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A Single Drop for Safe Water
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Currently, over 13 million people do not have access to water. This is not due to lack of water, but a lack of operating infrastructure to distribute and treat water. ASDSW is a non-profit organization building the capacity of self-reliant partnerships to implement community-driven clean water and sanitation solutions through sustainable organizational strategies, WASH Education and appropriate technologies. ASDSW unites communities to resolve their own water issues by creating and/or strengthening community-based water organizations to act as local hubs of water expertise offering viable water services and promote WASH Education and campaigns. Our goal is to improve community health, foster technical and organizational self-reliance and prOmote financial independence to ensure community ownership and sustainability.
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Action for Economic Reforms
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AER is an independent, reform-oriented and activist policy group founded in 1996 by a group of progressive scholars and activists in the Philippines. The group works to put in place a macroeconomic environment characterized by sustainable development, equitable distribution of income, robust and fair trade relations, and democratic governance. AER initiates and supports activities that build the capacity of people’s organizations and NGOs to intervene in economic policy issues; develop policy alternatives and economic strategies; and influence policy/win policy reforms.
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Aqueous Solutions
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Aqueous Solutions is a U.S. based non-profit organization that addresses the drinking-water needs of marginalized communities worldwide through the development and implementation of appropriate technologies that foster local self-reliance. Their systems engender communities’ participation and empowerment through the process of design, implementation and upkeep of appropriate technologies in water purification. This way, they are able to provide tangible benefits to marginalized communities, while encouraging their active sharing and participation in the process of innovation.
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Center for Water Resources Conservation and Development
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WARECOD is a non-profit organization that promotes the sustainable use of Vietnam’s water resources. It was established on September 7, 2006 under the auspices of the Vietnam Union of Science and Technology Association (VUSTA). Their mission is to protect Vietnam’s water resources to ensure the well-being of river ecosystems, to sustain the richness of biodiversity, and ensure the livelihoods of communities dependent upon these resources.
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Computer Professionals' Union
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Computer Professionals’ Union (CP-UNION)
CP-UNION is a non-stock, non-profit organization established in 2001. It has an active core group of information and communications technology (ICT) professionals committed to advocate, promote and advance “ICT for the people” – expounding on issues concerning ICT and its impact on the Filipino people. The group is mainly working to organize Filipino ICT professionals and mobilise the local sector on issues affecting their welfare and to respond to the specific ICT needs of basic and allied sectors in the Philippines.
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Department of Electrical Engineering, University of Indonesia
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The University of Indonesia (UI) is a modern, comprehensive, open-minded, multi-culture, and humanistic campus that covers a wide array of scientific disciplines. UI strives to be one of the leading research universities and most outstanding academic institution in the world. The Department of Electrical Engineering is one of the oldest departments in Faculty of Engineering, which was established in 1964. Research fields include electric power and energy studies, telecommunications, electronics and control.
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Department of Engineering Physics, Gadjah Mada University
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Gadjah Mada University is an academic institution responsible for conducting education, research and community services in Indonesia. Education and research activities within the institution focus on instrumentation and technology, and the utilization of renewable energy and appropriate technologies for sustainable development.
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Division of Strategy and Policy Research, Institute of Policy and Strategy for Agriculture and Rural Development
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IPSARD was the institution formed after the merging of the former Institute of Agricultural Economics and other units under the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural development (MARD) at the end of 2005. The Institute does scientific research, assesses impacts of policies, strategies, plans and programs, and informs the decision-making of policymakers and stakeholders in the agriculture and rural development sector. Furthermore, the Institute implements collaborative activities in research, technology transfer, training, consultation and model development with domestic and foreign institutions, and individuals.
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Don Bosco Technical College Center for Research and Training
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The Center for Research and Training (DBTC-CRT) is an institutional department of Don Bosco Technical College. DBTC-CRT manages and coordinates training/ tutorial programs, and research and consultancy activities for the different departments of DBTC. The center provides a wide range of services including public workshops, project development and management, laboratory services, system design and development, contract research, surveys and other related studies.
