CAWST, the Centre for Affordable Water and Sanitation Technology, is a nonprofit organization and licensed engineering firm that provides training and consulting to organizations that work directly with populations in developing countries who lack access to clean water and basic sanitation. CAWST "walks beside" hundreds of organizations—government agencies, community groups, and local and international NGOs of all sizes—in 82 countries as they develop their capacities to deliver water and sanitation programs locally. Impacting the lives of 13.1 million people worldwide through better water and sanitation since 2001, CAWST's capacity building model has demonstrated its ability to catalyze community action in developing countries to initiate and operate water and sanitation programs.
WaterSHED uses a systems-approach to build the rural market for water, sanitation, and hygiene products and services across Southeast Asia. Based in Cambodia, WaterSHED uses in-depth research to identify strategic opportunities and gaps in the wider system, and then works to strengthen the capacity and relationships between key actors to create a more dynamic and resilient market. By engaging key actors in the system, including small businesses, customers, and local government, WaterSHED facilitates the adoption of toilets, water filters, and handwashing stations - building a market that functions independent of traditional aid. To date, WaterSHED's Hands-Off marketing approach has successfully enabled small businesses to sell more than 180.000 toilets, generating more than USD $9 million in revenue for rural businesses, and helping accelerate sanitation coverage from […]
Sida works according to directives of the Swedish Parliament and Government to reduce poverty in the world. The overall goal of Swedish development cooperation is to contribute to making it possible for poor people to improve their living conditions.
The Swedish Water HouseProjectsContact Us About us Swedish Water House (SWH) provides meeting places for innovative thinking on emerging issues, knowledge dissemination and multidisciplinary policy development concerning the global water situation. SWH annually organises a range of seminars and workshops focusing on various topics in the field of water and development. In addition SWH supports seminars for Swedish stakeholders and Swedish participation in international meetings addressing the world water crisis. SWH cluster groups bring together Swedish stakeholders from different backgrounds to address emerging water issues through joint policy recommendations. SWH publications and website are tools for building knowledge and reaching out to decision makers as well as to media and general public.
AHT GROUP AG is a privately owned independent consulting firm which was founded in 1960. They offer management and engineering services in their core fields of activity i.e. water supply, wastewater management and sanitation, water resources management, agriculture, governance and environmental and solid waste management. The scope of their services covers management and organisational aspects, institutional development and training, and the entire project cycle from preliminary and feasibility studies to detailed design, project implementation and evaluation. Their clients include national and local government institutions, private sector companies and all the major international development organisations.
Inclusive Business Sweden (IBS) is a not-for-profit centre whose mission is to enable business to meet global development needs. We engage and support organisations in developing sustainable, innovative and inclusive business models with the so-called base of the pyramid BoP - the 4.5 billion people who live on less than 8 dollars a day. Since 2013, we have been working towards our goals by delivering collaborative programmes and direct business services, both locally and globally. At Inclusive Business Sweden, we are making it our business to end poverty
Since 2014, Rose Academies has been working in remote, rural villages of Central and Eastern Africa to empower the world's most oppressed persons with knowledge. Today, we are working in Uganda's rural poor communities as we teach healthcare, nutrition, water & sanitation and disease prevention. In 2020, despite COVID, we established a fellowship program for young Ugandan adults that is a unique approach to the provision of career skills in healthcare, education, research and technology. Our fellowship program is entering its 3rd year and during that time has provided healthcare workshops to 5,000+ pregnant women and new mothers, teaching them how to care for their infants with the primary objective of lowering the high neonatal death rates. Strong Partnerships We believe in the power of collaboration […]
The Asian Institute of Technology (AIT) is an international postgraduate institute of higher education based in Thailand. Established in 1959 as the first postgraduate school in the region, it boasts of over 21,000 alumni in 101 countries and territories. Ranked world's Number "1" in international orientation (by UMultirank), AIT works with nearly 200 partners all over the world.
WASTE works towards sustainable improvement of the urban poor's living conditions and the urban environment in general. Our multi-year, multi-country programmes and projects have a focus on bottom-up development in relation to recycling, solid waste management, ecological sanitation and knowledge sharing. WASTE, located in the Netherlands, teams up with organisations in Africa, Asia, Latin America and Eastern Europe that share its goals and approaches.
The Rich Earth Institute advances the practice of peecycling: reclaiming "waste" as a resource to complete the food nutrient cycle. Human urine contains vital nutrients for growing crops. By reclaiming urine as an agricultural resource, communities can prevent downstream pollution, access a local fertilizer, and conserve clean water. For over a decade, the Rich Earth Institute has operated the nation's first and largest community-scale peecycling program. Learn more at www.richearthinstitute.org
The Institute of Sanitary Engineering and Water Pollution Control at the Department of Water, Atmosphere and Environment of BOKU University (University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences, Vienna, or Universität für Bodenkultur Wien) is active active in education, applied science and research for water quality management. The institute is emphasising an integrated approach, the topics include a wide range of disciplines (e.g. water treatment technologies, sustainable water management, aquatic chemistry/microbiology, modelling, strategic planning methods).
