Local Governance Network is a non-profit initiative that addresses the changing needs of cities by building a sustainable network amongst local Governments, companies, academics, civil society, individuals and International Governments based on knowledge products. LGNet assits their members/partners in shaping public governance and dialogue, influencing policy and practice in public services, support innovation and excellence that enables in meeting future challenges, helping people's representatives in exercising their democratic accountability and leadership effectively, ensuring that the sector attracts, retains and develops staff with the skills it needs.
iDE is an international family of non-profit organizations with the mission of creating income and livelihood opportunities for the rural poor. We take a market-based approach to international development, working to develop markets for agriculture and WASH products and services.
Organica Biotech Pvt. Ltd is involved in finding natural and sustainable solutions to impeding issues of sanitation, agriculture and solid waste management using microbe based technology. Organica Biotech has grown to be one of the leading biotechnological companies today to provide effective and eco-friendly products to over 45 countries. Our rich research expertise has propelled us to develop products which provide effective solution to present day environment and social problems. Our products are specially crafted and formulated to unlock the the potential of microbes to address global sanitation issues deftly. We are the torch bearers of change in social front. We are closely associated with various NGOs and CSR events to eliminate all the sanitation woes. We not only provide […]
ICLEI is a global association of over 1,200 local governments that represents the interests of local authorities in national and international policy processes concerned with matters of sustainable development. It is also a movement driving positive change on a global scale through programmes and campaigns for local sustainability. Finally, ICLEI functions as a resource centre offering information, tools, networking, training and consulting services.
Nature Healing Nature is a 501(c)3 non-profit organization bringing three profoundly important programs to the world. As they take their work into the world, this organization offers an avenue for their donors, benefactors, and partners to help others help themselves.
The German WASH Network is an open initiative of German non-governmental organisations actively engaged in the WASH sector. The members are working in development cooperation as well as in humanitarian relief and rehabilitation and share the vision that all people on our planet have sustainable access to safe water and sanitation and independently practice all elementary principles of hygiene. Apart from joint advocacy and policy activities to strengthen the WASH sector in Germany and beyond, the networks aims to contribute to a professionalisation of the sector through continuous knowledge exchange and capacity building, project cooperation and the improved interaction between humanitarian relief and development cooperation.
Network for the Environmental Concerns and Solutions (NECOS) is a local Community based Non Profit and Non Governmental Organisation founded in 2003 and registered under the law of Zambia in March 2004. NECOS has it’s secretariat in one of the peri urban areas of Lusaka, in Madimba community (informal settlement).
Interwaste R&D (EA) Trust is a non profit, community welfare based registered in Kenya and focusing to all African countries.,with its Board and Certificate of incorporation. We are targeting improving solid waste,wastewater and WASH (rural and urban) management and adding value to the three areas by using advanced technologies currently available for conservation of environment, eradication of poverty and diseases. The Trust proposed priority initiatives include but not limited to: 1) Promotion of waste resources recovery education in universities in the region;2)Facilitation of urban/rural water, sanitation and hygiene initiative in the region;3) Facilitation of Climate Change issues, solutions and campaigns in the region;4) Facilitation of infrastructure/ facilities developments in the region;5) Facilitation of urban waste (solid+wastewater) to energy for sustainable developments for cities in […]
The GGI promotes organic, compost based, no-dig gardening and farming. We believe in a strong link between healthy soil and human health. Over the years, the organisation has conducted experiments and growing trials to further their knowledge of how to grow the most nutritious and wholesome food. Our pioneering methods suggest we are growing food with more beneficial nutrients than anything grown or eaten in the UK since records began in the 1930s.Our research and education projects, tracking the flow of nutrients from soil to plant, have all led us to the same conclusion: that there is no better method than to follow nature.Since 1995 we have promoted DRY, Ecological Sanitation methods using the HH-3 compost toilet system in conjunction with the HH-2 […]
Miss Microfinance is a voluntary organization that is focused on changing labor dynamics in Nigeria and Africa in favor of young girls by providing life skills, soft loans and advancing healthy living in schools and communities. Currently, we are training out-of-school young girls on Photocyngraphics (photography, cinematography, and graphics), as well as working with state governments in the Niger Delta region of Nigeria to establish water and Sanitation Committees in the school system leading to the creation of WASH FUND for water and sanitation improvement in the schools. Our flagship project, the Miss Microfinance Global Ambassador Pageant winner continues to campaign and advocate for improved sanitation facilities in the campuses and amongst the public and private places. More so, we are part of the microfinance institutions […]
