CAFRAD (African Training and Research Centre in Administration for Development) - Pan African intergovernmental organization for the improvement of governance systems. Includes information on activities, goals and member states. Africare - Specializes in helping Africa by helping alleviate hunger, building water wells, treating childhood diseases, and supporting social empowerment. Page includes crisis news, positive developments and office locations. African Foundation for Development (AFFORD) - Supporting the African diaspora in the UK to contribute to wealth and job creation in Africa. Includes news and information about activities, events and membership. African Information Society Youth Network - A regional youth information and communication electronic network. Its objective is to facilitate and coordinate the implementation of youth-targeted ICT-programmes in the context of promoting sustainable youth livelihood, education and entrepreneurship opportunities in Africa. Foundation for the Development of Africa - Africa sustainable development non profit organisation; campaign for support of NEPAD. Charity Navigator - Africa - Independent charity evaluator provides free financial evaluations of America's charities, aimed at the individual donor. Offers news and information on wise giving and charity ratings. Transform Africa - Member network of training, research and advocacy organisations aiming to improve the effectiveness of the NGO sector to fight poverty in Africa. Includes news, programs, activities, partners and country profiles. USAID - Famine Early Warning Systems Network (FEWS) - Provides overview briefs, weather hazards with imagery and maps, livelihoods, special reports, and contingency and response planning reports. Includes food security status reports on current emergencies, warnings and watches. AvRICA - NGO providing aid to rural African communities via aviation; project details. Christian Aid - Africa 2005 - Group tackling the causes of poverty and injustice explains their work with the Africa Commission and their response to its official Report. Includes information on how to get involved. Lubuto Library Partners - Constructs enduring, open-access libraries for African children and youth. Stocked with collections of professionally-chosen books and appropriate technology. Offers a variety of innovative programs. BBC News - In Depth: Africa After The Promises - Ongoing news, analysis and features about the 2005 G8 pledges of aid and debt relief. Includes photos, audio, video and forum. Africa Bridge - Seeks to provide a forum for leaders in Africa and the West to work as equals to identify and define innovative approaches and projects to improve the lives of people in Africa. Africa Leadership Forum - Organises conferences and publications to help cope with Africa's leadership and development crisis. Tools for Self Reliance - Supports workers in some of the world's poorest countries by providing basic hand-tools and helping promote local tool-making initiatives. SOS Children's Villages - Africa - Presents maps and country information about SOS facilities and programmes. Africa Faith & Justice Network - Works closely with Catholic missionary congregations and numerous Africa-focused coalitions of all persuasions to advocate for USA economic and political policies that will benefit Africa's poor majority, facilitate an end to armed conflict, establish equitable trade and investment with Africa and promote ecologically sound development. The African Uptimist - Clean energy and Internet access for people in Africa: An optimistic view of what works, what's better and where's the action. Timbuktu Chronicles - A view of Africa and Africans with a focus on entrepreneurship, innovation, technology, practical remedies and other self-sustaining activities. Africa Unchained - Platform for analysing and contributing to the issues and solutions raised by George Ayittey's book 'Africa Unchained'. Mo Ibrahim Foundation - Foundation established to promote African development, with a special focus on promoting good governance in sub-Saharan Africa. It awards the Mo Ibrahim Prize for Achievement in African Leadership and ranks sub-Saharan African nations in the Ibrahim Index of African Governance. Eldis - Africa South of the Sahara - News and country profiles with information by sector: health, education, gender, agriculture, trade and finance, governance, environment, poverty, food security and emergencies, aid and debt. From the Institute of Development Studies, Sussex. US African Development Foundation - Independent US Federal agency established to support African-designed and African-driven solutions that address grassroots economic and social problems. Includes news, programs, publications, countries involved and how to apply for funding. Ohio University - Institute for the African Child - Promotes research, teaching and service that consider children in Africa's socio-economic development. Offers workshops, conferences and papers. UNIFEM Worldwide - Africa - UN agency presents programmes and activities plus news, statements, reports and documents on the status and progress of women and issues which affect them. United Nations Development Fund for Women (UNIFEM). GoedgedachtForum for Social Reflection (GFSR) - Nonpartisan, Catholic Social Teaching-guided South African think tank studying social, economic and political issues and sponsoring training, poverty relief, and other social programs. Publications and reports, trust information, and directory of development resources. Guardian - Special Report: World Debt Relief - News, analysis, background information and links.