Initiative that brings together disaster relief experts and software engineers to work on identifying key challenges to disaster relief and developing solutions to these critical issues.
Companion website for the Handbook for Reconstructing after Natural Disasters. The handbook has been developed on behalf of the Global Facility for Disaster Reduction and Recovery (GFDRR) to assist World Bank staff, as well as the Bank's government counterparts, engaged in large-scale post-disaster housing reconstruction programs. Others working in the housing and community reconstruction field will benefit from the information in the handbook, especially those collaborating with government and the World Bank in post-disaster reconstruction.
The Centre, formally known as the International Child Development Centre, has as its prime objectives to improve international understanding of the issues relating to children's rights, to promote economic policies that advance the cause of children, and to help facilitate the full implementation of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child in industrialized and developing countries.
Childinfo.org: Multiple Indicator Cluster Surveys - Previous Surveys - Available reports/datasets by country
Gapminder is a non-profit venture promoting sustainable global development and achievement of the United Nations Millennium Development Goals by increased use and understanding of statistics and other information about social, economic and environmental development at local, national and global levels.
05-11-2009
This web site provides an overview of the literature, case studies, lessons learned, and good practices pertaining to capacity development. It also includes links to international and local capacity development agencies and other knowledge resources.
Interactive maps and most recent data on national GHG emissions and removals.
Google Earth Outreach gives non-profits and public benefit organizations the knowledge and resources they need to visualize their cause and tell their story in Google Earth & Maps to the hundreds of millions of people who use them.
Eldis aims to share the best in development, policy, practice and research. A wide collection of research papers, documents and tools.
