Environmental services
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Tangible Tour and Travel
Tangible Tour and Travel is an Ethiopian travel agency that offers tours promoting the country's world heritage sites. The company encourages tourists to participate in eco-friendly activities.
Namugongo Youth and Women Development Association (YWDAN)
The Namungongo Youth and Women Development Association (YWDAN) is a community-based NGO registered with the Wakiso District Authority, Uganda. They have four basic areas of operation 1. basic education 2. primary health 3. economic empowerment 4. environmental protection campaigns The...
Lycée André Resampa Antsirabe non-profit high school
The school is a non-denominational institution which aims to educate and train up young people who live in the city of Antsirabe and surroundings. Given the results of the annual school examination at the baccalaureat, the school has a very significant performance given the number of students per...
Community Rehabilitation Advocates For Transformation (C.R.A.F.T.)
Community Rehabilitation Advocates for Transformation (C.R.A.F.T.) is a registered Non Governmental Organization in Ghana with registration # 37-317. OUR MISSION To create an enabling environment through achievable and sustainable initiatives aimed at promoting positive change for the inclusion...
Ravasini S.p.A.
Established in 1948, Ravasini S.p.A. is an Italian company that specialises in manufacturing special equipments for construction sites and mining industry. Their products include mobile workshops for first aid, assistance, maintenance and repair, fire fighting vehicles, mobile laboratories for air,...
International Water Management Institute (IWMI)
Founded in 1984, the International Water Management Institute (IWMI) is a non-profit scientific research organisation based in Colombo, Sri Lanka. With research projects in 21 countries in Asia and Africa, IWMI focuses on the sustainable use of water and land resources in agriculture. Its...
SEKEM: A Holistic Egyptian Initiative
After living in Austria for 21 years, Ibrahim Abouleish returned home to Egypt to do something about the difficulties he observed during visits. In 1977, he founded the Sekem initiative to promote social and environmental development through economic and cultural activities.
The WWF Allianz Southeast Climate Witness Program used student volunteers to conduct vulnerability research
The WWF Allianz Southeast Climate Witness Program selected 24 high school students to engage in vulnerability research on the Southeast Rivers and Streams Ecoregion.
Partnerships bring fuel services to northern Mozambique medical clinics
In a country with 500 doctors for almost 20 million people, initiatives that can expand the reach of health services to rural people are in critical demand but in short supply. In northern Mozambique, the big challenge for health clinics is the lack of reliable fuel to light medical operations and...
PETSTAR: Adding Value to the Chain of Recycling While Improving the Scavengers’ Working Conditions
With about 85,000 tons of waste generated every day, Mexico is the 10th largest garbage producer in the world. At the same time, tens of thousands of scavengers, including children, are making a living by collecting saleable items from open-air dumps in very poor, informal conditions.
PROMASOL partners to provide green energy and create jobs in Morocco
For a country like Morocco with 3,000 hours of sun per year, totally depending on imports for its energy needs seems like a paradox. Being aware of such a situation, Moroccan authorities aimed to benefit from renewable sources of energy to produce at least 10% of the country’s energy needs by 2010....
Saraman partners to provide affordable and green earthquake-Safe Schools and Housing
Housing is a major challenge for the rising young population of developing countries. For households who have their dwelling as their main asset and shelter, the robustness of the construction is crucial, especially in earthquake-prone areas. Yet, in low-income markets, conventional construction...
SELCO partners with India's state banks to bring sunlight to rural India
SELCO India is a Bangalore‐based social enterprise that makes solar lighting technology accessible to the economically impoverished people in India. SELCO’s mission is based on a simple but powerful idea that the economic conditions of the impoverished can be improved substantially if they are made...
Tedcor model helps out small businesses with refuse removal in South Africa
Tedcor started its community-based refuse removal system in 1992. Today, using Tedcor's model, over 80 trained entrepreneurs operate their own small businesses in 16 local authorities. They provide employment to more than 1,000 historically disadvantaged people and supply waste removal services to...
TEMASOL: Providing Energy Access to Remote Rural Households in Morocco
In Morocco, despite the government’s efforts to expand its grid-based coverage, about 9% of the rural population could not be cost-effectively connected. Given that Morocco enjoys 3,000 hours of sun per year, solar energy was therefore thought to be a cost-effective alternative. TEMASOL is a...
Toyola Charcoal Stove: Improving the Environment and Health of the Poor in Ghana
Toyola Energy Limited is a company that operates in Ghana. It produces and distributes energy efficient charcoal stoves and solar lanterns for domestic users in the urban and rural parts of Ghana. Toyola entrepreneurs Suraj Wahab and Ernest Kyei – two artisans - have implemented an innovative...
A sucessful community/private/public partnership model for waste recycling in Bangladesh
In Bangladesh, the large proportion of urban population combined with limited waste collection systems poses serious social, environmental and health problems. A social enterprise called Waste Concern has found a way to transform solid waste into organic compost using a low cost, low-tech and...
Royal Climate Care
Royal Climate Care is an Indian company that provides services relating to energy, the environment, climate change, carbon markets and sustainable development.
International Development Enterprise partner with Government to provide low cost irrigation technologies in Nepal
International Development Enterprise (IDE) is a development organization that operates in 11 countries worldwide with the aim of creating income opportunities for poor rural households in developing countries. IDE Nepal was established in 1992 with the aim of developing low-cost irrigation...
Beijing Shengchang Bioenergy S&T Co.: A Leading Bio-Energy Benefits Both Business Itself and Local Farmers in Beijing
Agricultural waste was previously just waste, burned outside in winter. It needs a lot of labour to handle and also produces severe environmental problems. This successful business converts agricultural waste into a valuable product. Beijing Shengchang Bioenergy S&T Co., Ltd. (SBST) is a...