Middle East
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World Food Programme (WFP) - Iraq
Set-up in 1963, WFP is the United Nations frontline agency in the fight against global hunger. WFP uses its food to: meet emergency needs and support economic and social development. It also provides the logistics support necessary to get food aid to the right people at the right time and in the...
Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) - Tunisia
Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) is an international humanitarian aid organisation that provides emergency medical assistance to populations in danger in more than 80 countries. In countries where health structures are insufficient or even non-existent, MSF collaborates with authorities such as the...
Dubai International Humanitarian & Re-Development Conference & Exhibition (DIHAD) 1-3 April 2012
DIHAD is a humanitarian aid, disaster management and re-development event that takes place in Dubai every year. DIHAD is recognised as the leading humanitarian event in the region and aims to help facilitate a greater and more efficient relationship between aid agencies, NGO's, suppliers and needy...
Middle Eastern NGOs Gateway Project - Libya
The Middle Eastern NGO Gateway Project provides a database and information about NGOs operating in countries in the Middle East, together with information about technology, recent articles and press releases of interest to NGOs.
UNICEF - Oman page
UNICEF provides the latest statistical data on Oman, with indicators of the current poverty situation in the country in relation to children. The page provides statistics for indicators such as education, nutrition, mortality, water and sanitation. All the data comes from the appropriate United...
World Travel Guide - Israel page
An impressive, well structured country-by-country travel guide, with an entry for every nation in the world. The Israel page has an overview of the country as well as detailed information on accommodation, climate, currency, obtaining visas, internal and international travel, international dialling...
The use of private security providers and services in humanitarian operations
A 2008 global survey of aid organisations conducted for this research revealed that the contracting of certain security functions to external professionals has become increasingly common among humanitarian operations worldwide. This trend has followed both the rise in aid worker violence and the...
Palestine Fair Trade General Guidelines
The Palestine Fair Trade Association Guidelines include: 1) Guidelines for Farmers and/or Producers 2) Guidelines for Labor and Employment 3) Environmental Guidelines 4) Trader and Distributor Guidelines
United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) - Oman
UNICEF is an international aid agency that works with communities and governments in 157 countries for the survival, development and protection of children worldwide, whilst upholding the Convention on the Rights of the Child. The priorities of the programme are children's health, education,...
United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) - Morocco
UNDP is the UN's global development network, an organisation advocating for change and connecting countries to knowledge, experience and resources to help people build a better life. On the ground in 166 countries, UNDP works with them to raise awareness, develop their own solutions to global and...
SOS Children's Villages - Algeria
SOS Children provides long-term help to abandoned children and orphans. The children live in homes with an SOS mother and other children which are considered as their sisters and brothers. The children thus have a caring home, medical and psychological assistance and the possibility to go to...
United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) - Syria
UNICEF is an international aid agency that works with communities and governments in 157 countries for the survival, development and protection of children worldwide, upholding the Convention on the Rights of the Child. The priorities of the programme are children's health, education, equality and...
Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) - Libya
Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) is an international humanitarian aid organisation that provides emergency medical assistance to populations in danger in more than 80 countries. In countries where health structures are insufficient or even non-existent, MSF collaborates with authorities such as the...
Caritas Internationalis - Iran
Caritas Internationalis is a confederation of 162 Catholic relief, development and social service organisations working to build a better world, especially for the poor and oppressed, in over 200 countries and territories. Caritas provides a beacon of hope for tens of millions of women, men and...
Peres Center for Peace
Peres Center for Peace, founded by the Nobel Laureate Shimon Peres, has the express aim of realising his vision of a "New Middle East", in which people of the region work together to build peace through socio-economic cooperation and people-to-people relations.
World Health Organization (WHO) - Oman
The World Health Organization (WHO) is the directing and coordinating authority for health within the United Nations system. It is responsible for providing leadership on global health matters, shaping the health research agenda, setting norms and standards, articulating evidence-based policy...
World Health Organization (WHO) - Israel
The World Health Organization (WHO), the United Nations specialised agency for health, aims to coordinate international health activities and to help governments improve health services. Health is being defined in WHO's Constitution as state of complete physical, mental, and social well-being, not...
Caritas Internationalis - Egypt
Caritas Internationalis is a confederation of 162 Catholic relief, development and social service organisations working to build a better world, especially for the poor and oppressed, in over 200 countries and territories. Caritas provides a beacon of hope for tens of millions of women, men and...
Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) - Algeria
FAO was founded in 1945 with a mandate to raise levels of nutrition and standards of living, to improve agricultural productivity, and to better the condition of rural populations. Today, FAO is one of the largest specialised agencies in the United Nations system and the lead agency for...
United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) - Algeria
UNDP is one of United Nation organisation that have 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,...