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4C Association

The 4C Association is aiming at creating a beneficial situation for coffee producers, workers engaged in the coffee sector, rural communities, trade & industry, consumers and the environment. Th...

http://www.4c-coffeeassociation.org

AAR Credit Services is committed to providing fast and efficient service for a variety of loan products, which include,Mobile phones, Computer & Office equipment financing,Unsecured personal loans,...

http://www.aarcredit.com

AAR Health Services

AAR is the largest and most successful private health care company in East Africa. It operates health centres in three countries, providing preventative and curative health care to clients in all i...

http://www.aarhealth.com

Access Health International

The mission of the ACCESS Health International is to improve the delivery of high quality, affordable health services in low, middle and high income countries.

http://accessh.org

Acumen Fund

Acumen Fund is a non-profit global venture fund that uses entrepreneurial approaches to solve the problems of global poverty. The approach is to combine small amounts of philanthropic capital, with...

http://www.acumenfund.org

Addressing rural poverty through the development of micro-enterprises in Nepal (UNDP)

UNDP Nepal, the government and local partners—with financial contributions from donors AusAid and NZAID—are addressing rural poverty by engaging the population in entrepreneurial activities, partic...

Adina for Life

Adina for Life, Inc., is led by a pioneering team of entrepreneurs from Odwalla®, and SoBe®. Inspired by the vision to create a world that "Drinks No Evil," these industry innovators came together ...

http://www.adinaworld.com/

aeioTU

AeioTU is a social enterprise that operates centers for infants and toddlers with a strong emphasis on high quality early childhood development (education, nutrition and care).

http://aeiotu.com/

African Development Bank

The African Development Bank (AfDB) Group’s mission is to help reduce poverty, improve living conditions for Africans and mobilize resources for the continent’s economic and social development.

http://www.afdb.org/

Aga Khan Development Network

AKDN’s earliest coordinated area development programme included community mobilisation, infrastructure development, microfinance lending and savings, agricultural programmes that encompass land rec...

http://www.akdn.org/pakistan

Agence Française de Développement

As a bilateral development bank and the central operator of France’s foreign aid policy, AFD’s activities on five continents are aimed at reducing poverty and inequalities, financial sustainable ec...

http://www.afd.fr

Agribusiness in Sustainable Natural African Plant Products

To help create and develop successful African agribusinesses in the natural products sector, providing income, employment & development, through environmentally and socially conscious practices to ...

http://www.asnapp.org

Amanz Abantu

Amanz’ abantu Services (Pty) Ltd is a private company whose shareholders include both Eastern Cape and nationally based companies, representing the full range of skills and experiences required for...

http://www.aserve.co.za

Anglo American

Anglo American is one of the world’s largest diversified mining groups. The unique portfolio of high quality mining assets and natural resources includes platinum group metals and diamonds, with si...

http://anglo-american-south-africa.production.investis.com/about-us/anglo-american-plc.aspx

Anglo American Zimele

The Supply Chain Fund collaborates with our procurement departments to identify black suppliers and facilitate business opportunities for black-empowered small and medium enterprises. It assists...

http://www.angloamerican.co.za/about-us/anglo-zimele/supply-chain-fund.aspx

Appropriate Development, Architecture and Planning Technologies (ADAPT)

Appropriate Development, Architecture & Planning Technologies (ADAPT) produces low-cost housing made from local materials for the poor in countries in the middle east and Africa, and engages the fu...

http://www.citizenbase.org/node/3011

Arab Countries Water Utilities Association (ACWUA)

The Arab Countries Water Utilities Association (ACWUA) as a regional center of excellence, partners with water supply and wastewater utilities in Arab countries to provide best practice service del...

http://www.acwua.org/

Armor-Lux

Offering lines of clothing made with FairTrade certified cotton is an integral part of Armor-Lux’s existing culture of social responsibility and sustainable business practices.

http://www.armorlux.com

Ashoka

Ashoka is a global association that supports social entrepreneurship. It strives to shape a global, entrepreneurial, competitive citizen sector: one that allows social entrepreneurs to thrive and e...

http://www.ashoka.org/

Ashtarak-Kat - Improving milk distribution in Armenia (UNDP)

Ashtarak-Kat, a leading dairy producer in Armenia, launched this initiative with the Centre for Agribusiness and Rural Development (CARD) with the aim of building sustainable milk collection centre...

http://business.un.org/en/documents/5432

Asian Development Bank

ADB is an international development finance institution whose mission is to help its developing member countries reduce poverty and improve the quality of life of their people.

http://www.adb.org

Association Education et Santé

AES is a development association established in June 2000. It has its headquarters in Dakar.Its objective is to ensure the target population for sustainable development by investing in the health a...

http://www.aes.sn

A to Z Textile Mills Limited

A to Z Textile Mills, a Tanzanian manufacturer, produces bednets impregnated with a long-lasting insecticide, making them effective for up to five years instead of the usual six months, with no nee...

http://www.acumenfund.org/investment/a-to-z-textile-mills.html

AusAid

AusAID is the Australian Government agency responsible for managing Australia's overseas aid program. The objective of the aid program is to assist developing countries reduce poverty and achieve s...

http://www.ausaid.gov.au

Austrian Development Agency

ADA's goals include reducing global poverty, ensuring peace and human security and preserving the environment in an international framework. The policies and programme parameters are agreed on with...

http://www.entwicklung.at/en/

Banking on Health

The USAID-funded Banking on Health project increases access to financing for the private health sector in developing and emerging economies worldwide. We work with a variety of financial institutio...

http://www.psp-one.com/section/taskorders/banking_on_health

Belgian Corporation for International Investment (BMI-SBI)

the mission of the Belgian Corporation for International Investment (BMI-SBI) is to provide medium or long term co-financing to business ventures made by Belgian private companies abroad.

http://www.bmi-sbi.be/en

Belgian Investment Company for Developing Countries (BIO)

The mission of BIO is to promote the creation of a strong private sector in developing and/or emerging countries, to enable them to gain access to sustainable development and lasting social prosper...

http://www.bio-invest.be

Bionexx - Fighting Malaria in Madagascar (UNDP)

Recognizing the need to develop the cultivation in Africa of Artemisia Annua—a plant recommended by the World Health Organization and UNICEF as an effective treatment for malaria, a disease that in...

http://business.un.org/en/documents/5442

BOP Lab Argentina

The Base of the Pyramid (BoP) Learning Laboratory is a membership-based consortium of companies, NGOs, multilateral organizations, and universities. Members work together to discover and implement ...

http://www.johnson.cornell.edu/sge/programs/bopglobalnetwork.html

BoP Learning Lab Global Network

The BoP Learning Lab Global Network, founded by Stuart Hart, catalyzes the vital international partnerships that help generate local experiments and scale creative business solutions that serve the...

http://www.johnson.cornell.edu/sge/programs/bopglobalnetwork.html

Business Action for Africa

Business-donor partnership to promote business-led action in support of Africa’s development. Led by a Board of multinationals, IBLF and DFID (the board is open to other donors). Three areas of ...

http://www.businessactionforafrica.org

Business Call to Action

The Business Call to Action (BCtA) is a global membership network of companies, governments, and development organizations working to identify and promote business models that contribute to long-te...

http://www.businesscalltoaction.org/

Business for Millennium Development

Business for Millennium Development advocates for the private sector to directly contribute to the Millennium Development Goals through core business activities. We catalyse, design and coordinate ...

http://www.b4md.com.au

Business for Social Responsibility

BSR aims to develop sustainable business strategies and solutions through consulting, research, and cross-sector collaboration.

http://www.bsr.org/

Business Innovation Facility

During its three year pilot period, running from July 2010 to June 2013, the Facility will support at least 30 company-led initiatives and partnerships focused on developing or scaling up innovativ...

http://businessinnovationfacility.ning.com/

Cadbury Cocoa Partnership (UNDP)

After joininng Business Call to Action in 2008, Cadbury - now a part of Kraft Foods - launched the Cadbury Cocoa Partnership, a $73 million commitment which aims to increase crop yields 20% by 2010...

http://content.undp.org/go/newsroom/2008/january/cadbury-undp-ghana-20080128.en

Calvert Investments

Provides mutual funds that invest in socially and environmentally responsible companies.

