| Pacific Area |
| Pacific Area - Commercial Treaties |
| Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) |
| Pacific Area - Cultural policy |
| ACP Cultures+.eu http://www.acpculturesplus.eu/?q=en |
| Pacific Islands |
| Pacific Islands Forum. "the region's premier political and economic policy organisation. Forum Leaders meet annually to develop collective responses to regional issues." |
| Pacific Islands - Cultural policy |
| Asia-Pacific Regional Centre of the Culturelink Network Includes country profiles of policy and legislation. |
| Pacific Islands - Economic policy |
| United Nations. Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (ESCAP) |
| Palestine |
| Central Elections Commission : Palestine |
| Palestinian National Information Centre |
| United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA) |
| Parliamentary practice |
| Commonwealth Parliamentary Association (CPA) |
| Inter-Parliamentary Union (IPU) |
| Inter-Parliamentary Union. British Group |
| United Nations Development Programme. Parliamentary Development |
| Parliamentary practice - Africa, Southern |
| SADC Parliamentary Forum |
| Peace - Study and teaching |
| United Nations Academic Impact (UNAI) "Academic Impact is a global initiative that aligns institutions of higher education with the United Nations in actively supporting ten universally accepted principles in the areas of human rights, literacy, sustainability and conflict resolution." |
| Peace and women See:Women and peace |
| Peace treaties |
| Peace Agreements Database The University of Edinburgh. |
| Peace Agreements Digital Collection United States Institute of Peace. |
| Peace-building |
| UNEP. Environmental Cooperation for Peacebuilding |
| United Nations Peacekeeping |
| United Nations Peacemaker "an online mediation support tool developed by the Mediation Support Unit (MSU) in the Policy and Mediation Division of the UN Department of Political and Peacebuilding Affairs (DPPA)." |
| Peace-building - Africa |
| African Union Political Affairs, Peace and Security (PAPS) |
| Peace-building - Africa - International cooperation |
| Office of the Special Adviser on Africa (OSAA) |
| Peace-building - Congo (Democratic Republic) - International cooperation |
| Reports of the Group of Experts on the Democratic Republic of the Congo |
| Peacekeeping forces - Africa, Southern |
| Southern African Development Community Brigade (SADCBRIG) |
| Peacekeeping forces - Congo (Democratic Republic) |
| United Nations Organization Stabilization Mission in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (MONUSCO) |
| Peer review - Africa |
| African Peer Review Mechanism (APRM) |
| African Peer Review Mechanism (APRM) "The APRM was initiated in 2002 and established in 2003 by the African Union in the framework of the implementation of the New Partnership for Africa’s Development (NEPAD). The objectives of the APRM are primarily to foster the adoption of policies, standards and practices that lead to political stability, high economic growth, sustainable development and accelerated subregional and continental economic integration through experience sharing and reinforcement of successful and best practices, including identifying deficiencies and assessment of requirements for capacity building." |
| African Union (AU) |
| ECA in the African Peer Review Mechanism |
| People with disabilities |
| Disability Rights: The UN Partnership to Promote the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (UNPRPD) |
| United Nations Enable |
| People with disabilities - Government policy |
| WHO MiNDbank "an online platform providing quick and easy access to international resources and national/regional level policies, strategies, laws and service standards for mental health, substance abuse, disability, general health, NCDs, human rights and development, and more recently children and youth, and older persons." |
| World Health Organization. Disabilities and rehabilitation. National policy documents |
| People with disabilities - Statistics - Databases |
| DISTAT: the United Nations Disability Statistics Database |
| Persecution |
| Bishop of Truro’s Independent Review for the UK Foreign Secretary of Foreign and Commonwealth Office Support for Persecuted Christians |
| Persian Gulf States |
| Cooperation Council for the Arab States of the Gulf. Secretariat-General Originally known as the Gulf Cooperation Council. |
| Persistent pollutants - Government policy |
| Stockholm Convention on Persistent Organic Pollutants (POPS) Includes country implementation plans. |
| Personal data protection See: Privacy, Right of |
| Pesticides - Safety Measures |
