01) Indigenous Peoples - [Back to Top]

• Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues
  This is the site of the United Nation's Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues, an advisory body to the Economic and Social Council, which provides discussions of indigenous issues related to economic and social development, culture, the environment, education, health, and human rights.

02) Development Agencies & Organizations - [Back to Top]

• Directory of Development Agencies
  A resource guide with over 47,500 development organizations, including civil society organizations, research institutions, governments and the private sector.
• International Development Organization
  This site, which is available in English, French, and Spanish, describes the efforts of the International Development Association (IDA), the part of the World Bank designed to help poorest countries worldwide reduce poverty by providing interest-free loans and grants to boost economic growth and improve living conditions.
• National Rural Support Program - Pakistan
  This site of the largest rural support program in Pakistan, which has a presence in 32 districts in all four provinces and a network of 29,000 community organizations, provides information about its efforts to alleviate poverty by using people's potential and undertaking development activities.
• U.S. Agency for International Development
  This site provides information about the agency's efforts to advance U.S. foreign policy goals by supporting long-term and equitable economic growth, global health, democracy, conflict prevention and humanitarian assistance in Sub-Saharan Africa, Asia and the Near East, Latin America and the Caribbean, and Europe and Eurasia.

03) Multilateral Development Banks - [Back to Top]

• AFDB Website
  Available in French and English, this site offers information about the bank's activities and includes data relating to the rise of oil prices and African economies, infrastructure and regional integration, * reinventing growth in Africa, and poverty reduction.
• Directory of Multilateral Banks
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• Inter-American Development Bank
  This site is available in English, French, Spanish, and Portuguese and offers information about the oldest and largest regional development bank, the main source of multilateral financing for economic, social and institutional development projects, and trade and regional integration programs in Latin America and the Caribbean.
• International Finance Corporation - IFC Home
  This site, which is available in several languages, outlines the efforts of the International Finance Corporation to reduce poverty and improve lives in various countries around the world, including the regions of Asia, Ukraine, and the Middle East.
• The Multilateral Development Banks - A Comprehensive Study
  This is a comprehensive study of regional banks, focusing principal focus on the African, Asian, and Inter-American Development Banks, plus the subregional Caribbean Development Bank, to assess the effectiveness of the different banks by examining their impact on growth, poverty, the environment, and social indicators of development, and study the degree of coordination efforts of the World Bank.
• The World Bank
  This is the Web site of the World Bank, which offers information relating to businesses, civil society, client governments, investors, job seekers, journalists, and students
• World Bank Summary of Multilateral Development Banks
  This summary offers information about the world's Multilateral Development Banks, institutions that provide financial support and professional advice for economic and social development activities in developing countries, focusing on the World Bank Group and four regional development banks: the African development bank, the Asian development bank, the European bank for reconstruction and development, and the inter-American development bank group.

04) World Bank Group - [Back to Top]

• ICSID - International Centre for Settlement of Investment Disputes
  This is the site of the International Center for Settlement of Investment Disputes, an autonomous international organization with close ties to the World Bank, provides information on the group's rules and regulations.
• IDA - International Development Agency
  This site, which is available in English, French, and Spanish, describes the efforts of the International Development Association (IDA), the part of the World Bank designed to help poorest countries worldwide reduce poverty by providing interest-free loans and grants to boost economic growth and improve living conditions.
• IFC - International Finance Corporation
  A database of investment projects in sub-Saharan Africa, East Asia and the Pacific, South Asia, Europe, and Central Asia that includes information on sponsors, shareholders, project cost, proposed IFC investment, location of the project, environmental and social issues.
• MIGA - Multilateral Investment Guarantee Agency
  This is an extensive searchable database from the Multilateral Investment Guaranty Agency of over 12,000 Web-based documents that include research on economies and product markets, investment-related laws and treaties, and specific investment opportunities.
• The World Bank
  This is the Web site of the World Bank, which offers information relating to businesses, civil society, client governments, investors, job seekers, journalists, and students.

05) Infrastructure Funds - [Back to Top]

• Barclays Private Equity
  This site provides information about Barclays private equity and infrastructure funds and recent deals in the sectors of Health, NHS Local Improvement Finance Trusts (LIFT), Education, Student Accommodation, Ministry of Defense, Transportation, Local Authority, SPV Management, Building Schools for the Future (BSF).
• Emerging Africa Infrastructure Fund
  This is the site of a $305 million public-private partnership providing long-term debt financing on commercial terms to finance the construction and development of private infrastructure in sub-Saharan Africa.
• Emerging Markets Partnership
  This is the site of a partnership, which provides professional private equity investment practices to emerging markets worldwide and has seven funds holding approximately $6 billion in cumulative capital commitments and investment operations around the world from Korea to South Africa to Argentina.
• Galaxy Fund
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• Hastings Funds Management
  This is the site of an alternative asset funds management firm with approximately $3.6 billion in funds under management in infrastructure, private equity, timberland and high yield debt investments, which provides investors with direct access to unlisted investments in Australian infrastructure, such as roads, airports, electricity, gas, alternative waste treatment, and timberland.
• Macquarie Bank
  This is the site of the Macquarie Group, a large dedicated infrastructure fund management organization, with more than 300 professionals globally managing around 90 infrastructure assets in 20 countries offering both private and institutional investors the opportunity to invest.
• AMP Capital Investors
  Currently manages over $1.7 billion in infrastructure assets via 5 customized portfolios: The Infrastructure Fund of India (TIFoI) - launched in April 2004; Australia Pacific Airports Fund 2 (APAF2) - launched in Sept. 2002; The India Infrastructure Fund (IIF) - launched in Dec. 1999; Australia Pacific Airports Fund (APAF) - launched in May 1997.

