Posts Tagged "Organization"

CGIAR: Working for a Food-Secure Future

Sep 22 2015

Looking beyond global level organizations, the pathways to learning about sustainable food (including organic agriculture) become extremely diverse. CGIAR is one such pathway that…

Oxfam: A Whole Systems Approach to Alleviating Poverty

Sep 22 2015

One of the world’s most effective NGOs working to reduce poverty is Oxfam. They take a whole systems approach, working on the policy…

Gapminder: Making Poverty Statistics Come Alive

Sep 22 2015

For information on how the world’s efforts to end poverty are progressing — and to get a truly long-term, systems view —…

UN Women: Empowering Women and Championing Gender Equality

Sep 21 2015

Goal #5, achieve gender equality and empower all women and girls, inevitably points us— as many others do — to all the other goals. Gender…

The UN World Food Program

Sep 20 2015

When it comes to providing food to those in need, the UN’s World Food Program is an excellent organization to follow and support. They quickly respond to…

IIHS: Equitable, Sustainable and Efficient Cities

Sep 20 2015

When it comes to making cities more inclusive, safe, resilient, and sustainable, our friends at the Indian Institute for Human Settlements (IIHS) do groundbreaking…

Compass Education: Transforming Schools and Empowering the Next Generation of Change Makers

Sep 19 2015

In the context of ensuring inclusive and equitable quality education, and promoting life-long learning opportunities for all, we want to point to the…

IISD: Tracking the Real-Time Story of Sustainable Development

Sep 19 2015

When it comes to Goal 17, (Revitalize the global partnership for sustainable development), the International Institute for Sustainable Development – IISD, based in Canada…

The IUCN: The world’s largest conservation organization

Sep 19 2015

Goal 15, (Sustainably manage forests, combat desertification, halt and reverse land degradation, halt biodiversity loss) is an enormous task, covering all living systems on…

The Initiative for Equality: Citizen monitoring of the SDGs

Sep 18 2015

The Initiative for Equality is a large global network of equality researchers and activists that was instrumental in drafting Goal #10 and lobbying for its inclusion.…