| Africa Stockpile Programme (ASP) |
| Petroleum industry and trade - Middle East - Finance |
| Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) |
| Pharmaceutical industry - Developing countries |
| UNITAID International drug purchasing facility, "to improve access to treatment for HIV/AIDS, malaria and tuberculosis for the poorest people in developing countries." Founded in September 2006 by Brazil, Chile, France, Norway and the United Kingdom. Supported by the United Nations. |
| Pharmaceutical industry - Zambia |
| Pharmaceutical Regulatory Authority Established under the Pharmaceutical Act No.14 of 2004 |
| Piracy (Copyright) |
| Unesco. Anti-Piracy |
| Plant genetics |
| SADC Plant Genetic Resource Centre (SPGRC) "The Southern African Development Community (SADC) Plant Genetic Resources Network is a portal for Plant Genetic Resource (PGR) organisations within the SADC region." |
| Plant health - International cooperation |
| International Phytosanitary Portal (IPP) Official web site for the International Plant Protection Convention. |
| Plant varieties - International cooperation |
| International Union for the Protection of New Varieties of Plants (UPOV) "an intergovernmental organization based in Geneva, Switzerland. UPOV was established in 1961 by the International Convention for the Protection of New Varieties of Plants (the “UPOV Convention”)." |
| Plant varieties - Law and legislation |
| UPOV Lex "UPOV Lex contains the legislation of members of the Union that has been notified in accordance with the UPOV Convention, the UPOV Convention notifications concerning individual members of the Union (e.g. accessions, ratifications) and the text of the UPOV Convention and its Acts." |
| Police - Great Britain |
| National Policing Improvement Agency (NPIA) |
| Police - International cooperation |
| United Nations Police |
| Political corruption - Prevention |
| Global Organization Against Corruption (GOPAC) |
| Parliamentarians for Global Action (PGA) |
| Political indicators |
| AGI Data Portal "consolidates information on actionable governance indicators, provides a one-stop-shop platform to navigate these indicators and their documents and offers customized tools for data management, analysis and display." World Bank site. |
| Politics and government |
| Global Forum on Reinventing Government Annual event, organized by national governments and supported by the United Nations Dept. of Economic and Social Affairs. |
| United Nations Online Network in Public Administration and Finance (UNPAN) . "to promote the sharing of knowledge, experiences and best practices throughout the world in sound public policies, effective public administration and efficient civil services, through capacity-building and cooperation among the United Nations Member States." |
| United Nations. Department of Political Affairs |
| Polychlorinated biphenyls - Environmental aspects - Mediterranean Region |
| PCBs in the Mediterranean |
| Poor - Energy assistance - ACP Group |
| ACP-EU Energy Facility |
| Poor - Energy assistance - Developing countries |
| EU Energy Initiative for Poverty Eradication and Sustainable Development (EUEI) |
| Poor children |
| UNICEF. Assessing the Impact of Economic Trends and Policies on Children |
| Population - Congresses |
| International Conference on Population and Development (ICPD) (1994 : Cairo, Egypt) Includes follow-up documents. |
| Population - International cooperation |
| UNFPA Addis Ababa Representation Office |
| UNFPA East and Southern Africa |
| United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) |
| United Nations. Population Division |
| Population - Statistics |
| Population Index on the Web. 1986-2000 |
| U.S. Census Bureau. International Data Base. Historical tables. |
| UN Statistics Division. Gender Statistics Sources. Population, families and households. Sources of statistics |
| UNHCR Statistical Online Population Database |
| United Nations. Population Division Includes fertility, contraception and marriages. |
| UNSD. Demography and Social Statistics |
| World Bank. Subnational Population Database "Subnational Population Database presents estimated population at the first administrative level below the national level." |
| World Population Prospects : Population Database |
| World Urbanization Prospects : the 2007 Revision Population Database |
| Population - Tanzania - Statistics - Databases |
| Tanzania Socio-Economic Database (TSED) |
| Population policy |
| Annual Review of Population Law Harvard University database. |