06) Political Risk Insurers & Consultants - [Back to Top]

• AON
  This site provide information about political risks and insurance covering such risks, including confiscation, expropriation and nationalization, including cancellation and/or forced renegotiation of project agreements; war, civil war, terrorism and political violence; forced abandonment and forced divestiture; failure to honor sovereign guarantees; selective discrimination; and unfair calling of guarantees issued in support of the project.
• Berne Union
  The Berne Union is a leading international organisation of public and private sector providers of export credit and investment insurance; a non-profit organisation dedicated to facilitating world-wide cross-border trade and investments by fostering international acceptance of sound principles in export credits and investments insurance, and by providing a forum for professional exchanges among its members; also provides insurance or guarantees to protect exporting companies, investors and financial institutions against political and/or commercial risks.
• Business Risk Service
  This site provides qualitative analyses and forecasts for 50 countries, three times per year, and offers long-established numerical assessments (historical, present, and future) as well as The ratings were assessments of operating conditions, political risk, and the foreign exchange/ external accounts position for 50 important countries.
• Control Risks Group
  This site offers advice and services to help companies, governments and international organizations enhance their investment opportunities and manage strategic and operational risks worldwide.
• JLT group - Risk & Insurance
  This is the site of Jardine Lloyd Thompson (JTL) group's branch that provides insurance and reinsurance broking, and risk management advice to public and private organizations, local and central government and private individuals.
• MIGA - Multilateral Investment Guarantee Agency
  This is an extensive searchable database from the Multilateral Investment Guaranty Agency of over 12,000 Web-based documents that include research on economies and product markets, investment-related laws and treaties, and specific investment opportunities.
• OPIC - Overseas Private Investment Corporation
  This is the site of the Overseas Private Investment Corporation, which provides information to aid U.S. businesses investing overseas and to foster economic development in new and emerging markets, complement the private sector in managing the risks associated with foreign direct investment, and support U.S. foreign policy.
• PRS - Political Risk Services
  Political Risk Services offers a free sample report on a country with information about the most likely areas of trouble, key economic forecasts, and key issues to watch.
• Zurich North America
  This site offers information designed to help control losses associated with political risk or events in 70 emerging markets in Latin America, Asia, Africa, Middle East and Eastern Europe such as expropriation, political violence, and currency inconvertibility.

07) Export Credit Agencies - [Back to Top]

• ECA Watch - Directory
  This is a database of links relating to export credit agencies (ECAs) that includes links to a glossary and acronyms database of ECA terms, OECD member nation ECAs, Berne Union's membership list, which can be searched by region/country or problem area, and the Berne Union Yearbook for 2005 in PDF format.
• ECICS Limited
  ECICS is a provider of a broad range of credit insurance and, bonds and guarantees programs.
• OECD - Listing of ECAs
  This is a database of links to the Web sites of the official export credit agencies of OECD member countries relating to agriculture and export credits, aircraft and export credits, bribery and export credits, environment, export credit arrangement, and unproductive expenditures.

08) NGOs - [Back to Top]

• Bank Information Center USA
  This is the site of the Bank Information Center USA, which works with civil society in developing and transition nation to influence the World Bank and other international financial institutions (IFIs) toward the promotion of social and economic justice and ecological sustainability.
• Categorizing NGOs
  This site discusses NGOs and applies criteria from the World Bank to categorize private organizations that pursue activities to relieve suffering, promote the interests of the poor, protect the environment, provide basic social services, or undertake community development (NGOs) into operational and advocacy organizations.
• CorpWatch - Darfur Diplomacy Enter the Contractors
  This site, which is dedicated to holding corporations accountable, provides an article about two California companies that contracted to provide logistical support for the deployment of a five-nation peacekeeping force of 4,500 dispatched from African Union headquarters in Addis Ababa to stem the violence in Darfur.
• CorpWatch Exclusives
  CorpWatch.org provides news, analysis, research tools and action alerts to respond to corporate activity around the globe. This page gathers reports centering world financial institutions in corporate-led globalization as well as in others fighting for corporate accountability, human rights, social and environmental justice.
• Involving NGOs in Bank-supported Activities
  This is a portion of the World Bank Operating Manual from 1989 prepared to guide the staff of the World Bank by providing a framework for involving nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) in Bank-supported activities.
• NGOWatch
  This site is a project of the American Enterprise Institute and the Federalist Society designed to highlight issues of transparency and accountability in the operation of non-governmental organizations (NGOs) and international organizations.
• The NGO Cafe
  This site a meeting place for NGOs to discuss, debate, and disseminate information on their work, strategies, and results, and includes the subject areas of networking and networks, management of NGOs, program evaluation, participation and partnership, capacity-building tools, and documents and reports.

