Cities Turning to Bicycles to Cut Costs, Pollution, and Crime - by Gary Gardner http://www.worldwatch.org/alerts/pr980826.html For safer streets, less congestion, and cleaner air, the bicycle is poised to become an integral part of urban transportation systems for the 21st century, says the Worldwatch Institute in a new report. Too often relegated to weekend jaunts and children's use, bicycles are emerging as a solution to some of today's most intractable urban problems. Contact Information: Gary Gardner, Senior Researcher WorldWatch Institute Telephone: 202.452.1992 x.521   Email: garygardner@worldwatch.org worldwatch@worldwatch.org Earth - Guardian Weekly supplement to 2002 Johannesburg summit http://www.guardian.co.uk/worldsummit2002/earth/ http://www.guardian.co.uk/ In this special report, the Guardian examines some of the most pressing issues of our time, from dwindling water supplies and rampant disease to the problem of feeding the planet's growing population. Top writers from around the world join the debate, giving their own solutions for a better future. Notable Feature(s): Expert perspective on water, poverty, health, climate change, inequality, food & trade, biodiversity, education, population, disasters, business, sustainable development, environmental tourism, and more. Contact Information: Email: patrick.ensor@guardian.co.uk Financing for Sustainable Development - WSSD Summit 2002 http://www.iied.org/pdf/wssd_ffsd.pdf http://www.iied.org Prepared in advance of the Johannesburg Summit 2002, this 88-page report from the International Institute for Environment and Development (IIED) provides authoritative perspective and detail on the challenges faced by any goal of global sustainable development. Contact Information: Tom Bigg, IIED, WSSD Coordinator International Institute for Environment and Development 3 Endsleigh Street London WC1H 0DD UK Telephone: +44 (0) 20 7388-2117   Fax: +44 (0)20 7388-2826 Email: tom.bigg@iied.org On the scrap heap? Better livelihoods for Bangladeshi waste pickers http://www.id21.org/society/s3bjr1g1.html This research report on the sustainable livelihoods approach (SLA) looks at Dhaka's waste pickers, most of them seven to fourteen year old boys, who collect and sell paper, plastics, glass, bones and metals from landfill sites, skips and street dumps. Most live on the streets or in slums where they have little access to infrastructure, a low status in society and an uncertain future. They work in the morning when pickings are best and as a result few attend school. The slum areas in which they live are at risk from fire, flooding and demolition. Seasonality charts prepared during focus groups indicated that life is particularly hard in the wet season and better after festivals when the quantity and quality of waste increases. In line with the holistic approach of the SLA model used by the UK Department for International Development, the study looked at the pickers' livelihoods from four related concepts: vulnerability (including trends, shocks and seasonality), livelihood assets (human, social, natural, physical and financial capitals), transforming structures (institutions and legislation which impacts their lives) and livelihood strategies and outcomes. Contact Information: Jonathan Rouse WEDC Loughborough University Leicestershire LE11 3TU UK Telephone: +44 (0)1509 222885   Fax: +44 (0)1509 211079 Email: J.R.Rouse@lboro.ac.uk The Value of Natural Capital - by Anil Agarwal http://www1.worldbank.org/devoutreach/winter01/article.asp?id=97 http://www.cseindia.org/index.html In the Winter 2001 issue of Development Outreach, Anil Agarwal (director of the Centre for Science and Environment - CSE) reports that it is a good thing that the economic value of natural capital is receiving greater attention, as environmental degradation is likely to be most devastating for the poor. He points out in the first citizens' report on the State of India's Environment – a unique participatory civil society exercise unparalleled anywhere in the world – that environmental destruction and social injustice go hand in hand in a poor country...that economic growth, when unmanaged, can easily lead to an increase in ecological poverty – the lack of a healthy natural resource base for safeguarding public health and local economies and their sustainability. Contact Information: Anil Agarwal The Centre for Science and Environment 41, Tughlakabad Institutional Area New Delhi 110062 India Telephone: 91-11-6081110   Fax: 91-11-6085879 Email: webadmin@cseindia.org World Development Report 2003: Sustainable Development in a Dynamic Economy http://econ.worldbank.org/wdr/wdr2003/text-17926/ http://econ.worldbank.org/wdr/wdr2003/ This report is the World Bank's contribution to an ongoing international dialogue on sustainable development. To make the report as useful and comprehensive as possible, the WDR 2003 team sought the views of a wide range of key stakeholders: government, civil society, academia, and the private sector world wide. Notable Feature(s): Large library of background papers; contact information for core team responsible for the report. Contact Information: The World Bank 1818 H Street, N.W. Washington, DC   20433 USA Telephone: 202.473.1000   Fax: 202.477.6391 Email: world_dev_report@worldbank.org Alliance - a quarterly magazine on funding civil society throughout the world http://www.allavida.org/alliance/alliancehome.html http://www.allavida.org/ Alliance is the leading magazine on the funding of civil society across the world. Published quarterly by Allavida, it tracks the latest trends and developments in civil society funding and provides expert analysis of these trends from northern and southern perspectives. Alliance is a unique forum for discussion and exchange of ideas between funders and funded. Providing comprehensive coverage of the challenges faced by NGOs and those who fund them, the quarterly stimulates new thinking on how these can be addressed and overcome. Each issue of Alliance includes a major feature providing in-depth coverage and different perspectives on a significant issue relating to civil society funding, for example, different models for making overseas grants or social justice philanthropy. Alliance's parent, Allavida, is an international development organisation, that works to enable local action. Its mission is to help people acquire the skills, knowledge, confidence and resources to lead local action and achieve constructive change in their communities. Allavida's main development programmes are in South East Europe, East Africa, and Central Asia. In each region Allavida's work encompasses grantmaking, training and mentoring, research and publishing, support for associations and networks, and convening seminars. Notable Feature(s): September 2003 issue on Social Justice Philanthropy; analysis on foundations' grantmaking and social justice; email news alert service. Contact Information: Alliance Magazine Allavida 55 Bondway London SW8 1SJ UK Telephone: +44 20 7735 8006   Fax: +44 20 7735 7608 Communication for Change: an in-depth study from MediaChannel.org http://www.mediachannel.org/atissue/development/ As coalitions around the world demand that sustainable development take priority over globalization, MediaChannel affiliates are using broadcast media to find local solutions to economic, political and social needs. This special report includes: A Rockefeller Foundation position paper on communication in development A report from the Deputy Chairman of the Australian Broadcasting Authority on the need for local programming Senegal's Youth Radio Airways of Peace in Cambodia Feminist broadcasting in Indonesia Australian Media vs. Aboriginal People Broadcasting for children's rights-from UNICEF List of MediaChannel affiliates communicating for change Notable Feature(s): Subscribe to weekly MediaChannel email updates; in-depth report on AIDS and the media. Contact Information: Danny Schechter, Executive Editor MediaChananel Email: danny@mediachannel.org editor@mediachannel.org Development OUTREACH http://www1.worldbank.org/devoutreach/ This initiative of the World Bank Institute aims to promote knowledge and learning for a better world. Development OUTREACH is a flagship magazine in the field of global knowledge for development which reflects the learning programs of the World Bank and presents a range of viewpoints by renowned authors and specialists worldwide. The magazine is designed to occupy a middle ground between the scholarly journal and the general interest magazine. Articles on complex topics are written in a transparent language accessible to the general reader. Notable Feature(s): Special Report, Spring 2001 on Gender Equality and Social Inclusion; Development News of World Bank initiatives supporting health, civil society, judicial capacity building, and youth; email update service; updated development news about World Bank programs around the world. Contact Information: Editorial Offices Rm. J2-139 The World Bank 1818 H Street, NW Washington, DC   20433 USA Email: devoutreach@worldbank.org Dialogue on Diversity tries to break barriers – by Samuel Autman, UNION-TRIBUNE Staff Writer, San Diego, California http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/solutions/1999/19991029-389-dialogue.html This innovative community program in San Diego attempts to provide a forum where barriers between people of every stripe and persuasion will break down. Black. White. Asian. Latino. Biracial. Male. Female. Young and old. Gay and straight. All have been invited to participate in a place where people are free to share their stories no matter how bitter or horrific, a place where people will listen without judgment. Contact Information: Bill Oswald and Ginny Uybungco (YWCA) Springfield College in Kearny Mesa San Diego, CA Telephone: 619.277.7155   Green Music in the Rain Forest - by Suzanne Charlé http://www.fordfound.org/publications/ff_report/view_ff_report_detail.cfm?report_index=365 http://www.panda.org/forests4life/workshop.cfm This Ford Foundation Report article (Fall 2002) describes a forest-saving project underway in Manaus, Brazil, in the heart of the Amazon. Under the direction of the Amazonian Workshop School for Fabrication of Stringed Instruments (OELA), a number of wood-working enterprises represent a small part of a larger effort to create a sustainable harvest of the great Amazon forest and to give employment to the region's burgeoning population. According to Rubens Gomes, founder of the workshop school, all the wood used at each site has been harvested in a sustainable manner and certified by the Forest Stewardship Council (F.S.C.) or is recycled wood. "Officially, there are 30 million cubic meters of wood cut in the Amazon annually," Gomes says. "Twenty million of this is wasted--sawdust, scraps, unwanted wood left to rot. And those are the official numbers. The motive of this school is to transform what is lost into things of value. Many people could do this--but there are no schools teaching carpentry in the Amazon." OELA is meant to help fill the void. But Gomes wants to do more. "The main objective is to produce good citizens," says Gomes, who, as a student, was influenced by Chico Mendes, the activist rubber-tapper slain in 1988. "If the kids only know how to make a guitar at the end of the course, we've failed." A number of organizations worked together for the successful development of Gomes's workshop school. Most prominent are the Institute for Management and Certification of Agriculture and Forestry (IMAFLORA), the Vitória Amazônica Foundation, the Brazilian Biodiversity Fund (FUNBIO), and the Agricultural Technical School of Manaus. Notable Feature(s): An additional story about the project by a former correspondent for The Financial Times and Business Week, Bill Hinchberger, the editor of the webzine BrazilMax (http://www.BrazilMax.com), based in São Paulo, Brazil. Helping Hand for Bangladesh's Poor - by Amy Waldman http://www.changemakers.net/library/temp/nytimes032503.cfm This March 2003 New York Times article profiles the success the Bangladesh Rural Advancement Committee (BRAC) has had since its founding in the years following independence for the country in 1971 and the development challenges still facing it and the people. Integrating human rights with sustainable human development - a UNDP policy document - 1998 Contact Information: United Nations Development Programme One United Nations Plaza New York, NY   10017 USA Natural Resource Perspectives http://www.odi.org.uk/nrp/index.html http://www.odi.org.uk/index.html Natural Resource Perspectives papers present accessible information on current development issues and are sent to a wide audience of policy makers, researchers and people working in the non-governmental sector. The initiative is part of the work of the Rural Policy and Environment Group (RPEG), which addresses the changing agendas of rural poverty reduction through research based policy advisory work and has had an extensive programme of publications and information exchange. The enterprise is under the umbrella of the Overseas Development Institute, Britain's leading think tank on international development and humanitarian issues. Notable Feature(s): Contact list for research fellows working on specific issues in many parts of the world. Contact Information: Public Affairs Overseas Development Institute 111 Westminster Bridge Road London SE1 7JD UK Telephone: +44 (0)20 7922 0300   Fax: +44 (0)20 7922 0399 Email: p.gee@odi.org.uk library@odi.org.uk Whole Earth Magazine http://www.wholeearthmag.com/ http://www.wholeearthmag.com/ArticleBin/ReviewsNew.html Published by Point Foundation, Whole Earth is the successor to the Whole Earth Catalog, first published in 1968 by Stewart Brand. Originally titled Co-Evolution Quarterly, the magazine was first published in 1974. When it appeared, it stood apart from other publications for its fresh, pragmatic and principled editorial purpose. It furthered social change and heralded new movements by introducing ideas such as the gaia