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Water and sustainable development: A business perspective
"Scarce, cheap, and wasted. In too many places water is a triple paradox," says this updated WBCSD paper on water, which was originally prepared for the UN Commission on Sustainable Development (CSD) in April 2004. Its message is straightforward: with no water there can be no business.
Project to Promote Fair Trade in India
Fair Trade Forum - India (FTF-I) in partnership with HIVOS, IRFT & Shop for Change has launched Pro-Sustain, a project to promote Fair Trade & Sustainable Consumption in India.
ExxonMobil and Synthetic Genomics Inc. partnership on the Advance Algae Biofuels Program
The primary aim of this R&D partnership is to test the hypothesis that algae biofuels could become commercially viable and make a meaningful contribution to meeting future energy demand.
Ouro Verde is part of the New Ventures initiative at the World Resources Institute
Brazilian entrepreneur Luis Laranja's company, Ouro Verde, is part of the New Ventures initiative at the World Resources Institute. New Ventures works with small and medium enterprises that have positive environmental impacts, and helps grow environmental entrepreneurship in emerging markets.
SELCO partners with India's state banks to bring sunlight to rural India
SELCO India is a Bangalore‐based social enterprise that makes solar lighting technology accessible to the economically impoverished people in India. SELCO’s mission is based on a simple but powerful idea that the economic conditions of the impoverished can be improved substantially if they are made...
International Development Enterprise partner with Government to provide low cost irrigation technologies in Nepal
International Development Enterprise (IDE) is a development organization that operates in 11 countries worldwide with the aim of creating income opportunities for poor rural households in developing countries. IDE Nepal was established in 1992 with the aim of developing low-cost irrigation...
ADAPT provides good quality green homes in Egypt
As a result of neglecting construction codes in informal areas more than half of Egypt’s housing stock has been built without monitoring or assistance. Un-planned housing and public spaces have left a mark on the country’s architecture, infrastructure and environmental sustainability, creating a...
Čistoća: the First System of Selective Waste Disposal in Montenegro
In order to maintain their town’s popularity as a tourist destination, the municipal officials of Herceg Novi realized that they needed to preserve natural resources by reducing waste and promoting recycling. As a result, the municipality decided to re-organize Čistoća, the public waste management...
SEKEM: A Holistic Egyptian Initiative
After living in Austria for 21 years, Ibrahim Abouleish returned home to Egypt to do something about the difficulties he observed during visits. In 1977, he founded the Sekem initiative to promote social and environmental development through economic and cultural activities.
Sustainability and Equity - A better future for all
The 2011 Human Development Report argues that the urgent global challenges of sustainability and equity must be addressed together – and identifies policies on the national and global level that could spur mutually reinforcing progress towards these interlinked goals.
Pamoja Women Development Programme
PAWDEP seeks to empower Kenyan women financially to run viable, competitive, and rewarding enterprises that can compete locally and internatioally, by providing microfinance solutions to women groups running small scale industry and farming. Recognizing the role played by the women in the...
Development Partners for Eastern Europe (DPEE)
Development Partners for Eastern Europe (DPEE) is dedicated to the restoration and raising of the standard of living in the countries of Eastern Europe and CIS by fostering sustainable community development.
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...
Corporate Social Responsibility in Asia (CSR Asia)
Corporate Social Responsibility in Asia (CSR Asia) is the leading provider of information, training, research and consultancy services on sustainable business practices in Asia. CSR Asia builds capacity and promotes awareness of corporate social responsibility in order to advance sustainable...
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...
respACT - Austrian Business Council for Sustainable Development
respACT - Austrian Business Council for Sustainable Development is the leading platform for Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) and Sustainable Development in Austria. This association emerged from the fusion of the Austrian Business council for Sustainable Development (ABCSD) and respACT...
Novartis Foundation for Sustainable Development
Novartis Foundation for Sustainable Development is a foundation with objectives for sustainable improvement in quality of life and reduction of poverty and social inequalities in developing countries. They aim to achieve this through the research and spread information on issues of sustainable...
Syngenta Foundation for Sustainable Agriculture
Syngenta Foundation for Sustainable Agriculture assists poor rural communities in arid areas through sustainable innovation in agriculture. The Foundation works with partners in developing countries and emerging markets. Our aim is to help small farmers become more professional growers. We do...
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...
Project HOPE (Health Opportunities for People Everywhere) - Tajikistan
Project HOPE's mission is to achieve sustainable advances in health care around the world. The essence of Project HOPE is teaching - the basis is partnership. Identifiable to many by the S.S. HOPE, the peacetime hospital ship, Project HOPE now conducts land-based medical training and health care...