Agence intergouvernementale de la Francophonie :
http://agence.francophonie.org
L'Agence intergouvernementale de la Francophonie, opérateur
principal de l'Organisation internationale de la Francophonie,
a été créée par la convention de Niamey
(Niger) le 20 mars 1970 sous l'impulsion de trois chefs d'État
africains : Léopold Sédar Senghor du Sénégal,
Habib Bourguiba de Tunisie et Hamani Diori du Niger. Elle regroupe
aujourd'hui 49 États et gouvernements qui, unis par les
liens que crée le partage de la langue française,
souhaitent, par des actions de coopération multilatérale,
utiliser ces liens au service de la paix, du dialogue des cultures
et du développement. L'Agence de la Francophonie est l'unique
opérateur intergouvernemental de l'Organisation internationale
de la Francophonie.
13 Quai André Citroën, F-75 015 Paris / France
Téléphone : (33) 1 44 37 33 00 Télécopie
: (33) 1 45 79 14 98
Cyberthecaire@francophonie.org
Andean Community
http://www.comunidadandina.org/
The Andean Community is an economic subregional organization
with an international legal status. It is made up of Bolivia,
Columbia, Ecuador, Peru and Venezuela.
Arctic Council
http://www.nrc.ca/arctic/
http://arctic-council.usgs.gov/
The Arctic Council was established on September 19th, 1996 in
Ottawa, Canada. A high level intergovernmental forum, the Council
provides a mechanism to address the common concerns and challenges
faced by the Arctic governments and the people of the Arctic.
The members of the Council are Canada, Denmark, Finland, Iceland,
Norway, the Russian Federation, Sweden, and the United States
of America. The Association of Indigenous Minorities of the North,
Siberia and the Far East of the Russian Federation, the Inuit
Circumpolar Conference, the Saami Council, and the
Aleutian International Association are Permanent Participants
in the Council. There is provision for non-arctic States, inter-governmental
and inter-parliamentary organizations and non-governmental organizations
to become involved as observers. The main activities of the Council
focus on the protection of the Arctic environment and sustainable
development as a means of improving the economic, social and cultural
well-being of the north. The Council meets at the ministerial
level biennially. The Chair and Secretariat of the Council rotates
every two years among the eight Arctic States, beginning with
Canada in 1996. At the AEPS Ministerial meeting held in Alta,
Norway in June 1997, the existing working groups of the Arctic
Environmental Protection Strategy (AEPS) were integrated within
the Council.
Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN)
http://www.aseansec.org/
ASEAN. On 8 August 1967, five leaders (foreign ministers of Indonesia,
Malaysia, the Philippines, Singapore and Thailand) sat down together
in the main hall of the Department of Foreign Affairs building
in Bangkok, Thailand, and signed the ASEAN Declaration. By virtue
of that document, the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN)
was born.
Baltic Assembly
http://www.saeima.lanet.lv/baltasam/
The Baltic Assembly is an organization consisting of sixty parliamentarians
of the Baltic countries, twenty parliamentarians from each parliament:
Latvian, Lithuanian and Estonian.
Caribbean Community
http://www.caricom.org/expframes.htm
The Commonwealth
http://www.thecommonwealth.org/
The Commonwealth : a voluntary association of sovereign States
with a membership of 51 countries, with populations ranging in
size from a few thousand people to several hundred million. The
Commonwealth is active in a number of diverse area, from observing
elections to providing models for good health practices for women,
from advising member countries on debt management to helping them
negotiate better trade arrangements
See also "The Commonwealth publishes Human Rights Material
for Schools":
http://www.thecommonwealth.org/index1.htm
The Council of Europe
http://www.coe.fr/eng/present/index.htm
See also:
http://www.dhdirhr.coe.fr/
The Council of Europe (COE) Web Site for Human Rights. Strasbourg
(France)
Economic Reconstruction and Development in South East Europe
http://www.seerecon.org/
This European Commission / World Bank website aims to provide
a real-time working tool to help donors identify the current situation
in South East Europe and the macroeconomic needs of the countries.
It also aims to provide an additional way for donors to coordinate
their assistance and ensure that the countries of the region that
were most affected by the recent crisis in Kosovo have access
to adequate and complementary external financing.
