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.
Sri Lanka's Reconstruction and Development Agency has since wound down as has the massive reconstruction effort. Still many are without homes they could call their own.
BCI 2009: no progress in the global fight against poverty
The countries and regions of the world are becoming increasingly polarised in spite of their international commitments to fight poverty. This is what emerges from the 2009 Basic Capabilities Index (BCI) published by Social Watch.
G8 countries show total lack of political will to address the global food crisis
The blatant absence of the heads of states of the G8 countries in the World Food Summit, held in Rome from 16 to 18th of November, was one of the key causes of the total failure of this summit.
The food, environmental and economic crises have challenged civil society organizations and the communities they serve. A broad-based survey, financially supported by the UN, measured the impact of the crises on the operating capacity of CSOs around the world and their expectations as they look ahead.
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NGO Committee for Social Development
