Knowledge Centre : Organisations : Non-Governmental Organisations (NGOs) : International
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- ACDI/VOCA pop
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ACDI/VOCA is a private, nonprofit organization that promotes broad-based economic growth and the development of civil society in emerging democracies and developing countries. Offering a comprehensive range of technical assistance services, ACDI/VOCA addresses the most pressing and intractable development problems. Driven by the goal of adding value to local enterprise, which underlies prosperous free markets and stable democracies, ACDI/VOCA works in the following areas: * Community Development * Enterprise Development * Financial Services * Agribusiness Systems
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- International Development Support Services (IDSS) pop
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International Development Support Services (IDSS) is a consultancy, project management, and learning organisation working in international aid and development. IDSS designs and implements development projects and provides consultancy services for development agencies. In all their work with communities, governments and organisations IDSS seeks to build capacity at the local level and to improve access to basic services. IDSS considers ongoing learning to be a fundamental part of development, and promote and provide a range of professional training programs aimed at both emerging and experienced development practitioners.
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- International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) pop
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The International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) was established in 1975 to identify and analyze policies for sustainably meeting the food needs of the poor in developing countries and to disseminate the results of the research to policymakers and others concerned with food and agricultural policy.
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- The World Association of Non-Governmental Organizations (WANGO)
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The World Association of Non-Governmental Organizations (WANGO) is an international membership organization uniting NGOs worldwide in the cause of advancing peace and global well-being. WANGO helps to provide the mechanism and support needed for NGOs to connect, partner, share, inspire, and multiply their contributions to solve humanity's basic problems.
(Added: Mon Jul 12 2004 Modified: Thu Aug 24 2006 Hits: 216)
- ACCION International
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The mission of ACCION International is to give people the tools they need to work their way out of poverty. By providing "micro" loans, financial services and business training to poor women and men who start their own businesses, ACCION's partner microfinance organisations help people work their own way up the economic ladder, with dignity and pride.
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- Action Against Hunger
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Action Against Hunger delivers programs in over 40 countries, specializing in emergency situations of war, conflict, and natural disasters and longer-term assistance to people in distress. Our ultimate goal is to help vulnerable populations regain their self-sufficiency for long term sustainability.
http://www.actionagainsthunger.org
(Added: Thu Jan 26 2006 Hits: 76)
- ActionAid
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We are the youth network of ActionAid, a unique partnership of people fighting for a better world, working in over 30 countries. Worldwide, one person in five lives without adequate food, shelter, clean water, healthcare or knowledge. This site is all about DOING something in the fight for a world without poverty.
(Added: Wed May 08 2002 Modified: Mon Jun 26 2006 Hits: 307)
- Africa's Missing Billions: International arms flows and the cost of conflict
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A report from Oxfam, IANSA and Safeworld about the estimated the economic cost of armed conflict to Africa's development. The sum estimated is equivalent to international aid from major donors in the same period. If this money was not lost due to armed conflict, it could solve the problems of HIV and AIDS in Africa, or it could address Africa's needs in education, clean water and sanitation, and prevent tuberculosis and malaria (IANSA, Oxfam and Saferworld, 2007).
http://www.oxfam.org/en/files/bp107_africas_missing_billions_0710.pdf/download
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- AidCamps International
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AidCamps International is a registered charity offering volunteers the opportunity to participate in short term voluntary work development aid projects overseas run by local non-governmental organisations in the third world. In addition to the volunteer work involved our three week projects provide volunteers the chance to meet, live, and work overseas with local people and experience their culture first hand, while providing a solution to a local problem, as requested by the locals. Our itineraries also include other local problem awareness visits, as well as trips to local and regional heritage sites, national parks, and cultural centres, so that volunteers can get a feel for both the richness of the area and the predicaments faced by its inhabitants.
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- Alertnet NGOs
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This directory allows you to search for NGOs organisations by name, expertise, home country or country of operation, on a database of 388 AlertNet member organisations from 92 countries.
http://www.alertnet.org/member_directory.htm
(Added: Tue Jun 06 2006 Modified: Fri Jul 14 2006 Hits: 410)
- Association of Voluntary Service Organisations
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The Association of Voluntary Service Organisations (AVSO) provides an impressive "Directory on International Voluntary Service" listing organizations offering short-term and long-term voluntary service, international youth organizations and links to general information on voluntary service and non-profit resources.
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- Campesino a Campesino Photo Gallery
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The Campesino a Campesino Photo Gallery features photographs and quotes from the men and women who make up the truly grassroots Farmer to Farmer movement. For the last two decades, poor peasant farmers in the movement have been teaching one another how to protect their environment while still earning a living. (Food First, 2006)
http://www.foodfirst.org/campesinogallery
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- CIVICUS
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CIVICUS is an international alliance dedicated to strengthening citizen action and civil society throughout the world.As a global alliance of citizens and their organizations, we help advance regional, national and international initiatives to strengthen the capacity of civil society.
