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Links to U.S. Government, International Organizations, and Non-Governmental Organizations for further understanding and research of CGD's Rich World Poor World topics.

U.S. Government

United States Agency for International Development (USAID)
http://www.usaid.gov/
USAID provides economic, development and humanitarian assistance around the world in support of the foreign policy goals of the United States. Through its basic education program, USAID Missions assist developing countries to improve their pre-primary, primary, and secondary education. Teacher training, as well as adult literacy, are important elements of this work. A special emphasis of all basic education activities is improving opportunities for girls, women and other underserved and disadvantaged populations.

USAID - Strategies for Advancing Girls' Education (SAGE)
http://sage.aed.org/Practice/sagehome.htm
The three-year SAGE project draws upon the extensive basic education and girls' education experiences of AED to provide technical and training assistance in girls' primary education to USAID Missions. SAGE is designed to take a non-traditional, multi-sectoral approach to increasing involvement in girls' education. SAGE strengthens local ownership of girls' education by engaging traditional and non-traditional actors, such as the public and private sectors, central and decentralized government units, religious and business leaders, in implementing local solutions with local resources in support of girls' education.

International Organizations

OECD - DAC
http://www.oecd.org/
The Development Assistance Committee (DAC) is one of the key forums in which the major bilateral donors work together to increase the effectiveness of their common efforts to support sustainable development. The DAC concentrates on how international development co-operation contributes to the capacity of developing countries to participate in the global economy and the capacity of people to overcome poverty and participate fully in their societies.

United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO)
http://www.unesco.org
UNESCO is the United Nations' specialized agency for education. It works to improve education worldwide through technical advice, standard setting, innovative projects, capacity building and networking. UNESCO seeks to promote education as a fundamental right, improve the quality of education and stimulate experimentation, innovation and policy dialogue.

Education for All
Specifically, UNESCO has a clearinghouse for reports, news, and upcoming Education for All meetings and conferences: http://www.unesco.org/education/efa/ as well as a statistics database: http://www.uis.unesco.org/

United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF)
http://www.unicef.org/
UNICEF advocates for the protection of children's rights, to help meet their basic needs and to expand their opportunities to reach their full potential. UNICEF is committed to ensuring special protection for the most disadvantaged children - victims of war, disasters, extreme poverty, all forms of violence and exploitation and those with disabilities and responds in emergencies to protect the rights of children. UNICEF aims, through its country programs, to promote the equal rights of women and girls and to support their full participation in the political, social, and economic development of their communities.

Specifically, to see more on girls' education: http://www.unicef.org/girlseducation/

United Nations Girls' Education Initiative (UNGEI)

The goal of the United Nations ten year Girls' Education Initiative is to mount a sustained campaign to improve the quality and availability of girls' education through a collaborative partnership of different entities within and outside the United Nations system. The Initiative is designed to contribute to the elimination of gender discrimination and gender disparity in education systems through action at global, national, district and community levels.

For more information, please see UNGEI Concept Paper

Non-governmental Organizations

Academy for Educational Development
http://www.aed.org/
Founded in 1961, AED is an independent, nonprofit organization committed to solving critical social problems in the U.S. and throughout the world through education, social marketing, research, training, policy analysis and innovative program design and management. Major areas of focus include health, education, youth development, and the environment.

ActionAid
http://www.actionaid.org/
ActionAid is a unique partnership of people who are fighting for a better world - a world without poverty. One of the UK's largest development agencies, ActionAid works in more than 40 countries in Africa, Asia, Latin America and the Caribbean, listening to, learning from and working in partnership with over nine million of the world poorest people

Specifically for information on education, click here.

Basic Education Coalition
http://www.basiced.org/
The Basic Education Coalition, a group of 19 development organizations, advocates for greater priority for early childhood and primary education in foreign assistance programs. The members of the Coalition believe that basic education is fundamental to reducing poverty and improving social well-being.

CARE International
http://www.care.org/
CARE works with poor communities in more than 70 countries around the world to find lasting solutions to poverty. We look at the big picture of poverty, and go beyond the symptoms to confront underlying causes. With a broad range of programs based on empowerment, equity and sustainability, CARE seeks to tap human potential and leverage the power of individuals and communities to unleash a vast force for progress.

For information specific to education, click here.

The Center for Democracy and Development, McCormack Institute
http://www.mccormack.umb.edu/cdd/community.jsp
The Center for Democracy and Development (CDD) is dedicated to advancing democracy and economic development in post-communist and post-colonial areas abroad. CDD has extensive experience with rule of law, judicial reform, economic development, and educational exchange and training programs, including building partnerships with foreign universities and design of innovative, university-based, community resource centers. The Global Campaign for Education (GGE) http://www.campaignforeducation.org/ GCE is a group of organizations, activists and teachers from over 180 countries who believe that education is a basic human right, and that free, quality basic education for every girl, boy, man and woman is not only an essential right, but an achievable goal. They mobilize public pressure on governments and the international community to fulfill their promises to provide free, compulsory public basic education for all people; in particular for children, women and all disadvantaged, deprived sections of society.

Early Childhood Development Group (ECD Group)
http://www.ecdgroup.com/
Website of a diverse consortium of international agencies, donors, NGOs and foundations that involved in programming, research, policy-advocacy, monitoring and evaluation for young children (0-8) at risk.

NetAid
http://www.netaid.org/
NetAid's mission is to mobilize people in developed countries to make ending extreme poverty a global priority. Combining innovative programs with new technologies, and working in partnership with the United Nations and the private sector, NetAid is building a network of everyday people committed to working for a world without extreme poverty. The NetAid Network of people and organizations is 80,000 strong - and growing.

Oxfam International
http://www.oxfam.com/eng/
Oxfam International is a confederation of 12 organizations working together in more than 100 countries to find lasting solutions to poverty, suffering and injustice. With many of the causes of poverty global in nature, members of Oxfam International believe they can achieve greater impact in addressing issues of poverty by their collective efforts. With regard to education, Oxfam is campaigning for governments and institutions to really put their money where their mouth is and make the dream of education for all a reality.

Specifically, the Education Now Campaign

Partnership for Sustainable Strategies for Girls' Education
http://www.girlseducation.org/
The Partnership on Sustainable Strategies for Girls' Education is an international, inter-agency group dedicated to improving educational opportunities for girls in the developing world. They support education policy research and analysis in developing countries with the objective of identifying policy measures which will improve girls' educational opportunities. The Partnership works collaboratively with country governments in examining policy issues relating to girls' educational opportunities.

Save the Children
http://www.savethechildren.org/
Save the Children focuses on positive change for millions of people in thousands of communities around the globe - working together to create opportunities for the world's children to live safe, healthy, and fulfilling lives, providing communities with a hand up, not a handout. Their approach - working with families to define and solve the problems their children and communities face and utilizing a broad array of strategies to ensure self-sufficiency - is the cornerstone of all Save the Children's programs.

For information specific to education, see: http://www.savethechildren.org/education/

World Food Program
http://www.wfp.org/
Set-up in 1963, WFP is the United Nations frontline agency in the fight against global hunger. In 2003, WFP fed 104 million people in 81 countries, including most of the world's refugees and internally displaced people.