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EnterpriseWorks/VITA (EWV)
EnterpriseWorks/VITA (EWV) is a private, nonprofit, international development organization based in Washington DC. EWV has worked for more than 40 years in over 100 countries to combat global poverty. We are currently working in more than 30 countries to address poverty issues through humanitarian...
Center for International Disaster Information (CIDI)
Center for International Disaster Information (CIDI), operated under a grant from USAID and IBM, is a resource for the public, as well as US government agencies, foreign embassies and international corporations. The website provides guidelines for giving effective material donations to relief...
The politics of principle: the principles of humanitarian action in practice
This report is the synthesis report of an independent study by ODI into humanitarian principles. In recent years there has been an outpouring of reflection on principles by humanitarian agencies, and attempts in several countries by groups of agencies to develop a more explicitly ‘principled’...
Cash and vouchers in emergencies
This paper is the final product of a three-year research project looking into when the option of giving people money instead of, or as well as, in-kind assistance is feasible and appropriate. A strong body of evidence is starting to emerge to indicate that providing people with cash or vouchers...
Implementing sustainable private sector development: Striving for tangible results for the poor
The key challenge for private sector development in 2006 is showing tangible, significant results in poverty eradication. Donors, researchers and practitioners have been challenged to focus on making markets work for the poor to consider the underlying rationale of market development strategies and...
Responsible investment: a force for poverty alleviation
The current crisis offers the opportunity to rethink the contribution that investors can make to eradicating global poverty. Oxfam believes that investors have a critical role to play in poverty alleviation, through supporting economic growth, building infrastructure, and helping to create a...
Christian Aid - United Kingdom
Set up in 1945, Christian Aid is an agency of the churches in the UK and Ireland that works wherever the need is greatest, irrespective of religion and nationality. It supports local partner organisations in providing famine and disaster relief, and refugee services. Christian Aid funds projects in...
Afghanistan Libre
Afghanistan Libre is an NGO working towards the social and economic reconstruction of Afghanistan, with a particular emphasis on the education of women and children. The organisation is supported by the government of Afghanistan and by public and private sector partners in Europe.
ZOA-Vluchtelingenzorg
ZOA-Vluchtelingenzorg supports refugees, internally displaced people, returnees and others affected by conflict or natural disaster. ZOA undertakes emergency relief, rehabilitation and reintegration programmes to help (re-)establish conditions for development, both in countries with a long-term ZOA...
Coordination of Afghan Relief (CoAR)
Coordination of Afghan Relief (CoAR) is an NGO that has been serving needy and underprivileged Afghan communities since 1989. The organisation works in the following areas: agriculture/irrigation, health, livestock, survey and information analysis, rural engineering, emergency relief, income...