase knowledge, share best practices, build partnerships, mobilise resources, and promote enabling frameworks including international targets for reducing poverty. In addition, UNDP also supports technical co-operation among developing countries. See also http://www.undp-povertycentre.org/

World Learning for International Development
World Learning is a private, nonprofit international organisation that promotes international and intercultural understanding, democracy, social justice, and economic development through education, training, and field projects around the globe. It engages in the fields of international exchange, sustainable development, teacher education, language training, peace-building, and NGO management. It has four programs: the experiment in international living, school for international training; world learning for international development (for democratic change and peace, understanding and social justice, particularly grass-roots programs); and world learning for business.

8. Donors

AWDF - African Women‘s Development Fund
AWDF is an institutional capacity-building and program development fund which aims to help build a culture of learning and partnerships within the African women‘s movement. It funds local, national, sub-regional and regional organizations in Africa working towards women‘s empowerment, providing grants of between $1000 - $25,000. The AWDF also attempts to strengthen the organisational capacities of its grantees.

Care - Care International
Care is a humanitarian organisation fighting global poverty and working toward global social justice. It operates both as a donor and as a project implementer. It advances human rights-based approaches in its work.

Christian Aid
Christian Aid, established to end all causes of poverty and injustice, is an agency of the churches in the UK and Ireland. It aims to eradicate poverty through local organisations, which are best placed to understand local needs. It is mostly campaigning on fair trade, third world debts, and HIV/AIDS. It is a member of APRODEV (the Association of Protestant Development Organisations).

EED - Church Development Services
EED is an association of the Protestant Churches in Germany. It takes and promotes action to arouse and enhance people's willingness to stand up to overcome need, poverty, persecution and violence. By means of financial contributions, personnel involvement, scholarships and consultancy services EED supports the development work of churches, Christian organisations and the private sector. It is a member of APRODEV (the Association of Protestant Development Organisations).

The Department for World Service of the Lutheran World Federation
The Department for World Service (DWS) is the internationally recognised humanitarian and development agency of the Lutheran World Federation (LWF). It works with marginalised and disadvantaged communities in the areas of greatest vulnerability and endemic need. Working in close collaboration with ACT (Action by Churches Together), DWS assists victims of natural and human made disasters to survive an immediate emergency. DWS also engages in long-term commitment with communities to utilise holistic approaches for sustainable development. Its efforts reach out to all who are in need without distinction of ethnicity, gender, religion, nationality or political conviction through field programs in 37 countries. It is a member of APRODEV (the Association of Protestant Development Organisations).

DCA - DanChurchAid
DanChurchAid supports work through partners to deepen and broaden the choices and actions open to poor and marginalised groups in poor countries. Through these partnerships DanChurchAid aims to strengthen the possibilities for these groups to live a dignified life where their rights and interests are recognised and equally respected. DanchurchAid supports a range of approaches to achieve change, including supporting humanitarian programmes, rights-based development programmes, and advocacy and information work in Denmark and internationally for addressing structural rights deficits and social and economic injustices. It is a member of APRODEV (the Association of Protestant Development Organisations) and ACT International.

The Fund for Global Human Rights
The Fund for Global Human Rights is founded on the belief that securing basic freedoms worldwide requires effective, frontline organisations challenging abuse wherever it occurs. Thus the Fund for Global Human Rights works to ensure a strong, effective human rights community worldwide. Grants are awarded in areas strategically chosen to maximise the impact of funders' dollars and advancement of human rights everywhere. Its grants between $US 5 to 30,000 support campaigns that otherwise might falter for lack of resources, bring financial stability to groups, and help organisations take their work to the next level in terms of visibility and impact.

Global Fund for Women
A grant-making foundation that provides grants of up to $15,000 to women's groups globally. It supports women‘s human rights organisations around the world working to address critical issues such as ending gender-based violence & building peace, ensuring economic and environmental justice, advancing health and sexual & reproductive rights, expanding civic & political participation, increasing access to education and fostering social change philanthropy.

