Founded in 1972, ActionAid has been fighting poverty worldwide for over 30 years. In 2003, ActionAid’s work reached almost 13 million people in Africa, Asia and the Americas. ActionAid started as a child sponsorship charity, with 88 UK supporters sponsoring 88 children in India and Kenya. Its focus was on providing children with an education.

During the first decade, ActionAid established long-term programmes in India, Rwanda, Kenya, Burundi and Gambia, and saw its first emergency work in Honduras and Bangladesh. Its work expanded to include long-term health, sanitation and agricultural projects that would improve living conditions for children and their families.

Address : ActionAid International
Postnet Suite 248 Private Bag X31 Saxonwold 2132
Johannesburg South Africa
Phone : +27 11 8800008
Fax : +27 11 8808082
Contact : mail.jhb@actionaid.org
Website : http://www.actionaid.org

Nirantar is a resource centre for Gender and Education set up in 1993. Nirantar works towards fulfilling its mandate of empowering women through education - by enabling access to information, promoting literacy and engendering education processes.
Nirantar seeks to achieve this through direct field interventions, creating educational resources, research and advocacy, and training.
Actively involved with the women’s movement and other democratic rights movements, Nirantar brings concerns central to these movements into its educational work.

Address: 4 B-64 Second Floor, Sarvodya Enclave, New Delhi 110017 - INDIA
Tel. : (91-11) 2-696-6334
Email : nirantar AT vsnl.com
Website : http://nirantar.net

UNICEF Innocenti Research Centre (IRC) works to strengthen the capacity of UNICEF and its cooperating institutions to respond to the evolving needs of children and to develop a new global ethic for children. It promotes the effective implementation of the Convention on the Rights of the Child, in both developing and industrialized countries.

Address : Piazza SS. Annunziata, 12, 50122 Florence - ITALY
Phone: (39055) 20330
Fax: (39055) 244817
Email: florence AT unicef.org
Website: http://www.unicef-icdc.org/

WiLDAF is a pan-African network of organisations and individuals working in the area of women’s rights. It was established in 1990 with the aim of promoting and strengthening action-strategies that link law to the development and empowerment of women. WiLDAF has membership in thirty-one countries in Africa.

Address : 2 nd Floor Zambia House, Kwame Nkrumah, Box 4622 Harare - ZIMBABWE
Phone: 263-4-751189/752105
Fax: 263-4-781886
Email: msodzi AT consultant.org
Website: http://www.wildaf.org.zw/