Organisations

Strategies and Tools against Social Exclusion and Poverty (STEP) Programme

Switzerland

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4 route des Morillons
CH 1211 Geneva 22

STEP is an operational tool to promote the extension of social protection for men and women workers in the informal economy. This is achieved by bolstering the confidence of the excluded so that they realise that not only do they have the right to seek basic human security and universal and equitable access to social protection services, but that they also have the ability. Making efforts to make women more visible in their social and economic roles. This contributes to the overall preparations for the follow up to the 4th World Conference on Women in Bejing (1995) through the "Bejing plus 5" in 2000. Through a participatory approach, STEP works in the field of microinsurance as a means for the excluded to claim their basic human security, such as equitable access to health care and other social protection services. The STEP strategies include the implementation of development projects, action research, advocacy and policy dialogue. STEP works in partnership with governments, workers' and employers' organisations, international development organisations, research centres, group-based organisations (social economy) and selected NGOs

Tools For Self Reliance (TSFR)

UK

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Netley Marsh
Southampton S04 7GY

Aims to empower artisans working in developing countries so that they can better participate in the development of themselves and their communities. To achieve this they work with partner organisations to provide hand tools and skills training, and raise the awareness in the UK of the causes of poverty

International Family Health (IFH)

UK

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40 Adler Street
London E1 1EE

IFH aims to improve the sexual and reproductive health of disadvantaged people in resource-poor settings, based on the principles of empowering women and men to make informed choices about their sexual and reproductive health; meeting unmet needs; increasing access to integrated and high quality services; gender equity; and diversity of families

All Party Parliamentary Group on Population, Development and Reproductive Health (APG/PDRH)

UK

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Room 563 Portcullis House
Westminster
London SW1A 2LW

The APPG is a group of MPs and Peers working together to promote population, development and reproductive health issues. It aims to review popoulaiton policies, family planning programmes, contraceptive techniques and practices, and to review population trends, policies and programmes overseas, and the impact that population growth, structure and distribution has on their programmes of economic and social development and reporoductive health

Development Innovations and Networks (IRED)

Switzerland

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3 rue de Varembé
1211 Geneva 20

IRED are an international network which facilitates exchanges of experiences and communication and organises with faster technical support and institutional capacity strengthening of civil society by working with grass roots groups. The IRED resource centre is open to the public

AIDS Ile Mucadele Derngi (AMD)

Turkey

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Fahrettin Altay Saglik Ocagi
Uc Kuyulad
Izmir

A non governmental organisation with the head office in Izmir and 12 branches throughout the country. They have a resource centre open to the public.

Interhealth

UK

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157 Waterloo Road
London SE1 8US

Interhealth provides comprehensive travel health service and supplies for aid workers, mission partners, volunteers and members of voluntary agencies. Services include pre and post-travel medicals, a travel clinic, counselling, debriefing and psychiatric care and advice to agencies and individuals by phone, fax or e-mail. Supplies include a full range of antimalarials, mosquito nets and other travel health supplies. Staff are also available for lectures, seminars and consultancies

Reproductive Health Matters (RHM)

UK

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444 Highgate Studios
53-79 Highgate Road
London NW5 1TL

The RHM journal offers in-depth analysis of reproductive health matters from a women-centred perspective, written by and for women's health advocates, researchers, service providers, policymakers and those in related fields with an interest in women's health. It aims to promote laws, policies, research and services that meet women's reproductive health needs and support women's right to decide whether, when and how to have children. The resource centre is open to the public

World Health Organization (WHO)

Switzerland

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Avenue Appia 20
CH-1211 Geneva 27

Charged to act as the world's directing and coordinating authority on suggestions of human health, WHO has developed a host of networks and mechanisms for generating data, applying facts to problems and recommending solutions that will lead to sustained improvements in health. The WHO resource centre is open to the public

Education for Development

UK

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Building 33, University of Reading
London Road
Reading RG1 5AQ

At the request of partner organisations, Education for Development has worked in Africa, Asia and Europe. It offers training, research and consultancy in education and training for adults in literacy, agriculture, multimedia, organisations and small business development. Its core areas of work are within 'non-formal education and training. Providing flexible and context-sensitive services at the request of partner organisations, firmly rooted in commuity partnerships and ownership'. Central to its work is the disssemination and sharing of good practice from its experience as a northern NGO

Latin American & Caribbean Women's Health Network (LACWHN)

Chile

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PO Box 50610
Santiago 1

Isis International is an internatinoal NGO created in 1974 in response to a need expressed by women from different countries for a women's information and communication service. Its fundamental objective is empowering women and encouraging their full participantion in development proccesses through the formation of networks and channels of communication and information. For women to participate fully in their societies, both women themselves and those promoting their participation need to produce and have access to information, channels of communication, and opportunities to exchange ideas and experiences. Their resource centre is open to the public. Its library is not open to the public.

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