The Interchurch Organisation for Development Co-operation (ICCO)
ICCO is a Dutch Co-funding Development organisation that works towards a world where poverty and injustice are no longer present. It finances development programmes and projects that stimulate and enable people, in their own way, to organise dignified housing and living conditions. It also offers support through emergency help; capacity building of local organisations; personnel cooperation, including missions, exchanges and staff deployment; and providing loans and guarantees to economic development projects with a market-oriented approach. ICCO currently focuses on three key themes: Access to basic social services, fair economic development and democratisation and peace-building. It is a member of APRODEV (the Association of Protestant Development Organisations).

IHRFG-International Human Rights Funders Group
An association of grant-makers supporting efforts to achieve the rights enshrined in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, 1948, and the treaties and laws it has generated so that all people may enjoy a truly and fully human existence. It is not a funder but rather promotes information exchange and collaboration among grantmakers; improves the use, reach and effectiveness of existing resources; expands resources to meet the growing needs of the field; and helps other funders to explore the added value of a human rights approach. It has a broad donors directory.

Mama Cash
Mama Cash is an independent grant-making organisation that supports pioneering and innovative women's initiatives around the world. It provides grants of between €500 and €20,000 per year.

NCA - Norwegian Church Aid
NCA is a non-governmental and ecumenical organisation that works to ensure the individual's basic rights. Norwegian Church Aid have three main working approaches (emergency preparedness and assistance; long-term development assistance; and advocacy) that it integrates in the areas of accountable governance, HIV/AIDS, water and safe sanitation, gender-based violence, and conflict transformation and peace building. NCA is a member of APRODEV (the Association of Protestant Development Organisations).

Oxfam - Oxfam International
Oxfam is a confederation of 12 organisations working together with over 3,000 partners in more than 100 countries to fight poverty and strive for economic and social justice. Its programs extend from advocacy, emergency relief, long-term development. Oxfam works with diverse issues including human rights, HIV/AIDS and gender. It is advancing the human rights-based approach.

9. Issues

(a) Economic, social and cultural rights

CESCR - Centre for Economic, Social and Cultural Rights
CESCR advocates for social justice using human rights tools and strategies. It builds relationships with civil society groups and strengthens local initiatives for economic justice by connecting them with international institutions and legal mechanisms for protecting human rights. It recently has announced a re-launch of its work program with a new methodology for monitoring, reporting and advocacy on economic and social rights. The website contains clear and brief outlines of ESC rights and some activist resources.

COHRE - Centre on Housing Rights and Evictions
COHRE is a strong and far-reaching NGO that promotes and protects the right to housing for all. It focuses on capacity building in economic, social and cultural rights, particularly housing rights for traditionally disadvantaged groups; research and publications; monitoring, preventing and documenting forced evictions; fact-finding missions; housing and property restitution; women‘s housing rights; participation and advocacy in the United Nations and regional human rights bodies; and activities in all regions of the South.

Equinet Africa - the Regional Network on Equity in Health in Southern Africa
EQUINET is a network of professionals, civil society members, policy makers, state officials and others within the region who promote and realise shared values of equity and social justice in health. EQUINET gathers people to overcome isolation, give voice and promote networking using bottom-up approaches built on shared values. EQUINET's work covers a wide range of areas identified as priorities for health equity, within the political economy of health, health services and inputs to health.

FAN - Freshwater Action Network
FAN aims to ensure that freshwater NGOs are strongly represented at international water policy forums and to ensure their voices are heard during the increasingly political water debates. FAN also aims to strengthen effective NGO participation in policy making throughout a cross-sectoral international network, incorporating the aims of different NGOs with a range of advocacy priorities.

Food and Water Watch
Food and Water Watch, newly emerged from Public Citizen, works with grassroots organisations and other allies around the world to stop the corporate control and abuse of our food and water. It is committed to creating an economically and environmentally viable future. It strives to empower people to take action and transform the public consciousness about what we eat and drink.

FIAN – FoodFirst Information and Action Network
FIAN is an international, grass-roots oriented human rights network with members in over 60 countries that campaigns for the realisation of the right to adequate food. FIAN aims at ending the violation of the right to food through international protest letter actions, fact-finding missions, research, lobbying, campaigns and human rights education. It also works with the United Nations to improve the existing system of protection of the right to food.

