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International Fund for Agriculture and Develpment (IFAD) - China
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International Fund for Agriculture and Develpment (IFAD; a specialized agency of the United Nations) - China funds projects including land improvement, irrigation and water conservation, as well as food, cash-crop, livestock and fish production. Most activities are funded through IFAD-supported...
Star Social and Human Welfare Organisation
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Star Social and Human Welfare Organisation is a social service organisation based in Kumbakonam, registered in 2002. They operate various developmental activities to help the needy people in Kumbakonam. This organisation particularly focuses on educating needy children and those in rural areas.
Helps International (HINT) Cameroon
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Helps International (HINT) Cameroon works to improve on the social and economic well-being and health of the poor and underprivileged in the society through education, skills development and job creation. HINT pursues its mission through community development centres called Halfway Home Training...
ROPE (Relief for Oppressed People Everywhere)
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ROPE is a UK-based NGO that supports those in the global community who suffer from oppression and poverty. ROPE aims to inspire passion against the injustices of poverty and oppression and convert this passion into concern and action. ROPE works with partner organisations in more than 70 countries...
CARE USA - Mozambique
CARE USA is an affiliate of the CARE organisation - one of the world's largest private humanitarian organisations. Founded in 1945, CARE is committed to helping families in poor communities CARE works with poor communities in more than 70 countries through various programmes intended to provide...
ChildFund Australia
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ChildFund Australia is a child-focused NGO that works directly with community leaders and families in developing countries to create lasting and meaningful change. ChildFund Australia strive to make the world a safer, healthier and happier place for children by designing programs that support...
Globally Minded Works
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Globally Minded Works is a non-profit organisation registered in the USA. The organisation supports education and charitable projects in Guatemala. The organisation provides scholarships and school supplies for children of Mayan families, and distributes water filters.
One Just World
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One Just World is a partnership that organises a national series of free, after-work speakers’ forums aimed at involving the community in conversation and debate on key international development issues facing Australia, the Asia-Pacific and beyond. It is a partnership between World Vision...
Rural Women Development Center (RUWDEC)
Rural Women Development Center (RUWDEC) aims at improving the quality of life of the local communities with focus upon women, youths, handicaps, orphans and vulnerable children by contributing to sustainable development through education, advocacy, health and community development, micro-lending,...
ChildFund Australia
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ChildFund Australia (CFA)(formerly Christian Child Fund of Australia) is an organisation focused on reducing poverty and improving the well-being of children through partnership with developing communities worldwide. Current projects focus on microenterprise development and psychosocial support...
Bakatawamu Information And Development Empowerment (BIDE)
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Bakatawamu Information And Development Empowerment (BIDE) works in common cause with the poor and marginalized groups in Uganda, in particular, orphans and rural women, to make basic rights and social justice a reality in their lives by improving their quality of life and helping to eradicate the...
Swayam Shikshan Prayog (SSP) - India
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The Swayam Shikshan Prayog (India) is an organisation directed primarily at women and their integration in the development process. Its objective is to build up the capacity of rural women groups in the access and management of available resources in order to include them in the decision-making...
Conrad N. Hilton Foundation
The Conrad N. Hilton Foundation is a family foundation established in 1944 by the man who started Hilton Hotels. The Foundation provide funds to nonprofit organizations working to improve the lives of disadvantaged and vulnerable people throughout the world. Since its inception, the Foundation has...
Water.org
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Water.org is a U.S.-based nonprofit organization committed to providing safe drinking water and sanitation to people in developing countries. Water.org challenges the traditional approach to assisting people in developing countries. Rather than simply raising money and implementing projects...
Water For People
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Water For People is an American NGO that helps people in developing countries improve their quality of life by supporting the development of locally sustainable drinking water resources, sanitation facilities, and hygiene education programmes. The organisation was established by the American Water...
World Business and Development Awards
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Established by the International Chamber of Commerce in 2000, the biennial World Business and Development Awards (WBDA) are the first worldwide business awards to recognize the crucial role of the private sector, large and small, in implementing the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs).
Foundation for Rural Education, Wildlife and Environment-The Gambia
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The Foundation for Rural Education, Wildlife and Environment-The Gambia is a non-profit organisation in The Gambia, West Africa. The organisation provides support for indigent but academically intelligent students and rural schools. It also engages in conservation of wildlife as well as embarking...
Grundfos LIFELINK
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Grundfos LIFELINK is a Danish company committed to improving the living conditions for disadvantaged people in the BOP market (Bottom Of the Pyramid) by providing them with access to safe drinking water and other infrastructural platforms. Grundfos LIFELINK’s water systems are designed to provide...
Water and sustainable development: A business perspective
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"Scarce, cheap, and wasted. In too many places water is a triple paradox," says this updated WBCSD paper on water, which was originally prepared for the UN Commission on Sustainable Development (CSD) in April 2004. Its message is straightforward: with no water there can be no business.
Sanitation case studies: It is time for business to act
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In 2008, the UN International Year of Sanitation, the WBCSD highlighted this important issue, and saw this advocacy effort as an excellent opportunity for companies to get involved and make a positive difference.