http://www.calvert.com

Canadian International Development Agency

CIDA's aim is to manage Canada's support and resources effectively and accountably to achieve meaningful, sustainable results and engage in policy development in Canada and internationally, enablin...

http://www.acdi-cida.gc.ca/index.htm

CARE International

CARE is a leading humanitarian organization fighting global poverty. We place special focus on working alongside poor women because, equipped with the proper resources, women have the power to help...

http://www.care.org

Caribou Coffee

Caribou Coffee is the first major coffeehouse retailer committing to 100% Rainforest Alliance for all of its coffees. A goal which is planned to be achieved by the end of 2011.

http://www.cariboucoffee.com

CDC Group

CDC’s mission is to foster growth in sustainable businesses, helping to raise living standards in developing countries.

http://www.cdcgroup.com

China-Africa Business Council (UNDP)

CABC was established as a joint initiative between UNDP, the Chinese Ministry of Commerce and the China Society of Promotion of the Guangcai Programme, which counts over 16,500 Chinese private comp...

http://www.cabc.org.cn/english/index.asp

China Society of Promotion of the Guangcai Programme

The China Guangcai Program is initiated and implemented by the Chinese private enterprisers for alleviating poverty in response to "the Eighth Seven-Year Anti-Poverty Plan." On April 23, 1994, 10 p...

http://www.cspgp.org.cn

CISA Exportadora

CISA Exportadora is a green coffee exporting company based in Nicaragua owned by the Baltodano family who enjoys over 100 years of coffee tradition. CISA Exportadora has been in the coffee export b...

http://www.cisaexp.com/

Cisco Systems

The Cisco Networking Academy Program is a non-profit partnership between Cisco Systems, education, business, government and community organizations around the world aimed at nurturing networking an...

http://newsroom.cisco.com/dlls/prod_101503b.html

Clinton Global Initiative

CGI facilitates cross-sector partnerships that, in turn, create and carry out projects of their own choosing. CGI members come from a wide variety of professions, cultural and religious backgrounds...

http://www.clintonglobalinitiative.org

Clinton Health Access Initiative

The Clinton Health Access Initiative (CHAI) is a global health organization committed to strengthening integrated health systems in the developing world and expanding access to care and treatment f...

http://www.clintonfoundation.org/what-we-do/clinton-health-access-initiative

Coca Cola - Every Drop Matters (UNDP)

This Regional Partnership Project aims to provide the framework and a joint action plan for water-related programming in the countries of Europe and the CIS, with a particular focus on increased ac...

http://www.everydropmatters.com/en/

Coffee and Cocoa in Indonesia (UNDP)

The specific objectives of the project have been: Coffee Cluster - Increasing communication and information sharing between stakeholders - Mobilizing government resources for the coffee indu...

http://www.undp.org/partners/business/resources/cs_indonesia_aped.pdf

Compania Espanola de Financiacion del Desarrollo (COFIDES SA)

COFIDES SA provides cost-effective medium and long term financial support for viable private direct investment projects in foreign countries where there is a Spanish interest; the ultimate aim is t...

http://www.cofides.es/english/

Conservation International

Conservation International works at every level – from remote villages to the offices of presidents and premiers – to help move whole societies toward a sustainable development path. Its approach i...

http://www.conservation.org

CRUSA Foundation

To promote, encourage and develop the broadest possible cooperation between the peoples and Governments of Costa Rica and the United States of America, in all fields of human endeavor, through the ...

http://www.crusa.cr

CSR Europe

CSR Europe is the leading European business network for corporate social responsibility – its mission is to support member companies in integrating CSR into the way they do business, every day.

http://www.csreurope.org/

Dalhousie University, Faculty of Management

To understand the nature of global change and offer solutions through interdisciplinary approach to teaching and research. The programs are innovative, adaptable and accessible to diverse students ...

http://management.dal.ca/

Danish Development Agency (DANIDA)

to support civil society and private/public sector development programs in developing European countries (among others).

http://www.um.dk/en

Data Nets

Providing jobs and access to information in a poor and remote Pacific country

http://www.cdcgroup.com/data-nets-papua-new-guinea.aspx

DEG Deutsche Investitions- und Entwicklungsgesellschaft

DEG’s intention is to promote economic development and raise people's living standards in its partner countries

http://www.deginvest.de/EN_Home/Projects/Public_Private_Partnerships_PPP/index.jsp

Denmor Garment Manufacturers

Denmor Garments (Manufacturers) Inc (Denmor) is a privately owned garment manufacturer operating in Coldingen, Guyana. Since its establishment, in July 1997, Denmor has grown from 250 to over 1000 ...

http://www.goinvest.gov.gy/manufacturing.html

Deutsche Gesellschaft für technische Zusammenarbeit (GTZ)

GTZ implements projects for the German federal government and other national and international, public and private-sector clients. It furthers political, economic, ecological and social development...

http://www.gtz.de/en

Deutscher Entwicklungsdienst

DED operates worldwide with organisations in countries where people suffer from poverty and its many consequences on nutrition, health, and the opportunity to participate in social and political li...

http://www.ded.de

develoPPP.de

BMZ launched its develoPPP.de programme to promote cooperation between business and development agencies. Public-private partnerships combine the innovative power of business with the resources, th...

http://developpp.de/de/index.html

DFID - UK Government Department

UK Government Department responsible for promoting development and the reduction of poverty.

http://www.dfid.gov.uk

Diageo

In 2008, Diageo—the world’s largest premium drinks brand—committed to develop the sorghum agricultural value in Cameroon and to provide a sustainable source of local grains for use in Diageo’s prod...

http://www.diageo.com/en-row/CSR/Pages/default.aspx

Dutch Sustainable Trade Initiative (IDH)

The mission of the IDH is the acceleration and up-scaling of sustainability within mainstream commodity markets. Focus is to enhance social and ecological sustainability of commodity supplies from ...

http://www.dutchsustainabletrade.com

EcoEnterprises Fund

http://www.ecoenterprisesfund.com

Edmond J Safra Philanthropic Foundation

A philanthropic foundation foundation to ensure that needy individuals and organizations would receive assistance in education, health care and humanitarian crises.

http://www.edmondjsafra.org

Education for All (EFA)

Six internationally agreed education goals aim to meet the learning needs of all children, youth and adults by 2015.

http://www.unesco.org/en/efa/

Eldis

Eldis aims to share the best in development, policy, practice and research.

http://www.eldis.org

ELLE Belgium

After learning about the global Campaign to End Fistula, women’s magazine ELLE Belgium committed to support UNFPA’s advocacy efforts through editorial articles and free advertising space. In May 20...

http://www.endfistula.org/private_sector.htm

Enablis Entrepreneurial Network

Enablis is a non-profit organisation created to drive measurable economic development and to build thriving and self-sustaining small and medium enterprises (SMEs) in the developing world.

http://www.enablis.org/

Endeavour

Endeavor helps High-Impact Entrepreneurs unleash their potential by providing an unrivaled network of seasoned business leaders, who provide the key ingredients to entrepreneurial success: mentorsh...

http://www.endeavor.org/

EnterpriseWorks/VITA (EWV)

For more than 40 years in 100 countries, EnterpriseWorks/VITA (EWV) has worked to combat poverty by helping small producers and other entrepreneurs build sustainable businesses that create jobs and...

http://www.enterpriseworks.org/

Entrepreneurial Design for Extreme Affordability class at Stanford University

Class at Stanford University which is built on design activities which are built around a two-quarter, graduate-level project course called Entrepreneurial Design for Extreme Affordability, where s...

http://extreme.stanford.edu/

Environmental Defense Fund (EDF)

Environmental Defense Fund is a leading national nonprofit organization representing more than 700,000 members. Since 1967, we have linked science, economics and law to create innovative, equitable...

http://www.edf.org/

Equity Bank - Empowering women through access to credit in Kenya (UNDP)

This joint project between UNDP, Equity Bank, UNIDO, the International Labour Organization and the Kenya Ministry of Trade aims to reduce poverty in local regions by giving women access to credit f...

http://content.undp.org/go/newsroom/2010/march/rooting-women-into-enterprise.en

ESSEC Business School IRENE Institute for Research and Education on Negotiation in Europe

