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Promotion of Cleaner Production for Development

These sites have good information about how to run an aid program that promotes sustainable industry in foreign countries. The resources are valuable for program managers, staff and their advisors.  Many efforts are underway to share best practices among the many foreign aid programs around the world, and lessons learned and described in these sites are invaluable.

• Development Experience Clearinghouse of USAID enables you to search thousands of references to USAID's world-wide projects and reports.
  
  
• The Development Executive Group is a leading global membership organization serving firms, non-profit corporations, and individual professionals working in the 100 billion euro international development market.
  
  
• The Virtual Library on International Development is a primary source of documents and resources for the study of the international aid and development process.
  
  
• Development Assistance Committee of the OECD has many online documents that review lessons learned in international development, covering topics such as environment, gender, etc. It presents consensus guidelines from the committee members, who are national foreign aid programs.
  
  
• The Information Services for Development page links to six major databases covering development topics and publications.
  
  
• AID GATE is a site with links to many international development resources. It is in English, French and German.
  
  
• Capacity.Org is a web-site dedicated to advancing the policy and practice of capacity building in international development cooperation.
  
  
• The Earth Council is an international non-governmental organization (NGO) created in September 1992 to promote and advance the implementation of the Earth Summit agreements. It operates the Earth Forum to promote dialogue and provides access to many policy statements on sustainability. Their project focus is primarily on Latin America though they have several global initiatives.
  
  
• The Small Enterprise Education and Promotion Network represents about 40 US organizations promoting small enterprises in the developing world.