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Charles Stewart Mott Foundation

Through their Civil Society Program, the Foundation provides grants to non-governmental organisations (NGOs) in Central and Eastern Europe, Russia and South Africa. Through four programmes areas -- Central/Eastern Europe and Russia, South Africa, United States and Global -- they fund efforts to...

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...

Pragma Corporation

Pragma Corporation provides technical and management consulting services for development projects worldwide. It focus on helping countries develop the foundation for economic growth through areas including small and medium enterprise development, banking, trade and investment facilitation and...

CARE International - Belgium

CARE is one of the world's largest private international humanitarian organisations, committed to helping families in poor communities improve their lives and achieve lasting victories over poverty. With programmes in over 72 countries, CARE touches the lives of over 30 million of the world's...

South American Missionary Society (SAMS)

The South American Missionary Society (SAMS) is a faith-based charity, involved in activities including funding programmes in the area of medical outreach, rural community development, micro-enterprise development and orphanages. SAMS is committed to working in partnership with churches in...

Rural Foundation for West Africa

The Rural Foundation for West Africa (WARF) is a non-profit international organisation that makes grants, provides technical assistance, carries out research and builds networks. Its activities focus on capacity building, knowledge management, rural entrepreneurship, gender equity in development,...

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...

American Jewish World Service

American Jewish World Service, Inc. ("AJWS"), a not-for-profit international development organization motivated by Judaism's imperative to pursue justice. AJWS is dedicated to alleviating poverty, hunger and disease among the people of the developing world regardless of race, religion or...

Asian and Pacific Centre for Transfer of Technology (APCTT)

Under the Economic and Social Commission for Asia and Pacific (ESCAP), the centre was first established in Bangalore, India in 1977. Its main goal is to promote the transfer of technology among small and middle scale industries in the Asian and Pacific region. ESCAP focuses on four specific areas...

Deep Griha Society

Working for the betterment of the people who live in the slums in Pune, India, the society was founded by like minded friends in 1975. It is an independent charitable organisation that has various programmes from medical to educational services, from child care to women development to rural...

Oxfam

Oxfam is an international confederation of 15 organizations working together in 98 countries and with partners and allies around the world to find lasting solutions to poverty and injustice. We work directly with communities and we seek to influence the powerful to ensure that poor people can...

Développement international Desjardins (DID)

Développement international Desjardins (DID) has been working since 1970 to support the advancement of the inclusive finance sector in developing and emerging countries. Through its technical assistance and investment activities, which aim to structure and strengthen financial inclusion, DID...

South Indian Federation of Fishermen Societies (SIFFS)

South Indian Federation of Fishermen (SIFFS) works for the protection of the interests of fishermen in India. SIFFS works to improve the control over income, by avoiding intermediaries and middlemen and also works toward the diversification of the economic activities of fishers' villages, by...

Fair Trade Federation

The Fair Trade Federation (FTF) is the trade association that strengthens and promotes North American organisations fully committed to fair trade. The Federation is part of the global fair trade movement, building equitable and sustainable trading partnerships and creating opportunities to...

ActionAid - Burkina Faso

ActionAid is an international charity working with poor and marginalised people in more than 50 countries worldwide to help eradicate poverty by overcoming injustice and inequity. ActionAid's work in Burkina Faso focuses on helping families to improve their farming techniques, improving access to...

Western Society for the Upliftment of Children

Western Society for the Upliftment of Children assists the marginalised, street and working youth and children of local communities through programmes including a day center for out of school children ages 10 - 18 years, classes for in school children at risk of falling out of the school system,...

Global Voices Online

Global Voices Online is a non-profit global citizens’ media project founded at Harvard Law School’s Berkman Centre for Internet and Society, a research think-tank focused on the Internet’s impact on society. Global Voices seeks to aggregate and amplify the global conversation online - highlighting...

Norfund - South Africa

Norfund - South Africa, an office of the Norwegian Norfund (Norwegian Investment Fund for Developing Countries), makes risk capital investments through profitable private enterprises in South Africa with capital supplied by the Norwegian state.

Compartamos

Compartamos is a development organisation that creates opportunities within lower economic segments, based on innovative and efficient models. Through their work, Compartamos aims to encourage fulfilling permanent trusting relationships and so to contribute to a better world.

Shadow of His Wings Children's Ophanage

Shadow of His Wings Children's Ophanage is a home for orphaned, abandoned and abused girls. The organisation provides health care, basic education and vocational skills training intended to equip the girls for independent living. Presently Shadow of His Wings houses sixty one girls in five homes...