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- The Institute for Policy Studies
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The Institute for Policy Studies is the nation's oldest multi-issue progressive think tank. Since 1963, the Institute has worked with social movements to forge viable and sustainable policies to promote democracy, justice, human rights, and diversity. IPS played key roles in the Civil Rights and anti-war movements in the 1960s, the women's and environmental movements in the 1970s, the anti-apartheid and anti-intervention movements in the 1980s, and the fair trade and environmental justice movements today. Based in Washington, DC, but with links to activists and scholars across the nation and around the world, the Institute serves as a bridge between progressive forces in government and grass-roots activists, and between movements in the U.S. and those in the developing world. We are proud to serve as an alternative voice, helping the least powerful to be heard in the halls of government and in the mainstream and independent press. While other think tanks celebrate the virtues of unrestrained markets and individualism, IPS is building partnerships to create a more responsible society - one built around the values of justice, nonviolence, sustainability, and decency.
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- The International Agricultural Centre (IAC)
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The International Agricultural Centre (IAC) builds capacity for sustainable development in the agriculture, food, rural development and natural resources management sectors. The IAC is part of Wageningen University and Research Centre in The Netherlands.
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- The National University of Samoa
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The mission of the National University of Samoa is to provide the people of Samoa with learning opportunities that are culturally relevant and accessible within a stimulating environment which is committed to academic vigour and excellence. Situated in its new campus, NUS now comprises not only the UPY programme, but five fully fledged faculties and the Institute of Samoan Studies.
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- The Nordic Africa Institute - Uppsala, Sweden
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The Nordic Africa Institute is a multi-disciplinary documentation and research institute with an emphasis on the social sciences. Research addresses contemporary issues and aims to stimulate both academic and public debate.
http://www.nai.uu.se/indexeng.html
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- The Novartis Foundation for Sustainable Development
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http://foundation.novartis.com/
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- The Pew Research Centre
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The Center is an independent opinion research group that studies attitudes toward the press, politics and public policy issues. The Center's purpose is to serve as a forum for ideas on the media and public policy through public opinion research. In this role it serves as an important information resource for political leaders, journalists, scholars, and public interest organizations.
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- The Polson Institute for Global Development
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The Polson Institute for Global Development was named for Robert Polson (PhD, Wisconsin) and Ruth Polson (PhD, Cornell), former faculty of Cornell University and active community members. Robert Polson served as faculty member and Chair of the Rural Sociology department at the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences during his 40-year Cornell career. During this time he acted as one of the founders of Cornell's International Agriculture Program. He was a respected leader in the Rural Sociology Society, the American Academy of Political and Social Science, and the American Sociological Association. Ruth Polson taught English and Music at Ithaca High School while completing her MS and PhD in English Literature. The establishment of the Institute reflects the commitment of its benefactors: to the community and international connections forged through collegial research, teaching, and the study of social change.
http://polson.cals.cornell.edu/
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- The Population Institute
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http://www.populationinstitute.org/
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- The Poynter Institute
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The Poynter Institute is a school dedicated to teaching and inspiring journalists and media leaders. It stands for a journalism that informs citizens and enlightens public discourse. It carries forward Nelson Poynter's belief in the value of independent journalism.
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- The Royal Tropical Institute (KIT)
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The Royal Tropical Institute (KIT) is an independent centre of knowledge and expertise in the areas of international and intercultural cooperation. The aims of KIT are to contribute to sustainable development, poverty alleviation, and cultural preservation and exchange. Within the Netherlands, it seeks to promote interest in and support for these issues.
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- The Water, Engineering and Development Centre (WEDC) - Loughborough University, UK
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The WEDC is one of the world's leading institutions concerned with the planning, provision and management of physical infrastructure for development in low- and middle-income countries.
http://www.lboro.ac.uk/departments/cv/wedc/index.htm
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- Towards Stronger Japan-UK Research Linkages on International Development (pdf)
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By Julius Court with Debbie Warrener, Overseas Development Institute, March 2004. The aim of this initiative is to increase the interaction between researchers from Japan and the United Kingdom who work on development issues. Current interaction between researchers is surprisingly limited and further collaboration would be beneficial as both countries are major donors and have different comparative advantages. Increased interaction fits well with current moves to increase information sharing and enhancing aid effectiveness. Based on a range of approaches; including web searches, desk reviews, interviews and visits; the purpose of the initial phase was to assess: current interactions between researchers; interest in the initiative; demand for different products; and how the initiative might be coordinated and funded.
http://www.odi.org.uk/RAPID/Projects/R0165/Docs/Japan_final_report.pdf
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- Tracking Routes Towards Impact: Study On Research To Policy Linkages (PDF)
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By Jim Coe, Mark Luetchford, Tess Kingham, (id21), October 2002. Research on international development investigates new policies and strategies which can help in the fight against global poverty and for a better standard of living for all. But there is little point to this research if it is not communicated effectively to the people who have the ability to act on its recommendations and implement the necessary changes. Who are these people, what types of research are they interested in, and what are the best ways to communicate this research to them? In early 2002, id21 set about addressing these questions by surveying, interviewing and collecting comments from over 1900 NGO and aid agency staff, politicians, policy-makers, students and researchers The results of these surveys have now been analysed to produce a comprehensive set of insights into how development research and its effective communication can influence policy and help bring about social change.
http://www.id21.org/id21-info/impact/report.pdf
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- Transnational Institute
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The Transnational Institute was founded in 1974 as a worldwide fellowship of committed scholar-activists. It was one of the first research institutes established to be transnational in name, composition, orientation and focus. In the spirit of public scholarship, and aligned to no political party, TNI seeks to create and promote international co-operation in analysing and finding possible solutions to such global problems as militarism and conflict, poverty and marginalisation, social injustice and environmental degradation. At the heart of TNI lies the committed core of current fellows and advisors. They include journalists, independent researchers, and senior scholars from similar institutes in Africa, Asia, Latin America, Eastern and Western Europe, Scandinavia and the USA. TNI is constituted as a non-profit organisation registered in the Netherlands.
