The social anthropology department of the University of Bergen has an interesting research programm on Poverty Politics http://www.uib.no/povertypolitics/index.htm

"The Action Group on Erosion, Technology and Concentration, formerly RAFI, is an international civil society organization headquartered in Canada. The ETC Group is dedicated to the advancement of cultural and ecological diversity and human rights:" http://www.etcgroup.org.

Eigentlich wollte ich gerade mehr über die Rolle von RAFI im "Hagahai-Patent" herausfinden, da stolpere ich über ihre Kritik am letztjährigen FAO World Food Report:
http://www.etcgroup.org/article.asp?newsid=464
In einem offenem Brief kritisieren mehr als 650 NGOs die Verharmlosung der Biogenetik durch die FAO.

"The first avenue by which non-governmental organizations took a role in formal UN deliberations was through the Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC). 41 NGOs were granted consultative status by the council in 1946; by 1992 more that 700 NGOs had attained consultative status and the number has been steadily increasing ever since to 2,719 organizations today."
via http://www.un.org/esa/coordination/ngo/

"The World Bank interacts with thousands of Civil Society Organizations (CSOs) throughout the world at the global, regional, and country levels. These CSOs include NGOs, trade unions, faith-based organizations, indigenous peoples movements, and foundations. These interactions range from CSOs who critically monitor the Bank’s work and engage the Bank in policy discussions, to those which actively collaborate with the Bank in operational activities. There are many examples of active partnerships in the areas of forest conservation, AIDS vaccines, rural poverty, micro-credit, and Internet development."
via http://web.worldbank.org/WBSITE/EXTERNAL/TOPICS/
CSO/0,,contentMDK:20127718~menuPK:288622~pagePK:220503~piPK:220476~theSitePK:228717,00.html

For my friends, who are interested in the relationship of anthropology and development studies, developmental paradigms, anthropological contributions to ideas of social change and so on, I found these two journals quite helpfull:
Human Organization: http://sfaa.metapress.com/app/home/main.asp?wasp=cf48b23f8b654e2197181f1617d795f6
Development and Change:
http://www.blackwellpublishing.com/journal.asp?ref=0012-155X

Some articles from "Human Organization" are also available (for free) on:
http://www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qa3800

CorpWatch is a NGO that investigates multinational coorporations that profit out of war, fraud, environmental and human rights abuse.
Among there interesting campaigns ( War Profiteers Campaign, Corporate Influence on the Elections) you find the very interesting but older campaign "Greenwash awards".
http://www.corpwatch.org/index.php