Window on the World
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Window on the World
This edition of Window on theWorld presents a selected number of initiatives and organizations working on poverty at community, regional and international level. The selection is divided into two parts: the first covers civil society grass-root activist movements based in the Global South working on poverty, the second multilateral or national governmental organizations and research institutes.
I Community, national, regional and transnational civil society groups, campaigns and research networks working on poverty Afrodad www.afrodad.org Afrodad (African forum & Network on Debt & Development) is a civil society organization that explores durable solutions to the Africa’s debt burden and effective/sustainable alternative strategies to mitigate the debt impact on the developmental and growth process. Afrodad’s main programmes foresee policy-oriented research and analysis; lobby and advocacy activities; capacity building and knowledge dissemination on debt and poverty eradication strategies.
AIDC www.aidc.org.za The Alternative Information and Development Centre (AIDC) is a think tank based in Cape Town (South Africa) that promotes research, information dissemination, popular education and campaigning in order to challenge the dominant global economic system and to further the socio-economic transformation. It seeks to achieve its goals through the empowerment and mobilization of community groups and popular movements. The website contains a wide range of resources on different topics, from the critical thinking on WTO, regional integration, public goods and privatization to poverty, HIV/ AIDS and gender analysis.
Assefa – The association for Sarva Seva Farms www.actionvillageindia.org.uk/AVI/Assefa.htm Established in1969 in Tamil Nadu to support the landless people who benefited from the land reform during 1960s, Assefa works with poor households with more than 30,000 families in 13 districts, in Tamil Nadu, Karnataka, Maharashtra, Rajasthan, Madhya Development (2007) 50(2), 160–165. doi:10.1057/palgrave.development.1100372
Window on the World Pradesh. Assefa encourages community-based organizations (CBOs) as the foundation of its work in education and rural development as well as micro-enterprise development, micro-credit, community health care and social protection. Assefa’s activities are supported by Action Village, a London-based agency, providing financial and non-financial support through networking, campaigning and fund raising support of the poorest in India.
Assembly of the Poor http://www.irn.org/programs/pakmun/assembly. html Assembly of the Poor is a network of people asserting their rights to land and other resources being marginalized and neglected by the economic and industrializing development policies in Thailand. Acting since the early 1990s, the movement comprises representatives from different networks of people and communities displaced by their homes and land because of land and forest conflicts, dam and other government infrastructure projects or affected by work’s ex
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