Archive for June, 2006
links for 2006-06-29
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Secrets of “the ’stans,” lands of raw beauty and uninspiring governments, revealed with help from a Kyrgyz novelist and an expert on militant Islam.(tags: Central_Asia)
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(tags: Literature)
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Know When to Buy – Airfare Predictions: We help you decide if you should buy now or wait.(tags: Travel)
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It’s been suggested to us that we post ten simple switches you can make from Red to Blue. With the emphasis on “simple” or “easy,” a lot of categories are left out. It’s not easy to find Blue gas stations - Amerada Hess and Citgo are not everywhere. And y(tags: Leftism)
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Sacred sites are the most loved and visited places on planet earth. Since prehistoric times they have exerted a mysterious attraction on billions of pilgrims from every region and religion. These holy places have the power to heal the body, enlighten the(tags: Religion)
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Using information the government has collected on noise levels within London, a map has
been plotted of the capitals most silent spaces. The map intends to reveal a hidden
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Hedonists, rejoice! A couple of Columbia University researchers have found that in the long run, people tend to regret having missed out on opportunities for pleasure — and they wish they hadn’t been so diligent about working. What’s more, our attitudes(tags: Psychology)
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(tags: Photography Meteorology)
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A Moore’s law for razor blades?(tags: Fashion)
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Will Shortz’s crosswords are about to make him a word-nerd movie star. But Sudoku is making him rich.(tags: People)
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The appointment of the notoriously repressive judge Saeed Mortazavi to the United Nations’s new Human Rights Council is an international scandal, says Nasrin Alavi.(tags: Iran)
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New graduates of elite MBA programs flock to Wall Street during bull markets and start
their careers elsewhere when the stock market is weak. Given the transferability of MBA skills,
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The standard neo-classical model of wage setting predicts short-term effects of temporary labor
market shocks on careers and low costs of recessions for both more and less advantaged workers. In
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The e-Parliament is the first world institution whose members are elected by the people. It links democratic members of parliament and congress into a global forum, combining meetings and electronic communication. Organizations, companies, journalists and(tags: Democracy)
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Everyday, when Tehran wakes up.(tags: Iran)
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The European Coffee Resource
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Benjamin Disraeli and the politics of performance.(tags: UK Leadership_Studies)
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While dieters are accustomed to exercises of will, a new English translation of Germany’s most popular diet book takes the concept to a new philosophical level. The Nietzschean diet, which commands its adherents to eat superhuman amounts of whatever they(tags: Gastronomy)
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(tags: Musicians)
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What goes into the luggage of some of the world’s most peripatetic travelers?(tags: Travel)
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A fascination with bookshops leads Sarah Anderson to this invigorating city to start her promotional tour in search of the best way to explore a country - through the literature it inspired.(tags: Thailand)
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Elizabeth Gould overturned one of the central tenets of neuroscience. Now she’s building on her discovery to show that poverty and stress may not just be symptoms of society, but bound to our anatomy.(tags: Psychology)
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Below is a ranking of the most courteous to the least courteous — 35 major cities included in RD’s Global Courtesy Test. Figures reflect the percentage of people who passed in each city. When multiple cities had identical scores, they are listed in alpha(tags: Cities)
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Most travel magazines focus on destinations, offering tips on where to go, where to stay, what to do. We started World Hum in May 2001 because we wanted to focus not on destinations but on the journey, on travel in the broadest sense of the word.(tags: Travel)
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Inside Beijing’s global campaign to make Chinese the number one language in the world.
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Welcome to Marjorie Chan’s ChinaLinks at The Ohio State University! Online since 24 April 1996, we have, as of 12 May 2004, moved to the current site, ChinaLinks.osu.edu! When time permits, this site will be restructured, but for now, the structure from t
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The genre of “strategic studies”—the name given by jihadi ideologues to their books and articles on the strengths and weakness of the jihadi movement and those of its enemies—had, until recently, been neglected by Western governments and analysts(tags: Security)
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Every evening, as many as 40,000 children in northern Uganda hike for miles from their rural villages to shelters in town. These so-called night commuters are hiding from the Lord’s Resistance Army, a radical, religious paramilitary group that seeks to
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(tags: Middle_East Institutions)
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The U.S. Global Leadership Campaign is a broad-based coalition of nearly 400 businesses and organizations representing millions of Americans whose mission is to ensure continued global engagement and a robust U.S. International Affairs Budget.(tags: Lobbying Foreign_Policy)
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Andrew Sullivan on the harrowing new book “Oath Betrayed”, in which a medical ethicist documents how members of his profession got caught up in the abuse of prisoners.(tags: Human_Rights)
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The New Democrat Network wants to harness an “efficient market for progressive politics” to launch a new kind of political venture. But could progressive politics prevail in such a market?(tags: Leftism)
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If you want to know how the conservative message machine was built and what progressives can do to respond, just ask Rob Stein.(tags: Right_Wing)
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Conservatives begin to infiltrate the left’s last redoubt.(tags: Higher_Education Right_Wing)
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Info for over 2000 places in the UK covering Hook-up Spots, Skateboard Shops, Skateboard Spots, Record Shops, Musical Instrument Shops, Clothes Shops, Clubs (Dance Music), Music Venues, Cinemas, Arts Crafts & Head Shops, Games Shops, Bike Shops, Magazine(tags: UK)
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ChangeThis is creating a new kind of media. A form of media that uses existing tools (like PDFs, blogs and the web) to challenge the way ideas are created and spread.(tags: Ideas)
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Chicago Professionals for Youth (CPY) supports non-profit organizations throughout Chicago working with underprivileged youth. CPY makes direct contributions and outreach support to organizations and initiatives which service children and youth in the fol
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Jobs For Youth/Chicago helps young men and women from low-income families become a part of the economic mainstream; and, in the process, provides the business community with motivated job-ready workers. Jobs For Youth is a free program for teens and young(tags: Inequality Illinois)
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Urban Students Empowered Foundation (USEF) seeks to provide urban students with the resources and support to make higher education a real possibility.
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We examined the effect of an image of a pair of eyes on contributions to an honesty box used to collect money for drinks in a university coffee room. People paid nearly three times as much for their drinks when eyes were displayed rather than a control im(tags: Psychology)
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I have always liked Star Trek. I watched the original show in the 60’s, waited eagerly for the first movie in the 70’s, and then later in the 80’s got hooked all over again on Star Trek: The Next Generation. It has been good television, good science ficti(tags: Star_Trek)
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As older Seattle churches struggle to stay afloat, new churches are attracting urban hipsters with club-like venues, punk rock, and joke-filled sermons—and a social agenda that would make Jerry Falwell proud.(tags: PNW_Politics Christianity)
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It was all such fun until we realized that no business really uses game theory.(tags: Macroeconomics)
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Standpedia is wiki-style encyclopedia of controversy. It’s a place where tough questions are answered from a variety of perspectives, instead of a single ‘neutral point of view’. Standpedia users work together to build maps of controversial issues that e(tags: Ideas)
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60 years ago a Kiev’s area witnessed some of the most severe battles of WW2. Covered with earth from explosions the humans, arms and ammunitions were left on the battlefields. With entering this site, you will join me and my friends for visiting a histo(tags: Ukraine)
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On this website you can follow the debate that followed the paper presenting the Simulation argument. The original paper is here, as are popular synopses, and scholarly papers commenting on the first paper, and a reply to these comments.(tags: Philosophy)
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The page is scaled so that the smallest thing on it, the electron, is one pixel. That makes the proton, this big ball right next to us, a thousand pixels across, and the distance between them is… yep, fifty million pixels (not a hundred million, because(tags: Physics)
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The best comments ever seen on Slashdot.(tags: Communication)
links for 2006-06-28
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Since his election last year, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has become the public face of the Islamic Republic’s growing conservatism. But he’s not the only policymaker in the country. Around him, a sometimes fractious collection of leaders is(tags: Iran)
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Moscow surpasses Tokyo as priciest metropolis. Asuncion, on the other hand, is still a big bargain.(tags: Cities)
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Diggtrends is not a “digg clone” but it complements digg.com. Our main goal is to provide more insight of what & how we are digging.(tags: Research)
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You probably use Google everyday, but do you know… the Google Snake Game? Googledromes? Memecodes? Googlesport? The Google Calculator? Googlepark and Google Weddings? Google hacking, fighting and rhyming? In this book, you’ll find Google-related games(tags: Search)
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Librarians’ Internet Index (LII) is a publicly-funded website and weekly newsletter serving California, Washington state, the nation, and the world.(tags: Research)
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CREATE Foundation has been building philanthropy in Northeast Mississippi through its work with donors, nonprofits, and communities for more than 32 years, and possesses a distinguished history of highly effective community engagement. Within Northeast M(tags: Mississippi)
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Welcome to the Energizing Entrepreneurs website – home of the RUPRI Center for Rural Entrepreneurship and companion site for our book, Energizing Entrepreneurs: Charting a Course for Rural Communities, created in partnership with the Heartland Center fo(tags: Social_Entrepreneurship)
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The Government Innovators Network is a marketplace of ideas and examples of government innovation for policy makers, policy advisors, and practitioners. Through our content – news, documents, descriptions of award-winning innovative programs, and events(tags: Social_Entrepreneurship)
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The Roy and Lila Ash Institute for Democratic Governance and Innovation fosters excellence in government around the world in order to generate and strengthen democracy. Through its research, publications, curriculum support, global network, and awards pro(tags: Democracy)
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Since the mutual community problems of employment, education, health, housing, and transportation prevail throughout Northeast Mississippi, the Institute promotes area cooperation through a network of problem-solving activities. It sponsors seminars, symp(tags: Mississippi)
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How faith and a newspaper transformed a Mississippi community.(tags: Mississippi)
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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(tags: Social_Capital)
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The Saguaro Seminar strives to develop a handful of far-reaching, actionable ideas to significantly increase Americans’ connectedness to one another and to community institutions. The Saguaro Seminar is explicitly neither developing a civic engagement blu(tags: Civic_Engagement Social_Capital)
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World Education contributes to individual growth, strengthens the capacity of local partner institutions, catalyzes community and national development. World Education’s approach is characterized by a commitment to meaningful and equal partnership that is(tags: Education)
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An emotional debate about those untouched by the economic recovery.(tags: Japan)
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Process mapping is a workflow diagram to bring forth a clearer understanding of a process or series of parallel processes.(tags: Leadership_Studies)
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This topic in the Library provides comprehensive advice and materials for anyone who is considering starting a nonprofit organization. The reader can use the free information in this Library topic, along with other Library topics that are referenced later(tags: NGO)
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links for 2006-06-27
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Eldar left his native Kyrgystan for the United States in 1998, a boy of 11 with a slight grasp of English but an astonishing natural talent that immediately captured the attention of the jazz world. In the last seven years, with the support of his family,(tags: Musicians)
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Asharq Al-Awsat is the world’s premier pan-Arab daily newspaper, Printed simultaneously on four continents in 12 cities. Launched in London in 1978, Asharq Al-Awsat has established itself as the decisive publication on pan- Arab and international affairs,(tags: Media:Middle_East)
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A few places in Greater Boston and New York with a good reputation and an espresso focus.
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Welcome to the University of Mauritius. Your time at university will be one of the most exciting experiences of your life - a unique opportunity for in-depth studies into subjects that interest you and a chance to acquire knowledge and skills that are val(tags: Mauritius Universities:Foreign)
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The Government Web Portal is a one-stop-shop providing comprehensive information and delivering integrated services round-the-clock. It is made up of four sub-portals, namely, Citizen, Government, Non-citizen and Business.(tags: Mauritius)
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(tags: Jamaica Media:Caribbean)
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(tags: Yemen Media:Middle_East)
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MapAction specialises in the mapping of disaster areas and supplying geographical information for humanitarian relief operations. Using the latest geographical information system (GIS) technology we aim to produce instant, real-time maps of a disaster -(tags: Relief Asset_Mapping)
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(tags: Haiti Media:Caribbean)
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Prague Watchdog is an on-line service that collects and disseminates information on the conflict in Chechnya, focusing on human rights, humanitarian aid conditions, media access and coverage, and the local political situation.(tags: Chechnya)
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(tags: Media:Middle_East Morocco)
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ABC Asia Pacific is the Australian Broadcasting Corporation’s free to air international satellite television and online service, offering a rich and diverse range of information and general programming. ABC Asia Pacific is currently available in 10.2 mi(tags: Media:East_Asia Australia)
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BakuToday.Net is the Caucasus’ award-winning worldwide news site, providing readers in Azerbaijan and outside of the country with breaking Azerbaijan and Eurasia news coverage, as well as world, sports, entertainment and technology news.(tags: Azerbaijan Media:Central_Asia)
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The AGI exists to represent the interests of the UK’s geographic information (GI) industry; a wide-ranging group of public and private sector organisations, suppliers of GI software, hardware, data and services, consultants, academics and interested indiv(tags: Geography)
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The Czech News Agency (CTK) is the Czech national news and information agency trusted with providing objective and complex information for the free formation of opinions. The service is provided to other media, companies and individuals.(tags: Czech_Republic Media:Europe)
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The mission of Colombia Journal is to promote political, social and economic justice in Colombia by creating a greater awareness and understanding of U.S. foreign policy. To this end, Colombia Journal provides editorial analysis and investigative reports(tags: Colombia)
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The objectives of the ACS are enshrined in the Convention and are based on the following: the strengthening of the regional co-operation and integration process, with a view to creating an enhanced economic space in the region; preserving the environmenta(tags: Caribbean)
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Studies Without Borders is a non-profit organization. It was founded by a group of French students in 2003 in order to help their counterparts from war-torn societies come and study in western universities.(tags: NGO Higher_Education)
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The eXile is a Moscow, Russia-based English-language bi-weekly newspaper that was launched in 1997 by American journalist Mark Ames. He was joined soon after by Matt Taibbi. The newspaper quickly gained fame and notoriety, including a 4-page spread in Rol(tags: Russia Media:Europe)
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The aim of the FIDH is to obtain effective improvements in the protection of victims, the prevention of Human Rights abuse and the prosecution of those responsible.(tags: Human_Rights)
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The Chechnya Advocacy Network is a volunteer organization with a horizontal structure based on network groups and partner organizations in locations all over the US (see Our Structure). We are non-denominational, non-partisan and as an organization do not(tags: Chechnya)
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The Chechnya Justice Project is a groundbreaking initiative that utilizes domestic and international legal mechanisms to seek redress for ongoing human rights violations in Chechnya.(tags: Chechnya)
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The Forum unites representatives of civil society whose activities are directed toward assisting in the peaceful regulation of the situation in the Chechen Republic. Due to a certain fragmentation of these local forces, it is essential to work with a wide(tags: Chechnya)
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The Caucasus Times Agency is an independent, free and objective source of news and information with special focus on human rights and the rule of law in Caucasus Region. Network of correspondents embraces all regions of Southern Russia (Chechnya, Ingushet
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Chechnya Weekly is the foundation’s special coverage of the crisis in the breakaway republic. Its mission is to inform policymakers, the media, and the public of developments in Chechnya, discuss the origins of the conflict and explore the possibilities f(tags: Chechnya)
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Wrangling with customer service representatives is an art form, but you can do it successfully with a little knowledge and a stubborn streak.(tags: Business)
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A small but highly efficient killing machine lurks in the mountains of Japan—the Japanese giant hornet. The voracious predator pumps out a dose of venom with an enzyme so strong it can dissolve human tissue. Just a handful of these hornets can kill 30,0
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Saudia Arabia loosens press shackles, but religion and politics are still perilous topics.(tags: Saudi_Arabia)
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The last half-century was the age of the megacity. The next will belong to their smaller, humbler urban relations.(tags: Cities)
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The Inter-American Foundation (IAF) is an independent agency of the United States government that provides grants to nongovernmental and community-based organizations in Latin America and the Caribbean for innovative, sustainable and participatory self-he(tags: Latin_America)
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LatinFocus is the first stop for professionals seeking reliable business research information on Latin American economies. Since its conception in 1998, the LatinFocus website has become one of the fastest growing and most essential economic and financi(tags: Latin_America)
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The Latin American Venture Capital Association (LAVCA) is a not-for-profit membership organization dedicated to promoting the growth of the private equity and venture capital industry in Latin America and the Caribbean.(tags: Economic_Development Latin_America)
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(tags: Media:Latin_America Argentina)
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In this paper I sketch some sociological arguments about corruption. Recent literature is dominated by economic treatments that focus on identifying structures of incentives that make corruption more likely, and on assessing the impact of corruption on ec(tags: Corruption)
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The University of Minnesota’s Thomas Holmes Movie of Wal-Mart Store Openings, illustrating each store opening in the United States from 1962 to 2004.(tags: Geography:American Macroeconomics)
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Keith Ferrazzi needs two PalmPilots to keep track of all his contacts, people like Bill Clinton and Michael Milken. But there’s far more to cracking the inner circle of the power elite than just taking names.(tags: Social_Networking)
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This summary guide will help anyone build relationships and motivate others. My reinterpretations of the ideas in the book have eliminated redundancies and only presented the main ideas so that modern readers can better retain the information. I’ve also(tags: Psychology Communication)
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Today, the White House released its long-overdue National Security Strategy (NSS). Like the National Strategy for Victory in Iraq before it, the NSS is a pure public relations stunt that has little basis in reality.(tags: Security)
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China’s revitalization shouldn’t be understood as returning to the time centuries back when China was the dominant power in East Asia. Chinese people can be proud of their revitalization process, but shouldn’t have sentiments of ‘historical nationalism’.(tags: China)
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There is an informal and anecdotal belief among Americans that if you dig a hole deep enough, eventually you would come out in China. This is theoretically possible if the hole is angled in the right way, but if you dig straight down and through the exact(tags: Geography)
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The Earth’s Leading Authority on Conveying Coffee by Bicycle–Since 1996(tags: Coffee)
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Welcome to MyPyramid.org! USDA hopes the updated food pyramid, MyPyramid, will help to ease much of the confusion that has come from so-called “doctors” and “scientists” claiming that their independent, repeatable experimentation has shown red meat, proce(tags: Health)
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Because David Horowitz’s Guide to the Left is Just About the Frozen Limits of Silly(tags: Right_Wing)
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Movie Trailer Spoof of V for Vendetta. What happens in a futuristic world where the consumption of cookies is controlled by the government?(tags: Movies Television)
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Uncommon Business is a blog about people who make money online selling unusual, strange and sometimes bizarre things or provide curious services. This isn’t “One Hundred And One Ideas For Your Homebased Business” – only real, working businesses wi(tags: Business)
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The Soviet cartoon I watched in Bukhara, Uzbekistan.
