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United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) - Togo
UNDP is one of United Nation organisations that has targets for reducing poverty, hunger, disease, illiteracy, environmental degradation and discrimination against women by 2015. On the ground in 166 countries, UNDP uses its global network to help the UN system and its partners to raise awareness,...
The Skoll Foundation
The Skoll Foundation is a social entrepreneurship organisation that aims to drive large-scale change by investing in, connecting and celebrating social entrepreneurs and other innovators dedicated to solving the world’s most pressing problems. Social entrepreneurs are proven leaders whose...
Kopernik
Kopernik is an on-line marketplace to bridge the gap between innovators, developing communities and financial supporters in order to distribute life-changing technology effectively to the developing world. The website showcases the latest technologies that the local groups (NGOs) can choose what...
Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) - Kenya and Officer-in-Charge for Somali Affairs
FAO was founded in 1945 with a mandate to raise levels of nutrition and standards of living, to improve agricultural productivity, and to better the condition of rural populations. Today, FAO is one of the largest specialised agencies in the United Nations system and the lead agency for...
United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) - Rwanda
UNDP is one of United Nation organisations that has targets for reducing poverty, hunger, disease, illiteracy, environmental degradation and discrimination against women by 2015. On the ground in 166 countries, UNDP uses its global network to help the UN system and its partners to raise awareness,...
United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) - Guinea
UNDP is one of United Nation organisations that has targets for reducing poverty, hunger, disease, illiteracy, environmental degradation and discrimination against women by 2015. On the ground in 166 countries, UNDP uses its global network to help the UN system and its partners to raise awareness,...
Solar Light for Africa
Solar Light for Africa, Ltd. (SLA) is a non-profit 501(c)3 Christian organisation whose mission is to transform lives and empower the people of Africa by providing light and energy using the natural power of the sun. The SLA goal is to educate the public on the advantages of renewable energy...
Solar Sister
Solar Sister is a social enterprise that provides women with training and support to create solar micro-businesses, providing household income for the women, and light for their communities. The women form a by-women, to-women distribution network that is strengthened by women’s natural...
United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) - Namibia
UNDP is one of United Nation organisations that has targets for reducing poverty, hunger, disease, illiteracy, environmental degradation and discrimination against women by 2015. On the ground in 166 countries, UNDP uses its global network to help the UN system and its partners to raise awareness,...
Sunlabob Renewable Energy
Sunlabob Renewable Energy Ltd leases solar equipment at easily affordable rates so that villagers can experience the benefits of clean, safe and reliable solar electricity. Communications, educational attainment, health and productivity can all be enhanced by the introduction of solar power....
The Alliance for Rural Electrification
The Alliance for Rural Electrification (ARE) is an international non-profit organisation that promotes and provides efficient renewable solutions for rural electrification in developing countries. The Alliance was created in 2006 in response to the need for access to sustainable electricity in...
SJF Ventures
SJF Ventures is a venture capital partnership with offices in Durham, NC, New York and San Francisco. Through its investment funds, the firm provides equity financings from $1MM to $10MM, solo or in syndicates, to companies seeking expansion capital. As a venture fund, SJF Ventures focuses on...
Commons Capital
Commons Capital is a venture capital firm founded to realize competitive rates of return by investing in promising young companies whose products, services and corporate cultures promote a sustainable economy and deliver market solutions to major social and environmental problems. The company...
MicroEnergy Credits Corporation
The MicroEnergy Credits Corporation (MEC)is a social enterprise which links microfinance institutions to the carbon markets when they lend for clean energy. MEC sells the carbon credits earned by replacing dirty fuels like kerosene, wood, coal and dung on the voluntary carbon markets and passes...
Angaza Design
Angaza Design Angaza Design is a company that aims to improve the quality of life in East Africa by making clean and affordable electricity accessible to all. Angaza's solar-powered household lighting and charging system can run clean, bright LED lights, charge cell phones, and run radios. The...
Change thru Empowerment (CE)
Change thru Empowerment (CE) is a registered Pakistan based NGO embarking upon enabling the people to struggle for their rights and promote a society where individuals' identity is just "Humanity" and they live together with respect for diversity and dignity. Currently, we are working in...
Legacy of Chernobyl: Radiation’s long fingered reach
Two decades after the tragedy at Chernobyl, a tired eeriness still hovers over parts of the Ukraine, the shadow of the nuclear accident still blighting the lives of local people.
Solar power's role in rural India
Selco is a social enterprise which has provided solar-powered lighting and water heating for half a million people in the states of Karnataka and Gujarat since it began in 1995. It provides lighting for businesses too and even rents solar lights to street hawkers.
Say goodbye to kerosene lamps, here's Kiran!
D.Light Design makes affordable solar lighting solutions to serve the bottom-of-the-pyramid households in India and other markets across the globe. The initial research and early prototyping of what became D.light products, began in 2006.
Philips digs at bottom of the pyramid
Philips Electronics India Ltd is resorting to innovative pricing and customer engagement models in India to gain market share and acceptance by 'bottom-of-the-pyramid' segments and enterprise customers. Clean energy is the common pitch that Philips is making to log in higher customer numbers...