| High-Level Task Force for the International Conference on Population and Development (ICPD) "an independent body of 25 distinguished leaders with records of service as heads of state, ministers and parliamentarians, civil society, private sector and philanthropic leaders. Members serve in their individual capacities to advance sexual and reproductive health and rights, gender equality and the empowerment of women and young people through the ICPD Beyond 2014 process and the Post-2015 Development Agenda." |
| Partners in Population and Development (PPD) "an intergovernmental initiative created specifically for the purpose of expanding and improving South-to-South collaboration in the fields of reproductive health, population, and development." |
| Population policy - Asia |
| Asian Forum of Parliamentarians on Population and Development(AFPPD) "coordinating body of National Committees of Parliamentarians on Population and Development and Parliamentary Committees dealing with population and development issues." |
| Population policy See: [country] - Population policy |
| Portuguese-speaking countries |
| Community of Portuguese Speaking Countries = Comunidade dos Países de Língua Portuguesa (CPLP) |
| Organization of Ibero-American States = Organização dos Estados Ibero-americanos = Organización de Estados Iberoamericanos (OEI) "an international organization whose members are the Portuguese- and Spanish-speaking nations of the Americas and Europe and Equatorial Guinea in Africa. Its purpose is to promote intergovernmental cooperation among its member nations which will aid the planning and development of regional projects in education, science, technology and the arts." Wikipedia |
| Poverty |
| Commission on Global Poverty World Bank. |
| PovcalNet: an online analysis tool for global poverty monitoring "an interactive computational tool that allows you to replicate the calculations made by the World Bank's researchers in estimating the extent of absolute poverty in the world. PovcalNet also allows you to calculate the poverty measures under different assumptions and to assemble the estimates using alternative country groupings or for any set of individual countries of the user’s choosing." |
| Poverty Reduction and Economic Management Network (PREM Network) |
| United Nations Development Programme. Poverty Reduction |
| Poverty - Africa, Southern |
| Southern African Regional Poverty Network (SARPN) |
| Poverty - Developing countries |
| All-Party Parliamentary Group on Trade Out of Poverty (APPG-TOP) |
| DfID Policy Initiative on Addressing Inequality in Middle-income Countries (2003) |
| IMF. Poverty reduction strategy papers (PRSP) |
| Poverty - Environmental aspects |
| UNDP-UNEP Poverty-Environment Initiative |
| Poverty - Southern Hemisphere |
| International Poverty Centre (IPC) "a joint project between the United Nations Development Programme and the Brazilian Government to promote South-South Cooperation on applied poverty research." |
| Poverty - Statistics |
| Oslo Group on Energy Statistics |
| UN Statistics Division. Gender statistics sources.Poverty |
| World Bank - World dataBank |
| Poverty and energy See: Poor - Energy assistance |
| Poverty and water See: Water security |
| Poverty See also: Urban poor |
| Power resources - Africa |
| Africa Energy Portal (AEP) |
| Africa-EU Energy Partnership (AEEP) |
| African Energy Commission (AFREC) "The African Energy Commission (AFREC) is a specialized agency of the African Union in charge of developing, coordinating and harmonizing the energy policies with an objective of protection, conservation, development, rational exploitation, commercialization and integration of energy resources on the African continent." |
| Power Africa USAID partnership. |
| Power resources - Africa, East |
| East African Power Pool (EAPP) |
| Power resources - Africa, Southern |
| Energy in Southern Africa SADC Energy Portal |
| Southern African Power Pool (SAPP) |
| Power resources - Africa, West |
| ECOWAS Observatory for Renewable Energy and Energy Efficiency (ECOWREX)) "The ECOWAS Observatory for Renewable Energy and energy Efficiency is aimed at improving existing knowledge and mitigating information barriers towards the development of the energy sector in the ECOWAS region." |
| West African Power Pool (WAPP) "The West African Power Pool (WAPP) is a specialized institution of ECOWAS. It covers 14 of the 15 countries of the regional economic community (Benin, Côte d'Ivoire, Burkina Faso, Ghana, Gambia, Guinea, Guinea Bissau, Liberia, Mali, Niger, Nigeria, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Togo)." |
| Power resources - Congresses |
| Africa-EU Energy Partnership (AEEP). First High Level Meeting (2010: Vienna Hofberg) |
