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Title: Ghana Coalition of NGOs in Water and Sanitation (CONIWAS)

URL: https://coniwas.wordpress.com/

Description: The Ghana Coalition of NGOs in Water and Sanitation (CONIWAS) is headquartered in the capital city Accra, but also has coordinators for Ghana’s northern, middle and southern zones in order to serve a nationwide constituency. CONIWAS is an umbrella organization of NGOs and CSOs in water and sanitation and a key player in the water and sanitation sector that acts to influence policies, promote access to portable water as well as sustainable programs in water supply, sanitation and hygiene in vulnerable, underserved communities.

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Subject:   Water ,  Sustainable development

Title: Save the Blue Heart of Europe

URL: https://balkanrivers.net

Description: Save the Blue Heart of Europe is an organization dedicated to preserving the Balkan Rivers. Their efforts also include public education efforts as well as stopping dam projects on the Balkan Rivers.

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Subject:   Water ,  Environmental protection Balkan rivers

Title: Uganda Water and Sanitation NGO Network (UWASNET)

URL: http://www.uwasnet.org/Elgg

Description: The Uganda Water and Sanitation NGO Network (UWASNET) is a national umbrella organization of NGOs and CSOs focused on Water, Environment, Sanitation and Hygiene sectors. This network’s target goals include alleviating poverty by increasing universal access to safe drinking water, conducting research and development in appropriate WASH technologies and implementing service delivery in improved sanitation.

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Subject:   Water ,  Sustainable development

Title: Uganda Rainwater Association (URWA)

URL: http://www.ugandarainwater.org/

Description: The Uganda Rainwater Association (URWA) is a national non-governmental organization (NGO) that works closely with the Ugandan government under the ministry of Water and Environment. URWA as a member of both the Southern and Eastern Africa Rainwater Network (SEARNET) and the Great Horn of Africa Rainwater Partnership (GHARP), URWA connects to other national associations to promote rainwater harvesting to reduce poverty and improve livelihoods in targeted regions. Organizational projects include developing, documenting, and promoting Rainwater Harvesting (RWH) technologies.

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Subject:   Water ,  Sustainable development

Title: Safe Water and AIDS Project (SWAP)

URL: http://www.swapkenya.org/home.php

Description: The Safe Water and AIDS Project (SWAP) is a non- governmental organization based in Kisumu Kenya with the following objectives: improving the quality of life for people living with HIV/AIDS, preventing the leading causes of illnesses and mortality in children such as diarrhea and malaria, and helping to generate income for HIV positive women. SWAP, officially registered as an NGO in 2006, trains HIV positive groups of women to sell and market public health goods to their communities: such as hand soaps, diapers, detergents, drinking water, water purification tablets, feminine hygiene products, mosquito nets, as well as water treatment and storage products. The provision of capacity building and training programs is meant to provide vulnerable HIV positive women, who are many times ostracized for their illness, with income generating activities that ultimately empower communities with improved water sanitation and hygiene standards.

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Subject:   Water ,  Sustainable development

Title: Sustainable Sanitation and Water Renewal Systems (SSWARS)

URL: http://www.sswarsuganda.org/

Description: The Sustainable Sanitation and Water Renewal System (SSWARS) is a non-governmental and non-profit organization registered in 2005 and operating in Uganda. SSWARS’s mission is to help advance the Millennium Development Goals by improving targeted communities’ standard of living through the implementation of improved sanitation practices and water supply systems. This integrated approach helps reduce the spread of waterborne diseases and illnesses that are preventable with better hygienic practices. Projects based in Uganda include constructing a Community Sanitation Center, sustainable water supply systems, and latrines in Kampala.

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Subject:   Water ,  Sustainable development

Title: Regional Environmental Center

URL: http://www.rec.org/

Description: he Regional Environmental Center for Central and Eastern Europe (REC) is an international organisation with a mission to assist in addressing environmental issues. The REC fulfils this mission by promoting cooperation among governments, non-governmental organisations, businesses and other environmental stakeholders, and by supporting the free exchange of information and public participation in environmental decision making. The REC was established in 1990 by the United States, the European Commission and Hungary. Today, the REC is legally based on a charter with over 30 signatories. The REC has an office network in 17 countries: Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, the Czech Republic, Estonia, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, Montenegro, Poland, Romania, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia, Turkey. The head office is located in Szentendre, Hungary.

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Subject:   Wildlife conservation,  Water ,  Networking and coordinating

Title: The Mvula Trust

URL: http://www.mvula.co.za/

Description: The Mvula Trust is South Africa’s largest water and sanitation non-governmental organization. It was established in 1993, six months before the fall of apartheid and first democratic elections in South Africa, with the goal to initiate and fund community-driven and sustained water and sanitation services in underserved rural and peri-urban areas. The Mvula Trust has ten focus areas, including rural water supply, sanitation, water quality, and rainwater harvesting. This organization seeks to alleviate poverty through influencing sustainable water provision policy development, encourage community-based resource management, and advocating for cost effective and sustainable water management.

