Signposts

Roots. What became Ifda started in 1971 with the Founex Symposium on Development and Environment, a first step on a road later marked by the United Nations Conference on the Human Environment (Stockholm 1972), the 1974 Cocoyoc Seminar on Alternative Patterns of Resources Use and the 1975 Dag Hammarskjöld Report What now - Another Development. Legally, the foundation was set up in 1976 and dissolved in 1995.

Endeavours. Through the Ifda Dossier, specific undertakings, such as the Third system project (see Ifda Dossier 17) and seminars in all continents, Ifda endeavoured to serve a growing global network in search of alternatives. Operating at the interface between governments and citizens, it contributed to highlight the autonomous role of citizens' movements (see Ifda Dossier 56), made proposals for the democratization of the United Nations and, with a view to strengthen the Thirld World in North-South negotiations, published for eight years a daily bulletin, the SUNS (Special United Nations Service).

 Between 1978 and 1991, the International Foundation for Development Alternatives (Ifda) published 81 issues of the Ifda Dossier. All of them being out of print, this electronic edition is now, outside libraries, the only public access to the some 8’500 pages of the Dossier.

Tools
A list of the 81 issues as well as an index by authors, citizens' associations and themes will be found on this site.

Papers appear in either English, French or Spanish. The longer texts are usually abstracted in the three languages. Dossiers 1 and 17 have been published in three separate editions, Dossier 56 in two editions (English and French).

The editorial policies of the Ifda Dossier are outlined here.

Ifda’s values, goals, means, organization, method of work, network, Committee and Council, selected activities and related publications are described or illustrated in the Presentation available on this site in English, French and Spanish.

 
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