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One World Link (OWL)
One World Link (OWL) encourages and sustains friendship between the communities in Bo, Sierra Leone and Warwick District, U.K. OWL aims to raise awareness of global-interdepenence, encourage friendship between the two communities, and to exchange ideas on global issues which after common man. Their...
World Economic Forum Annual Meeting, Davos, Switzerland
The World Economic Forum is an independent non-profit organisation committed to improving the state of the world by engaging leaders from the public and private sectors and from wider civil society in partnerships to shape global, regional and industry agendas. Its annual meeting attracts over...
Eurasia Foundation - Uzbekistan Programme
Eurasia Foundation - Uzbekistan Programme, operated out of the Kazakhstan office of the Eurasia Foundation (EF), assists selected of local partners in the improvement of the education system. EF does not currently operate in Uzbekistan. From 1994 to 2006, EF maintained an office in Tashkent, where...
Help Without Frontiers/ Helfen ohne Grenzen/ Aiutare senza Confini
Help Without Frontiers' primary objective is to alleviate the suffering of the Burmese refugees who have had to flee into Thailand. The organisation does this through the provision of volunteers, funds, and goods to clinics, orphanages, and schools on the Thai-Burma border as well as teacher...
ASSIST
ASSIST is an Indian NGO that helps create and support village-level decision making bodies for the empowerment of the poor. It works in the villages of Prakasam and Guntur Districts of Andhra Pradesh in South India.
YWAM Cook Islands
Youth With A Mission (YWAM), founded in 1960, is an international interdenominational Christian organisation, operating in more than 900 locations in over 140 countries, with a staff of over 11,000. YWAM aims to spread the love of God through helping with the practical and physical needs of people...
Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC) - Uzbekistan
Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC) – Uzbekistan deploys technical, financial and humanitarian cooperation instruments in the five main thematic domains of health care reform, water management and disaster risk reduction, basic infrastructure, private sector development, and public...
Just how inclusive is ‘inclusive business’?
The growing effort to make markets work for the poor has seen the emergence of several initiatives and practices that claim to be more inclusive of smallholders and poor workers. But how far such initiatives genuinely reduce poverty and empower small-scale producers remains open for debate.
Inclusive Business: Creating Value in Latin America
The Alliance for Inclusive Business is a joint effort of the World Business Council for Sustainable Development (WBCSD) and SNV Netherlands Development Organization and has recently launched a report highlighting its joint work in Latin America over the past 4 years.
Indian Tales of Inclusive Business Models
An enlightening article on the Harvard Business Review website that provides case studies of business models in developing economies by four well-informed Indian scholars.
Accelerating Progress Towards the Millennium Development Goals Through Inclusive Business Delivering Results: Moving Towards Scale
Report on an inclusive business dialogue held 21 September 2010 during the UN summit on the millennium development goals.
Inclusive Business at the Base of the Pyramid - an ADB project
The BoP-related ADB technical assistance (TA) project, first approved in 2008, aims to develop inclusive business ventures in six selected Asian countries and prepare them for project financing.
Creating Value for All: Strategies for Doing Business with the Poor - a UNDP report
Creating Value for All: Strategies for Doing Business with the Poor is the new and groundbreaking report launched on 1 July by the UN Development Programme.
Fanela
Fanela is a T-shirt printing and embroidered clothing company. It is a trade only supplier of promotional clothing and leisurewear. In addition to design, embroidering and screen printing services, Fanela has notable warehousing space (allowing the stockpiling of the leading names in high quality...
Northlands Park
Northlands Park is a volunteer-driven, not-for-profit, community service organisation dedicated to making Edmonton and north central Alberta an even greater place to live and visit. It contributes to its community through the reinvestment of its revenues in the events and facilities it maintains....
World Vision - China
World Vision – China, a country office of World Vision International, helps the poor communities break away from poverty and achieve sustainable development through projects in partnership with government counterparts, non-governmental organizations, academic institutions and local villagers....
International Organization of Employers (IOE)
The mission of the International Organization of Employers (IOE) is to promote and defend the interests of employers in international networks, particularly in the International Labour Organization (ILO), and to this end works to ensure that international labour and social policy promotes the...
United Nations Conference On Trade And Development (UNCTAD)
UNCTAD serves as an international agency dedicated to furthering international trade and fostering enterprise and economic development worldwide. It hires experts to help with international issues, attempts to alter public policy to bring about development, and offers technical aid. UNCTAD works...
The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD)
The mission of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) is to promote policies that will improve the economic and social well-being of people around the world. The OECD provides a forum in which governments can work together to share experiences and seek solutions to common...
Women for Progress
Women for Progress focuses upon small business development, women's literacy programs, and education in family planning and childcare. The organisation also assists refugees, widows, female heads of households, and women with large families to develop home-based businesses and income generating...