Organization and Networks
Organization name | Organization link | Organization type | Located in | Current focus | Description | Compendium source |
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350 Ghana Reducing our Carbon | https://350groc.org/ | Non-profit Organization (NPO) | Ghana | Renewables
Energy Youth empowerment Community mobilisation Networking | 350 Ghana Reducing Our Carbon (G-ROC) is a formal network of youth groups, formed with the aim of mobilizing and empowering young people in partnership with key stakeholders to actively champion the need to reduce Ghana’s carbon emissions and promote Renewable Energy systems, as a key effort in combating climate change. | |
350 Indonesia | https://350.org/indonesia/ | International Non-Governmental Organisation (INGO) | Indonesia | Climate justice | The national branch of 350.org in Indonesia. | |
350 Organization | http://350.org/ | Non-profit Organization (NPO) | Brooklyn, New York, USA | Community empowerment
Climate justice Just Transition Renewables Energy | 350 Org is building a global grassroots movement to solve the climate crisis to ensure a fast and just transition to 100% renewable energy for all, no new fossil fuel projects anywhere and not a penny more for dirty energy. | |
350 Pacific | https://350.org/pacific/ | Network Youth Led | Fiji | Climate Justice
Education Youth Climate change | 350 Pacific is a youth-led grassroots network working with communities to fight climate change from the Pacific Islands and diaspora. 350 Pacific is the Pacific arm of 350.org that supports frontline communities affected by the climate crisis throughout the Pacific region and Diaspora communities in Australia, New Zealand, and the US. (website) | A member organisation of the Climate Action Network Regional Node Pacific Islands CAN (PICAN) |
350 Vanuatu | https://www.facebook.com/vanuatu350 | NGO Indigenous Led Youth Led | Vanuatu | Climate
Advocacy Disaster Risk Management Humanitarian response Disaster Risk Reduction | 350 Vanuatu is an indigenous, youth-led organisation who have been leading the climate movement in Vanuatu. As Tropical Cyclone Pam approached, they began mobilising their volunteer base to help communities get prepared and in the aftermath 350 Vanuatu has been helping lead the relief and recovery efforts. They’ve done this with minimal money, but massive amounts of passion, care and amazing grassroots leadership. (website) | A member organisation of the Climate Action Network Regional Node Pacific Islands CAN (PICAN) |
350.org | https://350.org/ | NGO | Massachusetts | Just Transition
Fossil Fuels Movement building Renewables Community leadership | 350 is an international movement of people working to end the age of fossil fuels and replace it with a system underpinned by community-led renewable energy. This means bringing people together and building diverse coalitions in order to create transformational change. (website) | Multiple sources:
350.org allies Signatories of the Peoples’ Summit: Climate Rights and Human Survival Participating organizations of the Global Campaign to Demand Climate Justice |
A Girl At A Time (Freetown, Sierra Leone) | http://agirlatatime.org/ | Community Group | Sierra Leone | Girl empowerment
Child protection Women's rights Girl's rights | A Girl At A Time SL advocates for the rights of women and girls by creating an enabling environment for women and girls to thrive. | |
ACICAFOC | https://www.acicafoc.org/ | Non-profit | Costa Rica | Indigenous rights
Natural resource management Community empowerment Capacity building Agrobiodiversity Biodiversity | We are a non-profit organization that works to open political spaces in recognition of indigenous and peasant communities and the search for resources for the development of local organizations. At ACICAFOC we facilitate processes that allow access, use and responsible management of natural resources and thus contribute to the socio-productive development of indigenous peoples and local communities. | |
AGE Africa (Blantyre, Malawi) | http://ageafrica.org/ | Non-profit Organization (NPO) | Malawi | Education
Women leadership Youh leadership Girl empowerment | AGE Africa provides life-changing opportunities to young women in Malawi through targeted initiatives in education, mentoring and leadership development. AGE Africa's vision is that all girls in Africa will have equal access to secondary education, and that young scholars will be empowered to finish school, leverage their educations into viable opportunities for earned income, and have the tools they need to self-advocate for their own life choices. | |
AGRA Africa Green Revolution Alliance (Nairobi, Kenya) | https://agra.org/ | Social Movement Organization (SMO) | Kenya | Farming