hypothesis, watershed consciousness, whole system thinking, appropriate technology, and voluntary simplicity to readers. It featured many of the catalog's facets: access to information, book and tool reviews, essays, interviews with, and articles by seminal thinkers of the day. Today's Whole Earth magazine continues its challenging editorial path by addressing virtually all of the subjects of interest to those committed to achieving environmentally sustainable (rural and urban) communities, occupations, and development. Contact Information: Whole Earth Magazine 1408 Mission Avenue San Rafael, CA   94901 USA Telephone: 415.256.2800   Email: info@wholeearthmag.com World Development Report 2003: Sustainable Development in a Dynamic Economy http://econ.worldbank.org/wdr/wdr2003/text-17926/ Sustainable Development in a Dynamic Economy, the World Development Report (WDR) 2003, is the World Bank's contribution to an ongoing international dialogue on sustainable development. According to the report, in nearly 50 years, the world could have a gross domestic product of $140 trillion and a total population of nine billion people, up from six billion today. Without better policies and institutions, social and environmental strains may derail development progress, leading to higher poverty levels and a decline in the quality of life for everybody, according to the World Development Report 2003. Contact Information: The World Bank 1818 H Street, N.W. Washington, CO   20433 USA Telephone: 202.473.1000   Fax: 202.477.6391 Academy for Educational Development - Directory of International Subjects and Projects http://www.aed.org/ AED is an independent, nonprofit organization committed to solving critical social problems in the U.S. and throughout the world. Major areas of focus include health, education, youth development, and the environment. Contact Information: Academy for Educational Development 1825 Connecticut Avenue, N.W. Washington, DC   20009-5721 USA Telephone: 202.884.8000   Fax: 202.884.8400 Email: admindc@aed.org Achieving Sustainable Communities: Science and Solutions: A Report from the second National Conference on Science, Policy, and the Environment, December 2001 http://www.cnie.org/NCSEconference/2001conference/report/page.cfm?FID=1692 http://www.cnie.org/NCSEconference/2001conference/report/2001_conf_report.pdf Keynote speaker Donald Kennedy, Editor-in-Chief of Science magazine and former President of Stanford University, challenged participants to turn around the familiar axiom "Think Globally, Act Locally" to "Think Locally, Act Globally." He emphasized the need "for a kind of science that can help with both tasks — that is, can inform and guide good work at the meters-to-kilometers scale, and at the same time can help nations develop and implement policies that ensure sustainability." Notable Feature(s): Complete proceedings, case studies, and list of conference participants is available at the site and in a 72-page PDF document. Contact Information: National Council for Science and the Environment 1725 K Street, Suite 212 Washington, DC   20006 USA Telephone: 202.530.5810   Email: info@NCSEonline.org Africa Network for Environment and Sustainable Development http://www.rri.org/nesda/nesda.html Contact Information: N.E.S.D.A. P.O. Box 95 Guichet annex ADB Abidjan Cote d'Ivoire Telephone: 225.20.54.19   Fax: 225.20.59.22 Email: nesda@africaonline.co.ci Agricultural Intensification by Smallholders in the Western Brazilian Amazon: From Deforestation to Sustainable Land Use Balancing Agricultural Development and Deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon http://www.ifpri.org/pubs/abstract/abstr130.htm http://www.ifpri.org/pubs/abstract/abstr129.htm Two reports by different authors, Stephen A. Vosti, Julie Witcover, and Chantal Line Carpentier in the first case, and Andrea Cattaneo for the second. The reports are published in full-text format by the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI). Notable Feature(s): IFPRI. Contact Information: International Food Policy Research Institute 2033 K Street, NW Washington, DC   20006-1002 USA Telephone: 202.862.8177   Fax: 202.467.4439 Email: vosti@primal.ucdavis.edu Cattaneo@ers.usda.gov Amory Lovins http://www.rmi.org/ The Rocky Mountain Institute is an entrepreneurial nonprofit organization that fosters the efficient and restorative use of resources to make the world secure, just, prosperous, and life-sustaining. RMI does this by inspiring business, civil society, and government to design integrative solutions that create true wealth. RMI was established in 1982 by resource analysts L. Hunter Lovins and Amory B. Lovins. What began as a small group of colleagues focusing on energy policy has since grown into a broad-based institution with approximately forty full-time staff and a global reach. RMI brings a unique perspective to resource issues, guided by the following core principles: Notable Feature(s): Greening a Giant—RMI and its client Wal-Mart; Business Links. Contact Information: Amory Lovins Rocky Mountain Institute 1739 Snowmass Creek Road Snowmass, Colorado   81654-9199 U.S.A. Telephone: 970.927.3851   Asian Development Bank (ADB) http://www.adb.org/ ADB is a multilateral development finance institution dedicated to reducing poverty in Asia and the Pacific. Established in 1966, ADB is now owned by 59 members, mostly from the region with headquarters in Manila and 22 other offices around the world. To address crosscutting social concerns, ADB focuses on the human and social perspectives of development. Examples of crosscutting concerns are participation, gender and development, involuntary resettlement, protection of vulnerable groups, poverty reduction, environmental protection and management, and human development. In 2001 the Asian Development Bank launched the NGO Center under the leadership of Bart W. Edes to strengthen its cooperation with civil society and to better integrate the experience and knowledge of nongovernment organizations (NGOs) into ADB operations. Strengthening cooperation with civil society—and specifically with NGOs—is expected to improve the effectiveness, sustainability, and quality of services that ADB provides to its developing member countries. Notable Feature(s): Development Topics; excellent links within topic collections; publications. Contact Information: Asian Development Bank Headquarters P.O. Box 789 0980 Manila Philippines Email: information@adb.org Better Together http://www.bettertogether.org/index.htm BetterTogether is an initiative of the Saguaro Seminar: Civic Engagement in America at Harvard University. The Saguaro Seminar issued the report Better Together, in December of 2000, calling for a nationwide campaign to redirect a downward spiral of civic apathy. Warning that the national stockpile of "social capital" – our reserve of personal bonds and fellowship – is seriously depleted, the report outlined the framework for sustained, broad-based social change to restore America's civic virtue. Launched by Harvard University's John F. Kennedy School of Government, the Saguaro Seminar drew its 30 participants from academia, the arts, clergy, business and the top leaders and policymakers of both major political parties. Saguaro members studied the essential character of public participation in their effort to develop remedies to redirect a decades-long decline. Notable Feature(s): The Better Together report in PDF to download for free; list of 150 Ways to build social capital and an invitation to participate with the Saguaro Project in helping the list to grow. Contact Information: The Saguaro Seminar Kennedy School of Government Harvard University 79 JFK Street Cambridge, MA   02138 USA Telephone: 617.495.1148   Fax: 617.495.1589 Email: saguaro@ksg.harvard.edu Both ENDS http://www.bothends.org/ http://bothends.geenpunt.nl/encycl/encycl.html Both ENDS supports the work of environmental organisations, primarily in the so-called South (developing countries) and the Central and Eastern European (CEE) countries. The core of its activities is in making connections, between South and North, environment and development, and between different sectors of society. Both ENDS particularly supports (1) environmental initiatives which - born locally - can have an impact globally; (2) viable alternatives capable of inspiring others, rooted in local peoples' knowledge and managed bottom-up; and (3) alternatives which can compete with - or even emulate - mainstream projects. Communicating about these initiatives - collected in the interactive Encyclopedia of Sustainability is central to Both ENDS' work. The Encyclopedia is a collaborative and ever-expanding online collection of innovative, people-oriented environmental initiatives and a meeting place to exchange experiences and viewpoints. Notable Feature(s): An online newsletter (also available in hardcopy)- the Encyclopedia of Sustainability NEWS includes on-going debates, reader opinions and state-of-the-art analyses of key sectors; Both ENDS produces funding guides, research and lobby documents, supports campaigns and helps build coalitions; its service desk offers information packs on environmental topics, helps fund-seeking organisations in locating donors, and assists in identifying the right expertise or partner; general and thematic links. Contact Information: Huub Kistermann, Editor Both ENDS Damrak 28 - 30 1012 LI Amsterdam The Netherlands Telephone: 31 20 623 08 23   Fax: 31 20 620 80 49 Email: webmaster@bothends.org, encyclopedia@bothends.org, info@bothends.org Boundary Crossers - Community Leadership for a Global Age by Neal Peirce and Curtis Johnson http://academy.umd.edu/Publications/Boundary/contents.htm "This pioneering report by Neal Peirce and Curtis Johnson gives a vivid sense of what is happening in metropolitan America and provides hope for the future of our communities. The Peirce-Johnson report is a valuable learning tool for community builders designed to help sharpen the skills of citizen leaders in every sector. Peirce and Johnson draw from their extensive knowledge of the cities of this country, as well as from the in-depth case studies compiled for this project, to give us ten important lessons for community builders and to suggest ways to develop new strategies for dealing with the challenges that face our communities." - John W. Gardner Calvert Foundation http://www.calvertfoundation.org/cdg/index.html The Calvert Social Investment Foundation (Calvert Foundation) was established with a simple goal: to help end poverty through investment. It serves as a facility for individuals and institutions, seeking to place capital on softer terms to finance affordable homes, fund small and micro businesses and to make available essential community services. Calvert Foundation works in disadvantaged communities with local partner non-profits that use common sense and compassion to provide the investment capital people need to work themselves out of poverty. Calvert Foundation lends to community development financial institutions (CDFI), and other organizations, including community development corporations, community loan funds, community banks and credit unions, social enterprises and micro finance institutions. Notable Feature(s): Profiles of Calvert's portfolio of investments: organizations working for social change; background philosophy of philanthropy and the field of socially-responsible investment. Contact Information: Calvert Foundation 4550 Montgomery Avenue Bethesda, MD   20814 USA Telephone: 800.248.0337   Email: foundation@calvert.com Catalytic Communities http://www.catcomm.org/index.html http://www.catcomm.org/english/infoshare.htm Catalytic Communities is a not-for-profit organization founded in 2000 to build an international inventory of innovative grassroots projects to empower and improve the lives of low-income communities. Its aim is to assist communities worldwide in their efforts to access "best practices" information and networks that enable them to develop their own creative potential to solve local problems. Notable Feature(s): The ISD or Innovative Solutions Database of practices in business and the economy, community-building, culture & leisure, education & skill-building, environment, health, infrastructure, violence & crime; worldwide volunteer staff of activists, community organizers, translators, international development and policy experts; site resources in Spanish and Portuguese; offices in Washington, DC and in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil; the Catalytic Communities Journal of articles and dialogue related to low-income community-building. Contact Information: Theresa Williamson, Founder and Executive Director Catalytic Communities P.O. Box 42010 Washington, DC   20015 USA Telephone: 202.318.3223   Fax: 202.318.3223 Email: catcomm@catcomm.org Center for Compatible Economic Development (CCED) http://cced.org/ CCED is a distinct unit of The Nature Conservancy, the world's largest private conservation organization. CCED works with communities to develop businesses, products and land uses that conserve ecosystems, enhance local economies and achieve community goals. CCED acts as the “research and development” arm of the Conservancy, incubating new strategies and tools for addressing conservation threats. Since it was established in 1995, CCED has worked with communities across the country, primarily Nature Conservancy field offices and their local partners, to create and implement new ideas for integrating environmental conservation with strategies for community and economic development. Notable Feature(s): Tools for sustainable community development; excellent collection of links. Contact Information: Center for Compatible Economic Development 7 East Market Street, Suite 210 Leesburg, VA   20176 USA Telephone: 703-779-1728   Fax: 703-779-1746 Email: cced@tnc.org Center for Development Communication http://www.cendevcom.org/ CDC is a consultancy group that specializes in working with development agencies to ensure that all aspects of communication