Our Partners

Carrefour Foundation

http://www.fondation-internationale-carrefour.org/fic/accueil?lng=en
The Carrefour International Foundation concentrates its action around two main missions: humanitarian aid and the fight against exclusion. The Carrefour Foundation currently has 150 projects worldwide, focusing primarily on construction aid, rehabilitation centres, micro-credit loans, sport and nutrition, product donation and more.

Earth Charter

http://www.earthcharter.org
www.earthcharter.org

French Development Agency

http://www.afd.fr/jahia/Jahia/lang/en/home
The French Development Agency is a specialized public institution in development financing. The French Development Agency finances sustainable development projects worldwide carried out by local government authorities, public companies and the private sector. The projects promote urban and rural development focusing on infrastructure, financial systems, education and the health sector.

Friends of the Earth Middle East (FoEME)

http://www.foeme.org/index.php
Friends of the Earth Middle East (FoEME) is a unique organization that brings together Jordanian, Palestinian, and Israeli environmentalists. Their primary objective is the promotion of cooperative efforts to protect the environment and advance both sustainable regional development and the creation of necessary conditions for lasting peace in the Middle East. FoEME is a member of Friends of the Earth International, the largest network of grassroots environmental organizations in the world.

House of Water and Environment

http://www.hwe.org.ps
The House of Water and Environment (HWE) is a Palestinian not-for-profit NGO established in 2004. The goal of HWE is to promote practical research into the current and future state of water resources and the environment in Palestine and across the region. In achieving such goals, the HWE works to ensure that the Palestinians receive a just allocation of water and sanitation services, to help develop negotiations skills for addressing the Palestinian water rights, and encourages participatory approaches in the socio-economic dimension of its activities in order to help improve living standards and poverty alleviation.

International Rainwater Harvesting Alliance (IRHA)

http://www.irha-h2o.org
RHA?s vision is safe freshwater for sustainable livelihoods and ecosystem conservation in all regions of the world. IRHA?s mission is to promote rainwater harvesting and increase access to water for all populations.

IUCN - The World Conservation Union

http://cms.iucn.org/
The World Conservation Union is the world?s largest and most important conservation network. The Union brings together 83 States, 110 government agencies, more than 800 non-governmental organizations (NGOs), and some 10,000 scientists and experts from 181 countries in a unique worldwide partnership. The Union?s mission is to influence, encourage and assist societies throughout the world to conserve the integrity and diversity of nature and to ensure that any use of natural resources is equitable and ecologically sustainable.

MENA CRISTAL FESTIVAL

http://www.menacristal.com/
The MENA Cristal Festival were created in 2005 with the objective of introducing a new and ambitious competition in all the Middle Eastern and North African (MENA) countries. This comes as the Middle East & North Africa version of the Cristal Festival, which target is European countries and is held yearly in the Swiss Alps.

Organization for the Prevention of Chemical Weapons (OPCW)

http://www.opcw.org/
The Chemical Weapons Convention is an international treaty which bans the development, production, stockpiling, transfer and use of chemical weapons, and also stipulates their timely destruction. The Convention entered into force in 1997 and mandated the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) to eliminate the scourge of chemical weapons forever and to verify the destruction of the declared chemical weapons stockpiles within stipulated deadlines. The OPCW's inspectors monitor and verify the inactivation, and later destruction or conversion, of all declared chemical weapons production facilities, as well as the destruction of declared chemical weapons stockpiles. At the same time, OPCW inspectors verify the consistency of industrial chemical declarations and, together with the States Parties, monitor the non-diversion of chemicals for activities prohibited under the Chemical Weapons Convention.

Palestinian Hydrology Group

http://www.phg.org/
HG is a Palestinian non government non profit organization striving to promote the role of women and civil societies in managing local water and its related environmental resources to en sure transparency, good water governance and just and equal provision of water and sanitation services to the rural and marginal communities in the West Bank and Gaza. PHG is also striving to promote water research capacity and infrastructure in Palestine. Through international networking and partnerships, PHG hopes to achieve its goals.