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The Soviet animation series that I watched in Bukhara, Uzbekistan.
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The Arabist is dedicated to covering the politics and culture of the Arab world. It is published and maintained by Issandr El Amrani, a Cairo-based journalist, with contributions from journalists and researchers working in the region.(tags: Middle_East)
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The Washington Report on Middle East Affairs is a 100-page magazine published 9 times per year in Washington, DC, that focuses on news and analysis from and about the Middle East and U.S. policy in that region.(tags: Middle_Eastern_Studies)
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Friends of Morocco is a organization of Americans, mostly returned Peace Corps volunteers, with experience in Morocco and Moroccans in America united with an interest in promoting educational, cultural, charitable, social, literary and scientific exchange(tags: Morocco)
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BADIL Resource Center for Palestinian Residency & Refugee Rights takes a rights-based approach to the Palestinian refugee issue through research, advocacy and support of community participation in the search for durable solutions.(tags: Palestine)
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Arabs Against Discrimination is a non-governmental organization legally registered in France. AAD was established by a group of concerned Arabs with the aim of exposing and combating all forms of discrimination and racism which contravene human rights cov(tags: Civil_Rights Middle_East)
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The Arab Studies Journal is a peer-reviewed, independent, multi-disciplinary forum in the field of Arab and Middle Eastern studies. It is published by rising scholars affiliated with the Center for Contemporary Arab Studies at Georgetown University and t(tags: Middle_Eastern_Studies)
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AL JADID regularly publishes scores of reviews of the latest books on the Arab world and Arab America, across all scholastic disciplines. AL JADID’s book news and reviews extend also to books published in Arabic, as well as offering the latest overview of(tags: Media:Middle_East)
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The big hit in Kyrgyzstan in 2005.
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This video was played at the beginning of every bus trip leaving Mexico City.(tags: Mexico Spanish_Pop)
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The big hit in Mexico in 2005.(tags: Spanish_Pop)
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links for 2006-06-26
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Connecting experts to youth and youth to one another, worldwide.(tags: Education)
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This report describes the concepts and methods used to evaluate a regional capacity development project in Latin America, which aims to strengthen planning, monitoring, and evaluation in agricultural research organizations. The report outlines the procedu(tags: Monitoring Agriculture)
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This document, produced by the World Bank, presents checklists of key issues to consider in preparing an action plan for developing national/sectoral monitoring and evaluation capacities.(tags: Monitoring)
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The relationship between governance and development has risen up the international policy agenda. There is widespread agreement that governance matters - intrinsically and for improvements in economic and social outcomes. But what exactly is ‘good gove(tags: Donors)
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When working in relief and development projects, we often face situations others have encountered before us. Sometimes we ask around and consult a few colleagues for their opinions and advice. Other times we “jump in at the deep end” and do as best we can(tags: Relief)
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The Anguilla National Trust (ANT) Pelicans was established in 1993 to act as custodian of Anguilla’s heritage, preserving and promoting the island’s natural environment and its archaeological, historical and cultural resources for present and future gen(tags: Anguilla)
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The Ark offers to marginalized, abused, and victimized women, and children, a refuge of safety from where the individual may realize their own strength to face again the challenges of this world. The Ark strives to enable and empower individuals to live t(tags: Human_Rights Ghana)
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The Asian Business Coalition on AIDS (ABC on AIDS) is a regional partnership between companies that aim to prevent and control HIV/AIDS in the workplace and not-for-profit organizations that provide technical services on HIV/AIDS, such as training.
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The Basic Income Grant Coalition was formed in mid-2001 to develop a common platform among advocates of a universal income support grant and to mobilise popular support for the introduction of the grant.(tags: South_Africa)
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Supporting individuals and organizations in Armenia as they endeavor to construct the basic building blocks of democracy is the work of the Assembly’s NGO Training and Resource Center (NGOC). By serving vulnerable populations and advocating for citize
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The Freedom of Expression Institute (FXI) was established in 1994 to protect and foster the rights to freedom of expression and access to information, and to oppose censorship. The Institute was formed from a merger of three organisations: The Campaign fo(tags: South_Africa)
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GEM is committed to social justice in the environmental sphere of society’s relations with and impact on the natural resource base.(tags: South_Africa Environmentalism)
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The AIDS Law Project (ALP) is at Wits University Centre for Applied Legal Studies. It is an organisation that specialises in helping people with HIV/AIDS to deal with these problems. We also research many of the difficult social, legal and human rights is
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Idasa is an independent public interest organisation committed to promoting sustainable democracy based on active citizenship, democratic institutions, and social justice. It is a registered Section 21 company in South Africa, has a functioning Board of D(tags: South_Africa)
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The Government Accountability Project (GAP) is a 28-year-old nonprofit public interest group that promotes government and corporate accountability by advancing occupational free speech, defending whistleblowers, and empowering citizen activists. We pursue(tags: Activism Corruption)
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IATP works with organizations around the world to analyze how global trade agreements impact domestic farm and food policies. Alongside a global coalition, IATP advocates for fair trade policies that promote strong health standards, labor and human rights(tags: Trade Agriculture)
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An independent network for the creation of a humane, just, sustainable
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One of the critical challenges facing Africa is how to harness the potential of internal and international migration in the interests of development. The Southern African Migration Project (SAMP) is an international network of organizations founded in 199(tags: South_Africa Population)
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Equal Access, an international not-for-profit organization, creates positive change for large numbers of people in the developing world by providing information and education through targeted content, cost-effective technology and community engagement. He(tags: Inequality)
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IMPACS, the Institute for Media, Policy and Civil Society, is a Canadian charitable organization committed to the protection and expansion of democracy and to strengthening civil society. IMPACS believes that a strong democracy requires three key elements(tags: Political_Development)
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World Resources Institute (WRI) is an environmental think tank that goes beyond research to find practical ways to protect the earth and improve people’s lives.(tags: Capacity_Building)
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The Study Circles Resource Center is the primary project of The Paul J. Aicher Foundation, a national, nonpartisan, nonprofit organization. We help communities develop their own ability to solve problems by bringing lots of people together in dialogue acr(tags: Community)
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The RCPLA network is an alliance of seventeen different organisations from around the world, that strives to promote the empowerment of the disadvantaged through participation in their own development. The Network helps researchers and practitioners
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NABUUR.COM’s mission is to give communities in developing countries access to their global Neighbours via the Internet. And through these Neighbours to the huge reservoir of resources (knowledge, solutions, energy, creativity) that is available elsewher(tags: Service:International)
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ICLEI—Local Governments for Sustainability is an international association of local governments and national and regional local government organizations that have made a commitment to sustainable development. More than 475 cities, towns, counties, and t(tags: Sustainability)
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Science Shops are not “shops” in the traditional sense of the word. They are small entities that carry out scientific research in a wide range of disciplines – usually free of charge and – on behalf of citizens and local civil society. The fact th(tags: Microeconomics Capacity_Building)
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As far as we know, this is the best quick guide to community organizing on the web. We’ve separated out local information so it will be useful to people living in other places.
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Civic Practices Network (CPN) is a collaborative and nonpartisan project bringing together a diverse array of organizations and perspectives within the civic renewal movement. We share a commitment to bring practical methods for public problem solving int(tags: Civic_Engagement Community)
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The National Rural Development Partnership acts as a non-partisan forum for identifying, discussing, and acting on issues affecting rural America. The NRDP does not supplant, duplicate, or compete with any program, but rather facilitates coordination and(tags: Rural)
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Water Infrastructure Network (WIN) is a broad-based coalition of local elected officials, drinking water and wastewater service providers, state environmental and health administrators, engineers and environmentalists dedicated to preserving and protectin(tags: Natural_Resources)
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Welcome to the Kansas City Neighborhood Alliance (KCNA), a non-profit community development corporation serving metropolitan Kansas City. KCNA’s vision is to build the capacity of neighborhoods to become safe, strong, stable and attractive places where pe(tags: Social_Capital Kansas)
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(tags: Gastronomy California)
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The World Conservation Union is the world’s largest and most important conservation network. The Union brings together 82 States, 111 government agencies, more than 800 non-governmental organizations (NGOs), and some 10,000 scientists and experts from 1(tags: Environmentalism)
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ODI is Britain’s leading independent think-tank on international development and humanitarian issues.(tags: Relief Economic_Development)
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The Center for Civic Partnerships is a support organization that strengthens individuals, organizations, and communities by facilitating learning, leadership development, and networking. We envision a world where everyone can live a healthy, productive li(tags: Civic_Engagement)
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The quality of our work in the professions depends upon our willingness to ask questions of ourselves and others, and to explore challenging ideas and practices, including the values that underpin them. The Collaborative Action Research Network (CARN) is(tags: Action_Research)
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Developmental Idealism Studies examines developmental idealism, both descriptively and causally. The research agenda is motivated by the understanding that developmental idealism has been a powerful force for social change in both the West and non-West. O(tags: Economic_Development)
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The Center for Urban Ethnography (CUE) was founded in 1969 with a major grant from the Center for Studies of Metropolitan Problems of the National Institute of Mental Health. CUE moved to the Graduate School of Education in 1976, where it undertook a seri(tags: Urban_Studies)
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The College of Human Ecology is dedicated to improving the human condition, whether through policy, nutrition, shelter and clothing, medicine, or the legal system. Faculty have helped create the Head Start program, developed strategies for fighting diseas(tags: Psychology Sociology)
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In a living educational theory approach to action research, individuals produce accounts or explanations of their educational influence in their own learning in enquiries of the kind, ‘How am I improving what I am doing?’ in contexts where they are seekin(tags: Action_Research)
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In this important series of reports, the Progressive Policy Institute’s Technology & New Economy Project examines what’s actually new about the so-called “New Economy” and offers policy makers a framework for economic development strategies aimed at promo(tags: Macroeconomics)
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The Sloan Work and Family Research Network is designed to support research and teaching, promote best practices at the workplace, and inform state policy on issues that affect the lives of working families and the places where they work. Click here for mo(tags: Sociology)
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At 29, Rory Stewart was running a swathe of Iraq. He tells Jasper Gerard of being under fire both from likeable warlords and clueless western officials.(tags: Iraq)
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The mission of the Florida Center is to assist the citizens of Florida in the creation of more sustainable and livable communities(tags: Community)
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The Institute for Local Self Reliance (ILSR) is a small organization with a remarkable track record for breaking new ground in promoting sustainable communities. In 1978 RAIN magazine described ILSR as an organization that “puts hard numbers on soft dream(tags: Community Sustainability)
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Initiated through Impact Alliance, an international platform of NGOs involved in Governance and capacity building, the Local Governance Barometer aims to measure and compare performance of any governance system. Still under development, this tool should a(tags: Political_Development Monitoring)
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El Centro nuclea a un grupo de profesionales calificados de diversas ramas de las ciencias sociales (sociología, demografía, economía, educación, psicología social, geografía). Su programa de actividades comprende: investigación, asistencia técni(tags: Argentina)
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The scientific mission of the Institute for Social Research (ISR) includes the planning and conduct of high quality social science research, the dissemination of findings from this research, and the training of future generations of social scientists. We(tags: Sociology)
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Established in 1961, the Population Studies Center has a rich history as an interdisciplinary community of scholars in population research and training. PSC is one of five centers within the University of Michigan’s Institute for Social Research (ISR).(tags: Population)
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Praxis is a not-for-profit, autonomous, development support organization (set up by ActionAid India in 1997) seeking to facilitate the promotion of participatory practices in human development initiatives in an integral manner. In the relatively short pe(tags: India)
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IIED , an international policy research institute and non governmental body working for more sustainable and equitable global development. Although based in London we work globally through a wide range of long-standing relationships with partners across t(tags: Sustainability Economic_Development)
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IED Afrique est une nouvelle organisation basée au Sénégal qui intervient sur les problématiques de développement durable et de citoyenneté en Afrique en mettant l’accent sur les innovations méthodologiques et participatives.(tags: Senegal)
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Padma is a local non-government development organization signifying the name of most potential river of Bangladesh, set up in 2000 by a group of progressive dedicated youth of Jhenidah district. Moved by the sorrows and distress of the poor and oppressed(tags: Bangladesh)
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The website is an authoritative source of information about the departments and agencies of the Government, current information on policies and programmes and general information for prospective clients, visitors, students and investors. The information i(tags: Anguilla)
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Ours is a tiny island with a big reputation. With a population of some 12,000, Anguilla is a British Overseas Territory, 16 miles long, and 3 miles at her widest point. Boasting 33 white sand beaches with crystal clear waters, a contemporary international(tags: Anguilla)
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CPRC is an international partnership of universities, research institutes and NGOs established in 2000 with initial funding from the UK’s Department for International Development.(tags: Poverty)
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The Society for Community Research and Action (SCRA) is an international organization devoted to advancing theory, research, and social action. Its members are committed to promoting health and empowerment and to preventing problems in communities, groups(tags: Civic_Engagement)
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The distinct features of post-industrialism, such as the trends toward rising numbers of white-collar workers, decreasing numbers of blue-collar workers, a greater emphasis on information goods rather than industrial manufacturing, the mobilization of sci(tags: Sociology Social_Networking)
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IAIA is the International Association for Impact Assessment, organized in 1980 to bring together researchers, practitioners, and users of various types of impact assessment from all parts of the world. IAIA involves people from many disciplines and profes(tags: Public_Policy)
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Tools and expertise to build a better world - At Global Development Group (GDG) we have a head for business and a heart for humanity. We harness private-sector innovations and efficiencies in information technology, human-resource management and internati(tags: Economic_Development)
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This contribution outlines several variants of teacher / action research, describing some of the different “tools” and “intentions” of a number of prominent qualitative researchers.(tags: Action_Research)
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The International Finance Corporation is the private sector arm of the World Bank Group.(tags: Institutions Macroeconomics)
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Imp-Act is a global programme designed to improve the quality of microfinance services and their impact on poverty. Imp-Act supports microfinance institutions (MFIs) in developing their own social performance management (SPM) systems. These systems use a(tags: Poverty Microcredit)
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Welcome to the database of the Donor Committee’s Business Environment Working Group - for sharing documents and information about donor-supported work to enhance the business environment to achieve pro-poor growth. A unique feature of this site is a focus(tags: Donors)
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The Global Entrepreneurship Monitor (GEM) research program is an annual assessment of the national level of entrepreneurial activity. Initiated in 1999 with 10 countries, expanded to 21 in the year 2000, with 29 countries in 2001 and 37 countries in 2002.
