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  • Karsten Weitzenegger
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    Recommended Websites in October 2009
    Child Migration Research Network
    http://www.childmigration.net
    The Child Migration Research network (CMRN) has been established to help assess the impact of migration on children and youth. The aim of the CMRN is to bring together researchers who look at how migration affects children and to highlight research work, especially that in grey literature or other hard to reach sources, that focuses on this area.

    CTA Weblog and weekly Newsletter
    http://brussels.cta.int
    CTA's new features include: A section where an invitee per week will comment some of the most burning development issues discussed in Brussels. A signpost for sharing, e-mailing and printing an article, links to the source for each news item. News categorised by thematic groups.Links to the Brussels Development Briefings and to the EC, ACP and other Brussels-based websites. Other features, such as the daily updated calendar of events, remain.

    dgCommunities is now Zunia - Knowledge Sharing and Collaboration Worldwide
    http://zunia.org
    Zunia is an online network for knowledge sharing and collaboration among development professionals worldwide. It covers extensive topic, collecting information from more than 200 development organizations. Together with its members, Zunia is aggregating reports and other information to help us all do a better job in aid and development.

    EU – China: Civil Society Forum
    http://eu-china.net
    The Site aims to make social, environmental and human rights objectives form the basis of the European-Chinese relations and to ensure that labour standards and additional social and ecological standards are adhered to in Chinese affiliated companies and suppliers of European enterprises.

    Eurostep website on EU Country & Regional Programming to ACP countries
    http://www.acp-programming.eu
    This website is a tool for civil society actors in ACP countries and in Europe to follow the discussions on the programming of aid to ACP countries under the 10th European Development Fund (2008-2013). Indeed the European Commission is currently programming aid to 78 countries in Africa, Caribbean and the Pacific. The aid programme covers 22.8 billion euros over the 5 year period.

    Experience Development
    http://www.experiencedevelopment.org
    The UK's most comprehensive development sector guide, providing information on the latest in development research, news, events and jobs.

    Global Entrepreneurship Monitor (GEM)
    http://www.gemconsortium.org
    The Global Entrepreneurship Monitor (GEM) is a not-for-profit academic research consortium that has as its goal making high quality international research data on entrepreneurial activity readily available to as wide an audience as possible. GEM is the largest single study of entrepreneurial activity in the world.

    ILO job crisis observatory
    http://www.ilo.org/jobcrisis
    The International Labour Organization (ILO), a has launched a website which will present the most relevant analysis and information on the impact of the economic crisis on the world of work, and on policy responses to the job crisis.

    Institute for Research and Debate on Governance (IRG)
    http://www.institut-gouvernance.org
    The Institute for research and debate on governance (IRG) intends to provide food for thought and help sharing approaches and experiences on governance One of the major objectives in this domain is to give rise to, confront and bring together new conceptions of governance which move away from the Western-based notions of ''good governance” and constitute a source of renewed proposals for regulating societies.

    International Aid Transparency Initiative (IATI)
    http://aidtransparency.net
    IATI will help those involved in aid programmes to better track what aid is being used for and what it is achieving – from the taxpayers in donor countries who provide the money, to those in developing countries who benefit from aid spending.

    New blog on the future international role of the European Union
    http://www.thebrokeronline.eu/en/regulars/blogs/Europe-s-Int...
    The decisions that are made in the autumn of 2009 will shape Europe’s international role in the future. The script that drives global policy making is being rewritten, in response to the financial crisis, climate change and global security challenges. Following the recent publication of an article on Europe's global challenges by Simon Maxwell, Paul Engel, Dirk Messner and Pierre Schori, the magazine the Broker has created a special blog to stimulate further debate on how the decisions made over the next three months can shape Europe's international role in the future.

    New website for Development Practitioners
    http://www.alternativedevelopment.net/
    A new website has just been launched aimed at experienced development consultants, as a forum for them to exchange their views and hands-on experiences of development projects. Alternative Development is not about the theories of development but about the often mundane matters on which success actually hinges, from basic project design faults, out-of-date assumptions, the procedures for winning donor bids, recruiting experts, engaging counterparts in change, straightjacketed project budgets etc.

