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World Bank - Liberia

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...

Appropriate Technology Asia (ATA)

Appropriate Technology Asia (ATA) provides programmes to facilitate capacity building of local communities, the provision of improved water and sanitation facilities, the introduction of new agricultural techniques, provision of training in health, education, the environment, micro-credit and...

Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) - Benin

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...

Africa ICT Right

Africa ICT Right (AIR) is an ICT-oriented NGO based in Accra, Ghana. The organisation aims to assist rural and urban communities to acquire technology that will help them to improve their lives and bridge the digital divide. AIR supplies computers to schools and to communities, and has set up a...

Kopernik

Kopernik is an on-line marketplace to bridge the gap between innovators, developing communities and financial supporters in order to distribute life-changing technology effectively to the developing world. The website showcases the latest technologies that the local groups (NGOs) can choose what...

Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) - Seychelles

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...

Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) - Guinea Bissau

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...

Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) - Lesotho

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...

SLK Software

Slk Software (SLK), part of the SLK group, is an Indian company providing telecommunications and media services. SLK Software is a software solutions and services company, specializing in a wide range of high value solutions and end-to-end services enabling business transformation through...

Hidaya Foundation

A non-profit educational and charitable organisation which sends new and used in-kind donation to needy Tsunami affectees. Our mission is to implement educational, environmental, social welfare, and health care programs in economically depressed areas of South Asia, West Africa and North America,...

Le Centre National d'Etudes et d'Analyses pour la Population et le Développement (CENEAP)

Since 1980, Le Centre National d'Etudes et d'Analyses pour la Population et le Développement (CENEAP) is a national scientific and technical Algerian organisation that conducts general and specialised studies to promote sustainable development, provides information systems engineering and data...

Community Development Foundation (CDF)

Community Development Foundation (CDF) initiates and supports a number of community development projects and programmes in the Wakiso District of Uganda. These focus around primary health care, basic education and training, agriculture and farming, empowerment of marginalised groups and...

Asociacion de Profesionales Y Technicos de Valparaiso V Region Chile

Asociacion de Profesionales y Technicos de Valparaiso V Region is an association which seeks to attract investors to Chile and offers opportunities for shared partnership. The organisation can provide consultancy to foreign investors, and has contacts with international industrialists willing to...

Life Mission for Orphans and Widows' Concern - Uganda (LIMOWIC-U)

Life Mission for Orphans and Widows' Concern - Uganda (LIMOWIC-U) is a voluntary community-based organisation in Buyanga Sub–County of Bugweri County in the Iganga District. The organisation aims to provide education and an opportunity for orphans to grow up in a caring family environment, empower...

Warner/Elektra/Atlantic Corporation (WEA Corp)

Warner/Elektra/Atlantic Corporation (WEA Corp), a subsidiary of the Warner Music Group, primarily markets and sells music products to retailers and wholesale distributors.

Talented Youths International (TYI)

Talented Youths International (TYI) is a not-for-profit organisation created to help plan initiatives on sustainable development amongst the youth of Nigeria, and internationally. With the aim of creating an information society at the grassroots of society, TYI raises youth awareness through...

Mary Anne Charity Trust (MACT)

The Mary Anne Charity Trust (MACT) is an Indian NGO which works in the general area of sustainable rural development as a means to help poor and needy people in India. Projects target the elderly, the illiterate and the unemployed aiming to empower them for a secure future. MACT also runs a...

Auroville Village Action Group

The Auroville Village Action Group was set up to better organise the various activities in Auroville, India which had developed out of the Village Action Group which began in 1983. All these activities were based in the perception that in its search to realise an actual Human Unity, Auroville had...

Pact Tanzania

Since 2002, Pact Tanzania has been operating as one of the 24 field offices of Pact in Africa, an international non-governmental organisation. It strives to build a strong, democratic society that protects the rights of and provides opportunities to vulnerable children, women, and marginalized...

Tumaini Awareness Group.

The Tumaini Awareness Group aims to empower young people in marginalised rural areas of East Africa by informing them of relevant current issues, such as health and drug abuse. This enables the youths to make better informed decisions for themselves and their community. The Group also provides...