Other Resources
Name
Description
CPS Demographic Links

By this site, the Centre for Population Studies (CPS) which is a research unit within the Department of Epidemiology & Population Health of the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine offers a space with a comprehensive coverage of population information resources available on-line.
http://www.lshtm.ac.uk/eps/cps/cpslinks.htm

ELDIS

Co-funded by the Danish development agency (DANIDA), the Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency (SIDA) and other agencies, and hosted by the Institute of Development Studies, ELDIS is a gateway to information sources on development and the environment. It provides an ever increasing number of descriptions and links to a variety of information sources, including online documents, organisation's WWW sites, databases, library catalogues, bibliographies, and email discussion lists, research project information, map and newspaper collections.
http://nt1.ids.ac.uk/eldis/eldis.htm

A Guide to Internet Resources on Sustainable Development

The site is managed by the Agricultural and Resource Economics Program, Division of Resource Management, West Virginia University. The purpose of this guide is to assist researchers and others with the task of locating information on sustainable development on the internet.
http://www.caf.wvu.edu/gdsouzawww/guide.html

Health Net Africa

HealthNet is SATELLIFE's computer-based telecommunications system that links health care professionals around the world and to each other. SATELLIFE focuses its attention on developing countries, where telecommunication systems are often unreliable or nonexistent, and where cost or distance limits access to medical literature and other health information. For people living in those areas where such conditions exist, HealthNet provides access to the latest health information, e-mail connectivity, electronic conferencing, and other services tailored to meet current demands. HealthNet is also a system of people. HealthNet communication and information services are used by approximately 19,500 health care workers in more than 150 countries worldwide.
http://www.healthnet.org/index2.php

IISD - Linkages

This multimedia resource for environment and development negotiations is provided by the International Institute for Sustainable Development, publishers of the Earth Negotiations Bulletin. The site is designed to be an electronic clearing-house for information on past and upcoming international meetings related to environment and development policy.
http://www.iisd.ca/linkages

Index on Africa

Made by the Norwegian Council for Africa (NOCA), the Index on Africa is a comprehensive resource site featuring over 2.000 annotated links to resources on Africa, background information and news on African matters and the interactive community forum for debate, contact and information exchange. The topics range from health, development to human rights, indigenous affairs and women.
http://www.afrika.no

Internet Resources for Demographers

This site is designed as a supplement to Thomas Gryn's "Internet Resources for Demographers" paper, which was published in the Summer 1997 issue of Population Index (Vol. 63(2), pgs. 189-204); an online copy of the paper is now available from the Population Index website.
http://www.chrr.ohio-state.edu/~gryn/demog.html
http://popindex.princeton.edu

Netlinks

A database of internet resources for public health managed by the Media/Materials Clearinghouse of Johns Hopkins Population Information Program. Netlinks is a searchable database of online resource, organizations, companies, and institutions related to health, population, and international development.
http://www.jhuccp.org/netlinks

POPIN

The Global POPIN is established by and within the United Nations Population Division under the support of UNFPA. As a decentralised community of population institutions organised into global, regional and national networks, POPIN strives to make population information from all levels of sources including the United Nations easily available to everyone.
http://www.un.org/popin

PopNet

PopNet is produced and maintained by the Population Reference Bureau with funding assistance from the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) under the MEASURE Communication project. It is a resource for population information where you can browse the most comprehensive directory of population-related websites available - by organization, by region and country, or by topic within countries. It presents information on population topics such as demographic statistics, economics, education, environment, gender, policy and reproductive health.
http://www.popnet.org

Population and Demography Information Maintained by the Penn State Population Research Institute , the site provides a wide range of population and demography related information resources available on the web.
http://www.pop.psu.edu/Demography/demography.htm
http://www.pop.psu.edu/
Population-Environment Research Network (PERN)

A project of the International Union for the Scientific Study of Population (IUSSP) and the International Human Dimensions Programme (IHDP) on Global Environmental Change facilitating scientific analysis and dialogue about population and environment relationships. The Population-Environment Research Network seeks to advance academic research on population and the environment by promoting on-line scientific exchange among researchers from social and natural science disciplines worldwide.
http://www.populationenvironmentresearch.org/

