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World Bank - Zambia
The World Bank Group's mission is to fight poverty and improve the living standards of people in the developing world. It is a development Bank which provides loans, policy advice, technical assistance and knowledge sharing services to low and middle income countries to reduce poverty. The Bank...
World Bank- Gambia
The World Bank is one of the world's largest sources of development assistance. It is a development Bank which provides loans, policy advice, technical assistance and knowledge sharing services to low and middle income countries to reduce poverty. The Bank promotes growth to create jobs and to...
OptINnow
At OptINnow, supporters can look through client profiles and select an entrepreneur they wish to fund. The loans goes directly to the impoverished individuals these supporters designate, helping them to build retail, manufacturing, farming, or other businesses that support their families. When...
The Edge Connection
This organisation takes volunteers to work in microenterprise. Volunteers share their business expertise with students and clients. The mission of the organization is to promote economic self-sufficiency and self-determination through comprehensive entrepreneurial training targeting low-to...
Fondation Didé
Fondation Didé has programmes to improve the conditions of detention by supporting local initiatives and respecting local customs. Programmes supported by Didé include the creation of separate units of detention for women and minors, the provision of education in the form of literacy and...
M. S. Swaminathan Research Foundation (MSSRF)
M. S. Swaminathan Research Foundation (MSSRF) is as a non-profit Trust. The main goal of MSSRF is to impart a pro-nature, pro-poor and pro-women orientation to a job-led economic growth strategy in rural areas through harnessing science and technology for environmentally sustainable and socially...
Terror Victims Association
Terror Victims Association is the grass-roots movement spearheading the campaign against terrorism in Israel. The Terror Victims Association was founded in 1986 in response to the release of a thousand terrorists by the Israeli government of the time. Terror Victims Association became a support...
International Labour Organization (ILO) Office for China and Mongolia (ILO - Beijing)
International Labour Organization (ILO) Office for China and Mongolia (ILO - Beijing) works in close collaboration with the government, the workers' and employers' organizations to promote decent work for all. ILO - Beijing assists the Chinese government with labour market policies, social security...
Opportunity International (OI)
Opportunity International (OI) is an international non-profit organisation, using micro-enterprise development and providing small business loans. Opportunity is committed to solving the root cause of poverty instead of merely treating its symptoms; through providing micro-credit and basic training...
Enterprise Development International
Enterprise enables the unemployed and underemployed poor in developing countries and the United States to become productive, self-supporting citizens. Enterprise works with locally registered Christian organisations as partners, transferring required skills and capital.
Small Enterprise Education and Promotion Network (SEEP)
Small Enterprise Education and Promotion Network (SEEP) is a network of North American organisations operating micro and small enterprise projects in the developing world. SEEP runs three programs to serve members, develop networks and increase learning: Development Services (IDS), Network...
Wholistic Transformation Resource Center (WTRC)
WTRC helps development organisations involved in micro enterprise programmes, and seeks, on a global and regional scale, to facilitate the distribution and sharing of information and services needed by the micro enterprise sector. WTRC wants to see strong local churches that are self-sustaining,...
TechnoServe
TechnoServe helps entrepreneurial men and women in the developing world capitalize on business opportunities that create jobs and income for poor people. Our advisors impart critical skills and knowledge that promote a thriving private sector. The resulting economic growth helps people improve...
All India Association for Micro Enterprise Development (AIAMED)
All India Association for Micro Enterprise Development (AIAMED) aims to develop accountable and sustainable retail development finance organisations as a strategy for empowering the poor without handouts or subsidies. Thus, enabling them to become productive citizens and contribute with dignity in...
European Social Fund in England
The European Social Fund (ESF) was set up to improve employment opportunities in the European Union and so help raise standards of living. It aims to help people fulfill their potential by giving them better skills and better job prospects. In England its priorities are: to extend employment...
Farmers Own Trading
Farmers Own was established in 1997 and works with groups of poverty stricken subsistence farmers in Kenya to help them eradicate their poverty by Fair Trade business developments. In compliance with a Fair Trade supply contract, Farmers Own collects the produce and sells on in the market,...
Berigold Group of Fashion
Berigold Group of Fashion is a new small scale fashion enterprise in South Africa. The organisation aims to teach fashion skills to unskilled and unemployed young school leavers from rural areas where poverty and crime is on the increase. Skills to be taught include shoe making, garment...
La Terre Notre Planete (TNP)
La Terre Notre Planète(TNP), association law 1901 in France created on March 9, 2009 (W77200048) has for objective: Support socially for sustainable development through a number of pillars based on the environment, the solidarity economy, accountability, the fight against precariousness; Create...
Mweva Centre for Information Technology Development Centre (MCITEDI)
The Mweva Centre for Information Technology Development Centre (MCITEDI) is a Ugandan NGO that provides educational resources and training in Mobile Phone Software Development and helping trainees to find jobs.
Studio Samuel Foundation
Studio Samuel is an American NGO that creates jobs for women in Ethiopia through selling fair trade product lines and applying the proceeds to educational platforms for Ethiopian women. Studio Samuel trains vulnerable young women in transferable skills and thus helps to break the cycle of poverty...