Key reading on ex-ante Poverty Impact Assessment

14 March 2009 in ILO, Links, Methods, OECD, Poverty, Publications, Research

Promoting Pro-Poor growth: A Practical Guide to ex-ante Poverty Impact Assessment
http://www.oecd.org/document/…
This practical guide, developed by the DAC Network on Poverty Reduction (POVNET), is designed to help staff in developing countries and in aid agencies to plan and execute PIAs and to interpret their findings, the ultimate goal being to design and implement more effective poverty [...]

Networks you can use for poverty impact assessment

14 March 2009 in Development, Directories, Economy, Links, Methods, OECD, Poverty

African Parliamentary Poverty Reduction Network – (APRN)
http://www.parlcent.ca/africa/prnetwork/pr_network_e.php
The APRN was created in 2003 in response to demands by African parliamentarians for a network that would bring together Members of Parliament from all over Africa interested in central issues such as poverty reduction to discuss and share best practices, lessons learned and experiences in that area; as [...]

Websites you can use for poverty impact assessment

14 March 2009 in Crisis, Development, Economy, Employment, Links, Methods, Poverty, Research

BRIDGE – Gender and Poverty
http://www.bridge.ids.ac.uk/reports_gend_pov.htm
BRIDGE Gender and Poverty publications include summaries of key materials, good practice cases, lists of tools and checklists and key online resources.
British Library for Development Studies Subject Guide on Poverty
http://blds.ids.ac.uk/guides/pov.html
This Guide provides quick access to BLDS resources through pre-designed searches of the catalogue’s 150 000 plus records.
CROP Comparative Research Programme [...]

Websites of the Month June 2008

17 May 2008 in Development, Economy, European Union, Links, Migration, Remittances

Africa Progress Panel
http://www.africaprogresspanel.org
The aim of the Africa Progress Panel is to focus world leaders’ attention on making the most of the growing number of opportunities for progress in Africa. It will also comment on the challenges African governments, the G8 and other international partners face in meeting the commitments made towards Africa’s development.
AGEG Consultants eG
http://www.ageg.de
AGEG [...]

Websites of the Month

26 April 2008 in Development, Links

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Websites of the Month, April 2008

1 April 2008 in Africa, Development, Directories, European Union, Links, Networks

African Voices in Europe demand more effective aid for Africa’s poorest
http://practicalaction.org/?id=africanvoices
Practical Action has launched a new website – African Voices in Europe – to expose the failures of European aid and set out a new agenda for Improving aid for Africa’s poorest communities. African Voices in Europe exposes the failures of EC aid to reach [...]

Google.org names TechnoServe a Strategic Partner in International Development

11 February 2008 in Development, Links, Web 2.0

Google.org has also awarded TechnoServe a new multi-year grant of $3 million to expand the organization’s private-sector development efforts. The focus of the strategic partnership is to spur the growth of small- and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs), which are vital to ending the cycle of poverty in developing countries. SMEs create the bulk of new ideas [...]

Vaccinate your business against bad times

11 February 2008 in Links

You are an owner of a small or medium-sized enterprise or self-employed. You invest 15 minutes of your time. You gain a preventive screening of your business that might save you a lot of time and money in the future! This really is an official EC site. http://ec.europa.eu/enterprise/entrepreneurship/sme2chance/ewt/self_assessment.cfm

Directory of Research Centres at International Poverty Centre

11 February 2008 in Directories, Links, Research

The Directory currently covers 540 institutions doing research on poverty, inequality and development in 27 countries in Latin America and 200 institutions in 38 sub-Saharan African countries. This directory is an effort to strengthen links among research centres in developing countries and foster South-South Cooperation on poverty research and training. http://www.undp-povertycentre.org/site/CentreSearch.do

Intute: Social Sciences

11 February 2008 in Links

Intute: Social Sciences is the subject group of Intute that provides Web resources for education and research for the social sciences, including law, business, hospitality, sport and tourism. Intute: Social Sciences has been created by bringing together two of the Hubs of the Resource Discovery Network (RDN): Altis and SOSIG. In combining the resources and [...]