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Microfinance agencies enable entrepreneurs in Bangladesh to provide more sanitation technology options
Pakistan has taken an important step towards improved sanitation through a major sector assessment and setting up of a core group that seeks to move communities beyond open defecation free (ODF) status. WSP, an international engineering consulting agency, is a member of this group.
Private sector participation for sustainable water service management
Following the findings of the Rüschlikon-Conference a process was initiated to find ways in which the private sector participation (PSP) projects could be evaluated in order to develop further and to improve the rules of the game for PSP. Based on field experience it should be possible to elaborate...
Tata launches low-cost water filter
India's giant Tata Group on Monday unveiled a new low-cost water purifier, hoping to do for health what it did for motoring and provide affordable, safe drinking water for millions and cut disease.
UNICEF Corporate Partnerships - Examples
UNICEF Corporate Partnerships - Examples, a series of web pages, details UNICEF's corporate partnerships with a range of companies.
Global Map of Water Accessibility
This map draws on the Millennium Development Goal (MDG) drinking water and sanitation target data. The map features 162 countries and each is coloured a different shade to indicate country status in relation to the other nations featured.
Water and sanitation numbers
"In 2002, in sub-Saharan Africa, approximately 42 percent of the population did not have easy access to a safe water supply, and about 64 percent did not have access to basic sanitary facilities."
Association pour l'Alphabétisation et la Promotion des Infrastructures et de la Santé au Togo- Apis Togo
The Association for the Elimination of Illiteracy and Promotion of the Infrastuctures and Health in Togo (Apis Togo) is a French NGO working for the development of a village in Togo, and for better understanding between young people in France and Togo. Apis Togo works with an Italian partner and...
Water Environment Federation (WEF)
Water Environment Federation (WEF) is a not-for-profit technical and educational organisation with members from varied disciplines who work toward the WEF vision of preservation and enhancement of the global water environment. The WEF network includes water quality professionals from 30 countries.
Salvation Army - Canada
The Salvation Army is a Christian church and charity that shows practical concern and care for the needs of people regardless of race, creed, status, colour, sex or age. Religious organisation dedicated to Christian ideals and encouraging social and economic development in the countries which it...
Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) - Japan
Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) is an international humanitarian aid organisation that provides emergency medical assistance to populations in danger in more than 80 countries. In countries where health structures are insufficient or even non-existent, MSF collaborates with authorities such as the...
Food for the Hungry International (FHI) Bolivia
Food for the Hungry is an international organisation committed to working with poor people to overcome hunger and poverty through integrated self-development programmes in more than 25 countries in Asia, Africa and Latin America. FHI started work in Bolivia in 1978 and currently runs programmes in...
World Gospel Faith Church - Bethesda Mission
World Gospel Faith Church - Bethesda Mission addresses the physical, emotional and spiritual needs of slum, tribal and rural populations primarily through medical care and health education services.
Childug Charitable Foundation(CCF)
Childug Charitable Foundation (CCF) provides services to the Tawang District of Arunachal Pradesh region of India. Its current projects include the establishment of a free school to educate and house destitute children, a public health clinic, a home for the elderly and a public library. CCF...
United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) - Canada
UNICEF is an international aid agency that works with communities and governments in 157 countries for the survival, development and protection of children worldwide, upholding the Convention on the Rights of the Child. The priorities of the programme are children's health, education, equality and...
Adventist Development and Relief Agency International (ADRA) - Cambodia
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...
Asian Forum of Parliamentarians on Population and Development (AFPPD)
Their main goal is to increase awareness and promote the understanding of the interrelationship between population and development issues and to initiate, promote and support exchanges and exchange programmes in order to encourage new and effective ideas and approaches to population and development...
Gaden Relief Projects
Gaden Relief Projects is a Canadian registered charity that focuses on alleviating poverty among Tibetans throughout Asia, helping to provide for their material needs. It distributes medicine and funds to the Tibetan refugee community-in-exile and to monasteries in Tibet and also helps Buddhists in...
World Hope - Sierra Leone
World Hope - Sierra Leone, affilated with World Hope International, alleviates suffering and injustice through child care, educational, enterprise, micro-finance, community health, and wells&sanitation projects.
Oxfam - Sierra Leone
Oxfam - Sierra Leone, a member of Oxfam International, works with others to find lasting solutions to poverty and suffering. Oxfam utilises a range of approaches to achieve change and improve peoples' lives, including emergency response, longer term development programmes, and campaigning to...