The Reality of Aid project is the only major north/south international non-governmental initiative focusing exclusively on analysis and lobbying for poverty eradication policies and practices in the international aid regime.
http://www.realityofaid.org/

NEPAD stands for "New Partnership for African Development". It was launched in 2001 by Presidents Thabo Mbeki of South Africa and Abdoulaye Wade of Senegal.
Its primary objectives are:
a) To eradicate poverty;
b) To place African countries, both individually and collectively, on a path of sustainable growth and development;
c) To halt the marginalisation of Africa in the globalisation process and enhance its full and beneficial integration into the global economy;
d) To accelerate the empowerment of women
The programmes website: http://www.nepad.org/2005/files/inbrief.php
Zed books has just released a book about the programme:
Africa and Development Challenges in the New Millennium
The NEPAD Debate
Edited by J. O. Adesina, Yao Graham and A. Olukoshi
(http://www.zedbooks.co.uk/)

The Social Anthropology Department of the University of Bergen, holds a workshop on "Biotechnology and its Social and Ethical Implications: Present and Future" (Sept. 30 - Oct. 2, Bergen, Norway):
http://www.svf.uib.no/sfu/vitalmatters/Biotechnology2005

Thanx to Seb. for sending me this great link:
http://www.eugenicsarchive.org/eugenics/
Its an archive, where many texts about the eugenic movement in the USA (1910-1940) can be found:
Eugenics was, quite literally, an effort to breed better human beings – by encouraging the reproduction of people with "good" genes and discouraging those with "bad" genes. Eugenicists effectively lobbied for social legislation to keep racial and ethnic groups separate, to restrict immigration from southern and eastern Europe, and to sterilize people considered "genetically unfit." Elements of the American eugenics movement were models for the Nazis, whose radical adaptation of eugenics culminated in the Holocaust.

The Overseas Development Centre (ODI) is one of Britains largest independent think tanks on international development and humanitarian issues. Among their research activities, you can find
group with a focus on "Poverty and Public Policies":
http://www.odi.org.uk/PPPG/index.html
A Paper on Poverty regarded from an anthropological viewpoint can be found here:
"Experiencing poverty in Africa: perspectives from anthropology"
http://www.odi.org.uk/PPPG/publications/papers_reports/mul/wob_bp1.html

Lationobarometro is a NGO based in Santiago di Chile, which has carried out surveys on values, opions and attitudes in Latino America.
Latinobarómetro is an annual public opinion survey of approximately 19.000 interviews in 18 countries in Latin America representing more than 400 million inhabitants.
http://www.latinobarometro.org

CROP - the Comparative Research Programme on Poverty - is an international NGO initiated by the International Social Science Council (ISSC). The CROP Secretariat is localised at the Centre for International Poverty Research, University of Bergen, Norway. Professor Else Øyen is the Scientific Director of CROP from 2001.

CROP is organised around an extensive international and multi-disciplinary research network, which is open to all poverty researchers and others interested in a scientific approach to poverty...
http://www.crop.org/about/