Community empowerment Hunger Poverty Climate action Sustainable development Energy Food security Farmers' rights | SokoFresh was incorporated in 2019 following a successful issue analysis conducted by Enviu on post-harvest loss in Kenya. To provide smallholder farmers across Africa with climate-smart solutions through innovative business models that empower their livelihoods. | |
AHEZA IWACU (Bujumbura, Burundi) | http://ahezaiwacu.com/ | Social Movement Organisation (SMO) | Burundi | Waste
Recycling Compost | AHEZA IWACU is transforming waste into valuable resources through collection, composting and recycling. | |
AJMUN | https://m.facebook.com/101311175042373 | Non-profit Organization (NPO) Youth Led | Bolivia | Youth leadership
Youth empowerment Volunteering Policy | World Youth Action - AJMUN is a non-profit, non-partisan youth organization. Focused on strengthening leadership of young people between 18 and 30 years of age throughout Bolivia, in order to influence publicly or politically. | |
AJOAGO (Mozambique) | https://www.facebook.com/ajoago/ | Non-profit | Mozambique | Economic justice
Law Policy Community empowerment Environmental rights | AJOAGO is a non-profit, private legal entity for the socio-economic promotion and development of vulnerable rural communities. (FB page) | Signatory of the People's’ Summit: Climate Rights and Human Survival |
AKSI Indonesia | https://aksiforjustice.org/ | NGO | Indonesia | Gender equality
Social justice Ecology Climate justice Human rights Women's rights Climate change Policy | Aksi! for gender, social and ecological justice is financing for development and for climate change monitoring organisations. It critically engages in development and climate change policy debates and discourses to ensure the protection and promotion of women’s human rights and the rights of affected peoples, as well as supporting actions of grassroots women for gender, social and ecological justice. (website) | The participating organisation of the Global Campaign to Demand Climate Justice |
ANTHC | https://anthc.org/ | Non-profit | Alaska | Community empowerment
Health Water Sanitation Energy Dissemination of information Training Wellbeing Indigenous Knowledge and Traditions | The Alaska Native Tribal Health Consortium is a non-profit Tribal health organization designed to meet the unique health needs of Alaska Native and American Indian people living in Alaska. (website) | CJRF Grantees List |
AO Latinoamérica | https://www.instagram.com/ao.latinoamerica/?hl=es | Non-profit Organization (NPO) | Mexico | Policy
Oceans Mining Fishing Climate Justice | Promote the development of an Oceanic Culture in Latin American countries. | |
APED-TOGO | https://www.facebook.com/Aped-Togo-289611787767932/ | NGO | Togo | Youth
Community empowerment Community mobilisation Education Human rights | APED-TOGO aims to promote, through education for development, human rights and solidarity, the participation of all in the management of the city. (FB Page) | The participating organisation of the Global Campaign to Demand Climate Justice |
ARTH Art for Humanity | http://instagram.com/arth art for humanity/?hl=en | Non-governmental organisation (NGO) Youth Led | India | Art and Culture Awareness raising | A non-governmental organisation committed to using social design for the great good. Primarily focused on environment, art, and culture. | |
AS-PTA | https://aspta.org.br/ | Non-profit | Brazil | Agriculture
Sustainability Rural development Policy Markets Agrobiodiversity Agroforestry Knowledge sharing Livestock Climate finance Child rights Youth Water Soil Monitoring Women Agroecology Health Food | AS-PTA Agricultura Familiar e Agroecologia is a non-profit civil law association that, since 1983, works to strengthen family agriculture and promote sustainable rural development in Brazil.
AS-PTA participated in the constitution and works in several civil society networks aimed at promoting sustainable rural development. At the same time that they constitute spaces for collective learning, these networks provide articulated actions of organizations and movements of society to influence the elaboration, implementation and monitoring of public policies. (website) | |
ASAAL | http://sasal.org | Non-governmental organisation (NGO) | Kenya | Climate action
Resilience building Advocacy Environmental protection | SASAL Works through collaborating with the pastoral communities in the ASALs of Kenya, fostering innovative solutions that strengthen climate resilience, protect livelihoods, and promote sustainable development with a vision of a thriving and resilient future for these communities disproportionately affected by the climate crisis. | |
ATD Fourth World (Mouvement international ATD Quart Monde) | https://www.atd-fourthworld.org/ | NGO | France | Human rights
Education Sustainable development Awareness raising Poverty | ATD Fourth World works to overcome poverty by seeking out people living in the worst economic conditions and exclusion.