To deliver negotiation and mediation tools for practitioners. The objective pursued by Negotiators Of the World is to provide new perspectives on traditional mediation and negotiation techniques.

http://www.essec-irene.com/us/index.html

European Bank for Reconstruction and Development

EBRD aims to promote market economies that function well – where businesses are competitive, innovation is encouraged, household incomes reflect rising employment and productivity, and where enviro...

http://www.ebrd.com

European Commission EuropeAid (EuropeAid)

EuropeAid is responsible for all the steps of an aid delivery project: after identifying needs, it carries out feasibility studies and prepares all the necessary financial decisions and controls. I...

http://ec.europa.eu/europeaid/

European Foundation for Management Development

To promote and enhance excellence in management development in Europe and worldwide.

http://www.efmd.org

Fair Trade Labelling Organizations International (FLO)

We are 24 organizations working to secure a better deal for producers. From our headquarters in Bonn, Germany, we set international Fairtrade standards and support Fairtrade producers.

http://www.fairtrade.net

Fairtrade / Max Havelaar

Fairtrade / Max Havelaar label is a worldwide federation of NGOs and representatives of producers with the goal of using trade to give farmers and employees of the Southern Hemisphere means to figh...

http://www.maxhavelaarfrance.org/

Family Care International (FCI)

Family Care International (FCI) was established in 1987. Our founding vision was a strong commitment to improving maternal health – and that commitment remains central to the organization’s mission...

http://www.familycareintl.org/en/home

Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ)

The German government is seeking with its development policy to help make globalisation an opportunity for all. The sectors that German development cooperation will focus on in particular in the fu...

http://www.bmz.de/en/

Female Health Company (FHCO)

The Female Health Company (FHCO) is the maker of the FC Female Condom (FC1 and FC2), a revolutionary option offering women dual protection against sexually transmitted diseases, including HIV/AIDS,...

http://www.femalehealth.com

Finance Alliance for Sustainable Trade

A global, member driven, non-profit association, FAST represents lenders and producers dedicated to bringing sustainable products to market.FAST brings together this diverse group of stakeholders f...

http://www.fastinternational.org/

FinMark Trust

FinMark Trust's purpose is ‘Making financial markets work for the poor, by promoting financial inclusion and regional financial integration'.

http://www.finmark.org.za

Finnish Development Finance Company (Finnfund)

to promote economic and social development in developing countries by financing responsible and profitable private projects.

http://www.finnfund.fi/en_GB

First Microfinance Bank of Afghanistan

FMBA will be incorporated as a full-service financial institution to provide both credit and savings products. Currently, there is an outdated banking legislation in place and the Central Bank la...

http://www.ifc.org/ifcext/spiwebsite1.nsf/2bc34f011b50ff6e85256a550073ff1c/3cea3f6a87c75043852576ba000e2395?OpenDocument&Highlight=0,Tajikistan

FlexPacific

Helping to bring affordable mobile communications to Pacific Islanders.

http://www.flexpacific.com/index.php

FMO - Finance for Development (FMO)

FMO’s mission is to provide capital, share knowledge and create partnerships in order to create a thriving private sector, which will support and grow lasting economic, environmental and social dev...

http://www.fmo.nl

Foundation for Economic Development and Vocational Training (SEQUA)

Sequa's aim is the promotion of a social market economy and quality vocational training in developing and transformation countries as well as in emerging markets, worldwide. As a non-profit compan...

http://www.sequa.org.np/

French Environment and Energy Management Agency

Industrial and commercial public agency, under the joint supervision of French Ministries for Ecology, Sustainable Development and Spatial Planning (MEDAD) and for Higher Education and Research.

http://www2.ademe.fr/

Fundação Abrinq - Save the Children

Fundação Abrinq is a major Brazilian child rights organisation, established in 1990, to protect the rights of children and adolescents in Brazil. It is estimated that 6 million children have alread...

http://www.fundabrinq.org.br/

Fundacion Carulla

Fundacion Carulla is the largest granting foundation focused on early childhood development in Colombia. A recent survey revealed that the infrastructure of services for children in their first yea...

http://www.fundaciolluiscarulla.com/eng/index.cfm

Furnas

Holiday activities for workers' children

http://www.furnas.com.br/default2.asp

Gambia's Integration of Birth Registration into Maternal and Child Health Clinicsaternal and child health clinics

In 2004 birth registration was integrated into reproductive and maternal and child health clinics, leading to an increase of birth registration rates of children under age five from 32 per cent105 ...

http://www.unicef.org/protection/files/Birth_Registration_Working_Paper.pdf

GARD - Get Airports Ready for Disaster (UNDP)

DHL and UNDP launched the “Get Airports Ready for Disaster” (GARD) programme to prepare airports and people for disaster situations and to make aid delivery more efficient. Using DHL’s extensiv...

Gilead

Founded in 1987, Gilead Sciences, Inc. (“Gilead”) is a biopharmaceutical maker of HIV treatments located in Foster City, California. With the approval of its first antiretroviral (“ARV”) product i...

http://www.gilead.com/pdf/GAPHistory.pdf

GlaxoSmithKline

GSK has become one of the first manufacturers to sign a unique agreement with the GAVI Alliance (GAVI) that has the potential to save millions of children from dying in the world’s poorest countrie...

http://www.gsk.com/media/pressreleases/2010/2010_pressrelease_10030.htm

Global Alliance for Vaccines and Immunization (GAVI)

GAVI’s strategy supports its mission to save children’s lives and protect people’s health by increasing access to immunisation in poor countries.

http://www.gavialliance.org

Global Call to Action against Poverty (GCAP)

The Global Call to Action Against Poverty (GCAP) is a growing alliance that brings together trade unions, INGOs, the women’s and youth movements, community and faith groups and others to call for a...

http://www.whiteband.org/

Global Development Alliance

One of USAID’s Office of Development Partners approaches to partnership is the Global Development Alliance. A Global Development Alliance is a market-driven approach to alliances between the public...

http://www.usaid.gov/our_work/global_partnerships/gda/

Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria

The Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria was created to dramatically increase resources to fight three of the world's most devastating diseases, and to direct those resources to area...

http://www.theglobalfund.org

Global Partnership on Output Based Aid (GPOBA)

GPOBA’s objective is to fund, design, demonstrate, and document OBA approaches to improve delivery of basic infrastructure and social services to the poor in developing countries. The goal is to ma...

http://www.gpoba.org/gpoba/

Goldman Sachs

10,000 Women is a five-year investment by Goldman Sachs to provide 10,000 underserved women around the world with a business and management education.

http://www2.goldmansachs.com/citizenship/10000women/index.html

Grameen Bank

Grameen Bank provides credit to the poorest of the poor in rural Bangladesh, without any collateral. It uses credit as a cost effective weapon to fight poverty and it serves as a catalyst in the ov...

http://www.grameen-info.org

Grassroots Business Fund

The Grassroots Business Fund builds and supports high impact enterprises that provide sustainable economic opportunities to thousands of people at the base of the economic pyramid (BoP). GBF provid...

http://www.gbfund.org/

GuarantCo Guarantees for Development (GuarantCo)

to provide local currency guarantees in low income countries.

http://www.guarantco.com

Gujarat Cooperative Milk Marketing Federation Ltd. (Amul)

Gujarat Cooperative Milk Marketing Federation (GCMMF) is India's largest food products marketing organisation. It is a state level apex body of milk cooperatives in Gujarat which aims to provide re...

http://www.amul.com

Harvard Business School Social Enterprise Initiative

Grounded in Harvard Business School's mission to educate leaders who make a difference in the world, the Social Enterprise Initiative aims to generate knowledge and to inspire, educate, and support...

http://www.hbs.edu/socialenterprise/

Harvard University-CSR Initiative at the Kennedy School

The Corporate Social Responsibility Initiative at the Kennedy School of Government is a multi-disciplinary and multi-stakeholder program that seeks to study and enhance the public contributions of ...

http://www.hks.harvard.edu/m-rcbg/CSRI/

Hathay Bunano Proshikhan Samity

Hathay Bunano Proshikhan Samity produces children’s toys and clothes by working with local women artisans. Its products are marketed through wholesale and retail buyers in Europe, the United State...

http://www.growinginclusivemarkets.org/media/mdgreport/mdgreport_mdg3.pdf

Helen Keller International

Founded in 1915 by Helen Keller and George Kessler, Helen Keller International (HKI) is among the oldest international NGOs (non-governmental organizations) devoted to preventing blindness and redu...

http://www.hki.org/

Himal Power Ltd. - Improving access to energy in Nepal (UNDP)

This partnership provides access to modern energy services in 10 remote villages located in the proximity of Khimti Hydropower Plant by installing micro hydro power supplying electricity. Access to...

http://www.hpl.com.np/

Huatai Paper Company, Ltd.