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The Public-Private Infrastructure Advisory Facility (PPIAF) is a multidonor technical assistance facility aimed at helping developing countries improve the quality of their infrastructure through private sector involvement. Launched in July 1999, PPIAF wa(tags: Capacity_Building)
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The Russian SME Resource Centre (RCSME), a non-commercial foundation initially established under Tacis program, performs research in SME development, provides policy advisory services and information support to small and medium business community.(tags: Microeconomics Russia)
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The SEEP Network is an organization of more than 60 international private and voluntary organizations that support micro and small business and microfinance institutions in the developing world. Its mission is to advance the practice of micro and small en(tags: Microcredit Microeconomics)
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We work with the private and public sectors to promote a policy, regulatory and operating environment conducive to business growth in Africa. This overarching objective is underpinned by our core work streams– research and policy advocacy, the promotio(tags: South_Africa)
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The primary purpose of this web site is to provide a central starting point for CARE staff - as well as staff of other international relief and development agencies to locate resources related to program Design, Monitoring and Evaluation. You will find h(tags: Monitoring)
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The CHANGE Project (1998-2005) provided leadership for behavior change innovation, tools and strategies. CHANGE focused on helping health and nutrition programs develop and apply practical solutions to behavior change problems. The CHANGE Project ended in
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Since 1975, research and evaluation has been an inextricable part of BRAC’s mission, providing an analytical basis for BRAC’s programmatic decisions, allowing BRAC to learn from its mistakes, and helping BRAC to share the impact and lessons from its work(tags: Monitoring Bangladesh)
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With a vision of “a just, enlightened, healthy and democratic Bangladesh free from hunger, poverty, environmental degradation and all forms of exploitation based on age, sex, religion and ethnicity,” BRAC started as an almost entirely donor funded, small-(tags: Bangladesh)
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GRI accomplishes this vision by developing, continuously improving and building capacity around the use of the GRI’s Sustainability Reporting Framework, the core of which being the Sustainability Reporting Guidelines. Other components in the Reporting F(tags: Monitoring)
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Green Map System is a global eco-cultural movement, energized by local knowledge, action and responsibility.(tags: Cities Environmentalism)
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Seattle Green Map embraces our city’s greatest innovations and leadership in sustainable living.(tags: PNW_Environmentalism)
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The Evaluation Unit and a number of IDRC programs have been working with Dr. Barry Kibel, of the Pacific Institute for Research and Evaluation, to adapt his Outcome Engineering approach to the development research context. A methodology called “Outcome Ma(tags: Monitoring)
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The Centre for New and Emerging Markets (CNEM) was set up at London Business School in response to the growing importance of new and emerging markets from a business, public policy and research perspective. We aim to raise the quality of cross-disciplina(tags: Economic_Development)
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IFPRI’s vision is a world free of hunger and malnutrition. The vision is based on the human right to adequate food and nutrition and recognition of the inherent dignity of all members of the human family. It is a world where every person has secure acce(tags: Hunger)
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The overall aim of CRISE is to investigate relationships between ethnicity, inequality and conflict, with the aim of identifying economic, political, social and cultural policies which promote stable and inclusive multiethnic societies.(tags: Inequality)
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The Development Research Centre on Migration, Globalisation and Poverty was established in June 2003, in recognition of the complex relationship between migration and poverty. The DRC examines migration flows in which poor people themselves are most repre
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The International Poverty Centre (IPC) is a joint project between the United Nations Development Programme and the Brazilian Government to promote South-South Cooperation on applied poverty research. It specializes in analyzing poverty and inequality and(tags: Poverty)
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The Development Research Centre on Citizenship, Participation and Accountability (Citizenship DRC) is an international research partnership exploring new forms of citizenship that will help make rights real. It involves a network of researchers and practi(tags: Civil_Rights)
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The Centre’s focus is on the question of how public authority in developing countries can best be reshaped and reconstituted to meet the challenge of poverty reduction in the early decades of the 21st century.(tags: Political_Science)
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More than a billion poor people lack access to the basic financial services essential for them to manage their precarious lives. CGAP is a consortium of 33 public and private development agencies working together to expand access to financial services for(tags: Microcredit)
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The Brooks World Poverty Institute is a multidisciplinary centre of global excellence researching poverty, poverty reduction, inequality and growth. At a time of heightened public, media and political interest in poverty issues, it is imperative that the(tags: Poverty)
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This Guide has been written to help project managers and M&E staff improve the quality of M&E in IFAD-supported projects. The Guide focuses on how M&E can support project management and engage project stakeholders in understanding project progress, learni(tags: Monitoring)
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PRIA is a civil society organisation, undertaking development initiatives to positively impact the lives and improve the quality of living of marginalised and excluded sections of the society. It works on themes of governance, people’s participation, empo(tags: Civic_Engagement)
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The South Centre has grown out of the work and experience of the South Commission and its follow-up office, and from recognition of the need for enhanced South-South co-operation. It is intended to meet the need for analysis of development problems and ex(tags: Third_World)
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This report provides a departure point for continuing discussions, providing a conceptual framework for education-related lending activities reflecting the latest knowledge and successful practices of planning and implementing education for lifelong learn(tags: Capacity_Building)
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The Migration Information Source provides fresh thought, authoritative data from numerous global organizations and governments, and global analysis of international migration and refugee trends. A unique, online resource, the Source offers useful tools, v(tags: Immigration)
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The definitive source of ‘grey literature’ and information on all aspects of alternative and microfinance in English and Spanish. Search and download microfinance literature in pdf, rtf, html and text formats. This enables easy access to the information a(tags: Microcredit Microeconomics)
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FinMark Trust was established in March 2002 with initial funding of GBP5 million from the UK’s Department for International Development (DFID). FinMark Trust is an independent trust whose business is controlled by five trustees from countries in Souther(tags: South_Africa)
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A DFID funded project to improve the awareness, skills and knowledge available to implement successful post-conflict microfinance projects for the poor.(tags: Microcredit)
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microLINKS is a dynamic knowledge-sharing Web site designed to improve the impact of USAID-funded microenterprise programs and activities. Created through USAID’s Accelerated Microenterprise Advancement Project (text-only), microLINKS allows the Microen(tags: Microcredit)
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The Asian Coalition for Housing Rights is a regional network of grassroots community organizations,
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International Alert was established in 1986 by a group of human rights advocates led by the former Secretary General of Amnesty International, Martin Ennals, in response to growing concerns expressed by those working in international development agencies,(tags: Conflict)
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ALNAP was established in 1997, following the multi-agency evaluation of the Rwanda genocide. It is a collective response by the humanitarian sector, dedicated to improving humanitarian performance through increased learning and accountability.(tags: Monitoring Relief)
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Founded in 1975, the Centre for Development and Population Activities (CEDPA) is an internationally recognized non-profit organization that improves the lives of women and girls in developing countries.
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PONPO exists to foster interdisciplinary research aimed at developing an understanding of nonprofit organizations and their role in economic and political life.(tags: NGO)
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The Highlander Center was founded in 1932 to serve as an adult education center for community workers involved in social and economic justice movements. The goal of Highlander was and is to provide education and support to poor and working people fighting(tags: Education Inequality)
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The Unrepresented Nations and Peoples Organization (UNPO) is a democratic, international membership organization. Its members are indigenous peoples, occupied nations, minorities and independent states or territories who have joined together to protect th(tags: Inequality Population)
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These Guidelines offer an overview to social performance management, including an introduction, a roadmap for developing an SPM system, and a resource guide to SPM. They are supplemented by a set of eight Practice Notes, which offer more in-depth informat(tags: Monitoring)
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Plan works across Africa, Asia, Latin America and the Caribbean, in communities where many struggle to meet their basic needs.(tags: Economic_Development)
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Partners was founded in 1964 as the people-to-people component of the Alliance for Progress. Today, it is a private, nonprofit and nonpartisan organization, enjoying the support of many committed volunteers, international corporations, public agencies, an(tags: Latin_America)
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Learning from Clients: Assessment Tools for Microfinance Practitioners is a manual to help practitioners assess their clients. Its core is a set of five assessment tools that practitioners can use to gather information about their programs-information tha(tags: Monitoring Microcredit)
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Sa-Dhan’s mission is to build the field of community development finance in India, to help its member and associate institutions to better serve low income households, particularly women, in both rural and urban India, in their quest for establishing st(tags: India)
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The Pakistan Microfinance Network (PMN) is a network of organizations engaged in microfinance and dedicated to improving the outreach and sustainability of microfinance services in Pakistan.(tags: Microcredit Pakistan)
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The Microfinance Council of the Philippines, Inc. (MCPI) is a network of 34 institutions working towards the rapid development of the microfinance industry in the Philippines. The 34 institutions include 26 practitioners and 8 service providers. While mem(tags: Microcredit Philippines)
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(tags: Nepal Microcredit)
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The Banking With The Poor Network is a network of some 20 national policy institutions, commercial banks and NGOs from eight countries in Asia - namely Bangladesh, India, Indonesia, Malaysia, Pakistan, Philippines, Sri Lanka and Thailand. Its objective is(tags: South_Asia Microcredit)
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(tags: Economic_Development Philippines)
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The Russian Microfinance Center (RMC) works to meet the needs of the dynamic, rapidly expanding microfinance industry in Russia through a series of activities designed to provide essential information and services to microfinance professionals and other i(tags: Russia Microcredit)
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The Microfinance Network is a global association of institutions committed to improving the quality of life of the poor through the provision of credit, savings and other financial services. The members of the Network believe in the establishment of susta(tags: Microcredit Institutions)
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On September 26-27, 2002, 17 representatives from seven Arab countries (Egypt, Jordan, Lebanon, Morocco, Palestine, Tunisia, and Yemen) gathered in Tunisia to launch the first and only network designed to serve microfinance institutions in the Arab world.(tags: Middle_East Microcredit)
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AGFUND is a non-profit regional development institution, established in 1980 by the initiative of HRM Price Talal Bin Abdul Aziz Al Saud, with the support of the leaders of the Arab Gulf States that constitute its membership and contribute(tags: Economic_Development Middle_East)
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(tags: Benin Microcredit)
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COLCAMI es el Consorcio Latinoamericano para Capacitación en Microfinanciamiento y está dedicado a la capacitación y fortalecimiento de las instituciones de microfinanzas en América Latina(tags: Mexico Microcredit)
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El Centro AFIN es una fundación sin fines de lucro y de proyección internacional; que busca integrar la experiencia práctica de entidades que forman parte de la industria microfinanciera.(tags: Microeconomics Bolivia)
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The Performance Assessment Resource Centre (parc) supports international efforts to improve performance assessment in international development practice.(tags: Monitoring)
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Since 1997, MEASURE Evaluation has worked around the world to strengthen the capacity of host-country programs to collect and use population and health data.(tags: Capacity_Building Health_Care)
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The Sphere Project was launched in 1997 by a group of humanitarian NGOs and the Red Cross and Red Crescent movement. Sphere is based on two core beliefs: first, that all possible steps should be taken to alleviate human suffering arising out of calamity(tags: Relief)
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This page lists FREE resources for methods in evaluation and social research. The focus is on “how-to” do evaluation research and the methods used: surveys, focus groups, sampling, interviews, and other methods. Most of these links are to resources that(tags: Research)
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IRP is a center for interdisciplinary research into the causes and consequences of poverty and social inequality in the United States. As one of three Area Poverty
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The Governance and Social Development Resource Centre (GSDRC) supports the knowledge needs of the international development community in relation to governance, conflict and social development. Funded by the UK Department for International Development, th(tags: Corruption Conflict)
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The Center on International Cooperation (CIC), established at New York University in 1996, promotes policy research and international consultations on multilateral responses to transnational problems. Working with officials of government and intergovernme(tags: Donors Institutions)
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To improve the quality of SMFIs and to strengthen their effective access to resources.(tags: India)
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(tags: Bolivia)
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MYRADA is a Non Governmental Organisation managing rural development programmes in 3 States of South India and providing on-going support including deputations of staff to programmes in 6 other States. It also promotes the Self Help Affinity strategy in C(tags: India Economic_Development)
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The mission of South North Development Initiative is to promote job growth and reduce poverty in Latin America and Southern Africa through the establishment of specialized Local Investment Funds (LIFs) which provide both capital and advisory services to s(tags: Economic_Development Latin_America)
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Welcome to Janata Bank, Bangladesh web site. Janata means people. This is a progressive Bank. It has been operating since it’s inception in 1972 both in Bangladesh and overseas. Janata Bank has been playing a significant role in the economic develop(tags: Bangladesh)
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SEEDS is the economic arm of Sarvodaya. It’s main objective is to alleviate poverty by promoting economic empowerment of rural people for a sustainable livelihood. It was transformed as a separate legal entity by incorporating its services as a limited li(tags: Sri_Lanka)
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Rural Microfinance Development Centre (RMDC) is an apex organization of microfinance in Nepal. It was incorporated on October 30, 1998 (2055/7/13 B.S.) as a public limited company under the Companies Act. 1996 and has got license from the Nepal Rastra Ban(tags: Microcredit Nepal)
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(tags: Poverty)
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The UK Center for Poverty Research (UKCPR) was established in October, 2002 as one of three federally designated Area Poverty Research Centers with core funding from the Office of the Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation (ASPE) in the U.S. Depa(tags: Poverty)
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ASA (a globally renowned specialized micro finance institution) was founded in 1978 by a group of young social and political activists fighting their own liberation struggle against Pakistan. ASA started out as a social action organization to conscientise(tags: Bangladesh Microcredit)
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World Development Report 2006 analyzes the relationship between equity and development. The report documents the persistence of inequality traps by highlighting the interaction between different forms of inequality. It presents evidence that the inequalit(tags: Economic_Development)
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Useful introduction to the shift in impact assessments away from donor-driven events, and how they can be designed to be processes which are useful for MFIs and their stakeholders. Also provides an overview to the challenge of creating context-specific im(tags: Monitoring)
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Good conceptual piece on the movement of the microfinance industry from a product-led, supply-driven approach to a more client-centred, demand-driven approach. The latter includes a deeper understanding of clients, what financial products they need, how t(tags: Microcredit)
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Another piece outlining the movement of the industry to a client-focused one. Argues that achieving deep poverty outreach (the original vision of microfinance) will require a market orientation towards the very poor, not just a market orientation towards(tags: Microcredit)
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This paper was prepared for the CGAP Working Group in Impact Assessment Methodologies. It reviews the methodological options for assessing the impacts of microfinance programmes in light of their costs, feasibility and objectives. Appendix contains a usef(tags: Microcredit)
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This paper argues the case for simple, internal standards for microfinance social performance assessment that address what the institution’s social goals are, how they monitor progress towards these goals, how it monitors client status, assesses client im(tags: Microcredit Monitoring)
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Useful discussion paper on social impact assessment (SIA), although not with specific reference to microfinance. The paper focuses on the core values that underlie SIA as well as the fundamental principles, which serve to form the basis for developing nat(tags: Monitoring)
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In a speech to the conference entitled improve it: social auditing to win business (London, 20 April 2003), Pearce gave an overview of ten important themes and issues in social accounting and social auditing, arguing that while the discipline is open to i(tags: Monitoring)
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A key reference on comprehensive and consistent but clear definitions of different dimensions of social performance. This paper proposes a framework for outreach — the social benefits of microfinance — in terms of six aspects: worth, cost, depth, brea(tags: Microcredit)
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Good introduction to the performance management system called ‘Balanced Scorecard’, which aims to help an organisation align its vision and mission with its daily operations, manage and evaluate its organisational strategy, track improvements, build capac(tags: Monitoring)
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Discusses the steps involved in implementing the Balanced Scorecard, and includes recommendations for creating and sustaining a management system once it is built.(tags: Monitoring)
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Designed to complement the CGAP Appraisal Format, the Poverty Audit provides instructions for conducting a qualitative review of the poverty focus of an MFI. The audit concentrates on five sets of issues: the vision of the MFI, its client-targeting strate(tags: Monitoring)
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This methodology envisages a regular cycle of auditing, comprising a series of steps. These include a scoping study, review of records, stakeholder consultation on issues, indicators and appropriate targets, measurement of indicators selected, analysis of(tags: Monitoring)
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Good introduction to the double bottom line framework. Includes discussion of its usefulness in measuring the success of microfinance in alleviating poverty as a means to facilitate access to non-traditional sources of funding (in particular from the Soci(tags: Monitoring)
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Practical resource on the concept of the Feedback Loop. Provides experiences and recommendations on eight phases of the loop: information collection, information consolidation, data analysis, reporting, decision-making, delegation, communication and imple(tags: Monitoring)
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This paper argues that it is essential for MFIs to reflect on their performance, draw appropriate conclusions, and then act on these conclusions. Also argues that formal impact assessment can assist in the transition from donor-controlled replication proj(tags: Microcredit Monitoring)
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Starts from the position the usefulness of SPM depends not only on the study design and information collection, but how that information is analysed, used, and communicated to various audiences. Discusses the analysis of information, how to improve the cr(tags: Microcredit)
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Provides a good case study of the success of Prizma in Bosnia and Herzegovina to enhance its social performance by institutionalising organisational learning and deepening poverty outreach, focusing its efforts on leadership, organisational culture, incen(tags: Bosnia-Herzegovina Poverty)
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This SEEP Progress Note provides a good example of a mixed approach to impact assessment used by ASA in India. The impact assessment and monitoring system includes a member database, the ’satisfaction express’, empowerment interviews and an internal learn(tags: India Civic_Engagement)
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This paper looks at developing sustainable social performance measurement (SPM) systems, arguing systems that are driven by the MFI’s mission are most likely to be institutionalised and cost-effective. Describes SPM system components, including routine im(tags: NGO)
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In the context of thinking through your institutional strategy for SPM, Chapter Two of the SEEP/AIMS manual is useful in terms of defining levels and domains of impact and defining your impact pathway.(tags: Monitoring)
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Useful paper for planning SPM at the network level. Draws upon five case studies to explore the potential benefits and barriers to horizontal networking to promote impact assessment of microfinance, drawing some tentative conclusions about successful char(tags: Monitoring)
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Presents a framework that details four broad pathways through which individuals experience change, including material pathways, cognitive pathways, perceptual pathways, and relational pathways. Of particular use in the context of SPM strategy is the secti(tags: Monitoring Microcredit)
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This Spotlight Note presents practical tips to keep in mind when designing and implementing client satisfaction studies. Especially useful is the reference section, which presents further resources on questionnaire design and data analysis, as well as the(tags: Monitoring Microcredit)
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This paper discusses the scope for integrating the two components of an SPM system: routine monitoring and follow-up research, in this case market research. In this way, information can be generated that is of use to both practitioners and donors.(tags: Monitoring)
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This paper draws out the complexities of using prompting and open-ended questions in semi-structured interviews, how questions are framed, ordered, and asked, since this has an impact on the information given. Also deals with minimising response bias. Use(tags: Microcredit Monitoring)
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A useful introduction to indicators. Defines the term, addresses common misperceptions and the challenges of addressing stakeholder needs in indicator selection. Provides useful guidelines on selecting, assessing and using indicators in an integrated impa(tags: Monitoring)
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Good case study that describes the process undertaken by ActionAid Vietnam in developing tools which help poor people explain the overall changes they are experiencing in their lives. The method enables ActionAid to examine the impact it is having without(tags: Vietnam Monitoring)
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Addresses income and assets as impact indicators. By analyzing these variables within the context of a household economic portfolio model, this paper argues that both are valid for tracking changes in household and enterprise welfare. The paper emphasises(tags: Monitoring)
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This paper discusses the value of income as an indicator of enterprise stability or growth, of household welfare and poverty status, and the difficulty of obtaining accurate and reliable data on income. Information is presented on a number of different ap(tags: Monitoring)
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Brief but useful paper focuses on how qualitative impact assessment methods can be used to complement quantitative and participatory methods. Reviews the main quantitative tools, their strengths and weaknesses, and presents some preliminary guidelines for(tags: Monitoring)
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Useful, if technical, paper which discusses existing poverty assessment tools, reviews selected tools and analyses their advantages and disadvantages. Provides a good overview of the tools used in the field by various organisations. Including Acción, Opp(tags: Monitoring)
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Provides an overview of the challenges and benefits of participatory impact assessment (PIA), including the potential channels of impact of PIA, such as client empowerment. Especially useful reference section for further information on PIA.(tags: Monitoring)
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Informative overview of the evolution of PRA methods - most useful in this respect is the menu of PRA methods, information on national PRA networks and resources, as well as an exhaustive references section for further information.(tags: Monitoring)
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Good resource for information and further reading on participatory monitoring and evaluation (PME). Takes the reader through the purpose and principles of PME, issues to consider when undertaking PME, highlights some of the tools, and outlines the challen(tags: Monitoring)
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Throughout the world, engaged citizens are meeting and mobilizing to promote human rights and social justice while reinforcing their opposition to commercialization, social regression, and economic and military aggression. Social movements are organiz
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Uzbek refugees express their feelings for the city they fled in verse and song.(tags: Uzbekistan)
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This blog serves as a portal for exchanges among alumni/participants of the Gwangju Asian Human Rights Folk School. It will feature announcement, updates, news, events, commentaries, reflections, experiences, and just plain messages or greetings. Also, it(tags: East_Asia Human_Rights)
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The Korea Democracy Foundation, which was established to pay tribute to democratization movement in the Republic of Korea, inherit the holy democratic spirit from our pioneering activists and thereby to foster and contribute to the development of democrac(tags: Korea)
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The National Human Rights Commission of the Republic of Korea is an independent government organ established on November 25, 2001 under the National Human Rights Commission Act. The goal of the Commission is to protect and promote human rights in Korea. M(tags: Korea)
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Pusan Democracy Park (PDP) was established in honor of and to succeed to the sublime spirit of the citizens of Pusan for democracy, which has played a great part in the development of democracy in Korea through the April 19 Democratic Revolution in 1960,(tags: Korea)
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Civil Society Human and Institutional Development Programme (CHIP), an independent non-profit human and institutional support organization, has been working for over a decade in strengthening civil society organizations. Previously, the NGO programme offi(tags: Pakistan)
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About MaitiNepal
MAITI Nepal was born out of a crusade to protect Nepali girls and women from crimes like domestic violence, trafficking for flesh trade, child prostitution, child labor and various forms of exploitation and torture. A group of soci
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Founded in 1990, Relief International provides emergency, rehabilitation and development services that empower beneficiaries in the process. RI’s programs include health, shelter construction, education, community development, agriculture, food, income-(tags: Relief)
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Pajhwok Afghan News is Afghanistan’s premier independent news agency providing daily coverage of news from across Afghanistan. From its beginnings as a special program to provide daily news coverage of Afghanistan’s historic Constitutional Loya Jirga(tags: Afghanistan)
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Shuhada Organization is a non-governmental and non-profit organization committed to the reconstruction and development of Afghanistan with special emphasis on the empowerment of women and children.(tags: Afghanistan)
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Karakalpakstan is an autonomous republic in Uzbekistan. Oficially it is called the Republic of Karakalpakstan and is situated southeast and southwest of the Aral Sea.