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- Union of Concerned Scientists
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The Union of Concerned Scientists is a nonprofit partnership of scientists and citizens combining rigorous scientific analysis, innovative policy development and effective citizen advocacy to achieve practical environmental solutions. Established in 1969, we seek to ensure that all people have clean air, energy and transportation, as well as food that is produced in a safe and sustainable manner. We strive for a future that is free from the threats of global warming and nuclear war, and a planet that supports a rich diversity of life.
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- Unit for Social and Environmental Research
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The Unit for Social and Environmental Research (USER) is a relatively new research group affiliated to the Faculty of Social Sciences, Chiang Mai University. It however, has a longer history in other "guises" as part of the International Global Environmental Change Programmes activities in Southeast Asia in particular through START (SARCS). We selected the acronym USER because it reflects our philosophy of trying to do the highest quality research we can while keeping user needs in focus. The main objective of USER is to facilitate and conduct interdisciplinary research on the linkages between social and environmental change. We are thus primarily a research organization. Our current theoretical and conceptual interests include issues of resilience in social-ecological systems, the importance of cross-scale interactions, understanding production-consumption chains, and methods for integrated regional assessment. Our practical interests is to help improve the quality and use of research-based knowledge in decision-making at local, national and global scales. To this end we also help conduct assessments, scenario excerices and synthesis activities, and finally, critical studies of knowledge systems themselves.
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- United Nations University - Institute of Advanced Studies (UNU-IAS)
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The UNU/IAS, one of the premier research and training centres of the United Nations University located in Tokyo, Japan, was officially inaugurated in April 1996. Its programme is directed at pressing global issues of concern to the United Nations with an interdisciplinary approach. From 2002, the Institute will shift toward a strong policy orientated, strategic, research approach that will aim at pushing human beings further down the path towards a more sustainable existence with our environment. The overarching theme will become Strategic Approaches to Sustainable Development and will include such sub areas as biotechnology policy, ecosystem approaches, urbanization, environmental governance, ecological economics, IT and environment, science technology and development.
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- University of theSouth Pacific (USP
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One of only two regional universities in the world, the University of the South Pacific (USP) is owned and operated by 12 countries. It has three campuses and five Schools in Fiji, Samoa and Vanuatu, seven Institutes, the Oceania Centre for Arts and Culture, and the Centre for Development Studies, and through its regional Centres maintains an active presence in all the member countries. USP is a modern, forward-looking, multi-modal centre of learning with a large number of students studying by distance mode, increased access to face-to-face teaching at the regional Centres, and the provision of summer schools.
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- Vision of Humanity
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The Vision of Humanity website was launched in May 2007 as the reference point for the Global Peace Index (GPi) and to highlight the relationship between Global Peace and Sustainability. The project was developed by a group of committed individuals who have the support of a group of philanthropists, business people, politicians, religious leaders and intellectuals. The Global Peace Index aims to: 1. Highlight to the general population the relative position of nations' and regions' peacefulness; 2. Catalyse philanthropic support for further research of peace and funding of peace initiatives; 3. Serve as a foundation for primary, secondary and tertiary educational study; 4. Emphasise the need for governments to consider the drivers of peace in policy decisions.
http://www.visionofhumanity.com/rankings/
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- West Africa Rice Development Association
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The West Africa Rice Development Association is an autonomous intergovernmental research association with a mission to strengthen Sub-Saharan Africa's capability for technology generation, technology transfer and policy formulation, in order to increase the sustainable productivity of rice-based cropping systems while conserving the natural resource base and contributing to the food security of poor rural and urban households. In collaboration with the national agricultural research systems of members states, academic institutions, international donors and other organizations, the work of WARDA ultimately benefits West African farmers-mostly small-scale producers-who cultivate rice, as well as the millions of African families who eat rice as a staple food.
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- World Commission on Dams (WCD)
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The WCD is an independent and international commission established in May 1998. Its objectives are to undertake a global review of the development effectiveness of large dams and to develop internationally acceptable criteria and guidelines for future decision-making on dams.
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- World Institute for Development Economics Research (WIDER) - The United Nations University, Helsinki
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WIDER's mandate includes undertaking multidisciplinary research and policy analysis on structural changes affecting the living conditions of the world's poorest people, and to promote capacity strengthening and training for scholars and government officials in the field of economic and social policy making.
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- Worldwatch Institute
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Worldwatch is a non profit public policy research organization dedicated to informing policymakers and the public about emerging global problems and trends and the complex links between the world economy and its environmental support systems.
http://www.worldwatch.org/live/
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