Website of the Week

Directory of Development Organizations, http://www.devdir.org/

This massive directory identifies more than 25,000 international organizations, government ministries, private sector institutions, development agencies, universities, research and training institutes, nongovernmental organizations, private development organizations, grantmakers, banks, microfinance institutions, and development consulting firms around the world.

Directory information includes name of the organization, mailing and street addresses, telephone and fax numbers, email address and website URL (if available).

The contents of the directory may be downloaded by region. The seven geographic regions represented in the directory are:

1. Africa
2. Asia and the Middle East
3. Europe
4. Central America and the Caribbean
5. Oceania
6. South America
7. Canada and the U.S.

The directory is also searchable by the Google search engine.