Housing and Land Rights Network - Habitat International Coalition
HIC is a non-profit movement of 400 organisations from 80 countries from the North and South that is committed to communities working to secure housing and improve their habitat conditions. Primary activities it engages in are: support campaigns for housing rights & against forced evictions; coordinate NGO conferences on housing and land rights; develop and apply monitoring and training methods; Publish advocacy materials; provide local struggles with access to the UN human rights program and mechanisms; support exchanges of expertise and information; conduct national fact-finding missions; enable research and other projects; support other legal activities toward housing solutions.

IRENE
IRENE is an international network on development education. It aims to stimulate international labor issues within NGOs and trade unions in their mainstream education and campaign programs and strengthen international workers solidarity. The core question of IRENE‘s work is: How are workers in different regions affected by international restructuring in the industrial and services sector. It focuses on two key themes corporate social responsibility of tran-national corporations with the focus of respecting workers' rights, and women workers.

NESRI- National Economic and Social Rights Initiative
NESRI promotes a human rights vision for the United States that ensures dignity and access to the basic resources needed for human development and civic participation. NESRI supports the social justice community in integrating international economic and social rights standards into national and local advocacy. It provides research and analysis, human rights training, support for human rights networks and support for community organising in the use of the human rights system.

The Permanent People‘s Tribunal on the Right to Food and the Rule of Law in Asia
The Asian Legal Resource Centre launched the Permanent People‘s Tribunal on the Right to Food and the Rule of Law in Asia. It supports the principle of adequate food and water for all; exposes inequality arising from inadequate food and water; introduces short and long term solutions to inequalities in food and water; ensures performance of state responsibilities in this regard; and reveals the links between authoritarianism and denial of the right to food. It also fights against torture, illegal detention, extra-judicial killings and denial of civil rights, as a means to ensure adequate food and water. It has initiated the campaign of Hunger Alert to raise awareness and prompt action on poverty-related issues in the region.

PWESCR - Program on Women‘s Economic, Social and Cultural Rights
PWESCR promotes women‘s human rights, particularly economic, social and cultural rights by bringing a gender framework to policy, law and practice at local, national, regional and international levels. It is currently undertaking a survey of the field of action in South Asia, where it focuses at this stage. It will also engage in advocacy, research, facilitate dialogue and provide human rights education and training.

(b) Business, Trade and economic justice

Business and Human Rights Resource Centre
The Business & Human Rights Resource Centre is an international, non-profit organization, in a collaborative partnership with Amnesty International sections and leading academic institutions. It promotes greater awareness and informed discussion of important issues relating to business and human rights. The website includes reports of corporate misconduct, as well as positive examples of "best practice" by companies. It is linked to a wide range of materials published by: NGOs; companies & business organizations; United Nations, ILO & other intergovernmental organisations; governments & courts; policy experts & academics; social investment analysts; journalists; etc. The Centre also has an international advisory network of over 80 experts

IFIWatchnet
IFIwatchnet connects organisations worldwide which monitor international financial institutions (IFIs) such as the World Bank, the IMF, and regional development banks. IFIwatchnet is not an NGO and it does not undertake monitoring or campaigning work itself, rather it supports the work undertaken by its participants. It pools independent information about IFIs from a broad range of civil society sources; improves communication between IFI-watchers, increasing mutual awareness of outputs and collaboration; and increases the efficiency and effectiveness of IFI watching organisations through new information sharing approaches.

ICTSC International Center for Trade and Sustainable Development
ICTSD is an independent non profit and non governmental organisation that works in partnership with others and seeks to contribute to a better understanding of development and environment concerns in the context of international trade. ICTSD provides original, non-partisan reporting and facilitation services at the intersection of international trade and sustainable development. It also empowers stakeholders in trade policy through information, networking, dialogue, well-targeted research, and capacity building, to influence the international trade system such that it advances the goal of sustainable development.