We aim to increase public awareness and civic engagement in ways that counteract prejudice against people in poverty, and that defend their human rights. We do this work on both national and international levels. Everyone’s efforts are needed, and it is important that everyone have opportunities to show their solidarity so as to overcome poverty. (website) | Signatory of the Peoples’ Summit: Climate Rights and Human Survival |
Abibimman Foundation | https://abibimanfoundation.org/ | NGO | Ghana | Biodiversity
Ecosystems Sustainable development Land use Water Agriculture Mining Climate change Livelihood improvement Peacebuilding | Abibiman foundation is a not-for-profit non-governmental organisation dedicated to identifying, promoting and empowering grassroots to foster growth and sustainable development in Ghana and Africa. | A member organisation of the Climate Action Network Regional Node CAN West and Central Africa (CANWA) |
Acades (Lilongwe, Malawi) | https://acadesmw.com/ | Social Movement Organization (SMO) | Malawi | Agricultural
Markets Skill building Employment | Acades invests in thousands of small-scale farmers increasing their income earnings and creating employment opportunities for people in extremely rural areas. | |
Acción Ecológica de Chile | http://accion-ecologica.cl/#quienes somos | NGO | Chile | Climate justice
Social justice Environmental litigation | We are a citizen organization created in 1999 to fight for the preservation of the Earth. Our way of acting is through direct action and social mobilization, influencing decision-makers and environmental litigation. (website) | A member organisation of the Climate Action Network Regional Node CAN Latin America (CANLA) |
Acción Juvenil Mundial | https://www.instagram.com/ajmun tarija | Non-profit Organization (NPO) | Bolivia | Policy
Training Socioeconomic justice Youth empowerment Communication Climate Justice | It seeks to generate political and public advocacy, and train leaders who are necessary agents of change. | |
Accountability Lab | https://accountabilitylab.org/about-us/country-office-pakistan/ | <translate> Non-governmental organisation (NGO)</translate>, <translate> Coalition</translate>, <translate> Non-profit organisation (NPO)</translate>, <translate> Youth Led</translate> | Pakistan | <translate> Awareness raising</translate> <translate> Disability rights</translate> <translate> Disaster response and preparation</translate> <translate> Economic justice</translate> <translate> Environmental justice</translate> <translate> Inclusion</translate> <translate> Social justice</translate> <translate> Women's rights</translate> <translate> Youth empowerment</translate> <translate> Youth leadership</translate> | The Accountability Lab Pakistan was founded in late 2015 as an effort to work with young people to develop new ideas for accountability, transparency, justice, and open government. Our vision is a world in which citizens are active, leaders are responsible and institutions are accountable. It is a world in which resources are used wisely, decisions benefit everyone fairly, and people lead secure lives. Our mission is, therefore, to make governance work for people through supporting active citizens, responsible leaders and accountable institutions. | |
Accíon Ecológica | https://www.accionecologica.org/quienes-somos/ | NGO | Ecuador | Indigenous rights
Farmers' rights Land use Environmental rights Climate justice Social justice Ecofeminism Gender equality | Acción Eccológica has been working with indigenous and peasant organizations since 1986 in defence of their collective rights and in support of local organizations that face socio-environmental conflicts. These organizations, anchored in the land and territories, demanded respect for their rights and more democratic policies. This is how proposals such as food and energy sovereignty were born, and thinking of a post-oil Ecuador. Acción Ecológica also addresses issues such as resistance to mining hand in hand with ecofeminism. (webiste) | A member of the Global Alliance for the Rights of Nature |
Action Aid USA | https://www.actionaidusa.org/ | INGO | Washington DC | Climate justice
Disaster Risk Management Emergency response Land use Environmental rights Food Food sovereignty Agriculture Women's rights Gender equality Poverty Gender-based violence Community empowerment | ActionAid is an international network building a just, equitable, and sustainable world in solidarity with communities on the frontlines of poverty and injustice.