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Subject:   Water ,  Sustainable development Environmental protection

Title: Kenya Water for Health Organisation (KWAHO)

URL: http://www.kwaho.org/new/main.html

Description: The Kenya Water for Health Organisation (KWAHO) was registered as an indigenous non-governmental organization in 1983. KWAHO’s mission is to provide programs and services in environmental management training, hygiene educational materials, sanitation facilities, and safe, sanitary, and sustainable water to underserved communities in Kenya. The KWAHO’s objectives include building the capacities of communities to promote income generating activities, improve gender equality, and manage natural resources, in part by utilizing cost- effective technologies and mobilizing resources.

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Subject:   Water ,  Sustainable development Environmental protection

Title: Greater Horn of Africa Rainwater Partnership (GHARP)

URL: http://www.kenyarainwater.org/

Description: The Greater Horn of Africa Rainwater Partnership (GHARP) was established in March 2001 as a network of National Rainwater Associations and regional partnerships based in countries in the horn of Africa; the primary goal of this partnership is to promote research and sustainable technologies for achieving water supply, food security, and poverty reduction and promoting rainwater harvesting and management systems. The consortium of national associations under this umbrella organization include: the Ethiopia Rainwater Harvesting Association (ERHA), Kenya Rainwater Association (KRA), Rainwater Association of Somalia (RAAS), Rainwater Harvesting Association of Tanzania (RHAT), and Uganda Rainwater Association (URWA).

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Subject:   Water ,  Sustainable development Environmental protection

Title: The International Commission on Irrigation and Drainage (ICID)

URL: http://www.icid.org/

Description: The mission of The International Commission on Irrigation and Drainage (ICID) is to stimulate and promote the development and application of the arts, sciences and techniques of engineering, agriculture, economics, ecological and social sciences in managing water and land resources for irrigation, drainage, flood management, for achieving sustainable agriculture water management.

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Subject:   Sustainable development,  Water

Title: NewEnergy

URL: http://www.ghajaproject.net/NewEnergy.html

Description: NewEnergy is a non-governmental organization founded in 1994 in the city of Tamale, and operates from four districts in the northern region of Ghana: the Tamale Municipality, Gushiegu Karaga, West Mamprusi, and Tolon Kumbungu. This organization’s main areas of focus include water and sanitation services and advocacy. NewEnergy is one of several partners working under the Ghaja Project, a five-year project with an integrated approach to improving access to income generating activities as well as affordable and sustainable energy options for rural, underserved communities in northern Ghana by utilizing the Jatropha plant, which is drought resistant with oils that can be used as fuel.

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Subject:   Water ,  Sustainable development Environmental protection

Title: Ethiopia Rainwater Harvesting Association (ERHA)

URL: http://www.ethiorainwater.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=1&Itemid=1

Description: The Ethiopia Rainwater Harvesting Association (ERHA) was founded on December 17, 1999 in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia by citizens in order to mitigate the threat of water scarcity by harvesting rainwater. This organization’s vision is to see rainwater utilized as an alternative, sustainable source of water to improve the livelihoods of both rural and urban communities. The ERHA is a member of the Greater Horn of Africa Rainwater Partnership (GHARP) and five additional rainwater networks.

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Subject:   Water ,  Sustainable development Environmental protection

Title: Divine Waters Uganda (DWU)

URL: http://www.divinewatersuganda.org/

Description: Divine Waters Uganda (DWU) is a Christian charitable service organization and NGO that provides water and sanitation services, in tandem with spiritual instruction to impoverished, rural communities in Uganda. This organization aims to increase natural resource management, hygienic practices such as proper hand washing techniques, and sustainable water and sanitation facilities such as water pumps in Ugandan communities. One of Divine Waters Uganda’s primary visions is to emphasize a sustainable relationship with the environment.

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Subject:   Water ,  Sustainable development Environmental protection

Title: Action for Rural Women's Empowerment (ARUWE)

URL: http://www.aruweug.org

Description: The Action for Rural Women’s Empowerment (ARUWE) is a non-profit organization that works to improve the conditions of marginalized groups in Uganda, especially children and rural women farmers. ARUWE is a member of the National Association of Women organizations in Uganda (NAWOU) and is tasked with improving the livelihoods and welfare of women in terms of providing assistance and education on achieving economic empowerment, avoiding the transmission of HIV/AIDS, and attaining food security. This organization has an integrated program on health, water, sanitation and HIV/AIDS that focuses on health, hygiene, and sanitation as well as reproductive health.

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Subject:   Water ,  Sustainable development

Title: The Water Trust (TWT)

URL: http://watertrust.org/

Description: The Water Trust (TWT) is a non-profit organization tasked with decreasing preventable diseases and poverty in targeted East African communities such as Masindi Village in Uganda by investing in improved and sustainable water, sanitation, and hygiene (WASH) infrastructure such as latrines, hand washing facilities, filters, and water collection systems.

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Subject:   Water ,  Sustainable development

Title: Southern and Eastern Africa Rainwater Network (SEARNET)

URL: http://searnet.net/

Description: The principal objective of the Southern and Eastern Africa Rainwater Network (SEARNET) is to create and promote a movement for rainwater harvesting and management as a sustainable alternative source to domestic and irrigation water in the face of scarcity coupled with an emphasis on using water for agricultural production. Programs by SEARNET are meant to enact the creating of green rainwater harvesting among members of NGOs and CSOs, and policymakers alike.

