International Development Consulting T3
Return to International Development Consulting page
Go to Table 1: Types of International Organizations
Go to Table 2: Regions and Issues
| Development Sectors and Cross-Cutting Issues |
| Sector Examples | Illustrative Issues | Sources of Information |
| Agriculture and Rural Development | Livelihoods, land policy and administration (including land tenure), irrigation, finance , agricultural extension services, markets, agribusiness (processing, supply chains),livestock, aquaculture, roads, water supply, sanitation, water resources management, gender, elderly | http://wwwr.worldbank.org/rural |
| Urban Development | Housing, informal settlements/unplanned growth, violence, water supply, waste disposal, transport, employment, industrial pollution, air pollution, traffic, cultural heritage, tourism, gender, youth | http://www.worldbank.org/urban
http://www.sdinet.co.za/(slum dwellers) |
| Environment and Climate Change | Watersheds, forests, resource management, droughts, floods, erosion, climate change mitigation and adaptation, air, water, land degradation and pollution | http://web.worldbank.org/WBSITE/ EXTERNAL/TOPICS/ENVIRONMENT/ |
| Disaster risk management | Preparedness and resilience for floods, typhoons, tsunamis, drought, earthquakes | http://wwwr.worldbank.org/hazards |
| Humanitarian Aid | Coordination and provision of assistance following human and man-made disaster | http://www.unhcr.org |
| Health and HIV/AIDS Prevention | Reproductive health, HIV/AIDS, nutrition, communicable diseases, malaria, oral rehydration therapy for diarrhea, preventive health care, training for health workers, medical supply chain | http://www.who.int/en/ http://www.imva.org/Pages/orgfrm.htm http://www.usaid.gov/our_work/global_health/ http://www.globalhealthforum.org |
| Education | Girls’ education, primary education, early childhood education, distance learning, higher education, teacher training, curricula, literacy and numeracy, vocational training, school construction, gender-based violence | http://www.ibe.unesco.org http://www.usaid.gov/our_work/ http://www.usaid.gov/our_work/ |
| Social Safety Nets | Health insurance, pensions, medical care and financial aid for the poor, group savings | http://www.ilo.org/global/topics/social-security http://ieg.worldbankgroup.org/content/ieg/en/ http://www.adb.org/news/videos/ |
| Private Sector Development | Entrepreneurship, markets, microenterprise, small and medium enterprises, business development, cooperatives, public-private partnerships, corporate social responsibility, finance (banking and savings), labor standards, regulations, trade, work safety | http://wwwr.worldbank.org/fpd http://www.ilo.org/global/topics/employment-promotionhttp://idea.usaid.gov/ |
| Infrastructure (transport, energy, WSS) | Roads, waterways, access to transport services, access to electricity, hydropower, solar, wind energy, bioenergy, indoor air pollution, water, sanitation, waterborne diseases. | http://www4.worldbank.org/afr/ ssatp/Open.aspx?id=693 http://web.worldbank.org/WBSITE/ |
| Extractive Industries | Corporate social responsibility; sustainable community development planning; small scale mining | http://web.worldbank.org/WBSITE/ EXTERNAL/TOPICS/EXTOGMC/ EXTEXTINDWOM/0,,contentMDK: 21206679~pagePK:210058~pi PK:210062~theSitePK:3156914,00.html |
| Information Technologies | Cell phones, village phones, internet, social networking, electronic market information, banking, and surveillance | http://www.worldbank.org/ict/ |
| Governance and Anti-corruption | Livelihoods, land policy Transparency, corruption, power relationships, social accountability; civil society | http://www.transparency.org/ |
| Conflict Mitigation | Fragile and postconflict states, resilience to conflict, post-conflict trauma | http://www.usip.org/ |
| Migration, Refugees, Trafficking | Anti-trafficking, child labor, immigration, emigration, borders, refugees | http://www.iom.int/ http://www.adb.org/news/videos/ http://www.usaid.gov/our_work/democracy_a |
| Cross-cutting Issues | Gender, Youth, Aging, Disabilities | http://www.awid.org http://wwwr.worldbank.org/gender http://www.usaid.gov/our_work/cross-cutting_ http://www.usaid.gov/our_work/ http://www.unyouth.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=100&Itemid=72 |
| Safeguards | Preventing harm to indigenous peoples, resettled and displaced people, cultural resources, and the environment | http://web.worldbank.org/WBSITE/EXTERNAL/ EXTOED/EXTSAFANDSUS |
Prepared by Mari Clarke 2012
Return to International Development Consulting page
Go to Table 1: Types of International Organizations
Go to Table 2: Regions and Issues