OECD Watch
OECD Watch (OECD refers to Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development comprised on 30 member states that produce two thirds of the world's goods and services) is an international network of civil society organisations promoting corporate accountability. It informs the wider NGO community about policies and activities of the OECD's Investment Committee, monitors activities of OECD and tests the effectiveness of the OECD Guidelines for Multinational Enterprises. It promotes cooperation between NGOs worldwide working on corporate accountability and corporate social responsibility.

The United Nations Global Compact
The Global Compact evolved in 1999 to bring companies together with UN agencies, labour and civil society to support universal environmental and social principles. Hundreds of companies from all regions of the world, and international labour and civil society organisations are engaged in the Global Compact, working to advance ten universal principles in the areas of human rights, labour, the environment and anti-corruption. Through the power of collective action, the Global Compact seeks to promote responsible corporate citizenship so that business can be part of the solution to the challenges of globalisation. To achieve these objectives, the Global Compact offers facilitation and engagement through several mechanisms: Policy Dialogues, Learning, Country/Regional Networks, and Projects.

UNCTAD - United Nations Conference on Trade and Development
Established as a permanent intergovernmental body, UNCTAD is the principal organ of the United Nations General Assembly dealing with trade, investment and development issues. Its main goals are to maximize the trade, investment and development opportunities of developing countries and assist them in their efforts to integrate into the world economy on an equitable basis.

SAPRIN
SAPRIN is a global network established to expand and legitimise the role of civil society in economic policymaking and to strengthen the organised challenge to structural adjustment programs by citizens around the globe. The network is working with a broad range of citizens' groups in countries on four continents to organize public processes to assess the real impact of World Bank and IMF-supported economic reform programs and to chart a new course for the future.

(c) Conflict Transformation

Beyond Intractability
Beyond Intractability is a Free Knowledge Base on More constructive ways of approaching and transforming intractable conflicts. The project provides access to information on many approaches which can then be adapted to many different situations. The knowledge Base is built around an online "encyclopedia" with easy-to-understand essays on almost 400 topics. These essays explain the many dynamics which determine the course of conflict along with available options for promoting more constructive approaches. It also provides citations for many other recommended resources, a number of checklists for both adversaries and intermediaries to consult, and educational teaching resources.

CRInfo - The Conflict Resolution Information Source
CRInfo is a free, online clearinghouse, indexing more than 25,000 peace- and conflict resolution-related Web pages, books, articles, audiovisual materials, organizational profiles, events, and current news articles.

Crisis States Research Centre
The aim of the Crisis States Research Centre at DESTIN (Development Studies Institute) is to provide new understanding of the causes of crisis and breakdown in the developing world and the processes of avoiding or overcoming them. It aims to know why some political systems and communities, in what can be called the 'fragile states', found in many of the poor and middle income countries, have broken down even to the point of violent conflict while others have not. Their work asks whether processes of globalisation have precipitated or helped to avoid crisis and social breakdown. The main themes for the next years are; good government, increased voice, institutional development, conflict management, security sector reform and effective aid delivery.

The Centre for Humanitarian Dialogue
The Centre for Humanitarian DIalogue is an independent and impartial organisation that seeks to prevent and resolve armed conflicts as the surest means of reducing human suffering in war. The HD Centre is active in a number of conflict resolution projects around the world, facilitating high-level low-key dialogue on challenging humanitarian issues and between principal actors and stakeholders to resolve conflict. It conducts research and analysis bringing forward practical policy recommendations to improve international efforts to secure and sustain peace.

The International Crisis Group
The International Crisis Group is an independent, non-profit NGO that works through field-based research and analysis, and high-level advocacy to prevent and resolve deadly conflict. Teams of political analysts are located within or close by countries at risk of outbreak, escalation or recurrence of violent conflict. Based on information and assessments from the field, it produces analytical reports containing practical recommendations targeted at key international decision-takers. It has a significant database of material on all major conflicts. Crisis Group also publishes CrisisWatch, a monthly bulletin, providing updates on the state of play in all the most significant situations of conflict or potential conflict around the world.

