My Websites of the Month, September 2008

Websites of the Month

AfDevinfo - African Development Information Service
www.afdevinfo.com
AfDevinfo tracks the mechanics of political and economic development across Sub Saharan Africa. They draw together a diverse range of publicly available data and present it as an accessible and ever expanding online database.

Africa Commission, for effective development cooperation with Africa
www.africacommission.um.dk/en
The Africa Commission focuses on how to create more jobs and further economic growth in Africa in the years to come. The overall focus will be on youth, employment and economic growth. The Danish Government started this commission to put economic growth and employment in Africa higher on the international agenda. (Source: DCED)

African Foundation for Development
www.afford-uk.org
Over the next 3 years AFFORD will concentrate on supporting the African diaspora in the UK to contribute to wealth and job creation in Africa. It runs projects and programmes such as SEEDA (Supporting Entreprenuers and Enterprise Development in Africa) which seek to mobilize the diaspora and other partners to support and invest in sustainable enterprises, particularly SME’s, that will generate wealth and jobs and respond to the jobs crisis in Africa.

African University of Science and Technology in Abuja (AUST – Abuja)
www.aust-abuja.org
AUST was established by the Nelson Mandela Institution (NMI) in 2007 as the first of a Pan-African Network of Institutes of Science and Technology and Centers of Excellence located across the continent.

Association of African Business Schools (AABS)
www.aabschools.com
AABS's mission is to promote excellence in business and management education in Africa by supporting graduate business schools through capacity building, collaboration and quality improvement.

BizCLIR
bizclir.com
This site is a dynamic knowledge development and knowledge sharing tool to improve the impact of USAID's efforts on Business Climate Legal and Institutional Reform. The site will host information for development practitioners including: country assessments, best practices, publications, and expert opinions.

Business Climate Legal and Institutional Reform: USAID BizCLIR website
bizclir.com
This USAID site provides a dynamic knowledge development and knowledge sharing tool to improve the impact of USAID's efforts on Business Climate Legal and Institutional Reform. The site will host information for development practitioners including: country assessments, best practices, publications, and expert opinions. The goal is to share and capture information in this field from around the world and to become an active forum for sharing cutting-edge ideas.

Business Fighting Corruption
info.worldbank.org/etools/antic/index.asp
This website and the ''Fighting Corruption through Collective Action”guide are the result of an on-going collaboration of businesses and non-governmental organizations, led by the World Bank Institute.

Centre for Agricultural Resources & International Development
cefard.org
CEFARD is a not-for-profit, non-governmental, and humanitarian organisation in Toronto, Canada. CEFARD's mandate is to champion the course of global poverty alleviation through agricultural resources and developmental tools mostly in the developing nations of the world.

Centre for International Competitiveness
www.cforic.org
Founded in 2007, the Centre for International Competitiveness focuses on researching and exploring the competitiveness of economies and businesses. The Centre is also the home of the influential World Knowledge Competitiveness Index, European Competitiveness Index, and the UK Competitiveness Index series of reports.

CUIL
www.cuil.com
Cuil claims to be the largest search engine in the world, and that it searches three times as many pages as Google. Cuil is an old Irish word for knowledge. For knowledge, ask Cuil.

Enterprise for Pro-poor Growth (Enter-Growth)
www.entergrowth.com
Enter-Growth is a project of the International Labour Organisation (ILO), the Swedish International Development Agency (Sida), and the Sri Lanka Ministry of Enterprise Development and Investment Promotion. Its goal is to contribute to pro-poor economic growth and quality employment for women and men, through an integrated programme for development of micro and small enterprises. The Website has a good project library.

eponews.net News on Development & International Co-operation
www.eponews.net
eponews.net - the news & views channel of epo.de - delivers you with news (in particular from NGOs) and views on international development.

Euforic RSS feeds
www.euforic.org
As an existing subscriber to the Euforic News Flash, we invite you to subscribe to our Euforic Highlights. Follow this link to get a regular email alert. You can also sign up for our alerts in Dutch, French, German, Italian, Portuguese, and Spanish! You can also subscribe to news alerts from Euforic member organisations – follow this link .

