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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Sahara
Sahara is a nonprofit organization established to empower women, support aged and to play a catalytic role for education and development of poor children, uplift of underprivileged communities, awareness of health and hygiene and protection of environment. India.
Shackdwellers'/Slumdwellers' International (SDI)
Voluntary association created by People's Dialogue (South Africa), SPARC (India) and urban poor community groups in Asia, Africa and South America, to initiate a people's process for strengthening grassroots savings and credit schemes among the urban poor in their worldwide struggle against poverty.
Sidama Developement Corporation (SDC)
Grassroot organization established to help reduce poverty and foster sustainable development in Sidama, Ethiopia.
Social Development Network - SODNET
They work to place the necessary strategic tools for social mobilization and action in the hands of the key stakeholders. Regional and a national focal point for the World Social Forum activities.
Social Enterprise Development Foundation - SEND
The organization promotes that development is multi-dimensional involving economic, political and social issues. Therefore it pursues strongly an integrated programming approach that emphasizes community-driven development initiatives, economic literacy and policy advocacy. Ghana, Liberia, and Sierra Leone.
Social Watch Bénin
This organizaction is part of Social Watch network informed by national citizens' groups aiming at following up the fulfilment of internationally agreed commitments on poverty eradication and equality.
Society for Participatory Research in Asia
PRIA is a Delhi based voluntary development organisation, striving for socio-economic and socio political equality and welfare. PRIA undertakes a wide range of social initiatives within the perspective of participatory development and research. India.
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 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.
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The Millennium Campaign
Selected news
Social Development
/Economy and Financial Affairs
- Mon Sep 29 2008
Aid Effectiveness and the Forums in Accra
Three Forums on the issue of aid effectiveness were held in Accra, the capital of Ghana, from August 30 to September 4 2008.
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Social Development
/Economy and Financial Affairs
- Mon Sep 22 2008
Poverty is not decreasing as the World Bank claims
On the eve of a UN presidential meeting on poverty reduction the mainstream consensus that globalization is reducing poverty around the world was challenged today by Social Watch, a network of 400 civil society organizations in 70 countries. The World Bank latest estimates, announced last August, claim that extreme poverty has been reduced by half in the last 25 years and that therefore the internationally agreed goals for 2015 can be met.
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Social Watch
Within the framework of the European Social Forum 2008, Peter Waterman analyzed the iniciatives put forward by trade unions and the labour agenda. In a special document, he develops critical opinions on the international union hegemons. Furthermore, he submitted his proposal "a global charter movement" to develop a declaration or manifesto on labour, relevant to all working people, under the conditions of a radically transformed and highly aggressive capitalism, neo-liberalised, networked and globalised.
