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URL: http://www.practicalaction.org/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/PracticalAction/
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/practicalaction/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/PracticalAction
Founded
1965-05 London UK
History
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Ensure a secure, fulfilling and dignified way of life to people in poverty by increasing grassroots access to appropriate technology, information and knowledge; provide technical assistance to Third World small and micro enterprises. Concerns: diffusion of technology; environmental sustainability of small-scale industries; factors influencing development of technological capacity of small-scale producers.
Events
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- Accredited by: Green Climate Fund (GCF)
- Links with: Centre on Integrated Rural Development for Africa (CIRDAFRICA)
- Links with: Commonwealth Secretariat
- Links with: Network of African Countries on Local Building Materials and Technologies
- Links with: United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR)
Relations with Non-Governmental Organizations
Coordinates: F-XF2761 - Network for Social Studies on Disaster Prevention in Latin America. Endorses: F-XM1330 - Ban Terminator Campaign.
- Member of: British Overseas NGO's for Development (BOND)(as Full member of)
- Member of: Climate Action Network Europe (CAN Europe)
- Member of: Coalition of European Lobbies on Eastern African Pastoralism (CELEP)
- Member of: Global Call for Climate Action (GCCA)
- Member of: Global Open Data for Agriculture and Nutrition (GODAN)
- Member of: InsideNGO
- Member of: International NGO/CSO Planning Committee for Food Sovereignty (IPC)
- Member of: Mountain Partnership (MP)
- Partner of: Energy 4 Impact
- Partner of: Sustainable Energy for All (SEforALL)
- Partner of: World Urban Campaign (WUC)
- Cooperates with: African Technology Policy Studies Network (ATPS)
- Cooperates with: International Network of Resource Centers on Urban Agriculture and Food Security (RUAF Foundation)
- Links with: African Population and Health Research Center (APHRC)
- Links with: Alliance for Rural Electrification (ARE)
- Links with: Asia Network for Sustainable Agriculture and Bioresources (ANSAB)
- Links with: Building Advisory Service and Information Network (BASIN)
- Links with: Coalition for Fair Fisheries Agreements (CFFA)
- Links with: International Broadcasting Trust (IBT)
- Links with: International Centre for Earth Construction
- Links with: International Centre of Insect Physiology and Ecology (ICIPE)
- Links with: International Institute for Human Rights, Environment and Development (INHURED International)
- Links with: International Library on Earthen Architecture
- Links with: New Economics Foundation (NEF)
- Links with: Oxford Centre for Disaster Studies (OCDS)
- Links with: Pan African Institute for Development (PAID)
- Links with: Partners of the Americas
- Links with: Settlements Information Network Africa (SINA)
- Links with: Think Global - Development Education Association (DEA)
- Links with: Water, Engineering and Development Centre (WEDC)
Publications
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UN Sustainable Development Goals **
UIA Org ID
XF5044
** UN SDGs are linked to the subject classification.
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