| Power resources - Environmental aspects - Africa, East |
| Energy and Environment Partnership Programme with Southern and East Africa (EEP S&E) |
| Power resources - Environmental aspects - Africa, Southern |
| Energy and Environment Partnership Programme with Southern and East Africa (EEP S&E) |
| Power resources - Ghana |
| Ghana Energy Commission Statutory body. |
| Power resources - International co-operation |
| Energy Sector Management Assistance Program (ESMAP) "The Energy Sector Management Assistance Program (ESMAP) is a global knowledge and technical assistance program administered by the World Bank. It provides analytical and advisory services to low- and middle-income countries to increase their know-how and institutional capacity to achieve environmentally sustainable energy solutions for poverty reduction and economic growth. Supporting over a hundred activities in countries around the world at any given time, ESMAP is an integral part of the Energy and Extractives Global Practice of the World Bank." |
| EU Energy Initiative Partnership Dialogue Facility "The EUEI PDF is a multi-donor facility that contributes to the achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals, in particular on energy. As a flexible instrument of the European Union, EUEI PDF promotes sustainable energy for equitable development in Africa, Latin America and Asia." |
| Global Thematic Consultation on Energy |
| International Energy Agency (IEA) "The IEA is an autonomous organisation which works to ensure reliable, affordable and clean energy for its 29 member countries and beyond." |
| NEXUS: Water, Energy & Food Security Resource Platform |
| Power resources - Kenya |
| Kenya Power Stock exchange listed company in which the Government has a 51 share. |
| Power resources - Rwanda |
| Energy, Water and Sanitation Authority (EWSA) "Based on the law no 43/2000 of 7/Dec/2010, the National parastatals charged with water and electricity distribution RECO & RWASCO have been merged and given the name EWSA that is Energy, Water and Sanitation Authority. "Based on the law no 43/2000 of 7/Dec/2010, the National parastatals charged with water and electricity distribution RECO & RWASCO have been merged and given the name EWSA that is Energy, Water and Sanitation Authority." |
| Power resources - Statistics |
| Energy Information Administration : official energy statistics from the U.S. Government International. |
| United Nations Statistics Division (UNSD). Energy Statistics |
| Power resources - Zambia |
| Energy Regulation Board of Zambia (ERB) Statutory body. |
| Prices - Africa - Statistics - Comparative method |
| International Comparison Program for Africa (ICP-Africa) "statistical initiative aimed at generating purchasing power parity (PPP) estimates that facilitate cross-country comparisons of price levels, and economic aggregates in real terms." |
| Prices - Statistics - Comparative method |
| International Comparison Program (ICP). 2011 Round "worldwide statistical partnership to collect comparative price data and compile detailed expenditure values of countries’ gross domestic products (GDP), and to estimate purchasing power parities (PPPs) of the world’s economies." |
| Privacy, Right of - Law and legislation |
| Data Protection and Privacy Legislation Worldwide UNCTAD site. |
| Privacy, Right of - Senegal |
| Privatization - Malawi |
| Privatisation Commission (PC) |
| Produce trade |
| Market Information Sources Available Through the Internet : "Daily to yearly market and outlook reports, prices and commodities and quotes" by Jean-Charles Le Vallée, Dept. of Agricultural Economics, Michigan State University. |
| Produce trade - ACP-Group |
| All ACP Agricultural Commodities Programme (AAACP) |
| Produce trade - Africa, East |
| Alliance for Commodity Trade in Eastern and Southern Africa (ACTESA) "launched on September 24 2008 by the Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa (COMESA)’s Ministers of agriculture. On June 9, 2009, ACTESA was established by the Heads of State of COMESA (the COMESA Authority) as a Specialized Agency to integrate small farmers into national, regional and international markets." |
| Produce trade - Africa, Southern |
| Alliance for Commodity Trade in Eastern and Southern Africa (ACTESA) "launched on September 24 2008 by the Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa (COMESA)’s Ministers of agriculture. On June 9, 2009, ACTESA was established by the Heads of State of COMESA (the COMESA Authority) as a Specialized Agency to integrate small farmers into national, regional and international markets." |
