Werkzeuge des Geistes

NGO report on aid funds

age_man_eight — 2005-09-09T07:56:40Z

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

age_man_eight — 2005-09-09T07:38:48Z

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/)

Workshop on the social and ethical implications of biotechnology

age_man_eight — 2005-09-03T13:06:18Z

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

Eugenics Archive

age_man_eight — 2005-09-03T12:53:34Z

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.

Overseas Development Centre & anthropology

age_man_eight — 2005-09-03T10:21:42Z

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

Latinobarometro

age_man_eight — 2005-08-29T16:36:24Z

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

Sociedad Civil y Movimientos Sociales

age_man_eight — 2005-08-25T13:08:28Z

http://www.flacso.edu.gt/revista/scivil1/sociedad.htm

CROP

age_man_eight — 2005-08-24T11:05:13Z

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/

Poverty politics

age_man_eight — 2005-08-21T10:50:11Z

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

ETC group (formely called RAFI)

age_man_eight — 2005-08-20T17:22:05Z

"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.

UN and NGOs

age_man_eight — 2005-08-16T17:50:38Z

"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/

World bank and civil society

age_man_eight — 2005-08-16T17:02:12Z

"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

Journals

age_man_eight — 2005-08-14T11:30:47Z

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

age_man_eight — 2005-08-11T12:02:44Z

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

Old interview with Wolfgang Sachs

age_man_eight — 2005-08-06T10:36:00Z

Here you can found an interesting but older interview with W.Sachs on development. He argues:
Development has brought a new global middle class but the failure of 45 y of development is that it has produced a deep sense of inferiority in the South. Some other issues Sachs talks about like the birth of development in 1949 are mirrored in contemporary disscusions in the anthropology of development
http://cltwebs.lse.ac.uk/coursemedia/development/TimAllenInterviewWithSachs.htm