10. Particular groups

(a) Women

APWLD - Asia Pacific Forum on Women, Law and Development
APWLD is an independent NGO that is committed to enabling women to use law
as an instrument of social change for equality, justice and development. APWLD focuses on promoting women‘s rights as an analytical and strategic framework of engaging with the legal system to empower women. It engages in policy advocacy, education, training and other activities to address concerns of poor and marginalised women in the Asia Pacific region. It has lobbied at regional and international levels for the implementation of government commitments in international conventions as well as developed partnership with women‘s groups, human rights groups and development NGOs in the region to consolidate, expand and strengthen networks working on women, law and development.

AWID - Association for Women‘s Rights in Development
AWID is an international membership organization connecting, informing and mobilising people and organisations committed to achieving gender equality, sustainable development and women's human rights. It facilitates ongoing debates on fundamental and provocative issues and builds individual and organisational capacities of those working for women's empowerment and social justice. Its primary avenues are strategic communications, the AWID International Forum, and theme programs (feminist movements and organisations; gender equality and new technologies, women‘s rights and economic change; young women and leadership; and women‘s human rights net).

Creating Resources for Empowerment in Action
CREA empowers women to articulate, demand and access their human rights through enhancing women‘s leadership and focusing on issues of sexuality, reproductive health, violence against women, women‘s rights and social justice.

Equality Now
Equality Now works for the protection and promotion of the human rights of women around the world. Through its Women‘s Action Network, Equality Now: distributes information about human rights violations; takes action to protest these violations; and brings public attention to human rights violations against women. Issues of urgent concern to Equality Now include rape, domestic violence, reproductive rights, trafficking of women, female genital mutilation, and the denial of equal access to economic opportunity and political participation.

Femconsult
Femconsult is a consultancy firm that offers a broad range of technical assistance services for sustainable development world-wide. It has experts that are involved in identification, preparation, appraisal, planning, implementation, monitoring and evaluation of development interventions, projects and programs. They also design, set-up and execute baseline, monitoring and impact surveys as well as social, poverty and gender assessment studies. They use participatory and integrated approaches.

FEMNET - The African Women's Development and Communication Network
FEMNET seeks to strengthen the role and contribution of African NGOs focusing on women's development, equality and other human rights. It was set up to share information, experiences, ideas and strategies among African women's NGOs through communications, networking, training and advocacy so as to advance women's development, equality and other women's human rights in Africa.

ICW - International Council of Women
ICW‘s principal objectives are: to help women help themselves; to promote equal rights and responsibilities for both men and women; to promote recognition and respect for human rights; to support all the efforts for peace; to bring together women from all continents in unity within diversity; to encourage the integration of women in development.

IGTN - International Gender and Trade Network
IGTN is a Southern-led network of feminist gender specialists who provide technical information on gender and trade issues to women's groups, NGOs, social movements, governments, and academic institutions. IGTN also builds South/North cooperation and acts as a political catalyst to enlarge the space for a critical feminist perspective and global action on gender, trade, and globalisation issues.

IWRAW - International Women's Rights Action Watch - Asia Pacific
IWRAW Asia Pacific is a non-profit international women's organization based in the South that supports progressive interpretation, universalisation, implementation and realisation of women's human rights through the lens of CEDAW and other international human rights treaties. It builds the capacity of women and human rights advocates to claim and realise women's human rights through the development of new knowledge and tools, and the utilization of a human rights-based approach.

Madre
MADRE is a US based NGO that works with women affected by human rights violations to help them achieve justice and, ultimately, change the conditions that give rise to human rights abuses. MADRE provides humanitarian aid, supports community development programs and training that enables women to play leadership roles in their families, communities, countries and beyond, and engages in human rights advocacy and public education and mobilisation in the USA

NEWW - The Network of East West Women
NEWW is an international communication and resource network supporting dialogue, informational exchange, and activism among those concerned about the status of women in Central and Eastern Europe, the Newly Independent States, and the Russian Federation. NEWW coordinates research and advocacy that supports women's equality and full participation in all aspects of public and private life. Its overarching goal is to support the formation of independent women's movements and to strengthen the capacities of women and women's NGOs to influence policy regarding women's lives.

STOPVAW - Stop Violence against Women
STOPVAW website is a forum for information, advocacy and change. The website was developed as a tool for the promotion of women's human rights in the countries of Central and Eastern Europe (CEE) and the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS), Mongolia, and Kosovo. STOPVAW provides women's rights advocates with information and advocacy tools focused on ending the most endemic forms of violence against women in the region.

