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Hardcover edition of the Yearbook of International Organizations
Guide to global civil society networks
Volume 3: Classified Subject Guide and Index
To locate international organizations working on a specific issue or international concern, reach for Volume 3 of the Yearbook. "Yellow Pages"
Using a "yellow pages" approach, it classifies international and regional bodies in 812 specific categories of common concern grouped into 70 major areas. There are about 90 thousand such entries. Major subjects are also subdivided by region and other international grouping (developing countries, Arab, Commonwealth, IGO etc) leading to a further 1,316 categories so that, for example, the "Academic Cooperation Association" can be speedily located under "Developing Countries/Education", together with over 100 other international bodies working in the same field. Additional listings comprising organizations of a particular structural type, such as institutes and religious orders, mean that organizations are listed under a total of 2,126 categories with, due to attribution of several subjects to an individual organization, a total of about 130 thousand entries in all. Index
The volume provides an A-Z listing of all subject categories, and an index of 105,820 items to facilitate information location. By transferring large amounts of the index to Volume 1, the editors were able to retain a similar size to this volume while additionally including subject details of intergovernmental and international nongovernmental bodies that have ceased to exist. The index includes:
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