See also "Aid Coordination and Post-Conflict Reconstruction:
the West Bank and
Gaza Experience" Barbara Balaj and Christine Wallich (prepared
for World Bank Operations
Evaluation Department) Spring 1999
http://www.seerecon.org/Kosovo/KosovoReconstruction/185precis.pdf
The European Committee for the Prevention of Torture
http://www.cpt.coe.fr/
The European Committee for the Prevention of Torture and Inhuman
or Degrading Treatment or Punishment (CPT).
The European Union (EU)
http://europa.eu.int/
The European Union (EU).
http://www.eurunion.org/
The European Union Centers in the United States
The European Community Humanitarian Office (ECHO)
http://europa.eu.int/comm/echo/en/present/manda_en.html
The European Community Humanitarian Office (ECHO) is the unit
of the European Commission that deals with humanitarian aid outside
the European Union. ECHO's task is to ensure goods and services
get to crisis zones fast. Goods may include essential supplies,
specific foods, medical equipment, medicines and fuel. Services
may include medical teams, water purification teams, logistical
support. Goods and services reach disaster areas via ECHO partners,
or through ECHO's own operational capacity. Since 1992, ECHO has
funded humanitarian aid in more than 85 countries. In 1997, its
grants covered emergency aid, food aid and aid to refugees and
displaced persons worth a total of almost ECU 442 million.
See also http://www.disaster.info.desastres.net/dipecho/
the new Web site of ECHO's new Disaster Preparedness, Information,
and Mitigation Program for Natural Disasters in the Caribbean:
dipecho@codetel.net.do
And ECHO news: http://europa.eu.int/comm/echo/en/actual/index_en.html
As well as ECHO procedures for funding projects:
http://europa.eu.int/comm/echo/en/partners/etape_en.html
Day 1: Disaster strikes
-Stage 1: An NGO or an international organisation or a government
or ECHO itself submits an application for aid.
-Stage 2: ECHO examines the application and consults the desk
officers for the country concerned, the budget authority, the
European Commission delegation on the spot and other Directorates-General.
If the application is rejected, the organisation is informed immediately.
-Stage 3: If the application is accepted, procedural rules require
the Commission to make a "proposal".
Day 4: Financial go-ahead
-Stage 4: The proposal is approved by Commission departments.
-Stage 5: The organisation is informed and the contract is signed.
Operations start up on the ground. At the same time:
-Stage 6: A copy of the operational contract is sent to the NGO
for signature
-Stage 7: Rapid payments are necessary for aid operations. An
advance is therefore paid out upon receipt of the signed contract.
Day 7: Payment of 50% to 80% of the funding granted
Operations continue
-Stage 8: An evaluation may be started at this stage.
-Stage 9: The programme is completed and a description of the
operation and the accounts are sent to ECHO within three months.
Three month later, ECHO's report
-Stage 10: The balance of the grant is paid out.
Projects generally last six months or less.
The list of eligible expenditures:
http://europa.eu.int/comm/echo/en/partners/depe_en.html
Relations between ECHO and its partners are governed by Framework
Partnership Agreements, the purpose of which is to define
roles and responsibilities in the implementation of humanitarian
operations financed by the European Community :
http://europa.eu.int/comm/echo/en/partners/cont_en.html
ECHO's Partners listed here by country, with their details and,
in some cases, their own commentaries: http://europa.eu.int/comm/echo/en/partners/parte_en.html
The Inter-American Commission on Human Rights
http://www.cidh.org
The Irish Department of Foreign Affairs
http://www.irlgov.ie/iveagh/
North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (NATO)
http://www.nato.int/
North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (NATO), Brussels, Belgium
European Monitoring Centre for Drugs and Drug Addiction
(EMCDDA)
Observatoire Européen des Drogues et des Toxicomanies (OEDT)
http://www.emcdda.org
The Lisbon-based European Monitoring Centre for Drugs and Drug
Addiction (EMCDDA) is one of 11 independent agencies established
by the European Community to work on specific topics ranging from
education and training to the environment and drugs. The agencies'
common aim is to achieve a degree of decentralisation in Community
activities and to develop scientific or technical know-how
in their particular fields.
