Tanzania Women Lawyers Association (TAWLA) is an NGO founded in 1989 and officially registered in 1990. The founding members comprised a professional group of women lawyers who felt the need for an organization that could promote an environment guaranteeing equal rights and access to all by focusing on vulnerable and marginalised groups especially women and children. The founding members also recognised the need for women lawyers to foster mutual support for each other in professional advancement and social responsibility. TAWLA has more than 570 members

A non-profit NGO that works to empower women to attain their rights and to improve vulnerable population’s access to justice across Tanzania.

OBJECTIVES:

• To provide legal aid services to women and children so as to safeguard their rights and improve their livelihoods.
• To facilitate the establishment and strengthening of paralegal units across Tanzania to foster community-based education on legal and human rights, and to improve timely access to quality legal aid.

The Climate and Development Knowledge Network (CDKN) aims to help decision-makers in developing countries design and deliver climate compatible development.

Our mission

The Regional Office for Africa advocates for strong regional partnerships and timely Country Office support.

The substantive technical work of the Regional Office focuses on co-ordinating normative work and its policy dimensions and leadership of the regional dimension of the Organization’s technical networks.

Three main areas characterize the African regional dimension: priority setting and strategic planning, partnership development, and resource mobilization.

Ndifuna Ukwazi is an activist organisation and law centre that promotes the realisation of Constitutional Rights and Social Justice – through legal, research and organising support to working class people, communities and social movements. The organistion works to advance urban land justice – that is the protection and promotion of access to affordable, well located housing in Cape Town; building inclusive and sustainable mixed use and mixed income communities; and supporting tenant rights and security of tenure in both private and public housing.

The United States Institute of Peace is an independent national institute, founded by Congress and dedicated to the proposition that a world without violent conflict is possible, practical, and essential for U.S. and global security. USIP pursues this vision on the ground in conflict zones, working with local partners to prevent conflicts from turning to bloodshed and to end it when they do. The Institute provides training, analysis, and other resources to people, organizations, and governments working to build peace.

The Broadening Access and Strengthening Input Market Systems (BASIS) Collaborative Research Support Program (CRSP) carries out and disseminates collaborative, policy-oriented research that addresses rural poverty by making markets work for all. The website hosts research reports, working papers, briefs and trip reports.

The Economics of Land Degradation (ELD) Initiative is an initiative on the economic benefits of land and land based ecosystems. The initiative highlights the value of sustainable land management and provides a global approach for analysis of the economics of land degradation. It aims to make economics of land degradation an integral part of policy strategies and decision making by increasing the political and public awareness of the costs and benefits of land and land-based ecosystems.

Our Vision

Launched in 2007, the Global Gender and Climate Alliance works to ensure that climate change policies, decision-making, and initiatives at the global, regional and national levels are gender responsive which is critical to solving the climate crisis.

El Instituto Popular de Capacitación –IPC- es una institución de promoción popular que tiene vínculos con diversos sectores de la sociedad y lleva a cabo iniciativas de investigación, capacitación y formación, opinión pública, asesoría, consultoría, acompañamiento y promoción con comunidades (académicas, rurales, urbanas, solidarias y afines), movimientos sociales y políticos, medios de comunicación, como también con el Estado en sus diferentes escalas territoriales.

Mundubat – “un mundo” en lengua vasca- es una Organización No Gubernamental de Cooperación al Desarrollo (ONGD).

Somos un colectivo que desde 1988 coopera con mujeres y hombres, con asociaciones, con comunidades del Sur en sus retos de desarrollo y transformación social. Nuestro compromiso solidario y ético -también en el Norte- quiere contribuir a la defensa de los Derechos Humanos, y al desarrollo humano sostenible en los dos hemisferios.

SCLC's focus is on labour, tenure and human rights of farm- and forestry workers and dwellers, access to land and resources for small-scale / subsistence farmers and producers, and support and solidarity for communities resisting land development which threatens their homes, livelihoods, health and heritage.