Agriculture, aquaculture and forestry
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Media For Excellence
Media For Excellence is a Ugandan NGO established to help people to improve their lives through training. The organisation is currently working on a fish farming project designed to improve the incomes of participants.
Voluntary Action for Development (VAD)
Voluntary Action for Development (VAD) is a Ugandan NGO that works with rural poor and disadvantaged communities in Wakiso , Mpigi and the North-Eastern districts of Uganda. VAD aims to improve livelihoods through the implementation of development oriented programs/projects includiing water,...
Corporate Social Responsibility: Overview and Case Studies
Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) has become an integral part of business especially for larger corporations. Their programs address issues of poverty, unfair labour practices and the environment alongside government programs and civil society activities. This article will showcase some...
Poultry innovation platform (entrepreneurship)
RIU Tanzania is building up a programme of poultry-related activities in partnership with a range of private sector organisations. The programme is seeking to develop agri-business entrepreneurship capacity through poultry farming for sustainable income generation and enterprise development in the...
What is Global Hand?
Meet David, one of Global Hand's partners, who shares about the horrific experiences that led to his starting an NGO in northern Uganda. Discover how your company can get involved by giving time, funding, skills or resources to Global Hand partners like David, improving the lives of thousands...
Twerwaneho Orphans Community Initiative (TOCI)
The Twerwaneho Orphans Community Initiative (TOCI) is a small locally run community initiative that focuses on helping HIV/AIDS affected orphans, child headed households and children with disabilities and special needs to live healthy, sustainable and successful lives. TOCI provides financial,...
Bala Vikasa
Bala Vikasa Social Service Society is an Indian NGO in Andhra Pradesh. Bala Vikasa aims to help the poor to help themselves through capacity building in target communities through effective motivation, community organization, exposure, and training programmes. The organisation is currently ...
Alwe'am Charitable Society
The Alwe'am Charitable Society is a Palestinian NGO working in the Gaza Strip. The Society supports families living in the Gaza Strip financially and morally, offering free social and health services, and promoting access to education and training. Alwe-am also works in agriculture and sport...
Forum of Women for Accelerated Rural Development (FOWARD)
The Forum of Women for Accelerated Rural Development (FOWARD) is a Ugandan NGO that aims to link grassroots communities to services and opportunities and to build their capacity for collective action to address the challenges they face. FOWARD targets mainly women and children. Its programme...
Karusandara Development Association
The Karusandara Development Association is a community based organization in a rural area of Uganda adjacent to the Queen Elizabeth National Park. The members of the Association are subsistence farmers who are attempting to diversify production by cultivating coffee for commercial purposes.
Adventist Development and Relief Agency International (ADRA) - Canada
The Adventist Development and Relief Agency (ADRA) International is an independent humanitarian agency established in 1984 for the specific purposes of individual and community development and disaster relief. ADRA helps people in need, especially those most vulnerable, such as women, children, and...
Mercy Ships Switzerland
Mercy Ships operates a fleet of ships crewed by doctors, teachers, water engineers and agriculturalists providing free services to people in some of the world’s poorest cities. The program includes three hospital ships, three land-based projects, and support offices around the world. The...
Club des Amis des Malades (C.A.M)
Club des Amis des Malades (C.A.M) is an NGO in Togo involved in the provision of health services. The organisation aims to help people to stay healthy and to combat tropical diseases such as malaria, and to promote action against sexually transmitted diseases and AIDS. The organisation also aims...
Initiatives Agri-Business Firme (ILABF)
Initiatives Agri-Business Firme (ILABF) is an NGO in the Democratic Republic of Congo. The organisation promotes youth employment in agriculture. ILABF specializes in plant and animal production and processing, seed multiplication, and the sale of agricultural produce.
Glisten
Glisten is an organisation in Malawi that aims to help poor rural women to immprove their knowledge of farming, to provide seeds and fertilisers and to help them to care for the environment. The organisation also aims to provide clothes and other goods for the families of women they help.
Masulita Farm Food Community Organisation
Masulita Farm Food Community Organisation is a Ugandan NGO whose main focus is on growing food and rearing animals as a way of improving the livelihoods of local farmers. The organisation is also involved in fish farming.
Samadjite Fantamady Association
The Samadjite Fantamady Association is an NGO in Senegal that works on environmental issues, education and health. The Association also encourages women to engage in small business activity, e.g., reselling fish bought from fishermen, and is engaged in the fight against desertification by planting...
Rural Development Media Communication (RUDMEC)
Rural Development Media and Communication (RUDMEC) is an NGO in Uganda. RUDMEC's core focus is on the initiation of behaviour change by using media as a change agent to enhance improved livelihoods. RUDMEC is currently involved in promoting the adoption and use of environmental friendly...
Kikumu Agriculture Research Centre
The Kikumu Agriculture Research Centre (KARK) is a women's organization in Kasese, Uganda. KARC promotes sustainable development through community education, and supports advocacy strategies relevant to marginalized rural women and slum communities. The organisation runs programmes including...
Watchful Association for Relief and Development (WARD)
The Watchful Association for Relief and Development (WARD) is an NGO operating in Somalia. The organisation was established in Mogadishu by a group of concerned Somali intellectuals who wished to respond to the increased suffering, starvation and death in local communities affected by civil...