We know this can only be done by shifting power – towards communities and away from elites – and aid as traditionally practiced does not accomplish this. That’s why we take action in partnership with people on the frontlines of poverty and injustice. Together, we tackle the symptoms of unequal power – poverty, hunger, gender-based violence, climate change, conflict, and disaster – and challenge the ideologies, legal systems, and social norms that lie underneath. (website) | CJRF Grantees List |
Action For Sustainable Development (A4SD) | https://action4sd.org/ | Network | United Kingdom | Policy
Advocacy Community mobilization Monitoring Accountability Capacity building Sustainable development | We are a global platform supporting civil society and citizen action for the delivery of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and the Paris Agreement on Climate Change. (website) | CJRF Grantees List |
Action for Environmental Sustainaability | http://www.afesmw.org | Indigenous Led, Non-governmental organisation (NGO) | Malawi | Agroecology Awareness raising Food sovereignty Gender equality Natural Resource Management Disaster response and preparation Environmental Justice Livelihood Improvement Territorial Management | Action for Environmental Sustainability is a national NGO working with the mission to address environmental degradation and poverty in communities of Malawi. Our activities are implemented in the thematic areas of; Natural Resources Management and Biodiversity conservation, Climate change mitigation, adaptation and resilience, agriculture, nutrition and food security. | |
Action for Environmental Sustainability (AfES) | https://afesmw.org/ | NGO | Malawi | Natural resource management
Biodiversity Conservation Climate Change Mitigation Agriculture Nutrition Food security Water Sanitation Hygiene Energy Water Livelihood improvement Disaster Risk Reduction Community empowerment | Action for Environmental Sustainability (AfES) was established in February 2007 and is registered by The NGO Board of Malawi, The Council for Non-Governmental Organizations in Malawi (CONGOMA) and the government of Malawi as a non-governmental organization under the trustee's Incorporation act. AfES works to address poverty and environmental degradation. | A member organisation of the Climate Action Network Regional Node Southern African Region CAN (SARCAN) |
Action for Food Protection (AFPRO) | https://afpro.org/ | Community Based Organisation | India | Gender equality
Equity Sustainable development Natural Resource Management Capacity Building Knowledge sharing Water Sanitation Hygiene Watersheds Livelihood improvement Agriculture | Action for Food Production (AFPRO) is an “Organization of National Importance” duly notified by the Government of India; committed to transforming the lives of poor and marginalized communities in rural India since 1966. We provide socio-technical services in the areas of Water, Sanitation, Watershed Management, Climate Resilient Sustainable Agriculture, Livelihood Diversification, and Climate Change for effective management of natural resources. (website) | A member organisation of the Climate Action Network Regional Node CAN South Asia (CANSA) |
Action for Fundamental Change and Development AFFCAD (Kampala, Uganda) | http://affcad.org/ | Non-profit Organization (NPO) Youth Led | Uganda | Education
Economic justice Community empowerment Health Skill building Advocacy Youth empowerment Women empowerment Child empowerment | AFFCAD is a youth-founded and youth-led organization working to transform the lives of other youth, women and children from low-income communities by empowering them with vocational skills, quality education, access to better health care and services and advocacy. | |
Action for Integrated Sustainable Development Association AISDA | https://aisda.org/ | NGO | Ethiopia | Health
Nutrition Sexual health and reproductive rights HIV Education Agriculture Livestock Crop production Resilience building Livelihood improvement Water Sanitation Hygiene Humanitarian response Research Dissemination of information | AISDA is an international award-winning local NGO with deep roots in Afar regional state with its headquarters in Addis Ababa. The organization has an excellent working relationship and reputation with donors, local government partners and different stakeholders.