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Umid World will help you to find detailed information about Uzbekistan such as the country culture, traditions and economy, Umid program, and a lot more. In our Gallery page, you will be able to take a look at photos of Umid scholars and submit yours, if(tags: Uzbekistan)
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A controlled experiment in the field of economics? The last fifty years of history have provided just that. The free economy: Hong Kong. The mixed economy: the United States. The socialist economies: Great Britain and Israel. Milton Friedman evaluates the(tags: Macroeconomics Hong_Kong)
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Flags of the World (FOTW) is the Internet’s largest site devoted to vexillology (the study of flags). Here you can read more than 30,000 pages about flags and view more than 57,000 images of flags.(tags: International)
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We are honored to present to you the Portal of the State Authority of the Republic of Uzbekistan. Today, it is one of the best sources of official and reliable information about the different activities of executive agencies.(tags: Uzbekistan)
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Founded in 1966, the Savitsky Karakalpakstan State Art Museum comprises a collection of over 95,000 pieces, including Uzbekistan fine arts, applied Karakalpak folk art, and ancient art from the region of Khorezem. The museum represents the life’s work o(tags: Karakalpakstan)
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Here you can find all the necessary information about UNDP in Uzbekistan. Please click on the relevant link below to learn more about respective units of UNDP Country Office in Uzbekistan.(tags: Uzbekistan)
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Serving the cuisine of Afghanistan’s capital city, Kabul is a unique gem Seattle’s Wallingford neighborhood. As owner Wali Khairzada explains it, the ancient city of Kabul lay at the crossroads of trade between India and Central Asia, where for centur(tags: Seattle)
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Project Harmony’s mission is to build a strong global community by fostering civic leadership, harnessing Internet technology, and facilitating cross-cultural learning.(tags: Azerbaijan)
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Ivar’s has been serving award-winning fish ‘n chips on the Seattle waterfront since 1938.(tags: Seattle)
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Salty’s is truly in a class by itself. We work hard to please you with our award-winning Northwest seafood cuisine and perfectly friendly service. Indeed, the readers of Seattle.Citysearch.com and Portland.Citysearch.com vote Salty’s the top seafood and(tags: Seattle)
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The New Central Library Offers Civic Validation, a Huge Collection of Material, and a Staggering Number of Startling New Ways to Die(tags: Seattle)
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The nihilism of soccer: The more you look, the less there is to see.(tags: Soccer)
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The televised event Super Girls from Hunan Satellite Television is finally over after many weeks. The final show garnered a rating of better than 10%, which is astonishing for a regional television channel. The tremendous interest is this event is no do(tags: China)
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This is the website for the Center for Citizen Media, a new initiative aimed at helping to enable and encourage grassroots media, especially citizen journalism, at every level.(tags: Media)
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A national initiative led by five of America’s leading research universities with the support of two major foundations will advance the U.S. news business by helping revitalize schools of journalism.(tags: Journalism)
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Welcome to AnthroSource, the premier online resource serving the research, teaching, and professional needs of anthropologists.(tags: Anthropology)
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The eHRAF Collection of Ethnography is a cross-cultural database that contains over 350,000 pages of information on all aspects of cultural and social life. The annually-growing eHRAF database is unique in that the information is organized into cultures(tags: Anthropology)
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An initiative to broaden international electronic communication in Anthropology.(tags: Anthropology)
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The American Anthropological Association (AAA), the primary professional society of anthropologists in the United States since its founding in 1902, is the world’s largest professional organization of individuals interested in anthropology.
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The American Indian Law Review serves as a nationwide scholarly forum for the presentation and analysis of developments in the Indian law and Indian affairs. Adhering to the traditional law review format, the American Indian Law Review offers in depth art(tags: Oklahoma Native_America)
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This study argues for the importance of understanding cultural factors when analyzing the historical actions of minority groups within states. History among the Qazaq nomads in northwestern China is the result of complex interactions among culture, ecolog(tags: Xinjiang)
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Use the search form above to find links and references for anthropology, archaeology, history, linguistics, psychology, sociology and other social sciences. The Anthro.Net database contains thousands of reviewed web sites and bibliographic references.(tags: Anthropology)
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The Archaeological Institute of America endeavors to create a vivid and informed public interest in the cultures and civilizations of the past, supports archaeological research, fosters the sound professional practice of archaeology, advocates the preserv(tags: Archaeology)
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…is an international social science professional organization of scholars interested in qualitative, especially interactionist, research. The society has its annual meetings in conjunction with the ASA annual meetings. SSSI also organizes panels and ses(tags: Sociology)
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The Chicago School of Media Theory (CSMT) is a working group established by University of Chicago students and course assistants in W. J. T. Mitchell’s Winter 2003 and Winter 2004 Theories of Media classes. CSMT was formed to continue the explorations beg(tags: Media)
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The purpose of this site is to enable access to the IAEA’s Research Reactor Data Base (RRDB). It contains administrative, technical and utilization information on research reactors, training reactors, test reactors, prototype reactors and critical assem(tags: Nonproliferation)
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Since the 1970’s I have been documenting America’s ghettos by photographing the built environment in
Harlem, the South Bronx, Chicago, Newark and other places. I record mostly the buildings where people
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The Institute for Middle East Peace & Development was established by President Stephen P. Cohen in 1979 at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York with the help of then U.S. Secretary of State Cyrus Vance. At the urging of Moshe Dayan, the(tags: Middle_Eastern_Studies)
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The Leadership Council for Human Rights (LCHR) seeks to encourage and promote information and action campaigns on the behalf of ethnic and religious persecuted peoples, providing assistance to organizations and individuals under threat. Our goal is reach(tags: Human_Rights)
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The members of the U.S.-Afghanistan Reconstruction Council (US-ARC) have been working diligently since September 2001 to realize their vision of rebuilding a viable, self-sustaining, healthy and educated society in Afghanistan. Most of the people affiliat(tags: Afghanistan)
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The Institute on Religion and Public Policy is a non-profit, non-partisan organization dedicated to the research and encouragement of cooperation between religion, ethics and morality and government, politics, and policy in both the domestic and foreign a(tags: Religion)
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Founded in 1983 by Congressman Tom Lantos (D-CA) and Congressman John Edward Porter (R-IL, Ret.), the Congressional Human Rights Caucus (CHRC) has become the leading voice in Congress on human rights issues, which is open to every Senator and House Membe
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Afghans4Tomorrow (A4T) is a non-profit, non-political organization dedicated to the reconstruction and development of Afghanistan. A4T provides essential services to its people through the expertise, knowledge and dedication of Afghan professionals abroad(tags: Afghanistan)
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The Society of Afghan Engineers is a private nonprofit and nonpolitical corporation whose purpose is to foster international support and to encourage financial and technical assistance for the reconstruction and prosperity of Afghanistan. This Society was(tags: Afghanistan)
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The Afghanistan Relief Organization (ARO) is a registered nonprofit organization
entirely managed and staffed by volunteers. We are dedicated to helping the Afghan people, by bringing them the supplies they need to survive and create a better life, the e(tags: Afghanistan Relief) -
Howe & Ser Moving Company has completed its latest job: moving a Spanish-American War cannon from the pits of Pasadena, CA to sunny Cambridge, MA. The cannon arrived with one addition: a giant Brass Rat, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology class rin
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Students and professors in Zimbabwe struggle to continue their work as the Mugabe regime attacks higher education.(tags: Zimbabwe)
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China’s Business Paper(tags: Hong_Kong China:Media)
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RedLightGreen helps you locate the most important books and other research materials in your area of interest, and find out whether what you need is available at your favorite library. Sign in, and you can format and send citations any way you want: MLA,(tags: Research)
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This site is a non-profit, freely browsable database of crimes reported in Chicago. It is not affiliated with the Chicago Police Department or with Google Maps. It is not an official source of crime information for the city of Chicago. Rather, it is an al
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WE BELIEVE that clouds are unjustly maligned and that life would be immeasurably poorer without them.(tags: Meteorology)
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The same processes that have created wealth and its related technological advances are also connecting people around the world at a dizzying pace. These changes — known as “globalization” — are the subject of one of the most significant conversations of(tags: Globalization)
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Kavkaz Center (www.kavkazcenter.com) - is Chechen independent international Islamic Internet news agency. Our agency was founded in March of 1999 in the city of Jokhar (Grozny). The founder is the National Center for Strategic Research and Political Techn
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Mass demonstrations in France over a relatively minor change in employment policy reflect a deeper and unrealized anxiety about changes occurring over several generations in the international model of capitalism. A recent international opinion poll report(tags: Macroeconomics)
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Henry Jenkins is the Director of the MIT Comparative Media Studies Program and the Peter de Florez Professor of Humanities. He is the author and/or editor of nine books on various aspects of media and popular culture, including Textual Poachers: Televisio(tags: Media:Watch)
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Local lunatic David Thompson complains to Charlotte, NC city council during a community access forum, which is conveniently captured on tape and broadcast live on the local community access channel. There aren’t enough tags to cover his rant against ice i(tags: North_Carolina)
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La Fundación Copyleft nace para potenciar y defender la producción de arte, cultura y ciencia bajo licencias copyleft. Entendemos por licencias copyleft aquellas que permitiendo un mayor control de los creadores sobre sus obras, investigaciones y proyec(tags: Spain)
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A map of seattle shops and other places.(tags: Seattle)
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CAIR’s vision is to be a leading advocate for justice and mutual understanding. CAIR’s mission is to enhance understanding of Islam, encourage dialogue, protect civil liberties, empower American Muslims, and build coalitions that promote justice and mutua(tags: Islam Civil_Rights)
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Inside the Department of the Interior, Paul Hoffman, a cowboy with a beef against land conservation, has a vision for our national parks—and it involves submitting them to the menace of snowmobiles, A.T.V.’s, and privatization. His attempts to radically(tags: Natural_Resources National_Parks)
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Where do Americans get their news and who controls what they consume? Ten years ago, when The Nation first charted a map of the National Entertainment State, four colossal conglomerates spread across the media landscape. Today, that map has significantly(tags: Media:Watch)
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Contrary to established opinion, the gravest threats to America’s national security are still in Russia. They derive from an unprecedented development that most US policy-makers have recklessly disregarded, as evidenced by the undeclared cold war Washingt(tags: Russia)
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Do you like fiction and mathematics? Are you looking for a book or story that might be useful for the students in your math class? Are you interested in what our society thinks about mathematicians? Then you’ve come to the right place…(tags: Mathematics)
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“…Harvey added that once tons of kids become taken with paganism, a slowly building “pagan rights” movement will also blossom, moving to promote the religious rights of minors over the rights of parents opposed to their child’s involvement in the(tags: Religion)
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How a 2003 secret overture from Tehran might have led to a deal on Iran’s nuclear capacity — if the Bush administration hadn’t rebuffed it.(tags: Iran)
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On October 1, 1999, the Broadcasting Board Governors (BBG) became the independent federal agency responsible for all U.S. government and government sponsored, non-military, international broadcasting. This was the result of the 1998 Foreign Affairs Reform(tags: Media:News Federal)
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The Voice of America, which first went on the air in 1942, is a multimedia international broadcasting service funded by the U.S. government through the Broadcasting Board of Governors. VOA broadcasts more than 1,000 hours of news, information, educatio(tags: Media:News)
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Radio Sawa seeks to effectively communicate with the youthful population of Arabic-speakers in the Middle East by providing up-to-date news, information and entertainment on FM and medium wave radio stations throughout the region.(tags: Middle_East ????)
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Stormgasm.com was built in the spring of 2001 by Jim Bishop. The website originally existed so that Simon, Tom and Jim could share their storm chasing pictures with the world. Stormgasm.com still exists to share pictures, videos, and stories with the worl(tags: Meteorology)
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ChristianExodus.org is moving thousands of Christians to South Carolina to reestablish constitutionally limited government founded upon Christian principles. It is evident that the U.S. Constitution has been abandoned under our current federal system, and(tags: South_Carolina Christianity)
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For 40 years, the National Recreation and Park Association has advocated the importance of thriving, local park systems, the opportunity for all Americans to lead healthy, active lifestyles, and the preservation of great community places.(tags: National_Parks)
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Beginning in 1996, Tribune Travel writer Robert Cross undertook a monumental assignment: visiting and reporting on our country’s national parks. The ongoing series has taken him to places as widely separated as Florida, Utah, Alaska, Hawaii and the U.S. V(tags: National_Parks)
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We believe that America’s National Parks and historical sites embody the American spirit. They are windows to our past, homes to some of our rarest plants and animal species, and places where every American can go to find inspiration, peace, and open spac(tags: National_Parks)
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The Mapping the National Parks collection documents the history, cultural aspects and geological formations of areas that eventually became National Parks. The collection consists of approximately 200 maps dating from the 17th century to the present, refl(tags: National_Parks)
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Visitor Services Getting Pinched in Move to Cut Costs(tags: National_Parks)
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The Yosemite Association is a not-for-profit educational organization dedicated to the support of Yosemite National Park through a program that includes membership, book publishing and sales, outdoor seminars, and visitor services. Established in 1923, th(tags: California National_Parks)
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Enterprising Non-Profits web site, a source of information on our programs and a resource for social enterprise development.(tags: Canada Social_Entrepreneurship)
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Andre Glucksmann looks at the spread of the abomination of abominations: the war against civilians(tags: Conflict)
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Founded in late 1989, the Center for the Study of Democracy (CSD) is an interdisciplinary public policy institute dedicated to the values of democracy and market economy. CSD is a non-partisan, independent organization fostering the reform process in Bulg(tags: Bulgaria)
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A faint odor of sanctimony permeates the recent statement that came from a leader interviewed at the SCO Summit in Shanghai, who said others should be careful not to force their views on the “new” republics in Central Asia because these young republic(tags: Democratization:Tajikistan)
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Freedom House Report Highlights “Governance Gap” in Central Asia, Caucasus.(tags: Democratization:Tajikistan)
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Nations in Transit, published annually by Freedom House, is a comprehensive, comparative, multidimensional study focusing on 29 countries and administrative areas from Central Europe to Eurasia. Country reports and ratings tables are available from the pu(tags: Democratization:Tajikistan)
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Nations in Transit, published annually by Freedom House, is a comprehensive, comparative, multidimensional study focusing on 29 countries and administrative areas from Central Europe to Eurasia. Country reports and ratings tables are available from the pu(tags: Turkmenistan)
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Nations in Transit, published annually by Freedom House, is a comprehensive, comparative, multidimensional study focusing on 29 countries and administrative areas from Central Europe to Eurasia. Country reports and ratings tables are available from the pu(tags: Uzbekistan)
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Serbianna.com is a news and media portal about Serbia and Balkans surveying the western press and providing it to the public.(tags: Serbia)
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As the public voice of the Belgrade Circle NGO, the editors of this journal will attempt to draw clear distinctions and borders between themselves and the anachronistic and unmatured Serbia which is tired of its years, of its past, of its heritage. Our st(tags: Serbia)
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IIPE was founded in 1947 by the decision by the Government of the Federal People’s Republic of Yugoslavia. From a small group of researchers who laid foundations of the Yugoslav science of international relations, the Institute has gradually turned into t(tags: Serbia)
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The Statistical Office was established in 1862 when Prince Mihailo Obrenovic passed an act granting powers to the economic department of the Ministry of Finance concerning all statistical work. This was the beginning of state statistics in Serbia, but his(tags: Serbia)
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IEN - INSTITUTE OF ECONOMIC SCIENCES (est.1958) is nonprofit academic think-tank institution with 45 years of research in macroeconomy/international economy and development studies, world market and international economic strategy, contemporary business/m(tags: Serbia)
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A brief history of the dramatic and violent changes that took place as the Yugoslav Federation disintegrated during the 1990s.
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‘End times’ religious groups want apocalypse sooner than later, and they’re relying on high tech — and red heifers — to hasten its arrival.(tags: Christianity)
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Muslim WakeUp! seeks to bring together Muslims and non-Muslims in America and around the globe in efforts that celebrate cultural and spiritual diversity, tolerance, and understanding. Through online and offline media, events, and community activities, Mu(tags: Islam)
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Collectibles, DVDs, bling highlight foreign leader gift list.(tags: American_Presidency)
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The nun who launched the Vatican’s Web site is at work on a MySpace for Catholics.(tags: Christianity Social_Networking)
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For 30 years Rick Steves has taught smart European travel. This website — like his guidebooks, TV series and radio program — is dedicated to exactly that. We hope the information here helps turn your travel dreams into smooth, affordable reality.