European Development Co-operation to 2020 [EDC2020]
www.edc2020.eu
The EDC2020 project combines both research and communication aspects. Its aim is to encourage close collaboration between researchers and policy makers and therefore it enhances the co-operation with reputable European development research institutes. EADI, SID and others launched the project in June. To subscribe to the regular EDC2020 e-newsletter please visit www.edc2020.eu/21.0.html. Two working papers entitled European Development Co-operation to 2020: The Issues” and Energy and Development: Lessons from Nigeria” were published and available as a download.

Global Value Chains
www.globalvaluechains.org
The Global Value Chains Initiative seeks to develop an industry-centric view of economic globalization that highlights the linkages between economic actors and across geographic space. It is a multi-year effort to test and develop the GVC framework with the aims of creating greater analytical precision, intellectual impact and policy relevance. Our efforts include a research agenda, a publishing thrust, the development and dissemination of industrial upgrading handbooks for practitioners, and a series of intensive workshops convened to test and broaden the framework through interactions among network participants and with the broader academic, policy-making and activist communities.

globADVANTAGE - Center of Research on International Business & Strategy
www.globadvantage.ipleiria.pt/
The globADVANTAGE – Center of Research on International Business and Strategy in the Instituto Poltécnico de Leiria (globADAVANTAGE – I.P.Leiria) was created in 2007 as a research center for the study of international business and corporate strategy. Researchers focus on issues of importance to international trade, international investment, international strategy and global competitiveness.

Growing Inclusive Markets (GIM)
www.growinginclusivemarkets.org
The Growing Inclusive Markets Initiative has created a set of data, information and analytical products that will increase understanding of the markets of the poor, including existing opportunities and challenges.

GTZ: Promotion of Economic Development and Employment in Conflict and Post-Conflict Environments (PEECE)
tinyurl.com/4soqhu
Development interventions can help prevent, transform or overcome conflicts, but at the same time they can cause, trigger or aggravate conflicts. Since development interventions always have an impact on conflict – either positive or negative - Private Sector Development (PSD) in conflict or post-conflict situations cannot be planned and implemented in the same manner as in peaceful countries. This platform has been established as a dynamic space offering practical advice, tools and project examples to economic development experts working in conflict or post-conflict situations.

Guide to Sources of information for Sustainable Development
www.comminit.com/es/node/265632
This is a project of Avina Foundation and The Communication Initiative Latin America (CI LA), that aims to facilitate links between journalists/researchers and experts and social organizations in 22 areas of sustainable development. The guide is a directory that includes the name, contact data, and field of work of 634 social leaders and specialists in 23 Latin American countries.

IDRC: Competition and Development
www.idrc.ca/en/ev-119682-201-1-DO_TOPIC.html
This website demonstrates the importance of true and fair competition to sustainable development. The site provides an overview of competition law and policy in developing countries, results of IDRC-funded research, and the important lessons that have been learned. The slide presentations, short case studies, research reports, and online books also touch on issues of globalization, consumer welfare, cartels and monopolies, and trade liberalization.

International Initiative for Impact Evaluation
www.3ieimpact.org
3ie seeks to answer the enduring questions of development. Submit your own enduring question to enduring_questions@3ieimpact.org. Or make a submission to the 3ie blog. 3ie is supported by governments, NGOs, official development agencies and private foundations (List of 3ie members). More information on Joining 3ie.

International Initiative for Impact Evaluation (3ie)
www.3ieimpact.org/
3ie seeks to improve the lives of poor people in low- and middle-income countries by providing, and summarizing, evidence of what works, when, why and for how much.

International journal of microfinance and business development
practicalaction.org/?id=sed_journal
Enterprise Development & Microfinance (EDM) provides a forum for those involved in designing and running enterprise development and microfinance programmes in developing countries. EDM is essential reading for managers of projects, providers of technical assistance, consultants to projects, policymakers and staff of donor agencies.

International Poverty Centre Online Resource Centre
www.undp-povertycentre.org/theme.do
IPC is pleased to announce a new section on its website where you will find its publications organized by 16 thematic areas.