09) Project Legal Practices - [Back to Top]

• Project Finance Law Firms
  This is a database of the top 20 global legal advisors of project finance deals, ranked by the amount advised from 8/2/03 to 7/31/04, with links to each advisor's Web site.

10) Consultants and Transaction Advisors - [Back to Top]

• CFAS
  A small team of ex-construction, investment banking and project advisory consultants who represent host governments and investors in project finance and infrastructure transactions.
  
• High Point Rendel Consultants
  A project consulting firm bringing together highly experienced professionals from across the sector, capable of bridging across the complex technical, contractual, financial and programming issues that affect capital project procurement.
• Bridgepoint Group Ltd.
  A strategic consultant and transaction advisor focused on the origination and development of sustainable energy and infrastructure projects in Canada and the United States
• Mott MacDonald
  A management, engineering, and development consultancy, which serves serving both the public and private sector around the world in the countries of Europe, the Americas, Asia Pacific, Asia subcontinent, Australia, Africa, and the Middle East.
• Mercator Advisors LLC
  Offers financial consulting services to government, corporate and non-profit organizations sponsoring major infrastructure projects and programs in the United States.
• Castalia Strategic Advisors
  Castalia provides strategy, business-planning, public policy, regulation and governance advisory services to public sector clients. For example, reforming a state-owned enterprise, developing national PPP policies, or forecasting demand for infrastructure services.
• InfraConsult InfraConsult is a boutique consultantcy specializing in the development and financing of sustainable infrastructure projects and solutions.
• Sharon Greene + Associates A three-person boutique specializing in transportation economics and finance, multimodal transportation planning, and transport systems development.
• Site Selection Consultants Directory
  This is a directory of site selection consultancies in Asia and Oceania, Europe, North America, and Central America.
• Tata Group
  This is the site of TCE Consulting Engineers, which is the successor of Tata Consulting Engineers and offers comprehensive multi-disciplinary solutions in the areas of power, chemicals, industry, water supply, and waste water.
• Top International Design Firms
  This site ranks the 2005 top 200 international design firms and the top 150 global design firms, ranking them according to revenue for design services performed on projects outside the firm's home country in 2004 in millions of U.S. dollars.

11) International Contractors - [Back to Top]

• Top Chinese Contractors
  This site offers the 2005 ranking of the top 60 Chinese contractors, which was compiled by the Engineering News-Record (ENR) and Construction Times, a Shanghai-based industry newspaper, and ranks the top 60 China-based contractors, both publicly and privately held, on the basis of their construction contracting-specific revenue.
• Top Global Contractors
  This site provides a list of the top 225 global contractors ranked according to their total 2004 construction contracting revenue, both at home and abroad, in millions of U.S. dollars.
• Top International Contractors
  This site provides a list of the top 225 international contractors ranked according to their revenue from projects outside of their home country for 2004 in millions of U.S. dollars.

12) Specialist Consultants - [Back to Top]

• AirliePartners
  This site offers information about how Airlie works with companies that depend on long-term access to natural resources to operate their core business by improving clients' ability to manage risk and maintain their presence, enhance their reputations, and secure their social license to operate and grow while working in challenging social and political environments, especially in the developing world.
• Business for Social Responsibility (BSR)
  BSR develops sustainable business strategies and solutions for its global network of more than 250 member companies through consulting, research and convening; it is a nonprofit that uses expertise in four areas - environment, human rights, economic development, and governance and accountability - to drive companies toward sustainable business success.
• Centennial Group
  The Centennial Group is a strategic advisory firm composed of internationally recognized figures from the public and private sectors. The Principals of the Group bring together an extensive and unique blend of experience in high-level policy and strategy formulation at the corporate, national, and international levels, while offering an intimate knowledge of the key emerging economies as well as of the thinking of the international investment community..

13) Commercial Banks - [Back to Top]

• Equator Principles
  This is the site of the Equator Principles Financial Institutions (EPFIs) adopting a financial industry benchmark for determining, assessing and managing social & environmental risk in project financing, in order to ensure that the projects are developed in a manner that is socially responsible and reflect sound environmental management practices.
• International Petroleum Industry Environmental Conservation Association (IPIECA)
  This is the site of IPIECA, the single global association representing both the upstream and downstream oil and gas industry on key global environmental and social issues, serving as a forum for discussion and cooperation involving industry and international organizations.