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The Brookings Institution is an independent, nonpartisan organization devoted to research, analysis, and public education with an emphasis on economics, foreign policy, governance, and metropolitan policy.
The Center for Advanced Study of International Development (CASID) provides support for undergraduate and postgraduate programmes at Michigan State University (MSU).
The Centre for International Development (CID), Harvard University was established with one overriding conceptual notion: the need for cross-disciplinary approaches to the challenges of global sustainable development.
Centre for Development Policy and Research (CDPR) The work of CDPR addresses the following challenge: development of cross-disciplinary approaches to poverty reduction that bridge the gaps between research and policy. CDPR undertakes this work by using its staff resources in collaboration with experts throughout the world. Its mission is to develop capacity for country-driven strategies and nationally owned policies that foster the reduction of poverty.
Centre d'etude d'Afrique noire (CEAN) is an international research centre, based in France, devoted to the analysis of political change in sub-Saharan Africa.
The Centre for Development Studies (CDS) / Department of Economics and International Development (DEID) / Institute for International Policy Analysis (IFIPA): Bath University delivers a continually evolving portfolio of undergraduate and postgraduate (taught and research) programmes.
Fondazione Eni Enrico Mattei (FEEM) The Fondazione Eni Enrico Mattei (FEEM) is a no-profit, no-partisan research institution established to carry out research in the field of sustainable development.One of its principal aims is to promote interaction between academic, industrial and public policy spheres in order to comprehensively address concerns about economic development and environmental degradation.
Ford Institute for Human Security This institute aims to conduct research focusing on a series of transnational threats to the human rights of civilian populations, and to generate independent research, disseminate policy papers, and advocate nonpartisan policy proposals available to both domestic and international policymakers. Key areas it focuses on inclulde: genocide (historical and contemporary), restitution and compensation for slave and forced labor, corporate social responsibility and human development, intra-state conflict and human rights, internal displacement, forced migration, and refugees
environmental degradation and personal welfare.
Center for Human Rights and Global Justice The Center for Human Rights and Global Justice (CHRGJ) at NYU Law School was established in 2002. It focuses on issues related to the globalisation and social justice agendas, highlighting the links between poverty and human rights, and adopting an integrated, interdisciplinary approach to human rights research. It seeks to place international human rights law in the broader context of the political, jurisprudential, economic, sociological, historical, anthropological and other influences that shape it and determine its impact.
Institute of Sociology The Institute of Sociology provides post-graduate education in the field of sociology, but primarily, it is a research workplace. It conducts ongoing and one-time empirical surveys, comparative research studies, public opinion surveys and case studies, applying modern qualitative and quantitative research methods. It also cultivates the development of sociological theory and methodology. Research at the Institute also makes use of information, concepts and methods drawn from related scholarly fields, such as economics, law, political science, demography, social geography, and gender studies. The Institute is very active internationally. It participates in a number of multinational and international scientific programmes and is involved in the organisation of international scientific meetings and in the exchange of scientific information among institutions in various countries.
Institute of Social Studies Trust (ISST), India ISST is a non-profit, non-governmental organisation that conducts research and action programmes to promote social justice and equity for the under-privileged, with a focus on women. ISST has been working on several inter-related areas of research including poverty and gender, health, local governance, forestry and environmental concerns.
Danish Intitute for International Studies (DIIS) DIIS is part of the Danish Centre for International Studies and Human Rights, DCISM. DCISM was established with the aim of strengthening research, analysis, and information activities in Denmark concerning international affairs.
The Institute of Commonwealth Studies exists to promote inter-disciplinary and inter-regional research on the Commonwealth and its member nations in the fields of history, politics, economics and other social sciences, and in subjects like development, environment, health, migration, class, race, and literature.
The Institute of Development Studies is one of the world's leading organisations for research, teaching and communications on international development. Its purpose is to understand and explain the world, and to try to change it – to influence as well as to inform.
Institute of Social and Economic Research The Institute for Social and Economic Research (ISER) is an independent, non-profit organisation that undertakes research and disseminates information on a range of socio-economic issues. Initiatives are aimed at national and local reconstruction and development, in particular in the Eastern Cape Province of South Africa. Areas of research include: conservation and development; land reform and land tenure; natural resource management; governance and civil society; and poverty and basic needs.
The Institute for the Study of the Americas.
The International Society for Third-Sector Research (ISTR) is a major international association promoting research and education in the fields of philanthropy, civil society and the nonprofit sector.
London School of Economics and Political Science.
The Reality of Aid project is the only major north/south international non-governmental initiative focusing exclusively on analysis and lobbying for poverty eradication policies and practices in the international aid regime.
School of Oriental and African Studies The School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS) is a college of the University of London and the only Higher Education institution in the UK specialising in the study of Asia, Africa and the Near and Middle East.
School of Slavonic & East European Studies (SSEES) is the largest national centre in the UK for the study of Central, Eastern and South-East Europe and Russia. In 1999 SSEES merged with University College London.
Tegemeo Institute of Agricultural Policy and Development (Tegemeo) Tegemeo is a policy research center based in Kenya that addresses policy relevant issues in agriculture and natural resources. It provides research useful to various stakeholders in the Kenyan agricultural sectors including the government, the private sector, civil society, and university academia. Tegemeo undertakes empirical research and analysis of recent agricultural policy issues, and ensures dissemination of findings through conferences, seminars, stakeholder workshops and electronic media.