are systematically addressed as part of social development programmes. This ranges from providing training in the area of communication and media skills for senior development agency representatives to undertaking consultancies provide technical assistance, proposal writing, feasibility studies, socio-economic analysis, market research, program monitoring and evaluation, impact assessments. The group can provide support in emergency situations as well. The group has expertise in reproductive health, rural development, child survival, environmental issues, and basic education. Notable Feature(s): CDC members have produced a certain number of articles, presentations and essays that can be either read at the site or requested by mail. Contact Information: Moncef Bouhafa Center for Development Communication P.O.Box 25228 Washington, DC   20007 USA Telephone: 301.765.0641   Fax: 301.765.2218 Email: mbouhafa@cendevcom.org Center for Neighborhood Technology (CNT) http://www.cnt.org/ The Center for Neighborhood Technology has a unique mission: To invent and implement new tools and methods that create livable urban communities for everyone. For CNT there is an emerging consensus about how to achieve this fundamental change. Under the rubric of "sustainable development," more and more citizens, governments, non-profits, and businesses agree that the challenge is to achieve a steady improvement in quality of life, while simultaneously improving environmental conditions. Notable Feature(s): Models of successful projects and programs that have worked in the Chicago area; online document archive. Contact Information: Center for Neighborhood Technology 2125 W North Avenue Chicago, IL   60647 United States Telephone: 773.278.4800   Fax: 773.278.3840 Email: info@cnt.org Center for Resource Solutions (CRS) http://www.resource-solutions.org/ http://www.resource-solutions.org/programs.htm The Center for Resource Solutions (CRS), based in San Francisco, is dedicated to promoting renewable energy and economic and environmental sustainability. CRS administers national and international programs that preserve and protect the environment through the design of sustainable energy strategies and technologies. Notable Feature(s): Green Pricing initiative; program of expert international assistance; details of other CRS programs in appropiate technology and renewable energy issues. Contact Information: Jan Hamrin, Executive Director Center for Resource Solutions Presidio Building 49 P.O. Box 29512 San Francisco, CA   94129 USA Telephone: 415.561.2100   Fax: 415.561.2105 Email: mlehman@resource-solutions.org Communications for a Sustainable Future (CSF) http://csf.colorado.edu/ CSF was founded on the idea that computer networking could be used to enhance communications with the objective of working through disparate views and ideologies to secure a more promising future. Notable Feature(s): Networking and links to useful categories: international studies, ecology and the environment, and service-learning; many discussion lists. Contact Information: Email: webmaster@csf.colorado.edu Community Building, Human Rights and Participatory Pedagogy - Paul O'Brien http://www.echoinggreen.org/newsroom/feature_articles.html Contact Information: echoing green foundation 198 Madison Avenue - 8th floor NY, NY   10016 USA Telephone: (212) 689-1165   Fax: (212) 689-9010 Email: general@echoinggreen.org Counterpart International http://www.counterpart.org/dnn/ Founded in 1965, Counterpart International is a nonprofit organization dedicated to building a just world through service and partnership. It gives people a voice in their own future through smart partnerships, offering options and access to tools for sustained social, economic and environmental development. Counterpart has helped forge strategic partnerships in the public and private sectors to help people improve the quality of their lives and revitalize their communities in more than 60 nations. Counterpart’s civil society programs work at the individual, community and institutional levels to: give citizens a voice in their own development; strengthen civil society organizations to better serve community needs; promote partnership and mutual investment in community development among NGOs, business and government; and foster civic engagement and advocacy for policy reform. Counterpart’s $90 million portfolio of civil society programs since 1993 has demonstrated an ability to work effectively in diverse geographic and cultural settings including Armenia, Belarus, Bulgaria, Georgia, the five Central Asian Republics, Russia, Ukraine, Vietnam, and Burundi. Notable Feature(s): Counterpart's success stories; Assessment of Afghan civil society in 2005. Contact Information: Counterpart International 1200 18th Street, NW Suite 1100 Washington, DC   20036 United States Deepalaya http://www.deepalaya.org/ In New Delhi, India, since 1979, Deepalaya has been committed to: Continue to identify with and work along the economically and socially deprived, the physically and mentally challenged – starting with children, so that they become educated, skilled and aware; Enable them to be self-reliant and enjoy a healthy, dignified and sustainable quality of life; Act as a resource to and collaborate with other agencies - governmental or nongovernmental, as well as suitably intervene in policy formulation. Notable Feature(s): Reports, newsletters, project descriptions and testimonials; work in education, computers, health, disability, street children, sanitation, women's rights, environment, AIDS awareness, literacy, savings and credit, gender equity, institutional care, and more; case study of the effectiveness of Deepalaya's work with slum children and ICTs. Contact Information: Deepalaya 46, Institutional Area, D Block Janakpuri New Delhi - 110 058 India Telephone: 91-11-25548263   Fax: 91-11-25540546 Email: info@deepalaya.org Development Initiatives http://www.devinit.org/ http://www.devinit.org/contents.htm The site aims to give easy access to a wide range of information and reports on poverty, aid and development. Contact Information: Development Initiatives Old Westbrook Farm Evercreech Somerset BA4 6DS UK Telephone: +44 (0)1749 831141   Fax: +44 (0) 870 0548727 Email: di@devinit.demon.co.uk Development Marketplace (DM) http://www.developmentmarketplace.org/ The DM mission is to create a marketplace of ideas, talent and resources that address development challenges. The Development Marketplace seeks to: Bring people together to look for new solutions that address poverty and create growth Encourage new partnerships across civil society, governments, private sector, and official agencies Find champions for new ideas that are likely to have the best development impact Build networks of innovators in development, both locally and globally Leverage resources across organizations Notable Feature(s): Information on submitting an application, past winners, including program descriptions, and DM program evolution and more. Contact Information: Development Marketplace Team Mail Stop MC8-802 The World Bank 1818 H Street NW Washington, DC   20433 USA Fax: 202.522.2042 Email: DM2001@worldbank.org Earth Island Institute (EEI) http://www.earthisland.org/ http://www.earthisland.org/wosh/ Earth Island Institute (EII), founded in 1982 by veteran environmentalist David Brower, fosters the efforts of creative individuals by providing organizational support in developing projects for the conservation, preservation, and restoration of the global environment. EII provides activists the freedom to develop program ideas, supported by services to help them pursue those ideas, with a minimum of bureaucracy. The World Sustainability Hearings (a project of Earth Island Institute) is a collective effort of dozens of environmental and social justice organizations around the world to give a voice to people not usually represented at high-level U.N. negotiations. Convening a citizens' court, the Hearings will present the real-life experiences of communities with "sustainable development" and the promise of the 1992 Rio conventions that equitable economic growth and an ecologically sustainable livelihood could be achieved jointly. Together with panels of scientific, religious, civic, labor, business, and political leaders, participants in the Hearings will make their own assessment of the 10-year history since the Earth Summit in Rio, alongside and in conversation with the "official" UN assessment down the road. Notable Feature(s): Useful collection of documents and background materials in advance of the 2002 World Summit on Sustainable Development (WSSD); The-Edge, cutting-edge environmental news and analysis; City Talk, a project to connect Africans and Americans. Contact Information: Earth Island Institute 300 Broadway Suite 28 San Francisco, CA   94133 USA Telephone: 415.788.3666   Fax: 415.788.7324 Email: astrid@wosh.org Earthscan - http://www.earthscan.co.uk Earthscan is widely recognized as the UK's leading publisher of books on environment and sustainable development. Its publishing aim is to increase understanding of environmental issues and their implications at all levels, from the local to the global, and to influence opinion and policy in ways that promote sustainable forms of development. Notable Feature(s): Excellent collection of links; online catalogue. Contact Information: Earthscan Publications Ltd 120 Pentonville Road London N1 9JN, UK Telephone: +44 (0)20 7278 0433   Fax: +44 (0)20 7278 1142 Email: earthinfo@earthscan.co.uk Enterprise Foundation http://www.enterprisefoundation.org/ As a catalyst for generating lasting community change, the Enterprise Foundation has assisted more than 940 nonprofit organizations in 200 locations nationwide to expand the opportunities for low-income people to move up and out of poverty and into the mainstream of American life. The entrepreneurial practices provide effective strategies for replication. Through its online resources, the Enterprise Foundation provides replicable, programmatic models and information to help nonprofit and others interested in community development save money and work more successfully. Notable Feature(s): Funding assistance for communnity development programs; Enterprise MoneyNet for information on funding sources for community development and related work. Contact Information: The Enterprise Foundation 10227 Wincopin Circle Suite 500 Suite 500, MD   21044 USA Telephone: (410) 964-1230   Fax: (410) 964-1918 Email: mail@enterprisefoundation.org Exnora International http://www.exnora.indiaa.com/ Exnora was founded in 1989 by M.B. Nirmal, who, during travels abroad, had seen efforts in Hong Kong, towards maintaining a clean environment, and wanted to achieve the same when he went home. Exnora stands for EXcellent NOvel and RAdical ideas and its main emphasis has been on the generation of innovative ideas and implementing them, so as to help transform the society. Over the years Exnora has grown from an anti-garbage campaign to a full-fledged peoples' movement for environmental protection and management. Its members have grown from a mere twenty to about three hundred thousand. The movement has grown by leaps and bounds and now encompasses several cities, towns and villages in the country. Indian Express has aptly quoted: "Exnora must be the fastest growing service organisation in the world." There are about 5,000 branches, 2,00,000 members and a 25,000 member youth force - all this in a period of 10 years. Developing countries like Sri Lanka, Bangladesh and Mauritius are keen on adopting several of Exnora's strategies for developing a clean, healthy living environment for their citizens. Notable Feature(s): Community initiatives; solid waste management; programs for young people; nature camps; waterways program; newsletter. Contact Information: M.B. Nirmal EXNORA INTERNATIONAL 42, Giriappa Road T. Nagar Chennai 600017 India Telephone: +91-44-8283366   Fax: +91-44-824 1688 Email: exnora@vsnl.com Future Generations http://www.future.org/ http://www.future.org/PAGES/1_INTRODUCTION/who_we_are.html Future Generations is an international school for communities sharing the knowledge and experience of how communities can change sustainably and equitably. Future Generations is now demonstrating this approach in China, India and Peru and teaching it worldwide through a graduate level degree program. Contact Information: Future Generations, Inc. HC 73 Box 100 Franklin, WV   26807 USA Telephone: 304.358.2000   Fax: 304.358.3008 Email: info@future.org Genevalink http://www.Genevalink.org/ Genevalink works for people who wish to promote innovative concepts and effective projects in the field of social development. Social progress initiatives may cover a multiplicity of domains: Innovation in combating diseases - water access – transportation - poverty alleviation – job creation - gender status - peasant life –youth opportunities – environment – children & old people – cultural enterprises - enlisting a city's population to improve the quality of urban life. Notable Feature(s): Genevalink Network; Genevalink Lab; Genevalink Media - all opportunities to provide input about practical experience in social development, best practices of every sort and stripe; an invitation to submit a report (300-500 words) on the viability, the efficiency, the transferability, and the sustainability of your contribution to social development, and to have it reported in the media internationally. Contact Information: Nance Upham Email: nance@genevalink.org Global Community Center http://www.globaldevelopment.org http://www.globaldevelopment.org/gdcservices.htm The Global Community Center on the Internet is a project of the nonprofit Global Development Center. It operates with a philosophy perhaps best expressed by Marion Wright Edelman, "Service is the rent we pay for being. It is the very purpose of life, and not something you do in your spare time." The Global Development Center is a non-religious, non-profit, non-political organization. It is a small humanitarian