Reducing Disaster Risk

Business Contributions to Disaster Risk Reduction

In March 2015, the UNISDR (The United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction) is gathering government, business and NGO leaders, from around the world, to develop a framework that will make the world a safer place in today’s disaster...

HSBC and Hong Kong Bank Foundation

Provides funding to projects around the world in three main areas: education, community services and environment. The total corporation donated US$34.45 m in 2003. The funding is divided roughly equally between the three areas although the corporation emphasizes its interest in education. The...

Hands of Hope Zambia

Hands of Hope works with disadvantaged young people in Zambia creating the opportunity for a secure future for themselves and their communities. Hands of Hope believes that young people have the capacity to be positive forces of change in poverty reduction and should be viewed as important assets...

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,...

SIL International

SIL International studies, documents, and assists in developing the world’s lesser-known languages in partnership with host governments, nongovernmental agencies, indigenous organizations, and academic institutions worldwide as well as with churches and local communities.SIL integrates language and...

IBC Group Ltd

IBC Group assists SMEs in West-Kazakhstan by creating favourable start up conditions, including provision of additional work places, creation of new jobs, microcredit loans and various consulting services in finance, marketing, business management. IBC Group also conducts computer training,...

PREED India

PREED is the acronym for people’s organization for Rural Health, Education and Economic Development. It aims to achieve sustained development in India through the participation of rural and tribal communities in the empowerment of women, promotion of reproductive health, gender equity, social...

Indian Society for Social Action (ISSA)

Indian Society for Social Action (ISSA) aims at sustainable development of people living in rural areas and to making them self-reliant. ISSA strives to improve the standards of living of the rural poor and make their lives more meaningful. ISSA is working in the field of rural development with...

The African Physical Handicapped Initiative Development

The African Physical Handicapped Initiative Development works to enable handicapped people to take part in the normal life of the community, to answer their basic needs in order to let them live a dignified life and to reduce their dependency through the implementation of income generating...

Bellagio Forum for Sustainable Development (BFSD)

The Bellagio Forum for Sustainable Development (BFSD) is an international network of grant-providing institutions striving to attain environmental balance, economic stability and social progress. The Forum brings together individuals from foundations and businesses to build trust, dialogue and...

GlobalSud

GlobalSud is a non-profit humanitarian NGO headquartered in Chile. The organisation provides assistance to disaster victims in America. GlobalSud provides assistance for urgent needs and support to humanitarian assistance programmes, bringing help to all those who are in need without taking into...

Pepal

Pepal is a young social enterprise that facilitates partnerships between the private and non-profit sectors through launching international development programmes, to achieve effective and sustainable social change in the developing world. It collaborates with INSEAD, the business school for the...

The Sullivan Foundation

Inspired by the life and principles of Leon H. Sullivan, the Sullivan Foundation, exists to promote the political, entrepreneurial and intellectual leadership of the African Diaspora and friends of Africa, and to advocate on behalf of Africa and the world’s vulnerable people. Our dynamic approach...

One World Trust

One World Trust aims to achieve the eradication of poverty, injustice and war. It conducts research on practical ways to make global organizations more responsive to the people they affect, and on how the rule of law can be applied equally to all. Its guiding vision is a world where all peoples...

Shell Foundation

Shell Foundation focuses upon projects which address long term social and environmental issues in which energy companies have a particular responsibility.

Global Source Net - Azerbaijan

Global SourceNet (GSN) is an international development organization whose aim is to assist vulnerable population segments of Azerbaijan. GSN's projects and programs provide assistance in emerging economies through the implementation and management of development projects and programs. Some of...

Gender Center for Sustainable Development (GSCD)

Gender Center for Sustainable Development (GSCD) aims to promote partnership with key stakeholders from civil society, the public and private sectors to assist the welfare of women. GSCD also seeks to ensure equal gender participation in IT, support information structures for free exchange of...

Agencia Española de Cooperación Internacional para el Desarrollo (AECID) Peru

Agencia Española de Cooperación Internacional para el Desarrollo (AECID) Peru promotes economic, social, human, and sustainable development in Peru. AECID Peru's goal is to contribute to the eradication of the poverty in Peru through the provision of human resources and materials.

Better Business Bureau (BBB)

Better Business Bureau (BBB) acts as an intermediary between consumers and businesses in the US and Canada. Its main functions are to resolve disputes, to facilitate communication, and to provide information on ethical business practices. The BBB is committed to the reliability of business reports,...

Rainforest Action Network

Rainforest Action Network campaigns for the forests, their inhabitants and the natural systems that sustain life by transforming the global marketplace through education, grassroots organizing and non-violent direct action. RAN uses hard-hitting markets campaigns to align the policies of...