The Norwegian University for Life Sciences UMB is recognised as an international centre of knowledge, focused on higher education and research within environmental- and biosciences. The main focus is in the fields of biology, food, environment and natural resources sciences. UMB has a leading position in science and capacity building regarding sustainable sanitation in Europe. The university offers a 2-year MSc program in “Sustainable Water and Sanitation Health and Development”, and a 1-month summercourse in “Sustainable sanitation, decentralized, natural and ecological wastewater treatment”. The research on processes and transport mechanisms in porous media has given several technological improvements regarding natural and source separating sanitary systems including cold climate adaption of wetlands, biofilters for greywater treatment, and liquid composting of blackwater. Currently more focus is given […]
Publishers of: Africa Water & Sanitation
APPLICATIO is an independent, international consulting company focused on assisting people, organizations and companies as well networks and regions worldwide in their sustainable development. APPLICATIO stands for demand-driven, socially responsible and environmentally conscious "Capacity Development" with special experience and focus in developing and transition countries. To cover this range of services APPLICATIO is divided into three divisions, which interact depending on the project task due to its international orientation and many technical aspects: - International Management & Marketing Academy (I.M.M.A.) - Training - International Development Consult (I.D.C.) - Consulting - eAcademy - eLearning APPLICATIO sees itself as a customer-oriented service provider who supports its partners - people, organizations and societies - with tailored solutions for their own sustainable development in order to successfully adapt to constantly changing framwork conditions. APPLICATIO has […]
Plan is a Child Centred Community Development organisation: they work with children, their families, communities, organisations and local governments to bring about positive change. Plan's work is linked to the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child, which spells out the human rights of all children.
Population Services and Training Center (PSTC) has been working with Action Aid Bangladesh (AAB) since 2001 under REFLECT program and started working on a very new, innovative and challenging area of Occupational Health on pilot basis from July 2005. PSTC became Development Partner (DA) of AAB in January 2006 and continue the project; titled "Promoting Corporate Social Responsibility on Occupational Health Rights Project". The primary targets of this project are the factory workers and managers/owners of different sectors and the secondary target are the civil society, policy and decision makers. The objective is to ensure the occupational health rights of the workers in the work place and their socio-economic well being through increasing Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR).
Practical Action is a development charity that works with poor communities to help them choose and use technology to improve their lives for today and generations to come. Their vision is that of a world free of poverty and injustice in which technology is used to the benefit of all.
Our Vision: Engaging people, technology and resources for sustainable development We undertake environmental sustainability based programs/projects/research in the area of health, sanitation, conservation, forestry and natural resource management e.t.c through the implementation and application of spatial analytical technologies and sustainable development strategies. We are also motivated to collaborate with various environmental management stakeholders including Government Institutions and Non-Profit Organizations in strengthening human resource capacity for environmental resource management and creating healthy society. We work in the following sectors - Water resource - Physical Planning - Health - Forestry - Education - Sanitation - Technology
The RUAF Foundation is an international network of seven regional resource centres and one global resource centre on Urban Agriculture and Food Security. In 1996 the international Support Group on Urban Agriculture (SGUA) took the initiative to set up a Resource Centre on Urban Agriculture and Food Security (RUAF), in response to the expressed need of organisations and local governments in the South for effective mechanisms for the documentation and exchange of research data and practical experiences on urban agriculture. In the following years RUAF gradually evolved into an international network of regional resource centres providing training, technical support and policy advice to local and national governments, producer organizations, NGO’s and other local stakeholders.
Friends of Nature (FON) is a non-profitable, non-government organization working in the field of biodiversity and environment management to act within the educational, capacity building, research, advocacy and implementation of the management tool. It has been working since 2001, in various fields of environment and its management.
Tide Technocrats has been working in the areas of sanitation, solid waste management and renewable energy, since 1995. Our vision is to Enable and Empower individuals and Communities to lead an Environmentally responsible and a sustainable lifestyle Our work in sanitation involves working in technology based solutions for faecal sludge and septage management, apart from consulting projects such as solid liquid waste management, research studies, technology development, training and capacity building development, monitoring and evaluation and other areas. We are also members of the National Faecal Sludge and Septage Management Alliance in India. Our current project involves development, installation, operations and maintenance of a thermal faecal sludge treatment plant for smaller towns and cities.