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Youth Against Disasters
Youth Against Disasters is a Non Governmental Organization registered in Kenya with the main objective of voluntarily offering services in Disaster Risk Awareness (DRR) to youths and the general public through training and awareness creation. The organization was formed in 2011 by a group of...
COLORS
COLORS is a social business that provides impoverished people across the world an opportunity to provide for themselves by teaching them creative skills, and also by providing an outlet to sell their hand-made goods. COLORS’ specific goal is to bring social injustices like human trafficking to...
The Emancipation Network (TEN)
The Emancipation Network is an international organization, founded by Sarah Symons and John Berger in 2005, dedicated to fighting human trafficking and modern slavery. It helps survivors of slavery rebuild their lives after rescue from slavery, through economic empowerment, education and help...
Christian Connect Fund
Overview Christian Connect Fund is a registered Mission in Zambia; focused on networking with fellow Christians, creating sustainable financial value to support the needy work their way out of poverty through small business activities, and creating markets for products across communities with a...
Empowerment for Sustainable Livelihood
The Empowerment for Sustainable Livelihood (EFSL) is a Non-Governmental Organisation (NGO) established for the purpose of facilitating the development and promotion of small and medium scale enterprises (SMEs), sustainable trade, gender empowerment, environmental management, capacity building and...
World Inspiring Network
World Inspiring Network is a nonprofit organization dedicated to ending poverty through education, youth & women empowerment, and climate action. With the support of a global network of volunteers, we strive to empower young people in Ghana, fostering personal and community development while...
Skill Link Uganda
Skills Link Uganda is a registered community based organisation in Uganda.Reg.CBO / 06 / 503. by the Directorate of Community Based Services Makindye Ssabagabo Municipal Council. The organisation traces its origin in 2011, when a group of concerned community members in Makindye – Wakiso district...
Caring Haven Uganda
Caring Haven Uganda provides programs designed to benefit the grass root common person ranging from education, youth empowerment, talent development and health for the rural communities. The communities are characterized with poverty, illiteracy, and ignorance who have great difficulty meet the...
Stretch Hands Uganda
Since 2017 Stretch Hands Uganda (SHU) has been a non-profit and community Based Organization, nonpartisan, which is run by Adults and youths of different disciplines in close cooperation with local communities in Rubanda District of Uganda. This project is at providing sustainable support...
Terre Des Anges
Terre Des Anges operates in the following six (06) areas : 1. Community Health; (rehabilitation and equipment of health centers, awareness and prevention against HIV/AIDS and chronic diseases 2.Education; (training, literacy, creation of AGR, monitoring and evaluation of projects, awareness...
One World Foundation Africa
One World Foundation Africa runs activities in both the UK and Uganda. The organisation partners with a number of other organisations such as Bukomero Development Foundation to implement some of its projects. In UK, they operate a community centre in East London from where they are engaged in...
Basazemaggya Development Initiative
Basazemaggya Development Initiative is a Community Based Organisation started by the residents of Bulenga Kikaaya Ssumbwe in Wakiso District of Uganda. It is registered with Wakiso District Community Based Services Office registration number WCBO/21/7304. OBJECTIVES 1.To undertake...
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Global Hand Standards introductory page You can also view this page in German. Diese Seite ist auch auf Deutsch verfügbar.
UN Global Compact and the OECD Guidelines for Multinational Enterprises: Complementarities and Distinctive Contributions
The UN Global Compact and the OECD Guidelines for Multinational Enterprises Complementarities and Distinctive Contributions, the world’s foremost comprehensive, voluntary corporate responsibility initiatives, are clarified in this document as to the complementarities and distinctive contributions...
The engine of development: The private sector and prosperity for poor people
"The engine of development: The private sector and prosperity for poor people" is a paper publicated by Department for International Development (DFID) emphasizing the role of the private sector in its international development strategy.
Private sector delivery of public benefit goods and services
This documents presents a framework for doing business in low-income environments, utilising the power of marketing, and grounded in a number of actual case studies.
Practical Plan to Achieve the Millennium Development Goals
Practical Plan to Achieve the Millennium Development Goals, a UN Millennium Project Report, recommends concrete actions toward achieving the Millennium Development Goals. The report presents an overview of the findings and recommendations of the UN Millennium Project. The document was co-authored...
Linking Business with Pro-Poor Development
Linking Business with Pro-Poor Development explores two key questions, How can business be pro-poor? and How can such partnerships be made sustainable? The document showcases how an innovative private-community partnership transformed the livelihoods of highly vulnerable families in far flung...
Stimulating Youth Entrepreneurship - Barriers and incentives to enterprise start-ups by young people
The world’s population is growing at a time when traditional, stable labour markets are shrinking. More than 1 billion people today are between 15 and 24 years of age and nearly 40 per cent of the world’s population is below the age of 20. The ILO estimates that 47 per cent of all unemployed...
Wrong aid destroys jobs - February, 2003
We’re supposed to help, not hurt those we serve. But inappropriate humanitarian product can see factories closed and unemployment increased.