    Northern Alliance for Sustainability / The Switch
    http://anped.org/theswitch
    The Switch covers various campaigns, new book releases, academic papers, policy processes and more. It takes a holistic and progressive approach to the sustainability debate and does not shy away from addressing controversial topics. The new Switch website is designed by Erol Hofmans. During the coming months, we will present more features and make the Switch your knowledge portal for sustainability.

    One World Action
    http://owa.netxtra.net
    One World Action is working to create the power and opportunity for the poorest citizens to transform their own lives, and to challenge the international policies that make and keep people poor.

    Portal of NGO national platforms for non governmental diplomacy
    http://www.ong-ngo.org
    This Forum aims at facilitating cooperation between national platforms and regional coalitions of NGOs at the regional, inter-regional and international levels through common advocacy and capacity building actions.

    PREVAL builds capacity in Planning, Monitoring and Evaluation
    http://preval.org
    PREVAL, a Regional Programme working in Latin America and the Caribbean, is an unique global platform working with (national and local) government institutions, project technical units, and rural organisations to build and strengthen their capacity to develop and implement Planning, Monitoring and Evaluation (PM&E) systems as opportunities to produce information to feed into decision making and learning.

    Rural Poverty Portal
    http://www.ruralpovertyportal.org
    Powered by the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD), the Rural Poverty Portal is a website where rural poor people, policy-makers, donors, research institutes, non-governmental organizations and other development partners can share information about eradicating rural poverty. Source: IFAD

    The Executive Agency for Competitiveness & Innovation (EACI)
    http://ec.europa.eu/eaci/
    EACI is an executive body composed by an international team of specialists on energy, transport, finance, environment, competitiveness and innovation from both the European Commission and the private sector.

    The MIX Market ™ - a global, web-based, microfinance information platform
    http://mixmarket.org
    It provides information to sector actors and the public at large on microfinance institutions (MFIs) worldwide, public and private funds that invest in microfinance, MFI networks, raters/external evaluators, advisory firms, and governmental and regulatory agencies.

    The World Economy
    http://www.theworldeconomy.org
    This web site aims at presenting our bestsellers The World Economy: a millenial perspective, it also presents its sequel The World Economy: historical statistics.

    United Nations site for the MDG Indicators
    http://mdgs.un.org/unsd/mdg/Default.aspx
    This site presents the official data, definitions, methodologies and sources for more than 60 indicators to measure progress towards the Millennium Development Goals. The data and analyses are the product of the work of the Inter-agency and Expert Group (IAEG) on MDG Indicators, coordinated by the United Nations Statistics Division. You will also find the official progress reports and documents produced by IAEG. Links to related sites and documents and constantly updated news will keep you up to date with the ongoing activities on MDG monitoring.

    WBI Launches New Website
    http://wbi.worldbank.org/wbi/
    Want to learn more about WBI's renewal strategy? Listen to Sanjay Pradhan, the World Bank's VP responsible for WBI, and read more about our innovative approaches to knowledge exchange and South-South learning.

    Web 2.0 for research, administration and teaching
    http://web2practice.jiscinvolve.org
    The Joint Information Systems Committee : http://www.jisc.ac.uk/ (JISC), an organisation which supports education and research in the use of information and communications technology (ICT), have launched a series of web2practice guides: to explain how emergent web technologies like RSS, microblogging and social media can enhance working practice. The guides and the resources used to create them can be downloaded: http://web2practice.jiscinvolve.org/downloads/, modified and shared under a creative commons licence.

    World Business Fair
    http://www.worldbusinessfair.com
    An International Trade Promotion Platform For Global Entrepreneurs & Professionals, running on NING.

    Weitzenegger's International Development Job Market
    http://www.weitzenegger.de/new/jobmarket.php
    Looking for a job in development cooperation? This Website gives you a list of professional opportunities around the world. Updated as you arrive. I am still working on updates, so come back soon.
    • 10 Oct 2009, 5:11 pm
  • Magnus Bucht
    Magnus Bucht
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    Re: Recommended Websites in October 2009
    Another very good website that was recently launched for people working with international development is PostAdjust. (http://www.postadjust.org) They work with practical support for staff and families based on where you are posted. The focus is on duty station in hardship locations, but also in locations such as Geneva. It's only open for staff working for an international development organization, but once you are a member, you can invite people you trust, such as your spouse, etc.
    • 11 Oct 2009, 1:58 pm