GIZ offers customised solutions to complex challenges. We are an experienced service provider and assist the German Government in achieving its objectives in the field of international cooperation. We offer demand-driven, tailor-made and effective services for sustainable development.
IUCN is a membership Union composed of both government and civil society organisations. It harnesses the experience, resources and reach of its 1,300 Member organisations and the input of some 15,000 experts. IUCN is the global authority on the status of the natural world and the measures needed to safeguard it.
UN Environment is the leading global environmental authority that sets the global environmental agenda, develop solutions to environmental challenges and support integrated implementation of the environmental, social and economic dimensions of sustainable development across the United Nations system, working with governments, civil society and private sectors.
GRID-Arendal was established in 1989 to support environmentally sustainable development by working with UN Environment and other partners. We communicate environmental knowledge that strengthens management capacity and motivates decision-makers to act. We transform environmental data into credible, science-based information products, delivered through innovative communication tools and capacity building services. Our vision is a society that understands, values and protects the environment on which it depends.
Rare: Conservation is about people. For more than 25 years, Rare has empowered local communities in over 50 countries to shift from being resource users to environmental stewards. Rare’s unique approach appeals to hearts and minds through proven marketing techniques. Rare trains local leaders to lead change, leaving a legacy of increased capacity and a sense of ownership, responsibility and pride in conservation.
World Bank is an international financial institution that provides loans and grants to the governments of low and middle income countries for the purpose of pursuing capital projects. The World Bank has the largest number of urban development and Disaster Risk Management (DRM) specialists of any development institution. More than 300 staff have urban and DRM as their primary or secondary professional affiliation. The World Bank is also the largest source of project lending and advisory services on urban development and resilience with a multi-billion dollar portfolio.
UNDP partners with people at all levels of society to help build nations that can withstand crisis, and drive and sustain the kind of growth that improves the quality of life for everyone. On the ground in nearly 170 countries and territories, we offer global perspective and local insight to help empower lives and build resilient nations.
ICCROM is an intergovernmental organization working in service to its Member States to promote the conservation of all forms of cultural heritage, in every region of the world since 1959. It operates in the spirit of the 2001 UNESCO Universal Declaration on Cultural Diversity, partnering with Member States to support them in safeguarding heritage within their borders and beyond. ICCROM works at the international and governmental levels, and with institutions and professionals on the ground, in areas of training, information, research, cooperation and advocacy for cultural heritage conservation. ICCROM is an Advisory Body of the World Heritage Committee for the implementation of the World Heritage Convention of UNESCO.
IFOAM – Organics International is the global umbrella organisation of the organic agriculture movement, with members in over 120 countries. Since 1972 it has worked with and through its network to spread, institutionalize, and continuously improve environmental stewardship, healthy consumption, and prosperous livelihoods. It is an active change agent and collaborative partner with both public and private sectors toward attainment of the Sustainable Development Goals.
ICOMOS, the International Council on Monuments and Sites, is a global non-governmental organization associated with UNESCO. Its creation in 1965 is the logical outcome of initial conversations between architects, historians and international experts that began in the early twentieth century and that materialized in the adoption of the Venice Charter in 1964. Its mission is to promote the conservation, protection, use and enhancement of monuments, building complexes and sites. It participates in the development of doctrine and the evolution and distribution of ideas, and conducts advocacy. ICOMOS is an Advisory Body of the World Heritage Committee for the implementation of the World Heritage Convention of UNESCO.
Building on over 45+ years of groundbreaking science, EcoHealth Alliance is a global environmental health nonprofit organization dedicated to protecting wildlife and public health from the emergence of disease.
OCTO connects ocean professionals to the knowledge and networks they need. Through our programs and communities, we empower conservationists and resource managers to apply best practices worldwide. Over 100,000 ocean professionals in 120 countries use OCTO programs each year.
