France • Paris
ACF
Action Contre La Faim (ACF, Action Against Hunger) is an international humanitarian organization committed to ending world hunger.
Recognized as a leader in the fight against malnutrition, ACF saves the lives of malnourished children while providing communities with access to safe water and sustainable solutions to hunger. With more than 35 years of expertise in emergency situations of conflict, …
Bolivia • Cochabamba
AGUATUYA develops and implements water and sanitation services for peri urban areas in Bolivia by: i) facilitating access to services, ii) providing technical support and iii) developing appropriate …
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Germany • Essen
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, …
Netherlands • Amsterdam
Akvo helps donors and doers reach out to fund many thousands of new water and sanitation projects.
Money flows quickly because donors choose what to fund and follow progress online. People can use these storylines to build exciting new campaigns and networks.
Akvo's partners lead the world in sharing updates using Akvo tools. Better feedback means happy donors, and dialogue between field …
Germany • Dresden
Arche noVa - initiative for people in need is a non-profit- and non-governmental organisation from Dresden/Germany working primarily on the field of humanitarian aid, development cooperation and education. Regardless of the victims' ethnicity and ideology we support all those who suffer from war, suppression and natural disasters. With special regard to discriminated social groups our main aim is …
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Costa Rica • San José
ACEPESA
ACEPESA is a non-governmental organisation in the area of Costa Rica and Central America. The organisation contributes to innovative technical products and high quality as well as to the articulation of public and private efforts in managing the development and …
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Austria • Vienna
ADA
The Austrian Development Agency (ADA) is the operational unit of Austrian Development Cooperation. The Austrian Development Cooperation (ADC) supports countries in Africa, Asia and Central America as well as in South Eastern and Eastern Europe in their sustainable social, economic and democratic development. The Austrian Foreign Ministry (FMEIA) plans ADC strategies and programmes, while ADA …
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Norway • Aas
Bioforsk conducts applied and specifically targeted research linked to multifunctional agriculture and rural development, plant sciences, environmental protection and natural resource …
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South Africa • Rietfontein, Pretoria
Cap-net
Cap-Net is an international network for capacity building in IWRM. It is made up of a partnership of autonomous international, regional and national institutions and networks committed to capacity building in the water …
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Canada • Calgary
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 …
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Mexico • Akumal
CEA
CEA has been working for 11 years to conserve the reef in front of Akumal, Mexico. Their mission is to monitor the impact of development on the regional ecosystem and culture; to report findings and their significance to the public through education and through education, to influence public …
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Switzerland • Willisau
Despite the increasing demand, the water sector is facing today a lack of innovative small- and middle-scale businesses that offer products in the field of sustainable sanitation and water management services. cewas is the institutional answer to this situation. Organised in four business domains (Start-Up Centre, Think-Tank, Training Centre, Business Platform), it aims at strengthening the …
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India • Kolkata
CLTS Foundation
Community Led Total Sanitation (CLTS) is an innovative methodology for mobilising communities to completely eliminate open defecation (OD). Communities are facilitated to conduct their own appraisal and analysis of open defecation (OD) and take their own action to become ODF (open defecation free).
At the heart of CLTS lies the recognition that merely providing toilets does not guarantee …
Ireland • Dublin
Concern Worldwide works with the poorest people in the poorest countries of the world to enable them to transform their …
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Germany • Eschborn
GIZ
The Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH (formally known as Deutsche Gesellschaft für Technische Zusammenarbeit (GTZ) GmbH is a federally owned organisation. It works worldwide in the field of international cooperation for sustainable development. Their mandate is to support the German Government in achieving its development objectives. It provides viable, …
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Ecuador • Satteldorf, Germany
ecosanlac
ECOSANLAC maintains and promotes contact between individuals, organisations, institutions and companies involved in sustainable environmental sanitation and ecological sanitation.
ECOSANLAC promotes country-level contact between Latin America and the Caribbean and between them and the rest of the …
Sweden • Stromstad
EcoLoo AB is a Swedish GREEN innovation company. We develop, build and market unique & patented innovations and environmental solutions.
