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Key Reports, Strategies and Objectives

• Key Reports
  • Foreign Assistance Congressional Budget Request
  • USAID Primer: What We Do and How We Do It
  • E&E Bureau Ten Year Report - "A Decade of Change"
  • Monitoring Country Progress
  • Demography and Health in Eastern Europe and Eurasia
  • USAID in Europe and Eurasia - An Overview
• Strategies
  • Social Transition Strategy (Adobe Acrobat PDF, 140kb)
  • A Strategy for Addressing Conflict in Eastern Europe and Eurasia (October 2002) - (Adobe Acrobat PDF, 366kb)
• Strategic Objectives
  • USAID Development Experience Clearinghouse

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Democracy and Governance

• USAID Europe and Eurasia Democracy and Governance
  • Media Sustainability Index
  • Nations in Transit
  • NGO Sustainability Index
• Local Government Information Network (LOGIN)

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Economics

• USAID Europe and Eurasia Economic Growth

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Energy

• National Association of Regulatory Utility Commissioners (NARUC): Serve the public interest by improving the quality and effectiveness of public utility regulation.
  • Energy Regulatory Partnership Program for Central/Eastern Europe and Eurasia - The Energy Regulatory Partnership Program is a vehicle for the exchange of experience and information between U.S. and CEE/Eurasian regulatory bodies with the goal of improving energy regulatory practices and fostering long-term sustainable relationships between regulatory bodies in both countries.  The Partnerships are administered by the National Association of Regulatory Utility Commissioners.
• Department of Energy, Energy Information Administration Country Analysis Briefs: Energy Statistics from the U.S. Government DOE
• United Nations International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA): The world's center of cooperation in the nuclear energy field.

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Environment and Natural Resources

• E&E Environment Resources
• Sacred Earth Network: Non-profit international organization located in Petersham, Massachusetts. SEN strives to empower people to work in defense of the biosphere and to create a sustainable culture.

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Health

• E&E Health Website
• Health Vulnerability Analysis
• Demography and Health in Eastern Europe and Eurasia

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News

• CACI ANALYST: Sponsored by Johns Hopkins University, provides up to date analysis of current events in CA/CAU, notice of upcoming programs, and text of speeches of previous bi-weekly seminars.
• EurasiaNet: A leading internet news service, covering the countries of Central Asia and the Caucasus, as well as Afghanistan, the Middle East and Mongolia. A comprehensive resource, the website provides exclusive analysis, emphasizing in-depth coverage of political economic and social issues largely unaddressed by other information sources.
• Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty: Provides current information on regional activities, especially political, governmental, and economic activities, plus country-specific daily news items.
• STRATFOR: Good source of analytical reporting on current issues, country-specific--as well as forecasting. Can subscribe for daily information on specific countries.
• The Washington Post: Comprehensive information page, including current events and links country specific. Search the news archives. Free subscription is required.

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Country Background

• ASIASOURCE: Information on Asian countries, organized by subject and/or country specific.
• CIA - The World FactBook: Comprehensive information on all countries, including maps, social data, etc.
• Lonely Planet: Background information on countries including travel, recreation, and sightseeing activities. from the Lonely Planet Travel Guide Books

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Other Sector-Specific

• BISNIS: Comprehensive reports on all countries, includes country reports, industry reports, Department of Commerce and State Department-related activites, business activities, links, etc.
• Chernobyl.Info: The international website chernobyl.info is an information and communication platform. It is addressed to all those who are dedicated to the alleviation of suffering and to reconstruction efforts in the regions still affected by the consequences of the Chernobyl nuclear reactor disaster.
• Crisis Web: Sponsored by The The International Crisis Group (ICG), a private, multinational organisation committed to strengthening the capacity of the international community to anticipate, understand and act to prevent and contain conflict.
• Elections Around the World: A database on elections, parties and parliaments.
• International Center for Not-for-Profit Law (ICNL): is an international organization whose mission is to facilitate and support the development of civil society and the freedom of association on a global basis.
• Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE): Country specific information and reports, summaries, recommendations, based on OSCE activities.
• United States Institute of Peace (USIP): Special reports on studies relating to peace issues. Archives.
  

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International Organizations

• Asian Development Bank (ADB): Outlines ADB activities in specific countries, along with country background information.
• European Union (EU): Information on the activities of the European Union
• Freedom House: A clear voice for democracy and freedom around the world. Through a vast array of international programs and publications, Freedom House is working to advance the remarkable worldwide expansion of political and economic freedom.
• International Monetary Fund (IMF): Country-specific news items, press releases, and IMF activities.
• United Nations
  • UN Development Programme (UNDP): The UN's global development network, an organization advocating for change and connecting countries to knowledge, experience and resources to help people build a better life.
  • UN Economic and Social Development: The promotion of higher standards of living, full employment, and conditions of economic and social progress and development.
  • UN High Commission on Refugees (UNHCR): Current information on refugee situations worldwide.
  • UN World Food Programme (UNWFP): Hunger is a bigger threat to global health than AIDS, malaria and TB combined.
• The WorldBank (WB): Information on WorldBank activities, loans, etc. worldwide.
• World Health Organization (WHO): Comprehensive information on health concerns worldwide, WHO programs, etc.
• World Trade Organization (WTO): Comprehensive information on the purpose of the WTO, organization, activities, members, etc.
• WWF-World Wide Fund For Nature, the global conservation organization: To stop the degradation of the planet's natural environment and to build a future in which humans live in harmony with nature, by 1) conserving the world's biological diversity; 2) ensuring that the use of renewable natural resources is sustainable; 3) promoting the reduction of pollution and wasteful consumption.

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Non-Governmental/Local Organizations

• Center for International Private Enterprise (CIPE): Non-profit affiliate of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce and one of the four core institutes of the National Endowment for Democracy.
• Eurasia Foundation: A privately managed grantmaking organization dedicated to funding programs that build democratic and free market institutions in the twelve New Independent States (NIS) of the former Soviet Union -- Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Georgia, Kazakhstan, the Kyrgyz Republic, Moldova, Russia, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Ukraine, and Uzbekistan.
• NGONET: Long list of Non-Governmental-Organizations in the EE and FSU, alphabetically, by region. Background information.
• SOROS: Soros Foundation Network - Open Society Institute; includes information on the organizations Central Asia Initiative

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