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Agriculture, Environment and Natural Resources:
- From the FAO (Food and Agricultural Organization of the UN), some projects and developments
- World Agroforestry Center (ICRAF), ICRISAT (too long to spell out … they do crop research), Alliance for a Green Revolution in Africa (AGRA), Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research (CGIAR), here’s their Gender & Diversity page.
- International Fund for Agriculture Development (IFAD, here’s the rural poverty knowledge base page), here’s the indigenous peoples page
- UNEP Indigenous people’s page
- Sustainable Agricultural Network
- WEDO (Women’s Environment and Development Organization)
Health-related:
- UNAIDS
- Partners in Health (works on public health issues, began in Haiti)
- Doctors without Borders (public health, obsteric fistula in DRC, disaster response)
- Mercy Corps (public health, disaster response)
- Projects from the World Health Organization (WHO)
- FGM Education and Networking Project
- Peace Corps project on malaria (as an example)
Human rights-related
- National Domestic Workers Alliance
- Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch
- International Organization for Migration (IOM), IOM & Gender page
- Coalition against trafficking in women (CATW)
- Global Alliance against Traffic in Women (GAATW)
- Women for Women (war survivors)
- International Movement against all forms of Discrimination and Racism (IMADR)
- Honour-based Violence Awareness
- Stop the Traffik
- Not for sale campaign
- Human Trafficking Search (good site for issue- and country-specific info)
Economics
- The Grameen Bank (ideas about financing of small-scale projects)
- Grama Vidiyal
- Opportunity International
- New Economics Foundation
- Global envision (affiliated with MercyCorps)
- Fair Labor Association
- Global Fairness Initiative
- Fair Trade Federation
- Rain Forest Alliance
- Workers’ Rights Consortium
- Kiva (philanthropic microfinancing)
NGOs
- Project example from IIED in Bangladesh, IIED’s main page has lots of resources as well
- From OXFAM
- Many resources on (Internat’l Development Research Ctr) this site
- Basic Education Coalition
- SHOFCO (Kenya)
- Fonkoze (Haiti)
- BRAC (Bangladesh)
- Indigenous people’s center for documentation, research and information (doCip)
- Jeevika Trust
- Clinton Foundation
- Gates Foundation
- List of NGOs
UN and multilateral aid organizations:
- From UNDP (there’s a country project page, you might have to find English pages, though)
- More from UNDP (all their projects)
- International Labor Organization (Gender and Development page)
- Women and gender projects from UNESCO‘s site
- UN Millennium Campaign
- UNIFEM (violence against women page)
- From the World Bank (There. I posted it. I need to go take a shower now …)
Governmental Organizations
- Case studies from the DFID (Dept. for International Development) in the UK
- Canadian International Development Agency (use their project browser)
- Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency
- USAID
Other
- Wikipedia’s appropriate technology page
- Appropriate Rural Technology Institute (ARTI)
- UN Women Watch (news/relevant issues)
- Women News Network (good for ideas)
- BRIDGE (provides research and information, based in UK)
- Practical Action (some great ideas for appropriate technologies)