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Botswana Council of NGOs (BOCONGO)

Code of Conduct - Botswana Council of NGOs (BOCONGO) aims to enable NGOs in Botswana to respond to the challenges of sustaining democratic and participatory institutions. The Code provides guidelines on establishing an enabling environment, values, transparency, governance, accountability,...

Surviving disaster and supporting recovery: A guidebook for microfinance institutions

This guide seeks to assist MFIs in defining an institutional strategy for disaster preparedness. It lays out the steps for assessing the potential risk of disaster, the clients’ needs and the institutional capacity to respond. Based on assessments, it offers a variety of recommendations for...

NGO to assist Nigerian government towards alleviation of poverty through micro-credit

The Growing Businesses Foundation (GBF, a Nigerian NGO), has announced its intention to contribute to the Federal Government's fight towards the alleviation of poverty in Nigeria by providing access to micro credit facilities at the grass roots and to small scale entrepreneurs.

Nonprofit Networking: The New Way to Grow

How can a nonprofit increase its social impact? Many would say it needs to grow big to be strong. Instead, says Harvard Business School professor Jane Wei-Skillern, the answer could be in the power of strategic networks.

Pfizer's Global Health Fellows Programme - an established and comprehensive cross-border service initiative

Pfizer’s Global Health Fellows Program (GHF) is an international corporate volunteer program that places Pfizer colleagues in three to six month assignments with international development organizations designed to address global health issues and improve care for underserved populations.

Becton, Dickinson and Company(BD) launches cross-border volunteer programme to improve medical services in Ghana and Zambia

BD's launched a cross-border volunteer programme in 2005 in partnership with the Catholic Medical Mission Board (CMMB) and Direct Relief International.

KPMG supports Fairtrade Africa

BRIGHT is KPMG Europe’s first skills-based pro-bono project that supports the Millennium Development Goals. The global financial services group aims to support capacity building in the core areas of finance, risk management, operational excellence, human resources, IT and marketing. During 2011,...

Business-NGO Relationships for Environmental Conservation in Hong Kong: Capacity Building for NGOs and the Roles of Government and Business-Related Organisations

This is an article published in the Asian Pacific Journal of Public Administration, vol 29, no 2, in December 2007. Drawing on stakeholders' views collected from 31 in-depth face-to-face interviewees, the article investigates business-NGO relationships for environmental conservation in Hong...

Votorantim Celulose e Papel (VCP) in Brazil: Planting eucalyptus in partnership with the rural poor

Brazil suffers from high income inequality and widespread poverty, especially in rural areas. Despite recent policies to support rural settlements through land reform, a mismatch remains between the rural population’s social demands and the state’s capacity to respond.

Beyond the Midpoint: Achieving the Millennium Development Goals

This paper is UNDP’s forward-looking review of the factors that shape MDG progress, along with the constraints and bottlenecks that have hampered MDG achievement in many countries. The findings build on MDG assessments in 30 countries that were undertaken for this review.

Meridian International Institute for Capacity Building

The Meridian International Institute for Capacity Building is a non profit making Association called MERIDIAN INTERNATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR CAPACITY BUILDING (MIICB) located in Kumbo Bui division N W Region of Cameroon. Their main areas of intervention are in the domains of education, health,...

Rural Enterprise Trust of Zimbabwe

Rural Enterprise Trust of Zimbabwe (RETZ) is a private non-political, non-profit organization created in 2014 to respond to the needs of the Zimbabwean people. Its focus is to sustain, strengthen, and promote socio-economic freedoms as the yardstick for pursuing sustainable development. RETZ...

Common Bond Institute

Common Bond Institute (CBI) is a Non-Government Organization that focuses on increasing skills and services locally to promote social healing and conflict transformation, exploring human consciousness and relationship dynamics, and expanding public dialogue and awareness of critical issues. A...

Yingli Mission Society

The Yingli Mission Society (YMS), a non-profit, non-government, development organization formed by a group of like-minded people from medical, sociological, educational and theological background who shared a dream to work on a people-centred model of development in areas of, environmental...

GO ECONOMIC EMPOWERMENT PROGRAMME

GO ECONOMIC EMPOWERMENT PROGRAMME (GEEP) KENYA is an integrated community organization that deals with: Support of Orphans and Vulnerable Children, HIV / AIDS, Food Security and Nutrition, Alcohol, Drugs & Substance Abuse, Environment Conservation and underprivileged in the society and people...

Key Farmers Cameroon (KFC)

Key Farmers Cameroon (KFC) is a non-governmental, non-profit organization with the mission of promoting sustainable organic agriculture and rural development. Due to hardship, acute hunger, child malnutrition and persistent poverty looming in disadvantaged rural communities in Cameroon, KFC has...

Regional Centre for International Development Cooperation.(RCIDC)

Regional Center for International Development Corporation (RCIDC) was established in 2011, and registered by the government of the republic of Uganda as membership-based capacity building development organization to promote professional research for sustainable development, Social Justice, human...

Human Support Services

Human Support Services was established on the 9th of September 1997 as a non-profit, non-governmental organization to address the development needs and challenges of grassroots communities in Nigeria. This was done through the promotion of opportunities that would build the capacity of vulnerable...

Women for Change Organization

Women for Change Organization (WFCO) is a Non-Governmental Organization registered in the year 2007 by the NGO registration Board under the NGO Act as a non-profit making body. It is run by a group of local women and a few men and collaborate with other community-based women groups and faith-based...

Reach Out Cameroon NGO Verified non-profit organisation

Reach Out is an NGO operating in the South-West and North-West, with a focus on the hard-to-reach areas. We are working on Health, Human Rights, and Wealth Creation. Reach Out was born 20 years ago in response to the wide-spread HIV epidemic in Fako district, particularly among rural communities...