ZEF: Center for Development Research
It is focused on development, aiming to find "science-based solutions to development-related issues." It works to contributes to capacity development in Africa, Asia, and South and Latin America. It is...
Youth2030 Progress Report: 2023
It marks a significant milestone, commemorating five years since the UN Youth Strategy, Youth2030 launch. This report provides a comprehensive overview of the progress made in implementing Youth2030, comparing baseline...
Youth Fusion – Abolition 2000 Youth Network
Alliances | Coalitions | Networks, Nuclear Disarmament, Nuclear Non-proliferation, Youth, Youth Groups, Youth Leadership
It is working for the total abolition of nuclear weapons in the field of nuclear disarmament, risk-reduction and non-proliferation. To this end, it highlights the links between disarmament, peace, climate...
Youth Challenge International
It's approach to driving "creative, market-ready solutions that catapult youth around the world to succeed and prosper." explores the "intersection between youth and innovation by addressing health, the environment and...
Young Evangelicals for Climate Action
Climate Action, Climate Action Groups, Climate Change Activism, Religious Groups, Youth, Youth Groups
It works to mobilize others like themselves to action on climate change, and to influence and hold accountable senior Evangelical leaders. Programs: College Fellows Community Fellows Climate Advocates Publications: Videos...
World Youth Alliance
It is dedicated "to defending the dignity of the people through education, culture, and advocacy." Consequently, it strives to "build a global coalition of young people able to articulate, defend...
World YMCA
It "supports and facilitates some 120 national YMCAs and four regional Alliances across the globe, to provide young people with safe spaces and opportunities to take an active role in...
World Water Assessment Programme
Freshwater, Sustainability Assessment, Sustainable Water Management, United Nations Agencies | Programs | Projects
The UN Commission on Sustainable Development (CSD) commissioned the WWAP to produce a UN system-wide periodic global overview (at first triennial, now annual) of the status (quantity and quality), use,...
World Vision International
A worldwide faith-based organization, with 80 international offices. It works with "communities, donors, partners, and governments to create opportunities for better futures for vulnerable children … even in the toughest...
World Trade Organization
It is the only global international organization dealing with the rules of trade between nations. The goal is to ensure that trade flows as smoothly, predictably and freely as possible....
World Rainforest Movement
Activist Organizations, Agroforestry, Biodiversity Loss, Deforestation-Free Economy, Forest Protection, Rainforests
It aims to contribute to "struggles, reflections and political actions of forest-dependent peoples, indigenous, peasants and other communities in the global South." Its main role is "to support struggles that...
World Peace Foundation
It aims to educate "the people of all nations to a full knowledge of the waste and destructiveness of war and of preparation for war.” It seeks “to make achieving...
World Neighbors
It helps people in developing nations to find sustainable solutions to fight hunger and disease; focus on training and education in communities. Since its inception, World Neighbors has affected the...
World Meteorological Organization
WMO is a specialized agency of the United Nations dedicated to fostering international cooperation and coordination on the state and behavior of the Earth’s atmosphere, its interaction with the land...
World Law Forum
It is committed to promoting the rule of law and "transforming the world through legal reform." Consequently, it strives to reduce the "disparity between communities, increase access to justice, and...
World Justice Project
An independent, multidisciplinary organization working to create knowledge, build awareness and stimulate action to advance the rule of law worldwide. It works to: Support research on the meaning and measurement...
World Institute of Development Economics Research (UNU-WIDER)
It provides "a range of services from policy advice to governments as well as freely available original research coordinated by a core group of resident and non-resident researchers and undertaken...
World Health Organization (WHO)
Major UN agency concerned with disease and public health promotion; WHO operates 150 country offices in six different regions, researching and working on communicable diseases, noncommunicable diseases, environmental health, lifestyles,...
World Future Council
The World Future Council was formed to "speak on behalf of policy solutions that serve the interests of future generations", focusing on identifying and spreading effective, future-just policy solutions. It...
World Federalist Movement
It aims to create a "a world order in which the legitimate rights of nations to self-determination are balanced by and consistent with the collective rights of the global community...