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United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) - Nigeria
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 166 countries, UNDP uses its global network to help the UN system and its partners to raise awareness,...
Global Alliance for Africa
Global Alliance for Africa focuses on providing education and care for children who have lost one or both of their parents due to HIV/AIDS. It works in close partnership with local African groups to identify and place orphans in extended family and foster care family homes. To provide...
Pamoja Women Development Programme
PAWDEP seeks to empower Kenyan women financially to run viable, competitive, and rewarding enterprises that can compete locally and internatioally, by providing microfinance solutions to women groups running small scale industry and farming. Recognizing the role played by the women in the...
Development Alternatives, Inc. (DAI) - United States
Development Alternatives, Inc. (DAI) is an international consulting firm, with a goal to help countries around the world achieve their development goals. DAI is a source of technical and managerial assistance for any organisation involved in social and economic development work. DAI is also...
Africa Now
Africa Now assists farmers and small businesses by proving links to bank loans and training in new technologies. Additionally, Africa Now aids producers in expanding distribution into new markets and provides an auditing service for companies that wish to ensure that their business activities are...
Gideons Youth Organisation (GYO)
Gideons Youth Organisation (GYO) works in Uganda among vulnerable children, youths, and their communities through HIV/AIDS education, vocational skills, credit support, and lifeskills training programmes with a Christian motivation. GYO reaches children and youths in schools, villages, and churches...
Catholic Relief Services (CRS) - Niger
Catholic Relief Services was founded in 1943 by the Catholic Bishops of the United States to assist the poor and disadvantaged. The aim of CRS globally is to provide direct aid to the poor, to involve people in their own development, helping them to realise their potential, to promote social...
Opportunities Industrialization Centers - Togo
The Opportunities Industrialization Centers (OIC) is an international organisation working to fight poverty in rural populations through increased agricultural production and microfinance support programmes. In Togo OIC focuses on agropastoral training for young people and on their resettlement on...
Oeuvre Nigérienne de Developpement Social
Oeuvre Nigérienne de Developpement Social works to help the poorest people and support the most needy ones to develop and improve their living conditions. The organisation also prepares programmes for peace, literacy, housing, finance and health.
KHULA Enterprise Finance Limited
Khula Enterprise Finance Limited is an agency of South Africa's Department of Trade and Industry (DTI). It was established to facilitate access to finance for small and medium size business. Khula provides assistance through various delivery channels including commercial banks, retail financial...
World Education – Senegal
World Education (WE) is an international NGO headquartered in the US that provides training and technical assistance to to the nonformal educational sector in 50 countries worldwide. Projects are designed to contribute to individual growth, as well as to community and national development. In...
CARE USA - Mozambique
CARE USA is an affiliate of the CARE organisation - one of the world's largest private humanitarian organisations. Founded in 1945, CARE is committed to helping families in poor communities CARE works with poor communities in more than 70 countries through various programmes intended to provide...
Madagascar Dream
Madagascar Dream is an NGO working in one of the poorest countries of the world. Since 2002 the organization have been involved in Madagascar helping local orphanages, women with small children in the women’s prison, juveniles in detention and other poor people. In 2009 they have started helping a...
Rural Women Development Center (RUWDEC)
Rural Women Development Center (RUWDEC) aims at improving the quality of life of the local communities with focus upon women, youths, handicaps, orphans and vulnerable children by contributing to sustainable development through education, advocacy, health and community development, micro-lending,...
Tanzania Youth in Action for Development (TYID)
Tanzania Youth in Action for Development (TYID) is a non-governmental and volunteer-powered organisation, working to uplift the standard of living among the youth of Tanzania. Programs include advocacy, awareness, support and counselling, with the aim of taking the young off the streets by training...
Bangladesh Rural Advancement Committee (BRAC)
BRAC is a large and multifaceted development organisation with the twin objectives of alleviation of poverty and empowerment of the poor. BRAC works with people whose lives are dominated by extreme poverty, illiteracy, disease, and other handicaps. BRAC promotes income generation for the poor,...
Bakatawamu Information And Development Empowerment (BIDE)
Bakatawamu Information And Development Empowerment (BIDE) works in common cause with the poor and marginalized groups in Uganda, in particular, orphans and rural women, to make basic rights and social justice a reality in their lives by improving their quality of life and helping to eradicate the...
Acumen Fund
Acumen Fund is a non-profit global venture fund that uses entrepreneurial approaches to solve the problems of global poverty. The organisations seeks to prove that small amounts of philanthropic capital, combined with business acumen, can build thriving enterprises that serve large numbers of the...