(website) (FB page) | A member organisation of the Climate Action Network Regional Node CAN Eastern Africa (CANEA) |
Action for Rational Environmental Management in Mauritania AGREEM | https://www.unccd.int/cso/action-pour-une-gestion-rationnelle-de-lenvironnement-en-mauritanie | NGO | Mauritania | Environmental education
Natural Resource Management Conservation Pollution | Organizes awareness-raising campaigns and meetings on ways of combating desertification and preventing environmental pollution. Undertakes Convention sensitization campaigns in the northern zone of Mauritania. Encourages the community to have a sense of responsibility towards the use of natural resources. | A member organisation of the Climate Action Network Regional Node CAN Arab World (CANAW) |
Action for Rural Women’s Empowerment (ARUWE) | https://www.aruweug.org/ | NGO | Uganda | Health
Climate change Adaptation Education Community empowerment Community mobilisation Women empowerment Socioeconomic development Advocacy | ARUWE is a non-profit NGO working with marginalised groups of people especially the rural women, youth and children that operates in the Central and West- Nile Regions. Their mission is to empower women to initiate and manage their social-economic development processes through strengthening community participation, advocacy and service provision. (website) | Devex database of organisations working towards Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) |
ActionAid | https://actionaid.org/ | INGO | United Kingdom | Women
Economic justice Inclusion Land use Climate Emergency relief Poverty | ActionAid is a global federation working for a world free from poverty and injustice. Their strategy is to build international momentum for social, economic and environmental justice, driven by people living in poverty and exclusion. They do this through the delivery of grassroots programmes, provide emergency relief and campaign.
(website) Active in over 40 countries globally. | Participating organisation of the Global Campaign to Demand Climate Justice Signatory of the Peoples’ Summit: Climate Rights and Human Survival |
ActionAid Bangladesh | https://www.facebook.com/actionaidbangladesh/ | NGO | Bangladesh | Women's rights
Gender equality Equity Resilience building Climate Justice Governance Democracy Governance Youth | To achieve social justice, gender equality, and poverty eradication by working with people living in poverty and exclusion, their communities, people’s organisations, activities, social movements and supporters. (Fb Page) | A member organisation of the Climate Action Network Regional Node CAN South Asia (CANSA) |
ActionAid Brasil | https://actionaid.org.br/ | Civil Society Organization (CSO) | Brazil | Racial justice
Social justice Climate justice Gender equality Poverty Agroecology Agriculture | We are an international organization that works for social justice, gender and ethnic-racial equity and the end of poverty. We were founded in 1972 and are present in 43 countries, reaching more than 15 million people worldwide. In Brazil since 1999, we operate in more than 2,400 communities and benefit more than 300,000 people. We work in partnership with local communities and organizations on education, agroecology and climate, gender equality and participation and democracy projects. | |
ActionAid SUPIA | https://www.facebook.com/SUPIAActionAid/ | NGO | Nigeria | Agriculture
Farmers' rights Women Rural development | The ActionAid SUPIA Project is aimed at promoting and scaling up public investment in agriculture- both political and budget commitment (FB page) | |
ActionLAC - Accion Climatica Latino Americana | http://www.actionlac.net/ | Project developed by Avina Foundation | Argentina | Capacity building
Networking Alliance building Climate action | ActionLAC is a platform whose goal is to accerate climate action in Latin America. | |
Actions Communautaires pour le Développement Intégral (Community Action for Integrated Development) | http://climatdeveloppement.org/lercd/acdi-rdc/#:~:text=Actions Communautaires pour le Développement Intégral (ACDI/ONGD) est,Congo le 10 Juin 2005. | NGO | Nigeria | Agriculture
Mitigation Sustainable development Awareness raising Community development Fish farming Indigenous traditions Indigenous rights Biodiversity Environmental protection Environmental education | Actions Communautaires pour le Développement Intégral (ACDI/ONGD) is a national non-governmental organization for capacity building in the areas of sustainable development in the Democratic Republic of Congo | A member organisation of the Climate Action Network Regional Node CAN West and Central Africa (CANWA) |
Actions en faveur de l'homme et de la nature Ivory Coast (AFHON) | https://www.facebook.com/AFHON Côte-Divoire-577578548940631/ | NGO | Côte d’Ivoire | Climate change