Joint Donors' Competence Development Network
www.train4dev.net
Train4dev is an open forum for donor agencies, currently comprising 17 donors: Australia, Austria, Belgium, Canada, Denmark, European Union, France, Germany, New Zealand, Norway, Sweden, Switzerland, The Netherlands, United Kingdom, United Nations, World Bank and ILO. The training course (www.train4dev.net/training-courses/allcourses.html) are for members exclusively.

J-STOR give free access to scientific journals
www.gdnet.org/JSTOR
GDN announces access to JSTOR to eligible registered researchers on the Knowledge Base. Through J-Stor, registered researchers can retrieve scanned images of journal issues and pages as they were originally designed, printed, and illustrated. Access is granted to Business, Business II and Arts and Science II Collections. If you are registered with GDNET, update your profile to activate access to JSTOR. Register at www.gdnet.org/register

London International Development Centre (LIDC)
lidc.bloomsbury.ac.uk
The LIDC is a unique collaborative project bringing together social and natural scientists and educators across the six Bloomsbury Colleges of the University of London. This project is designed to establish a collaborative, inter-disciplinary Centre to address complex problems in international development.

MDG Monitor
www.mdgmonitor.org
The MDG Monitor shows how countries are progressing in their efforts to achieve the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). With the 2015 target date fast approaching, it is more important than ever to understand where the goals are on track, and where additional efforts and support are needed, both globally and at the country level.

MFTransparency for transparency in microfinance
www.mftransparency.org
A non-government organization was launched in Jluy 2008 which will make public the interest rates charged by microfinance lenders.'' MFTransparency will be the venue for the microfinance industry to publicly demonstrate its commitment to transparency, integrity and poverty alleviation. MFTransparency will enable transparent communication between suppliers and consumers of microcredit products, as well as all microfinance stakeholders, by presenting information on credit products and their prices in a clear and consistent fashion.

Online Atlas of the Millennium Development Goals
devdata.worldbank.org/atlas-mdg/
Fancy new website by the World Bank on MDG progress.

ProFI Porgramme, Indonesia
www.profi.or.id/
ProFI is a comprehensive micro-finance program. The idea is to promote more accessible, affordable, and effective micro-financial institutions (MFIs) for low-income people.

Quick Impact Capacity Development and Knowledge Transfer Center
for Microfinance in Post-disaster Environments
quick-centre.or.id
The QUICK Centre is a knowledge sharing platform for the practitioners of microfinance in disaster surroundings. Here you will find the best practices and experiences on post-disaster microfinance support measures, microfinance as a disaster preparedness tool, disaster management for microfinance institutions.

Samea - South African Monitoring and Evaluation Association
www.samea.org.za
Samea strives to cultivate a community that will support, guide and strengthen the development of monitoring and evaluation as an important discipline, profession and instrument for empowerment and accountability in South Africa. Source: GTZ NEDAnews.

The African Diaspora Policy Centre (ADPC)
www.diaspora-centre.org
ADPC enables African Diaspora in Europe to connect more closely with the continent as a collective force. The thematic areas are Peacebuilding, Research, Expert Meetings, Training, Better Governance, Research, Expert Meetings, Migration & Development, Research, Expert Meetings and Brain Gain.

The Commonwealth Business Council (CBC)
cbcglobal.biz
CBC provides leadership in increasing international trade and investment flows, creating new business opportunities, promoting good governance and corporate social responsibility, reducing the digital divide and integrating developing countries into the global market.

The Wharton Africa Business Forum
www.whartonglobal.com/africa/index.html
Wharton takes a vigorous approach at identifying viable and attractive areas for investment and trade with Africa. Within the context of discussion about business opportunities, the changing economic and geo-political landscapes, and examples of success stories, we hope that our panelists and speakers will enlighten the audience on Africa's future, and how we personally can affect it both positively and profitably.

VeoSearch
veosearch.com
This is a search engine financing projects towards Sustainable Development through your online searches. Every search generates advertisement revenues. 50 % of these revenues are distributed to the charities presented on the site. They are engaged in at least one of the three main pillars of Sustainable Development: social work, environment protection or sustainable economics.