Our patent-pending toilet solution is sustainable, odor-free, maintenace-free, consumes no energy nor water. The end product is …
Switzerland • Cully
Ecopsis is a consulting firm specialising in wastewater management.
Their areas of intervention cover in particular decentralised sanitation: on-site domestic wastewater treatment and pretreatment of industrial wastewater. Ecopsis offers its services at both national and international …
Ecuador • Riobamba
Among the basic needs of humanity - food, clothing and shelter - our work embraces shelter.
EcoSouth addresses the great housing deficit in southern countries, especially the vast majority of people who have no adequate roof over their heads. Whether through social housing projects with locally produced construction materials (ecomaterials) and designs to resist natural disasters, or ongoing …
Italy • Rome
The Water Development and Management Unit (NRLW) of FAO is engaged in a programmatic approach to agricultural water management addressing water use efficiency and productivity, and best practices for water use and conservation, throughout the continuum from water sources to final …
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Bolivia • La Paz
The SODIS Foundation works in Bolivia since the year 2001. It is a non-profit organisation that aims at creating, developing and managing sustainable projects to benefit the most vulnerable population. It is involved in water and sanitation interventions, reduction of child mortality and morbidity caused by infections related to lack of safe water such as diarrhoeal diseases. It develops and …
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Netherlands • AC Dieren
GWA
GWA is an open international network of more than 2200 members - including 680 organisations - from over 125 countries (July 2013). Members are active in water and environment, and have different levels of expertise but are all interested in linking the social with the technical aspects, taking into account the diversity of people and the specific knowledge, interests and tasks of women …
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United States • Silver Spring
Global Communities is an international non-profit organization that works closely with communities worldwide to bring about sustainable changes that improve the lives and livelihoods of the vulnerable. We envision a world where everyone has the freedom, means and ability to live and prosper with dignity. Our mission is to create long-lasting, positive and community-led change that improves the …
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Ireland • Dun Laoghaire
GOAL is an international humanitarian agency dedicated to alleviating the suffering of the poorest of the poor. We are a non-denominational, non-governmental and non-political organisation.
GOAL was founded in Dublin in 1977 by former sports journalist and former Chief Executive, John O’Shea.
Since its inception, GOAL has spent in excess of €720 million on humanitarian programmes in …
Netherlands • RD Utrecht
ICCO
ICCO Cooperation, as an International Development Organization, with its roots in the Netherlands, works across 44 countries in Asia, Africa and Latin America. Throughout our 50 years of history, ICCO has had remarkable experiences in working together with local partners for community welfare and development. Our development solutions center around our twin core principle of sustainable …
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United States • Denver
iDE is an international family of non-profit organizations with the mission of creating income and livelihood opportunities for the rural poor. We take a market-based approach to international development, working to develop markets for agriculture and WASH products and …
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Netherlands • Delft
The IHE Delft Institute for Water Education, formerly UNESCO-IHE Institute for Water Education, was established in 2003. It carries out research, education and capacity building activities in the fields of water, environment and infrastructure. UNESCO-IHE continues the work that began in 1957 when IHE first offered a postgraduate diploma course in hydraulic engineering to practising professionals …
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Germany • Berlin
Ingenieure ohne Grenzen e.V. provides technical support: We support people, whose basic infrastructure does not exist or is endangered, whatever their gender, skin colour, philosophy of life or religion is.
Our aim is to support people, for whom technical cooperation is essential and possible. The centre of attention of our efforts is to secure basic services and to respect human …
Peru • Lima
CENCA
El Instituto de Desarrollo Urbano – CENCA es un organismo especializado en temas de planificación, mejoramiento del hábitat, género y medio ambiente. Apoya y promociona iniciativas económicas y prácticas sociales, solidarias y sostenibles. Contribuye en el desarrollo de capacidades de dirigentes, funcionarios y en su actividad prioriza el trabajo con organizaciones sociales y gobiernos …
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Mexico • Mexico D.F.
INNSZ
The National Institute of Medical Sciences and Nutrition Salvador Zubirán (INCMNSZ, INNSZ) is one of the National Institutes of Health under the Ministry of Health. It is one of the most prestigious medical institutions and scientific assistance in Mexico.
