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The Chronic Poverty Research Centre
The Chronic Poverty Research Centre (CPRC) is an international partnership of universities, research institutes and NGOs which exists to focus attention on chronic poverty. It aims to stimulate national and international debate; deepen understanding of the causes of chronic poverty; and provide research, analysis and policy guidance that will contribute to its reduction. For more information, please visit http://www.chronicpoverty.org/
Eldis Poverty Resource Guide
Eldis Resource Guides provide easy structured access to an extensive collection of research and policy documents. All are editorially selected, summarised and available free to download in full text. Resource guides are intended to help you keep up to date with the latest in development research, policy and practice. Eldis' Poverty Resource Guide covers topics such as household poverty, inequality, poverty analysis, social protection and more. To access the resource guide, please visit: http://www.eldis.org/go/topics/resource-guides/poverty
Poverty Reduction at UNDP
The United Nations Development Programme works to make real improvements in people’s lives and in the choices and opportunities open to them. Guided by the Millennium Declaration and its key benchmarks for measuring progress – the Millennium Development Goals – UNDP promotes inclusive development and works to reduce poverty in all its dimensions. Focus areas include MDG Strategies, Poverty Assessment and Monitoring, Gender and Poverty, Inclusive Development, Development Cooperation and Finance, Trade, Intellectual Property and Migration, Participatory Local Development and Private Sector.
For more information, please visit: http://www.undp.org/poverty/
Worldbank PovertyNet
The World Bank's PovertyNet provides an introduction to key issues related to poverty, as well as in-depth information on poverty measurement, monitoring, analysis, and on poverty reduction strategies. These resources are relevant for both development practitioners and researchers. For more information, please visit: http://go.worldbank.org/33CTPSVDC0
Focal Point for Rural Development of SDC
SDC's Focal Point for Rural Development represents a platform that interlinks the various themes relevant for rural development. The SDC Focal Point for Rural Development is an answer to the challenge of effectively managing knowledge, learning and joint work around rural development across sectors and thematic specialisations, and across globally dispersed programmes and partners. For more information, please visit: http://www.sdc-ruraldevelopment.ch
The South African Regional Poverty Network
The Southern African Regional Poverty Network (SARPN) is a non-profit organisation that promotes debate and knowledge sharing on poverty reduction processes and experiences in Southern Africa. SARPN aims to contribute towards effective reduction of poverty in the countries of the Southern African Development Community (SADC) through creating platforms for effective pro-poor policy, strategy and practice. SARPN achieves this goal through widening participation, bringing people together across the region to exchange ideas, and disseminating information to deepen understandings of poverty issues and improve policy and practice. For more information, please visit http://www.sarpn.org.za/
Oxford Poverty & Human Development Initiative (OPHI)
The Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative (OPHI) is an research centre within the Oxford Department of International Development, Queen Elizabeth House, at the University of Oxford. Led by Sabina Alkire, OPHI aspires to build a more systematic methodological and economic framework to underlie poverty reduction. This will enable a world in which decision makers are able to advance people's freedoms, in part because user-friendly research is readily available.
OPHI has two research themes at present:
- The identification of missing dimensions for measurement of poverty, and the development and testing of survey modules in different countries
- The examination of issues relating to the comparisons of multidimensional poverty, and the application of new methodologies in different countries.
OPHI advances both by undertaking research as well as by coordinating with others' research, organising workshops on joint issues, and working through certain themes with intensive expert groups. OPHI's collaborators are international, based in the global South and North. Primary importance is given to effective two-way collaboration with policy actors and with the media. These partners are involved at every stage to ensure our research focuses on problems that are of practical importance, and to share the policy relevant aspects of our research.
For more information, please visit >>> http://www.ophi.org.uk
