This collection of external links is a directory of organizations dealing with refugee, asylum and human rights topics or provide (country-specific) information otherwise useful for practitioners. The directory contains over 3000 links to relevant internet sources and has been compiled and organized by type of organization, topic/mandate, regions and countries they relate to. This additional service has been provided to facilitate research by providing a mechanism to access information that may be relevant for decision makers and is not as such included in Refworld.
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Afghanistan Investment Support Agency (AISA)
AISA has been charged with the responsibility to facilitate registration, licensing and promotion of all investments in Afghanistan. It concentrates on pro-active measures to attract industrial investment from both within and outside Afghanistan, thus generating employment and economic growth. Type: Governmental Organizations | Topic: Economic Issues |
Asian Development Bank (ADB)
The work of the Asian Development Bank is aimed at improving the welfare of the people in Asia and the Pacific through policy dialogue, loans, technical assistance, grants, guarantees and equity investments. Type: Regional Organizations | Topic: Economic Issues |
Business & Human Rights Resource Centre
News and reports about companies' human rights impacts worldwide positive and negative. Topics include discrimination, environment, poverty & development, labour, access to medicines, health & safety, security, trade. Type: Reference Information | Topic: Economic Issues |
CDC Development Solutions
"After the fall of the Berlin Wall, CDC Development Solutions - then known as Citizens Democracy Corps - was commissioned by the White House to assist in the development of private enterprise in transforming the economies of the former Communist Bloc." (from website) Type: Governmental Organizations | Topic: Economic Issues |
Centre for Poverty Analysis (CEPA)
"The Centre for Poverty Analysis is a professional service provider promoting a better understanding of poverty related issues in Sri Lanka. CEPA offers advisory and training services, based on applied empirical research to organisations and professionals working towards poverty reduction." (from website) Type: Research Institution | Topic: Economic Issues |
Department for International Development of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (DFID)
The Department for International Development (DFID) is the part of the UK Government that manages Britain's aid to poor countries and works to get rid of extreme poverty. Type: Governmental Organizations | Topic: Economic Issues |
Development Gateway Foundation
"Development Gateway is an international nonprofit organization with the mission to reduce poverty and enable change in developing nations through information technology." (from website) Type: Non-Governmental Organizations | Topic: Economic Issues |
ETUI-REHS Documentation Centre, Labourline
Labourline is the on-line catalogue of the Documentation Centre of the European Trade Union Institute for Research, Education and Health and Safety - ETUI-REHS. Type: Reference Information | Topic: Economic Issues |
Eurasia Foundation
"Eurasia Foundation is a privately managed non-profit organization supported by the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) and other public and private donors. Since 1992, Eurasia Foundation has invested more than $400 million through more than 8,400 grants and operating programs in Afghanistan, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Georgia, Kazakhstan, the Kyrgyz Republic, Moldova, Russia, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Ukraine and Uzbekistan." (from website) Type: Regional Organizations | Topic: Economic Issues |
European Centre for Social Welfare Policy and Research
The European Centre is a UN-affiliated intergovernmental organization concerned with all aspects of social welfare policy and research. Type: Inter-Governmental Organizations | Topic: Economic Issues |