Gender equality Equity Sustainable development Environmental education Agriculture Food security Health | AFHON is a non-governmental organization that fights against climate change and contributes to the preservation of the environment. (AFHON_Côte d'Ivoire) is a youth organization made up of a team committed to the cause of the environment and sustainable development. Its goal is to fight for the preservation of the environment and to improve the socio-economic conditions of the populations for a sustainable development. AFHON_Côte d'Ivoire 's mission is to initiate actions aimed at improving the living environment and livelihoods of vulnerable populations (children, women, and rural communities) and to raise awareness for taking account of environmental and social issues in all development processes. | A member organisation of the Climate Action Network Regional Node CAN West and Central Africa (CANWA) |
Actitud Misionerista | https://www.instagram.com/actitudmisionerista/?igshid=YmMyMTA2M2Y= | Non-profit Organization (NPO) | Argentina | Education
Training Ecology Socioeconomic justice Youth empowerment Communication Climate Justice | Combat the advance of climate change in the province of Misiones, training leaders in climate matters. | |
Adarsha Samajik Progoti Sangstha | https://en-gb.facebook.com/aspsbd18/ | NGO | Bangladesh | Poverty
Gender equality Equity Rural development | Adarsha Samajik Progoti Sangstha (ASPS) is a registered District Non-Governmental organization (NGO) working in the field of rural disadvantaged people’s development and empowering them in the local power structure through capacity building of disadvantaged rural people in Netrakona District since 1990 and registered with the department of social service Government of the People’s Republic of Bangladesh. (Fb page) | A member organisation of the Climate Action Network Regional Node CAN South Asia (CANSA) |
Adivasi Post | https://www.instagram.com/theadivasipost/ | Network Collective Youth Led | India | Displacement
Racial justice Indigenous rights | This page hopes to create a space for dialogue on Adivasis and tribal issues across the country, such as land dispossession, displacement, cultural assimilation, religious imposition and racism among others. Come join us in the conversation. Hul Johar! | |
Adventist Development and Relief Agency (ADRA) Vanuatu | https://adra.org.vu/ | NGO | Vanuatu | Livelihood improvement
Community empowerment Food security Water Sanitation Hygiene Gender-based violence Emergency relief Poverty | We are the humanitarian arm of the Seventh-day Adventist Church, working with those in poverty and distress to create just and positive change. ADRA Vanuatu is part if the global ADRA network, which is made up of supporting and implementing offices in 130 countries around the world. ADRA Vanuatu works on the ground with communities across Vanuatu. (website) | A Member organisation of the Climate Action Network Regional Node Pacific Islands CAN (PICAN) |
Aerobotics ( Cape Town, South Africa ) | https://www.aerobotics.com/ | Social Movement Organization (SMO) | South Africa | Hunger
Food Agriculture | Aerobotics is a data analytics company using aerial imagery and machine learning algorithms to optimize crop performance for farmers who can interact with the data through mobile or web applications. | |
Afghanistan Environmental Experts Society | https://cansouthasia.net/afghanistan-environmental-experts-society/ | Civil Society Organisation | Afghanistan | Climate change
Natural resource management Disaster risk management Sustainable development Environment Governance | Afghanistan Environment Experts Association is a Civil Society Organization currently active in Kabul Afghanistan. We are committed to contributing toward a healthy, sustainable and well-protected environment supporting sustainable development nationally and globally. (alternative website) (Fb Page) | A member organisation of the Climate Action Network Regional Node CAN South Asia (CANSA) |
Afghanistan Youth Empowerment and Peace-building Organization (AYEPO) | https://ayepo.org/ | NGO Youth Led | Afghanistan | Peacebuilding
Conflict resolution Capacity building Youth leadership Community empowerment | The Afghanistan Youth Empowerment and Peace-building Organization (AYEPO) is an Afghan youth-led non-profit and non-governmental organization that promotes youth empowerment and peace-building. AYEPO empowers Afghan youth through capacity development programs in leadership, mediation, conflict resolution/ transformation and peace-building activities. AYEPO is committed to supporting the young generation by providing dynamic platforms and opportunities for them to develop the knowledge, skills and vision to become agents of change in their communities | A member organisation of the Climate Action Network Regional Node CAN West and Central Africa (CANWA) |
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