Title: chinadialogue

URL: https://www.chinadialogue.net/

Description: ChinaDialogue.net is an independent, non-profit organization based in London and Beijing. It is funded by a range of institutional supporters, including several major charitable foundations. Chinadialogue aims to promote common understanding of urgent environmental challenges, including climate change, species loss, pollution, water scarcity and environment damage. It is devoted to the publication of high quality, bilingual information, direct dialogue and the search for solutions to our shared environmental challenges.

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Subject:   Pollution,  Climate change

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: Waste and Environmental Vision 21

URL: http://www2u.biglobe.ne.jp/~GOMIKAN/index.htm

Description: Gomi Kankyo Bijon 21 (Waste and Environmental Vision 21) is a local group in the Western suburb of Tokyo. Officially organized in 1998 to advocate for issues associated with the proposed landfill in the area, the group’s focus has since expanded to cover more general waste and environment related actions including waste reduction, recycling and reusing.

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Subject:   Renewable energy sources,  Recycling,  Sustainable living,  Waste minimization

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: Shanghai Oasis Ecological Conservation and Communication Center (Oasis)

URL: http://www.oasiseco.org

Description: Oasis is the first officially registered grassroots environmental conservation NGO in Shanghai, established in November 2004 by ecological specialists and people concerned about the environment. Currently, it is mainly engaged in conservation and protection of wildlife and its habitat, water environment, as well as energy saving, emission reduction and global climate change.

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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: MAMA-86

URL: http://www.mama-86.org.ua/

Description: In 1990 a group of young mothers with university education were concerned about the effects of the Chernobyl disaster on public health and united to protect the interests of their children. Since 1991 the group has been known as Kiev City NGO MAMA-86 Kyiv. Today the organization consists of 17 regional centers in Kyiv, Kyiv region, Donetsk region Donetsk, Kirovohrad, Lutsk, Mykolayiv, beautiful ancient city of Chernihiv Region, New Kahovka Kherson region, Poltava, Sumy, Sumy, Tatarbunary Odessa region, Ternopil, Feodosia, Kharkov, Khmelnitsky and Yaremcha Ivano- Frankivsk region. The central office is located in the city of Kyiv. The purpose of MAMA-86 is to promote greening policies and practices in Ukraine in order to transition the country to sustainable development - that is, development that does not harm current generations and leaves a positive legacy. The mission of our organization is strengthening the role of mothers in education and society in the process of decision-making to improve the living standards of citizens.

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Subject:   Environmental policy,  Children,  Women

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: Association of Friends of Kadikoi Science, Culture, and Arts (KADOS)

URL: http://www.kados.org.tr/

Description: The Association of Friends of Kadikoi Science, Culture, and Arts (KADOS) is a nongovernmental organization that is based in Istanbul, Turkey. The focus of their work ranges from issues of solar energy, water, agriculture, mining, hazardous waste, and health.

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Subject:   Non-governmental organizations,  Environmental rights,  Environmental research

Title: Japan for Sustainability (JFS)

URL: http://www.japanfs.org/

Description: Japan for Sustainability (JFS), established in 2002, is a non-profit organization providing information on developments and activities in Japan that lead toward sustainability: "The mission of Japan for Sustainability is to make this world a more sustainable place for current and future generations, by delivering to the world useful ideas and information on the latest developments and activities in Japan that promote sustainability, and providing a communication platform and information to help people envision a sustainable future and to seek ideas that can fill the gaps between our current society and the sustainable future society we would like to live in."

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Subject:   Sustainable development,  Renewable Energy,  Carbon Reduction,  Nuclear fuel alternatives

Title: Japan Asian Association & Asian Friendship Society (JAFS)

URL: http://www.jafs.or.jp/

Description: Originally formed in 1972, the Japan Asian Association & Asian Friendship Society (JAFS) focuses on providing sustainable and safe drinking water to rural communities in South and South East Asia through building wells, pipelines and related infrastructure. As an international cooperation group, JAFS also provides disaster relief to the victims of catastrophic natural events throughout Asia.

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Subject:   Sustainable development,  Disaster relief,  Water security,  Education

Title: Institute for Public & Environmental Affairs (IPE)

URL: http://www.ipe.org.cn/en/alliance/index.aspx

Description: The Institute of Public and Environmental Affairs (IPE) is a registered non-profit organization based in Beijing. Since its establishment in May 2006, IPE has developed two pollution databases (water & air) to monitor corporate environmental performance and to facilitate public participation in environmental governance. It aims to disclose environmental information to help communities fully understand the hazards and risks in the surrounding environment, and to promote widespread public participation in environmental governance. IPE is a member of Green Choice Alliance, a coalition of NGOs in China, to promote global green supply chain by pushing large corporations to concentrate on procurement and the environmental performance of their suppliers. The ‘Green Choice Alliance’ consumer initiative takes into consideration the environmental performance of manufacturing enterprises while exercising their purchasing power to make green choices.

