General Links

LANIC's mission is to facilitate access to Internet-based information to, from, or on Latin America. Our target audience includes people living in Latin America, as well as those around the world who have an interest in this region. While many of our resources are designed to facilitate research and academic endeavors, our site has also become an important gateway to Latin America for primary and secondary school teachers and students, private and public sector professionals, and just about anyone looking for information about this important region.

The mission of RES is to enrich the knowledge base that impacts the Inter-American Development Bank and its member countries' policy agendas for achieving sustainable and equitable development in Latin America and the Caribbean.

KIDS COUNT, a project of the Annie E. Casey Foundation, is a national and state-by-state effort to track the status of children in the U.S. By providing policymakers and citizens with benchmarks of child well-being, KIDS COUNT seeks to enrich local, state, and national discussions concerning ways to secure better futures for all children.

Gateway for the Census 2000 report and data. The US Census Bureau is maintained by the US Department of Commerce.

Mental Health Services Links

The Children's Mental Health Alliance is a New York City based non-profit, bringing together educators, mental health professionals and policy-makers to implement comprehensive strategies that remove barriers to healthy intellectual, social and emotional development in schools and communities.

The Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration's (SAMHSA) National Mental Health Information Center provides information about mental health via a toll-free telephone number (800-789-2647), this web site and more than 200 publications.

"War, famine, disease, poverty, refugee dislocations—all affect millions of children around the world. Most relief efforts, including new vaccine initiatives, are directed to child survival. Yet the psychosocial effects of violence, trauma, armed conflict, and dislocation can be just as deadly to the normal growth and development of children and adolescents, and of entire societies. Should we worry about quality of life issues when children are dying of starvation and disease? Is a focus on mental health justified when life itself is in jeopardy? What would it mean to expand our focus to children not just surviving but thriving?" --ICMH Strategic plan

Through the Children's Hour™ campaign, our goal is to focus local, national, and international attention on the urgent needs of the world's young people, while raising substantial new resources to better meet those needs. Young people growing up at the dawn of the 21st century are living in a time of great hope and complex challenges. With your help, Children's Hour™ and IYF can address these critical issues and provide opportunities so that children and youth around the world may realize their full potential.

Poverty-Pobreza Links

PovertyNet is a World Bank web site developed to provide resources for people and organizations working to understand and alleviate poverty.

Social Evaluation of the Perception of the Poor in Argentina report

The mission of the Unit is to provide technical leadership for the Bank and its member governments in the areas of poverty reduction and promoting social equity, and to contribute to enhancing the quality of the Bank's lending and non-lending activities so as to increase their impact on poverty reduction and social equity.

AmericasCanada.org is Canada's leading online source for information about the social, cultural, political and economic issues and events that bind the 34 democratic countries of the western hemisphere.

CROP - the Comparative Research Programme on Poverty - is an international NGO initiated by the International Social Science Council (ISSC). The CROP Secretariat is localised at the Centre for International Poverty Research, University of Bergen, Norway.

Taking proactive action towards the collective construction of a culture based on solidarity to facilitate sustainable human development for people who live in poverty and are socially excluded.

Over one billion people live in poverty today. The scale of poverty around the world is such that one organization alone cannot have an impact. Partners closest to UNDP in addressing poverty eradication in the Latin America-Caribbean region are the Inter-American Development Bank, the World Bank, and the United Nations Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean.

MOST is a UNESCO programme that promotes international, comparative and policy-relevant research on contemporary social transformations and issues of global importance.

ResilienceNet provides the single, most comprehensive world-wide source of current, reviewed information about human resilience.

ChileSolidario is a System of Social Protection created by the Government of Chile to support and to benefit the 225,000 poorer families from the country. It was inspired by the principle of solidarity and integrity of the effort of all the levels of the State and the Civil Society.

To develop cooperation among Social Investment Funds, institutions and programs of the countries which are members of the Social Network of Latin America and the Caribbean with the purpose of implementing programs and projects that allow the improvement of social actions' efficiency and equity.