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Comprehensive Rural Health Project (CRHP)
The Comprehensive Rural Health Project, Jamkhed, has been working among the rural poor and marginalized for over 40 years. By partnering with village communities and expanding upon local knowledge and resources the project aims to effectively meet the immediate and long term needs of these groups,...
Nabolok
Nabolok in a voluntary non-governmental organisation working to promote, protect and support self-reliant, participatory development in Bangladesh. Recognising development is as much a social issue as an economic one, the organisation places equal emphasis on poverty reduction and empowerment of...
Pamoja Women Development Programme
PAWDEP seeks to empower Kenyan women financially to run viable, competitive, and rewarding enterprises that can compete locally and internatioally, by providing microfinance solutions to women groups running small scale industry and farming. Recognizing the role played by the women in the...
Pallisa Community Development Trust (PACODET)
Pallisa Community Development Trust (PACODET) provides integrated rural community health, food security and environment conservation programmes for an area of ten parishes in Uganda with a population of over 60,000 people. PACODET supports communities to access/own the information, skills,...
Auroville Village Action Group
The Auroville Village Action Group was set up to better organise the various activities in Auroville, India which had developed out of the Village Action Group which began in 1983. All these activities were based in the perception that in its search to realise an actual Human Unity, Auroville had...
Rural Upgrade Support Organisation (RUSO)
RUSO is a non-political, non-sectarian and non-governmental organization that employs volunteer humanitarian action to empower local communities and contribute sustainable grass-roots solutions to rural challenges, providing health-care, education and social development. It is a unique service...
Somali Youth Development Network (SOYDEN)
The Somali Youth Development Network (SOYDEN) aims to improve the standard of living among Somali youths, as well as promote peace and human rights, by empowering youths and making them active partners in development. SOYDEN's projects include: a skills training programme, promoting peace building...
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,...
Help-one Women's Organisation
Help-one Women’s Organisation is a philanthropic organisation aiming at improving women’s living conditions and social status in Uganda. Its projects focus on empowering women through socio-economic activities, providing vocational training for women, including tailoring, design, IT and poultry...
Tumaini Awareness Group.
The Tumaini Awareness Group aims to empower young people in marginalised rural areas of East Africa by informing them of relevant current issues, such as health and drug abuse. This enables the youths to make better informed decisions for themselves and their community. The Group also provides...
Northern Territory Government Australia
Northern Territory Government Australia (NTGA) is the leading economic development agency for the Northern Territory. The NTGA maximises business opportunities in tourism, indigenous economic development, regional development and investment. The NTGA serves as the central entry point for Territory...
Mgbala Agwa Youths Forum (MAYF)
Mgbala Agwa Youths Forum (MAYF) aims to help create awareness and educate people about HIV/AIDS and sexually transmitted diseases, protect the environment, alleviate poverty, and empower youths. MAYF's activities include the creation of a library with reading materials about HIV/AIDS and a condom...
Hope Foundation (HF)
Hope Foundation (HF) is involved in developmental and humanitarian activities with the main goal of improving the standards of living of people in rural communities. HF intervenes in fields such as education, health, water and sanitation, child care human rights, environment, women empowerment, ICT...
Women Empowerment Group
Women's Empowerment Group (WEG) was formed in 1999 in Lahore. WEG, a non-profit and non-governmental organisation, emphasises the rights of women and children. WEG works to strengthens the process of socio-economic development and empowerment of the disadvantaged sections of the society at the...
Trickle Up Program
Based in New York City, the Trickle Up Program helps the poorest of the poor (with special focus on women, youth and other disadvantaged groups) take their first step up out of poverty through microfinance. Trickle Up helps them start their own businesses by providing capital and teaching them...
Banking With The Poor Network
The Banking With The Poor Network (BWTP) is a network of some 20 national policy institutions, commercial banks and NGOs involved in microfinance and microcredit from eight countries in Asia - namely Bangladesh, India, Indonesia, Malaysia, Pakistan, Philippines, Sri Lanka and Thailand. Its...
Calmeadow
Calmeadow is a NGO with operations based in San José, Costa Rica. Since 1985 Calmeadow has supported innovative ideas in microfinance; ideas that promote greater levels of efficiency and outreach through the commercial provision of financial services to low-income borrowers and microentrepreneurs....
Centre for Micro-Finance (CMF)
The objectives of the Centre for Micro-Finance (CMF) are to provide knowledge management services to the microfinance practitioners and institutions, undertake research and studies on microfinance and related development issues, raise public awareness on sustainable microfinance and to provide...
DevPro
DevPro, a human resources placement organisation, matches the needs of organisations with professionals network in the areas of health, education, management, finance, information technology, engineering, environment, business, enterprise development and other streams of art, science and...
JCS International
JCS is a consortium of Christian agencies working together as one INGO to serve the nation and people of Mongolia by helping to meet the needs of society in terms of the whole person – physical, spiritual, and intellectual – and to support their efforts to improve their own lives and their...