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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: Green Anhui

URL: http://www.green-anhui.org/

Description: Green Anhui is a local environment protection organization founded in 2009 in Anhui. Its missions are: focusing on environmental issues, promoting recyclable economy and sustainable development, engaging in public governance of related issues and pursuing balanced society and environment balanced development. Its projects have reached Hefei, Bengbu, and Wuhu.

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Subject:   Sustainable development,  Environmental issues

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: Green Camel Bell (GCB)

URL: http://www.gcbcn.org/en

Description: Gansu “Green Camel Bell” Environment Protection and Development Center is a NGO based in Gansu Province, China. Its mission is facilitating environment protection in West China and achieving balanced and sustainable development between humans and nature. Its work has included water resource protection, post-Sichuan earthquake reconstruction, and grassland conservation and management. It is also active in environmental education and promotion, community development, and volunteer development.

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Subject:   Sustainable development,  Environmental protection

Title: Friends of the Earth Japan (FoE Japan)

URL: http://www.foejapan.org/

Description: FoE Japan was formed in 1980 as a member organization of the Friends of the Earth International based in Amsterdam, the Netherlands. The group focuses on climate change, clean energy, forest preservation, biodiversity, sustainable urban development and other related environmental and environmental justice issues.

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Subject:   Renewable energy sources,  Environmental protection,  Climate change mitigation,  Environmental justice,  Sustainable development

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: EnviroFriends Institute of Environmental Science and Technology

URL: http://www.envirofriends.ngo.cn/

Description: EnviroFriends was established in 2005. It facilitates exchange and cooperation with environmental NGOs from Japan and South Korea on a number of issues including climate change, waste management, water and health, ecological restoration and environmental education. It is the initiator of the East Asian Climate Network, one of the founding members of CCAN and one of the first Chinese groups to join CAN-International.

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

URL: http://www.ekomir.crimea.ua/

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:   Environmental protection,  Conservation,  Crimea

Title: Ecopartnership

URL: http://www.ecoproject.by/

Description: The Ecopartnership, which began in 2000, unites experts in ecology and sustainable development to enhance awareness and knowledge about environmental and sustainable development processes, and to ensure small communities, government officials, NGOs, public initiatives, school teachers and experts participate in these processes. Over the years, Ecopartnership has implemented more than 20 international projects aimed at increasing public awareness and environmental concerns on the following topics: The quality of drinking water and its effects on health; the domestic waste water treatment systems; Practical ways to save energy and prevent climate change; Waste management with minimization of damage to the environment; Consumption of goods taking the environment into account; Sustainable development at the regional level.

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Subject:   Waste,  Climate change,  Environmental education

Title: Eco-TIRAS International Environmental Association of River Keepers

URL: http://www.eco-tiras.org/

Description: Eco-TIRAS International Environmental Association of River Keepers was created by environmental NGOs of the Dniester River basin, shared by Moldova and Ukraine, to help and advise authorities and the population on the sustainable management of the river, using the Integrated River Basin Management Approach. It currently unites 38 NGOs- members.

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Subject:   Eco-legislation,  Dniester River,  Prut River

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: Peipsi Center for Transboundary Cooperation (Peipsi CTC)

URL: http://www.ctc.ee/

Description: Peipsi Center for Transboundary Cooperation is an international non-profit institute, which works to promote balanced development of border areas, especially in Lake Peipsi/Chudskoe region. The original "Lake Peipsi Project" was begun in 1993 as an informal organization whose primary focus was research environmental issues facing the border between Estonia and Russia. Today, its main activities include nature education and the development of cross-border cooperation.

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Subject:   Environmental education,  International cooperation

Title: Both ENDS

URL: http://www.bothends.nl/nl

Description: Both ENDS is based in Utrecht, Netherlands and works on sustainable solutions for environmental and poverty-related issues. They work on the exchange of knowledge between local organizations in developing countries to improve the environment and work to move these alternative ideas on to the agendas of decision-makers from more developed countries.

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Subject:   Sustainable development,  Environmental policy

Title: Armenian Women for Health and Healthy Environment (AWHHE)

URL: http://www.awhhe.am/

Description: Armenian Women for Health and Healthy Environment (AWHHE) NGO was founded in 1999. The mission of AWHHE is to explore the issue of environment pollution in Armenia, to advocate for the human right to live in a healthy environment, to help decrease environmental risks to human health, and promote a healthy lifestyle, especially for children and women. AWHHE runs education and information campaigns about environmental health threats and social injustice related to environmental pollution; provides independent monitoring and investigations on water supply management and other related issues; lobbies the decision-makers to make sound solutions; contributes to capacity building of rural communities; strengthens the participation of women in decision making at local and national levels; promotes the implementation of Stockholm Convention on Persistent Organic Pollutants (POPs) in Armenia; publishes popular-scientific articles; creates information materials; and organizes and participates in international and national conferences and forums.