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Established by St. Francis Xavier University in 1959, the Coady International Institute is world-renowned as a centre of excellence in community-based development. The Institute was named in honour of Rev. Dr. Moses Coady, a prominent founder of the Antig
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The Institute for Policy Research (IPR) is an interdisciplinary public policy research institute founded in 1968 at Northwestern University. Our mission is to stimulate and support excellent social science research on significant public policy issues and(tags: Social_Capital)
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Travel Agency GLS has been established in 1997. Nowadays, it is one of the leading travel agencies in Uzbekistan, working as for inbound as for outbound tourism.(tags: Uzbekistan)
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Hindi and Urdu are the same spoken language, but are written in entirely different alphabets for religious and political reasons. Pashtu, Pashto are Pukhtu really a family of languages, rather than a unified language, spoken by Pathan tribes in Pakistan a
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Infosystem Mongolei was established in November 1993 as the first information base on Mongolia in the Internet. Its full title ran: “Infosystem Mongolei - An Internet-based Journal on Mongolian Affairs”. At the beginning, it used to be a gopher server w(tags: Mongolia)
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The Synergos Institute is an independent nonprofit organization dedicated to the development of effective, sustainable and locally based solutions to poverty. Synergos is a force for reducing poverty in the developing world. We believe that poverty is the(tags: Poverty)
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Increased contribution of Enterprise Development (ED) to poverty elimination through equitable and sustainable growth.(tags: Poverty Social_Entrepreneurship)
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“Who Are the Question-makers?: A Participatory Evaluation Handbook” is the first in a new handbook series being launched by the UNDP Office of Evaluation and Strategic Planning (OESP). This series aims to provide development practitioners with tools, exam(tags: Social_Entrepreneurship)
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DIY Map is free for personal, educational, and non-commercial use, though donations and links back to this page are always appreciated.
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An illustration for the Columbia Law Review about a disputed election with more than one parallel to the disputed election of 2000.(tags: American_History Elections)
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Capable Communities is a website created by MSU’s Office of University Outreach & Engagement. The name of this website, “Capable Communities,” is inspired by our vision of what a vibrant and strong community should be.(tags: Community)
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…improves educational results for children, youth, and adults by providing research and development assistance in delivering equitable, high-quality educational programs. The Northwest Regional Educational Laboratory (NWREL) provides research and develo(tags: Pacific_Northwest Community)
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Social Impact is a global social enterprise dedicated to helping international agencies, civil society and governments become more effective agents of positive social and economic change.(tags: Social_Entrepreneurship)
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A process for determining assets in the individual and in the community is provided. It begins by asking the reader to perform a self-assessment to determine personal assets. The text then explores ways to map one’s community, to identify the needs, stren(tags: Asset_Mapping)
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Two approaches to citizen engagement are asset mapping, in which communities focus on their strengths and resources instead of problems and deficiencies, and systems thinking, which considers how the interdependence of issues affects whole systems.(tags: Asset_Mapping Social_Entrepreneurship)
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The Southern Rural Development Center seeks to strengthen the capacity of the region’s 29 land-grant institutions to address critical contemporary rural development issues impacting the well-being of people and communities in the rural South.(tags: Rural)
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The northeast corner of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) is home to one of Africa’s richest goldfields. Competition to control the gold mines and trading routes has spurred the bloody conflict that has gripped this area since the start of the Cong(tags: Congo-Kinshasa Natural_Resources)
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The Nonprofit Quarterly is a unique print magazine that leaders count on to provide them with values based management information and proven practices. Each issue focuses on a theme of critical importance and provides you with the cutting edge, relevant a(tags: NGO)
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The Connecticut Assets Network (CAN) is a private, nonprofit organization promoting strength-based and resiliency building strategies for positive youth and community development. CAN receives funding from the Connecticut State Department of Mental Health(tags: Asset_Mapping Connecticut)
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The Institute of Development Studies is a leading global organisation for research, teaching and communications on international development.(tags: Sustainable_Development)
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Action Evaluation is a new method of evaluation, one that focuses on defining, monitoring, and assessing success. Rather than waiting until a project concludes, Action Evaluation supports project leaders, funders, and participants as they collaboratively(tags: Monitoring)
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The Asset-Based Community Development Institute (ABCD), established in 1995 by the Community Development Program at Northwestern University’s Institute for Policy Research, is built upon three decades of community development research by John Kretzmann an(tags: Asset_Mapping)
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“This handbook is about how to use action research in workplace education programs. It was based on a project funded by the National Literacy Secretariat and is crafted around the idea that action research can help change literacy practices in teaching an(tags: Action_Research)
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Action Research (AR) represents a growing field of educational research whose chief identifying characteristic is the recognition of the pragmatic requirements of educational practitioners for organized reflective inquiry into classroom instruction. AR is(tags: Action_Research)
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Welcome to a webpage designed to serve as a guide and entry way to some of the many resources on the subject of participatory evaluation. Whether you simply want to include more stakeholders in an assessment process, or you seek to create a just, democrat(tags: Monitoring)
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Redefining Progress (RP) works with a broad array of partners to shift the economy and public policy towards sustainability.(tags: Sustainable_Development)
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The ICA and ILO initiated the Global Co-operative Campaign Against Poverty, Co-operating Out of Poverty, as a call for action to the world co-operative movement to join hands in fighting poverty. It aims to strengthen the capacity of cooperatives to make(tags: Poverty)
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ICA is an independent, non-governmental association which unites, represents and serves co-operatives worldwide. Founded in 1895, ICA has 224 member organisations from 91 countries active in all sectors of the economy. Together these co-operatives repres(tags: Institutions Microeconomics)
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Egypt has been among the first African and Arab countries which adopted cooperation and introduced it as a popular system. As early as 1908 the people of Egypt, guided by the old vanguard of cooperative leaders, set out to start pilot farmers, consumers(tags: Microeconomics Egypt)
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The ABCD Institute’s experience indicates that proposals which connect with and engage a wide range of community resources are more effective than those which involve only the staff of the lead organization. We are also convinced that non-profit org
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For more than a decade, the Center for Collaborative Planning, a center of the Public Health Institute, has worked throughout California to promote health and well-being by engaging the capacity of local communities to act based on their own solutions.(tags: Community)
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People with labels‹mentally retarded, deaf, physically handicapped, blind‹suffer far more from isolation than from their disabilities. This book suggests how we can break down some of the barriers to community, barriers created by fear or misunderstan
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The Master Teacher in Family Life Program is a training model that teaches natural leaders within poor communities the information and skills they need to 1) create an effective internal communication system to educate fellow residents about important iss(tags: Civic_Engagement Community)
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The National Association of Counties (NACo) was created in 1935 when county officials wanted to have a strong voice in the nation’s capital. More than six decades later, NACo continues to ensure that the nation’s 3066 counties are heard and understood in(tags: States)
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“AI Commons”–a worldwide portal devoted to the fullest sharing of academic resources and practical tools on Appreciative Inquiry and the rapidly growing discipline of positive change. This site is a resource for you and many of us–leaders of change, sch(tags: Asset_Mapping)
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The Collection contains high quality rural community development materials funded by the Kellogg Foundation and other selected sponsors of recognized rural programs. Guidebooks, manuals, workshop materials, reports, books, and videos are included. A major
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The purpose of the National Association of Towns and Townships (NATaT) is to strengthen the effectiveness of town and township government. NATaT does this by educating lawmakers and public policy officials about how small town governments operate and by a
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The National Center for Small Communities (NCSC) is the only national, non-profit organization devoted exclusively to serving the leaders of America’s smaller communities.
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The Rural Policy Research Institute (RUPRI) conducts policy-relevant research and facilitates public dialogue to assist policymakers in understanding the rural impacts of public policies and programs. Many policies which are not explicitly “rural policies(tags: Rural)
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Bringing scholarly expertise to Michigan’s policymaking community is the focus of Michigan State University’s Institute for Public Policy and Social Research (IPPSR). Via IPPSR, current and future leaders meet university faculty and expert practitioners a(tags: Public_Policy)
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The Ontario Action Researcher is a freely accessible, full-text, peer-reviewed electronic journal intended for elementary, secondary, and university teachers who are concerned with exploring the unity between educational research and practice. While our p(tags: Action_Research)
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Our interest and concern is with approaches to action research which integrate action and reflection, so that the knowledge gained in the inquiry is directly relevant to the issues being studied; and in which there is increased collaboration between all t(tags: Action_Research)
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The Center for the Ethnography of Everyday Life is one of six Alfred P. Sloan centers devoted to encouraging research - through field projects, publication, and training - into everyday work and family life in the United States. Each of the centers has it(tags: Sociology)
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“Action research is the process through which teachers collaborate in evaluating their practice jointly; raise awareness of their personal theory; articulate a shared conception of values; try out new strategies to render the values expressed in their pra(tags: Action_Research)
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An on-line resource guide for those seeking to improve the use of collaborative and learning-based approaches.(tags: Natural_Resources Civic_Engagement)
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New researchers and research students are often mystified or frustrated by contradictions between the mystique and ideals of doctoral education and academic research vs. their more mundane realities. Mentors may or may not feel it appropriate to clue stud(tags: Higher_Education)
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This page provides links to definitions of numerous philosophical terms used in the context of qualitative research.(tags: Research)
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This page contains links to resources that explain the art of qualitative educational research: critiques, literature reviews, research design methodologies and other articles. The resource is intended as an aid to educational practioners as informed cons(tags: Research)
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PARnet aims to create a self-monitored, community-managed knowledge base and gateway to action research resources, connecting practitioners and scholars with each other, the literature, and other educational opportunities. It seeks to reflect the broad sp(tags: Action_Research)
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The Cornell Participatory Action Research Network (CPARN) is a network of students, staff, faculty and community members committed to the study and promotion of participatory action research (PAR) as an important framework for understanding and addressing(tags: Action_Research)
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Pact is a networked global organization that builds the capacity of local leaders and organizations to meet pressing social needs in dozens of countries around the world. Our work is firmly rooted in the belief that local communities must be the driving f(tags: Capacity_Building)
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The Impact Alliance is the first global capacity building network committed to bringing the know-how of hundreds of leading edge organizations from all sectors of development to your door. This initiative is hosted by Pact. Sign in to access high quality(tags: Capacity_Building)
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This brief note tries to unbundle some of the issues to do with capacity development and capacity. It first looks at some underlying themes that need to be kept in mind when dealing with capacity development issues. The note then sets out some of the main(tags: Capacity_Building)
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This paper is part of a series of papers and activities being carried out by UNICEF and UNDP. The aim of this paper is to review the recent literature on capacity development, to explore some of the conceptual and practical issues associated with it, and(tags: Monitoring)
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This paper pursues some of the conceptual and strategic discussion inititated in the first paper titled “Capacity Development–Why, What and How?” Recognizing that the concept is used in different ways, the paper aims to strengthen understanding of the co(tags: Capacity_Building)
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This paper investigates the approaches and methods applied to NGO capacity building in Bosnia and Herzegovina (B&H) and Kosovo during parallel and ongoing experiences of internationally determined post-conflict social, political and economic rehabilitatio(tags: Bosnia-Herzegovina Serbia)
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The first in a series on capacity devleopment, this paper gives an overview of the topic, defines the term and outlines some implications for donors and countries adopting a capacity building approach.(tags: Capacity_Building)
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Este artículo describe la evaluación de un proyecto regional para el desarrollo de capacidades en sitios múltiples, que se llevó a cabo con el objeto de fortalecer la planificación, seguimiento y evaluación en el campo de la investigación agrícola(tags: Monitoring Capacity_Building)
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We aim to bring about and support authentic, coherent and effective development practice amongst people, organisations and institutions working towards those forms of social transformation that most benefit the poor and the marginalised.(tags: South_Africa)
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SoL, the Society for Organizational Learning, is an intentional learning community composed of organizations, individuals, and local SoL communities around the world. We are a not-for-profit, member-governed corporation.(tags: Capacity_Building)
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This tool looks at the capacity of donor agencies to build capacity by evaluating the frameworks and theories that are operating (or not) and harmonizing policy and practice. The tool examines 5 areas: strategy, process, procedure, incentives and impact.(tags: Capacity_Building Donors)
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When CADECO was beginning our OD practice we experimented with a number of assessment tools. We met some challenges most of them as they were mainly borrowed either from the private sector sector or the North. We therefore embarked on formulating our own(tags: Capacity_Building)
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Although cooperative, interorganizational networks have become a common mechanism for delivery of public services, evaluating their effectiveness is extremely complex and has generally been neglected. To help resolve this problem, the paper discusses the(tags: Capacity_Building)
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This often-cited report first discusses the characteristics of formal knowledge networks, then investigates the extent to which existing Canadian networks fit this description, and finally offers some overall conclusions and recommendations for action. De(tags: Social_Networking)
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This paper is particularly helpful in constructing partnerships and determining how benefits can be gained through networking and the legal and logistical challenges therein. A helpful membership “ckecklist” aids participant conceptualization of pote(tags: Asset_Mapping)
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If connecting—the essential act of making networks—is a human instinct, what practical knowledge can there be about how social networks form and function? Is networking something we just do, or is it something about which we can be more intentional?(tags: NGO)
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Making Knowledge Networks Work for the Poor is an initiative that seeks to improve the integration and co-ordination internationally of information and knowledge resources on appropriate technology. The overall aim of the project is ‘to improve the integr(tags: Capacity_Building)
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Networking is currently recommended as particularly suitable for NGOs to improve performance and enhance impact. Since many NGOs are small and dispersed, networking is commonly seen as a coat-effective means to share information and spread knowledge about(tags: NGO)
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Lessons Learned from Supporting National and Regional Networks on Legal, Ethical and Human Rights Dimensions of HIV/AIDS
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Civil society groups and organizations form networks to pursue aspirations for sustainable development and democratic governance that they cannot achieve alone. Networks can enhance the power and influence of citizen voice in advocating for policies and i(tags: Capacity_Building NGO)
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The Partnering Toolbook is a neatly arranged synthesis of the partnering process. Applicable to the public, private and civil society sectors, this guide illustrates the various roles played and options encountered in building partnerships. The Toolbook(tags: NGO)
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A succinct article that identifies the major networking themes and demonstrates how a democratic, participatory structure is essential to a social development network?s success. The sections on ?Organization and Management? and ?Leadership and Participat(tags: NGO)
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This extensive document covers a variety of issues with relevance to NGO networking. Topics include:
Network categories
Information flow in networks
Developmental stages of NGO networks
Networking and the individual
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What are We Learning? The document makes observations about progress and challenges of capacity development programs.(tags: Capacity_Building)
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For over 10 years, The New England Complex Systems Institute (NECSI) has been instrumental in the development of complex systems science and its applications. NECSI conducts research, education, knowledge dissemination, and community development around th(tags: Sociology)
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The African Youth Parliament (AYP) is a continental network of young leaders, peace builders and social activists from 50 African countries working in promoting and advocating for youthful solutions to Africa’s developmental challenges. Launched at the hi
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SANGONeT was founded in 1987, and over the past 18 years has developed into a dynamic civil society organisation with a history closely linked to the social and political changes experienced by South Africa during its transition to democracy. SANGONeT is(tags: South_Africa)
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The South African National NGO Coalition, (SANGOCO), emerged in 1995 to coordinate NGO input into the Government policy and ensure that the rich traditions of civil society - forged in the resistance to apartheid - continue to serve the people of South Af(tags: South_Africa)
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At the invitation of the Government, the Special Rapporteur undertook a visit to the
Republic of Uzbekistan from 24 November to 6 December 2002 during which he met various
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The internet and email aid users in maintaining their social networks and provide pathways to help when people face big decisions.
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Have the core discussion networks of Americans changed in the past two decades? In 1985, the General Social Survey (GSS) collected the first nationally representative data on the confidants with whom Americans discuss important matters. In the 2004 GSS th
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The GSS (General Social Survey) is an almost annual [See Note 1], “omnibus,” personal interview survey of U.S. households conducted by the National Opinion Research Center (NORC) with James A. Davis, Tom W. Smith, and Peter V. Marsden as principal investi
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The ISSP is a continuing annual programme of cross-national collaboration on surveys covering topics important for social science research. It brings together pre-existing social science projects and coordinates research goals, thereby adding a cross-nati
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New rules for getting along in an endlessly wired, ruthlessly crowded, sexually libertarian city.(tags: NYC Urban_Studies)
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Europe’s Muslims More Moderate.(tags: International Public_Opinion)
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Our mission at SSIR is to share substantive insights and practical experiences that will help those who do the important work of improving society do it even better. The work of SSIR is guided by our values. “Social innovation” stands in our name for a re(tags: Social_Entrepreneurship)
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In an accompanying piece to Twelve things journalists need to remember to be good economic reporters, Berkeley economics professor Brad DeLong teams up with journalism professor Susan Rasky on a quick guide for economists who talk to journalists and want
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Berkeley economics professor Brad DeLong teams up with journalism professor Susan Rasky on a quick guide for journalists who talk to economists and want to be in the information — rather than disinformation — business.