At its inception, the Institute was planned as a medical model of care that activities serve as a basis for education and research, thinking …
Argentina • San Martin
INTI
El Instituto Nacional de Tecnología Industrial (INTI) fue creado mediante el Decreto Ley 17.138 del 27 de diciembre de 1957, en el marco del surgimiento de un conjunto de instituciones nacionales destinadas a poner en movimiento, de manera planificada, la inversión pública, la ciencia y la tecnología.
Sus primeros laboratorios se ubicaron en el Parque Tecnológico Miguelete en un predio de …
Netherlands • The Hague
Established in 1968, IRC is an international think-and-do tank that works with governments, NGOs, entrepreneurs and people around the world to find long-term solutions to the global crisis in water, sanitation and hygiene services. For more information please visit …
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Japan • Tokyo
JICA
Established as an independent administrative institution under the law concerning the Independent Administrative Institution Japan International Cooperation Agency (Law No. 136, 2002), JICA aims to contribute to the promotion of international cooperation as well as the sound development of Japanese and global economy by supporting the socioeconomic development, recovery or economic stability of …
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Japan • Tokyo
JWF
Japan Water Forum (JWF) is an international nonprofit organization.
Our vision is of a world where everyone enjoys the lasting benefits and values of safe water.
We promote an understanding of the fundamental impact of water on everyone's lives leading to decisive action to address the water issues on the planet.
During the past five years since the creation of the JWF Fund, it has supported …
Germany • Frankfurt am Main
KfW
KfW Bankengruppe gives impetus to economic, social and ecological development worldwide. As a promotional bank under the ownership of the Federal Republic and the Länder (federal states), it offers support to encourage sustainable improvement in economic, social, ecological living and business …
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Bolivia • La Paz
LWB
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. …
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United States • Washington DC
MWA
MWA is a permanent coalition of WASH implementing NGOs, funded by the members and program grants from foundations, corporations and government, with a full-time staff headquartered in Washington DC . MWA members include: Aguayuda, CARE, Catholic Relief Services, El Porvenir, Food for the Hungry, Global Water, HELVETAS Swiss International Cooperation, IRC, Living Water International, Pure Water …
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United States • San Francisco
OSA
The Ocean Sewage Alliance is a diverse collective of organizations and academic scientists committed to reducing the threat of sewage and other wastewater pollution in our oceans, while increasing the health and well-being of both humans and nature. We aim to achieve our mission by collaborating across sectors, synthesizing and sharing knowledge, developing solutions, and raising …
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United Kingdom • Oxfam
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 …
United States • Seattle
PATH is an international nonprofit organization that creates sustainable, culturally relevant solutions, enabling communities worldwide to break longstanding cycles of poor health. By collaborating with diverse public- and private-sector partners, we help provide appropriate health technologies and vital strategies that change the way people think and act. Our work improves global health and …
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Sweden • Stockholm
Peepoople AB is a Swedish registered company, founded in 2006, producing and distributing Peepoo. Peepoo is a self-sanitising, biodegradable and single use toilet. Peepoo is invented by Professor Anders Wilhelmson and developed together with research teams from Swedish University of Agricultural Science (SLU) and the Royal Institute of Technology (KTH).
The mission of Peepoople is that all …
United Kingdom • Nairobi, Kenya
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 …
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Zimbabwe • Harare
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 …
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United States • Washington
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 harnessing the power of the markets, PSI provides life-saving products, clinical services and behavior change communications that empower the world's most vulnerable populations to lead healthier lives.