In 2000, Huatai Paper Company, Ltd., the biggest newsprint manufacturer in China, launched a new strategy to substitute wood pulp for straw pulp. The key was mobilizing local farmers to plant fast-...

http://www.huataipaper.com/col173/col199/index.htm1?id=199

ICCO

ICCO envisages a world without poverty and injustice. Based on this vision, ICCO supports projects that contribute to one of our three main programmes. Policy emphasis may differ from country to co...

http://www.icco.nl/

ICDDR,B International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research

ICDDR,B is the International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research, Bangladesh - an international health research institution located in Dhaka. Dedicated to saving lives through research and tr...

http://www.icddrb.org

IKEA - Women's Empowerment in India (UNDP)

The partnership project envisages empowering 50,000 women in 500 villages in three districts the northern Indian state of Uttar Pradesh- making it a highly intensive undertaking in terms of both fu...

http://www.ikea.com/ms/en_US/about_ikea/our_responsibility/ikea_social_initiative/women_empowerment_in_india.html

Impulso Mexico

Sets out to encourage youth participation by supporting social development projects aimed at young people in the country.

http://www.impulsomexico.mx/

Inclusive Business Alliance between WBCSD and SNV

The alliance raises awareness of inclusive business models that are both profitable and have a clear development benefit for the low-income segment, brokers new business opportunities and advocates...

http://www.inclusivebusiness.org/

Inclusive Market Development (IMD)

Inclusive Market Development (IMD) is UNDP’s programmatic framework of promoting public private partnerships at country-level that help meet the MDGs and reduce poverty. UNDP has a long track-recor...

http://www.undp.org/partners/business/IMD.shtml

Industrialization Fund for Developing Countries (IFU)

To enhance global economic growth, development and more equitable income distribution through increased global flow of socially responsible and environmentally productive investments making optimal...

http://www.ifu.dk/en

infoDev

infoDev is a global development financing program among international development agencies. It acts as a neutral convener of dialogue, and as a coordinator of joint action among bilateral and multi...

http://www.infodev.org/

Infrastructure Collaboration Partnership Fund (DevCo)

to help the world’s poorest countries improve basic public services such as power, water and sanitation, transportation, and telecommunications, among others.

http://www.ifc.org/ifcext/psa.nsf/Content/DevCo

Institute of Business, University of West Indies, Trinidad & Tobago

The Institute of Business (IOB)’s mission since its inception has been to be the premier facilitator for the development of high performing organizations in Trinidad and Tobago and the Caribbean re...

http://sta.uwi.edu/postgrad/aljreg.asp

Integrated Health Services Project Takamol

Egypt’s Integrated Health Services Project TAKAMOL, is a five-year project funded by USAID and led by Pathfinder International. TAKAMOL promotes an integrated model for strengthening maternal/child...

http://www.jhuccp.org/node/641

Intel - Bridging the Digital Divide in Ukraine and Turkey (UNDP)

To support youth development, UNDP and technology company INTEL joined efforts to design projects to bridge the “digital divide” in rural areas.

Inter American Development Bank (IADB)

We support efforts by Latin America and the Caribbean countries to reduce poverty and inequality. We aim to bring about development in a sustainable, climate-friendly way. Established in 1959, we a...

http://www.iadb.org/

International Business Leaders Forum

to deliver innovative solutions to sustainable development challenges worldwide.

http://www.iblf.org/

International Center for Research on Women

The International Center for Research on Women (ICRW) works to make women in developing countries an integral part of alleviating global poverty. Through their research they develop a path of actio...

http://www.icrw.org/

International Chamber of Commerce

ICC (International Chamber of Commerce) is the voice of world business championing the global economy as a force for economic growth, job creation and prosperity. Because national economies are ...

http://www.iccwbo.org

International Development Research Center

IDRC is a Canadian Crown corporation that works in close collaboration with researchers from the developing world in their search for the means to build healthier, more equitable, and more prospero...

http://www.idrc.ca

International Finance Corporation

to create opportunity for people to escape poverty and improve their lives

http://www.ifc.org/

International Food Policy Research Institute

The International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) seeks sustainable solutions for ending hunger and poverty. IFPRI is one of 15 centers supported by the Consultative Group on International A...

http://www.cgiar.org/

International Fund for Agricultural Development

The International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD), a specialized agency of the United Nations, was established as an international financial institution in 1977 as one of the major outcome...

http://www.ifad.org/

International Labour Organisation

The International Labour Organization (ILO) is devoted to advancing opportunities for women and men to obtain decent and productive work in conditions of freedom, equity, security and human dignity...

http://www.ilo.org

International Land Coalition

A global alliance of civil society and intergovernmental organizations working together to promote secure and equitable access to and control over land for poor women and men through advocacy, dial...

http://www.landcoalition.org

International Organization of Employers

The International Organisation of Employers (IOE) is the only recognised body representing the interests of employers in international social and labour policy matters.

http://www.ioe-emp.org

International Policy Center for Inclusive Growth

IPC-IG provides research-based policy recommendations to UNDP country offices and development partners globally.

http://www.undp-povertycentre.org/

International Relief and Development (IRD)

IRD’s mission is to reduce the suffering of the world’s most vulnerable groups and provide tools and resources needed to increase their self-sufficiency.

http://www.ird.org/splash/index.php

International Telecommunication Union (ITU)

ITU’s mission is to enable the growth and sustained development of telecommunications and information networks, and to facilitate universal access so that people everywhere can participate in, and ...

http://www.itu.int/en/pages/default.aspx

International Union for Conservation of Nature

Conserving biodiversity is central to the mission of IUCN. We demonstrate how biodiversity is fundamental to addressing some of the world’s greatest challenges: tackling climate change, achieving s...

http://www.iucn.org

Inwent - Capacity Building International, Germany

Inwent supports the German government’s foreign trade offensive. Sustainable economic development and global growth presuppose qualified people and competent institutions. Inwent's capacity buildin...

http://www.inwent.org

Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA)

'Inclusive development' represents an approach to development that encourages all people to recognize the development issues they themselves face, participate in addressing them, and enjoy the frui...

http://www.jica.go.jp

John Hopkins' Bloomberg School of Public Health Center for Communications Program (JHU-CCP)

CCP envisions a world in which communication saves lives, improves health, and enhances well-being.

http://www.jhuccp.org/contact

John Snow Incoporated Takamol Project

The Integrated Reproductive Health Services Project, Takamol, builds on a thirty year partnership between USAID and Egypt, assisting the government to improve health outcomes for newborns, mothers...

http://www.jsirt.org/JSIInternetProjects/InternetProjectFactSheet.cfm?dblProjDescID=354

Johnson Graduate School of Management, Center for Sustainable Global Enterprise, Cornell University

To be the world's leading knowledge hub for companies seeking to move beyond Corporate Social Responsibility, environmental management and other greening activities toward the successful commercial...

http://www.johnson.cornell.edu/sge/

Johnson & Johnson

In 2005, Johnson & Johnson donated all of the sutures for the “Fistula Fortnight,” a two-week fistula treatment and training project in northern Nigeria spearheaded by UNFPA. The partnership has si...

http://www.endfistula.org/private_sector.htm

KfW Entwicklungsbank (KfW)

KfW works on behalf of the German Government towards attaining the following goals: - food security and basic education for all, - healthy economic growth that does not occur at the expense o...

http://www.kfw-entwicklungsbank.de/EN_Home/index.jsp

Kiva

Kiva's mission is to connect people, through lending, for the sake of alleviating poverty. Kiva empowers individuals to lend to an entrepreneur across the globe. By combining microfinance with t...

http://www.kiva.org

Koraye Kurumba

The first Rural Energy Services Company (RESCO), Koraye Kurumba (meaning “New Light” in the Soninké language), was created in 1999 by EDF (shareholder at 70 percent) and Total (30 percent), a majo...

http://growinginclusivemarkets.org/media/cases/Mali_RESCOs_2008.pdf

Kraft Foods

In 2005, Kraft launched Kenco Sustainable Development, its first 100 percent Rainforest Alliance Certified retail brand, in France, Sweden, Italy and the UK, building awareness of sustainable coffe...

http://www.rainforest-alliance.org/branding.cfm?id=kraft

Kräuter Mix GmbH

In an effort to develop rural economies and improve local livelihoods, in 2010 the UNDP Country Office in Sudan selected German Kräuter Mix GmbH dealing in hibiscus as lead company to strengthen t...