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Sportvision, a company based in New York City, debuted its “1st and Ten” system on September 27, 1998, and football fans everywhere rejoiced! Sportvision provides ESPN and Fox Sports with the ability to enhance their football telecasts with this technolog(tags: Football)
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The ACSPRI Centre for Social Research (ACSR) was established through a joint initiative by the Research School of Social Sciences (RSSS) and the Australian Consortium for Social and Political Research Incorporated (ACSPRI). The Centre is supported by a ma(tags: Australia)
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The Institute for Sociology at the University of Graz is a teaching and research institute with an academic staff of about 15. The department for “Macro-sociological Analyses and Methods of Empirical Social Research”, established within the institute in(tags: Austria)
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The Administration of Planning and Statistics of the Ministry of Flanders aims at furthering and supporting future-oriented, integrated action of the Flemish Government by: exploring the external and internal contexts in which the Flemish Government opera(tags: Belgium)
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The IWEPS is a public-interest body endowed with a judicial personality. It has a general role of assistance in decision making, which it carries out both by means of a transverse scientific function and a strategic-advice function. The transverse scienti(tags: Belgium)
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O Instituto Universitário de Pesquisas do Rio de Janeiro - IUPERJ - é um centro de pesquisa e pós-graduação em ciências sociais de excelência reconhecida no Brasil e no indexexterior. Nossas atividades de ensino e pesquisa cobrem um amplo espectro(tags: Brazil)
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Founded in 1994, the Agency for Social Analyses (ASA) is an independent, non-profit making public policy oriented Think-Tank organization. The ASA has its own research, interviewing, coding and analytical resources(tags: Bulgaria)
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The Carleton University Survey Centre was established in 1978 primarily as a quality polling service for the news media. While the research activities of the centre have expanded in recent years, a tradition of election polling has continued, with the cen(tags: Canada)
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The National Centre for Social Research (NatCen) is the largest independent social research institute in Britain. We design, carry out and analyse research studies in the fields of social and public policy - including extensive research among members of t(tags: UK)
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Centro de Estudios Públicos (Center of Public Studies) -CEP- is a private non partisan non profit academic foundation. It is engaged in cultivating, analyzing, and disseminating the values and principles on which a free and democratic order is based. The(tags: Chile)
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The Centre for Survey Research and Methodology (ZUMA) in Mannheim offers consultation services on the setting up, conducting and analyzing of social science studies for those working in social research. The center conducts its own research, facilitates ac(tags: Germany)
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A research team archiving socio-political data and conducting research in political sociology, with an emphasis on quantitative survey research.(tags: France)
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Non-governmental organization “Levada Analytical Center”/ “Levada-Center” was established in 2002. Today it is one of the largest full-service agencies carrying out public opinion and market research. The key personnel are the founders of the comp(tags: Russia)
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El Departamento de Economía (DE-FCS) surge de esta reorganización y concentra las actividades de investigación y docencia en Economía. A nivel de grado es responsable de los cursos curriculares en Economía de las licenciaturas en Ciencia Política, S(tags: Uruguay)
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El Instituto de Estadística es un Instituto de Investigación de la Facultad de Ciencias Económicas y de Administración de la Universidad de la República. Fue fundado en el año 1942 como ámbito de estudio, actualización y elaboración de trabajos e(tags: Uruguay)
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When it was first founded in 1928, the Institute of Social Sciences of the Academia Sinica was composed of four divisions: Law and Institutions, Ethnology, Economics, and Sociology. Establishing the Institute of Sociology (IOS) as a separate body, however(tags: Taiwan)
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The Department of Sociology at Umeå University was established in 1966. It has grown steadily since then, and now employs 65 people and has about 500 undergraduates.(tags: Sweden)
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Assigned to the Ministerio de la Presidencia, the Centro de Investigaciones Sociológicas (CIS) is an independent entity established to study Spanish society, mainly through public opinion polls. Its present name and organisation date back to 1977, althou(tags: Spain)
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SWS was established in August 1985 as a private non-stock, nonprofit social research institution. Its members, called Fellows, are social scientists in economics, political science, sociology, statistics, market research, and other fields.(tags: Philippines)
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The Norwegian Social Science Data Services (NSD) is a national resource centre servicing the research community. Its main objective is to secure easy access for the Norwegian research community to data and to provide various services.(tags: Norway)
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The Faculty of Social Sciences is one of the largest academic units of the University of Ljubljana with over 4.000 students and more than 20 undergraduate and graduate programs in political science, sociology, communication, and cultural studies.(tags: Slovenia)
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The Department of Marketing is part of the College of Business, the largest provider of undergraduate and postgraduate business education in New Zealand, and is located on the University’s Palmerston North campus. The Department offers both internal and e(tags: New_Zealand)
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As New Zealand’s first university, founded in 1869, Otago has earned an international reputation for the quality of its research and teaching.(tags: New_Zealand)
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The Academy was founded in 1954 by Australian Fellows of the Royal Society of London with the distinguished physicist Sir Mark Oliphant as founding President. It was granted a Royal Charter establishing the Academy as an independent body but with governme(tags: Academies_of_Science Australia)
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El Instituto de Mercadotecnia y Opinión (IMO) es un organismo dedicado a medir la opinión pública de forma científica, a través de la recolección del pensamiento de la sociedad.(tags: Mexico)
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The NHK Broadcasting Culture Research Institute, was established in 1946 and has four divisions, including the Public Opinion Research Division responsible for the Japanese ISSP. As the only public broadcaster in Japan, NHK has long been a keen observer o(tags: Japan)
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The B. I. Cohen Institute for Public Opinion Research is a university institute that combines the academic development of the theory and methodology of surveys with conducting independent public opinion surveys of the highest scientific level. The Institu(tags: Israel)
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The Social Science Research Centre was established in 1961 to promote and develop research by the staff of the (then) Departments of Sociology, and Social Policy and Social Work, UCD. Members of the Centre now include staff members from the School of Soci(tags: Ireland)
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TÁRKI Social Research Institute Inc. (www.tarki.hu) has 20 years tradition of empirical social science research in Hungary. Its profile includes research on a wide range of issues related to social stratification, labour markets, income distribution, con(tags: Hungary)
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The Institute of Sociology is engaged in the pursuit of research into contemporary society and in the provision of post-graduate education in the field of sociology. It conducts ongoing and one-time empirical surveys, comparative research studies, public(tags: Czech_Republic)
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The Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic (ASCR) was established in 1992 by the Czech National Council (Act No. 283/1992 of the Collection of Acts) as the Czech successor of the former Czechoslovak Academy of Sciences. ASCR is the leading non-universi(tags: Academies_of_Science Czech_Republic)
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La Fundación Global Democracia y Desarrollo es una institución privada sin fines de lucro dedicada a formular propuestas innovadoras de naturaleza estratégica y coyuntural sobre temas relevantes de interés nacional, elevar la calidad del debate nacion(tags: Dominican_Republic)
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How much does a family of four need to earn per year to live the upper-middle-class American dream? Forbes.com looks at a major metro region in each of the 50 states and estimates such expenses as primary and secondary homes, private education, taxes, uti(tags: Microeconomics)
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A famed neoconservative switches sides on the Iraq war — and all hell breaks loose.(tags: Anti-War)
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The Finnish Social Science Data Archive (FSD) is a national resource centre for social science research and teaching. FSD provides a variety of services ranging from data archiving and dissemination to information service. Its primary goal is to increase(tags: Finland)
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Statistics Finland is one of Finland’s oldest government agencies. It has a long and strong history, but its commitment to continuous development keeps it abreast with the time.(tags: Finland)
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The University of Tampere is multidisciplinary and committed to scientific research and to advanced teaching. The hallmark of the university is sound, diverse research and teaching focussed on society, its economy, administration and culture and on the he(tags: Finland Universities:Foreign)
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“Eight Ways to Kill Someone by Using an iPod Nano, According to Ex-Marine Brad Collum” [McSweeney’s](tags: Random)
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Lego built a global empire out of little plastic blocks, then conquered the wired world with a robot kit called Mindstorms. So when the time came for an upgrade, they turned to their obsessed fans — and rewrote the rules of the innovation game.
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The key to Netflix’s lean operations is its lightweight, versatile mailer. Here’s how 7 years of tweaking paid off.
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I promise, this recipe is nowhere near as trashy as it sounds. Or is it? I’ve been pumped so full of cold medicine for the past week my judgment is likely impaired. The lively taste buds that used to inhabit my mouth are now a frozen tundra, deadened from(tags: Gastronomy)
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Drunken cell-phone calls on campus—and online.(tags: Communication)
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Join the gang in this Seinfeld Google Maps Mashup. Address and locations are from the actual Seinfeld scripts, observations, your input, and website descriptions. Since some address are from the scripts, they may not make perfect sense in a real life.
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Welcome to the International Sociological Association (ISA), a non-profit association for scientific purposes in the field of sociology and social sciences. The ISA was founded in 1949 under the auspices of UNESCO. The goal of the ISA, is to represent soc(tags: Sociological_Associations)
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The European Sociological Association (ESA) aims to facilitate sociological research, teaching and communication on European issues, and to give sociology a voice in European affairs.(tags: EU Sociological_Associations)
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Die Österreichische Gesellschaft für Soziologie (ÖGS) ist ein Berufs- und Interessenverband für SoziologInnen in Österreich.(tags: Austria Sociological_Associations)
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Recognizing that sociology has much to offer in helping to understanding life in the world today, it is the mission of the EJS to bring sociological knowledge to the public in an easily accessible format.
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The Flemish Sociological Association (Vlaamse Vereniging voor Sociologie) was established on 17 december 1975. Its goal was and still is defined as promoting the practise and development of sociology and advancing the professional interests of sociologist(tags: Belgium Sociological_Associations)
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The University Association for Contemporary European Studies (UACES) provides an independent forum for informed debate and discussion of European affairs. It is directly involved in promoting research and teaching in European Studies.(tags: EU)
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Our Society Today contains news articles, interviews with directors of major ESRC investments, and focus pieces that identify science in society. The section aims to present a balanced view over some of the areas in which social science really does make a
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Social Science Information System based at the University of Amsterdam(tags: Sociology)
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Search or browse our listing of 363 Internet sites of numeric Social Science statistical data, data catalogs, data libraries, social science gateways, addresses and more.(tags: Research)
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The purpose of the IVSA is to promote the study, production, and use of visual images, data, and materials in teaching, research, and applied activities, and to foster the development and use of still photographs, film, video, and electronically tra
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Under the direction of one of Turkey’s leading family-run foundations, the Hac? Ömer Foundation (VAKSA), the Sabanc? Group established Sabanc? University in July 1994. More than fifty academicians from 22 different countries, students, and individuals(tags: Universities:Foreign Turkey)
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DE?K is a non-profit, private sector organization established in 1986 by the nine principal private sector institutions in Turkey. The wide constituencies of its founding institutions enable DE?K to have broad access to the Turkish corporate sector.(tags: Turkey)
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GIS (Graphical Information Systems) and Mapping technologies have grown in popularity in recent years, proportional to their decrease in cost. With the recent advent of GoogleMaps, YahooMaps and Microsoft’s Virtual Earth API, all available for free on t
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Monitoring human rights and the rule of law in Europe.(tags: EU Civil_Rights)
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The European University Institute was created in 1972 by the Member States of the founding European Communities. Its main objective is to provide advanced academic training to Ph.D students and to promote research at the highest level.(tags: EU Universities:Foreign)
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In keeping with the longstanding social commitment of its founder, Reinhard Mohn, the Bertelsmann Stiftung is dedicated to serving the common good. The belief that competition and civic involvement form an essential basis for social progress is central t
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As an independent international association, the European Foundation Centre (EFC) is the gathering point for independent funders active in and with Europe. Foundations and corporate citizens from all over Europe and the world are members and partners of
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The Philippine Social Science Council (PSSC) is a private, non-stock, non-profit organization of professional social science associations and social science research and instructional institutions in the Philippines.(tags: Philippines)
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The aim of this representative survey in selected states in Europe, America and Asia was to elucidate the views of various populations concerning the question “What defines a world power in the 21st century” and, in the process of doing so, to attempt(tags: IR)
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INEKO Institute is a non-governmental non-profit organization established in support of economic and social reforms which aim to remove barriers to the long-term positive development of the Slovak economy and society.(tags: Slovakia)
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The European University Association, as the representative organisation of both the European universities and the national rectors’ conferences, is the main voice of the higher education community in Europe.(tags: EU Universities:Foreign)
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WAPOR was founded in 1947 by a group of experts and scholars interested in promoting and
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The World Values Surveys were designed to provide a comprehensive measurement of all major areas of human concern, from religion to politics to economic and social life and two dimensions dominate the picture: (1) Traditional/ Secular-rational and (2) Su
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Founded in 1971 as the Association of Voluntary Action Scholars, the Association for Research on Nonprofit Organizations and Voluntary Action (ARNOVA) is a neutral, open forum committed to strengthening the research community in the emerging field of nonp
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The Cultural Studies Association of Australasia represents cultural studies practitioners in Australia, New Zealand and the region. Among other activities, the CSAA publishes this extensive website, organises an annual conference, and advocates for the fi(tags: Sociological_Associations Australia)
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AON was established in 1996 to facilitate the membership of Australian and Oceanic researchers in the International Rural Sociology Association (IRSA). Because the Australia/Pacific/Oceania region has not had a rural sociology association, it was rather d(tags: Australia Sociological_Associations)
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The European Society for Rural Sociology (ESRS), founded in 1957, is the leading European association of scientists who are involved in the study of agriculture and fishery, food production and consumption, rural development and change, rurality and cultu(tags: Sociological_Associations)
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We use the study of changes towards sustainable development in rural Europe as a means of illuminating the shape and dynamics of European knowledge society more generally. We define a knowledge society as one which contains not just one but a plurality of(tags: Sustainable_Development Rural)
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The Rural Sociological Society (RSS), its officers and members, welcomes you to our place in cyberspace. The RSS is a professional social science association that promotes the generation, application and dissemination of sociological knowledge. The Societ(tags: Sociological_Associations)
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DANS is the national organisation responsible for storing and providing permanent access to research data from the humanities and social sciences. To this end DANS collaborates with researchers and encourages them to work in partnership with one another.(tags: Netherlands)
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The Eastern Sociological Society is a non profit organization dedicated to promoting excellence in sociological scholarship and instruction. The ESS sponsors a professional journal (Sociological Forum), a four-day Annual Meeting in the spring, a newslette(tags: Sociological_Associations)
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The Sociological Association of Ireland (SAI) is the professional association for sociologists researching and studying Irish society as well as sociologists working in Ireland and abroad who have an interest in Irish society(tags: Sociological_Associations)
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The Southern Rural Sociological Association (SRSA) is an educational and scientific organization established to foster the study and understanding of rural sociology and its application to the Southern region of the United States.(tags: Sociological_Associations)
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The District of Columbia Sociological Society seeks to enhance the scientific quality, policy impact, and public visibility of sociology as a discipline and as a community of scholars and practitioners.
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The Michigan Sociological Association (MSA) is a professional association for sociologists in Michigan. It publishes the Michigan Sociological Review (MSR) and sponsors an annual meeting each Fall.(tags: Michigan Sociological_Associations)
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The purpose of the Wisconsin Sociological Association is to stimulate discussion of sociological issues, to improve the instruction of sociology at all levels of the educational system, to encourage the development and funding of sociological research, an(tags: Wisconsin Sociological_Associations)
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The Mississippi Teacher Corps is a two-year program, similar to the Peace Corps, that recruits college graduates to teach in the Mississippi Delta. The program is designed for non-education majors and offers a host of benefits, including teacher training
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The Commission on Applied and Clinical Sociology was established in 1995 by the Society for Applied Sociology and the Sociological Practice Association to develop, promote and support quality sociological education and practice in applied and clinical are(tags: Sociological_Associations)
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The Great Plains Sociological Association is an organization of professional sociologists and students from colleges and universities in South Dakota, North Dakota, Iowa, Minnesota, and Nebraska.
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The oldest professional association in Virginia, VSSA is an interdisciplinary organization, the membership of which includes: Anthropology, Business, Economics, Geography, History , Political Science, and Sociology, along with adjunct fields.(tags: Virginia Sociological_Associations)
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The purpose of this website is to provide information about state sociological associations by providing a list of current officers, a copy of past or future programs, and a link to the association website (if one is available). We also provide informatio(tags: Sociological_Associations)
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The project MORESS (”Mapping of Research in European Social Sciences and Humanities”) is an important contribution to the endeavour to establish a European Research Area in the social sciences and humanities. It has been conceived, organized and coo
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The Club of Rome is a global think tank and centre of innovation and initiative. As a non-profit, non govermental organisation (NGO), it brings together scientists, economists, businessmen, international high civil servants, heads of state and former head(tags: Institutions Globalization)
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The question of a Global Ethic stems from Professor Hans Küng’s book “Global Responsibility” (1990), which was first published in English in 1991. This book developed programmatically the idea that the religions of the world can make a contribution to(tags: Values Globalization)
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Founded in 1970, the Council for European Studies (CES) is the leading academic organization for the study of Europe. The Council aims to produce and recognize outstanding, multidisciplinary research in European studies through a range of programs, includ(tags: EU)
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CEFRES is a research institute under the authority of the Department for Scientific, Academic and Research Cooperation of the French Ministry of Foreign Affairs (Directorate General for International Cooperation and Development). Its main purpose is to d(tags: France Czech_Republic)
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Biograf is a small Czech and Slovak sociological journal. We publish empirical, methodological as well as theoretical articles devoted to qualitative research - biographical approaches, grounded theory, ethnomethodology, discourse analysis, conversational
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The Knowledge Base Social Sciences in Eastern Europe is designed to provide an ongoing overview of the development of social sciences in Central and Eastern Europe. It intends to offer a living and long term mapping of the disciplines in the region. It gi(tags: East_Europe)
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The Library of the Universiteit van Amsterdam comprises all libraries of the university, including those of the Academic Medical Centre and of the Academic Centre for Dentistry Amsterdam. The libraries share a common goal, work in close collaboration and(tags: Netherlands)
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The European Science Foundation promotes high quality science at a European level. It acts as a catalyst for the development of science by bringing together leading scientists and funding agencies to debate, plan and implement pan-European initiatives.(tags: EU)
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The Academia Europaea is a European, non-governmental association acting as an Academy. Our members are scientists and scholars who collectively aim to promote learning, education and research.(tags: EU)
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Since 1923, the Northwest Scientific Association (NSA) has existed for the purpose of promoting scientific research and disseminating scientific knowledge.(tags: Scientific_Associations)
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The Royal Society is the independent scientific academy of the UK dedicated to promoting excellence in science. The Society plays an influential role in national and international science policy and supports developments in science engineering and technol(tags: Scientific_Associations UK)
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The Association of Academies of Sciences in Asia(AASA) is a non-profit international organization of the Asian and Australasian region,comprising eighteen academies with science and technology interests.(tags: Academies_of_Science East_Asia)
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We see all kinds of behavior in New York, and as citizens, we practice our own varieties. Call it research, this constant bumping-into, hustling-over, spitted-on; some people behave well in this city, others don’t. The Editors complied this guide to hel(tags: NYC Urban_Studies)
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The Norwegian Council for Africa (formerly the Norwegian Council for Southern Africa) has since 1967 spearheaded the Norwegian struggle against apartheid, and worked for democracy and justice in Southern Africa.