agency at work in partnership with people who need help in building a peaceful, economically secure life. GDC was formed by people who have been working with international donor agencies and non-governmental organizations for many years. The GDC established the Web site believing that the Internet is the best available tool for building a sense of global community. The GDC plan is to avoid the pitfall of so many global non-profits that use their Web sites as nothing more than "electronic brochures." Notable Feature(s): Email newsletter; GDC at Work: descriptions of a number of activities GDC has undertaken or hopes to undertake, including the latest, the Private Donor Program, which lets one create a project. Some of these are relatively small micro-projects; others, like Wiring Guatemala and shelter in Iraq (y en Español), are like the current Fight AIDS at Home project, and the past Hurricane Mitch Relief campaign, and Quilts Over Kosovo project are good examples of the opportunities GDC provides to get directly involved. Contact Information: Robert L. Adams, Executive Director The Global Development Center 1250 24th Street, NW Suite 300 Washington, DC   20037 USA Telephone: 202.467.8366   Email: media@globaldevelopment.org Global Trade Watch http://www.tradewatch.org http://www.citizen.org/trade/ Global Trade Watch (GTW) promotes democracy by challenging corporate globalization, arguing that the current globalization model is neither a random inevitability nor "free trade." Its work seeks to make the measurable outcomes of this model accessible to the public, press, and policymakers, while emphasizing that if the results are not acceptable, then the model can and must be changed or replaced. GTW works on an array of globalization issues, including health and safety, environmental protection, economic justice, and democratic, accountable governance. GTW is also a member of the Our World Is Not For Sale (OWINFS) network, a loose grouping of organizations, activists, and social movements worldwide fighting against the current model of corporate globalization embodied in global trading systems. OWINFS is committed to a sustainable, socially just, democratic, and accountable multilateral trading system. Notable Feature(s): Whose Trade Organization? - A Comprehensive Guide To the WTO by Lori Wallach and Patrick Woodall. This is a comprehensive and rigorous analysis of the nearly nine years' experience and track record of the World Trade Organization that reveals which elements of the WTO and its operating terms have led to U.S. job losses, the race to the bottom in wages, unsafe food, attacks on environmental and health laws, and burgeoning international inequality. Not content with a searing, reasoned look at the WTO and its evident failure to adhere to the "first-do-no-harm" rule of commonsense and wise decision- and policymaking, the report lays out a path of alternatives to ensure social justice for all and accountable making of priorities to maximize democratic, community involvement. Contact Information: Public Citizen 215 Pennsylvania Avenue, SE Washington, DC   20003 U.S.A. Telephone: 202.546.4996   Global Volunteer Network http://www.volunteer.org.nz/ The Global Volunteer Network (GVN) was launched in December 2000 by Colin Salisbury, founder and executive director, after spending time volunteering in Ghana, West Africa. While he was there, he saw the contribution volunteers could make in helping local organizations achieve their goals. Upon returning to New Zealand, he researched the different volunteer organizations around the world and discovered how expensive some and limiting many programs were in terms of volunteer opportunities. To help change that profile GVN aims to provide challenging and affordable volunteer opportunities around the globe. In 2003 the organization has volunteer positions available through partner organizations in China, Ecuador, Ghana, Nepal, Romania and Uganda. The GVN network continues to expand with new programs under consideration. Notable Feature(s): Program descriptions; monthly email newsletter, also archived; craft store. Contact Information: Global Volunteer Network Ltd. P O Box 2231 Wellington New Zealand Telephone: ++64 4 569 9080   Email: info@volunteer.org.nz Gramalaya http://www.gramalaya.org/index.php Gramalaya, a nonprofit organization in India, foresees a world where people will have equal rights and access to protected water, sanitation, health and improved income status without gender discrimination. Its mission is to encourage the oppressed people in the community especially women and children in getting justice, equality and participation in education, health, water and sanitation activities and to initiate actions towards upliftment of the economically and socially downtrodden through active participation in income generation activities. Notable Feature(s): Excellent collection of links. Contact Information: GRAMALAYA No.12, 4th Cross West Thillainagar Tiruchirappalli - 620 018, Tamil Nadu India Telephone: 91-431-2761263   Fax: 91-431-2761263 Email: gramalaya@hotmail.com Grameen http://www.grameen-info.org/index.html http://www.grameen-info.org/gfamily.html In 1976 when Professor Muhammad Yunus and his colleagues started giving out tiny loans under a system which later become known as the Grameen Bank, they never imagined that some day they would be reaching hundreds of thousands, let alone two million, borrowers. After some initial successes in fisheries and irrigation projects, Grameen became interested in expanding its work by getting involved in other busines in various new sectors. By this time, carrying out all these initiatives under Grameen Bank became unwieldy, and from 1989 Grameen began to establish new organizations. The fisheries project became the Grameen Fisheries Foundation. The irrigation project became the Grameen Krishi Foundation. The international replication and health program were put under the Grameen Trust. More initiatives and organizations followed, in due course resulting in the Grameen Family of Organizations. Notable Feature(s): Newsletter; Commonwealth speech for 2003. Contact Information: Grameen Bank Grameen Bank Bhaban Mirpur, Section-2 Dhaka-1216 Bangladesh Telephone: 8802-9005257-68   Email: grameen.bank@grameen.net Grassroots.org http://grassroots.org/do/Home Grassroots.org is a 501(c)3 nonprofit organization that serves other nonprofits and information consumers worldwide. Grassroots.org acts as a clearinghouse for the best tools and information to enable nonprofits and everyday citizens to conduct their charitable activities as efficiently as possible. Doing so ultimately helps more people and lessens additional suffering faster. It provides free Internet business services to charities, including full-featured Web hosting and e-mail services. The initiative also provides limited consulting to charities at no charge. In 2004 Grassroots.org envisions offering free legal services, free financial services, and free computer/technology consulting services through a network of volunteer social activists. Grassroots.org focuses on serving nonreligious organizations involved in education, environmentalism, humanitarian relief, fighting disease , homelessness, crime control, political freedom , government reform, consumer protection, youth issues, addiction, and other like-minded, non-legislative causes. Also in 2004, Grassroots.org will organize groups of ordinary citizens to communicate interactively online to focus on how citizens can collectively and proactively address issues of concern and urgency. Notable Feature(s): Building a Better World, One Domain at a Time, an article on Grassroots.org and founder and executive director Michael Mann (of BuyDomains.com), who is planning on changing the world slowly but surely by getting critical social facts to people throughout the world thanks to a clearinghouse of 600+ domain names targeting humanitarian purposes, e.g., Homeless.org, Relief.org, Addicted.org, Starvation.org and more. Contact Information: Grassroots.org Michael Mann Green Power Network http://www.eren.doe.gov/greenpower/home.shtml http://www.eere.energy.gov/greenpower/ The Green Power Network is a clearinghouse news and information service of the U.S. Department of Energy and is maintained by the National Renewable Energy Laboratory. Notable Feature(s): Extensive market and program profiles of businesses and communities taking leadership steps to develop renewable energy resources in meeting their needs for power; free monthly e-mail updates of new initiatives; marketing activities information and news about green power marketers, customers, products, product certification, pilot programs, regulatory issues, and reactions from environmental and public interest groups on the evolution of the new green power markets. Contact Information: Email: green_power@nrel.gov GreenBlue http://www.greenblue.org/ GreenBlue acts as a catalyst to transform the making of things... encouraging and enabling the widespread adoption and implementation of sustainable thinking and design. The nonprofit enterprise provides the theoretical, technical, and information tools required to transform industry into an economically profitable, ecologically regenerative, and socially empowering activity through intelligent design. GreenBlue began as a nexus of projects at McDonough Braungart Design Chemistry (MBDC), the private sustainable product and process design consultancy co-founded by American architect William McDonough and German chemist Michael Braungart in 1995. As a private-sector agent dedicated to social and environmental goals, MBDC has consistently allocated the majority of its profits to internal research and development that advance intellectual understanding and practical application of sustainable design principles. GreenBlue was founded in November, 2002 with the conviction that a nonprofit platform will allow broader leveraging of these assets into a comprehensive open-source system of resources for the widespread adoption of cradle-to-cradle principles. Contact Information: GreenBlue P.O. Box 2001 Charlottesville, VA   22901 USA Telephone: 434.817.1424   Fax: 434.817.1425 Email: info@greenblue.org Hazel Henderson http://www.hazelhenderson.com/ http://www.ethicalmarkets.com/ Hazel Henderson, founder, Ethical Markets Media, LLC and Series Creator and Co-Executive Producer of its TV series—Dr. Hazel Henderson is a world renowned futurist, evolutionary economist, a worldwide syndicated columnist, consultant on sustainable development, and author of Beyond Globalization, and seven other books. She and the Calvert Group developed the Calvert-Henderson Indicators, indexes for quality of life that go beyond traditional macroeconomics, examining aspects like education, employment, energy, environment, health, human rights, income, infra structure, national security, public safety, entertainment and shelter. Notable Feature(s): FORESIGHT article 21ST CENTURY STRATEGIES FOR SUSTAINABILITY; interview: The New Global Currency; Legacy magazine interview. Contact Information: Hazel Henderson P.O. Box 5190 St. Augustine, Florida   32085 U.S.A. Telephone: 904.826.1381   Fax: 904.826.0325 Email: admin@hazelhenderson.com Human Development Report 2005—International cooperation at a crossroads: Aid, trade and security in an unequal world http://hdr.undp.org/reports/global/2005/ This year’s UNDP Human Development Report takes stock of human development, including progress towards the Millenium Development Goals (MDGs). Looking beyond statistics, it highlights the human costs of missed targets and broken promises. Extreme inequality between countries and within countries is identified as one of the main barriers to human development—and as a powerful brake on accelerated progress towards the MDGs. Contact Information: Human Development Report Office 304 E. 45th Street 12th Floor New York, NY   10017 U.S.A. Telephone: 212.906.3661   Fax: 212.906.3677 Humanity Development Library http://www.humanitylibraries.net/ The objective of the Humanity Libraries Project (formerly known as Humanity CD-ROM Project) is to provide all persons involved in development, well-being and basic needs, access to a complete library containing most solutions, know-how and ideas they need to tackle poverty and increase the human potential. Contact Information: Email: info@humaninfo.org India Development Information Network (indev) http://www.indev.nic.in/ Indev is the British Council's initiative to address problems faced by development managers in accessing development information on India. The first of its kind in India, indev holds and disseminates information that is crucial for decision-makers, researchers, academics and development managers and act as a gateway to development information on India. Notable Feature(s): Current and wide-ranging Development News publication on community initiatives in appropriate technology, information technology, health, water, protection of girls, and more; major databases of organizations, instititions, and documents related to social development in India; excellent collection of related links. Contact Information: Neena Jacob The British Council 17, Kasturba Gandhi Marg New Delhi - 110 001 India Telephone: 91-11-371 1401   Fax: 91-11-371 0717 Email: indev@in.britishcouncil.org Indivisible: Stories of American Community http://www.indivisible.org/faq.htm http://cds.aas.duke.edu/ Indivisible is a national documentary project exploring community life in America today. Through photographs and recorded voices, Indivisible focuses on the real-life stories of struggle and change in twelve communities—from Delray Beach, Florida, to Ithaca, New York; from the North Pacific Coast of Alaska to Chicago's Southwest side; from the Rio Grande Valley in Texas to the Yaak Valley, Montana. In these places people are patrolling streets, building homes, reviving towns, protecting ecosystems, and otherwise finding ways to improve their lives and surroundings. Their compelling experiences, captured through the creative