Land and Water Bolivia Ltda. consultants has a philosophy which supports sustainable development of rural communities and urban populations founded on a technical focus employing community management. The development process supported by LWB seeks to support an integral improvement in the living conditions and achieve socially just economic growth, employing the rational use of natural resources. The company offers high quality technical services to complement a wide range of experience in the social area.
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.
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.
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).
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 […]
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 […]
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.
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.
Saniblog started off as an open blog in November 2007 to celebrate the International Year of Sanitation in 2008. The initial motivation was to have a platform for sanitation-related news as there were no other blogs covering this special topic way back in 2007. Saniblog has since turned into a company that offers consultancy on water, sanitation and IT issues. The blog itself remains online and is still used to publish sanitation-related news by various guest authors.
Sanitation Updaptes is a news feed on sanitation that is maintained by the IRC International Water and Sanitation Centre and by USAID’s Environmental Health knowledge management activity and the Hygiene Improvement Project. It was originally set up to promote the 2008 International Year of Sanitation and continues to provide news, information and resources in support of achieving the goal of sanitation for all.
Sarar Transformación , based in Tepoztlan, Morelos, Mexico, is an international multidisciplinary consulting group primarily focusing in recent years on the development and promotion of ecological sanitation systems - ecosan. Sarar Transformation's mission is to stimulate the transformation of the conventional modes of thinking and acting in relation to water and sanitation to more natural and holistic systems, closing the nutrient cycle to stop the degradation of our planet and improve the quality of life in a context of equity and economic harmony , social and ecological.
Sardar Vallabhbhai National Institute Of Technology, Surat is one of the 17 Regional Engineering Colleges that were established as joint venture of the Government of India and the Government of Gujarat. It was established in June 1961 with facilities to run Bachelor's Degree Programmes in Civil, Electrical and Mechanical Engineering disciplines. It is now changed to National Institute of Technology along with other RECs.
Friends of Orchha is a non-profit organisation working in Madhya Pradesh, India on creating livelihoods linked to tourism, preserving the environment of heritage sites like Orchha and promoting cultural exchange between visitors and locals. Interaction with a group of women from a poor neighbourhood of Orchha was the spark that led to the creation of Orchha Home-stay, a social enterprise that creates incomes and assets for families below poverty line while providing a rich cultural experience for both visitors and hosts.
Founded on 19 November 2001, World Toilet Organization (WTO) is a global non-profit that is working towards a world with a clean, safe toilet and sanitation for everyone, everywhere, at all times. Our mission is to continue to build the global sanitation movement through collaborative action that inspires and drives demand for sanitation, and provides innovative solutions to achieve sustainable sanitation for all. We do this through: • Advocacy that mobilises people to action. Through our constant advocacy efforts in the area of global sanitation, we have made great strides in breaking the taboo associated with sanitation. The cornerstones of our advocacy work are our annual World Toilet Summit and World Toilet Day on 19th November, adopted in 2013 by the United Nations as an official day […]
The family business Separett was founded in 1976 and is today one of the world’s leading manufacturer of urine separating toilets. Separett is based deep in the evergreen forests of Småland; this region is the entrepreneurial and logistic hub of Southern Sweden. Development and manufacturing is performed by knowledgeable staff in modern premises.
SNV is a global development partner deeply rooted in the African and Asian countries where we operate. With 60 years of experience and a team of approximately 1,600 people, we strengthen capacities and catalyse partnerships that transform agri-food, energy and water systems. Working on the core themes of gender equality and social inclusion, climate adaptation and mitigation, and strong institutions and effective governance, we tailor our approaches to different contexts to achieve large-scale impact and create sustainable and more equitable lives for all.