Links

The Halifax Initiative is actively engaged in following a number of issues. In doing so, we work with a number of NGO partners, government organizations and multilateral institutions. Below are links, organized by institution and issue, to both non-governmental and official web sites that offer both complementary and alternate visions to those presented on this web site.

EXPORT CREDIT AGENCIES and EXPORT DEVELOPMENT CANADA

NGO

• ECA-Watch - The International Export Credit Campaign
• Probe International's campaign to stop the EDC

Official

• Export Development Canada (EDC)
• EDC Disclosure Policy
• EDC Environmental Policy
• EDC Environmental Review Directive
• Export Development Act
• Canadian Environmental Assessment Act
• OECD export credit home page
• OECD Common Approaches
• Arrangement on guidelines for officially supported export credits

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INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND

NGO

• International Monetary Fund
• Canada and the IMF
  

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• Banktrack
  
• Global Rights, Rules and Responsibilities
  
• Sustainable Energy and Economy Network global database

• Equator Principles
• International Finance Corporation Performance Standards

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NGO

• AfricaFiles
• Bank Information Centre
• BankWatch
• Bretton Woods Project
• Fifty years is enough
• Friends of the Earth USA
• Focus on the Global South
• Global Rights Rules and Responsibilities
• IFI Watch
• International Financial Institutions in Latin America
• SAPRI Network (SAPRIN) Secretariat
• South Centre
• Sustainable Energy and Economy Network
• Third World Network
• World Development Movement

Official

• World Bank
• International Bank for Reconstruction and Development
• International Centre for Settlement of Investment Disputes
• International Development Association
• International Finance Corporation
• Multilateral Investment Guarantee Agency

• Canada and the World Bank Group
• Canadian Executive Director's Office at the World Bank
  

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OTHER INSTITUTIONS

G8/G20

NGO

• University of Toronto G8 Information Centre

Official

• Canada's G8 site
• G-20 site

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ISSUES

DEBT

NGO

• AfricaFiles
• African Forum and Network on Debt and Development
• Canadian Ecumenical International Debt Initiative
• European Network on Debt and Development
• International Financial Institutions in Latin America
• Jubilee Research (successor to Jubilee 2000)
• Jubilee South
• Social Justice Committee Debt Campaign

Official

• World Bank Debt Issues (HIPC, Enhanced HIPC, MDRI)
• IMF Debt Relief Initiative
• Canada's Debt Programme
• Paris Club - bilateral creditors

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Financing for Development

• NGO Strategy Group for FfD Conference in Doha
  

Official

• Financing for Development office, United Nations Department for Economic and Social Affairs
• "Road to Doha" newsletter, prepared by the United Nations NGO Liaison Service

Innovative mechanisms for financing for Development, and the Leading Group on Solidarity Levies

 Because the Leading Group is an informal inter-governmental body, with a Presidency that rotates every six months (France, Brazil, Norway, South Korea…), a single source of information is less readily available on the internet.

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Official

• The Landau Report - report commissioned by the French government that examines the feasibility of new options for financing.
• Conference on innovative financing for development (which launched the Leading Group on Solidarity Levies), Paris, France, February 28 - March 1, 2006.
• Leading Group on Solidarity Levies to Fund Development
  
• Plenary session of the pilot group on Innovative Financial Mechanisms during the Brazilian Presidency, February - September 2006
  
• Second Plenary meeting during the Norwegian Presidency, September 2006 - February 2007.
• Third Plenary meeting during the Korean Presidency, February 2007 - September 2007.

NGO

• ATTAC France
• Global Policy Forum
• Center for Environmental Economic Development - Tobin Tax Initiative
• Halifax Initiative's Currency Tax site
• Stamp Out Poverty (UK)
  

Official

• National Legislation
• Parliamentary Resolutions, Motions and Bills
• Government Studies
• World Parliamentarians Call for a Tobin Tax

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• Global Transparency Initiative
• IFI Transparency Resource
• One World Trust Global Accountability Index
  

• Compliance Advisor Ombudsman
• Independent Evaluation Office (IMF)
  
• Indepenent Evaluation Group (World Bank)
  
• Parliamentary Network on the World Bank
• World Bank Inspection Panel
  

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