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Subject:   Environmental Protection,  Armenia,  Non-governmental organizations,  Women

Title: Koom Association for the Promotion of Women in Burkina Faso (AKAFEM/BF)

URL: http://www.associationkoom.bf/

Description: The Koom Association for the Promotion of Women in Burkina Faso (AKAFEM/BF) is a Burkinabé non-profit organization that fights against the development challenges facing rural people, especially those in the most sensitive social fringe-women.

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Subject:   Women,  Africa,  Sustainable development

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: Asian Green Forest Network (AGFN)

URL: http://www.agfn.org/

Description: Established in 2002, The Asian Green Forest Network (AGFN) contributes to the regeneration of rainforests in Asia through tree-planting activities. In addition to public awareness campaigns regarding the critical condition of Asia's forests, the organization runs seminars on planting, programs for rural infrastructure development, and programs related to the protection of the orangutan, an endangered species threatened by illegal logging and forest fires in Asia's forests. AGFN procures afforestation funds by collecting recyclable waste

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Subject:   Wildlife conservation,  Forests

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: All-Russian Center for the Protection of Nature (VOOP)

URL: http://voop.spb.ru/

Description: The All-Russian Society for the Protection of Nature (VOOP) is a Russian social, educational and cultural organization whose mission is to support ecology and society in the regions and the country. Its aims include saving the environment and a variety of flora and fauna and keeping and improving public health. VOOP's main activities include: giving assistance to state bodies to assure the stable and ecologically safe development of Russia; ecological education of the population; scientific, technical, and practical activities for environmental protection; consulting with parties about water use; organizing ecological monitoring of territories; and implementing up-to-date technologies for effective state ecological control.

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Subject:   Conservation,  Russia,  Environmental protection,  Environmental education

Title: Vatavaran

URL: http://vatavaran.org/

Description: "Vatavaran is a small (strictly) not-for-profit organization that has decided that it simply must be hands on about the betterment of the world around us. We’re not sitting here for one issue or the other, but for fighting things that bother us in our everyday lives. Mostly, however, we work to reduce, remove and recycle waste. We also work with urban villages, employment issues, welfare of animals and people, and plant trees wherever we go."

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Subject:   Refuse and refuse disposal,  Environmental protection,  Waste management,  India,  Recycling

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: The South African Exchange Program on Environmental Justice (SAEPEJ)

URL: http://saepej.igc.org/

Description: This Boston-based non-profit organization focuses on the effects of toxics and a deteriorating environment on the health and daily life of communities in South Africa, and aims to bridge communities in the US with their counterparts in South Africa around environmental justice.

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Subject:   Environmental justice,  Environmental protection

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: MAMA-86

URL: http://mama-86.org.ua/archive/index.htm

Description: In 1990 a group of young mothers with university education were concerned about the effects of the Chernobyl disaster on public health and united to protect the interests of their children. Since 1991 the group has been known as Kiev City NGO MAMA-86 Kyiv. Today the organization consists of 17 regional centers in Kyiv, Kyiv region, Donetsk region Donetsk, Kirovohrad, Lutsk, Mykolayiv, beautiful ancient city of Chernihiv Region, New Kahovka Kherson region, Poltava, Sumy, Sumy, Tatarbunary Odessa region, Ternopil, Feodosia, Kharkov, Khmelnitsky and Yaremcha Ivano- Frankivsk region. The central office is located in the city of Kyiv. The purpose of MAMA-86 is to promote greening policies and practices in Ukraine in order to transition the country to sustainable development - that is, development that does not harm current generations and leaves a positive legacy. The mission of our organization is strengthening the role of mothers in education and society in the process of decision-making to improve the living standards of citizens.

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Subject:   Environmental policy,  Children,  Women

Title: Interakcia

URL: http://eu-belarus.net/

Description: The Local Foundation for Promotion of International Dialogue and Cooperation "Interakcia" is an NGO in Minsk, Belarus. It specializes in the development and implementation of EU- funded projects in Belarus and neighboring countries. Its main goal is to contribute to sustainable development in Belarus and to make Belarus an equal player on the European and international level. It has worked with EU funding programs such as INTERREG, TACIS, and ENPI, and has implemented about ten projects and initiatives in various regions of Belarus in such spheres as economic development, local capacity building, environment protection, water management, tourism development, regional marketing, intercultural dialogue, and waste management.

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Subject:   Environment protection,  Local capacity building,  Economic development,  Water management

Title: Green Earth Volunteers (GEV)

URL: http://eng.greensos.cn/About.aspx

Description: Founded in 1996, Green Earth Volunteers (GEV) is one of China's oldest local environmental NGOs. Our mission is to serve as a vehicle for grassroots public participation through encouraging volunteerism. We also support environmental journalism in China, with the goals of improving awareness of environmental issues and improving information disclosure. Many of our current projects focus on water issues, including encouraging national cooperation on river protection, and we are part of the global Waterkeepers Alliance. In 2007 GEV formally registered with the Ministry of Civil Affairs as the "Green Earth Environmental Scientific Research Centre." Friends are now working with GEV to create a stable and professional management staff as a foundation from which to consolidate and expand our activities.

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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