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- Collecting water from mountain fog
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For many communities living in the hills of Nepal, collecting water is a full time occupation. Many women and children spend up to six hours a day carrying water from springs at lower elevations. To ease this burden WaterAid's partner organisation Nepal, Water for Health (NEWAH), has pioneered a new technology that collects fresh water from an unlikely source: fog. (WaterAid)
http://www.wateraid.org/uk/what_we_do/where_we_work/nepal/445.asp
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- Commonwealth Association of Non-Governmental Organizations
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CANGO has the prime objective of uniting non-governmental organizations in the 52 member states of the Commonwealth in global peace and development. Non-Governmental Organizations who operate in any of the Commonwealth member states are free to register and participate in its activities. The Commonwealth Association of Non-Governmental Organizations, CANGO, is an international organization that provides mechanism and support needed by non-governmental organizations in the Commonwealth member States network, share, connect, empower, enrich and enlighten mankind and create a better world to live in.
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- COMPAS
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COMPAS is an international network for comparing and supporting endogenous development. The project provides support to local organisations, which are enhancing biological and cultural diversity and sustainable management of natural resources by building on Indigenous Knowledge Systems and local leadership.
http://www.compasnet.org/english/compmain/index.htm
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- December 18
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Portal and International Network for the Promotion and Protection of the Rights of Migrants
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- Development Alternatives With Women for a New Era
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Development Alternatives With Women for a New Era is a network of women scholars and activists from the economic South who engage in feminist research and analysis of the global environment and are committed to working for economic justice, gender justice and democracy. DAWN works globally and regionally in Africa, Asia, the Caribbean, Latin America and the Pacific on the themes of the Political Economy of Globalisation; Political Restructuring and Social Transformation; Sustainable Livelihoods; and Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights, in partnership with other global NGOs and networks.
http://portal.unesco.org/shs/en/ev.php-URL_ID=4472&URL_DO=DO_TOPIC&URL_SECTION=201.html
(Added: Fri Oct 10 2003 Modified: Thu Jun 29 2006 Hits: 254)
- Earth Day Network
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Every day is Earth Day. Earth Day Network is an alliance of 5,000 groups in 184 countries working to promote a healthy environment and a peaceful, just, sustainable world.
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- Food First
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The Institute for Food and Development Policy better known as Food First--is a member-supported, nonprofit 'peoples' think tank and education-for-action center. Our work highlights root causes and value-based solutions to hunger and poverty around the world, with a commitment to establishing food as a fundamental human right. As a progressive think tank, Food First produces books, reports, articles, films, electronic media, and curricula, plus interviews, lectures, workshops and academic courses for the public, policy makers, activists, the media, students, educators and researchers. We participate in activist coalitions and furnish clearly written and carefully researched analyses, arguments and action plans for people who want to help change the world. Food First provides leadership to the struggle for reforming the global food system from the bottom up, offering an antidote to the myths and obfuscations that make change seem difficult to achieve. Food First was founded in 1975 by Frances Moore Lappé and Joseph Collins, following the international success of the book, Diet For a Small Planet. The FoodFirst Information and Action Network (FIAN) is the action and campaigning partner of the Institute.
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- Food Not Bombs
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Food Not Bombs is one of the fastest growing revolutionary movements and is gaining momentum throughout the world. There are hundreds of autonomous chapters sharing free vegetarian food with hungry people and protesting war and poverty. Food Not Bombs is not a charity. This energetic grassroots movement is active throughout the Americas, Europe, Africa, the Middle East, Asia and Australia. Food Not Bombs is organizing for peace and an end to the occupations of Iraq, Afghanistan and Palestine. For over 25 years the movement has worked to end hunger and has supported actions to stop the globalization of the economy, restrictions to the movements of people, end exploitation and the destruction of the earth. On this website you can find out about your local Food Not Bombs, or how to start up your own. (Food Not Bombs, 2006)
http://www.foodnotbombs.net/index.html
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- Foundations of Success (FOS)
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Foundations of Success (FOS) is a not-for-profit organization committed to working with practitioners to learn how to do conservation better through the process of adaptive management.
(Added: Wed Aug 13 2003 Modified: Thu Sep 21 2006 Hits: 234)
- Gendercide Watch
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An organisation that works to raise awareness, conduct research, and produce educational resources on gender-selective mass killing around the world.
(Added: Fri Oct 26 2007 Hits: 92)
- Global Integrity
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Global Integrity meets the international community's need for a trustworthy source of unbiased information on corruption and governance trends produced by an entity without partisan, ideological, or financial interests. Among other work, we produce the Global Integrity Report, a collection of original, in-depth national assessments combining journalistic reporting with 292 "Integrity Indicators" analyzing openness, governance, and anti-corruption mechanisms for a diverse collection of countries. Global Integrity aims to provide the public, the private sector, non-governmental organizations, and governments with an innovative set of information tools that diagnose, explain and analyze governance trends in a globalized world.
http://www.globalintegrity.org/
(Added: Thu Jan 25 2007 Hits: 68)
- Green Cross International
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The mission of Green Cross is to help ensure a just, sustainable and secure future for all by fostering a value shift and cultivating a new sense of global interdependence and shared responsibility in humanity's relationship with nature. Green Cross: * Promotes legal, ethical and behavioral norms that ensure basic changes in the values, actions and attitudes of government, the private sector and civil society, necessary to build a sustainable global community. * Prevents and resolves conflicts arising from environmental degradation. * Provides assistance to people affected by the environmental consequences of wars and conflicts.
http://www.greencrossinternational.net
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