Reproductive Health Outlook

The Reproductive Health Outlook (RHO) is produced by Program for Appropriate Technology in Health (PATH). It is especially designed for reproductive health program managers and decision-makers working in developing countries and low-resource settings to provide up-to-date summaries of research findings, program experience, and clinical guidelines related to key reproductive health topics, as well as analyses of policy and program implications.
http://www.rho.org/

Reproductive Health Online (REPROLINE)
(through JHU)

REPROLINE is designed by JHPIEGO, an affiliate of Johns Hopkins University for professionals working in the field of reproductive health. It offers a variety of on-line tools and information in this field.
http://www.reproline.jhu.edu

Sustainable Development Communications Network (SDCN)

The Sustainable Development Communications Network (SDCN) is a group of leading civil society organizations seeking to accelerate the implementation of sustainable development through broader, integrated information and communications. The network focuses its efforts on integrating Internet communications into broader communication strategies.
http://www.sdcn.org

Sustainable Development Gateway

The Sustainable Development (SD) Gateway integrates the on-line information developed by members of the Sustainable Development Communications Network (SDCN). In addition to over 1,200 documents available in SD Topics, the site provides services such as a calendar of events, a job bank, the Sustainability Web Ring, a roster of mailing lists and news sites dealing with sustainable development.
http://sdgateway.net

VL on International Development - Africa & the Middle East

The Virtual Library (VL) on International Development is maintained by the International Development Information Centre (IDIC) of the Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA). It is a collection of links to international development-related sites and documents on the Internet.
http://w3.acdi-cida.gc.ca/Virtual.nsf/e0c2ea62724d464a8
52568160054ebad?OpenView&Start=1&Count=600&Co
llapse=1.7#1.7

SOSIG: Demography Resources

Maintained by the Social Science Information Gateway (SOSIG), University of Bristol, UK, the site provides gateways to worldwide population resources available on-line.
http://www.sosig.ac.uk/roads/subject-listing/World/demog.html

The World Wide Web of Demography

Maintained by the Netherlands Interdisciplinary Demographic Institute (NIDI), this site presents an overview of information resources in the field of demography and population studies on the World Wide Web.
http://www.nidi.nl/links/nidi6300.html
http://www.nidi.nl

Women Watch

WomenWatch is a joint UN project to create a core Internet space on global women's issues. It was created to monitor the results of the Fourth World Conference on Women, held in Beijing in 1995. It was founded in March 1997 by the Division for the Advancement of Women (DAW), the United Nations Development Fund for Women (UNIFEM) and the International Research and Training Institute for the Advancement of Women (INSTRAW).
http://www.un.org/womenwatch/

www VL on Demography and Population Studies

This Internet guide to demography and population studies hosted by the Australian National University keeps track of leading information facilities of value and/or significance to researchers in the field of demography.
http://demography.anu.edu.au/VirtualLibrary/
http://online.anu.edu.au/external.html

www VL on Migration and Ethnic Relations

In this virtual library you will find a collection of links to major internet resources in the field of migration and ethnic relations. Hosted by he European Research Centre on Migration and Ethnic Relations (ERCOMER)
http://www.ercomer.org/wwwvl/index.html
http://www.ercomer.org

www VL Social Policy - Africa

This library provides access to a variety of www Databases, Data Archives, National and International Statistical Offices and other data providers of interest to social policy researchers. They are classified by geographical area
http://www.bath.ac.uk/~hsstp/dp-dbas.htm#AFRICA

www VL on Sustainable Development

A comprehensive list of internet sites dealing with sustainable development, including organisations, projects and activities, electronic journals, libraries, references and documents, databases, directories or metadatabases
http://www.ulb.ac.be/ceese/meta/sustvl.html

WSSLINKS-Women and Gender Studies Web Sites

Developed and maintained by the Women's Studies Section of the Association of College and Research Libraries, the WSS Links aims to provide access to a wide range of resources in support of Women's Studies.
http://libraries.mit.edu/humanities/WomensStudies/
wscd.html

WoYaa! Africa Search The African Internet portal, search engine and web sites directory
http://www.woyaa.com
Yahoo links on Africa Good general information source. Particularly useful is the section on Society and Culture
http://dir.yahoo.com/regional/regions/africa
http://dir.yahoo.com/Regional/Regions/Africa/Society_
and_Culture/
Yahoo links on Population

 

A wide-ranging collection of websites on population, including data centers, demography, organizations, over population, research institutes, statistics, web directories and world population counts.
http://dir.yahoo.com/Society_and_Causes/Population