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Each year, graduate students entering the academic job market worry that they will suffer due to uncontrollable macroeconomic risk. Given the importance of general human capital and the relative ease of publicly observing productivity in academia, one mig(tags: Macroeconomics Microeconomics)
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The Academy’s mission is to ensure the quality of scientific research in the Netherlands. The fundamental research carried out today will provide a basis for the applied research of tomorrow and, in turn, for the practical application of science in the fu(tags: Academies_of_Science Netherlands)
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To understand the Universe we must start from the here and now.(tags: Astronomy)
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Indian National Science Academy plays a crucial role in promoting, recognizing and rewarding excellence. Another important task is to publish journals, organize scientific discussions and bring out proceedings and monographs.(tags: India Academies_of_Science)
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Social Explorer is dedicated to providing demographic information in an easily understood format: data maps. We have created hundreds of interactive data maps of the United States.(tags: Geography:American)
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The U.S. Census Bureau, due to issues related to the separation of church and state, does not ask questions related to faith or religion on the decennial census. Accordingly, there are few sources of comprehensive data on church membership and religious a(tags: Geography:American)
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The International Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS) is the world’s leading authority on political-military conflict.(tags: Security)
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Use the Latvian Institute (LI) as your starting point for getting to know Latvia. Our web site offers background information, publications, e-presentations and videos about our country. We also provide links to other Latvian government and private Interne(tags: Latvia)
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Armenian Academy of Sciences (since 1993 - the National Academy of Sciences of the Republic of Armenia) was founded on 25 November 1943 on the basis of the USSR Academy of Sciences’ Armenian Branch, organized in 1935.(tags: Armenia Academies_of_Science)
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IAP is a global network of the world’s science academies, launched in 1993. Its primary goal is to help member academies work together to advise citizens and public officials on the scientific aspects of critical global issues. IAP is particularly interes(tags: Academies_of_Science)
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The Association for the Study of Nationalities (ASN) is the only scholarly association devoted to the study of ethnicity and nationalism from Europe to Eurasia. With hundreds of members in more than fifty countries, ASN brings together the world’s leading(tags: Sociological_Associations)
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The Institute for International Economics is a private, nonprofit, nonpartisan research institution devoted to the study of international economic policy. Since 1981 the Institute has provided timely, objective analysis and concrete solutions to key inter(tags: Macroeconomics Globalization)
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mediothek afghanistan promotes peace building in five provinces of Afghanistan and is dedicated to rebuilding the fabric of Afghan society destroyed by decades of war. Mediothek’s projects are based on the premises that peace and democracy are complex c(tags: Afghanistan)
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Royal Nepal Academy of Science and Technology (RONAST) is an independent apex body established in 1982 to promote of science and technology in the country. The Academy is entrusted with four major objectives: advancement of science and technology for all-(tags: Nepal Academies_of_Science)
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To conduct research in basic and technological sciences; to undertake nationwide integrated surveys on natural resources and ecological environment; to provide the country with scientific data and advice for governmental decision-making, and to undertake(tags: China Academies_of_Science)
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The Initiative for Global Development (IGD) is a nationwide network of business and civic leaders who believe that significantly reducing extreme global poverty is the most critical step the United States can take to improve security and economic vitality(tags: Globalization Poverty)
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Social Fusion incubates bold entrepreneurs and enterprises that produce long-term, positive impact in emerging markets. Our vision is a sustainable future built by empowered entrepreneurs. Our contribution to this future is to create a global network of l(tags: Social_Entrepreneurship)
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RSS is the largest applied research institution, consultation and technical service provider in Jordan, with more than 600 members of staff.(tags: Jordan)
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The Thai Academy of Science and Technology (TAST) was established in 1997. It was organised by a group of scientists and technologist whose works have been continously recognised and whose experiences and interests are vital to the development of nation(tags: Thailand Academies_of_Science)
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The National Academy of Science and Technology (NAST) originated as the brainchild of several scientists in the University of the Philippines Diliman. Among the notable members of this small group were Dr. Joventino D. Soriano, a cytogeneticist; Dr. Gr(tags: Academies_of_Science Philippines)
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The Royal Society of New Zealand is an independent, national academy of sciences, a federation of some 60 scientific and technological societies, and individual members. We promote a critical awareness of science and technology in schools, in industry and(tags: Academies_of_Science New_Zealand)
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The Science Council of Japan (SCJ) was established in January 1949. Although under the jurisdiction of the Prime Minister, it operates independently of the government. The SCJ, which represents some 790,000 scientists, consists of roughly 2,000 members wi(tags: Japan Scientific_Associations)
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The Kenya government is committed to maintaining economic growth that creates jobs, protect human and ecological health and promotes conservation of natural resources for the future generation. This is also the expectation of the majority of Kenyan people(tags: Kenya Academies_of_Science)
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The UNCST is a semi autonomous government agency established by Statute No.1 of 1990. It replaced the former National Research Council that was set up in 1970 by Presidential Decree to guide and coordinate research and development in Uganda. The parent Mi(tags: Uganda Academies_of_Science)
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The Center for International Relations (CIR) is an independent, non-governmental establishment dedicated to the study of Polish foreign policy and those issues of international politics, which are of crucial importance to Poland. The Center’s primary ob(tags: Poland)
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The Latvian Centre for Human Rights (LCHR) was established in 1993 with a view to promoting human rights and tolerance in Latvia through monitoring, research, advocacy, legal assistance and training activities. In recent years, LCHR main focus has been on(tags: Latvia)
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The Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts (by short SASA), founded in 1938, is the supreme national institution of sciences and arts. It associates scientists and artists, who have been elected as its members for their outstanding achievements in the fie(tags: Slovenia Academies_of_Science)
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The Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts is the most eminent scientific and art institution in Serbia. It was founded by Law of November 1, 1886 as the Serbian Royal Academy. SRA was the successor to the Serbian Learned Society with which it merged in 18(tags: Academies_of_Science Serbia)
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(not including systems which serve a single hub station or where fare is calculated by distance – i.e., excluding most Commuter or Regional Rail.)(tags: Transportation Cities)
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A gauge of telecommunications density, from the institution of the area code system in 1947, to the present. As dynamic indexes of population, perhaps area codes could be the dot-com sucessor to congressional districts, their boundaries decided by capital(tags: Geography:American Communication)
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A nonprofit and international organization, The Congress of Democratic Uzbekistan (CDU), which unites hundreds of democratic activists in Uzbekistan and has thousands of supporters in the country and many dozens of members in the US and Europe, advances(tags: Uzbekistan)
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What to watch out for when picking photos for your marketing materials.(tags: Marketing)
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Forget the meaningless cliches and empty promises. What really matters is what customers take away about a business.(tags: Marketing)
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PDPhoto.org is a repository for free public domain photos. Unless something is clearly marked as being copyrighted, you can assume it is free to use. But if you intend to use an image you find here for commercial use, please be aware that standards for su(tags: Photography)
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I hate capri pants. Also: advertising people, PR people, marketing people, salespeople, real estate people, all female lawyers, most male lawyers, Streeters, midtown, the Upper East Side, the Upper West Side, fake blondes, real blondes, saline implants, s(tags: Fashion)
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Y’all, this popped collar madness has to stop. And fast. These pics have been obtained using the magic of Google. I’m (not)really sorry if anyone in the pics goes/went to school with me. Several of these poppers probably do/did. I know that many of these(tags: Fashion)
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A blog about my daily life, seinfeld, cars, websites, movies, books, gadgets, and things that i find humorous.(tags: Williams)
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Consumers will spend billions this holiday season on CDs, DVDs and machines to record and play the ubiquitous silver discs. But the inventor of the underlying technology won’t make a cent. Jim Russell, a retired scientist in Bellevue, can only shrug, sha
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USA/Canada phone prefix location lookup tool.(tags: Research)
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What is it that Palestinians really want — and what is it that really divides them?(tags: Palestine)
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This site collects unusual spellings of a particular kind, which have come to be called eggcorns. Typical examples include free reign (instead of free rein) or hone in on (instead of home in on), and many more or less common reshapings of words and expres(tags: English)
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The Internet’s most extensive collection of free Spanish learning tools.(tags: Español)
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Cognitive research on metaphoric concepts of time has focused on differences between moving ego
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What about a grammar book for this weekend? This idea may seem awfully boring, but this time the book is dealing with our old “Darija” dialect…
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This report describes AJ, a woman whose remembering dominates her life. Her memory is “nonstop, uncontrollable, and automatic.” AJ spends an excessive amount of time recalling her personal past with considerable accuracy and reliability. If given a da(tags: Psychology)
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The Piraha˜ language challenges simplistic application of Hockett’s nearly universally accepted design features of human language by showing that some of these features (interchangeability,
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Sudanic Africa is an international academic journal devoted to the presentation and discussion of historical sources on the Sudanic belt, the area between the Sahara and the Bay of Niger, the Atlantic and the Indian Oceans. The journal typically presents
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Eurames is the organizer of the European network of Middle Eastern Studies, an academic exchange or information concerning research on the Middle East. Eurames runs the Eurames Info Service via email, and will host thematic working groups and links to Eur(tags: Middle_Eastern_Studies)
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The Centre of Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies (CMEIS) was founded in 1960 by Professor Arthur Arberry to foster an interest in the Middle East, particularly the modern Middle East, amongst Cambridge scholars, students and the general public, and to sup(tags: Middle_Eastern_Studies)
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A blog about keyboarding in diverse scripts, literacy and digital literacy, and random quotes selected from the history of writing system theory.
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The London Middle East Institute (LMEI) draws upon the resources of London and SOAS to provide teaching, training, research, publication, consultancy, outreach and other services related to the Middle East. It serves as a neutral forum for the considerati(tags: UK Middle_Eastern_Studies)
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Bienvenido a la página Web del Departamento de Estudios Árabes e Islámicos de la Universidad Complutense de Madrid.(tags: Spain Middle_Eastern_Studies)
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The Serious Games Initiative is focused on uses for games in exploring management and leadership challenges facing the public sector. Part of its overall charter is to help forge productive links between the electronic game industry and projects involving(tags: Public_Policy)
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The online clearinghouse for Democratic action.(tags: Democrats)
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The Fair Use Network provides information to activists, artists, scholars, and anyone else who has questions about “IP” (intellectual property) law. Our basic purpose is to support fair use and other free expression safeguards within the law, because free(tags: Writing)
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The Freesound Project is a collaborative database of Creative Commons licensed sounds. Freesound focusses only on sound, not songs. This is what sets freesound apart from other splendid libraries like ccMixter. New to this site? Read the What is Freesound(tags: Internet)
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Words cannot begin to describe the awesome eruption that is created from mixing Mentos candy and soda. Eruptions of up to 18 feet are possible if this technique is done correctly. Steve Spangler shares this experiment from his television show… and a lin
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LarkNews was founded in Denver, Colorado, in 1956 as the local church newsletter for Flatiron Community Church, but its breadth of stories stirred wider interest, and by 1963 LarkNews was being mailed to subscribers in 44 states and Canada. Since then the(tags: Christianity)
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The disciplines of The Department of Culture Studies and Oriental Languages are History of culture, theatre and religion, Area studies of Asia , the Middle East and Africa , Oriental languages as well as several interdisciplinary subjects.(tags: Middle_Eastern_Studies Norway)
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The University of Oslo is Norway’s largest and oldest institution of higher education. It was founded in 1811 when Norway was still under Danish rule. Today the University of Oslo has approx. 30,000 students and 4,600 employees. Four Nobel Prize winners(tags: Universities:Foreign Norway)
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PRIO was founded in 1959 and became a fully independent institute in 1966. It was one of the first centres of peace research in the world, and it is Norway’s only peace research institute. Its founding and early influence were instrumental in projecting(tags: Norway World_Peace)
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As the divers scour the ocean beds, a few of its treasures float to the surface(tags: ????)
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Vietnam National University, Hanoi (VNU) is the first modern university established in Vietnam. VNU has undergone various development stages: the University of Indochina established on 16 May, 1906; Vietnam National University (November, 1945); the Univer(tags: Vietnam Universities:Foreign)
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The CSU is a leader in high-quality, accessible, student-focused higher education. With 23 campuses, 405,000 students, and 44,000 faculty and staff, we are the largest, the most diverse, and one of the most affordable university systems in the country. We(tags: Universities:California)
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The Minnesota State Colleges and Universities system comprises 32 colleges and universities, including 25 two-year colleges and seven state universities. The system is separate from the University of Minnesota.(tags: Minnesota Universities)
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The Connecticut State University System is the largest public university system in Connecticut and consists of four comprehensive universities with more than 36,000 students and 150,000 alumni. The universities offer high-quality graduate and undergraduat(tags: Universities Connecticut)
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The principal mission of the Center for Middle Eastern Studies (CMES) at the University of California at Berkeley is to enhance awareness of the Middle East and of its diverse peoples and cultures. The center promotes both specialized knowledge and public(tags: California Middle_Eastern_Studies)
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The Center for Middle Eastern Studies (CMES) at the University of Arizona (UA) was created in 1975 with federal and University support and has grown to include 81 members, 65 of whom are faculty. The Center supports and promotes Middle East studies-relate(tags: Arizona Middle_Eastern_Studies)
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The British Society for Middle Eastern Studies (popularly known as BRISMES) was established in 1973 to encourage and promote the study of the Middle East in the United Kingdom. It brings together teachers, researchers, students, diplomats, journalists and(tags: Middle_Eastern_Studies UK)
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Founded and incorporated in the District of Columbia in 1982, the Institute of Turkish Studies (ITS) is the only non-profit, private educational foundation in the United States exclusively dedicated to the support and development of Turkish Studies in Ame(tags: Turkey Washington_DC)
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Founded in 1985, The Washington Institute for Near East Policy was established to advance a balanced and realistic understanding of American interests in the Middle East. Under the guidance of a distinguished and bipartisan Board of Advisors, the Institut(tags: Think_Tanks Middle_Eastern_Studies)
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The Middle East Studies Association (MESA) is a non-political association that fosters the study of the Middle East, promotes high standards of scholarship and teaching, and encourages public understanding of the region and its peoples through programs, p(tags: Middle_Eastern_Studies)
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The Middle East Studies Program at the University of Virginia is an interdisciplinary program that coordinates and organizes events relating primarily to the Arab world, Israel, Iran and Turkey.(tags: Virginia Middle_Eastern_Studies)
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The Moshe Dayan Center for Middle Eastern and African Studies is an interdisciplinary research center devoted to the study of the modern history and contemporary affairs of the Middle East. The Center seeks to impart an understanding of Middle Eastern pas(tags: Israel Middle_Eastern_Studies)
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The Hagop Kevorkian Center for Near Eastern Studies at New York University was created in 1966 to foster the interdisciplinary study of the modern and contemporary Middle East and to enhance public understanding of the region. The Kevorkian Center’s activ(tags: NYC Middle_Eastern_Studies)
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The Middle East and North Africa together constitute a highly diverse cultural area within a world now undergoing rapid and large-scale change, particularly in the aftermath of September 11. In this context, the mission of the Center for Middle Eastern an(tags: Michigan Middle_Eastern_Studies)
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Since its formation in 1916, the School of Oriental and African Studies - or SOAS as it’s better known - has built an enviable reputation around the globe for the calibre and quality of its courses, teaching and research. Part of the University of London,(tags: UK Middle_Eastern_Studies)
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The Center for Muslim-Christian Understanding was founded in 1993 by an agreement between the Fondation pour L’Entente entre Chretiens et Musulmans, Geneva and Georgetown University to build stronger bridge of understanding between the Muslim world and th
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The Center for Middle Eastern Studies (CMES) was founded in 1954 for the purpose of furthering the study of the Middle East at Harvard University. This mandate has included a primary emphasis on the centuries since the rise of Islam and a concern
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The study of the region extending from Morocco to Kazakhstan since the rise of Islam is coordinated, encouraged, and stimulated at the University of Chicago by the Center for Middle Eastern Studies (CMES). Established in 1965, the CMES has been supported(tags: Illinois Middle_Eastern_Studies)
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CAMES’ goal to enhance understanding of the Middle East and encourage informed scholarship on the region in all academic disciplines is achieved through its program offerings, cooperative programs with other universities, its publications and the lectures(tags: Lebanon Middle_Eastern_Studies)
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Calculate and find out how to negotiate your ideal salary.(tags: Business)
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CHOICES for the 21st Century is an educational outreach program of the Watson Institute for International Studies at Brown University. Through its curricular resources, professional development programs, and special projects, CHOICES engages secondary lev
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Like all people, Arab Americans are too often described in simplistic terms. Although the Arab culture is one of the oldest on Earth, it is, in many parts of the United States, misunderstood. There are no easy, one-size-fits-all answers. Culture, language(tags: American_History)
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From algebra and coffee to guitars, optics and universities — an alphabetical reminder of what the West owes to the People of the Crescent Moon.(tags: World_History)
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The Center’s mission is to promote effective civil-military management in international humanitarian assistance, disaster response and peacekeeping through education, training, research and information programs.(tags: Relief)
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VillageReach’s mission is to save lives and improve well-being in developing countries by increasing community access to healthcare and other essential services.(tags: Poverty)
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Our mission is to address the full range of global security issues by probing the impact of economic, social, institutional and environmental conditions that affect regional stability and global security. We emphasize non-proliferation due to its conseq(tags: Security Pacific_Northwest)
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Applying the best in social science, legal and policy expertise to the complex and controversial issues raised by international migration.(tags: Immigration Population)
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Marc Lindenberg Center for Humanitarian Action, International Development and Global Citizenship is committed to contributing to a world of sustainable development, human security, good governance and responsible citizenship from the local to the global l
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To promote a more profound understanding of Mexico and the United States by fostering international exchange and collaboration among scholars, students, institutions, and communities within the framework of innovative programs in research, education and o(tags: Mexico)
