*Development Studies   Tags: africa, development  

Carter Center

Center for Global Safe Water

The Claus M. Halle Institute for Global Learning

Emory Program in Development Studies (includes undergraduate minor)

Emory-Tibet Partnership

Global Health Institute   (Emory Global Health Links)

Global Health, Culture & Society Minor (Anth)

Hubert Department of Global Health (Rollins-Public Health)

Institute of Developing Nations

Institute of Human Rights

Master of Divinity/Master of Development Practice (Theology)

Sustainability Minor (ILA 2010)

Task Force for Global Health (affiliate)  &

Training Programs in Epidemiology & Public Health Interventions Network (TEPHINET)

Emory International/Emory Office of International Affairs

Emory in the World Magazine

 Emory Master's in Development Practice

SEE ALSO Emory  Development Faculty Database

Global MDP/Master's in Development Practice Secretariat/Global Association MDP  (Columbia)

Master's in Development Practice (MacArthur Foundation)

Global MDP Map

UN Millennium Project

UNDP Millennium Goals

Millennium Village Simulation (Columbia)

There are numerous development studies resources. This guide will focus on

• Major development websites,
• Locating books, reports and articles (Includes Table of Contents information from key development studies journals)
• Resources from governments, international bodies and organizations,
• Specialized regional and country information including news sources,
• Mapping and statistical resources,
• Locating videos & language training
• Information on jobs
• Student page: Collaborate and add other useful information.

Development is

The process of improving the quality of human lives around the world. Development includes three aspects:
- Raising people’s living levels - incomes and consumption levels of food, medical services, education.
- The growth of people’s self-esteem through systems and institutions which promote human dignity and respect.
- Increasing people’s freedom to choose by enlarging the range of their choices, for example a greater variety of consumer goods and services.

                                                                              --BBC's Guide to Development Speak

Internet for ...

Free online tutorials to teach you how to locate various subject materials in the Internet including agriculture, environment, etc. Tutorials generally take about an hour to do and includes quizzes and interactive exercises.

Guide to Development Speak

The BBC World Service Trust has compiled a brief clickable index of terms that frequently appear in development-related discussions, policy and practice at all levels - local, national and international. See also Deconstructing development discourse : buzzwords and fuzzwords. Oxfam. 2010. HD75 .D44 2010

Global Road Warrior (Emory Only)

Going overseas? Find out everything you need to know about traveling in your destination from money to the social courtesies.

International Travel/Travel Warnings (State Dept.)

A variety of information for U.S. citizens traveling and living abroad, including Smart Traveler Enrollment Program, Watch for latest travel warnings and travel alerts. SEE ALSO

The Aid Worker Security Database (AWSD) 

Records major incidents of violence against aid workers, with incident reports from 1997 through the present. Initiated in 2005, to date the AWSD remains the single most comprehensive global source of this data. Contains numerous links to reports and agencies dealing with aid worker security. A project of Humanitarian Outcomes. Also of interest is MobileActive.org,  a group devoted to the safe use of mobile technology.

Traveler's Health (CDC)

Latest information on health conditions and vaccination requirements throughout the world from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control & Prevention.

Travel & Research  Resources (Emory International)

"HOW TO" GUIDES

There are numerous "how to" guides for development work, qualitative research and social science methods. Here are some sample titles and you can locate more through searches in EUCLID or discoverE. Many research methods guides are also available online in Sage Research Materials Online (SRMO).

Africa: A Practical Guide for Global Health Workers. 2011. WA 300 HA1 A258 2011 Health Sciences

Development Fieldwork: A Practical Guide. 2003. HD62.5 .D44 D48 2003

Doing Development Research. 2006. HC59.7 .D59 2006

Fieldwork in Difficult Environments: Methodology as Boundary Work in Development Research. 2008. HD77 .F54 2008

Inside the Everyday Lives of Development Workers : the Challenges and Futures of Aidland. 2011. HD2769.15 .I55 2011

International Development Studies: Theories and Methods in Research and Practice. 2008. HD77 .S86 2008

Methods for Development Work and Research: A New Guide for Practioners. 2005. HD77.M55 2005

Starting Out in Development from WhyDev?

Sustainable Development Handbook. 2008. HC79 .E5 R652 2008

SIMULATIONS

Millennium Village Simulation (Columbia)

The Millennium Village Simulation is a web-based simulation of economics and survival for one family and their village in a sub-Saharan African village. In a virtual world of extreme poverty, disease, and environmental variability, students are challenged to help a family of two survive and prosper over a fifty-year period.

ReliefSim (Columbia)

ReliefSim is a unique, web-based training tool designed to create a believable representation of the decision-environment confronted by refugee camp managers during a humanitarian crisis. The tool allows students and trainees to test their knowledge and abilities around decision-making in a humanitarian crisis, and to experiment with techniques in a realistic, but not real, environment. Focuses on public health.

TIP: Most of the major development websites  have a section called "manuals" or "toolkits" which have excellent "how to" information. See for example ELDIS' Manuals & Toolkits , Global Development Network's Toolkits and the toolkits (resources) of the Canadian The International Development Research Centre (IDRC).