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Rangpur Dinajpur Rural Service-RDRS
RDRS Bangladesh (Rangpur Dinajpur Rural Service) is a NGO working to empower the rural poor in northern Bangladesh. It aims to improve their living standards of landless and marginal farmers. RDRS' Development Programme has a core of eight components: social organisation and development education,...
United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) - Jamaica
UNDP works to promote the advancement of Human Development for the people of Jamaica. We do this by supporting good governance, poverty reduction and sound environmental management; providing quality advisory and support services and building strategic partnerships that leverage development...
Action Committee Service for Peace
This organisation was founded in 1968 and its main tasks include the support of common concerns and projects of the member organisations, co-operation with other institutions and organisations, advertising and information about peace service opportunities, planning seminars and courses, and...
Japan Foundation Centre
The Japan Fund for Global Environment (JFGE) Grants Program provides financial assistance for conservation programmes carried out by NGOs both in Japan and in developing countries. It also provides support for NGO programmes working for the conservation of the global environment.
Third World Network Africa
Research and Advocacy on issues of social and economic policy that advances the needs and interests of peoples of African and other third world countries (especially marginalized social groups), a fair distribution of world’s resources, and forms of development which are sustainable and fulfil...
China Microfinance Training Centre (CMTC)
China Microfinance Training Centre (CMTC) at the Rural Development Institute of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences supports the sustainable development of the Chinese microfinance sector by providing systematic and practical training courses to microfinance practitioners in China. The Centre...
Opportunities for the Majority: Bank initiative that promotes and finances private sector business models
The Opportunities for the Majority (OMJ) Initiative promotes and finances market-based, sustainable business models that engage private sector companies, local governments and communities in the development and delivery of quality products and services for the majority of the population of Latin...
A discussion paper on social intrapreneurship
This paper produced by the Doughty Centre at the Cranfield University examines the potential value of social intrapreneurship, and provisionally defines a social intrapreneur as "a person within a large corporation who takes direct initiative for innovation which addresses social or environmental...
Global Network for Good Governance - Zambia (GNGG-Zambia)
Global Network for Good Goverance - Zambia (GNGG-Zambia) is a non- governmental organisation involved in human rights, good governance, and improving the standard of living for the poor, especially women and the disabled. GNGG-Zambia is also involved in child protection and rights.
Food for the Hungry International - Uganda
Food for the Hungry International - Uganda, part of a global Christian partnership, is involved in programmes that provide community health education, assistance to enable children to attend school and receive health check-ups and medical treatment, and assistance to Uganda prisons. Working in...
Arunkhola Disabled Rehabilitation Centre (ADRC)
The Arunkhola Disabled Rehabilitation Centre (ADRC) is a Nepali non-governmental organisation, working under the auspices of the Nepal National Rehabilitation Centre of the Disabled. ADRC provides occupational training to persons with disabilities in local crafts that produce readily marketable...
United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) - Guyana
UNDP is one of United Nation organisations that has targets for reducing poverty, hunger, disease, illiteracy, environmental degradation and discrimination against women by 2015. In Guyana the UNDP supports the peoples of Guyana in pursuit of national goals and objectives as articulated by the...
Realsom Organization for Welfare & Development
Realsom Organization for Welfare&Development aims to provide the resources necessary to make Somali residents self-sufficient in health,employment,sanitation and education through developmental programs/projects. Realsom was partnered with Local, National and International NGOs Based in...
Civil Society International
Civil Society International (CSI) assists independent organisations working for democracy and civil society in countries lacking in these principles. The CSI is a source of information about projects worldwide that are committed to limited government, popular elections and free association and...
The Brokering Guidebook - a guide to navigating effective sustainable development partnerships
The Brokering Guidebook, produced by IBLF in collaboration with Rio Tinto, UNDP and the UN System Staff College, illuminates the critical role played by brokers in a cross-sector partnership, and outlines the many tasks that a broker may have to carry out during the life of a partnership.
Association Al Amana Pour la Promotion des Microentreprises
Association Al Amana Pour la Promotion des Microentreprises promotes micro-enterprise by offering credit and related services.
Better Poverty Eradication Organisation
The Better Poverty Eradication Organisation is a Kenyan NGO that works on community mobilisation. Issues tackled by the organisation include capacity building, advocacy, behaviour change, and the socio-economic impact of disease. Main activities include developing HIV/AIDS prevention strategies...
Calvary Chapel - Managua Nicaragua
Calvary Chapel - Managua Nicaragua serves one of the poorest neighbourhoods in Managua by providing free meals daily, jobs for the unemployed in their bakery, and elementary school education.
Mercy Corps - Niger
Mercy Corps is an NGO working as an international humanitarian agency involved in emergency relief, sustainable community development and assistance to communities recovering from disaster. In Niger, Mercy Corps works in rural and urban communities to promote health and nutrition, food security,...
Associacion par la Paz y Desarrollo (APD) - Nicaragua
Associacion par la Paz y Desarrollo (APD) is a Spanish based NGO committed to promoting gender equality, equitable redistribution of resources, and the improvement of life quality among men and women living in poverty. It runs projects and programs in 15 countries around the world to achieve ...