WHRNET-Women‘s Humans Rights Net
WHRNet provides reliable and comprehensive information and analyses on women's human rights issues and policy developments globally. The information supports advocacy efforts, with the website containing strong online resources relevant to women‘s human rights advocacy.

Women in Cities International
Women in Cities International is an exchange network for various partners concerned with gender equality issues and the place of women in cities worldwide. It focuses on women's participation in the development of cities and communities as well as a gender-based approach in municipal planning and management.

(b) Children / youth

CRIN - Child rights International Network
CRIN is a global network (1,400 organizations in over 130 countries) that disseminates information about the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child and child rights amongst NGOs, UN agencies, inter-governmental organisation, educational institutions, and other child rights experts. It supports and promotes the implementation of this convention and supports organisations in gathering, handling, producing and disseminating child rights information through training, capacity building and the development of electronic and non-electronic networking tools.

GMC - Global Movement for Children
GMC is the world-wide movement of organisations and people - including children – that works with advocacy campaigns, uniting efforts to build a world fit for children. It works on the premise that only by working together will we turn the tide in favor of children and offers the name, logo and principles of the Global Movement to all who stand for the rights of children.

International Save the Children Alliance
Save the Children is the world‘s largest independent global movement fighting for children‘s rights. It has organisations in 26 countries working together to improve children‘s lives in over 111 countries. It delivers immediate and lasting improvements to children‘s lives worldwide . It has programmes on education, HIV/AIDS, exploitation and abuse and conflict and disaster. It advocates a human rights-based aprpaoch in its work.

(c) Indigenous peoples

IK - Indigenous Knowledge
IK promotes unique, traditional and local knowledge existing within and developed around specific conditions of women and men indigenous to a particular geographic area. IK systems cover all aspects of life, including management of the natural environment. Ultimately IK seeks better understanding of sustainable development and the integration of indigenous knowledge in the work of scientists as a complementary contribution in the search for solutions and strategies to combat poverty and to generate sustainability in development.

Survival International
Survival is the only international organisation supporting tribal peoples worldwide. It works for tribal peoples' rights in three complementary ways: education, advocacy and campaigns. It also offers tribal people a platform to address the world. It works closely with local indigenous organisations, and focuses on tribal peoples who have the most to lose, usually those most recently in contact with the outside world.

(d) Minority groups

MRG - Minority Rights Group International
MRG is an international NGO that works to secure the rights of ethnic, religious and linguistic minorities and indigenous peoples worldwide, and to promote cooperation and understanding between communities. It publishes reports, training manuals, briefing papers and workshop reports covering a broad range of issues concerning the rights of minorities and indigenous peoples. MRG also conducts training events on international minority rights standards and advocacy techniques and provides forums for constructive dialogue for minorities and indigenous populations. It further conducts advocacy within the UN and promotes international human rights standards for minority and indigenous groups.

International Dalit Solidarity Network
IDSN brings together organizations, institutions and individuals concerned with caste-based discrimination and aims to link grassroots priorities with international mechanisms and institutions to make an effective contribution to the liberation of those affected by caste discrimination. The work of IDSN involves encouraging the United Nations, the European Union and other bodies to recognise that over 260 million people continue to be treated as outcasts and less than human and that caste-based discrimination must be regarded as a central human rights concern.

NCDHR - National Campaign on Dalit Human Rights
NCDHR aims to create awareness and support for Dalit Human Rights by highlighting the their human rights issues in civil society and strengthening the unity and solidarity of Dalits and Dalit movements across the nation and the world. NCDHR produced a CD titled "Dalit Rights: Advocacy Materials and Documents" (NCDHR, 2002). This CD presents a compendium of materials and documents related to advocacy interventions against caste, or work and descent based discrimination, at both the National and International levels.

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HelpAge International
HelpAge is a global network of not-for-profit organisations seeking to improve the lives of disadvantaged older people. HelpAge achieves this by supporting practical programs, giving a voice to older people, and influencing policy at local, national and international levels.

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