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Ecological and Agricultural Development Foundation, Inc.
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EADFI is a non-stock, non-profit organization based in Bacolod City, Negros Occidental, Philippines. It envisions to empower communities towards sustainable development to achieve food security, social justice, peace and equality. The Foundation is implementing programs and projects highlighting organic farming, fabrication and installation of appropriate technologies, research and development, entrepreneurship, capability building, and environmental protection and conservation. It also facilitates the installation of organic fertilizer processing centers at the community level, mobilization for activities, and provision of technical assistance and support to enhance the capabilities of beneficiaries in the management of their enterprises.
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Emerging Futures Lab
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This research seeks to understand the needs and value system of the BoP as a customer or consumer of services and products, how they manage their household budgets when income streams are random and whether any payment plans or business models can be developed to address this challenge.
The short term goal is to design a conceptual prototype of an innovative payment strategy or business model by which a community can share the cost of a shared resource or asset, or enable access to a product such as information technology.
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Faculty of Medicine, University of Padjadjaran / Health Research Unit, Hasan Sadikin General Hospital
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The Health Research Unit is an active research coordinator of the Faculty of Medicine, Padjadjaran University, Hasan Sadikin Hospital. This institution conducts applied research in the bio-medical and socio-medical fields. The working group on improving diagnostic consists of a multidisciplinary staff, which includes an internist, a clinical pathologist, and biologists, developing optimized point-of-care testing that can be used in low-income areas all over Indonesia.
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Industrial Technology Development Institute - DOST
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ITDI is one of the research and development institutes under the Department of Science & Technology of the Philippines. By virtue of Executive Order No. 128, dated January 30, 1987, ITDI plays a critical role in the standardization, evaluation and testing of various products and materials. The Institute provides other services or interventions to help modernize the production sector, and rigorously pursues and sustains its R&D efforts and services to spur technology innovation, commercialization and adaptation.
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Kahublagan Sang Panimalay Foundation, Inc.
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Kahublagan is a private corporation engaged in social research and community development work. The organization was established in 1972, then called Hublag Sang Panimalay. The need for technical development and managerial expertise in development contracts and foreign assisted projects brought the merging of the local management consultancy firm of J.C. Salas and Associates with Hublag Sang Panimalay. The consolidation gave birth to the present organization, as approved by the Security and Exchange Commission in 1988.
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Live & Learn Environmental Education
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Live & Learn Environmental Education is a non-profit, non-government organization that promotes greater understanding and action toward human and environmental sustainability through education and dialogue building. Live & Learn works with communities through critical entry points, such as safe drinking water issues, to address community health concerns but also facilitates community ownership of problems and the action necessary to sustain a better quality of life for all.
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Microventures, Inc.
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MircroVentures aspires to be the leading partner of micro-entrepreneurs in the Philippines by leveraging micro-financing as a powerful tool to empower socially and economically challenged families. MicroVentures manages Hapinoy -- a network of sari-sari stores owned and run by borrowers and trained on standard operating systems. Currently, Hapinoy is present in 50 communities in South Luzon and each active Hapinoy community has 1 anchor Community Store servicing between 30 to 100 sari-sari stores.
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Philippine Business for Social Progress
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PBSP is a private and non-profit foundation dedicated to promoting business sector commitment to social development by leading the advocacy on and the practice of corporate social responsibility (CSR) and corporate citizenship. For more than three decades, PBSP has been the Philippine business sector’s vehicle in delivering organized, professional and sustainable assistance to the Filipino poor, particularly the landless farmers, fisherfolk, rural workers, urban poor and indigenous communities.
