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Social Awareness And Development Organisation for Women (Saadow)

Saadow foundation is made of female only members. It was formed in 1990 by-for-of- women. Focus of work involved : working empowerment of women, child development, youth development, aged development, sustainable agriculture and watershed promotion activities in Kottampatty Block Madurai...

Programme Intégré pour le Développement du Peuple Pygmée au Kivu « PIDP-SHIRIKA LA BAMBUTI » / Integrated Programme for the Pygmy People Development in Kivu

PIDP KIVU is an organisation defending the rights of the pygmies peoples in Republic Democratic of the Congo. It has been created by and for the pygmies to deal with their socioeconomic, marginalised and human rights issues they face in Kivu. The PIDP Kivu is the first and oldest organization of...

GTG INTERNATIONAL ORGANSIATION LTD

GTG INTERNATIONAL ORGANISATION is an NGO registered in Uganda (2016), whose role and strategy for sustainable development has gained roots for more than 12 years of existence in Uganda and beyond, with steady partnerships of like minded local and global organisations. GTG International...

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...

Uganda Professional Drivers' Network

UPDN is an umbrella organisation for drivers’ associations / organisations and related industry stakeholders. UPDN was established in 2015 and registered as a legal entity with the National NGO Board under the Ministry of Internal Affairs in 2016. This was at a time when many drivers’ associations...

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Sustainable Economic Growth for Muslim Minorities in the Mewat Region, India

We are trying to help the following oppressed, exploited and downtrodden people living in Mewat one of the most economically backward regions of Haryana, INDIA: The Mewat region is a region of Haryana state in India and located at southern edge of Haryana, situated in the National Capital Region...

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ONGOING OFFER: Provision of 30 Litre Rotary Barrels for easier collection of potable water by women and children.

To work with partners including NGOs, agencies, voluntary groups, charities etc,. to provide 30 litre Rotary Water Barrels to replace the dirty unhealthy containers, buckets, jerry cans etc currently used by women and children to collect non potable water. The majority collect over long...

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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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Greenpeace and Marks & Spencer: Sustainable seafood procurement

Marks & Spencer (M&S) has adopted a Policy on Sustainable Sourcing of Fisheries Products, which applies to all seafood sold, including fish used as an ingredient. M&S came top of Greenpeace UK's Recipe for Disaster, a study of UK supermarkets, ranking them by their seafood policies.

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Coffee sustainability : Kraft Foods and Rainforest Alliance

Kraft Foods has been working in the area of coffee sustainability for over a decade and announced a partnership with the Rainforest Alliance in 2003. Since then, this relationship has benefited more than 400,000 farmers and their families and communities on more than 85,000 hectares of farmland in...

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Diageo publishes sustainable packaging guidelines

Diageo has published its first "Sustainable Packaging Guidelines". The Guidelines represent the company's global policy on ensuring that packaging is increasingly sustainable and reflect Diageo’s commitment to a holistic approach to reducing the company's overall impact on the environment across...

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Unilever and WWF establish certification for sustainable fisheries

The MSC Standard by the Marine Stewardship Council is the only internationally recognised set of environmental principles for assessing fisheries to establish whether they are well managed and sustainable. The MSC is an independent, global, non-profit organisation which was set up to find a...

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Business group supports sustainability via the market economy

Business group supports sustainability via the market economy, a report issued by the World Business Council for Sustainable Development, shows how open, transparent markets can drive sustainability. The report also makes the business case for implementing sustainable practices and outlines seven...

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Draft Two SFTMS (Sustainable Fair Trade Management System) Standard

SFTMS is the new worldwide standard for the independent certification of organisations which demonstrate Fair Trade business practices. The requirements of this standard are applicable to any organisation applying Fair Trade principles in all its business processes regardless of the nature of...

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Inclusive business for sustainable livelihoods - Facts Reports

This article highlights the concept of inclusive business in the current global context, provides a few examples of its application in practice, highlights the foundations for its success, and briefly presents an interactive tool, the “Inclusive Business Challenge”.

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Developing hybrid diesel-electric delivery trucks

This video shows how the American Environmental Defense Fund and FedEx Express collaborated in a project to develop hybrid diesel-electric technology in an attempt to decrease pollution and increase fuel efficiency.

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Building NGO capacity for pipeline monitoring and audit in Azerbaijan

In Azerbaijan, BP and the Open Society Institute-Assistance Foundation are working together to support national NGOs' capacity development through facilitated monitoring and audit of the Baku-Ceyhan-Tbilisi and the South Caucasus Pipeline projects.

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Earthwatch and Anglo American formed a 'Sustainable Development Policy Support Partnership'

The partnership with Earthwatch and Anglo American enjoyed a pilot employee engagement programme in 2004, linking with their own internal training programme.

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PwC helped Fundacion Paraguaya to develop a strategy and business plan for their work in microfinance and education

PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) partnered with Fundacion Paraguaya to develop a strategy and business plan for the organisation.

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Unilever commits to purchase all of its tea from sustainable and ethical sources

Since 1999, the Unilever Corporation, a Europe-based international conglomerate, has been executing a pilot program on its tea estates in Kericho, Kenya. The program is part of the Sustainable Agriculture Initiative (SAI) Platform, a food industry initiative to actively support the development of...