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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...

Kiva

Kiva connects donors to individual entrepreneurs or groups in the developing world, through the provision of micro-loans. Micro-credit empowers clients to lift themselves out of poverty through developing responsible business patterns and training. Kiva partners with existing micro-finance...

World Bank - Sierra Leone

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...

Global Voices Online

Global Voices Online is a non-profit global citizens’ media project founded at Harvard Law School’s Berkman Centre for Internet and Society, a research think-tank focused on the Internet’s impact on society. Global Voices seeks to aggregate and amplify the global conversation online - highlighting...

Danish Refugee Council (DRC) -Azerbaijan

The Danish Refugee Council (DRC) is a private, humanitarian umbrella organisation (with 32 members) focusing on issues related to the cause of the refugees, migrants and internally displaced people (IDPs). DRC started operating in Azerbaijan in 1996 by implementing interlinked projects aimed at...

Fundación Suiza de Cooperación para el Desarrollo Técnico - Swisscontact Ecuador

Fundacion Suiza de Cooperación para el Desarrollo Técnico is a foundation, independent of political or denominational ties, created by Swiss private businesspersons and university academicians. In cooperation with local public and private partners, it builds sustainable development (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...

International Relief Friendship Foundation

The International Relief Friendship Foundation (IRFF)responds to the human needs of the global community and covers social concerns. Major projects, though, have emphasized the areas of healthcare and nutrition, primary education (including general literacy, education, vocational and agricultural...

IFC

IFC (International Finance Corporation), a member of the World Bank Group, is the largest global development institution focused on the private sector in developing countries. IFC creates opportunities for people to escape poverty and improve their lives by providing financing to help businesses...

Habitat for Humanity Brazil

Habitat for Humanity is a non-denominational charity dedicated to eliminating poverty housing worldwide. The organisation works with local homeowner families to build and renovate houses through volunteer labour and donations of money and materials. In Brazil, Habitat for Humanity also has...

Adventist Development and Relief Agency (ADRA) International - Ecuador

The Adventist Development and Relief Agency (ADRA) International is an independent humanitarian agency committed to individual and community development, and disaster relief. ADRA helps people in need, particularly women, children, and the elderly. ADRA serves people regardless of ethnic,...

Dakshinayan

Dakshinayan was set up to oversee a rural development project in India and is a volunteer based organisation providing much needed health care and education to tribal and rural communities in India. Dakshinayan also aims to build international solidarity and place volunteers.

United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) - Belarus

UNDP is one of United Nation organisations that has targets for reducing poverty, hunger, disease, illiteracy, environmental degradation and discrimination against women by 2015. Throughout its work, UNDP builds on the resources of Belarusian society, notably on national and local government...

US Agency for International Development (USAID)

USAID is an independent agency that supports long-term economic and social development through policy dialogue, conflict prevention, technology transfer in sectors such as health, agriculture, education and housing, and promotion of trade and investment. U.S. assistance is channelled through...

Mango

Mango is a UK based charity that provides financial management services (recruitment, training, financial software, networking, and consultancy) to relief and development operations. Mango aims to encourage and strengthen the financial management of NGO's.

World Bank- Gambia

United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) - Mozambique

UNDP is one of United Nation organisations that has targets for reducing poverty, hunger, disease, illiteracy, environmental degradation and discrimination against women by 2015. On the ground in 166 countries, UNDP uses its global network to help the UN system and its partners to raise awareness,...

Catholic Relief Services (CRS) - Afghanistan

Catholic Relief Services (CRS) was founded in 1943 by the Catholic Bishops of the United States and is the official international humanitarian agency of the U.S. Catholic community. CRS provides humanitarian relief and development assistance in over 100 countries worldwide. The CRS programme in...

Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) - Jordan

FAO was founded in 1945 with a mandate to raise levels of nutrition and standards of living, to improve agricultural productivity, and to better the condition of rural populations. Today, FAO is one of the largest specialised agencies in the United Nations system and the lead agency for...

Uplift India Association

Uplift India Association is a network of organisations working at grass root level in the urban slums of Pune and Mumbai in the area of microfinance. There are currently 100,000 members and each organisation is facilitated by a strong technical support scheme. The Uplift model allows communites to...