Gateway Guides

GSDRC Gateway Guides are designed to point readers to the most useful, credible and up-to-date resources available on the internet in relation to a number of governance and social development topics. Please select the guide you wish to view from the list above.

Selected Sources

The GSDRC also monitors more than 200 organisations for new research and policy publications to ensure that it is capturing the most up-to-date and credible materials on governance, conflict and social development.  Below are links to a selection of a few of the largest of these organisations which may be of interest to readers as starting points for further research.

DFID Resource Centres

• Economist and Private Sector Development Services (EPSDS)
  
• Engineering Framework Agreement (ENGAGE)
  
• Global Facilitation Network for Security Sector Reform (GFN-SSR)
  
• Human Development Resource Centre (HDRC)
  
• Livelihoods Resource Centre (LRC)
  
• Technology, Infrastructure, Urban Planning Resource Centre (TI-UP)
  
• U4 Anti-corruption Resource Centre
  
• Water, Environment & Sanitation Resource Centre (DEW Point)

DFID Research Centres

• Research for Development portal
  
• Crisis States Research Centre
  
• Centre for the Future State
  
• Chronic Poverty Research Centre
  
• Development Research Centre on Citizenship, Participation and Accountability
  
• Development Research Centre on Migration, Globalisation and Poverty
  
• Centre for Research on Inequality, Human Security and Ethnicity
  
• Research Programme Consortium on Pathways to Women's Empowerment
  
• Research Programme Consortium on Women's Empowerment in Muslim Contexts
  
• Research Programme Consortium on Faiths in Development

Multi-laterals & IFIs

• Asian Development Bank
  
• Inter-American Development Bank
  
• International Policy Centre for Inclusive Growth (IPC-IG)
  
• OECD
  
• UNDP
  
• UNRISD
  
• WIDER-UNU
  
• World Bank

NGOs & Research Institutes

• African Centre for the Constructive Resolution of Disputes (ACCORD)
  
• Africa Governance, Monitoring and Advocacy Project (AfriMAP)
  
• Afrobarometer
  
• Afghanistan Research and Evaluation Unit (AREU)
  
• Bangladesh Institute of Development Studies (BIDS)
  
• Center for Global Development
  
• Clingendael: Netherlands Institute of International Relations
  
• Chr. Michelsen Institute (CMI)
  
• Council for the Development of Social Science Research in Africa (Codesria)
  
• Centre for Policy Research, India
  
• Centre for Policy Studies, South Africa
  
• Centre for Strategic and International Studies, Indonesia
  
• Geneva Centre for the Democratic Control of Armed Forces (DCAF)
  
• Global Facilitation Network for Security Sector Reform (GFN-SSR)
  
• Danish Institute for International Studies (DIIS)
  
• European Centre for Development Policy Management (ECDPM)
  
• Economic Policy Research Centre, Uganda
  
• Global Development Network
  
• Global economic Governance Programme
  
• Human Rights Watch
  
• International Crisis Group
  
• IDASA
  
• Institute of Statistical, Social and Economic Research (ISSER), Ghana
  
• Institute for Security Studies (ISS), South Africa
  
• International Alert
  
• International Institute for Democracy and Electoral Assistance (International IDEA)
  
• Minority Rights
  
• Overseas Development Institute
  
• Saferworld
  
• South Centre
  
• Southern African Regional Poverty Network (SARPN)
  
• Transparency International
  
• United States Institute of Peace
  
• Wahenga (Regional Hunger and Vulnerability Programme)

Institute of Development Studies (IDS) Knowledge Services

• IDS Knowledge Services
  
• British Library of Development Studies (BLDS)
  
• BRIDGE
  
• Eldis 

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