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Job creation and enterprise development

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Empowerment for Sustainable Livelihood

The Empowerment for Sustainable Livelihood (EFSL) is a Ghanaian NGO that aims to promote small and medium sized enterprises (SMEs) and to encourage trade. The organisation is also interested in gender empowerment, environmental management, capacity building and sustainable development in Ghana and...

Relief and Development Services Association (REDESA)

Relief and Development Services Association (REDESA) is a Tanzanian NGO that promotes self help activities, community development and vocational training.

REDF (formerly known as The Roberts Enterprise Development Fund)

REDF (also known as The Roberts Enterprise Development Fund) is a San Francisco-based venture philanthropy organization that creates jobs and employment opportunities for people facing the greatest barriers to work. REDF provides equity-like grants and business assistance to a portfolio of...

Aid to Artisans

In its thirty years Aid to Artisans (ATA) has helped thousands of artisans through its “Market Link” program of product design, production and business skills. Handicrafts continue to provide an important source of income, especially in rural areas and especially for women. ATA helps artisans meet...

Joy Carpet and Car Wash

Joy Carpet and Car Wash is a car wash company in Turkey.

Global Hand Principles

Global Hand, and its parent NGO, Crossroads Foundation, aims to ensure that aid given is good aid. You can find a range of standards, specific to sectors of the disaster and development spectrum, in our Standards, Guidelines and Toolkits section. A high level summary of Global Hand's standards...

British Council of Shopping Centres (BCSC)

The British Council of Shopping Centres (BCSC) represents the retail-property industry and supports worthwhile education and research projects relating to the planning, ownership, occupation management and use of retail property. It also promotes a series of awards that recognises achievements and...

Centre d'Encadrement Professionnel des Jeunes en Detresse

Centre d'Encadrement Professionnel des Jeunes en Detresse (CEPROJED) is an NGO in the Democratic Republic of Congo. The organisation supports young people and women from conflict affected communities. Its main activities are women and youth empowerment, promoting human rights, civic and electoral...

Endeavour

Endeavour is an NGO based in Plymouth UK. The principal aim of the organisation is to engage and empower the individual, communities and organisations using community development approaches, increased community participation and social entrepreneurship. Endeavour seeks to identify and share...

Standards

Global Hand Standards introductory page You can also view this page in German. Diese Seite ist auch auf Deutsch verfügbar.

Succeed Consult

Succeed Consult is a Ugandan company that offers corporate social responsibility and social accountability training, quality management systems training (ISO 9001:2008) and training in manufacturing operations management.

Association for Social and Environmental Development

The Association for Social and Environmental Development is an American NGO that aims to help empower marginalised and vulnerable groups in developing countries. Currently, the Association is working on a project to improve hygiene among school children in Cambodia.

Association for Care of People with Epilepsy in Lebanon

The Association for the Care of People with Epilepsy in Lebanon (ECAL) is an NGO that targets people with epilepsy in order to address their needs. The Association supports patients medically and socially, helping them become active and, if possible, financially independent. The Association has...

Carulla Foundations promotes early childhood education in Colombia through initiative AeioTu

Carulla Foundation was founded by José Carulla Soler, then owner of the Carulla chain of department stores, in 1962. For 47 years the foundation provided scholarships to thousands of low-income employees of the company.

Opportunity International Australia

Opportunity International Australia provides small loans to families in developing countries to help them start a business, earn an income and leave poverty behind. By helping a mother buy a sewing machine to start a tailoring business or a father buy seeds to plant a vegetable garden, small loans...

Sabre Business World Limited

Sabre Business World Limited is a privately owned company is a Zimbabwean company that offers soft skills training in entrepreneurship and business skills development. The company aims to assist in growing the Zimbabwean economy by empowering people through better knowledge of how to do business...

Gennesaret Development Foundation

Gennesaret Development Foundation is a youth focused NGO which seeks to contribute to economic growth and human development across sub-Saharan Africa

Indus Society for Rural Development (ISRD)

The Indus Society for Rural Development (ISRD) is a Pakistani NGO that began by promoting self-help in regard to saving and internal lending. The organisation has also established the Earth Stars Academy in Islamkot, providing high school level English medium education. Overall, ISRD aims to ...