| Produce trade - International co-operation |
| Cairns Group. " coalition of 18 agricultural exporting countries ... has been an influential voice in the agricultural reform debate since its formation in 1986." |
| Produce trade - Southern Hemisphere |
| Agritrade. "CTA's web portal on international agricultural trade issues in the context of ACP -EU relations." |
| Production standards - Swaziland |
| Swaziland Standards Authority (SWASA) |
| Protected areas |
| Protected Planet |
| Protected areas - Namibia |
| Namibia Protected Landscape Conservation Areas Initiative (NAM-PLACE) Project |
| Public administration |
| United Nations Online Network in Public Administration and Finance (UNPAN) "to promote the sharing of knowledge, experiences and best practices throughout the world in sound public policies, effective public administration and efficient civil services, through capacity-building and cooperation among the United Nations Member States." |
| World Bank. Public Sector Governance |
| Public administration - Commonwealth countries |
| Commonwealth Association for Public Administration and Management (CAPAM) |
| Public administration - Latin America - Citizen participation |
| Evidence and Lessons from Latin America (ELLA) "A knowledge sharing and learning platform on selected economic, environmental and governance issues..." |
| Public administration - Study and teaching - Africa |
| African Training and Research Centre in Administration and Development (CAFRAD) |
| Public debt See; Debts, Public |
| Public expenditure See: Finance, Public and [Country] - Appropriations and expenditures |
| Public health |
| MEASURE Evaluation. Health Information Systems Strengthening. Resource Center. Country Profiles Lists of government documents with some links. |
| Strategic Partnership for International Health Regulations (2005) and Health Security (SPH) World Health Organization. |
| WHO MiNDbank "an online platform providing quick and easy access to international resources and national/regional level policies, strategies, laws and service standards for mental health, substance abuse, disability, general health, NCDs, human rights and development, and more recently children and youth, and older persons." |
| Public health - Africa |
| African Strategies for Health (ASH) Project "In collaboration with the US Agency for International Development (USAID), partners, country governments, and regional institutions, the African Strategies for Health (ASH) Project explores emerging health issues, trends, and innovative solutions in key technical areas." |
| East, Central and Southern African Health Community (ECSA-HC) "an inter-governmental health organization that fosters and promotes regional cooperation in health among member states. Member states of the ECSA Health Community are Kenya, Lesotho, Malawi, Mauritius, Swaziland, United Republic of Tanzania, Uganda, Zambia and Zimbabwe." |
| East, Central and Southern African Health Community (ECSA-HC) "an inter-governmental health organization that fosters and promotes regional cooperation in health among member states. Member states of the ECSA Health Community are Kenya, Lesotho, Malawi, Mauritius, Eswatini, United Republic of Tanzania, Uganda, Zambia and Zimbabwe." |
| World Health Organization. Regional Office for Africa |
| Public health - Africa - International cooperation |
| East, Central and Southern Africa Health Community (ECSA-HC) "an inter-governmental health organization that fosters and promotes regional cooperation in health among member states. Member states of the ECSA Health Community are Kenya, Lesotho, Malawi, Mauritius, Eswatini, United Republic of Tanzania, Uganda, Zambia and Zimbabwe." Formerly: Commonwealth Regional Health Community Secretariat for East, Central and Southern Africa (CRHCS-ECSA). |
| Public health - Africa, East |
| EA Health: Official East African Health Portal "The re-establishment of the EAC in 1999, as part of the Treaty, revived the regional coordination of medical research by establishing the East African Health Research Commission (EAHRC) in 2008. " |
| EAC Regional Knowledge Management Portal for Health |
| Public health - Africa, West |
| West African Health Organisation "a Specialized Institution of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) " "WAHO’s Headquarters is located in Bobo-Dioulasso in Burkina Faso." |
| Public health - Commonwealth countries |
| Commonwealth Health Hub |
| Public health - Government policy |
| Med Box: the Aid Library Includes national government publications. |
| Public health - International cooperation |
| Joint statement. |
