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1 Commission on Science and Technology forSustainable Development in the South (COMSATS)3rd Compilation(June 2007)DirectoryofInternational Donorand DevelopmentOrganizationsDirectoryofInter national DonorandDevelopmentOrganizationsCommissi on on Science and Technology forSustainable Development in the South (COMSATS)(June2007)3rd CompilationTABLE OF CONTENTSPREFACEi01. ActionAid0102. African Capacity-Building Foundation (ACBF)0303. African Development Foundation (ADF)0504. Aga Khan Foundation (AKF)0705. Agence Francaise De Developpment (AFD)0906.
2 Asian Development Bank (ADB)1107. Australian Agency for International Development (AusAID)1308. British Atmospheric Data Centre (BADC)1509. Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA)1710. Commission for Research Partnership with Developing Countries (KFPE)1911. Commission on Science and Technology for Sustainable Development in the21 South (COMSATS)12. The Donor Committee for Enterprise Development (CDASED)2313. Conference of Non-Governmental Organizations in Consultative Relationship25with the United Nations (CONGO)14.
3 Council for Environmental Education (CEE)2715. Department for International Development (DFID)2916. Deutsche Gesellschaft Fur Technische Zusammenarbeit (GTZ)3117. Deutscher Akademischer Austausch Dienst (DAAD)3318. Environmental Development Action in the Third World (ENDA)3719. Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)3920. Ford Foundation4121. Foundation for International Training (FIT)4322. Global Environmental Facility (GEF)4523. Institut De Recherche Pour Le Developpment (IRD)4724. Inter-Academy Council (IAC)4925.
4 Inter-Academy Panel on International Issues (IAP)5126. International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA)5327. International Centre for Agricultural Research in the Dry Areas (ICARDA)5528. International Centre for Science and High Technology (ICS)5729. International Council for Science (ICSU)5930. International Council for Scientific and Technical Information (ICSTI)6131. International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics (ICRISAT)6332. International Development Research Centre (IDRC)6533. International Foundation for Science (IFS)6734.
5 International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD)6935. International Institute for Sustainable Development (IISD)7136. International Institute of Tropical Agriculture (IITA)73 CONTENTSPage #37. International Water and Sanitation Centre (IRC)7538. Islamic World Academy of Sciences (IAS)7739. Islamic Development Bank (IDB)7940. Islamic Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (ISESCO)8141. Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA)8342. MacArthur Foundation8543. Natural Resources Institute (NRI)8744.
6 Netherlands Organization for International Cooperation in Higher89 Education (NUFFIC)45. Norwegian Agency for Development Cooperation (NORAD)9146. OIC Standing Committee for Scientific and Technological93 Cooperation (COMSTECH)47. OPEC Fund for International Development (OPEC FUND)9748. Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD)9949. RAND Corporation (RAND)10150. Rockefeller Foundation10351. South Centre10552. Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency (SIDA)10753. Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC)10954.
7 (SKAT)11155. The Academy of Sciences for the Developing World (TWAS)11356. Third World Network of Scientific Organizations (TWNSO)11557. Third World Organization for Women in Science (TWOWS)11758. United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD)11959. United Nations Development Programme (UNDP)12160. United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO)12361. United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP)12562. United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO)12763. United Nations University (UNU)12964.
8 Agency for International Development (USAID)13165. The World Bank (WB)13366. World Health Organization (WHO)135 ACRONYMS137 Swiss Resource Centre and Consultancies for DevelopmentPREFACED evelopment aid and expertise have assumed special significance for the countries ofthe South vis-a-vis their resource constraints and lack of capacity to plan, develop andimplement projects and programmes. The role ofdevelopment agenciesthus becomes pivotal as they help the developing and the under-developed worldovercome their obstacles to socio-economic progress.
9 The recent past indicates thatsuch International agencies not only provided financial support but also a wide rangeof technical and administrative facilities with regard to the afore-mentionedlimitations of the developing in view the scope of work and the role of these organizations, Commission onScience and Technology for Sustainable Development in the South (COMSATS), tookan initiative in the year 2002 and compiled a list of some major Donor and developmentorganizations. These organizations remained quite active in pursuit of their objectivesin the relatively poor countries.
10 This effort by COMSATS remained very successful asthe Commission received encouraging feedback from those who made use of second updated compilation of this Directory was published in the year 2004,whereas this third edition has been completed in June 2007 in view of its demand andutilization by various stakeholders, including governmental bodies, non-governmentalorganizations (NGOs), academic institutions, scientific and technical organizations,as well as International Donor and Development is presently working on the possibility of adding further Donor anddevelopment organizations in the Directory .
