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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Society for Participatory Research in Asia - PRIA
It was founded in response to the realisation that grassroot’s realities across much of India revealed that governments were unable to deliver relevant or sustainable development programmes. At the same time, local level initiatives were successful in raising awareness and mobilising community to participate in different aspects of their own development. India.
Society for the Promotion of Area Resource Centres (SPARC)
SPARC was created by social workers, researchers, students, doctors and other professionals who wished to explore new forms of partnerships with the poor in their quest for equity and social justice. India.
Society for Women's Education and Awareness Development (SWEAD)
SWEAD aims to help The most marginalised and oppressed sections of the Indian society, in particular tribal Dalits (untouchables), scheduled casts, rural migratory women and their children, and those who live below the poverty line. India.
Society of Ina’ash El-Usra
The Society was founded with the aim of empowering Palestinian women and serving various sectors of the community. In the aftermath of the 1967 war and throughout the Israeli occupation, the role of the Society of Ina'ash El-Usra grew to be vital especially in dealing with the enormous economic, social, and political hardships emanating from the occupation.
Socio-Environmental Institute
The institute's main objective is to defend social goods and rights, both collective and diffuse, relating to the environment, cultural heritage, human and peoples' rights. The English version of the site provides both news and extensive documentation on a range of Brazilian environmental issues and indigenous peoples' struggles. Brazil.
Somali Youth for Peace and Democracy (SYPD)
SYPD was formed specifically to build strategic networks of young, social change leaders, development practitioners, and key decision-makers. Somalia.
South African Homeless People's Federation
Nation-wide poor people's movement of nearly 100,000 households from more than 1.200 savings collectives in over 1,000 homeless communities. The Federation's primary goal is to develop its members' capacity to conceive, control and implement their own poverty alleviation via community-development strategies.
South African National NGO Coalition (SANGOCO)
Sangoco's mission is to promote civil society by uniting and strangthening the NGO sector to enable it to influence development policy and advocate for programmes that meet the needs of the poor in the best possible way, at the least possible cost.
South Asia Parnership Pakistan - SAP-PK
It is member of South Asian civil society movement, is striving to empower marginalized sections of society and working to influence policies in favor of people. Pakistan.
Southern African Legal Assistance Network (SALAN)
SALAN is a network of non-profit, non-governmental organisations in the SADC region that advocate for the rights of the poor, disadvantaged and marginalised.
Southern African Regional Poverty Network - SARPN
They work to contribute to the sustainable reduction of poverty through pro-poor policy, strategy and practice in the Southern African Development Community (SADC) region.
Southern African Research and Documentation Centre (SARDC)
SARDC is an independent regional information resource centre which seeks to enhance the effectiveness of key development processes in the South African region through the collection, production and dissemination of information.
Sulabh International Social Service Organisation
Sulabh works to promote human rights, environmental sanitation, health and hygiene, non-conventional sources of energy, waste management and social reforms through education, training and awareness campaign. India.
Surplus People Project (SPP)
SPP seeks to achieve a transfer of power and resources to the most marginalized and unorganized, especially women, through supporting rural communities in struggles around rural development, in particular land reform. South Africa.
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
