The Overseas Economic Cooperation Fund (OECF) of Japan has posted their January 1999 Newsletter, a Special Report on Contractors and Consultants, to their website. You can directly link to the document summary or download the PDF File (599K) from the New Publications Section of the IDN Website at http://www.idn.org/ Here is what else is new since the new year (yes we have not written in a while): ____________________________________________ Quick Links of the Week February 7 - This week's IDN Quick Link is to the web site for ICPD +5 - The Hague Forum, which is taking place this week. This forum will review progress in Reproductive Health since the Cairo Conference five years ago. January 31 - International Development Week in Canada, which took place from January 31-February 6, 1999. January 25, 1999 - OECD Development Cooperation Review of Finland: Summary and Conclusions. January 17, 1999 - The redesigned web site of the Asian Development Bank. January 10, 1999 - OECD/DAC Development Cooperation Review of the European Community ____________________________________________ Tools You Can Use: This week's tool is a link to the Year 2000 Budget for USAID as Proposed by the White House. Other tools this year have included: January 31, 1999 - Projects Funded by the Agence Française de Développement. January 24, 1999 - World Bank's 1998 Annual Review of Development Effectiveness (ARDE). January 17, 1999 - CD-DEXS : USAID's Development Experience System on CD-ROM. This tool includes over 9,000 USAID project descriptions and almost 100,000 report citations, as well as hundreds of reports in full-text. January 10, 1999 - USAID Worldwide Mission Director Conference Report. ____________________________________________ New Publications January 31, 1999 - Time for Change: Food Aid and Development Consultation The World Food Program has recently made available the report Time for Change: Food Aid and Development Consultation. You can link to the HTML Version of reports presented in October of 1998 and/or download the new WFP report in PDF Format. January 10, 1999 - Special Report on International Cooperation The December 1998 Issue of the Overseas Economic Cooperation Fund of Japan Newsletter is a special report on International Cooperation. You can find out more Information on the contents of this publication, as well as a link to a PDF version at the OECF web site. ____________________________________________ New Links: Added February 7 Africa Business Network - brings in one place information on resources from IFC, its partners and others that can help increase the quantity and quality of private investment in Africa. Contraceptive Research and Development (CONRAD) Program - under a Cooperative Agreement with the U.S.Agency for International Development, has as its primary objective the development of new or improved contraceptive methods that are safe, effective, acceptable, and suitable for use in the US and developing countries. Education For All Forum - an international watchdog body, set up after the World Conference on Education for All in 1990 to promote and monitor progress towards Education for All. Environment Information Clearinghouse (EIC) - is a program of the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) in the Global Environment Center. EIC was established to provide multi-disciplinary environment research and information services to USAID and its worldwide missions. Global ChildNet - an organisation which uses the Internet to offer a range of easily accessible, child health related, on-line services. These services include databases and other information on issues related to the well-being of the world's children. Global Environment Centre Foundation - makes step-by-step efforts so that all people in the world can lead an affluent life in a clean environment on Planet Earth. International Environmental Technology Centre (IETC) - main role is to promote the application of Environmentally Sound Technologies (ESTs) to address urban environmental problems, such as sewage, air pollution, solid waste and noise, and the management of freshwater basins to developing countries and countries with economies in transition. International Rescue Committee - is the leading non-profit, nonsectarian voluntary organization providing relief, protection, and resettlement services for refugees and victims of oppression or violent conflict. Operation Smile - not-for-profit, volunteer medical services organization that provides reconstructive facial surgery to indigent children and young adults in 16 developing countries and in the United States. Small Enterprise Education and Promotion (SEEP) Network - is an association of more than 40 North American private and voluntary organizations which support micro and small enterprise programme in the developing world. Societe de Cooperation Pour Le Developpement International (French) USAID-Ethiopia - Official Web Site of the USAID Mission in Ethiopia. Added January 31 Central-Asian American Enterprise Fund - promotes the development of private enterprise in Kazakhstan, the Kyrgyz Republic, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, and Uzbekistan by operating as a venture capital institution to companies operating in the region, and to those companies and firms who may wish to invest in the region. EWET - Education With Enterprise Trust -Enabling poor Southern African communities through development assistance for them to become masters of their own destinies. Network Startup Resource Center (NSRC) - The Network Startup Resource Center provides technical advice and engineering assistance to developing area networking initiatives seeking to connect to the public Internet, especially to academic/research institutions and non-governmental organizations (NGOs). Romanian-American Enterprise Fund - implements a strategic plan to fosters private sector development by investing in and making loans to small and medium size companies and by providing technical assistance. Rural Advancement Foundation International State Family Planning Commission of China - Information and statistics on family planning in China. World Council of Credit Unions - promotes the sustainable development of credit unions worldwide as instruments of economic and social development. YES - Youth Enterprise Society - A South African school based, club movement that develops the entrepreneurial competencies of grades 9, 10 and 11 learners through a community based and action learning approach. __________________________________________________________ The IDN plans to continue our growth and offerings. If you have not yet thought about a membership/sponsorship in the IDN, we encourage you to consider becoming a sponsor/member of the fastest growing, most comprehensive and current International Development Web Site on the Internet! Information is available at http://www.idn.org/membership/