Development
Gateway Country Overview on Somalia
(http://old.developmentgateway.org/countryprofile/?country_iso=so&search_GO.x=12&search_GO.y=12)
The Development Gateway helps communities, organizations, and individuals build
partnerships, share ideas,
and work together to reduce poverty. Includes many helpful links to Somali specific
web pages and documents.
Food and Agriculture
Organization (FAO) -- Special Operations Service--Somalia
(http://www.fao.org/)
Document is entitled: “SOMALIA / 2001 UN Consolidated Appeal, FAO agricultural relief component.”
International
Monetary Fund - Somalia (http://www.imf.org/external/country/SOM/index.htm)
The IMF is an “organization of 183 member countries, established to promote international monetary cooperation,
exchange stability, and orderly exchange ; to foster economic growth and high levels of employment;
and to provide temporary financial assistance to countries to help ease balance of payments adjustment.
”A search by country will yield reports on the IMF’s initiatives and programs in it.
International Trade Administration (http://www.ita.doc.gov)
Home page for the International Trade Administration with links to information on US commerce and international trade.
Journal of Humanitarian
Assistance (http://www.jha.ac/)
Published at the Department
of Peace Studies, University of Bradford, Bradford, U.K., this site may
be searched
for articles in the journal concerning Somalia.
Nomadnet--The Somali Archive (http://www.netnomad.com/somalia-archive.html)
This site is hosted by the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa.
Somalia Trade Network (http://somaliatrade.com/)
Part of the larger World Trade Network site.
Trade Guide for Somalia (http://www.muslimtrade.net/tradeguideline/somalia/index.html)
Produced by Muslim Trade Network, “a trade reference directory for Muslim countries.”
U.S. Agency
for International Development. Development Experience Clearinghouse (DEC)
(http://www.dec.org/country/reports.cfm?region=africa3&country=Somalia)
“The purpose of the DEC is to strengthen USAID's development projects, activities, and
programs by making
development experience documents available to USAID offices and mission staff, PVO's, NGO's,
universities and research institutions, developing countries, and the
public worldwide. “
Unicef-Somalia (http://www.unicef.org/somalia/)
United
Nations. Relief Web--Somalia
(http://www.reliefweb.int/rw/dbc.nsf/doc104?OpenForm&rc=1&cc=som)
United
States Agency for International Development (USAID) on Somalia
(http://www.usaid.gov/locations/sub-saharan_africa/countries/somalia/)
Famine Early Warning System Network (FEWS NET) -- FEWS
NET Somalia Center
(http://www.fews.net/centers/?f=so)
“The Goal of the Famine Early Warning System (FEWS NET) is to strengthen
the abilities of African countries
and regional organizations to manage threats of food security through the provision of timely and analytical early warning
and vulnerability information.”
United States. Census Bureau. Foreign Trade Statistics (http://www.census.gov/foreign-trade/)
Offers valuable statistics by country and by commodity beginning in 1996 and information about the U.S. trade balance
with individual countries from 1992 onward.
War-Torn Societies Project (WSP) -- Somalia (http://www.unrisd.org/wsp/somalia.htm)
“The War-torn Societies Project (WSP) encourages main external and internal actors in war-torn countries to collectively
analyse the complex interactions between peace-keeping, relief, rehabilitation and development activities, and between local,
national and external actors. Participatory action-research is used as a tool to jointly define policies that could lead to a better
integration of different forms of international assistance — humanitarian, economic, political, military —
and to a better alignment of such assistance with local and national efforts.”
The
World Bank on Somalia (Washington, DC)
(http://web.worldbank.org/WBSITE/EXTERNAL/COUNTRIES/AFRICAEXT/SOMALIAEXTN/0
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