K-Rep Bank

K-Rep Bank provides financial services to all because it believes that this is a basic human right that every Kenyan, especially the low-income, small and micro entrepreneurs must have access to. I...

http://www.k-repbank.com/

K-Rep Development Agency

K-Rep Development Agency (KDA) is a microfinance development organization whose mission is to “empower low-income people, serve as a catalyst for them to increase their participation in the develop...

http://www.k-rep.org/

L’Aquila Food Security Initiative

At the 2009 meeting of the G-8 in L’Aquila, world leaders committed USD20 billion over three years for sustainable agriculture development and safety nets for vulnerable populations. Called the Aqu...

http://www.fao.org/tc/tci/othercollaboration/the-aquila-food-security-initiative/en/

Leadership for Conservation in Africa

The LCA is aimed at unifying Africa's conservation authorities to significantly contribute to the economic development of the continent. By using sound business principles, LCA works to establish ...

http://lcafrica.org/

LeapFrog Investments

LeapFrog is led by some of the world's pre-eminent experts in microinsurance, and supported by a global consortium of leading law firms, actuaries and consultants in financial services to low-incom...

http://www.leapfroginvest.com

Levis Strauss

HERproject partners include eight multinational companies, 30 factories, eight local organizations, and multiple clinics, hospitals, and public-sector population and health departments. Each play a...

http://herproject.org/

LifeSpring Hospitals - Providing high quality health care to lower-income women and children in India (UNDP)

Lifespring Hospitals has committed to provide an estimated 82,000 Indian women and their families with access to quality healthcare, increasing the number of hospitals serving mothers and children ...

http://www.un.org/apps/news/story.asp?NewsID=34310&Cr=MDG&Cr1=

Making Markets Work for the Poor

Making Markets Work Better for the Poor (M4P) is an approach that aims to accelerate pro-poor growth by making markets function better and with greater fairness for the poor men and women that part...

http://www.markets4poor.org

Manila Water Company

Manila Water provides water services to more than 1 million households in the East Concession area through more than 680,000 water service connections and 51,000 sewer service connections. More sig...

http://www.manilawater.com/

Medicines for Malaria Venture (MMV)

MMV’s portfolio focuses on delivering efficacious medicines that are affordable, accessible and appropriate for use in malaria endemic areas.

http://www.mmv.org/

Mekong Private Sector Development Facility (MPDF)

MPDF promotes small and medium enterprise development at the macro, meso and micro levels of the economy, and achieves economies of scale by implementing programs across Vietnam, Cambodia and Lao P...

http://www.ifc.org/ifcext/eastasia.nsf/Content/MPDF1

Merck Vaccine Network

The Merck Company Foundation has committed a total of $4.4 million in funding for the Merck Vaccine Network – Africa (MVN-A) through 2011. To date, more than 510 health professionals in Kenya, Mali...

http://www.merck.com/corporate-responsibility/access/access-vaccines-immunization/mvna-access-vaccines-africa/approach.html

Mexico Supply Development Program (UNDP)

Launched in partnership with Secretaría de Economía (Secretary of the Economy), the program aims to develop better supply chains in order to improve the performance and competitiveness of national ...

MI-BOSPO

Solidarity group lending, Individual lending, Agricultural lending, Housing and other products.

http://www.mi-bospo.org/

Microfund for Women (MFW)

We are the only non-profit organization in Jordan to actively target women. While most commercial lending institutions consider low-income women as unbankable, we consider them as agents of change....

http://www.microfund.org.jo/public/main_english.aspx?M=3&page_id=1

Microsoft - ICT Skills Building (UNDP)

Implemented in 10 countries around the world, the overall objective of the programme was to foster local capacity development through ICT skills building. It was designed to enhance the opportuniti...

Millennium Challenge Corporation

The Millennium Challenge Corporation (MCC) is an innovative and independent U.S. foreign aid agency that is helping lead the fight against global poverty.

http://www.mcc.gov

Ministry of Commerce of the People's Republic of China

To formulate development strategies, guidelines and policies of domestic and foreign trade and international economic cooperation, draft laws and regulations governing domestic and foreign trade, e...

http://english.mofcom.gov.cn/

Ministry of Finance of Luxemburg

Luxembourg's ministry of financial affairs.

http://www.mf.public.lu

Mission of Hope for Society Foundation

Mission of Hope for Society Foundation (mihoso) is a human rights and social development, not-for-profit, non-governmental organization working to ensure that women, marginalized and children have ...

http://mohopeforsociety.org/

MIT Design Laboratory

The MIT Design Laboratory focuses on the theories, techniques, and practices of innovative design. It pursues research, executes practical design and art projects, and engages in scholarship and cr...

Montreal Protocol

Since 1987 the Montreal Protocol on Substances that Deplete the Ozone Layer has sought to reverse past damage done to the Ozone Layer by supporting efforts to eliminate the consumption and producti...

http://www.undp.org/chemicals/montrealprotocol.htm

Mozambique Foundation for Community Development (FDC)

The FDC is a civil organization, without party affiliation, which aims to join forces of all sectors of society in achieving an ideal of development, democracy and social justice.

http://www.fdc.org.mz

Mozambique Ministry of Health

Promote and encourage the resolution of health problems, designing and developing programs to promote and protect health and the prevention and combating disease; Provide health care to the popula...

http://www.misau.gov.mz/

MPesa

M-PESA is a Safaricom service allowing you to transfer money using a mobile phone. Kenya is the first country in the world to use this service, which is offered in partnership between Safaricom and...

http://www.safaricom.co.ke/index.php?id=745

Multilateral Investment Guarantee Agency (MIGA)

As a member of the World Bank Group, MIGA's mission is to promote foreign direct investment (FDI) into developing countries to help support economic growth, reduce poverty, and improve people's liv...

http://www.miga.org/index_sv.cfm

MYC4

MYC4 is an online marketplace that connects you directly with African entrepreneurs, who lack capital to develop their businesses. We see a huge business potential in Africa waiting to be triggered.

http://https://www.myc4.com/

National Bank of Vanuatu (NBV)

The Microfinance Pasifika Network is an initiative of the Foundation for Development Cooperation. The Microfinance Pasifika Network is an alliance of institutions committed to supporting disadvanta...

http://www.nbv.vu

National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme

The NREG Act 2005 provides enhancement of livelihood security, giving at least 100 days of guaranteed wage employment in every financial year to every household, whose adult members volunteer to do...

http://nrega.ap.gov.in/Nregs/Home_eng.jsp

Nationwide Microbank

Nationwide Microbank is to be a leading national level Micro-bank of PNG and to provide equal access to banking services to the population of PNG at large.

http://www.microfinance-pasifika.org/wmb-limited.html

Nepalese Young Entrepreneurs’ Forum (NYEF)

The Nepalese Young Entrepreneurs' Forum (NYEF) is a membership based nonprofit organization, established with an aim of creating outstanding entrepreneurs through idea exchange, fellowships, educat...

http://www.nyef.org.np/

Nepal-India Chamber of Commerce & Industry

The Nepal India Chamber of Commerce and Industry ( NICCI ) was established in 1994. The primary aim of NICCI is to promote Joint Venture Investment and economic relations between Nepal and friendly...

http://www.nicci.org/

Netherlands Development Organization (SNV)

SNV aims to alleviate poverty by enabling those on the lowest incomes to be part of social and economic networks and so increase their income and employment opportunities.

