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Mercy Corps Uzbekistan
Mercy Corps Uzbekistan, a country office of Mercy Corps International, works alongside local governments and private organisations to address the underlying causes of social tension and conflict in the Ferghana Valley with programmes that take a multifaceted approach to improving civil society,...
COLORS
COLORS is a social business that provides impoverished people across the world an opportunity to provide for themselves by teaching them creative skills, and also by providing an outlet to sell their hand-made goods. COLORS’ specific goal is to bring social injustices like human trafficking to...
Centre for Integrated Community Development (CICD-UGANDA)
CICD-UGANDA is an indigenous /non-partisan /non for profit rural based community learning organization in Buhweju District, Western Uganda. It was formed in 2014 and officially registered at the district as a Community Based Organization in 2016. CICD-Uganda is a youth and community-led initiative...
Partners With Melanesian Inc (Papua New Guinea)
Partners with Melanesians Inc. ( PwM ) is a national not-for-profit NGO involved in conservation, education and awareness, and sustainable livelihood alternative development programmes in local remote communities of Papua New Guinea. PwM has seven core programs and four project sites. Mission ...
Tanzania Economic Empowerment and Environmental Management Initiative ( Teeemi )
Teeemi is a National Non governmental registered organization having an aim to serve the community in terms of social, economical, education, health and nature activities for better future. Teeemi major projects are: 1.Tanzania Agriculture Initiative 2.Vocation Education Project 3.Tanzania...
One World Foundation Africa
One World Foundation Africa runs activities in both the UK and Uganda. The organisation partners with a number of other organisations such as Bukomero Development Foundation to implement some of its projects. In UK, they operate a community centre in East London from where they are engaged in...
Kyarumba Child Development Centre
Kyarumba Child Development Centre is a church founded non governmental organisation that was established in 2004 to combat the stress from community members in Kasese District, Western Uganda as a result of the 1996 civil war that left devastating results. The women and children were the most...
Phoenix Resource Centre (Northampton) Limited
We are a UK registered charity with our own registered NGO's in Djibouti and Somaliland in East Africa, and Ghana in West Africa. We also work with partner organisations covering 61 countries in total. Our main strengths lie in product resource volume / capacity handling, setting up, running and...
iDiG III
We are a non-profit social Enterprise. Also covering Youth Development and Human Health issues Globally. We carryout Events and interact with Organisation's, corporations and government bodies in order to assist the social enhancement across various areas.
Zaam Community Based Health Development Organisation (ZACHEDO)
Zaam Community Based Health Development Organisation (ZACHEDO) was started initially as a health clinic called Zaam clinic to provide curative/ treatment services to outpatient children and adults in Katwe slum, as the demand for inpatient and maternity services increased, Zaam clinic was expanded...
Trade, Aid or Traid? Getting it right with the private sector - May, 2008
We are regularly being asked to broaden Global Hand's services. While retaining our traditional 'matching' activity, many have enquired if Global Hand can support the wider engagement between for-profit and non-profit entities in today's landscape of Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) and...
Linking Business with Pro-Poor Development
Linking Business with Pro-Poor Development explores two key questions, How can business be pro-poor? and How can such partnerships be made sustainable? The document showcases how an innovative private-community partnership transformed the livelihoods of highly vulnerable families in far flung...
TEDCOR fosters urban renewal in the local community
Tedcor is an innovative and enterprising waste management company based in South Africa that offers integrated solutions for the collection, recovery and disposal of waste. Tedcor has been in the market for 12 years, working in close partnership with local communities to promote a clean healthy...
Haygrove establishes Gambia is Good to market fresh produce
Gambia is Good is a fresh produce marketing company which was conceived as a partnership between Haygrove Limited and Concern Universal, a leading development charity, with the purpose of linking small scale rural producers with the high value tourist market.
Cisco partners with Grameen Solutions in Bangladesh
Cisco partners with Grameen Solutions to establish business centers in rural Bangladesh that serve as distribution points for a variety of services, such as birth and death certificates, healthcare, distance learning, and retail sales of such necessities as hybrid seeds.
Gap Inc. and the Door launched a programme to provide job training for underprivileged youth
In 2006, Gap Inc. partnered with "The Door", a New-York City non-profit, to launch a joint job training and internship program for under-served youth. Since then, more than 1,000 youth have participated in the training and it has expanded to additional cities in the U.S.
UN Global Compact and the OECD Guidelines for Multinational Enterprises: Complementarities and Distinctive Contributions
The UN Global Compact and the OECD Guidelines for Multinational Enterprises Complementarities and Distinctive Contributions, the world’s foremost comprehensive, voluntary corporate responsibility initiatives, are clarified in this document as to the complementarities and distinctive contributions...
Business and Poverty: Opening markets to the poor
Business and Poverty: Opening markets to the Poor, an issue of Development Outreach published by the World Bank Institute, discusses how companies can operate profitably in emerging market economies, while enhancing the well-being of the poor by nurturing them as producers and consumers. The...
Trade Finance: Make it work for women
Trade Finance: Make it work for women, a news article, reports that women make up 70% of the world's poor, and it is important that they be given access to finance, which is critical to business success. The global financial crisis exacerbates an already dissatisfactory situation of trade financing...
Inclusive Business: Profitable business for successful development
Inclusive Business: Profitable business for successful development, a paper published by The Alliance for Inclusive Business and the WBCSD, defines Inclusive Business as one that seeks to contribute to poverty alleviation by including lower-income communities within its value chain while not losing...