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Lucinda's Beautiful Heritage Charity Foundation
«LBH Charity Foundation» is an independent, not for profit making, non-political, charitable associative organization and foundation, created in 2020 to help improve the quality of life for victims of societal ills such as rape, sexual harassment, sexism, domestic abuse, basic human right violation...
Foundation HTG/Vidotrans (Humanitarian Transport Group)
A humanitarian transport organisation specialising in transporting relief goods worldwide, with a custom bonded warehouse based in Holland and an office in Oradea, Romania. It has facilities for short- or long-term storage and can purchase relief goods on behalf of other organisations. It is also...
Association for Humanitarian Development (AHD)
The Association for Humanitarian Development (AHD) is an NGO based in Pakistan. The main objective of the AHD is to work for peace, justice, harmony and equality with disadvantaged and marginalized communities. AHD operates in Sindh, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and Punjab. The organisation works on a range...
Ladder Ministries Uganda
Ladder Ministries Uganda (LMU) is a Christian faith based founded Non – Governmental Organisation established in 2011 and incorporated by the National Bureau for Non – Governmental Organisations of Uganda in the year 2013 with registration number 3166 with the mandate of not only carrying out its...
Phoenix Resource Centre (Northampton) Limited
We are a UK registered charity with our own registered NGO's in Djibouti and Somaliland in East Africa, and Ghana in West Africa. We also work with partner organisations covering 61 countries in total. Our main strengths lie in product resource volume / capacity handling, setting up, running and...
Uganda Professional Drivers' Network
UPDN is an umbrella organisation for drivers’ associations / organisations and related industry stakeholders. UPDN was established in 2015 and registered as a legal entity with the National NGO Board under the Ministry of Internal Affairs in 2016. This was at a time when many drivers’ associations...
Global Hand Version 1.9 - December, 2003
As we enter the New Year, Global Hand invites you to visit version 1.9 of its site, the penultimate version of our current series.
Standards
Global Hand Standards introductory page You can also view this page in German. Diese Seite ist auch auf Deutsch verfügbar.
2. Services
Good cargo, if handled badly, can result in poor, even grievous, outcomes. Related services are therefore included in the development of these standards.
3.1 Financial Auditing
Global Hand and its members endorse the InterAction network's GIK-specific Standards (the AERDO GIK Standards). Global Hand is seeking, however, to apply the embedded principles in a broader, international context, as the AERDO GIK Standards were written specifically for US based non-profit GIK...
Typhoon Haiyan - Nov 2013
Nearly 12 million people have been affected by Typhoon Haiyan, one of the worst disasters to hit the Philippines in years. More than 900,000 people remain displaced, according to the UN. A national state of emergency has been declared, with Samar, Leyte, Cebu, Iloilo, Capiz, Aklan and Palawan...
1.2 Drugs and pharmaceuticals
Global Hand recommends the WHO Guidelines for Drug Donations as summarised here. By describing "good donation practice", these guidelines aim to improve the quality of drug donations.
2.1 Freight: Supply Chain Management
Global Hand recommends The Sphere Project's Minimum Standards (Sphere), where applicable to logistics and transportation.
Pan American Health Organisation - The DO'S and DON'TS of Humanitarian Supplies Management
Preparing and dispatching donated supplies This section provides detailed guidelines on preparing, dispatching and receiving supplies. This includes suggestions for preparing a packing list and recommendations for packaging goods. Packaging guidelines suggest that donors "make parcels of a weight,...
Guidelines on Logistics and Transportation (Canada)
This publication is designed for individuals who need to understand the Canadian logistics process required for both the implementation of an aid project and the financial and technical supervision of the transportation operations. Although this document deals with overseas ocean transport, similar...
Safe Kids Walk This Way and FedEx promote child pedestrian safety.
Together with Safe Kids Worldwide, FedEx established the Safe Kids Walk This Way program to teach safe behaviors to motorists and child pedestrians and create safer, more walkable communities. The goal of the joint initiative is to prevent pedestrian-related injury to children.
2.4 Freight: Warehousing
Our research has not uncovered enough material for us to prepare draft standards on this topic.
Developing hybrid diesel-electric delivery trucks
This video shows how the American Environmental Defense Fund and FedEx Express collaborated in a project to develop hybrid diesel-electric technology in an attempt to decrease pollution and increase fuel efficiency.
Developing hybrid diesel-electric delivery trucks
In 2000, FedEx Express and Environmental Defense Fund struck an alliance to develop a delivery truck that dramatically decreases emissions while increasing fuel economy. The result was a diesel-electric hybrid, an ideal application for hybrid technology, given the frequent stopping and starting of...
Partnership aims to stop rare plant smuggling
TRAFFIC-Hong Kong, one of the 22 branches of a NGO network that monitors wildlife trade globally, partnered with Cathay Pacific Airways Ltd to improve the airline's ability to stop the smuggling of rare plants on its planes.