Rua da Cruz de Santa Apolonia 23-25, PT-1149-045 Lisboa, Portugal
Info@emcdda.org
The Organization of American States (OAS)
http://www.oas.org/
The Organization of American States (OAS). See also:
-Inter-American Institute of Human Rights
http://www.iidh.ed.cr
Apdo 10081-1000, San José, Costa Rica instituto@iidh.ed.cr
-Pan American Health Organization (PAHO)
http://www.paho.org/
The Pan American Sanitary Bureau is the Secretariat of the Pan
American Health Organization (PAHO), an international agency
specializing in health. Its mission is to cooperate technically
with the Member Countries and to stimulate cooperation among them
in order that, while maintaining a healthy environment and charting
a course to sustainable human development, the peoples of the
Americas may achieve Health for All and by All.
The PAHO Offices in Colombia, Ecuador and Nicaragua have their
own disaster websites :
Internally Displaced Populations (IDP) Project, Colombia
http://www.disaster.info.desastres.net/col-ops/Desplazados.htm
PAHO Sub-Regional Office, Quito, Ecuador
http://www.disaster.info.desastres.net/PED-Ecuador/desastre/index.html
PAHO Office in Nicaragua
http://www.ops.org.ni/desastre/indexnew.htm
The Organization of African Unity (OAU)
http://www.oau-oua.org/
http://www.rapide-pana.com/demo/oua/rapid3.htm
The Organization of African Unity (OAU) is both the symbol and
embodiment of age-old panafrican yearnings that found remarkable
expression in the 19th Century epics of scattered African Communities
the world over.
The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development
(OECD)
http://www.oecd.org/
The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD)
is a Paris-based intergovernmental organisation whose purpose
is to provide its 29 Member countries with a forum in which governments
can compare their experiences, discuss the problems they share
and seek solutions which can then be applied within their own
national contexts. The Organisation is thus entirely at the service
of its Member countries. It forms a homogeneous entity in that
each Member country is committed to the principles of the market
economy and pluralistic democracy.
DAC Secretariat (OECD Development Co-operation Directorate)
maintains detailed records of aid flows, as shown in the charts
below.
Other statistical information is available at http://www.oecd.org/dac
For work on peace and conflict issues, documents from the
"Informal DAC Task Force on Conflict, Peace and Development
Co-operation"
are available at http://www.oecd.org/dac/htm/pubsfoc.htm
The Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe
(OSCE)
http://www.osceprag.cz/
The Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE)
is a pan-European security organization whose 55 participating
States span the geographical area from Vancouver to Vladivostok.
As a regional arrangement under Chapter VIII of the Charter of
the United Nations, the OSCE has been established as a primary
instrument in its region for early warning, conflict prevention,
crisis management and post-conflict rehabilitation in Europe.
The OSCE approach to security is comprehensive and co-operative.
It addresses a wide range of security-related issues including
arms control, preventive diplomacy, confidence- and security-building
measures, human rights, election monitoring and economic and environmental
security. All States participating in OSCE activities have equal
status and decisions are made on the basis of consensus.
See also the OSCE High Commissioner on National Minorities
http://www.osceprag.cz/inst/hcnm/
P.O. Box 20062, NL- 2500 EB The Hague,The Netherlands
Hcnm@hcnm.org
INTERFUND Southern Africa
http://www.interfund.org.za/
Founded in 1986, INTERFUND is an international development agency
working in Southern Africa. INTERFUND is a consortium of donors
based in Scandinavia and Europe who have pooled their resources
around a common set of criteria and policies to advance development
and democracy in Southern Africa. The consortium mobilises resources
- financial and non-financial - to support the initiatives of
voluntary sector organisations. Where appropriate it collaborates
with government departments. INTERFUND seeks to forge effective
partnerships between like-minded development organisations in
the North and South, based on shared goals and working principles
of openness reciprocity and joint initiative. INTERFUND appraises,
finances, co-implements, monitors and evaluates programmes on
behalf of its donors and member agencies. As well as funding,
the consortium provides other forms of programme support, designed
to improve the quality of development work. It facilitates exchanges
of information and development experience, within Southern Africa
and between North and South. It also lobbies actively on issues
of social justice, the strengthening of the voluntary sector and
the consolidation of democracy in Southern Africa. INTERFUND
provides support to some 110 programmes in nine developmental
sectors, ranging from land and rural development, to housing and
local government, to promoting human rights and democratisation.
In collaboration with the South African National NGO Coalition,
INTERFUND publishes a quarterly journal Development Update, which
is fast establishing itself as an unrivalled source of information
and debate on the local voluntary sector and on development.
INTERFUND P.O. Box 32340, Braamfontein 2017, South Africa.
sadi@itfd.co.za