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The American Academy in Rome is one of the leading American overseas centers for independent study and advanced research in the fine arts and the humanities. Inspired by their comradeship in organizing America’s contribution to the fine arts at the World’(tags: Universities:Foreign Italy)
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The W.F. Albright Institute of Archaeological Research (AIAR) in Jerusalem is the oldest American research center for ancient Near Eastern studies in the Middle East. Founded in 1900 as the American School of Oriental Research (ASOR), it was renamed in 1(tags: Israel Archaeology)
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The American Schools of Oriental Research supports and encourages the study of the peoples and cultures of the Near East, from the earliest times to the present.(tags: Middle_Eastern_Studies Archaeology)
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Mohenjo Daro, or “Mound of the Dead” is an ancient Indus Valley Civilization city that flourished between 2600 and 1900 BCE. It was one of the first world and ancient Indian cities. The site was discovered in the 1920s and lies in Pakistan’s Sindh provinc(tags: Pakistan Archaeology)
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This Web site is designed for those interested in the ongoing excavations at Çatalhöyük, Turkey. Its aim is to provide information about the activities of the Project and of the different aspects of the research being conducted at Çatalhöyük.(tags: Turkey Archaeology)
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The American Institute of Bangladesh is a consortium of US universities and colleges involved in research on Bangladesh. Our mission is to improve the scholarly understanding of Bangladesh culture and society in the United States and to promote educationa(tags: Bangladesh)
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The American Institute for Maghrib Studies (AIMS) was founded in 1984 to promote the systematic study of North Africa among interested scholars, specialists, students, and others concerned with the region. AIMS sponsors The Journal of North African Studie
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The Tangier American Legation Museum (TALM), a thriving cultural center, museum, conference center and library in the heart of the old medina in Tangier, is housed in the only historic landmark of the United States located abroad. Saved from destruction b(tags: Morocco)
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CEMAT (Centre d’études maghrébines à Tunis) is the overseas research center of the American Institute for Maghrib Studies (AIMS). It is housed in an old villa in the center of Tunis, and offers to AIMS members quiet office space, a specialized library(tags: Tunisia)
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The American Institute of Pakistan Studies (AIPS), established in 1973, is a non-profit, tax-exempt, non-partisan educational organization and a member of the Council of American Overseas Research Centers. Its mission is to encourage and support researc(tags: Pakistan)
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The American Institute for Sri Lankan Studies is a non-profit organization incorporated in 1996. The purpose of the institute is to bring together scholars from a wide range of disciplines and foster research on Sri Lanka.(tags: Sri_Lanka)
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The British Association for South Asian Studies (BASAS) is the largest UK academic association for the study of India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, Nepal, Bhutan, Maldives and the South Asian Diaspora. BASAS is now in its 20th year!(tags: South_Asia)
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Project South Asia is a Web-based digital library for improving the study and teaching of South Asia, focusing especially on India and Pakistan.(tags: South_Asia)
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The West African Research Association (WARA) was founded in 1989 to enhance collaborative research and scholarly exchange between U.S. and West African scholars, educators, and institutions and to increase knowledge about and interest in Africa in the U.S(tags: Africa)
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The African Politics Conference Group promotes recognition within professional associations of the theoretical and methodological contributions to the discipline of political scientists whose research and professional interests center largely or in part u(tags: Africa)
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MATRIX, working in cooperation with the African Studies Center at MSU, and in partnership with premiere research institutions in Africa, is pioneering the African Online Digital Library. The goal of this fully accessible online digital repository is to ad(tags: Africa)
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The African Studies Association was founded in 1957 as a non-profit organization open to all individuals and institutions interested in African affairs. Its mission is to bring together people with a scholarly and professional interest in Africa. The ASA(tags: Africa)
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To improve scholarship about Palestinian affairs, expand the pool of experts knowledgeable about the Palestinians, and strengthen linkages among Palestinian, American, and foreign research institutions and scholars.(tags: Palestine Middle_Eastern_Studies)
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Founded in 1990, the Applied Research Institute of Jerusalem (ARIJ) is a non-profit organization dedicated to promoting sustainable development in the occupied Palestinian territories and the self-reliance of the Palestinian people through greater control
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The American Academic Research Institute in Iraq (TAARII – formerly the American Association for Research in Baghdad, AARB), has been established to promote scholarly research on and in Iraq, ancient Mesopotamia. The Institute, a consortium of American(tags: Iraq)
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The American Institute of Afghanistan Studies (AIAS) is a private, non-profit organization run by scholars with the aim of promoting and encouraging the systematic study of the culture, society, land, languages, health, peoples and history of Afghanistan.(tags: Afghanistan)
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Founded in 1999, the Center for Khmer Studies (CKS) is an international, non-governmental, not-for-profit membership-based consortium of universities, organizations and individuals dedicated to study, teaching and research on Khmer civilization and the cu(tags: Cambodia)
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The American Research Institute in Turkey (ARIT) is a non-profit educational institution dedicated to promoting American and Turkish research and exchange related to Turkey in all fields of the humanities and social sciences. ARIT provides support for the(tags: Turkey)
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The American Research Center in Egypt (ARCE) is a private, nonprofit organization founded in 1948 by a consortium of educational and cultural institutions to support research on Egyptian history and culture, foster broader knowledge about Egypt among the(tags: Egypt)
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The Department of Egyptology and Ancient Western Asian Studies is a new department designed to explore what is sometimes called the birthplace of Western civilization. It builds on the strengths of Brown’s former Department of Egyptology, widening the i(tags: Archaeology Egypt)
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There must be about 5 000 000 pages using the Turkish Language on the Internet. This page presents a selection of Turkish Language sites that may be useful for Turkish Language Learning. In this way we want to create a kind of virtual town (”kent”) where(tags: Türkçe)
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American Association of Teachers of Arabic (AATA) aims to facilitate communication and cooperation between teachers of Arabic and to promote study, criticism, research and instruction in the field of Arabic language pedagogy, Arabic linguistics and Arabic(tags: ????)
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Adalah is an independent human rights organization, registered in Israel. It is a non-profit, non-governmental, and non-partisan legal center. Established in November 1996, it serves Arab citizens of Israel, numbering over one million people or close to 2(tags: Israel)
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Call for respect of human rights and fundamental freedoms of all citizens and residents of the Arab world; defend any individual whose human rights are subjected to violations which are contrary to the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, the Intern(tags: Egypt Human_Rights)
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Kav La’Oved is a non-profit organization dedicated to protecting the rights of the most disadvantaged workers in Israel, primarily: migrant workers, Palestinians from the occupation territories, personnel company employees, and new immigrants.(tags: Israel Civil_Rights)
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THE AMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF TEACHERS OF TURKIC LANGUAGES, founded in 1985 as the American Association of Teachers of Turkish, is a private, non-profit, non-political organization of individuals interested in the languages of the Turks. In 1993, the member(tags: Türkçe)
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The Sustainable Development Networking Programme (SDNP) Pakistan is a part of the Education, Communication and Knowledge Management Group of IUCN - The World Conservation Union’s Pakistan Programme. Formerly a global programme of UNDP, SDNP has been worki(tags: Sustainable_Development Pakistan)
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The Princeton Online Poetry Project is a collection of poems in various languages, synchronized to digital audio recordings of the texts, read by native speakers. Users of this interactive courseware can enhance their learning experience by access
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Music, song and dance.(tags: Middle_East World_Music)
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Best-selling author Bernard Goldberg has a new book called 100 People Who Are Screwing Up America, in which he lists… well, 100 people who are screwing up America. I guess the name is self-explanatory. Anyway, I like this idea, so, not to be outdone…(tags: People)
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A Plague on Both Your Houses(tags: Fake_News)
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The Center for Internet Studies (CIS) is an interdisciplinary unit at the University of Washington for the study of the global networked society. The Center’s work focuses on the intersection of the Internet and other information and communication technol
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The Global Trade, Transportation, and Logistics Studies Program at the University of Washington prepares students for careers in international trade and transportation systems. Through a multidisciplinary approach, GTTL provides the knowledge and skills t
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The Global Health and Justice (GHJ) Project at the School of Law is a multidisciplinary project encompassing academic and educational activities at the Law School, as well as field activities in developing countries in collaboration with the Seattle-based(tags: UW Health_Care)
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Fritz Institute is a nonprofit organization bringing private sector expertise to address complex challenges in delivering humanitarian relief to vulnerable people.
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Global Partnerships is an innovative leader in the fight against poverty around the world through microlending programs to help the poor help themselves, the development and sharing of model programs that offer sustainable solutions to poverty, and throug(tags: Microcredit)
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NPower’s mission is to ensure all nonprofit organizations can use technology to better serve their communities.(tags: NGO)
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PATH is an international, nonprofit organization that creates sustainable, culturally relevant solutions, enabling communities worldwide to break longstanding cycles of poor health. By collaborating with diverse public- and private-sector partners, we hel(tags: Health_Care)
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The Population Leadership Program brings together professionals from developing countries to expand their leadership skills, and partners with them to create systemic improvements in population issues, familyplanning, and reproductive health at the local,(tags: Inequality UW)
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The Transnational Studies Initiative explores the forms and consequences of transnationalism from a variety of analytical, normative, and practical perspectives. Our goal is to compare social dynamics and relations that cross borders and boundaries and to(tags: Population UW)
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Growing Knowledge about Globalization consolidates and grows knowledge about global transactions and develops tools and materials for displaying and transforming data for analysis and presentation by scholars, educators, and policymakers.(tags: Globalization)
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To be the University of choice in nurturing innovation and talent in science, technology, and development.(tags: Kenya Universities:Foreign)
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The United Nations Office for Outer Space Affairs (UNOOSA) is the United Nations office responsible for promoting international cooperation in the peaceful uses of outer space. The Office serves as the secretariat for the General Assembly’s only committee(tags: Space_Policy)
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Organizations in various countries established to deal with the various aspects of space matters, including policy, research, development, and engineering efforts.(tags: Space_Policy)
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The Agreement Governing the Activities of States on the Moon and Other Celestial Bodies (1979) is the infamous “Moon Treaty”. It was killed by a handful of L5 Society Society activists who were the first to see that it would outlaw property rights in the(tags: Space_Policy)
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Since 1958, the IISL has held annual colloquia on space law, the proceedings of which are published by the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics. The IISL presently has individual and institutional elected members from over 40 countries wh(tags: Space_Policy)
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The goal of this web site is to help reduce the impact of plagiarism on education and educational institutions. At present, it distributes free software to detect plagiarism and provides links to other resources.(tags: Writing)
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There’s an uneasy co–dependence between those who report disasters and those who bring relief, says BBC Developing World Correspondent David Loyn.(tags: Relief Journalism)
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Did PowerPoint make the space shuttle crash? Could it doom another mission? Preposterous as this may sound, the ubiquitous Microsoft “presentation software” has twice been singled out for special criticism by task forces reviewing the space shuttle disast(tags: Software)
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Behavioral economics explains why we procrastinate, buy, borrow, and grab chocolate on the spur of the moment.(tags: Psychology Microeconomics)
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NGO-in-a-box offers a set of peer reviewed and selected Free and Open Source software (F/OSS), tailored to the needs of NGO’s. It provides them not only with software, but also with implementation scenarios and relevant materials to support this.(tags: NGO)
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IDRC is a Canadian Crown corporation that works in close collaboration with researchers from the developing world in their search for the means to build healthier, more equitable, and more prosperous societies.
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CUSO is a leader in international cooperation. We bring Canadians and the world together to address poverty, human rights issues, HIV/AIDS, inequality, cultural loss and environmental degradation. Skilled CUSO volunteers are working to MAKE CHANGE HAPPEN
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Our mission is to enable absolutely poor people to achieve major improvements in their lifestyles which are sustainable without ongoing support from Concern. To this end we will work with the poor themselves and with local and international partners who s(tags: Relief)
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All the things I didn’t do in Granada, including botelloning.(tags: Granada)
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The mining sector is a major contributor to the Mongolian economy, accounting for about 17 percent of GDP, 65 percent of industrial value added, and 58 percent of export earnings. The formal mining sector employs over 12,000 people and the informal (artis(tags: Natural_Resources Mongolia)
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The atlas arose out of a need to gain a better understanding among Government agencies and civil society about the spatial distribution of poverty across the country. The atlas includes information on a range of different indicators of the well-being of t(tags: Tajikistan Poverty)
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The European Commission provides assistance to third countries in many different forms. In Central Asia, there are two main components – humanitarian assistance to vulnerable groups, and disaster preparedness and prevention. During the 1990s, DG Humanit
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This poverty assessment for Mongolia provides recent trends in monetary and non-monetary aspects of poverty and establishes baseline poverty information based on the first nationally representative household survey. It also analyzes poverty related issues
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REGNUM News Agency is a Russian federal news agency covering news from Russia and neighboring countries. REGNUM obtains information from its correspondents, affiliate news agencies, and partners. REGNUM news coverage embraces all the regions of Russia, ne(tags: Russia:Media)
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The Daily Star established its place in the media scene of Bangladesh on 14 January, 1991. It started its journey with a sense of challenge and a feeling of humility to serve this nation as a truly independent newspaper. The Daily Star made its debt at a(tags: Bangladesh)
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Bangladesh’s Independent News Source(tags: Bangladesh)
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Asia Monitor Resource Centre (AMRC) is an independent non-government organization (NGO) which focuses on Asian labour concerns. Founded in 1976, AMRC has been leading the way in promoting workers’ rights and democratic labour movements in Asia and the P
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The following text of a talk given by Professor Williamson at a conference for history teachers presents historical background and detail on the striking rise of certain sectors of the Indian economy. He discusses, as well, the prospects for the
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Focus on the Global South is a program of Development Policy Research, Analysis and Action. It was founded in 1995. At present Focus on the Global South has three offices in Bangkok, Thailand, Mumbai, India and Manila, Philippines.(tags: Inequality)
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Game Theory .net provides resource materials to educators and students of game theory, including the application of game theory to economics, business, political science, computer science, and other disciplines. Primarily, the site is directed at less rig(tags: Microeconomics)
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Making a billion just isn’t what it used to be. In our inaugural ranking of the world’s richest people 20 years ago, we uncovered some 140 billionaires. Just three years ago we found 476. This year the list is a record 793. They’re worth a combined $2(tags: People)
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The index is compiled using the Fund for Peace’s internationally recognized methodology, the Conflict Assessment System Tool (CAST). It assesses violent internal conflicts and measures the impact of mitigating strategies. In addition to rating indicators(tags: Conflict Corruption)
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His 17-year-old son says he may have to start wearing a paper bag over his head to Newton North High School. His 19-year-old daughter has forbidden him from ever doing such a thing again. Brian Camenker now knows there are few worse ways to score points w(tags: Daily_Show)
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The ACE Electoral Knowledge Network encourages professionals to generate, share and apply knowledge, solve problems, help build common methods, and improve the professionalism of those engaged in activities related to credible, sustainable, peaceful and(tags: Elections)
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Founded in 1972, The Environmental Careers Organization (ECO) is a national, non-profit organization that develops professionals for the environmental field through paid environmental internships that provide highly professional, on-the-job learning exper(tags: Jobs Environmentalism)
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American Humanics is a national alliance of colleges, universities, and nonprofits; our mission is to educate, prepare, and certify professionals to strengthen and lead nonprofit organizations.(tags: NGO)
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EPLO aims to influence the EU so it promotes and implements measures that lead to sustainable peace between states and within states and peoples, and that transform and resolve conflicts non-violently. EPLO wants the EU to recognise the crucial connection
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The Foreign Policy Association (FPA) is a non-profit organization dedicated to inspiring the American public to learn more about the world. Founded in 1918, FPA provides independent publications, programs and forums to increase public awareness of, and fo(tags: Foreign_Policy)
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Brown University’s Watson Institute for International Studies evolved from Thomas J. Watson Jr.’s (class of 1937) vision for a research and teaching center that would address the most pressing problems of its time.(tags: Postgrad)
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What happens when you combine 200 liters of Diet Coke and over 500 Mentos mints? It’s amazing and completely insane. The first part of this video demonstrates a simple geyser, and the second part shows just how extreme it can get. Over one hundred jets of(tags: Chemistry)
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The University of Minnesota Human Rights Library houses one of the largest collections of more than twenty-five thousand core human rights documents, including several hundred human rights treaties and other primary international human rights instruments.(tags: Human_Rights)
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Amnesty International today released the first-ever satellite images of the wholesale destruction of a large community in Zimbabwe — providing the clearest possible evidence to date of the devastating impact of the Zimbabwean government’s policy of house(tags: Civil_Rights Zimbabwe)
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Sokwanele - Zvakwana is a peoples’ movement, embracing supporters of all pro-democratic political parties, civic organizations and institutions.(tags: Zimbabwe)
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The Kubatana Trust of Zimbabwe, incorporating the NGO Network Alliance Project (NNAP), aims to strengthen the use of email and Internet strategies in Zimbabwean NGOs and civil society organisations. Kubatana makes human rights and civic education informat(tags: Zimbabwe)
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The Zimbabwe Agricultural Welfare trust has been established to provide a focal point for International Worldwide support for the beleaguered farming community in Zimbabwe.(tags: Agriculture Zimbabwe)
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The Southern African Development Community (SADC) has been in existence since 1980, when it was formed as a loose alliance of nine majority-ruled States in Southern Africa known as the Southern African Development Coordination Conference (SADCC), with the
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The World Council of Churches (WCC) is the broadest and most inclusive among the many organized expressions of the modern ecumenical movement, a movement whose goal is Christian unity.(tags: Christianity)
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Privacy International (PI) is a human rights group formed in 1990 as a watchdog on surveillance and privacy invasions by governments and corporations. PI is based in London, England, and has an office in Washington, D.C. PI has conducted campaigns and res(tags: Civil_Rights)
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As war and civil strife subside, can governments turn to the private sector to restore basic services? Postconflict countries suffer from disproportionately low levels of private investment in infrastructure, with only small-scale service providers likely(tags: Conflict