http://www.snvworld.org/en/Pages/default.aspx

Nike Foundation

When communities are educated about the importance of girls’ health, everyone’s health improves. When a girl is HIV free, her future children are as well. When girls support one another, that suppo...

http://www.nikefoundation.org

Novartis Vaccines Institute for Global Health (NVGH)

Novartis Vaccines Institute for Global Health (NVGH) works in partnership with the Global Alliance for Vaccines and Immunization (GAVI), the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and the Wellcome Trus...

http://www.novartisfoundation.org

Nuon

Nuon is committed to achieving a sustainable energy supply. As we move toward this situation, Nuon puts security of supply first and attaches great value to innovation.

http://www.nuon.com/csr/nuon-as-an-energy-company/index.jsp

NZAID

NZAID is currently formalising long-term partnerships with two UN system agencies in Nepal. NZAID will work with UNDP on microenterprise development (with a particular focus on women and disadvanta...

http://enews.nzaid.govt.nz/index.php?id=18

Oasis Fund

The investment objective of the Oasis Fund is to provide long-term capital appreciation through investments in a diversified portfolio of equity securities listed on a range of markets. The fund ma...

http://www.csmltd.com/PDF%20Files/Hansard%20Flemings%20Oasis.pdf

OeEB Development Bank of Austria

OeEB supports commercially self-sustaining projects in the private sector in developing countries.

http://www.oe-eb.at

Omidyar Network

Omidyar Network is a philanthropic investment firm dedicated to harnessing the power of markets to create opportunity for people to improve their lives. We invest in and help scale innovative organ...

http://www.omidyar.com/

Opportunities for the Majority

The Opportunities for the Majority initiative promotes and finances market-based, sustainable business models that engage private sector companies, local governments and communities in the developm...

http://www.iadb.org/topics/om/home.cfm

Opportunity International

Opportunity International provides microfinance loans, savings, insurance and training to over two million people working their way out of poverty in the developing world.

http://www.opportunity.org/

Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development

OECD brings together the governments of countries committed to democracy and the market economy from around the world to: Support sustainable economic growth, boost employment, raise living standar...

http://www.oecd.org

Orient Global Education Fund

The Orient Global Foundation (OGF) is the philanthropic arm of the Orient Global Group, a Singapore-based investment fund run by Richard Chandler. The Chandler brothers (Richard and Christopher) ar...

http://www.ncl.ac.uk/ecls/research/project/2149

Overseas Development Institute

ODI is Britain's leading independent think tank on international development and humanitarian issues. The mission is to inspire and inform policy and practice which lead to the reduction of poverty...

http://www.odi.org.uk/

Oxfam International

Oxfam is an international confederation of 14 organizations working together in 99 countries and with partners and allies around the world to find lasting solutions to poverty and injustice. It wor...

http://www.oxfam.org

Oxford Poverty & Human Development Initiative (OPHI)

The Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative (OPHI) is an economic research centre within the Oxford Department of International Development at the University of Oxford. OPHI’s mission is to...

http://www.ophi.org.uk/

Partnership Resource Centre, Erasmus University Rotterdam

The centre’s ambitions are to have a high societal as well as scientific impact (resulting in citation scores in academic as well as popular media). It should function as a source of validated info...

http://www.erim.nl/partnerships

PesiNet

Pesinet is a not-for-profit international organization delivering a simple prevention and early-care system for countries lacking medical resources with the objective of driving a systemic change i...

http://www.pesinet.org/wp/

Population Services International (PSI)

PSI is a leading global health organization with programs targeting malaria, child survival, HIV and reproductive health. Working in partnership within the public and private sectors, and harnessin...

http://www.psi.org

Practica Foundation

The PRACTICA Foundation aims to facilitate research, development and commercial application of technology in the field of water and energy in developing countries. The choice for water and energy-r...

http://www.practicafoundation.nl/

Private Infrastructure Development Group (PIDG Trust)

PIDG was established in 2002 as a donor-financial group with the aim of helping to overcome the obstacles to private sector involvement and investment in infrastructure development in developing co...

http://www.pidg.org

Project Health Children (PHC)

Project Healthy Children works with governments and private industry to establish food fortification programs that improve the health of women and children around the world – every time they eat a ...

http://www.projecthealthychildren.org/index.php

Project Laser Beam (PLB)

Project Laser Beam (PLB) is a five-year, US$50 million public-private partnership that seeks to eradicate child malnutrition. It brings together the expertise of UN agencies with that of Fortune 50...

http://www.wfp.org/how-to-help/companies/laserbeam

Promotion et Participation pour la Coopération Economique (PROPARCO)

to boost private investment in emerging and developing countries in favor of growth, sustainable development and reaching the Millennium Development Goals

http://www.proparco.fr

Rainey Kelly Campbell Roalfe/Young & Rubicam (RCKR/Y&R)

Rainey Kelly Campbell Roalfe/Young & Rubicam (RCKR/Y&R) is lending its creative services to the global Campaign to End Fistula. In 2005/6, the award-winning agency created a series of advertising m...

http://www.endfistula.org/private_sector.htm

RapidSMS

RapidSMS is a free and open-source framework for dynamic data collection, logistics coordination and communication, leveraging basic short message service (SMS) mobile phone technology.

http://www.rapidsms.org/

Research ICT Africa

The Research ICT Africa Network conducts research on ICT policy and regulation that facilitates evidence-based and informed policy making for improved access, use and application of ICT for social ...

http://www.researchictafrica.net/

RiteMed

The market price of medicines in the Philippines is among the highest in the world—40-70 percent more than in neighbouring countries, according to the Philippine Department of Health. Some drugs ...

http://www.undp.org/gimlaunch/press/docs/PHILIPPINES%20RITEMED%20CASE%20SUMMARY.pdf

Rockefeller Foundation

The Rockefeller Foundation supports work that expands opportunity and strengthens resilience to social, economic, health and environmental challenges.

http://www.rockefellerfoundation.org

Root Capital

Root Capital is a nonprofit social investment fund that is pioneering finance for grassroots businesses in rural areas of developing countries. We provide capital, financial education, and market c...

http://www.rootcapital.org/

RugMark International e.V. (RMI)

RugMark International e.V. (RMI) is an international non- governmental organization working to end illegal child labor in the handmade rug industry and offer educational opportunities to children i...

http://www.goodweave.net

Saraman

The start‐up company Saraman in Isfahan, central Iran, cofounded by an Iranian and a German professor moved by the earthquake of Bam in 2003, is an example of addressing housing and construction ...

http://cases.growinginclusivemarkets.org/documents/68

Schwab Foundation for Social Entrepreneurship

The Schwab Foundation for Social Entrepreneurship is a not-for-profit, independent and neutral organization, founded in 1998, with the purpose to advance social entrepreneurship and to foster socia...

http://www.schwabfound.org

SELCO

SELCO Solar Pvt. Ltd, a social enterprise established in 1995, provides sustainable energy solutions and services to under-served households and businesses.

http://www.selco-india.com/

Sistema Económico Latinoamericano

SELA aims to restructure international commerce in basic commodities in order to raise developing states' export values, improve trade conditions, stimulate industrial development, control foreign-...

http://www.sela.org

SKS Microfinance

Our mission is to fight poverty while keeping in line with our core values of “right focus, right means and the right way.” We provide financial services to the poor and use our network to give the...

http://www.sksindia.com/

Smart Communications

A leading wireless telephone services provider in the Philippines, Smart Communications, Inc. recognized that at least 8 million Filipinos work and live abroad—about a quarter of the domestic labou...

http://smart.com.ph/

Social Accountability Accreditation Service (SAAS)

SAAS is structured and operates as an accreditation body. SAAS manages and directs accreditation activities, including the granting, maintaining, extending, reducing, suspending and withdrawing of ...

http://www.saasaccreditation.org/

Social Accountability International (SAI)

SAI is a non-governmental, international, multi-stakeholder organization dedicated to improving workplaces and communities by developing and implementing socially responsible standards.

http://www.sa-intl.org/

Società Italiana per le Imprese all'Estero (SIMEST)

SIMEST aims to promote the activities of Italian businesses abroad and to provide technical and financial support for projects.