| WHO MiNDbank "an online platform for the sharing of key resources related to mental health, substance abuse, disability, general health, human rights and development." |
| World Health Organization (WHO) |
| Public health - Sierra Leone |
| United Kingdom-Sierra Leone Health Partners (UKSLHP) |
| Public health - Sources |
| MEDBOX: the Aid Library Includes national government publications. |
| Public health - South Africa |
| WHO Country Office: South Africa |
| Public health - Statistics |
| Public health - Zambia |
| Zambia National Public Health Institute (ZNPHI) "The Zambia National Public Health Institute (ZNPHI) was established as an independent national public health institute (NPHI), with a legal mandate that functions as a statutory body under the Ministry of Health." |
| Public health See also: Health planning |
| Public policy |
| Development Strategies that Work Country experiences presented at the ECOSOC Annual Ministerial Review. |
| WHO MiNDbank "an online platform providing quick and easy access to international resources and national/regional level policies, strategies, laws and service standards for mental health, substance abuse, disability, general health, NCDs, human rights and development, and more recently children and youth, and older persons." https://www.mindbank.info/ |
| Public policy - Eswatini |
| Eswatini Economic Policy Analysis and Research Centre (ESEPARC) "a semi-autonomous entity that was established in 2008 through a joint funding arrangement between the Government of Eswatini and the African Capacity Building Foundation (ACBF)." |
| Public policy - Tanzania |
| Tanzania Chamber of Commerce, Industry & Agriculture. Policies, Acts and Regulations Selected policies and acts. |
| Public policy See also: Government policy under specific subjects |
| Public records - Africa - Databases |
| sourceAFRICA Primary documents added by organisations. |
| Public sector accounting See:Finance, Public - Accounting |
| Public service employment - South Africa |
| Public utilities |
| University of Greenwich. Public Services International Research Unit (PSIRU) |
| Public utilities - Africa |
| African Forum for Utility Regulators (AFUR) |
| Public utilties See: Government business enterprises |
| Public works employment See: Public service employment |
| Public-private sector cooperation |
| PPP Knowledge Lab |
| Public-Private Infrastructure Advisory Facility (PPIAF) The Public-Private Infrastructure Advisory Facility (PPIAF) is a multi-donor trust fund that provides technical assistance to governments in developing countries in support of the enabling environment conducive to private investment, including the necessary policies, laws, regulations, institutions, and government capacity. It also supports governments to develop specific infrastructure projects with private sector participation. |
| Public-Private-Partnership in Infrastructure Resource Center (PPPIRC) "The Public-Private Partnership in Infrastructure Resource Center for Contracts, Laws and Regulations (PPPIRC) provides easy access to an array of sample legal materials which can assist in the planning, design and legal structuring of any infrastructure project — especially a project which involves a public-private partnership (PPP). It is organized in two broad categories: (i) guidance on structuring a PPP project and its enabling environment and (ii) sector specific information." |
| Public-private sector cooperation - Africa, East - Congresses |
| Fostering the Development of PPP Models in the COMESA Region: Regional Validation Workshop ((2009 : Swaziland) |
| Public-private sector cooperation - Africa, Southern |
| Southern African Development Community Public Private Partnership Network (SADC PPP) |
| Public-private sector cooperation - Africa, Southern - Congresses |
| Fostering the Development of PPP Models in the COMESA Region: Regional Validation Workshop ((2009 : Swaziland) |
| Public-private sector cooperation - Cote d'Ivoire |
| Comité National de Pilotage des Partenariats Public-Privé (CNP-PPP) |
| Purchasing power parity - Statistical methods |
| International Comparison Program (ICP). 2011 Round "worldwide statistical partnership to collect comparative price data and compile detailed expenditure values of countries’ gross domestic products (GDP), and to estimate purchasing power parities (PPPs) of the world’s economies." |
| International Comparison Program for Africa (ICP-Africa) "statistical initiative aimed at generating purchasing power parity (PPP) estimates that facilitate cross-country comparisons of price levels, and economic aggregates in real terms." |
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