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Philippine Rice Research Institute I
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PhilRice is the national rice research institute of the Philippines, established in 1985 through Executive Order 1061 signed by President Ferdinand Marcos. It is mandated to serve as a key player in attaining and sustaining the country’s rice self-sufficiency, and in promoting greater access of farmers to agricultural technologies. The institute’s core mission is to build a competitive Philippine rice economy through research, technology promotion and policy advocacy.
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Philippine Rice Research Institute II
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PhilRice is the national rice research institute of the Philippines, established in 1985 through Executive Order 1061 signed by President Ferdinand Marcos. It is mandated to serve as a key player in attaining and sustaining the country’s rice self-sufficiency, and in promoting greater access of farmers to agricultural technologies. The Social and Agro-Industrial Venture (PhilRice-SAIV) Unit is at the forefront of forging local and international business partnerships and networks, and developing and linking farmers’ rice-based products in the local and international markets.
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School of Electrical Engineering and Informatic, Institut Teknologi Bandung
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The School, officially established on January 1, 2006, is a merger of the Electrical Engineering Department and the Informatics Department of ITB. The School offers a bachelor of engineering program on Electrical Engineering and Informatics (Sarjana Teknik S1), Sarjana in Electrical Engineering and Sarjana in Informatics, and aims to become a institution of higher learning that develops competitive and outstanding electrical engineering and informatics students in Indonesia.
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Sejahtera Semesta Rakyat (SETARA) Foundation / NTFP Indonesia
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Setara Foundation/NTFP Indonesia is a national facilitating agency initiated by the Indonesian government, non-government organizations, community-based organizations and the private sector. It is tasked to do assessments and studies on how the abundant natural resources can be utilized for people's prosperity while keeping in mind the value of its conservation. The organization also facilitates sustainable and fair community trading, especially for indigenous people who live around the forest and utilize non-timber forest products as their source of income.
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Sub-Plant Protection Department of Angiang Province
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SPPD was established in 1987 and operates directly under the Vietnam Government. The Department was initially tasked to do pest monitoring and management, and oversee the selling of pesticides in the Angiang Province. In 1994, SPPD ceased its pesticide-selling operations and began its work in plant protection. At present, the department has around 25 office staff members, over 50 members working in the district and about 154 members working in the communities of the province. SPPD aims to share and transfer new technologies to farmers on various crops.
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Tri-People Concern for Peace Progress and Development of Mindanao, Inc. (TRICOM)
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TRICOM, Inc. is a non-stock, non-profit organization working for the recognition, respect and promotion of Tri-People’s (Indigenous People, Moro and Christian settlers) rights to self-determination, and harnessing unities towards the attainment of peace in Mindanao, Philippines. TRICOM, Inc. works with different indigenous peoples’ (IP) communities in Mindanao to help them attain effective control over ancestral resources, and govern and manage their own political, socio-cultural and economic development.
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Vietnet Information Technology and Communication Center
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Vietnet-ICT is an NGO that focuses on addressing the digital divide in Vietnam by filling knowledge gaps, particularly among the rural population. It works on technology for development, ICT in microfinance, gender enhancement and women's empowerment, media development support and ICT policy. For this project, Vietnet-ICT is working with two other organizations, the Centre for Marine-life Conservation and Community Development (MCD) and ECOLIFE.
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Water, Agroforestry, Nutrition and Development (WAND) Foundation
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WAND Foundation heads social development initiatives on the improvement of the environment and agricultural sectors, rural entrepreneurship, ecological sanitation and peace-building. The Foundation has grown out of a pool of community development workers in Northern Mindanao who are truly concerned about the direct link between severe poverty, poor health and sanitation, local resource mismanagement and the absence of lasting peace.
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World Fish Center
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WorldFish is an international, non-profit and non-governmental organization working in partnership with a wide range of government and non-government agencies, and advanced research institutions worldwide. The center’s mission is to reduce poverty and hunger by carrying out research-for-development to improve small-scale fisheries and aquaculture. With bases in 13 countries across Asia, Africa and the Pacific, WorldFish is one of the centers supported by the Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research (CGIAR).
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