http://www.simest.it/home.html

Society for Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry (SETAC)

SETAC's mission is to support the development of principles and practices for protection, enhancement and management of sustainable environmental quality and ecosystem integrity.

http://www.setac.org/

South African Department of Trade and Industry

The Department of Trade and Industry's vision is of a South Africa that has a vibrant economy, characterised by growth, employment and equity, built on the full potential of all citizens.

http://www.thedti.gov.za

Special Unit for South-South Cooperation (SU/SSC)

The Special Unit for South-South Cooperation (SU/SSC) was established by the United Nations General Assembly in 1978. Hosted in UNDP, the primary mandate is to promote, coordinate and support South...

http://ssc.undp.org/

Standard Chartered

In 2008, Standard Chartered responded to the Business Call to Action and launched a pilot program to support small business development in Pakistan. Over the course of the pilot, Standard Chartere...

http://www.businesscalltoaction.org/members/2010/08/standard-chartered/

Strategic Alliance for the Fortification of Oil and Other Staple Foods (Safo)

The purpose of the Safo is to provide low-income population groups in currently six selected emerging and developing countries at low cost with staple foods fortified with vitamin A at low cost. Fo...

http://basf.com/group/corporate/en/news-and-media-relations/science-around-us/food-fortification/prospects

Strategic Business Partnerships

SBP is an independent private sector development and research company specialising in improving the environment for doing business.

http://www.sbp.org.za/

Swedfund

Swedfund’s mission is to promote the sustainable economic development of the countries in which it invests. By co-financing sound investments, Swedfund encourages economically, environmentally and ...

http://www.swedfund.se/en/

Swiss Association for International Cooperation (Helvetas)

For its international programs, Helvetas’ mission is to: - collaborate in a participatory manner with and for the benefit of the poor and underprivileged society groups in the poor regions of d...

http://www.helvetas.ch/

Swiss Investment Fund for Emerging Markets (SIFEM)

SIFEM's investment philosophy is guided by the belief that investing in commercially viable emerging market SMEs can provide investors risk adjusted returns, as well as generate sustainable, long-t...

http://www.sifem.ch/

Synergos Institute

Synergos addresses global poverty and social injustice by working collaboratively to change the systems that keep people in poverty. They bring together government, business, civil society and poor...

http://www.synergos.org

Syngenta

Syngenta is one of the world's leading companies dedicated to bringing plant potential to life, by increasing crop productivity, protecting the environment and improving health and quality of life.

http://www.syngenta.com

TechnoServe

TechnoServe helps entrepreneurial men and women in poor areas of the developing world to build businesses that create income, opportunity and economic growth for their families, their communities a...

http://www.technoserve.org

The Atlantic Philanthropies (USA) Inc.

The Atlantic Philanthropies is dedicated to bringing about lasting changes in the lives of people who are disadvantaged by their economic situation, race, nationality, gender, age, disabilities, im...

http://www.atlanticphilanthropies.org

The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation

The Gates Foundation works to help all people lead healthy, productive lives. In developing countries, it focuses on improving people’s health and giving them the chance to lift themselves out of h...

http://www.gatesfoundation.org

The Forest Stewardship Council

To create a marketplace that promotes well-managed forests by ensuring forestry practices that are environmentally responsible, socially equitable, and economically viable.

http://www.fscus.org

The Global Business Coalition on HIV/AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria (GBC)

GBC occupies a unique place in the community of NGOs—a pivotal place. We bring the private sector's special capabilities and drive for measurable results to the fight against HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis...

http://www.gbcimpact.org/

The Global Environment Facility (GEF)

The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) was designated by the Global Environment Facility (GEF) in 1991 as one of its three Implementing Agencies. The GEF was established to forge internati...

http://www.undp.org/gef/

The Global Water Challenge (GWC)

GWC seeks to accelerate the delivery of safe water and sanitation through partnerships that catalyze financial support and innovation for sustainable solutions.

http://www.globalwaterchallenge.org

The Greenhouse Gas Protocol

To provide business leadership as a catalyst for change toward sustainable development, and to promote the role of eco-efficiency, innovation and corporate social responsibility.

http://www.ghgprotocol.org/

The HealthStore Foundation

To improve access to essential drugs, basic healthcare, and prevention services for children and families in the developing world using business models that maintain standards, are geometrically sc...

http://www.cfwshops.org

The Institute of Mother and Child

The Institute of Mother and Child is an organisation with over fifty years of history. It was founded in 1951, and since that time it has consistently participated in solving the health problems of...

http://www.imid.med.pl/

The Jordan Education Initiative

Buliding on public-private partnership, JEI leapfrogs education transformation through innovation in the region.

http://www.jei.org.jo/

The Korea Energy Management Corporation (KEMCO) - SWITCH to BIOGAS (UNDP)

By using the methane emmissions from dairy cattle as biogas, many smallholders and farmers can help mitigate their impact on climate change. Biogas generates affordable renewable energy for the poo...

http://undp.or.id/factsheets/2009/ENV/Switch%20to%20Biogas.pdf

The Marine Stewardship Council

MSC's mission is to use the ecolabel and fishery certification programme to contribute to the health of the world’s oceans by recognising and rewarding sustainable fishing practises, influencing th...

http://www.msc.org/

The Micronutrient Initiative

The Micronutrient Initiative (MI) is dedicated to ensuring that the world's most vulnerable-especially women and children in developing countries-get the vitamins and minerals they need to survive ...

http://www.micronutrient.org

The Nature Conservancy

The Nature Conservancy is the leading conservation organization working around the world to protect ecologically important lands and waters for nature and people.

http://www.nature.org

The New Partnership for Africa's Development (NEPAD)

NEPAD’s Primary Objectives are to eradicate poverty; to place African countries, both individually and collectively, on a path of sustainable growth and development; to halt the marginalization of ...

http://www.nepad.org

The Pacific Financial Inclusion Programme (UNDP)

The Pacific Financial Inclusion Programme (PFIP), a partnership of UNDP, UNCDF, the European Union and AusAid, aims to expand access to financial services to the 80% of the region’s people who are ...

http://www.undppc.org.fj/pages.cfm/our-work/pfip/

The South Centre

The South Centre works to assist in developing points of view of the South on major policy issues, and to generate ideas and action-oriented proposals for consideration by the collectivity of South...

http://www.southcentre.org

The Women Workers' Unity Group (WWUG)

The Women Workers’ Unity Group (WWUG) in Thailand has been demanding that government establish child-care centres in industrial communities and that state-run day-care centres expand their hours t...

http://www.growinginclusivemarkets.org/media/mdgreport/mdgreport_mdg3.pdf

The World Food Programme (WFP)

Born in 1962, WFP pursues a vision of the world in which every man, woman and child has access at all times to the food needed for an active and healthy life. We work towards that vision with our s...

http://www.wfp.org

Tinex

Tinex was founded by Vladimir Todorovich in 1994 in the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia (FYROM). It has grown from a single location supermarket with 15 employees and 700m2 to being the count...

http://www.growinginclusivemarkets.org/media/mdgreport/mdgreport_mdg1.pdf

Tostan

Tostan's mission is to empower African communities to bring about sustainable development and positive social transformation based on respect for human rights.

http://www.tostan.org/

TOTAL

Only ten percent of Mali’s 12 million inhabitants have access to electricity, a figure that goes down to two to three percent in rural areas where appliances are powered by car batteries and kerose...

http://www.value-chains.org/dyn/bds/docs/738/Mali_RESCOs%20FINAL.pdf

Tracking company performance through Social and Governance Index in Egypt (UNDP)

In March 2010 Egypt launched a new index—Standard and Poor’s/Egypt Stock Exchange Economic Social and Governance Index (S&P-EGX ESG)—designed to track the performance of the top 100 listed companie...

http://content.undp.org/go/newsroom/2010/march/new-csr-index-tracks-performance-of-listed-companies-on-the-egypt-stock-exchange.en;jsessionid=a5BSFuj93O-7

Transforming productive practices in the Latin American coffee sector (UNDP)

This project was launched in collaboration with Tchibo, Kraft Foods, McDonald’s Europe to help increase market demand for coffee produced under biodiversity-friendly, sustainable production practic...

