France
France contributes some 18 percent of the European Union’s development aid and participates in the multilateral aid programmes of the development banks and the United Nations. Most of France’s assistance is granted in the form of bilateral aid via the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the French development agency (AFD), which supports more than 500 development projects each year, provide technical assistance and offer grant programmes for study in France.
The Crisis Centre within the French Ministry for Foreign and European Affairs was created in July 2008 to make the ministry a major governmental tool for mitigating risks (natural, health and technological) and foreign threats and managing crises.
Netherlands
Oxfam has built its strategy and policy upon the idea that everybody in the world has the same rights, no matter where he or she is born. Poor people can’t build independent livelihoods when their rights are not respected. Oxfam supports their efforts to stand up for their rights.
The Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs coordinates and carries out Dutch foreign policy at its headquarters in The Hague and through its missions abroad. The Netherlands "are committed to building a safe, stable and prosperous world." In The Hague and at more than 150 embassies and consulates worldwide, staff are actively involved in addressing issues such as poverty reduction, climate change, respect for human rights and the rule of law, and eliminating conflict.
Global
The UN Foundation, a public charity, was created in 1998 to support UN causes and activities. It is an advocate for the UN and a platform for connecting people, ideas and resources to help the United Nations solve global problems. We help the UN take its best work and ideas to scale through advocacy, partnerships, constituency-building and fund-raising.
The European Commission- Instrument for Stability (IfS) is a strategic tool designed to address a number of global security and development challenges in complement to geographic instruments. A short-term component aims to prevent conflict, support post-conflict political stabilisation and to ensure early recovery after a natural disaster. A long-term component implements EU co-operation policies in third countries in the context of stable conditions.
The Humanitarian Innovation Fund (HIF) supports organisations working in countries struck by humanitarian crises, such as Haiti or Pakistan, to develop, test and share new technologies and processes that will contribute to more effective and cost-efficient humanitarian aid in the future. It has been created through a partnership between Enhanced Learning and Research for Humanitarian Assistance (ELRHA) and Active Learning Network for Accountability and Performance in Humanitarian Action (ALNAP). It is currently made up of contributions from the UK Department for International Development (DFID) and the Swedish Ministry of Foreign Affairs (SIDA) totalling £1.4 million. The HIF has been created to provide the sector with a critical new resource to reflect, innovate and implement new ways of working.
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IPI is a global network of editors, media executives and leading journalists dedicated to the furtherance and safeguarding of press freedom, the protection of freedom of opinion and expression, the promotion of the free flow of news and information and the improvement of the practices of journalism. Founded in 1950, at Columbia University in New York, IPI is one of the oldest global human rights organizations in the world.
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The Department For International Development (DFID), separated from the Foreign and Commonwealth Office in 1997, is a United Kingdom government agency that manages Britain's aid to poor and developing countries. Its goal is to promote sustainable development and eliminate extreme poverty.
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The European Union, composed of the Member States and the European Commission, is the world’s biggest aid donor. The Commission’s EuropeAid co-operation office manages EU external-aid programmes and ensures that development assistance is delivered worldwide. The European Union also tackles universal issues and promotes good governance, human and social development, security and migration, natural resources and more.
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UNESCO is a specialised agency of the United Nations established in November 1945. Its mission is to "create the conditions for dialogue among civilisations, cultures and peoples, based upon respect for commonly shared values. It is through this dialogue that the world can achieve global visions of sustainable development encompassing observance of human rights, mutual respect and the alleviation of poverty, all of which are at the heart of UNESCO’s mission and activities." UNESCO, based in Paris, France, encompasses 193 Member States and has 50 field offices and many specialised institutes and centres around the world.
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The Communication for Climate Change Multi Donor Trust Fund (CCC MDTF) is a global fund established by the World Bank and Italy’s Ministry of Environment and Territory to complement other bank initiatives on climate change by advancing the theory and practice of communication for development in support of climate-change awareness.
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The Danish International Development Agency (DANIDA) was set up within Denmark’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs to provide humanitarian help and assistance in developing countries. Danish development assistance takes the most urgent problems in the developing countries as its starting point, and at the same time reflects the values underlying Denmark’s international behaviour. The promotion of sustainable development through economic growth that is focused on alleviating poverty is the fundamental challenge for Danish development cooperation.
The Open Society Institute (OSI) is a private grant-making foundation created in 1993 by investor Georges Soros. Initially created to support his foundations in Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union, OSI has expanded the foundations’ activities to other countries making the transition to democracy. OSI works to build vibrant and tolerant democracies whose governments are accountable to their citizens.
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The Climate Investment Funds (CIF) consist of the the Clean Technology Fund (CTF) and the Strategic Climate Fund (SCF), instruments designed by developed and developing countries to support low-carbon and climate-resilient development with financing channelled through the multilateral development banks (African Development Bank, Asian Development Bank, European Bank for Reconstruction and Development, Inter-American Development Bank) and the World Bank Group. The funds were created to bridge the financing and learning gap between now and the next international climate-change agreement.
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OCHA is the arm of the UN Secretariat responsible for bringing together humanitarian actors to ensure coherent responses to emergencies. OCHA also ensures that there is a framework within which each actor can contribute to the overall response effort.
OCHA's mission is to mobilise and coordinate effective and principled humanitarian action in partnership with national and international actors in order to alleviate human suffering in disasters and emergencies; advocate for the rights of people in need; promote preparedness and prevention; and facilitate sustainable solutions.
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NCDO involves people in the Netherlands in international cooperation and supports them with information, subsidies and advice. The millennium goals provide the point of reference for all these activities. In the year 2000, 189 countries agreed on these goals in order to reduce worldwide poverty by 2015.
