Internet Resources by Topic
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Civil Society

• Civil Society Organizations & Participation Program (part of the UN Development Program) - Resource Center
  http://www.undp.org/csopp/CSO/NewFiles/resources.html
  

• The Participation Program of the World Bank
  http://www.worldbank.org/participation/
  

• Idealist - Database of 20,000 organizations in 150 countries
  http://www.idealist.org/
  

• The Center for Civil Society Studies at Johns Hopkins University, including the Comparative Nonprofit Sector Project
  http://www.jhu.edu/~ccss/
  http://www.jhu.edu/~cnp/research.html
  

• The Civil Society and Governance Programme, an international research project supported by the Institute of Development Studies (IDS) and the Ford Foundation
  http://www.ids.ac.uk/ids/civsoc/weblinks.html
  

• Carnegie Endowment for International Peace - Transparency and Civil Society Project
  http://www.ceip.org/programs/transparency/transparency%20main%20page.htm
  

• ELDIS resources on civil society
  http://nt1.ids.ac.uk/eldis/hot/civsoc.htm
  

• EPN Democracy and Civic Participation Links (mostly US)
  http://epn.org/links/civiclinks.html
  

• CivNet, published by CIVITAS, an international, non-governmental organization dedicated to promoting civic education and civil society
  http://www.civnet.org/
  

• CIVICUS - World Alliance for Citizen Participation
  http://www.civicus.org/
  

• A Civil Society Toolbox
  http://www.pactworld.org/toolbox.html
  

• Partners for Democratic Change
  http://www.partners-intl.org/
  

• Search for Common Ground - an organization carrying out programs that aim to resolve conflict, and prevent violence
  http://www.sfcg.org/
  

Regional resources on civil society (cross-listed):

• Political Database of the Americas - Civil Society
  http://www.georgetown.edu/LatAmerPolitical/Misc/Groups/groups.html
  

• Committee on Civil Society Participation in OAS Activities
  http://www.civil-society.oas.org/
  

• The Center for the Study of Public Policy at the University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, including a specialised web site for people interested in the use of social capital networks in transition societies
  http://www.socialcapital.strath.ac.uk
  

• Friends & Partners - Civic Action in Eurasia
  http://www.friends-partners.org/partners/ccsi/
  

Use the menu on the left to also check the Internet resources listed by region