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Subject:   Water ,  Sustainable development

Title: Organisation of Rural Associations For Progress (ORAP)

URL: http://orapzenzele.org/

Description: The Organisation of Rural Associations for Progress (ORAP) is a non-governmental organization in Zimbabwe that works in three targeted districts: Tsholotsho, Hwange and Gwanda for more than three decades on projects, programs, and workshops in areas such as food security as well as water and sanitation. Food Security project encompass rainwater harvesting technologies and water management techniques for local farmers. Water and sanitation workshops include participatory health and hygiene education, and water testing to ensure water used by beneficiaries are free from bacteria and chemicals.

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Subject:   Water ,  Sustainable development

Title: Mission4Water

URL: http://mission4water.org/

Description: Mission4Water is a small-scale Christian non- governmental organization committed to providing communities and institutions such as primary schools throughout Uganda with wells for clean drinking water to help alleviate the labor intensive task of traveling long distances to fetch water and stop the spread of illnesses caused by unsafe water such as waterborne diseases like cholera, dysentery, and typhoid. This organization, operating from Rukungiri in Southwest Uganda, was formed by Mr. Sunday Geoffrey Augustus, a native Ugandan inspired by the U.S.A based Water4 Foundation’s inexpensive and sustainable well drilling programs.

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Subject:   Water ,  Sustainable development

Title: Pro Conventia Carpatica Association

URL: http://marenostrum.ro/

Description: Pro Conventia Carpatica Association was set up in 2005. The Association aims to promote and facilitate the implementation of the “Carpathian Convention Treaty” objectives. This aim will be achieved by fulfilling the following objectives of the Treaty: Promoting the conservation and sustainable use of biological and landscape resources; Promoting the water protection by integrated management of river basins; Promoting the sustainable agriculture and forest management; Promoting the rural tourism and agro tourism; Promoting the preservation of local, cultural and rural traditions, and “local skills”; Promoting public participation and awareness of the values of nature and culture of the Carpathian region in Romania among the local population; Strengthening regional cooperation; Raising acceptance of Carpathian Convention objectives by the local people.

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Subject:   Environmental Education,  Water ,  Ocean conservation

Title: Crimean Republican Association "Ekologiya i Mir" (CRAEM)

URL: http://ekomir.org/

Description: The Crimean Republic Association "Ekologiya I Mir" (CRAEM) is a non-governmental environmental organization founded in 1988, to stop the building of a nuclear power plant in Crimea. Since then, Ekologiya I Mir has acted as an independent non- governmental organization uniting people in all sectors of society, with than two hundred activists involved. The organization aims to protect Crimean nature and the health of its inhabitants. . CRAEM's major concerns are: urban areas with excess garbage; environmental ignorance and inactivity of the population concerning its rights; food quality; irrational territory planning; domination of 'traditional' types of energy; and high levels of chlorine in drinking water. Its activities include: the collection and dissemination of ecological information (holding seminars, conferences, working with mass-media); ecological action; ecological education; organization of scientific research and public participation in environmental impact assessment; study and conservation of nature preserves and rare Crimean animals and plants; planning and realization of Crimean sustainable development goals; support of Crimean NGOs.

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Subject:   Ecology Bio-diversity Conservation Waste,  Water

Title: Ghana Coalition of NGOs in Water and Sanitation (CONIWAS)

URL: http://coniwas.org/

Description: The Ghana Coalition of NGOs in Water and Sanitation (CONIWAS) is headquartered in the capital city Accra, but also has coordinators for Ghana’s northern, middle and southern zones in order to serve a nationwide constituency. CONIWAS is an umbrella organization of NGOs and CSOs in water and sanitation and a key player in the water and sanitation sector that acts to influence policies, promote access to portable water as well as sustainable programs in water supply, sanitation and hygiene in vulnerable, underserved communities.

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Subject:   Water ,  Sustainable development

Title: China Water Risk

URL: http://chinawaterrisk.org/

Description: China Water Risk is a non-profit initiative designed to help investors, businesses and individuals understand and mitigate risk around water. The China Water Risk web portal, launched in pilot form as The Asia Water Project (AWP) in 2010 and then in its current form as China Water Risk in September 2011, offers access to relevant information on water issues and showcases up to date research, some of which is commissioned specifically for the site.

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Subject:   Water ,  Education Non-profit organizations

Title: The Association for Water and Rural Development (AWARD)

URL: http://award.wordpress.hupu-labs.biz/

Description: The Association for Water and Rural Development (AWARD) is a multi-discipline organization concerned with water resource management in communities located in South Africa’s Lowveld region. Since AWARD’s establishment in 1998, this organization has piloted a number of programmes on the rehabilitation of wetland environments in the Lowveld river systems, water security, and improved water management. These integrated programmes are designed to improve the environment’s resiliency for continued, sustainable use by underserved communities.

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Subject:   Sustainable development Environmental protection Conservation,  Water

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