HDRNet is a specialised information gateway and electronic library on human development and international co-operation.
HDRNet is part of an international collaborative effort that brings together United Nations organisations, practitioners and academics, enabling a broad community of participants from many different parts of the world to contribute material they consider relevant to the research and practice of human development. It also archives a wealth of material that is not available through the internet or in other libraries, and makes it available in four languages. HDRNet offers unrestricted access to the documents it archives.
HDRNet is particularly intended for those engaged in a critical praxis of human development through international co-operation, either as practitioners or as academics. Our hope is that the specialised gateway will stimulate the production of new forms of knowledge for human development where disciplinary barriers are dissolved, the divide between scholar and practitioner is overcome, and academic benefits of research are accompanied by concrete social benefits.