Transparency International

Transparency International, the global civil society organisation leading the fight against corruption, brings people together in a powerful worldwide coalition to end the devastating impact of cor...

http://www.transparency.org

Uganda's Poverty Eradication Action Plan (PEAP)

The PEAP has guided the formulation of government policy since its inception in 1997, and is currently being revised. Under this plan, Uganda is being transformed into a modern economy in which peo...

http://www.imf.org/external/np/prsp/2000/uga/01/

UNAIDS

Through a series of goals, resolutions and declarations adopted by member nations of the United Nations, the world has a set of commitments, actions and goals to stop and reverse the spread of HIV ...

http://www.unaids.org

UNCTAD

Established in 1964, UNCTAD promotes the development-friendly integration of developing countries into the world economy. UNCTAD has progressively evolved into an authoritative knowledge-based inst...

http://www.unctad.org/

UNDP Green Commodities Facility

To connect global markets with national governments and farmers to strengthen national capacity for scaling up sustainable agricultural production around the world.

http://www.greencommodities.org/

UNESCO

UNESCO works to create the conditions for dialogue among civilizations, cultures and peoples, based upon respect for commonly shared values. It is through this dialogue that the world can achieve g...

http://www.unesco.org

UN FAO

The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations leads international efforts to defeat hunger. Serving both developed and developing countries, FAO acts as a neutral forum where all nati...

http://www.fao.org/

UNIDO's Industrial Subcontracting & Partnership eXchange Programme (SPX)

To help local firms in developing countries identify the opportunities for supplying components for large company clients.

http://www.unido.org/index.php?id=4851

Unilever - Strengthening the Allanblackia Value Chain in Tanzania (UNDP)

UNDP and Unilever supported the creation of a locally owned, five step value chain managed by Novel Development Tanzania that works primarily with village organizations and rural farmers for the ...

UNITAID

UNITAID’s mission is to contribute to scaling up access to treatment for HIV/AIDS, malaria and tuberculosis, primarily for people in low-income countries, by leveraging price reductions for quality...

http://www.unitaid.eu

United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF)

UNICEF is the driving force that helps build a world where the rights of every child are realized. We have the global authority to influence decision-makers, and the variety of partners at grassroo...

http://www.unicef.org/

United Nations Development Fund for Women (UNIFEM)

UNIFEM (part of UN Women) is the women's fund at the United Nations. It provides financial and technical assistance to innovative programmes and strategies to foster women's empowerment and gender...

http://www.unifem.org/

United Nations Development Program

UNDP’s focus is helping countries build and share solutions to the challenges of: - Democratic Governance - Poverty Reduction - Crisis Prevention and Recovery - Environment and Energy -...

http://www.undp.org/

United Nations Environment Programme

To provide leadership and encourage partnership in caring for the environment by inspiring, informing, and enabling nations and peoples to improve their quality of life without compromising that of...

http://www.unep.org

United Nations Foundation

The UN Foundation is an advocate for the UN and platform for connecting people, ideas and resources to help the UN solve global problems. The UN Foundation has since become the premier organization...

United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change

Over a decade ago, most countries joined an international treaty -- the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) -- to begin to consider what can be done to reduce global warm...

http://unfccc.int

United Nations Global Compact

The UN Global Compact has two objectives: 1. Mainstream the ten principles in business activities around the world 2. Catalyze actions in support of broader UN goals, including the Millennium Dev...

http://www.unglobalcompact.org/

United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO)

UNIDO aspires to reduce poverty through sustainable industrial development. The objective is for every country to have the opportunity to grow a flourishing productive sector, to increase their par...

http://www.unido.org/index.php?id=7851#

United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA)

UNFPA, the United Nations Population Fund, is an international development agency that promotes the right of every woman, man and child to enjoy a life of health and equal opportunity. UNFPA suppor...

http://www.unfpa.org

United States Agency for International Development (USAID)

Their work supports long-term and equitable economic growth and advances U.S. foreign policy objectives by supporting economic growth, agriculture and trade;global health; and,democracy, conflict p...

http://www.usaid.gov/

University of Cambridge, Programme for Sustainability Leadership

CPSL draws on the intellectual breadth of the University and on leading thinkers and practitioners from around the world to help leaders in business, government and civil society understand and add...

http://www.cpsl.cam.ac.uk/

University of Michigan's William Davidson Institute

Through a unique structure that integrates research, educational outreach, field-based collaborations, and development consulting services, WDI creates long-term value for academic institutions, pa...

http://wdi.umich.edu

UN Women

The creation by the United Nations General Assembly of the UN Entity for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women — or UN Women — will give new impetus to UN system support to Member States in ...

http://www.unwomen.org/

Verde Ventures

Verde Ventures is an investment fund managed by Conservation International (CI) to provide support for small- and medium-sized businesses that contribute to healthy ecosystems and human well-being.

http://www.conservation.org/sites/verdeventures/about/pages/default.aspx

Virgin

We’re working with Virgin Unite Ambassador, Natalie Imbruglia, and the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) to eradicate this life-shattering condition in northern Nigeria through sustainable app...

http://www.virginunite.com/campaign2/USA/End-Fistula/

Well Family Partnership Foundation, Inc. (WPFI)

To sustain their business and social development operations, the WFMC midwives and their partner NGOs have formed the Well-Family Midwife Clinic Partnerships Foundation, Inc. (WFPI). The mission of...

http://www.wfmc.com.ph/wpfi.htm

Women for Women International

Women for Women International provides women survivors of war, civil strife and other conflicts with the tools and resources to move from crisis and poverty to stability and self-sufficiency, there...

http://www.womenforwomen.org

Women's World Banking (WWB)

Women’s World Banking seeks to alleviate global poverty by expanding the economic assets, participation and power of the poor, especially women. WWB is a global network of 40 microfinance providers...

http://www.swwb.org

World Bank

The World Bank is a vital source of financial and technical assistance to developing countries around the world. Our mission is to fight poverty with passion and professionalism for lasting results...

http://www.worldbank.org/

World Bank (Development Grant Facility)

World Bank provides low-interest loans, interest-free credits and grants to developing countries for a wide array of purposes that include investments in education, health, public administration, i...

http://www.worldbank.org/

World Business Council for Sustainable Development

- Be a leading business advocate on sustainable development; - Participate in policy development to create the right framework conditions for business to make an effective contribution to sustaina...

http://www.wbcsd.org

World Economic Forum

The World Economic Forum is an independent, international organization incorporated as a Swiss not-for-profit foundation. The organization strives towards a world-class corporate governance system ...

http://www.weforum.org/

World Health Organisation (WHO)

WHO is the directing and coordinating authority for health within the United Nations system. It is responsible for providing leadership on global health matters, shaping the health research agenda,...

http://www.who.int/

World LP Gas Association (WLPGA)

The World LP Gas Association is the authoritative, global voice for LP Gas. It promotes the use of LP Gas worldwide to help foster a cleaner, healthier and more prosperous world.

http://www.worldlpgas.com

World Resources Institute's New Ventures

To help environmental entrepreneurship grow in six vibrant emerging markets. Small and medium enterprises (SMEs) are the engines of local economies. Environmental and social SMEs – those that devel...

http://www.new-ventures.org/

World Savings Banks Institute

The mission of WSBI is to influence the standing, development and strength of all member institutions, so that they are perceived both domestically and internationally as proficient and efficient b...

http://www.wsbi.org/

Yeelen Kura

Pioneering company in providing electricity to rural Mali.

http://www.yeelenkura.com/

Zain

Zain is a global citizen in the human spirit of community building. Zain takes social responsibilities very seriously. This means pushing the role in the community beyond providing world-class-lead...

http://www.zain.com

Zanmi Lasante (ZL)

Zanmi Lasante (“Partners In Health” in Haitian Kreyol) is PIH’s flagship project – the oldest, largest, most ambitious, and most replicated. The small community clinic that first started treating p...

http://www.pih.org/pages/haiti/

Zero Microfinance and Savings Support Foundation

ZMF creates the last mile operations network in villages, under pre-defined service agreements with Banks and front-ends the delivery of full-featured transactional services on behalf of Banks for ...

http://www.zero-mass.org/htmls/zmf.html