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General

ASIA Urbs Programme

A new European Commission Programme to develop co-operation between European and Asian urban Local Authorities

Best Practices & Local Leadership Programme

Global network of capacity-building organisations dedicated to sharing lessons learned from innovative practices in support of sustainable urban and community development and of the implementation of the Habitat Agenda and Agenda 21

City & Shelter

Non-profit organisation, whose initial projects concern the incorporation of gender issues into all aspects of decision making in the fields of town planning, transport, urban safety and habitat.

CityNet

The Regional Network of Local Authorities for the Management of Human Settlements

Forum on Developing Countries

Provides information to researchers and professionals working for the improvement of the built environment in developing countries, and at facilitating communications among them.

International City/County Management Association (ICMA)

Professional and educational organization representing appointed managers and administrators in local governments throughout the world

Human Settlements in Asia

The Human Settlements Development Programme of the Asian Institute of Technology

International Union of Local Authorities (IULA)

World-wide organization founded in 1913 to promote and unite democratic local governments. There are seven IULA Regional Sections: Africa, Asia and the Pacific, Central America, Eastern Mediterranean and Middle East, Europe, Latin America, and North America

International Council for Local Environmental Initiatives (ICLEI)

International environmental agency for local governments established in 1990 through a partnership of the United Nations Environment Programme, the International Union of Local Authorities (IULA), and the Center for Innovative Diplomacy

Land Use Forum Network (LUFNET)

Non-profit organization that teaches citizens groups this community building, collaborative land planning process.

Linkages

A multimedia resource for environment and developments policy makers

Municipia

International web service for urban decision makers to exchange information on their respective cities, especially in connection with innovative initiatives undertaken in local communities.

Munisource

Directory of municipal, town and city web sites, and other resources for elected and municipal officials.

Urban Environmental Management

The virtual library on urban environmental management maintained by the Urban Environmental Management Research Initiative (UEMRI)

Virtual Library on International Development

A collection of links to international development resources on the Internet (maintained by the Canadian International Development Agency)

Women and Local Government

Asian Development Bank (ADB) - Gender and Development

A multilateral development finance institution founded in 1966 to promote the social and economic progress of the Asian and Pacific region. The ADB gives special attention to the needs of the smaller or less-developed countries and priority to regional, subregional, and national projects and programs

Asian and Pacific Development Centre - Gender and Development Programme (APDC/GAD)

An autonomous inter-governmental regional institution for development policy research, training, experience-exchange, information dissemination and consultancy/advisory services, conceived as an institution for advanced development studies, capable of providing intellectual leadership in the search for development strategies suited to the specific needs of the Asian and Pacific region

Asia Pacific Gender Equality Network (APGEN)

A three-year programme executed by the United Nations Office for Project Services (UNOPS) with funding from the United Nations Development programme (UNDP) to promote gender equality through the development of policies and programmes that will ensure women and men's equal access to resources and opportunities and their equal participation in economic and political decision making

Asian Women's Resource Exchange (AWORC)

An Internet-based women's information service and network in Asia. It is an initiative geared towards developing cooperative approaches and partnerships in increasing access and exploring applications of new information and communication technologies for women's empowerment.

Center for Asia-Pacific Women in Politics (CAPWIP)

A non-partisan, non-profit and non-governmental regional organization (NGO) established in 1992 operating through a network of national affiliates clustered into five sub-regional groupings: Central Asia, East Asia, Pacific, Southeast Asia, and South Asia. These sub-regional focal points national affiliates are autonomous organizations actively involved in women's political empowerment in their respective countries. CAPWIP has committed itself to supporting its network through technical assistance in organizational and program planning, training, research and information sharing.

Isis International Women's Information and Communication Service

A feminist NGO dedicated to women’s information and communication needs through documenting ideas and visions, creating channels to communicate, collecting and moving information, networking and building links. Isis focuses on those advancing women’s rights, leadership and empowerment in Asia and the Pacific and keeps up with changing trends and analyses concerning women worldwide.

International Union of Local Authorities-Asia Pacific Section World Wide Declaration on Women in Local Government (IULA-ASPAC) (follow the links on policies)

Strives to promote and unite democratic local government in Asia and the Pacific while aspiring to develop and maintain a strong democratic political organization and function as the advocate and voice of democratic local government, the source of key information and intelligence regarding democratic local government, as well as, the source of learning, exchange and capacity building programmes for democratic local government.

Preview 2000 - Bulletin of the International Women’s Tribune Centre

An occasional bulletin of the International Women’s Tribune Centre to cover plans and preparations for the 5 year review of the United Nations Platform for Action, an agenda for women’s empowerment that came out of the Fourth World Conference on Women, Beijing 1995

Regional Network of Local Authorities for the Management of Human Settlements Organizing Secretariat of the Asia-Pacific Summit of Women Mayors & Councillors (CITYNET)

A network promoting local urban improvement initiatives in the Asia Pacific Region. CITYNET encourages higher standards of sanitation, innovation in environmental management and clean, non-polluted city environments, seeks to relieve urban slums, promote equitable distribution of resources and encourage community participation and works towards efficient budget allocation, revenue enhancement and educating city officials on effective financial initiatives.

United Nations Development Fund for Women (UNIFEM)

Promotes women's empowerment and gender equality, works to ensure the participation of women in all levels of development planning and practice and acts as a catalyst within the UN system, supporting efforts that link the needs and concerns of women to all critical issues on the national, regional and global agendas. UNIFEM focuses its work at the country level, plays a strong advocacy role and concentrates on fostering a multilateral policy dialogue on women's empowerment.

United Nations Division for the Advancement of Women (DAW)

Advocates the improvement of the status of the women of the world and the achievement of their equality with men. It aims to ensure the participation of women as equal partners with men in all aspects of human endeavour, promotes women as equal participants and beneficiaries of sustainable development, peace and security, governance and human rights and strives to stimulate the mainstreaming of a gender perspective both within and outside the United Nations system.

Women In Development Section of ESCAP (WID)

Focal point of the Social Development Division of ESCAP concerned with issues related to the promotion and enhancement of women’ social, economic and political status in Asia Pacific.

United Nations

Human Settlements - Economic Commission for Europe

Department of Economic and Social Affairs

United Nations Earth Summit+5

United Nations Center for Human Settlements (UNCHS)

World Bank

New technologies

Association For Community Networking

Educational nonprofit corporation dedicated to fostering and supporting "Community Networking" -- community-based creation & provision of appropriate technology services

CUT on the Web

Center for Urban Technology, University of Newcastle, United Kingdom

Information habitat: where information lives

A project of the communications coordination committee for the united nations to promote the understanding and practice of information ecology

Pan Asia Networking

Program of Canada's International Development Research Centre (IDRC) pioneers information networking in Asia, linking together people and computer-based information resources on sustainable development from Asian organizations.