The …
Mexico • Tepoztlan
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 …
Netherlands • The Hague
SNV
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 …
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Sweden and Kenya • Stockholm and Nairobi
SEI
SEI is an independent international research institute with offices in Sweden, the UK, Estonia, the US, Thailand and Kenya. We have been engaged in environment and development issues at local, national, regional and global policy levels for more than 25 years. Our goal is to support decision-making and induce change towards sustainable development around the world by providing integrative …
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Haiti • Port-au-Prince
SOIL
Sustainable Organic Integrated Livelihoods (SOIL) is a 501(c)3 US-based non-profit organization dedicated to protecting soil resources, empowering communities and transforming wastes into resources in Haiti. SOIL promotes integrated approaches to the problems of poverty, poor public health, agricultural productivity, and environmental destruction. SOIL has been working in some of the poorest …
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Spain • Terrassa
SWMG
The AquaSost Group promotes and experiments with new technologies and methods aiming for sustainability in water resources management. For us, an integral vision of the water cycle is essential to study water and sanitation, it helps to face the challenges raised by climate change. We continually take part in teaching activities as well as in training and formation classes in the Universitat …
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Sweden • Stockholm
SIDA
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 …
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United Kingdom • Teddington
Tearfund is a UK-based Christian relief and development agency working through a global network of churches to help eradicate poverty. Tearfund supports local partners in more than 50 developing countries and has operational programmes in response to specific …
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Switzerland • LAUSANNE
TDH
Since its creation in 1960, the mission of Terre des hommes (Tdh) has been to come to the aid of children in need. It endeavours at all times to defend the rights of children, in times of war and natural disasters, or in less publicised situations of distress.
Today, the Terre des hommes Foundation is a significant force among children’s aid organisations in Switzerland and throughout the …
United States • New York
UNICEF
UNICEF is the driving force that helps build a world where the rights of every child are realized. They have the global authority to influence decision-makers, and the variety of partners at grassroots level to turn the most innovative ideas into reality. That makes them unique among world organizations, and unique among those working with the young.
They believe that nurturing and caring …
Kenya • Nairobi
UN-HABITAT
The United Nations Human Settlements Programme, UN-HABITAT, is the United Nations agency for human settlements. It is mandated by the UN General Assembly to promote socially and environmentally sustainable towns and cities with the goal of providing adequate shelter for …
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Brazil • São Paulo
USP
The University of Sao Paulo (USP) is the largest institution dedicated to higher education and research in Brazil. A large part of the Brazilian masters and PhDs receive their training here. This website will tell you a little more about our structure, application procedures and the services we offer to students from …
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Netherlands • The Hague
WASTE
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 …
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Ethiopia • Maputo
WSP - Africa
The Water and Sanitation Program (WSP) is a multi-donor partnership administered by the World Bank to support poor people in obtaining affordable, safe and sustainable access to water and sanitation services.
They work directly with client governments at the local and national level in 25 countries through regional offices in Africa, East and South Asia, Latin America and the Caribbean, and …
United States • Denver
WFP
Water For People is a non-profit international development organization that helps people in developing countries improve their quality of life by supporting the development of locally sustainable drinking water resources, sanitation facilities, and health and hygiene education programs. Our vision is a world where all people have access to safe drinking water and adequate sanitation; a world …
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United Kingdom • London
International NGO focused on water, sanitation and hygiene in low-income …
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United States • Tucson
WMG
Watershed Management Group (WMG) develops community-based solutions to ensure the long-term prosperity of people and health of the environment. We provide people with the knowledge, skills, and resources for sustainable …
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Germany • Bonn
Welthungerhilfe - one of the biggest non-governmental aid and development agencies in Germany - campaigns against worldwide hunger and for sustainable food and nutrition security. This involves focusing on site-specific agriculture, access to clean water and sanitation and a modern, environment-friendly energy supply and improving healthcare and education. The core principle of Welthungerhilfe …
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United States • Gloucester
WS
We at WorldStove are committed to creating useful and innovative products that increase quality of life for individuals and households around the globe.
Although the world's environmental, economic, and health problems may seem overwhelming, we stand with those who understand that real solutions can be achieved in a series of incremental changes.
These changes require both the will and the …
Germany • Berlin
x-runner Venture brings lasting and responsible sanitation to urban homes in Lima that do not have toilets.
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X-runner brings stylish waterless toilets and a weekly poop collection service to families that cannot have regular toilets and that want to improve their health, housing and lifestyles. X-runner ease customers’ daily lives and create a cleaner, healthier environment for the …
United States • Milwaukee
Youthaiti
Youthaiti is dedicated to helping and encouraging Haitian young people in their development of ecological projects in sanitation and water source protection, community gardening, and reforestation in their own communities.
Partnering with rural communities we have built both UDDTs and household Arborloos, utilizing a sanitation marketing approach.
We include agricultural education and community …
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