lens and on audiotape, provide the content for Indivisible, presented in a traveling museum exhibition, a touring free postcard exhibit, a book, and this Web site. The project also includes a guide for educators, a booklet for documenting community change, and major research archives. Indivisible is a project of the Center for Documentary Studies at Duke University in partnership with the Center for Creative Photography, The University of Arizona, and is funded by The Pew Charitable Trusts. Notable Feature(s): Putting Documentary To Work - A Guide for Communities, Artists, and Activists. Contact Information: Center for Documentary Studies Box 90802 Durham, NC   27708-0802 USA Telephone: 919.660.3663   Fax: 919.681.7600 Email: ehadler@duke.edu InfoChange http://infochangeindia.org/index.jsp This India-based site provides news, views, perspectives and debates on the development sector in India. Its strongest feature is an extensive collection of "stories of change" from the grassroots, where hundreds of individuals and organisations work to make a difference. Content for this site is sourced and written by InfoChange, an independent, ethically-driven and professionally-run enterprise set up to generate and disseminate information for change. Notable Feature(s): Articles on change and developments in poverty, corporate social responsibility, disaster, agriculture, the environment, health, population, children, women, livelihoods, and education; stories of changemakers. Contact Information: InfoChange C-2/201 Natashe Enclave, NIBM Road Kondhwa Pune 411048 India Telephone: 91.020.6854062   Email: infochange@eth.net infoc@vsnl.net Information for Development in the 21st Century (ID21) http://www.id21.org/ ID21 is a fast-track research reporting service backed by the UK Department for International Development (DFID). It aims to make policymakers and on-the-ground development managers aware of the latest and best in British development research findings. Online, in print and through the Southern media, ID21 showcases fresh and unusual research angles on social and economic issues that animate today's development thinking. The service offers hundreds of summaries of problem-solving around the world. Notable Feature(s): E-mail reports of current research and findings in health, economic and social issues, education, urban poverty, and gender violence; searchable archive; e-mail addresses, other direct contact details, hotlinks and printed sources, to ease the direct flow of knowledge and advice between researcher and research user. Contact Information: The Institute of Development Studies University of Sussex Brighton   BN1 9RE UK Telephone: +44 (0) 1273 678787   Fax: +44 (0) 1273 877335 Email: id21@ids.ac.uk Innovative financing for sustainability http://www.unepfi.net/ This UN site includes extensive development resources on financial incentives and analysis of environmental, sustainable, and entrepreneurial challenges and opportunities. Notable Feature(s): Financing Sustainable Energy Directory - A listing of lenders and investors - September 2002; Sustainable Venture Finance - An Expert Workshop on Sustainability Oriented Venture Capital and Entrepreneurship, November 2002. Contact Information: UNEP Finance Initiatives International Environment House 15 Chemin Des Anemones CH-1219 Chatelaine Geneva Switzerland Email: maguirek@unep.ch Institute for Local Self Reliance (ILSR) http://www.ilsr.org/ ISLR is a nonprofit research and educational organization that provides technical assistance and information on environmentally sound economic development strategies. Since 1974, ILSR has worked with citizen groups, governments and private businesses in developing policies that extract the maximum value from local resources. Notable Feature(s): The Home Town Advantage, a free bi-monthly e-bulletin about land use policies and other tools that can protect the character and vitality of one's hometown; The New Rules Project, that builds community by supporting humanly scaled politics and economics: These are the principles of "new localism" that call for viewing communities and regions not only as places of residence, recreation and retail but as places that nurture active and informed citizens with the skills and productive capacity to generate real wealth and the authority to govern their own lives. Contact Information: Neil Seldman - President Institute for Local Self-Reliance - National Office 2425 18th Street - NW Washington, DC   20009-2096 USA Telephone: 202.232.4108   Fax: 202.332.0463 Email: nseldman@ilsr.org Institute of Development Studies http://www.ids.ac.uk/ids/particip/ Contact Information: The Participation Group at IDS University of Sussex Brighton BN19RE, UK Telephone: +44 1273 606261   Fax: +44 1273 621202 Email: j.vaghadia@ids.ac.uk Institutional Assessment - strengthening organizational capacity http://www.idrc.ca/books/focus/771/ This book (from Canada's International Development Research Centre) is intended to assist both external and internal efforts to strengthen organizations and to provide a framework for documenting the effects of such efforts. Still at the formative stage, it is a working document for assessing institutional capacity: ready to be tested in a variety of situations, and readily adaptable in light of the testing. The framework presented in this book, once tempered through field testing, will move us towards three goals: helping IDRC be more effective in targeting its investments and in reporting on the results; helping our partners create and maintain institutions well adapted to serving the needs of the world's poor; and, on a global scale, adding to the tool kit available for making international aid more responsive to its intended beneficiaries. Contact Information: Terry Smutylo IDRC Offices Head Office (Ottawa, Canada) 250 Albert Street, 5th floor, Ottawa, ON   K1P 6MI Canada Telephone: (+1-613) 236-6163   Fax: (+1-613) 238-7230 Email: info@idrc.ca Intentional Communities http://www.ic.org/ Since 1994, the Fellowship for Intentional Community (FIC) has been a primary source of information on community life. Intentional Community is an inclusive term for ecovillages, cohousing, residential land trusts, communes, student co-ops, urban housing cooperatives and other related projects and dreams. Notable Feature(s): What's True about Intentional Communities, a report dispelling myths about the movement; Directory of intentional communities. Contact Information: Jillian Downey Fellowship for Intentional Community RR 1 Box 156-W Rutledge, MO   63563-9720 USA Telephone: 660.883.5545   Fax: 660.883.5545 Email: jillian@ic.org InterConnection http://www.interconnection.org/ http://www.interconnection.org/ngo/index.htm InterConnection is a nonprofit group that donates Web sites and computers and provides Internet training to organizations dedicated to benefiting the local community or environment in developing countries. Notable Feature(s): Directory of organizations' Web sites hosted by InterConnection; virtual and field volunteer Bulletin Board for global projects; resources on the Internet and developing countries, sustainable development, and ecotourism. Contact Information: InterConnection PO Box 3496 Eugene, OR   97401 USA Email: info@interconnection.org Intermediate Technology Development Group (ITDG) http://www.itdg.org/home.html Intermediate Technology (ITDG) is an international development agency and British registered charity which works with rural communities in Africa, Asia and Latin America. Its aim is to enable poor people in the South to develop and use skills and technologies which give them more control over their lives and which contribute to the sustainable development of their communities. Founded in 1966 by Dr E.F. Schumacher, author of Small is Beautiful, IT believes that sustainable development is achieved only if the participants in the process are its architects. It regards 'development' as a process of increasing people's economic power by improving their access to technologies appropriate to their skills, incomes and environments. Notable Feature(s): The Technical Enquiry Service (TES) draws on the expertise of programme and country staff. It is available as a free service to individuals and organizations everywhere. The main objective is to support local development initiatives through the supply of high quality technical information and professional advice on its use. Contact Information: Intermediate Technology Development Group Ltd The Schumacher Centre for Technology and Development Bourton Hall, Bourton on Dunsmore Rugby, Warwickshire   CV23 9QZ UK Telephone: +44 (0)1788 661100   Fax: +44 (0)1788 661101 Email: itdg@itdg.org.uk International Development Research Centre (IDRC) http://www.idrc.ca/ http://www.idrc.ca/institution/index_e.html This outstanding site from Canada's International Development Research Centre helps communities in the developing world find solutions to social, economic, and environmental problems through research. Notable Feature(s): Reports - Science from the Developing World; an extensive collection of specific research reports on every conceivable topic of interest to grassroots practitioners and policymakers around the world; global address list of IDRC offices. Contact Information: IDRC 250 Albert Street PO Box 8500 Ottawa, Ontario   K1G 3H9 Canada Telephone: 613.236.6163   Email: info@idrc.ca,mag@idrc.ca,reference@idrc.ca International Institute for Sustainable Development (IISD) http://www.iisd.org/ For development to be sustainable it must integrate environmental stewardship, economic development and the well-being of all people—not just for today but for countless generations to come. This is the challenge facing governments, non-governmental organizations, private enterprises, communities and individuals. The International Institute for Sustainable Development meets this challenge by advancing policy recommendations on international trade and investment, economic instruments, climate change, measurement and indicators, and natural resource management to make development sustainable. By using Internet communications, IISD covers and reports on international negotiations and brokers knowledge gained through collaborative projects with global partners, resulting in more rigorous research, capacity building in developing countries and a better dialogue between North and South. Notable Feature(s): Integrating Aboriginal Values into Land Use and Resource Management; vast collection of materials on communities and livelihoods. Contact Information: IISD Headquarters 161 Portage Avenue East, 6th Floor Winnipeg, Manitoba   R3B 0Y4 Canada Telephone: 204.958.7700   Fax: 204.958.7710 Email: info@iisd.ca Johannesburg Summit 2002 http://www.johannesburgsummit.org/ http://www.iisd.ca/wssd/portal.html This is the official site for the Johannesburg Summit 2002 – the World Summit on Sustainable Development. The summit will bring together tens of thousands of participants, including heads of State and Government, national delegates and leaders from non-governmental organizations (NGOs), businesses and other major groups to focus the world's attention and direct action toward meeting difficult challenges, including improving people's lives and conserving our natural resources in a world that is growing in population, with ever-increasing demands for food, water, shelter, sanitation, energy, health services and economic security. Notable Feature(s): News, background documents, and preparatory processes; more on WSSD from the IISD Linkages Portal to the Johannesburg Summit 2002. Contact Information: Johannesburg Summit Secretariat Division for Sustainable Development United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs Two United Nations Plaza, DC2-2220 New York, NY   10017 USA Email: dsd@un.org KnowNet Weaver http://www.knownetweaver.org/ KnowNet Weaver is a tool kit developed for communities, non-governmental organizations and individuals that want to host specific kinds of information and their local knowledge on the Internet. The aim is to spark a process of "knowledge networking" for sustainable development. KnowNet Weaver enables one to create an interactive Web site, give it a domain name and host it on the World Wide Web (WWW) absolutely free-of-cost using freeware or shareware available on the Internet. Notable Feature(s): Software for Web page designing, adding a search engine, registering a domain name, keeping count of site hits, and establishing a site guest book for comments and feedback. Contact Information: Vikas Nath KnowNet Weaver Email: nvikas@hotmail.com KnowNet@knownetweaver.org Livelihoods Connect http://www.livelihoods.org/index.html http://www.livelihoods.org/info/informationResources.html The purpose of Livelihoods Connect (a DFID initiative) is to facilitate the practical implementation of sustainable livelihoods approaches to eliminate poverty. Notable Feature(s): Toolbox for sustainable livelihoods; key documents on poverty eradication and other related topics, along with author/organization addresses; distance learning materials. Contact Information: Carl Jackson, Livelihoods Connect Manager Institute of Development Studies, University of Sussex Brighton BN1 9RE UK Telephone: +44 (0)1273 678 265   Fax: +44 (0)1273 621 202 Email: livelihoods-connect@ids.ac.uk Loka Institute http://www.loka.org/ http://www.loka.org/pages/others.htm The Loka Institute is a non-profit research and advocacy organization concerned with the social, political, and environmental repercussions of research, science and technology. A principal focus is community-based research, research by the people, and building a worldwide network for such work. "Loka" is derived from the ancient Sanskrit word, lokasamgraha, which means: unity of the world, interconnectedness of society, and the duty to perform action for the benefit of the world. Founded in 1987, the Loka Institute is a non-profit [501(c)(3)] research and advocacy organization concerned with the social, political, and environmental repercussions