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Caritas Internationalis - Cote-d'Ivoire
Caritas Côte d’Ivoire works through its diocesan and local organizations and with help from national and international non-governmental organizations to support the poor and needy, to contribute to development programs, to advocate for disadvantaged groups and to work for peace and reconciliation. ...
Poverty Relief Aid
Poverty Relief Aid is a registered national, non-governmental, non-profit making, relief and development organisation committed to assist families and communities in Kenya, to alleviate poverty and human suffering by responding to relief and development needs of disadvantaged people.
Organization of American States (OAS)
Organization of American States (OAS) brings together the nations of the Western Hemisphere to strengthen cooperation on democratic values. The OAS is the region’s principal multilateral forum for strengthening democracy, promoting human rights, and confronting shared problems. It includes...
Microfinance Gateway
The Microfinance Gateway is a comprehensive source of information for and about the micro-finance industry. It includes research and publications, discussion groups, specialised resource centers, organisation and consultant profiles, as well as the latest news, events, and job opportunities in...
Opportunities Industrialization Centres - Niger
Opportunities Industrialization Centres (OIC) is an international organisation working to fight poverty in rural populations through increased agricultural production and micro-finance support programs. In Niger, OIC works with grass roots organisations providing support to women's groups. OIC also...
Credito con Educacion Rural (CRECER)
Credito con Educacion Rural (CRECER)is an independent Bolivian NGO established with initial assistance from Freedom from Hunger. CRECER provides micro-finance and business training to poor women throughout Bolivia. CRECER also practices community banking in rural areas. In addition, CRECER is also...
Funding the Poor Cooperative (FPC)
Funding the Poor Cooperative (FPC), one of the largest micro-finance organisations in China, makes micro-credit available to the poor, especially women, in the rural areas of Hebei, Henan and Sichuan Provinces. FPC also experiments with adapting various micro-finance models, provides valuable...
Opportunity International (OI)
Opportunity International (OI) is an international non-profit organisation, using micro-enterprise development and providing small business loans. Opportunity is committed to solving the root cause of poverty instead of merely treating its symptoms; through providing micro-credit and basic training...
Kiva
Kiva connects donors to individual entrepreneurs or groups in the developing world, through the provision of micro-loans. Micro-credit empowers clients to lift themselves out of poverty through developing responsible business patterns and training. Kiva partners with existing micro-finance...
World Bank - Sierra Leone
The World Bank is one of the world's largest sources of development assistance. It is a development Bank which provides loans, policy advice, technical assistance and knowledge sharing services to low and middle income countries to reduce poverty. The Bank promotes growth to create jobs and to...
Youth Social Service Organisation
This is an India based NGO conducting activities in rain water harvesting, training and community development. There are mainly two programs, the tribal development program and the watershed program. The tribal development program is involved in community development support, women development and...
Heifer Project International (Thailand)
The first activity of Heifer Project International (Thailand) started in 1974, focused on marginalized ethnic minorities living in the mountainous regions of northern Thailand. The first project, providing cattle to families in 21 villages, was conducted with one of these groups. Later fish ponds...
Global Voices Online
Global Voices Online is a non-profit global citizens’ media project founded at Harvard Law School’s Berkman Centre for Internet and Society, a research think-tank focused on the Internet’s impact on society. Global Voices seeks to aggregate and amplify the global conversation online - highlighting...
Gebende Hande
Gebende Haende, a charitable organisation based in Germany, provides desperately needed aid to individuals suffering from starvation, lack of water, natural disasters, and the effects of war. Aid has been given in nearly forty countries spanning four continents, and has included providing water,...
Danish Refugee Council (DRC) -Azerbaijan
The Danish Refugee Council (DRC) is a private, humanitarian umbrella organisation (with 32 members) focusing on issues related to the cause of the refugees, migrants and internally displaced people (IDPs). DRC started operating in Azerbaijan in 1996 by implementing interlinked projects aimed at...
CHF International / Azerbaijan
CHF International / Azerbaijan, a country office of CHF International, focuses upon micro-enterprise and community development, and promotes the integration of internally displaced persons back into society. The organisation also works with local communities and governments to develop grassroots...
Centre for Enterprise Development and Action Research (CEDAR)
The Centre for Enterprise Development and Action Research (CEDAR) is a non-governmental, not for profit organisation set up in 1995, as a ‘help centre’ for a network of interested people and organisations in response to problems associated with inequitable distribution of development benefits; ...
Central Asian Partners
Central Asian Partners is involved in a wide variety of projects from rural village medical clinics and maternal health projects, to providing visiting professors to teach university seminars, as well as locating and shipping equipment and supplies needed by field personnel.
American Jewish World Service
American Jewish World Service, Inc. ("AJWS"), a not-for-profit international development organization motivated by Judaism's imperative to pursue justice. AJWS is dedicated to alleviating poverty, hunger and disease among the people of the developing world regardless of race, religion or...
Rwanda Development Gateway (RDG)
Rwanda Development Gateway (RDG) is a project of the Government of Rwanda run under the National University of Rwanda (NUR). The RDG is implementing a Program to set up a National Portal as platform for information sharing. The Portal represents a one-stop-shop for information on Rwanda and the...