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REACH

REACH is a local non-government and non-profit organisation which specializes in providing vocational training, career advice and job placement services for Vietnam’s most disadvantaged youth. REACH targets the most vulnerable youth who are in need of accessible, affordable skills training,...

Caring Haven Uganda

Caring Haven Uganda provides programs designed to benefit the grass root common person ranging from education, youth empowerment, talent development and health for the rural communities. The communities are characterized with poverty, illiteracy, and ignorance who have great difficulty meet the...

Tree Uganda Academy (TUA)

Tree Uganda Academy (TUA) is an eco-inclusive, social action, research and advocacy youth led conservation and agriculture organization. It was first established in September 2015 to aid and philanthropy community led conservation and poverty alleviation through sustainable agriculture. The...

Stretch Hands Uganda

Since 2017 Stretch Hands Uganda (SHU) has been a non-profit and community Based Organization, nonpartisan, which is run by Adults and youths of different disciplines in close cooperation with local communities in Rubanda District of Uganda. This project is at providing sustainable support...

Terre Des Anges

Terre Des Anges operates in the following six (06) areas : 1. Community Health; (rehabilitation and equipment of health centers, awareness and prevention against HIV/AIDS and chronic diseases 2.Education; (training, literacy, creation of AGR, monitoring and evaluation of projects, awareness...

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...

Skill Link Uganda

Skills Link Uganda is a registered community based organisation in Uganda.Reg.CBO / 06 / 503. by the Directorate of Community Based Services Makindye Ssabagabo Municipal Council. The organisation traces its origin in 2011, when a group of concerned community members in Makindye – Wakiso district...

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...

Basazemaggya Development Initiative

Basazemaggya Development Initiative is a Community Based Organisation started by the residents of Bulenga Kikaaya Ssumbwe in Wakiso District of Uganda. It is registered with Wakiso District Community Based Services Office registration number WCBO/21/7304. OBJECTIVES 1.To undertake...

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Standards

Global Hand Standards introductory page You can also view this page in German. Diese Seite ist auch auf Deutsch verfügbar.

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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...

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The engine of development: The private sector and prosperity for poor people

"The engine of development: The private sector and prosperity for poor people" is a paper publicated by Department for International Development (DFID) emphasizing the role of the private sector in its international development strategy.

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Private sector delivery of public benefit goods and services

This documents presents a framework for doing business in low-income environments, utilising the power of marketing, and grounded in a number of actual case studies.

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Practical Plan to Achieve the Millennium Development Goals

Practical Plan to Achieve the Millennium Development Goals, a UN Millennium Project Report, recommends concrete actions toward achieving the Millennium Development Goals. The report presents an overview of the findings and recommendations of the UN Millennium Project. The document was co-authored...

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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...

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Stimulating Youth Entrepreneurship - Barriers and incentives to enterprise start-ups by young people

The world’s population is growing at a time when traditional, stable labour markets are shrinking. More than 1 billion people today are between 15 and 24 years of age and nearly 40 per cent of the world’s population is below the age of 20. The ILO estimates that 47 per cent of all unemployed...

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Wrong aid destroys jobs - February, 2003

We’re supposed to help, not hurt those we serve. But inappropriate humanitarian product can see factories closed and unemployment increased.

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A Fresh Start: Asian villages carve out a new life

In 2004, the Wildlife Conservation Society, which credits itself with having saved the American bison a century ago, set up the Tmatboey Ibis Ecotourism Project to lure bird-watchers. During the most recent peak season, November 2008 to May 2009, services provided to bird-watching visitors brought...

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Through an initiative of ASGN, micro-credit and tourism save giraffes in Niger

ASGN (the Association to Safeguard the Giraffes of Niger) used grants from the Wildlife Protection Foundation in the UK and from the Zoo de Doue in France to set up a successful micro-credit scheme.

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VisionSpring creates a new method of distributing reading glasses in India and other developing countries

This video introduces VisionSpring, a project jointly implemented by the SCOJO Foundation, Goldman Sachs, and various other groups in the private sector.