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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Health, Development, Information and Policy Institute
HIDP is an independent Palestinian organization, devoted to policy research and planning regarding the Palestinian health care system in the West Bank and Gaza Strip.
Horn Relief
Horn Relief works specifically with women and youth to help them take charge of creating a better life for themselves and future generations. Somalia.
ICICI Communities
They work to empower the millions of economically and socially challenged citizens of India.
India Development Service (IDS)
India Development Service (IDS) is a nonprofit, non-political, and secular organization supporting economic and social development in India.
India Social
Portal dedicated to development work in India.
Info Change
This web site on India's social sector is the daily development news channel of the Centre for Communication and Development Studies (CCDS), providing regular features, profiles, interviews and analyses on development issues, and stories of change from the grassroots.
Institute for Democratic Governance - IDEG
Research and advocacy organization that seeks to contribute to the “establishment of a just and free society” in Ghana through policy research and analysis, dialogue and advocacy, and capacity building activities. Ghana.
Institute for Social Development Studies (ISDS) - Hanoi
As an independent research and advocating NGO, the mission of ISDS is to contribute to the socioeconomic development of Vietnam through research, training, advocacy, and consultancy on the country's key social issues.
Integrated Social Development Center (ISODEC)
Non-profit organisation committed to the promotion of human rights (especially social and economic rights) and social justice for all, especially those suffering marginalisation, injustice and powerlessness. Ghana.
Integrated Social Development Centre - ISODEC
Promoting social justice and fundamental human rights, especially of the poor and those without organized voice and influence. ISODEC currently provides basic needs services (health, education and micro-finance) and is also an advocacy organization. Ghana.
Inter Africa Group
Inter Africa focuses on advancing peace, justice and respect for humanitarian law in the ‘Greater Horn’ of Africa. The programs combines networking, civic education, advocacy, dialogue and research.
International Association for Community Development (IACD)
International organisation for people working in or supporting community development. The Institute promotes community development across international policies and programmes, networks and supports practitioners and encourages exchange of information and practice knowledge.
International Center for Tropical Agriculture (CIAT)
CIAT is a not-for-profit organization that conducts socially and environmentally progressive research aimed at reducing hunger and poverty and preserving natural resources in developing countries. Colombia.
International NGO Forum on Indonesian Development (INFID)
INFID is an instrument to facilitate communication between NGOs inside and outside Indonesia in order to promote policies to alleviate structural poverty and to increase the capacity to improve conditions of the poor and disadvantaged.
After four days of difficult negotiations among 121 governments at a UN Food and Agricultural Organization Treaty meeting on the use of plant genetic resources for food and agriculture held in Tunisia, a Canadian effort to block progress was overturned.
GCAP calls for urgent action on poverty in 2009 and launches new report (pdf)
In 2009 World Social Forum (WSF), GCAP alliance is focusing on influencing the agendas of the upcoming G20 and G8 Summits as well as building accountability supported by more grassroots mobilisations.
Haiti: new peasant alliance demands action on food crisis
Haiti's peasant farmers are organising and taking action to try and bring an end to the country's dependence on food imports, and to avert the prospect of looming famine.
After months of negotiations, the United Nations Conference on the Financial and Economic Crisis and its Impact on Development closes today, June 26th, 2009. Civil society organizations are seriously disappointed in the result of the Conference and the official outcome document. In no way do the results of the Conference measure up to the actions needed to address the scale and depth of the economic meltdown, most evident in the jobs crisis, particularly in developing countries.
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Social Watch
