Links
Here are some links to websites and resources that we find useful. If you think we're missing anything, let us know.
Links
- Active Learning Network for Accountability (ALNAP)
- Established in 1997, following the multi-agency evaluation of the Rwanda genocide, ALNAP is a collective response by the humanitarian sector, dedicated to improving humanitarian performance through increased learning and accountability.
- BBC News
- Link to the BBC news website
- Better Care Network
- A source of information for people working on issues related to children who lack adequate family care.
- Consortium for Street Children (CSC)
- The Consortium for Street Children (CSC) consists of 50 UK based organisations dedicated to the welfare and rights of street living and working children and children at risk of taking to street life.
- Crisis Action
- An international, non-profit organisation which aims to help avert conflicts, prevent human rights abuses and ensure governments fulfil their obligations to protect civilians.
- Developing citizenship
- The Developing Citizenship website captures materials which were developed from a large-scale education project in England with the aim of making young people's entitlement to education with a global dimension a relevant and constructive reality.
- Disasters Emergencies Committee (DEC)
- The DEC unites the leading independent humanitarian agencies in the UK to maximise charitable donations and mount humanitarian responses in times of major overseas disasters.
- Ethical Trading Initiative (ETI)
- An alliance of companies, NGOs and trade union organisations working to promote and improve the implementation of corporate codes of practice which cover supply chain working conditions.
- Everyclick.com
- Link to Everyclick.com - the search engine which raises money for Save the Children.
- Gender and Development Network (GADN)
- GADN is a diverse membership network of leading practitioners, academics and consultants working on gender and development issues in the UK.
- Global Campaign for Education
- Together we will ensure that governments deliver the right to education for all.
- Grow up Free from Poverty
- The Grow Up Free From Poverty Coalition is made up of 24 NGOs and faith groups with a shared vision to end the outrage of child poverty.
- Humanitarian Accountability Partnership (HAP) International
- The mission of HAP International is to make humanitarian action accountable to its intended beneficiaries through self-regulation, compliance verification and quality assurance certification.
- Humanitarian Charter and Minimum Standards in Disaster (SPHERE)
- The Sphere project was launched in 1997 to alleviate human suffering arising out of calamity and conflict, and to ensure that those affected by a disaster receive their right to a life with dignity and a right to assistance.
- In my name
- Join the chorus of campaigners round the world — including Will.i.am, John Legend, and Fergie — in calling for poverty to end in our lifetime. Go to the 'in my name' Youtube channel.
- Inter-agency Network for Education in Emergencies
- The INEE is a global, open network of NGOs, UN agencies, donors, practitioners, researchers and individuals from affected populations working together within a humanitarian and development framework to ensure the right to education in emergencies.
- International Council of Voluntary Agencies (ICVA)
- The ICVA is a global network that brings together human rights, humanitarian, and development NGOs as an advocacy alliance for humanitarian action.
- Light a million candles
- This website is a global virtual petition to get the world's financial institutions, governments, law enforcement authorities, ISPs and payment associations to work together to stop the sexual abuse and exploitation of children on the internet.
- Overseas Development Institute (ODI)
- Britain's leading independent think tank on international development and humanitarian issues.
- Publish what you pay
- The Publish What You Pay campaign aims to help citizens of resource-rich developing countries hold their governments accountable for the management of revenues from the oil, gas and mining industries.
- Save the Children Alliance
- Link to the Save the Children Alliance website
- Send my friend to school
- A coalition aiming to get the 80 million children missing out on school due to poverty an education.
- Stamp Out Poverty
- A network of more than 50 UK organisations campaigning for additional sources of revenue to bridge the massive funding gap required to bring the world's poorest people out of poverty.
- Steering Committee for Humanitarian Response (SCHR)
- An alliance of eight major international humanitarian organisations sharing a vision for a more just and humane world, where the poorest and most vulnerable are placed at the centre of their concerns.
- Teaching expertise
- The Teaching Expertise website aims to inspire teachers and everyone working in education by providing a range of education articles in a free searchable library.
- The Elders
- The Elders "Every Human Has Rights" campaign aims to get people all over the world to hold governments and others accountable to the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, which marks its 60th anniversary in 2008.
- United Nations Association of the UK (UNA)
- The United Nations Association of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (UNA-UK) is the UK's leading independent policy authority on the UN and a UK-wide grassroots membership organisation.
- What Makes Me Happy
- A series of short films inspired by children.
