Architecture & Development (A&D), which aims for international solidarity, is a Non Governmental Organization (NGO) founded in 1997 in France. The objective is to reinforce the competences of the architects as actors of the development process, while emphasizing their social role as citizens in helping the vulnerable and divested populations, of the North and the South.

A&D also contributes to the creation of a network of expertise and capacity building in several fields of intervention like - the problem of appropriate and environmentally responsive architecture, linking of the urban and rural development, response to the humanitarian and the post-emergency need of disasters and the conservation of our built and cultural heritage.

Thanks to a mulitcultural approach and a team of multi-disciplinary people, A&D has involved itself in the framework of international solidarity through the organization of events, training programmes, sensibilization and the organization of exchanges in North / South and South/ South countries and the implementation of development projects through a system of cooperation and partnerships.

• Head Office
  Address : 11 rue de Cambrai, BAT 32
  75019 Paris - France
  Phone/Fax : +33 1 46 07 43 20
  Email : archidev@archidev.org
  Website : http://www.archidev.org

• Office in India
  Address : 503, Kurupam Towers, East Point Colony
  Visakhapatnam - 530017, Andhra Pradesh, India
  Phone : 91-891-274 1378 / 273 3845
  Email : india@archidev.org

• Office in Morocco
  Contact : Abderrahim. Kassou.
  Address : 89 Ed Anfa 20 000
  Casablanca
  Email : kassou@menara.ma

Besides providing development information, CED sees its institutional role in the long term as developing and bringing into currency open democratic information systems. The end objective is to ensure that such systems become part of the socialisation process in civil society and an inalienable instrument which enable thinking and democratic exposure to issues and concerns of the marginalised sections of society, development, human rights and self-assertion.

Besides this general role of an institution of civil society, CED also has a specific role as one of the ’contending’ associations in the same civil society, as after all it represents, as an NGO, specific interests, that of the poor and marginalised sections of society. In this mission, it locates itself within the NGO context and is basically a support and advocacy-support organisation.

Address : CED Bangalore, n° 7, 8th Main , 3rd phase
Domlur 2nd stage
Bangalore - 560071 India
Phone : (080) 25353397
Email : cedban@doccentre.net
Website : http://www.doccentre.net

ESSF is an association for international solidarity. Covering a wide range of topics, our website offers militant information on many struggles and campaigns, as well as in-depth articles, elements of debates, documents of varied types. We would like it to become a useful tool for all those who are fighting for a world of solidarity.

Our website was opened publicly at the end of September 2005, with about 450 articles, though still unevenly distributed by topics or countries. New documents will be regularly added: updates on current events, introduction of new topics, complementary articles, and also early-written texts that restitute the memory and history of movements, struggles and debates.

Site : http://www.europe-solidaire.org

Focus on the Global South (Focus) is a non-governmental organisation with twenty staff working in Thailand, the Philippines and India. Focus was established in Bangkok in 1995 and is affiliated with the Chulalongkorn University Social Research Institute.

Focus combines policy research, advocacy, activism and grassroots capacity building in order to generate critical analysis and encourage debates on national and international policies related to corporate-led globalisation, neo-liberalism and militarisation.

Focus’s overall goals are to : dismantle oppressive economic and political structures and institutions; to create liberating structures and institutions; to promote demilitarisation and peace-building, instead of conflict. These three goals are brought together in the paradigm of deglobalisation. This term describes the transformation of the global economy from one centred around the needs of transnational corporations to one that focuses on the needs of people, communities and nations and in which the capacities of local and national economies are strengthened.

Address : CUSRI Chulalongkorn University
Wisit Prachuabmoh Building
Bangkok-10330 Thailand
Phone : 66-2-2187363-65
Fax : 66-2-2559976
Email : admin@focusweb.org
Website : http://www.focusweb.org

InfoChange News & Features is a four-year-old online resource base that provides news, views, perspectives and debates on crucial issues of sustainable development and social justice in India and South Asia . It brings into sharp focus agents and avenues of change.

The website aims to inform readers on issues that are increasingly being pushed into the margins by the mainstream media. It seeks to enable readers to marshal facts, opinions and perspectives on rights and development issues, so that they can participate in drawing up an agenda for a more equitable and sustainable world.

This cross-sectoral website provides daily updates of development news from across India, the background and context to development and social justice issues in India, and features, profiles, interviews, data and statistics on the social sector. We also report dozens of stories of change from the grassroots.

Centre for Communication and Development Studies
Adresses: C/12, Gera Greens, NIBM Road, Kondhwa, Pune 411048, India.
Telephone : 91 - 020 - 26852845/ 25457371
Site: www.infochangeindia.org
E-Mail: infochangeindia@dishnetdsl.net

Founded in 1967, the CIDSE is an alliance of 15 Catholic development organisations from Europe and North America.

Address: Rue Stévin 16, B-1000, Brussels - BELGIUM
Phone: +32-2-230 7722
Fax: +32-2-230 7082
Email: postmaster AT cidse.org
Website: http://www.cidse.org/

One World Action is a non-government organisation created in 1989 and based in London. This NGO is working to create the power and opportunity for the poorest citizens to transform their own lives and to challenge the international policies that make and keep people poor. Real change happens when citizens know and exercise their rights.

One World Action provides practical help to organisations committed to improving people’s lives in Africa, Asia and Central America and strengthening the democratic process. All its programmes are initiated by local people, ensuring tht local needs are genuinely understood and met.

One World Action reinforces its work on the ground by engaging actively and continuously in policy debates on international development issues, and creating opportunities for its partners from Africa, Asia and Central America to meet face-to-face with European Union and UK policy-makers.

Address : Bradley’s Close
74 - 78 White Lion Street
London N1 9PF - United Kingdom
Phone : + 44 (0)20 7833 4075
Fax : + 44 (0)20 7833 4102
Contact : owa@oneworldaction.org
Website : http://www.oneworldaction.org

Established in 1989 and receiving consultative status with the UN Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC) in 1996, the Third World Institute (ITeM) performs information, communication and education activities on an international level on development and environmental issues. It is a civil society organization, working for civil society, which encourages citizen involvement in global decision-making processes. It publishes the annual, Social Watch and coordinates the web portal Choike, amongst its many activities.

Address: Jackson 1136 - PO Box 1539, Montevideo 11200 - URUGUAY
Phone: (598 2) 419 61 92 -
Fax: (598 2) 411 92 2
Email : item AT item.org.uy
Website : http://www.item.org.uy/