International Environmental & Development Organizations

(please note that these lists focus mostly on U.S. and DC-based organizations)

Development Favorites to Start

Great list-serves to be kept up to date on news, events, emerging issues, etc.

One World
Third World Network
Center for Global Development
ELDIS - Gateway to Development Information

Directory of Development Organizations
Gapminder - great global graphical tools, stats, information online

UN Human Development Report 2004

World Bank World Development Report 2005

The Earth Institute

LEAD - global network of individuals promoting sustainable development

DFID - UK aid agency

GTZ - German aid agency

World Bank

Enviro in General -- Major International Organizations

Vital Graphics - a great graphic web site on climate, arctic, waste, etc. (co-sponsored by UNEP)

African Wildlife Foundation

Audubon Society http://www.audubon.org/  

Conservation International http://www.conservation.org/

Earth Island Institute http://www.earthisland.org/

Environmental Defense http://www.environmentaldefense.org/  

Environmental Law Institute http://www.eli.org/

Greenpeace USA

International Institute for Sustainable Development (IISD)  http://www.iisd.org/  

IUCN / World Conservation Union http://www.iucn.org/

National Environmental Trust

Ocean Conservancy http://www.oceanconservancy.org/

Rainforest Action Network http://www.ran.org/
Greenpeace http://www.greenpeace.org/

Sierra Club

The Nature Conservancy http://www.nature.org/

UNEP http://www.unep.org/

Union of Concerned Scientists

Wildlife Conservation Society

World Commission on Protected Areas - http://www.iucn.org/themes/wcpa
World Rainforest Movement http://www.wrm.org.uy/

World Conservation Monitoring Center (WCMC) http://www.unep-wcmc.org/

World Resources Institute  http://www.wri.org/

Worldwatch Institute http://www.worldwatch.org/

WWF-International http://www.panda.org/  

WWF-US http://www.wwfus.org/

Multilateral Development Organizations 

African Development Bank

Asian Development Bank

Global Environmental Facility

Inter-American Development Bank

Millennium Development Goals

UN Commission on Sustainable Development

UN Development Program

UNCTAD - United Nations Conference on Trade and Development

World Bank

Africa General

Africa Action

Africa South of the Sahara - by Stanford University

AllAfrica.com - Best news portal on Africa in general and by country

Conserve Africa Group - UK based organization

Corporate Council on Africa - Focused on commercial relations between Africa and the U.S.

EASD Empowerment for African Sustainable Development - South African based NGO

Inter-Action Africa Liaison Program Initiative

The Africa-America Institute

The Washington Office on Africa (WOA)

TransAfrica Forum

UPenn African Studies - great clearinghouse of information

US Organizations on Africa - comprehensive listing

NGOs in Development

50 Years is Enough!

Africare

Association of Third World Affairs

Bank Information Center

Bread for the World

Bretton Woods Project

Care

Center for Economic and Policy Research

Global Witness

IRM-Innovative Resources Management, Inc.

Multinational Monitor On-Line

Oxfam America

WEDO