UN System Influenza Coordination Unit for pandemic influenza prevention, preparedness and response and increase the effort to control avian influenza.
Planning for an Influenza Pandemic: Social Justice and Disadvantaged Groups
Interaction's policy paper for U.S. development assistance developed for the transitional team of Obama. Including policies re. climate change, health, food crises, agriculture, gender
The Campbell Collaboration is an international research network that produces systematic reviews of the effects of social interventions. Campbell is based on voluntary cooperation among researchers of a variety of backgrounds. Campbell's strategic and policy making body is the Steering Group.
This database provides access to impact evaluations of World Bank-supported interventions and impact evaluations undertaken by World Bank staff over the past few years, as well as others from a variety of other academic and development institutions.
Dedicated to the production and use of evidence from rigorous impact evaluations for policy decisions that improve social and economic development programs in low- and middle-income countries.
The Livestock, Environment and Development Initiative (LEAD) is a multi-donor project based at FAO headquarters in Rome. Launched in 2000, the Initiative’s purpose is to devise and promote ecologically sustainable livestock production strategies and practices while at the same time being concerned with reducing poverty.
ALive is a regional partnership based on a multi-stakeholders Platform to reposition the African livestock sector into the development agendas of the national, regional and international policy makers, by emphasizing its crucial impacts in terms of poverty alleviation and sustainable economic growth and its overall contribution to achieving the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs).
Stamping Out Pandemic and Avian Influenza (STOP AI) is working to mitigate the economic hardship caused by avian influenza and prevent animal-to-human and further human-to-human infection of the disease. The goal of STOP AI is to prevent the infection of the virus responsible for the avian influenza, H5N1, to humans.