Living Green Cameroon (LGC) is a youth-led non-profit NGO based in Kumba, in the South West Region of Cameroon entirely run by volunteers, 14 staffs and 104 volunteers. Founded in 2008, registered on the 10 August, 2011 with the mission of aiding in community development through combating socio-cultural and economic ills affecting their communities. Living Green Cameroon helps empowers vulnerable children, young people and their respective communities so that they will become active and emerging forces for positive change. For the past 2 years Living Green Cameroon recognized the need to shift the pursuit of community development to sustainable community development in shared models of the SDGs inclusive approach. Base on evidence of success, our work is focus on empowering vulnerable children, young people […]
Rebuild and Relief International (RRI) is a German non-governmental organization focusing on the support of refugees and IDPs in Iraq and Syria. RRI has specialized on the provision of humanitarian assistance to people in need, living in "hard-to-reach-areas". Our core competences are "WASH" (water, sanitation and hygiene) and "shelter rehabilitation" (reconstruction/rehabilitation of houses and buildings).
The East Kolkata Wetlands Management Authority, an authority formed under the State Legislation in 2006 as per the East Kolkata Wetlands (Conservation and Management) Act, 2006. The authority is constituted with the Secretaries of different Departments of State Govt. as well as other Govt. officials and three representatives from NGOs under the chairmanship of Chief Secretary, Government of West Bengal. The authority has been entrusted with the statutory responsibility for conservation and maintenance of the EKW area. The main task of the authority is to maintain the existing land use practices along with its unique recycling activities for which EKW has been included in the Ramsar list of Wetlands of International Importance.
ACD is the professional organization comprised of the individuals and organizations participating in the movement to create L3Cs (Low-profit Limited Liability Companies). ACD provides professional training, support, educational materials, certification and assistance to those who have formed L3Cs, those considering their formation, professionals working in the field, economic development officials, educators and students, government officials, and anyone else interested in L3Cs. In addition, ACD is the prime moving force behind state legislation facilitating L3Cs and federal legislation encouraging their use. ACD also is creating suggested standards and best practices for use of L3Cs. In addition, ACD will provide continued opportunities for unique, professional quality education and collegial collaboratives. Join to learn. Join to share and provide insight. Join to be on the cutting-edge development of […]
Company based in Auroville, Tamil Nadu, promoting organic farming, ecosan, decentralized wastewater treatment, terra preta, EM practices, biodynamic farming and related concepts and technologies. Dealership in (Dr. Higa's authentic) EM, educational programs, consultancy etc.
Oxfam is a global movement of people working with others to overcome poverty and suffering. Oxfam is a vibrant global movement of passionate, dedicated people fighting poverty together. Doing amazing work, together. People power drives everything we do. From saving lives and developing projects that put poor people in charge of their lives and livelihoods, to campaigning for change that lasts.
RLT (in English Rebuild Lasting Together) is a local development NGO (Non-Governmental Organization) working in Khagrachari Hill District, Chittagong Hill Tracts, Bangladesh. RLT began with the collaboration of a group of indigenous, local, energetic, educated social workers; with the aim of promoting the socio-economic, educational and cultural status of the poor and vulnerable people in Khagrachari Hill District. In 1997, after many years of conflicts in the Chittagong Hill Tracts (CHT), a peace accord was agreed, between PCJSS and the government of Bangladesh. Because of this, the situation is now favourable for sustainable development of the CHT people. On February 2nd 1997, RLT was established as a local non-profit Non-Governmental Organization (NGO), with the Marma name Rurowa Laue Tathang; aiming to uplift the neglected […]
Sanitation is vital for people's wellbeing and health, but in dense urban areas low quality and unhygienic solutions frequently prevail. Pit latrines are quickly overloaded, and municipal sewerage systems rarely cover more than the central core of a city. The richest 20% of the population in Sub-Saharan Africa is almost five times as likely to use an improved sanitation facility as the poorest quintile. Reall work predominantly in high density urban and peri-urban areas constructing incremental housing with associated infrastructure. Reall's interventions benefit their low-income clients by using housing as a nexus for the sustainable delivery of infrastructure including improving access to water, sanitation and hygiene.
A group of known experts in various fields particularly health, Social Work & Community service got together in the early nineties. They had an eager mind to help the society particularly in rural areas of the state of Haryana focused on the rural poor women & children. The Area which were recognized for intervention are Health, Literacy, Skill Development & Income Generation, Environment, Social Counseling, Cultural & Sports Activities & Empowerment. It was envisaged that interventions be devised so that there is a holistic development for which comprehensive and time bound strategies were identified.