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United Nations Conference On Trade And Development (UNCTAD)

UNCTAD serves as an international agency dedicated to furthering international trade and fostering enterprise and economic development worldwide. It hires experts to help with international issues, attempts to alter public policy to bring about development, and offers technical aid. UNCTAD works...

Qandil

Qandil, a non-governmental aid project of the Swedish Kurdish Human Rights Committee, supports the reconstruction of Kurdistan Iraq. Qandil gets financial support from the Swedish International Development Agency, EU and other international organisations. Qandil's goal is to rehabilitate the water,...

Trocaire

Trócaire is the official overseas development agency of the Catholic Church in Ireland. It was given a dual mandate: to support long-term development projects overseas and to provide relief during emergencies; and at home to inform the Irish public about the root causes of poverty and injustice and...

Concern Worldwide

Concern Worldwide (CW) is a non-governmental, international, humanitarian organisation dedicated to the reduction of worldwide suffering and working towards the ultimate elimination of extreme poverty in the world’s poorest countries. CW works with the poor themselves, and with local and...

Asia Pacific Social Development Research Centre (APSDRC)

Asia Pacific Social Development Research Centre (APSDRC) is an independent research centre at the City University of Hong Kong. APSDRC publishes a bi-monthly newsletter that includes news reports, sectoral analyses, regional surveys, profiles of funding institutions, summaries of donor activities...

Irish Aid

Irish Aid is the Government of Ireland’s programme of assistance to developing countries. Irish Aid works in cooperation with governments in other countries, other donors, NGOs and international organisations as part of the global effort to achieve the Millennium Development Goals. Its main...

Bethel China

Bethel China is an NGO registered in Hong Kong. The organisation serves children with visual impairments in China through two projects: the Love Is Blind project runs four homes for blind orphans, providing high quality care and education; while the Outreach project provides regular training for...

Children In Crossfire

Children in Crossfire raises the awareness of the causes and effects of poverty with a particular focus on children. The oranisation's key activities include delivering presentations and workshops in schools, parishes and community centres in Ulster and the West of England, and organising...

World Health Organization (WHO)

The World Health Organization (WHO), the United Nations specialised agency for health, aims to coordinate international health activities and to help governments improve health services. Health is defined in WHO's Constitution as state of complete physical, mental, and social well-being, not merely...

Peres Center for Peace

Peres Center for Peace, founded by the Nobel Laureate Shimon Peres, has the express aim of realising his vision of a "New Middle East", in which people of the region work together to build peace through socio-economic cooperation and people-to-people relations.

Center for the Advancement of the Blind

The Center for the Advancement of the Blind is a non-governmental organization helping Israel's blind and visually impaired. The center’s ultimate goal is to help the visually impaired integrate into the seeing society. It also runs a senior’s club for visually impaired seniors, summer camps for...

Association for Civil Rights in Israel (ACRI)

Association for Civil Rights in Israel (ACRI) is an independent non-partisan organization devoted to protecting and promoting human rights and civil liberties in Israel and in the territories under its control. ACRI's work encompasses litigation and legal advocacy, education, and public outreach as...

Jerusalem Foundation

The Jerusalem Foundation is a non-partisan organisation based on Jewish values, which seeks to promote an open, equitable and modern society by responding to the needs of all the City’s residents and by making grants for projects in Jerusalem such as parks, libraries, community centers, and...

United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) - Uzbekistan

UNDP Uzbekistan is committed to enhancing the development situation in the country. UNDP has assisted governmental and non-governmental institutions in obtaining the knowledge, experience and resources needed to successfully pursue economic and social reforms to ensure a good and promising future...

United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) - Tanzania

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,...

Tanzania Youth in Action for Development (TYID)

Tanzania Youth in Action for Development (TYID) is a non-governmental and volunteer-powered organisation, working to uplift the standard of living among the youth of Tanzania. Programs include advocacy, awareness, support and counselling, with the aim of taking the young off the streets by training...

World Food Programme (WFP) - Tanzania

Set-up in 1963, WFP is the United Nations frontline agency in the fight against global hunger. WFP uses its food to meet emergency needs and support economic and social development. It also provides the logistics support necessary to get food aid to the right people at the right time and in the...

United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) - China

UNICEF is an international aid agency that works with communities and governments in 157 countries for the survival, development and protection of children worldwide, upholding the Convention on the Rights of the Child. The primary areas of focus are: child survival and development; basic education...

Joint Development Associates International, Inc (JDA)

Joint Development Associates International, Inc (JDA) provides holistic community development, education, health services and humanitarian aid as a means of improving the lives of those in Central Asia. In Afghanistan, JDA works to relieve poverty by providing food and non-food items to families,...

Afghanistan Research and Evaluation Unit (AREU)

Afghanistan Research and Evaluation Unit (AREU), an independent research organisation, conducts and facilitates action-oriented research and learning that informs and influences policy and practice. AREU also actively promotes a culture of research and learning by strengthening analytical capacity...