In order to increase the potential for international cooperation and to raise the profile of the millennium goals, NCDO organises campaigns, debates, educational activities, exhibitions, media productions and cultural projects. NCDO also highlights the efforts of governments and citizens to achieve the millennium goals.
The objective of Norway’s development policy is to fight poverty and bring about social justice. The government will continue to focus its efforts on priority areas where Norway can make the greatest contribution: the environment and sustainable development; peace-building, human rights and humanitarian assistance; oil and clean energy; women and gender equality; good governance and the fight against corruption; and efforts to reach the health-related Millennium Development Goals.
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The European Union’s mandate to ECHO is to provide emergency assistance and relief to the victims of natural disasters or armed conflict outside the European Union. The aid is intended to go directly to those in distress, irrespective of race, religion or political convictions. Since 1992, ECHO has funded humanitarian aid in crisis zones of more than 85 countries. Its grants cover emergency aid, food aid and aid to refugees and displaced persons worth a total of more than €700 million per year. Through ECHO funding, some 18 million people are helped each year through 200 partners (NGOs, ICRC, and UN agencies like the UNHCR and the WFP). Internews Europe is an ECHO registered partner since 2011.
Adessium Foundation is a grantmaking foundation that aspires to a world in which people live in harmony with each other and with their environments. The Foundation is working to create a balanced society characterized by integrity, justice, and a balance between people and nature. Adessium Foundation targets subjects of significant social and global importance. Our responsibility toward future generations occupies a central role. By means of donations, Adessium Foundation enters into multiple-year partnerships in order to effect lasting change.The Foundation was established in 2005 in the Netherlands.
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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. Swedish development cooperation is part of a global cooperation in which Sweden is one of many international participants. In order to carry out its work Sida cooperates with Swedish government agencies, organisations and associations and international bodies like the UN, the EU and the World Bank.
Europe
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Started in 2007, PROGRESS is the European Union's employment and social-solidarity programme. It was established to financially support the implementation of EU objectives in employment, social affairs and equal opportunity, as stated in the Social Agenda. It also contributes to the achievement of the EU 'Lisbon' Growth and Jobs Strategy. PROGRESS will run until 2013, with a budget of €743.25 million for seven years (2007-2013).
AGRECO was established in 1992 as a European Economic Interest Group (EEIG). It is a joint venture between AGRER (Belgium) and AGRICONSULTING (Italy) for the preparation and implementation of large-scale studies and projects in the field of biodiversity conservation and natural resources management.
United States
Internews is an international media-development organisation, based in California, whose mission is to empower local media worldwide to give people the news and information they need, the ability to connect, and the means to make their voices heard.
The MacArthur Foundation supports "creative people and effective institutions committed to building a more just, verdant and peaceful world." In addition to selecting the MacArthur Fellows, the foundation works to defend human rights, advance global conservation and security, make cities better places and understand how technology is affecting children and society. Through the support it provides, the foundation fosters "the development of knowledge, nurtures individual creativity, strengthens institutions, helps improve public policy and provides information to the public, primarily through support for public-interest media."
United Kingdom
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The British and Commonwealth Office was created in 1968 by merging the Foreign Office and the Commonwealth Office. FCO, commonly called the Foreign Office, is the British government department responsible for promoting the interests of the United Kingdom and its citizens overseas. In addition, FCO has three funding programmes. The Strategic Programmes Funds supports actions on global Issues; the Conflict Prevention Programme works on crisis-prevention and stabilisation; and the Fellowship and Scholarship Programme enables people to study in the UK.
Pakistan
Taiwan
The Taiwan Foundation for Democracy (TFD) is a non-profit and non-partisan organisation established in 2003 in Taipei. The foundation's primary purpose is to promote democracy around the world. TFD provides grants and fellowships to support its goals.
India
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The delegation of the European Union to India works as a diplomatic entity. It seeks to strengthen civil society by facilitating stakeholders’ participation, strengthening capacity-development processes, promoting social dialogue, facilitating citizens’ active engagement and spreading best practices. The priorities of the cooperation are education, health, human rights, livelihood and the environment.
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Based in Delhi, DFID India represents the British Department for International Development in India. In 2008-2008, DFID priorities in India were related to health, education, growth, and governance.
Rwanda
European Union (EU) delegations represent the European Union in about 130 countries. The European Commission presence in Rwanda started in the mid-1980s and was formalised in 1991 with the signature of an “accord de siège” with the Rwandan government. Its role is to promote and defend the values, interests and policies of the European Union in Rwanda but also to supervise long-term programming of aid and the management of programmes and devolved projects within the framework of the current reform of external-aid management.
The National Unity and Reconciliation Commission is a Rwandan national institution provided for by the National Constitution adopted by Rwanda in June 2003. The idea of establishing a commission for national unity and reconciliation was introduced in the Arusha Peace Accord signed in 1993 and became even more necessary after the tragic genocide of 1994. The commission’s main objective is to assist the then-anticipated government of national unity to foster unity and reconciliation among the people of Rwanda who had experienced long periods of bad governance characterized by division, discrimination, abuse of human rights and and acts of violence.
Ireland
Irish Aid is the government of Ireland’s programme of assistance to developing countries. Ireland’s development cooperation policy is an integral part of Ireland’s wider foreign policy and its particular objectives of peace and justice. Ireland's development cooperation policy and programme is the reflection of a "long-standing commitment to human rights and fairness in international relations and are inseparable from Irish foreign policy as a whole."