Directory of Development Organizations - Bert Wesselink

The Directory of Development Organizations can be used in a variety of ways, ...by researchers, consultants and other development practitioners searching for up-to-date institutional information for a particular country; by trainers using the directories as a reference tool for their training programmes; by organizations trying to identify possible project partners; by individuals looking to identify possible employers; by funders seeking grantees; by grantees in search of funders; or by organizations aiming at identifying those institutions, agencies and programmes which are dedicated to providing resources, products and services to their members.

This cutting-edge publication -- Fifth Edition -- will give you hundreds (thousands) of useful sites where you can find the statistics, reports, regulations, best practices and other key information you need...when you need it. This time-saving tool includes a country finder index and annotates each organization by category, so you'll know from the start whether an organization is worth visiting. The year 2005 has been declared the International Year of Microcredit: governments, NGOs, the private sector and the media are invited to highlight the role of microfinance in poverty eradication, its contribution to social development and its positive impact on the lives of the poor. Therefore, microfinance practitioner organizations are marked by [M] in the Directory. Its Internet resources will point you in the direction of the best development resources available in each country on the World Wide Web today.