Online Databases and "Virtual Libraries" of Current Development Research
Agridea: Rural Development News, an information magazine for all those interested in subjects related to rural development. The site features articles from 1995 - present, available for download.
International Co-operative Alliance (ICA) unites, represents and serves co-operatives worldwide. ICA promotes and defends the co-operative identity and ensures that it is able to compete in the marketplace.
New Zealand Digital Library contains links to databases of several development collections including agriculture, health, environment and social issues.
oneworld.net combines the latest information from organizations promoting human rights awareness and fighting poverty worldwide.
PASCAL is an international observatory which promotes the exchange of best practice research, ideas and policies about place management, social capital and learning regions.
The Third World Network is an international network of organisations and individuals involved in issues relating to development, Third World and North-South affairs.
Organisations & Research Institutes
BRIDGE supports gender advocacy and mainstreaming efforts by bridging the gaps between theory, policy and practice with accessible gender information in print and online.
Institute for Development Policy and Management promotes social and economic development by enhancing the capabilities of individuals and organisations through education, training, consultancy, research and policy analysis.
Young Lives: An International Study of Childhood Poverty tracks childhood poverty through the lives of children in Ethiopia, India, Peru and Vietnam over a 15-year period. Publications include working papers, technical notes, policy briefs and country reports.
Community Problem-Solving Project provides strategy tools and program tools useful for problem-solving in the community or field. An excellent resource, it is part of an ongoing project launched at Harvard University and now based at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT).
The Faces of Exclusion, a micro-documentary series that uses audiovisual technologies and film documentary resources to illustrate situations of social exclusion.
Follow the money: A resource book for trainers on public expenditure tracking in Tanzania. Created by Hakikazi Catalyst, Research on Poverty Alleviation (REPOA) & Tanzania Gender Networking Programme (TGNP), (2008). With this toolkit local communities can track the inputs, outputs, and outcomes of particular government services, and determine the gender-specific distribution of benefits from those services.
Measuring Human Development: A Primer is a tool for those working on sub-national, national and regional Human Development Reports. Its guidelines and tools support the production of reports that support policy making and advocacy.
Monitoring and Evaluation News focuses on developments in monitoring and evaluation methods related to development projects and programs pertaining to social development.
The Story of Stuff, a video developed by Annie Leonard. This 20-minute film examines the real cost of our consumer driven culture.
Tools for Nonprofits provides links to a wide range of tools to strengthen organizations, ranging from management to fundraising.
Margaret McNamara Memorial Fund provides scholarships to women from developing countries who are enrolled in academic programs in North America.
The Resource Alliance builds the capacity of not-for-profit organisations to mobilise funds and local resources for their causes.
Scherer, L., with Raaber, N. (2009). WITM's compilation of Resource Mobilization tools. AWID's Where is the money for women's rights initiative has reviewed existing online resources and produced this document.
Urgent Action Fund, for women's human rights. The organization provides grants that enable strategic interventions and participate in advocacy and research.
The Virtual Foundation provides space for community development organizations seeking funding to post project proposals on the website for potential donors to read.