This Network is a group of trade union-linked researchers from all over Africa. It provides information and services to both the public and African Labour researchers.
International network of citizens’ organizations struggling to eradicate poverty and the causes of poverty, to ensure an equitable distribution of wealth and the realization of human rights.
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Dhaka Ahsania Mission
Dhaka Ahsania renders humanitarian services to the causes of suffering people, working on human displacement through its Refugee Counseling Services. The organization works too towards sustainable human development. Bangladesh.
Duta Awam Foundation
Duta Awam assist Indonesian farmers/peasants to solve their problems, to secure their rights.
Economic and Social Research Foundation (ESRF)
Independent not-for-profit non-governmental research institute for capacity building in economic and social policy analysis. The main objective of ESRF is to build and strengthen human and institutional capabilities in economic and social policy analysis and decision-making and to enhance the understanding of policy options within the Government, public sector, donor community and in the growing national non-governmental sector mainly, but not only in Tanzania.
Economic Research Forum for the Arab Countries, Iran and Turkey - ERF
ERF’s mission is to provide an institutional mechanism to initiate and fund policy-relevant economic research, to disseminate the results of research activity to scholars, policymakers, and the business community, and to function as a resource base for researchers through its databank and documentation library.
El-Wafa Elderly Nursing Home
Established to offer comprehensive services (social-medical-residential-recreational), free of charge, to poor elderly people. Palestine.
EMPOWER
EMPOWER was established by development activists, health care professionals, academicians and researchers who are committed to social justice. India.
Environment and Development Action in the Third World (ENDA-TM)
International association of autonomous entities working on development and environment themes. Enda collaborates with grassroots groups in search of alternative development models on the basis of the experience, expectations and objectives of marginalised peoples. Senegal.
Environmental and Development Agency Trust (EDA)
EDA works with rural people and institutions in rural areas to advance their development potential and status, and to use this experience to improve cost-effectiveness and add value through developing ‘models’ and informing policy and advocacy work. South Africa.
Fantsuam Foundation
They ensure community contribution, ownership of resources and commitment to the sustainability of the projects working on collateral-free microcredits for women, rural health promotion and education, documentation and promotion of local languages to improve women's access to literacy and education, indigenous knowledge, traditional medicine and protecting the intellectual property rights of our rural communities. Nigeria.
When the United Nations hosts a summit meeting of world leaders next September to assess the current state of its Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), it is expected to single out one of the major "success stories" of the day: a reduction in global poverty.
Participatory governance is about empowering citizens to participate in processes of public decision-making that affect their lives. This site provides information on participatory governance practices and tools – all aimed at achieving more transparent, responsive, accountable and effective governance, at both the local and national level, through active citizen participation.
Grassroots women claimed cities at grassroots academy
While the V World Urban Forum was taking place in Brazil in March 2010, women from over 20 countries exchanged their practices and experiences in the "claiming our cities, claiming our roles" Grassroots Academy. The participants came up with collective advocacy messages to influence policies and resource allocation to reflect the needs of poor women.
The world is still on track to achieve the Millenium Development Goal (MDG) target of cutting the rate of extreme poverty in half by 2015 says a new report by the United Nations a few months before a major General Assembly meeting is to review progress so far. Many countries are moving forward, but unmet commitments, inadequate resources, lack of focus and accountability, and insufficient dedication to sustainable development have created shortfalls in many
areas. Some of these shortfalls were aggravated by the global food and economic and financial crises.
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