of science and technology. Loka works to make science and technology more responsive to social and environmental concerns by expanding opportunities for grassroots, public-interest group, everyday citizen, and worker involvement in vital facets of science and technology decision-making. Notable Feature(s): Identifying Democratic Technologies, Loka's project to develop participatory procedures for evaluating technology's social and political effects; publications, case studies, news, conferences, and links. Contact Information: Jill Chopyak, Executive Director LOKA P.O. Box 355 Amherst, MA   01004 USA Telephone: 413.559.5860   Fax: 413.559.5811 Email: Loka@Loka.org Man and Biosphere (MAB) Program http://www.unesco.org/mab/index.htm http://www.mountains2002.org/ UNESCO's Programme on Man and the Biosphere (MAB) develops the basis, within the natural and the social sciences, for the sustainable use and conservation of biological diversity, and for the improvement of the relationship between people and their environment globally. Notable Feature(s): World Network of Biosphere Reserves; Capacity Building programs; International Year of Mountains, 2002. Contact Information: UNESCO MAB Secretariat Division of Ecological Services 1, rue Miollis 74732 Paris Cedex 15 France Telephone: (33-1) 45 68 40 67   Fax: (33-1) 45 68 58 04 Email: mab@unesco.org NABUUR http://www.nabuur.com NABUUR.com is run by Stichting NABUUR, a Netherlands-based not-for-profit-foundation. NABUUR is independent of any government, political ideology, or religious creed. The dream is to give tens of thousands of local communities ("villages") in developing countries access to the resources they need to solve their problems. There are a great many local communities that would be capable of solving their own problems themselves, if only they had access to the right resources, resources that are available elsewhere in the world: information, existing solutions, expertise, ideas, manpower, money. NABUUR aims to bring "villages" all over the world into direct contact with people who live elsewhere and who want to help them. These people ("virtual neighbors") can help by finding the resources needed by the local community. NABUUR's ambition is to create a mechanism that will enable the problems of local communities to be solved on a scale that really matters. Notable Feature(s): Frequently Asked Questions on how to apply to be a village and what it takes to provide the virtual help needed; the villages already identified; the issues different villages are addressing; opportunities for providing best practice suggestions, resources, and other forms of help; NABUUR newsletter. Contact Information: NABUUR Foundation Noorderpad 4 8355 AP Giethoorn The Netherlands Telephone: +31 (0)70 3070553   Email: info@nabuur.com National Neighborhood Day http://www.neighborhoodday.org National Neighborhood Day inspires, builds, and sustains the neighborhood relationships that provide the foundation for civic action and the building of stronger, more caring, and effective communities. National Neighborhood Day was established as an annual day to recognize and reinforce the relationships that are the fabric of our communities. It is a day of simple gatherings of neighbors to rekindle friendships, welcome new neighbors, catch up on each others' families, interests and needs, and share food, fellowship and fun. Neighbors knowing neighbors improves neighborhood connections; connected neighborhoods lead to more effective communities; effective communities strengthen our nation as a whole. This ripple effect from our own neighborhoods to the larger world outside is what Neighborhood Day promotes. Notable Feature(s): Tools and templates for organizing and hosting a neighborhood gathering; online form for sharing one's experience, ideas, and pictures. Contact Information: National Neighborhood Day 275 Promenade Street Suite 300 Providence, R.I.   02908 U.S.A. Telephone: 401.454.3183   Email: info@neighborhoodday.org Natural Resources Institute (NRI) http://www.nri.org/work/disastermanagement.htm http://www.nri.org/homepage.html The Natural Resources Institute is an internationally recognised multidisciplinary centre for research, training and consultancy concerning the management of natural and human capital to support sustainable development world-wide. NRI integrates early warning, pre-disaster planning, food security and post-disaster aid to mitigate disasters and help recovery, working for a variety of key clients. Key actions for disaster management are: early warning, planning, preparedness, and food security and reconstruction, leading to a return to sustainable livelihoods Contact Information: Natural Resources Institute Medway University Campus Central Avenue Chatham Maritime Kent, ME4 4TB UK Telephone: 44 (0)1634 880088   Fax: 44 (0)1634 880066 Email: nri@greenwich.ac.uk New Economics Foundation (NEF) http://www.neweconomics.org The New Economics Foundation (NEF) works to construct a new economy centered on people and the environment. Founded in 1986, it is one of the UK's most creative and effective independent think tanks, combining research, advocacy, training and practical action directed at eliminating poverty and enhancing neighborhood development through micro-credit and other means. Notable Feature(s): Tools for measuring sustainable development; background on the Social Investment Task Force that has taken innovative approaches to revitalising Britain's poorest communities; extensive publications list. Contact Information: Bryant Goulding New Economics Foundation 6-8 Cole St London   SW1 4YH UK Telephone: 0207407 7447 Ext 244   Fax: 0207 407 6473 Email: Bryant.Goulding@neweconomics.org One Million Jobs Created By New Enterprise Law in Viet Nam - by Clare Arthurs http://www.undp.org/dpa/choices/2003/june/vietnam.html According to the Ministry of Planning and Investment, the Enterprise Law in Viet Nam has prompted a boom in private business since it was enacted in 2000. In just three years, about 55,000 new businesses have been registered, increasing the number of total private businesses to an estimated 70,000. It is seen by many as one of the most significant reforms in more than a decade in the country's development, including the recent decision of the Communist Party to recognize the right of Party members to also run private businesses. Overseas Development Institute (ODI) http://www.odi.org.uk/index.html ODI is Britain's leading independent think-tank on international development and humanitarian issues. Its mission is to inspire and inform policy and practice which lead to the reduction of poverty, the alleviation of suffering and the achievement of sustainable livelihoods in developing countries. ODI does this by locking together high-quality applied research, practical policy advice, and policy-focused dissemination and debate. It works with partners in the public and private sectors, in both developing and developed countries. Notable Feature(s): Research program areas; contact directory for staff working on every sort of development issue around the world, including migration, disaster relief, poverty, the environment, food security, cultural rights, crop diversity, and more; publications. Contact Information: Overseas Development Institute 111 Westminster Bridge Road London SE1 7JD UK Telephone: +44 (0)20 7922 0300   Fax: +44 (0)20 7922 0399 Email: odi@odi.org.uk Pacific Institute for Studies in Development, Environment, and Security http://www.pacinst.org/ The Pacific Institute for Studies in Development, Environment, and Security is an independent, non-profit center created in 1987 to conduct research and policy analysis in the areas of environment, sustainable development, and international security. Underlying all of the institute's work is the recognition that the pressing problems of environmental degradation, regional and global poverty, and political tension and conflict are fundamentally interrelated, and that long-term solutions require an interdisciplinary perspective. Notable Feature(s): Newsletter; descriptive materials on programs in climate change, biodiversity, community strategies for sustainable development and justice; press information. Contact Information: Wil Burns, Senior Associate/Director of Communications Pacific Institute 654 13th Street Preservation Park Oakland, CA   94612 USA Telephone: 510.251.1600   Fax: 510.251.2203 Email: wburns@pacinst.org PovertyNet http://www.worldbank.org/poverty/index.htm Hosted by the World Bank Group, PovertyNet is a comprehensive Web portal on information and reports on poverty around the world and myriad ways in which development projects can do a better job of alleviating the human tragedies, crises, and inequality stemming from it. Notable Feature(s): Information on health; collection of library materials, papers, and reports; newsletter. Contact Information: Email: PovertyNet@ForumOne.com povertynet@worldbank.org PRAHARI http://www.assampolice.com/prahari/index.htm Project PRAHARI is an initiative by the Assam (a northeastern state in India) Police for participatory development and people-friendly policing to fight social maladies and deprivation. The objectives of this project: Prevention of social conflict and delinquencies; Empowerment, knowledge accessibility, and capacity building of the underprivileged for vertical mobility; Social participation, decision-making and management of development; Foster community ownership of development; Building Social capital through inclusion by bottom up strategy in contrast to the "trickle down effect"; Reconnecting the individuals with community, and communities with the government and economy. At present there are 48 PRAHARI villages where the Community Management Groups (CMG) function in close association with the local police. Construction of community centers with locally available resources, plantation, medical education camps, and campaigns against social maladies and delinquencies are common features in these villages. Project PRAHARI is seen as a movement to make use of human potential for community development and establishment of a crime-free community, where the police has been recognized as one of the important stakeholders. Notable Feature(s): Fact Sheet focusing on unique activities in 48 PRAHARI villages. Contact Information: Kula Saikia IPS, Deputy Inspector General, Assam; Nodal Officer, Project PRAHARI , Assam India Email: kulasaikia@yahoo.com Rainforest Portal http://www.rainforestportal.org/ The Rainforest Portal is an Internet search tool that provides access to reviewed rainforest conservation news, information retrieval tools, and original analysis and action opportunities; including an annual assessment of the State of the Rainforests. The Rainforest Portal is a project of Ecological Internet. This site is dedicated to the complete protection of all remaining large rainforest in the world, an end to industrial rainforest development, and ecologically sustainable development for their inhabitants. Contact Information: Glen Barry, Ph.D., President Rainforest portal, a project of Ecological Internet, Inc. PO Box # 433 Denmark, Wisconsin   54208-0433 U.S.A. Telephone: (for media queries o   Email: GlenBarry@EcologicalInternet.org Reconnecting Youth & Community: A Youth Development Approach http://www.ncfy.com/Reconnec.htm Rural Development and Food Security: Towards a New Agenda http://www.odi.org.uk/past_meetings/summer2001.html This site provides a valuable collection of meeting notes and background information and policy/action papers and reports on rural development, agriculture, poverty, and sustainable development. Contact Information: Email: meetings@odi.org.uk Sarvodaya Village Development http://www.sarvodaya.org/ Sarvodaya Shramadana Movement is a people's development movement founded in 1958 in Sri Lanka. It has brought about grass-roots initiative, involvement and development of mind among thousands of village people in Sri Lanka. It is "development with a human face". Sarvodaya began as an educational experience in the mid-1950's, when a group of high school teachers in Columbo, decided to translate their convictions into action. They organized "shramadana" camps in which groups of students from relatively affluent urban homes gave up their vacations to share their resources, especially their time, thoughts and efforts, and work in the countries most backward and out-caste villages, whether Sinhala, Tamil, or Muslim. Dr. Ari Ariyaratne is the founder of the Sarvodaya movement. Contact Information: SSarvodaya Peace Movementarvodaya USA Damsak Mandira 98 Rawatawatta Road Moratuwa Sri Lanka Telephone: +94 7552 5335   Fax: +94 7552 5335 Email: gensa@sri.lanka.net SEEDS - Sri Lanka/Sarvodya Economic Enterprises Development Services http://www.seeds.lk/SEEDS%20home.htm http://www.swwb.org/English/1000/address/associates/add_assoc_srilanka.htm The origin of SEEDS lies in the 1950s Sarvodaya movement of Sri Lanka which empowered poor communities through a philosophy of sharing and mutual support. By the mid-1980s there was a feeling that the Sarvodaya societies should play a more active role in the economic lives of their members, and this in turn led to the birth of SEEDS in 1987. SEEDS' mission is to eradicate poverty by promoting economic empowerment for a sustainable livelihood. SEEDS has a dual strategy for credit delivery through a national-level loan fund and through the development of society-level revolving funds. All societies also provide small, short-term consumption loans. For the provision of financial services, interested people form voluntary groups of five to seven; these in turn form societies of 100 members at the village level. Before financial services are provided, the groups and societies must pass through the Sarvodaya system which emphasizes community service. SEEDS has three programs: The Rural Enterprise Program (REP) which provides credit and savings facilities to the rural poor through 18 district offices, and over 2,100 societies with a membership drawn