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Inter-American Development Bank; Sustainable Development Department
The Micro, Small and Medium Enterprise Division (MSM) of the Inter-American Development Bank is responsible for coordinating and implementing the Bank's strategy in relation to micro, small and medium enterprises. The objective of the Bank's strategy is to promote the conditions necessary for the...
Islamic Relief Worldwide
The NGO Islamic Relief (IR) is an international relief and development charity which aims to alleviate the suffering of the world’s poorest people. Islamic Relief works in four main areas: emergency relief, development, support for orphans, and Waqf (charitable endowment). IR has emergency supplies...
Focus Humanitarian Assistance (FOCUS)
Focus Humanitarian Assistance (FOCUS) is an international group of charities, and is affiliated to the Aga Khan Network. It was set up in order to respond to natural and man-made disasters. It distributes food, medicines and essential material, and assists with the resettlement of displaced persons.
Family Care Foundation
Family Care Foundation (FCF) operates programmes in developing nations, makes grants, and provides training for grassroots organisations in the Third World, participating in a wide variety of community-based initiatives.
Operation Mobilisation Southern Africa
Operation Mobilisation Southern Africa is a Christian organisation involved in community development and relief work. In South Africa, for example, the organisation partners with two AIDS orphanages, helping them find resources and providing volunteers to work with orphans.
Rotary International
Rotary is an organisation of business and professional leaders united worldwide who provide humanitarian service, encourage high ethical standards in all vocations, and help build goodwill and peace in the world. In more than 160 countries worldwide, approximately 1.2 million Rotarians belong to...
Cedar Fund
Cedar Fund assists the poor and disadvantaged in partnership with faith-based groups, through education, development, advocacy and relief programmes. Cedar Fund's current operational focus is on countries in Asia and Africa.
International Federation of Red Cross and Red Cresent (IFRC)
The International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies is the world's largest humanitarian organisation, providing assistance without discrimination as to nationality, race, religious beliefs, class or political opinions. The Federation's mission is to improve the lives of vulnerable...
United Nations Development Programme (UNDP)
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 176 countries, UNDP uses its global network to help the UN system and its partners to raise...
Euro Ops International / ICARE Group
Euro Ops International/ICARE Group is a division of Euro Ops specialising in humanitarian assignments. The ICARE Group sends logistics teams (station managers, flight dispatchers, logisticians) to conflict zones and supplies bivouacs to UN agencies and NGOs (e.g. UN, ICRC and MSF) and their...
African Humanitarian Action (AHA)
African Humanitarian Action (AHA) provides programmes in capacity development, health care, public advocacy, relief and recovery, gender-based violence prevention and response, and HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis, and malaria prevention and care. AHA also provides emergency, health and social services to...
Yakkum Emergency Unit
Yakkum Emergency Unit (YEU) is a younger sister of Yogyakarta based CD Bethesda (Community Development of Bethesda Hospital). YEU was established in 2001 based on pressing concerns within YAKKUM (Yayasan Kristen untuk Kesehatan Umum - Christian Foundation for Public Health) regarding the...
Association Evangélique d'Appui au Développement (AEAD)
Association Evangélique d'Appui au Développement (AEAD) was established in 1992 in Burkina Faso to assist the poor and needy through socio-economic activities and evangelisation. The organisation runs a range of programmes focussing on health, the environment and formal and informal education in...
Joseph Project
The Joseph Project, a project of the Messianic Jewish Alliance of America, has 30 humanitarian aid centres throughout Israel and a 16,000 sq. foot (1,500 sq. metre) warehouse in the centre of the country. The Project imports containers from America and distributes aid to all sectors of the country,...
Relief Education Development (RED) International
Relief Education Development (RED) International is an NGO which is specifically engaged in relief, education and development projects through a network of local partners around the world. The organisation works to change lives through the relief of poverty, sickness and suffering and through...
Agility
From our roots in emerging markets, Agility brings efficiency to supply chains in some of the world's most challenging environments, offering unmatched personal service, a global footprint and customized capabilities in developed countries and emerging economies. Agility is one of the world’s...
Bangkok Free Ambulance (BFA)
The Bangkok Free Ambulance (BFA) is a service in Thailand that assists with Thai and foreign accidents and/or deaths. Its primary service is the provision of medical care. The BFA also works with other foundations, police, government, communities, and embassies in EMS care and education. BFA is...
World Agency for Planetary Monitoring and Earthquake Risk Reduction
The World Agency of Planetary Monitoring and Earthquake Risk Reduction (WAPMERR) is a non-profit organisation based in Geneva, Switzerland, that focuses on disaster risk reduction and rescue planning after disasters by estimating the potential consequences of earthquakes and through earthquake...
Lumbung Yusuf Indonesia
Lumbung Yusuf Indonesia provides health, education, relief, and social services.
Adventist Development and Relief Agency International (ADRA) - North Korea
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...