A Meeting Place for Development Practitioners

Welcome to global_nomads, a meeting place for development thinkers, development practitioners, trailing spouses, world travellers and other global nomads. Or, indeed, anyone with a keen interest development practice and world events.

This is a space for you to exchange stories, give tips, ask questions, talk about your ideas, ventilate or test-drive dreams, post interesting articles, make global nomad friends, or anything else. Stay for a travel tale or twelve.

Please keep your posts short or use lj-cut! If you don't know how to lj-cut, check this info out.

Enjoy!

The Moderators, leftvegdrunk and vasco_pyjama
(Last updated February 2007)


Women and children in a Bangladeshi village


Some useful links for the Global Nomad!

News links and alerts: Relief Web, UN OCHA's global hub for time-critical humanitarian information | Reuters AlertNet- Alerting humanitarians to emergencies | New Internationalist | SBS World News - News from an Australian world news station

Development resources: Millennium Project and Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), World Bank's MDG site | End of Poverty - Jeffrey Sachs | IDS Sussex - Institute of Development Studies | Foreign Policy in Focus | Eldis - The Gateway to Development Information | DFID/IDS Governance and Social Development Resource Centre | IIED - International Institute for Environment and Development | INTRAC - International NGO Training and Research Centre | Developments - DFID's International Development Magazine | Journal of Humanitarian Assistance | Overseas Development Institute | Center for Global Development | International Development Research Centre (IDRC) - Has good biblios | Oxford Community Development Journal | UNRISD - the United Nations Research Institute for Social Development | Oxfam Social Inclusion Directory | Last-First Networks - Tools for Change | Key Sheets for Sustainable Livelihoods | MandE News - M&E news and tools | GCWA - The Global Coalition on Women and AIDS

Humanitarian resources: The Sphere Project - Humanitarian Charter and Minimum Standards in Disaster Response | Humanitarian Practice Network - Site of the Humanitarian Policy Group | Humanitarianinfo.org - Humanitarian Information Centres and Partners | Asian Disaster Preparedness Centre

Peace and conflict resources, and antiwar links: DFID/IDS Governance and Social Development Resource Centre | IPRA Foundation - International Peace Research Association Foundation | BICC - Bonn International Center for Conversion | FEWER - International Alert and Saferworld programme on conflict-sensitive approaches | Eldis Conflict and Security - A Resource Guide | European Centre for Conflict Prevention | AntiWar.com | Crimes of War Project | Control Arms campaign | Responding to Conflict (RTC) | ACCORD - The African Centre for the Constructive Resolution of Disputes | Department of Peace Studies - University of Bradford | INCORE - A Global Centre for the Study and Resolution of Conflict | IDS Conflict Data Service | International Development Research Centre (IDRC) - Has good biblios | International Crisis Behaviour Project | WomenWarPeace.org - a UNIFEM site | Women Waging Peace | Nobel Peace Prize | PeaceWomen.org - Women's International League for Peace and Freedom | The Online Journal of Peace and Conflict Resolution | Uppsala Conflict Database | DFID Post Conflict Microfinance Report | WSP-International | USIP - US Institute of Peace | UN Institute for Disarmament Research | Senlis Council

Advocacy and human rights sites and NGOs: Make Poverty History | Make Trade Fair | World Bank Boycott | Transparency International, TI's Global Corruption Report | HRW - Human Rights Watch | Amnesty International | CIVICUS - World Alliance for Citizen Participation

International NGOs and non-profits: IFRC - International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies | Medicins Sans Frontieres | Oxfam CARE | Save the Children | World Vision | IRC - International Rescue Committee

Government donor agencies: DFID - UK Department for International Development | AusAID - Australian Agency for International Development | USAID - US Agency for International Development

International and multilateral organisations: ICRC - International Committee of the Red Cross | United Nations, UNAIDS - The Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS, UNIFEM - United Nations Development Fund for Women, UNDP - United Nations Development Programme, UNHCR - The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, The UN Refugee Agency, UN DPKO - UN Department of Peacekeeping Operations, United Nations Mine Action Centre | Asian Development Bank | World Bank | IOM - International Organization for Migration

Maps, travel tools and tips, miscellaneous: Lonely Planet - travel guidebooks | Perry-Castañeda Library Map Collection - best map collection in the world | Centers for Disease Control and Prevention - for your travel vax questions answered | Smart Traveller - Australian government website with travel warnings | XE.com - exchange rates | Humanitarian Singles - for the lonely hearts' club

Jobs / Volunteer Placements for the Global Nomads: ReliefWeb Jobs | AlertNet Jobs | RedR - a register of engineers (and other humanitarians) for disaster relief | UN Jobs | UNV - UN Volunteers | AVI - Australian Volunteers International (for Australians) | Peace Corps (for Americans) | Volunteer Service Organisation (for British)

Worthy Global Nomads' Blogs: Global Nomad's Travel Tales | Global Voices | aidworkers.net - an aggregator site! | Elizabeth in Afghanistan - has the best development practitioner blogroll to date | David Donaldson - Australian humanitarian in Sierra Leone - Motto: People who want to help regardless of ability | Haiti Report - Reports from Haiti by freelance writer, Ben Terrall | Zimbabwean Pundit - The World as Seen by the Eyes of a Zimbabwean | There + Back - A travel bore of Australian origin | Two Peas, No Pod - Aussie living and working in Laos | Our Man In Hanoi - A Geordie in Vietnam


If you have useful links you want to share, please email them to me at vasco_pyjama @ livejournal.com.