from over 5,000 villages; The Rural Enterprise Development Services Program (REDS) which provides business extension, agricultural advice, and commercial linkage services. The effectiveness of SEEDS' business development services has been instrumental in helping rural households diversify their economic activities into high value-added product groups including horticulture and tropical fish; The Management Training Institute (MTI) which provides training to field officers and society office bearers. Through a network of district-based trainers, MTI delivers credit awareness and accounts training directly to client members. Notable Feature(s): Sarvodya Shramadana Movement of Sri Lanka. Contact Information: Shakila Wijewardena, Managing Director SEEDS 'Arthadharma Kendraya' 45 Rawatawatte Road Moratuwa Sri Lanka Telephone: (94) 1-75-558081   Fax: (94) 1-74-202393 Email: seedsrep@sri.lanka.net Selected Best Practices for Rural Poverty Reduction http://www.unescap.org/rural/index.htm http://www.unescap.org/ The Rural Development Section (RDS) of ESCAP strives to strengthen national capacity in the development of policies and programmes on rural poverty alleviation and sustainable agricultural development. Notable Feature(s): ; e-newsletter; news; economic and social research on Asia and the South Pacific. Contact Information: Poverty Reduction Section Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific United Nations Building Rajdamnern Nok Avenue Bangkok 10200 Thailand Telephone: 662-2881394   Fax: 662-2881056 Email: webmaster@unescap.org Social Capital http://www.worldbank.org/poverty/scapital/ Social capital refers to the norms and networks that enable collective action. Increasing evidence shows that social cohesion — social capital — is critical for poverty alleviation and sustainable human and economic development. Notable Feature(s): World Bank's database of abstracts of applications of social capital for sustainable social and economic development; Social Capital and the World Bank; social capital library, including calendar of events, extensive sources of information, videos, civil society and more. Contact Information: Email: povertynet@worldbank.org South-North Institute for Sustainable Development (SNISD) http://www.snisd.org.cn/enhtm/enindex.htm http://www.snisd.org.cn/default.htm The South-North Institute for Sustainable Development is a nonprofit NGO based in Beijing, China. Its mission is to carry out various research for laws, regulations and policy of environmental protection and sustainable development; promote the use of renewable energy, especially in Asia-Pacific. SNISD also focuses upon publicity, training, consulting and exchanges vis-à-vis environmental protection and sustainable development at regional, national and international levels. Notable Feature(s): Chinese language version of the site. Contact Information: South-North Institute for Sustainable Development Zhongshan Park, Tiananmen Beijing, 100031 China Telephone: 86-10-86521198   Fax: 86-10-86522198 Email: windflower@snisd.org.cn SRISTI http://www.sristi.org/ http://www.sristi.org/honeybee.html SRISTI, the society for research and initiatives for sustainable technologies and insitutions, is a non-governmental organisation in India set up to strengthen the creativity of grassroots inventors, innovators and ecopreneurs engaged in conserving biodiversity and developing eco-friendly solutions to local problems. Notable Feature(s): Excellent news page of innovations in grassroots problem-solving from leading journals and news sources around the world; The Right to Good Ideas; bibliography of online and PDF publications on traditional knowledge and practices and contemporary grassroots creativity and innovation, biodiversity, agriculture, natural resource management, intellectual property rights, and more; Honey Bee newsletter and database of local innovations by farmers, pastoralists, artisans, horticulturalists and others in the campaign for protection of Intellectual Property Rights of Grassroots level innovators. Contact Information: SRISTI c/o Prof. Anil K Gupta Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad 380015, Gujarat India Telephone: (91-79) 6324927   Fax: (91-79) 6307341 Email: info@sristi.org Sustainable Architecture, Building & Culture http://www.SustainableABC.Com/ The SustainableABC.com Web site provides information to the general public interested in sustainable and ecological architecture, building and culture and as an aid to locate environmental professionals and products. Notable Feature(s): Free newsletter about projects, energy efficient lighting, water, natural pest control, conservation, and more; interviews, including one on earth building in Thailand; eco-education programs and organizations. Contact Information: SustainableABC.com P.O. Box 41728 Santa Barbara, CA   93140-1728 USA Telephone: 805.898.0079   Sustainable Communities Network (SCN) http://www.sustainable.org The mission of SCN is to connect individuals and organizations nationwide to the resources they need to help make their communities environmentally sound, socially equitable, and economically prosperous. Notable Feature(s): Smart Growth Online, an initiative formed in 1996 when the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency joined with several non-profit and government organizations to establish the program. The Network was formed in response to increasing community concerns about the need for new ways to grow that boost the economy, protect the environment, and enhance community vitality. Its partners include environmental groups, historic preservation organizations, professional organizations, developers, real estate interests; local and state government entities. Contact Information: Email: info@sustainable.org Sustainable Community Development: Participation of the Poor in Development Initiatives - Taking Their Rightful Place - by Carolyn Long http://www.earthscan.co.uk/asp/bookdetails.asp?key=3383 Sustainable Development - European Foundation for the Improvement of Living and Working Conditions http://susdev.eurofound.ie/ Notable Feature(s): Tools database to help in the practical implementation of sustainable development policies; networks directory; publications, conferences on sustainable development; monthly newsletter; French version; links. Contact Information: Email: webmaster@calligrafix.co.uk Sustainable Development Gateway http://sdgateway.net/ The SDGateway integrates the on-line information developed by members of the Sustainable Development Communications Network. Notable Feature(s): Over 1,200 documents available on SD Topics; a calendar of events; a job bank; a roster of mailing lists(listservs) and news sites dealing with sustainable development. Contact Information: Email: sdcn@iisd.ca Sustainable Development Networking Programme (India) http://sdnp.delhi.nic.in/ This constantly updated Web site is a joint programme of United Nations Development Programme, Canada's International Development Research Centre and the Ministry of Environment and Forests in India. It provides practical information on projects around the world. Over the years, the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) has focused on impacting sustainable human development by creating and supporting the Sustainable Development Networking Programme (SDNP). A direct result of the United Nations Conference on Environment and Development (UNCED) or the Rio Earth Summit held in 1992, the SDNP has already linked together government organisations, the private sector, universities, non-governmental organisations (NGOs) and individuals in over 80 countries spread over Asia, Africa and Latin America through electronic and other networking vehicles for the express purpose of exchanging critical information on sustainable development. The section is a virtual repository of information on sustainable development and related topics. Information is collected and presented online on a range of topics : agriculture, biodiversity, biotechnology, climate change, forestry, energy, marine ecology, pollution, population growth, human rights, waste management, etc. The list of topics is constantly expanding to cover issues of significance in the coming years. The information presented in the resource section is compiled from various national and international sources, some of which are the partner linkages of the Sustainable Development Networking Program (SDNP), India. Notable Feature(s): Online volunteering; feature that allows for translating pages into German, French, Italian, Spanish and Portugese; Best Practices Case Studies; publishing opportunities for organizations . Contact Information: SDNP Secretariat Room 1023 Paryavaran Bhawan CGO Complex Lodi Road New Delhi   11 00 03 India Telephone: 91 11 436 2140   Fax: 91 11 436 1147 Email: sdnp@envfor.delhi.nic.in Sustainable Development Success Stories http://www.un.org/esa/sustdev/success.htm Contact Information: United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs Division for Sustainable Development United Nations Plaza, Room DC2-2220 New York, NY   10017 United States Telephone: +1 212/963 3170   Fax: + 1 212/963 4260 Email: dsd@un.org Sustainable Development.org - Information Nexus http://www.sustainabledevelopment.org/ This site is a resource center for that utilizes the latest in Intranet Web technology to provide a community-center atmosphere for the storing, searching and disseminating of sustainable development information. Contact Information: Email: info@together.org Sustainable Solutions - Building Assets for Empowerment and Sustainable Development http://www.fordfound.org/publications/recent_articles/sustainable_solutions.cfm These fourteen initiatives supported by grants from the Ford Foundation illustrate the growth of a global movement for social equity, environmental justice, and sustainable development. San Juan Nuevo, Mexico: A Purépecha Community Conserves Its Forests While Creating Wealth Los Angeles, United States: Communities Armed with Buckets Take Charge of Air Quality Karnataka, India: A Community Pools Its Resources to Restore Lands and Livelihoods Eastern Amazon, Brazil: The Xikrin Reclaim Their Forest and Culture Balayan Bay, Philippines: Community Marine Sanctuaries Restore Natural Assets El Salvador: Post-War Villages Rebuild Social Bonds and Natural Assets Limpopo Province, South Africa: The Displaced Makulekes Recover Community Land and Wildlife Assets Cairo, Egypt: Zebaleen Develop Incomes and Community froman Overlooked Urban Asset Oaxaca, Mexico: Organic and Fair Trade Coffee Growers Connect to Global Markets Hayfork, United States: A Community's New Enterprises Restore a National Forest Southeastern Zimbabwe: The Mahenye Manage Wildlife for Revenue and Economic Infrastructure Gujarat, India: A Nation's Communities Protect and Manage Their Forests British Columbia, Canada: The First Nations Reclaim a Temperate Rain Forest Acre, Brazil: An Amazon State Forges a Sustainable Future Tata Energy Research Institute http://www.teriin.org/ A dynamic and flexible organization with a global vision and a local focus, TERI was established in 1974. While in the initial period the focus was mainly on documentation and information dissemination activities, research activities in the fields of energy, environment, and sustainable development were initiated towards the end of 1982. The genesis of these activities lay in TERI's firm belief that efficient utilization of energy, sustainable use of natural resources, large-scale adoption of renewable energy technologies, and reduction of all forms of waste would move the process of development towards the goal of sustainability. Notable Feature(s): Excellent collection of case studies of innovation in various fields, including biotechnology, waste utilization, renewables, forestry and biodiversity; feature articles; news, publications, and more. Contact Information: TERI Darbari Seth Block Habitat Place Lodhi Road New Delhi 110 003 India Telephone: 91 11 468 2100   Fax: 91 11 468 2144 Email: mailbox@teri.res.in Television Trust for the Environment (TVE) http://info.tve.org/index.cfm An independent, nonprofit organisation, the Television Trust for the Environment (TVE) aims to act as a catalyst for the production and distribution of films on environment, development, health and human rights issues. Based in the UK but with very much a global focus, TVE uses broadcast television and other audio-visual resources - including the internet and radio - as its key platforms. It works above all to promote informed debate, new policies and practical solutions to the growing challenges of human development in the twenty-first century. TVE has offices in London, Beijing, Tokyo, Colombo, Calcutta and Seoul. TVE works by acting as a bridge - or broker - between organisations which want to get an issue aired (United Nations agencies, and international NGOs such as WWF) and the global television industry. TVE's skill is to take the seemingly complex priorities of the agencies it works with and turn them into television programmes that will attract audiences worldwide: to take issues like child development, primary health, poverty or desertification, and translate them into mainstream TV programmes - drama, 'soaps' and children's programmes, as well as documentaries - that focus on the human stories involved in sustainable human development. Notable Feature(s): TVE's Video Resource Network allows one to access TVE films from local regional distribution centres around the world and helps to finance productions in their own countries; Earth Report; reports and documents on impact of globalization; City Life. Contact Information: TVE Prince Albert Rd London NW1 4RZ UK Telephone: +44 20 7586 5526   Fax: +44 20 7586 4866 Email: tve-uk@tve.org.uk The Case Against the Global Economy and For a Turn Toward Localization - Edited by Edward Goldsmith and Jerry Mander http://www.earthscan.co.uk/asp/bookdetails.asp?key=3372 The greatest political debate of our time is about the blind rush towards a single