Peres Center for Peace

http://www.peres-center.org/
A non-profit NGO founded by Israeli President Mr. Shimon Peres with the aim of building an infrastructure of peace and reconciliation in the Middle East and promote socio-economic development. The activities of the Peres Center for Peace include dialogue, capacity building through cooperation, nurturing peace in youth and assisting in humanitarian emergencies in the region.

Swiss Development Agency

http://www.sdc.admin.ch/en/Home
The Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC) is Switzerland?s international cooperation agency within the Swiss Foreign Ministry. Together with other federal offices, SDC is responsible for overall coordination of international development activities and humanitarian aid.

The Alliance for Climate Protection / WE campaign

http://www.wecansolveit.org
Impacts on planet earth and the changing climate will affect everyone. As awareness about the urgency of the climate crisis grows, we know there is no time to waste. That is why Green Cross International and The Alliance for Climate Protection are working together. The Alliance for Climate Protection has launched the WE campaign (wecansolveit.org) to persuade the American people- and people elsewhere in the world -of the urgent need to solve the climate crisis and to mobilize millions into action. If enough of us come together and raise our voices our leaders in business and government will no longer be able to ignore us or the solutions to the climate crisis. The fact is that no one person can halt climate change alone but together we can.

The Green Belt Movement

http://www.greenbeltmovement.org
The Green Belt Movement, founded by Nobel Peace Prize winner Wangari Maathai, has two divisions. Green Belt Movement Kenya and Green Belt Movement International. Green Belt Movement Kenya: GBM Kenya is a non-profit grassroots non-governmental organization (NGO) based in Kenya. GBM Kenya focuses on six core programs: Environmental Conservation/Tree Planting, Civic & Environmental Education, Advocacy & Networking, Pan African Training Workshops, Green Belt Safaris, and Women for Change. GBM International is a non-profit umbrella organization for GBM Kenya with four goals: to strengthen and expand the Green Belt Movement in Kenya, to share the Green Belt Movement?s program with other countries in Africa and beyond, to empower Africans, especially women and girls, and nurture their leadership and entrepreneurial skills, to advocate internationally for the environment, good governance, equity and cultures of peace.

UN Habitat

http://www.unhabitat.org/categories.asp?catid=9
The United Nations Human Settlements Programme, UN-HABITAT, is the United Nations agency for human settlements. It is mandated by the UN General Assembly to promote socially and environmentally sustainable towns and cities with the goal of providing adequate shelter for all. UN-HABITAT's vision is anchored in a strategy consisting of monitoring and research, policy development, capacity building and financing for housing and urban development. UN-HABITAT's work is directly related to the United Nations Millennium Declaration, particularly the goals of member States to improve the lives of at least 100 million slum dwellers by the year 2020, Target 11, Millennium Development Goal No. 7, and Target 10 which calls for the reduction by half of the number without sustainable access to safe drinking water.

UNEP-OCHA

http://ochaonline.un.org
The United Nations Environment Program (UNEP) and Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) Joint Unit has a purpose in dealing with environmental emergencies to mobilize and coordinate international assistance. This assistance can be used in responding to environmental emergencies and helping countries to improve their preparedness to respond to environmental emergencies. The UNEP-OCHA Joint Unit works with affected countries to identify and mitigate acute negative impacts stemming from emergencies, providing independent, impartial advice and practical solutions.

Water Treaty

http://www.watertreaty.org/
www.watertreaty.org

World Water Council

http://www.worldwatercouncil.org
The World Water Council was established in 1996 in response to increasing concern from the global community about world water issues. Its mission is to promote awareness, build political commitment and trigger action on critical water issues at all levels, including the highest decision-making level, to facilitate the efficient management and use of water in all its dimensions and on an environmentally sustainable basis. The WWC has been granted special consultative status by UNESCO and ECOSOC.

World Wide Fund for Nature

http://www.wwf.org
The World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) is an international non-governmental organization for the conservation, research and restoration of the natural environment. It is the world's largest independent conservation organization with over 5 million supporters worldwide, working in more than 90 countries, supporting 15,000 conservation and environmental projects around the world.