Banteay Srei Cambodia Expand view PO Box 529 Phnom Penh Aims to improve the standard of living and the well-being of poor women and their families, by working with women to reduce their vulnerability and low social status. The Banteay Srei project therefore works to improve women's economic and social empowerment through activities focusing on food and economic security for women and their families; awareness raising about women's rights and reproductive health; strengthening women's groups and their management skills; building self-confidence and leadership; and through advocacy for women's rights. The resource centre is not open to the public
Women's Action for Change (WAC) Fiji Expand view PO Box 12398 Suva Aims to empower women, in particular less privileged women through direct action research and advocacy, enabling them to develop thir full potential to control and direct their lives. Promote shared family responsibility in order to advance the status of the woman. They do this through community theatre group, child care for governement workers' children
Pearl S Buck International Inc (PSBI) Philippines Expand view cor. Rizal and San Nicolas Sts 6541 Ormoc City Leyte The PSBI resource centre is open to the public
Women for Women's Human Rights - New Ways (WWHR) Turkey Expand view Inönü Cad No 37/6 Gümüssuyu 80090 Istanbul Aims to promote women's human rights; support the active and broad participation of women as free individuals and equal citizens in the establishment; and the maintenance of a democratic and peaceful order at national, regional and international levels http://www.wwhr.org
African Women's Welfare Group (AWWG) UK Expand view 594 High Road Tottenham London N17 9TA AWWG's vision is to advance the cause of African and their families through advocacy, patronage and promotion within the general population and the State apparatus. It aims to bring together a wide range of institutions in health, social services and welfare; to mobilise, harness and maximixe available resources; to understand the variety of beliefs, theories and models of practice in operation and their impact on service provision; and to address inadequacies in service provision and redress poor access to services and amenities none
Key Centre for Women's Health|University of Melbourne Australia Expand view Victoria 3010 This is a post-graduate teaching and research centre. Aims to investigate women's health through a multi-disciplinary perspective. Collaborating centre with WHO http://www.kcwh.unimelb.edu.au
National Women's Welfare Centre|Ariyancode Ottas Ekharamangalam India Expand view PO box 695125 Vanithabhavan Kerala Aims to work for peace and disarmament; poverty and illiteracy eradicaiton; community and rural development; learning, health and hygiene. Resource centre is open to the public
The International Community of Women Living with HIV/AIDS (ICW) UK Expand view 2C Leroy House 436 Essex Road London N1 3QP An organisation run for and by HIV positive women that exists to promote the voices and improve the situation of HIV positive women throughout the world. It aims to raise the awareness of HIV positive women's issues and promote affective action to address them; reduce the isolation of HIV positive women and overcome the stigma of HIV/AIDS; promote the rights of HIV positive women globally; and empower HIV positive women to address and promote changes in issues of importance to HIV positive women's lives https://www.wlhiv.org/?fbclid=IwAR1cJVJnYZ9wPs_aaA2zVeD21E4DcnrVtqW3QSj9gz8Kmx1jDqYlqm1j6YA
IMPACT UK Expand view 151 Western Road Haywards Heath West Sussex RH16 3LH Impact's aim is that no-one should become disabled through disease, lack of knowledge or shortage of medical services. With effective delivery of today's know-how, it believes that, given the will and resources, it should be possible to reduce by one third the incidence of avoidable disability in developing countries, while at the same time helping to break the link between ageing and disability in industrialised countries like their own http://www.impact.org
Uganda Reproductive Health Bureau (URHB) Uganda Expand view PO Box 24497 Kampala URHB's objectives are to ensure that young people get access to services and information that will improve their health; to provide access to family planning services/skills through direct service delivery, to provide education and information for rural women; to provide essential services in adolescent reproductive and sexual health and counselling; and to provide IEC materials and publications. It runs 2 adolescent health clinics of 10 beds
National Office of Family and Population (ONFP) Tunisia Expand view 42 Avenue de Madrid 1002 Tunis Aims to control population growth, increase the number of employed people, increase the school population, improve maternal and child health, and control social service expenditure. The resource centre is open to the public
India Development Group (UK) (IDG UK Ltd) UK Expand view 68 Downlands Road Purley Surrey CR8 4JF IDG's mission is to work with partner organisations in India to combat poverty and unemployment in rural areas of India by equipping the rural poor with skills to help themselves achieve sustainable economic viability and to increase their productive participation in community life through self-employment and income generation. This is achieved through working in areas such as appropriate technology, primary healthcare, women's empowerment and working with civil society groups http://www.idguk.org
Centre for Total Development India Expand view Vill-Jigra PO-Bahirkhanda Hooghly District West Bengal Aims to improve the physical, mental, social and spiritual weel-being of persons living below the poverty line within West Bengal. The resource centre is open tot he public
African Council of AIDS Service Organisations (AFRICASO) Senegal Expand view B P 3370 54 Rue Carnot Dakar Aims to strengthen and network among organisations and groups working on HIV/AIDS at the national and regional levels; advocate for the interests of communittes and community-based organisations working on HIV/AIDS and to promote the development of the capacity of the AIDS service organisations to lobby for their interests; and exchange and facilitate the sharing of appropriate, practical and timely information in HIV/AIDS with and among organisations working onHIV/AIDS in Africa. The resource centre is open to the public http://www.africaso.org
Centre for Development Studies (CDS) Egypt Expand view 4 Ahmad Pasha St (City Bank Bldg) 4th Floor, Garden City Cairo Mission: to support individualised organisations realise their full potential and foster self-determined, self-sustaining change. This mission is premised on our behalf that participation is imperative to learning and change. CDS operate based on a need response mode, with a wide array of stake holders, International society, government and private sector organisations. Our approach relies on bringing stakeholsers to realise and appreciate their interdependence and work together to bring about meaningful change. The CDS resource centre is open to the public http://www.neareast.org
