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Fighting Poverty: A Business Opportunity - Report on the 10th International Business Forum
Fighting Poverty: A Business Opportunity - Report on the 10th International Business Forum, a conference report, provides a summary of the Forum's proceedings in respect to how business is addressing the Millennium Development Goals.
Sigma Guidelines - Putting Sustainable Development into Practice: A Guide for Organisations
The Sigma Guidelines provide clear, practical advice to organisations to enable them to make a meaningful contribution to sustainable development. The guidelines help organisations to effectively meet challenges posed by social, environmental and economic dilemmas, threats and opportunities and...
Partnering for Development - Making it Happen
Partnering for Development - Making it Happen, a booklet, builds on the report from the Commission on the Private Sector and Development and looks at three areas of engagement: the development of commercially sustainable business models that can be expanded and replicated; the reform of laws,...
Promoting Small and Medium Enterprises for Sustainable Development
Promoting Small and Medium Enterprises for Sustainable Development, a paper published by the WCSD, discusses the way in which governments can help alleviate poverty by focusing on small and medium enterprises (SMEs) and how larger corporations can help themselves by including SMEs in their value...
The Asian Development Bank and Non-Governmental Organizations: Working Together
The Microcredit Project in Indonesia, established by the Asian Development Bank and approved in 1994, focuses on microenterprise support, recognizing the potential of microenterprises to create jobs at low capital input costs and raise the income levels of the poor.
Developing Inclusive Business Models - A Review of Coca-Cola's Manual Distribution Centres in Ethiopia and Tanzania
A research paper on inclusive business by Corporate Social Responsibility Initiative at the Harvard Kennedy School.
Inclusive Business at the Base of the Pyramid - an ADB project
The BoP-related ADB technical assistance (TA) project, first approved in 2008, aims to develop inclusive business ventures in six selected Asian countries and prepare them for project financing.
Achieving the Millennium Development Goals in an Era of Global Uncertainty
This Report outlines the status of achievement of MDGs in the Asia-Pacific region and identifies some of the key challenges. It was published in 2010 by The Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (ESCAP) in conjunction with the ADB and UNDP.
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.
Global Hand Principles
Global Hand, and its parent NGO, Crossroads Foundation, aims to ensure that aid given is good aid. You can find a range of standards, specific to sectors of the disaster and development spectrum, in our Standards, Guidelines and Toolkits section. A high level summary of Global Hand's standards...
Doing Business with the World: The New Role of Corporate Leadership in Global Development
Doing Business with the World, a publication of the World Business Council for Sustainable Development (WBCSD), describes how companies can contribute to global sustainable development through their core businesses in a way that is profitable for the companies and good for development.
Royal Climate Care
Royal Climate Care is an Indian company that provides services relating to energy, the environment, climate change, carbon markets and sustainable development.
Development Action for Marginalised Rural Areas (DAMRA)
Development Action for Marginalised Rural Areas (DAMRA) is an NGO operating in some of the most marginalized areas in Malawi, currently focusing on Rumphi and adjacent districts of northern Malawi. DAMRA aims to assist in working towards hunger free and healthy communities by helping people to...
Isore Women Initiative for Sustainable Development
Isore Women Initiative for Sustainable Development (IWNSUDE) is a Ugandan NGO that works on advocacy and capacity building programmes.
Hong Kong Committee for UNICEF
The Hong Kong Committee for UNICEF was founded in 1986. As one of the 36 national committees for UNICEF, we organize fundraising and advocacy activities to provide financial support for UNICEF’s programmes across over 150 countries and territories to help children survive and thrive. We aim to...
Sekamuli Women & Children Development Project (SEWODEP)
Sekamuli Women and Children Development Project (SEWODEP) is an initiative to stimulate development activities for vulnerable women and children of Sekamuli. It is a non-profit making project which was initiated by concerned community leaders of the area.
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...
Opportunity International Australia
Opportunity International Australia provides small loans to families in developing countries to help them start a business, earn an income and leave poverty behind. By helping a mother buy a sewing machine to start a tailoring business or a father buy seeds to plant a vegetable garden, small loans...
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...