global economy, its consequences for jobs, democracy, human well-being and cultural diversity, and its impact on the natural world that sustains us. In this book 24 leading economic, agricultural, cultural and environmental authorities, drawn from across the world, argue that free trade and economic gloablization are producing exactly the opposite results to those promised. From a detailed analysis of the new global economy, its structures and its full social and ecological implications, they show how it is undermining our liberty, our security and our well-being, and is devastating the planet. Contact Information: Earthscan Publications Ltd 120 Pentonville Road London N1 9JN UK Telephone: +44 (0)20 7278 0433   Fax: +44 (0)20 7278 1142 The Citizens at Risk: From Urban Sanitation to Sustainable Cities - by Gordon McGranahan, Pedro Jacobi, Jacob Songsore, Charles Surjadi and Marianne Kjellén Local environments such as cities and neighbourhoods are becoming a focal point for those concerned with environmental justice and sustainability. Taking a comparative look at cities in Africa, Asia and Latin America, the book examines: the changing nature of urban environmental risks; the rules governing the distribution of such risks and their differential impact; how the risks arise and who is responsible. The authors describe the most pressing urban environmental challenges, such as improving health conditions in deprived urban settlements, ensuring sustainable urban development in a globalizing world, and achieving environmental justice along with the greening of development. They argue that current debates on sustainable development fail to come to terms with these challenges, and call for a more politically and ethically explicit approach. Contact Information: Earthscan Publications Ltd. 120 Pentonville Road London N1 9JN UK Telephone: +44 (0)20 7278 0433   Fax: +44 (0)20 7278 1142 Email: earthinfo@earthscan.co.uk The Growing Role of Public-Private Partnerships http://www.weforum.org/pdf/un_final_report.pdf This World Economic Forum report (September 2005) calls governments to recognize the key role that partnerships with business can play in delivering education, health, and water sanitation services in poor regions of the world. The report examines the status and future promise of public-private partnerships, which are formed when a private company joins with a government, international agency or nonprofit group to work on a specific project. Contact Information: World Economic Forum 91-93 route de la Capite CH-1223 Cologny/Geneva Switzerland Telephone: +41 (0)22 869 1212   Fax: +41 (0)22 786 2744 Email: contact@weforum.org The Literature of Poverty: A Collection http://www.worldbank.org/poverty/povlit/index.htm http://www.worldbank.org/poverty/index.htm From PovertyNet (World Bank Group initiative), here is a collection of works from writers and poets of many cultures and many eras. Some emphasize the tragedy of poverty in striking the most vulnerable of society. Some describe long-perpetrated social and political injustices as contributors to poverty. Others write that poverty is a noble existence which shows the human potential for strength and spirituality in the face of hardship. Notable Feature(s): Voices of the Poor. Contact Information: Email: PovertyNet@WorldBank.org The Natural Step Strategy for Planning http://iisd.ca/business/naturalconcept.htm Contact Information: IISD Head Office 161 Portage Avenue East, 6th Floor Winnipeg, Manitoba   R3B 0Y4 Canada Telephone: 204.958.7700   Fax: 204.958.7710 Email: info@iisd.ca The People and Plants Initiative http://www.rbgkew.org.uk/peopleplants/index.html WWF International, UNESCO and the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew created the People and Plants Initiative in 1992 to carry out applied research projects, community workshops, exchanges and training courses with young ethnobotanists from developing countries interested in conservation and community development. Contact Information: Hew Prendergast Centre for Economic Botany Royal Botanic Gardens Kew Richmond, Surrey   TW9 3AE UK Telephone: +44.181.3325706   Fax: +44.181.3325768 Email: h.prendergast@rbgkew.org.uk Toronto CED Learning Network http://www.torontoced.com/links/ The goal of community economic development (CED) is to provide individuals and groups with the capacity to respond to the opportunities and challenges in their own communities. In an article in the national CED journal, "Making Waves", Michael Lewis described CED in the following way: Community economic development is a comprehensive, multi-faceted strategy for the revitalisation of community economies, with a special relevance to communities under economic and social stress. Through the development of organisations and institutions, resources and alliances are put in places that are democratically controlled by the community. They mobilise local resources (people, finances, technical expertise, and real property) in partnership with resources from outside the community for the purpose of empowering community members to create and manage new and expanded businesses, specialised institutions, and organisations. Community economic development involves initiatives that attempt to strengthen the community by building equitable and inclusive economies. Individuals from marginalised communities such as psychiatric consumers/survivors, newcomers, the long-term unemployed, women, the disabled, youth and ethno-specific communities face many challenges that cannot be addressed in the traditional economy. Community economic development organisations (CEDOs) work directly on these specific barriers with the communities to provide pathways back into general society. Notable Feature(s): Weekly e-newsletter; Contact Information: Terry Baker, Co-ordinator The Toronto CED Learning Network 2 Carlton Street, Suite 1001 Toronto, Ontario M5B 1J3 Canada Telephone: 416.351.0095   Fax: 416.351.0107 Email: cednetwork@cspc.toronto.on.ca UN Division for Sustainable Development (DESA) http://www.un.org/partners/civil_society/m-susdev.htm The Commission on Sustainable Development consistently generates a high level of public interest. Over 50 ministers attend the CSD each year and more than one thousand non-governmental organizations (NGOs) are accredited to participate in the Commission's work. The Commission ensures the high visibility of sustainable development issues within the UN system and helps to improve the UN's coordination of environment and development activities. The CSD also encourages governments and international organizations to host workshops and conferences on different environmental and cross-sectoral issues. The results of these expert-level meetings enhance the work of CSD and help the Commission to work better with national governments and various non-governmental partners in promoting sustainable development worldwide. Notable Feature(s): Excellent collectin of links, documents, and contacts. Contact Information: UN Division for Sustainable Development 2 UN Plaza, Room DC2-2220 New York, NY   10017 USA Telephone: 212.963.0902   Fax: 212.963.4260 Email: dsd@un.org United Nations Commission on Sustainable Development http://www.un.org/esa/sustdev/iwgcsd7.htm Contact Information: United Nations Division for Sustainable Development 2 UN Plaza, Room DC2-2220 New York, NY   10017 USA Telephone: + 1 212/963 3170   Fax: + 1 212/963 4260 Email: dsd@un.org United Nations Sustainable Development http://www.un.org/esa/sustdev/ Contact Information: United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs Division for Sustainable Development United Nations Plaza, Room DC2-2220 New York, NY   10017 United States Telephone: 212.963.3170   Fax: 212.963.4260 Email: dsd@un.org Utilizing Families as Resource for Change http://www.changemakers.net/library/fieldlink.cfm?field=Families A large collection of global resources focused on programs and possibilities for using families to lead social change and improve lives. Way Beyond - UN magazine for sustainable products http://unep.frw.uva.nl/ Contact Information: United Nations Environment Programme Working Group On Sustainable Product Development Nieuwe Achtergracht 166, J.H.van't Hoff Institute B-315, NL-1018 WV Amsterdam Telephone: +31 20 525 6268   Fax: +31 20 625 8843 Email: UNEP@UNEP.FRW.UVA.NL We the Peoples: 50 Communities Awards http://www.iisd.org/50comm/map/50_world.htm http://www.iisd.org/50comm/50_desc.htm More than fifty communities from throughout the world were chosen by an International Panel of Advisors as examples of citizens' initiatives which demonstrate success in ten categories of activity important to the United Nations. The Awards were part of a programme in honour of the 50th Anniversary of the United Nations undertaken by the Friends of the United Nations, a non-governmental organization. For purposes of this award, community was defined as "any group of people who share a common unity and have a sense of place". Recognizing that not all communities are rooted in a specific geographic settlement, those honoured include organizations and social movements whose efforts are directed toward developing a sense of community at a local, regional or global level. Contact Information: Nola-Kate Seymoar International Institute for Sustainable Development Winnepeg Canada Telephone: 204 487 0149   Fax: 204 487 0219 Email: nkseymoar@iisdpost.iisd.ca Web of Information for Development (WIDE) Initiative – Global http://www.undp.org/tcdc/wide Women and Population http://www.fao.org/WAICENT/FAOINFO/SUSTDEV/WPdirect/default.htm News, handbooks, and reports on best practices and action plans for: agriculture, gender equity, environment, food security and other issues. Contact Information: Food and Agriculture Organization of the U.N (FAO) Sustainable Development Department Viale delle Terme di Caracalla Rome   00100 Italy Telephone: (+39 6) 57051   Fax: (+39 6) 570 53064 Email: SD-Dimensions@fao.org World Bank Operations and Projects Programs http://www.worldbank.org/html.extdr/projects.htm Contact Information: The World Bank 1818 H Street, N.W. Washington, DC   20433 United States Telephone: 202.477.1234   World Hotel Link http://www.worldhotel-link.com/index.php World Hotel Link is the supplier of WHL e-marketplaces and provides technical, operational, and marketing support services to the community of e-marketplace operators (MPOs) who might otherwise be unable to have an Internet presence. MPOs are usually local hotel associations, tourism authorities or private sector companies in the tourism and ecotourism sector who share a common passion for and interest in the sustainable development of local tourism. The enterprise offers a unique online booking service to travellers and accommodation providers by marrying the best of what can be done locally (local knowledge, local relationships, respect for local environment) with best practices in global marketing, technology and information systems that are appropriate for use in all countries. The business has grown from a project initiated by the Mekong Private Sector Development Facility (MPDF) in 2002 to assist small and medium scale local accommodation providers to access the Internet. High costs and lack of skills had kept these providers in Laos, Cambodia, and Vietnam from leveraging the Internet to market their properties. The solution was to create a local e-marketplace in each case that would be able to share the costs, centralize the necessary skills and, most importantly, act as the interface between the local accommodation provider and the independent traveller. Notable Feature(s): Sustainable tourism case studies; resource library. Contact Information: Worldhotel-link.com Limited Unit 1206-7 12/F New Victory House 93-103 Wing Lok Street Central, Hong Kong China Telephone: 852 8303 1772   Fax: 852 8303 1773 Email: feedback@worldhotel-link.com World Resources Institute (WRI) http://www.wri.org/wri/index.html World Resources Institute (WRI) provides information, ideas, and solutions to global environmental problems. WRI's mission is to move human society to live in ways that protect Earth's environment for current and future generations. Its program meets global challenges by using knowledge to catalyze public and private action. Notable Feature(s): News and reports, including publications on Global Topics: agriculture and food, biodiversity and protected areas, business and economics, climate and atmosphere, coastal and marine ecosystems, energy and resources, forests and grasslands, population and health and human well-being, water resources and freshwater ecosystems; EarthTrends, the Environmental Information Portal. Contact Information: World Resources Institute 10 G Street, NE (Suite 800) Washington, DC   20002 USA Telephone: 202.729.7600   Fax: 202.729.7610 Email: front@wri.org World Summit Policy Briefs http://www.worldwatch.org/worldsummit/briefs/ http://www.worldwatch.org/pubs/sow/2002/index.html Leading up to the World Summit on Sustainable Development, the Worldwatch Institute will release a series of World Summit Policy Briefs, focusing on key issues at the WSSD. Each brief will highlight a critical topic or theme for the Summit, building on the recommendations and priorities outlined in the special World Summit edition of State of the World 2002. Contact Information: Worldwatch Institute 1776 Massachusetts Ave., N.W. Washington, DC   20036-1904 USA Telephone: 202.452.1999   Fax: 202.296.7365 Email: worldwatch@worldwatch.org Worldwatch Institute - magazine http://www.worldwatch.org/mag/index.html Contact Information: Worldwatch Institute 1776 Massachusetts Ave., N.W. Washington, DC   20036-1904 United States Telephone: 202.452.1999   Fax: 202.296.7365 Email: worldwatch@worldwatch.org WWW Virtual Library of Sustainable Development Links http://www.ulb.ac.be/ceese/meta/sustvl.html Contact Information: Centre for Economic and Social Studies on the Environment 44, Avenue Jeanne   CP 124 B-1050 Bruxelles, Belgique Telephone: +32-2-650 33.77   Fax: +32-2-650 46.91 Email: whecq@ulb.ac.be