Every Woman Every Child Initiative (EWEC)
Every Woman Every Child aims to save the lives of 16 million women and children by 2015.
Every Woman Every Child Initiative (EWEC)
Every Woman Every Child is a multi-stakeholder initiative that aims to encourage governments, civil society and private sector companies to improve the lives of vulnerable women and children. The initiative was launched in September 2010 by the United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon and is currently supported by 200 partners. The effort puts into action the Global Strategy for Women’s and Children’s Health, which presents a roadmap on how to enhance financing, strengthen policy and improve service on the ground for the most vulnerable women and children.
Every Woman Every Child recognizes that all actors have an important role to play in improving women's and children's health. Every Woman Every Child recognizes that all actors have an important role to play in improving women's and children's health. More than $40 billion was pledged at the 2010 launch, and numerous partners have made additional, and critical, financial, policy and service delivery commitments, but more help is needed. The Secretary-General is asking the international community for the additional commitments necessary to take Every Woman Every Child past the tipping point. This would mean saving the lives of 16 million women and children, preventing 33 million unwanted pregnancies, ending stunting in 88 million children, and protecting 120 million children from pneumonia by 2015.
Partners
United Nations Foundation
FoundationUnited States | Staff size: 101-250When disaster strikes, the world turns to one organization for hope, help, leadership, and coordination: the United Nations. When there is peace to keep between warring factions, the world asks...
When disaster strikes, the world turns to one organization for hope, help, leadership, and coordination: the United Nations. When there is peace to keep between warring factions, the world asks the UN to mobilize peacekeepers, oversee elections, and create stability. In the face of challenges such as global warming, the United Nations provides the platform for international cooperation. The United Nations is the one international organization with the reach and vision capable of solving global problems.
The United Nations Foundation links the UN’s work with others around the world, mobilizing the energy and expertise of business and non-governmental organizations to help the UN tackle issues including climate change, children’s health, peace and security, and poverty eradication.
OUR SOLUTIONS
INNOVATIVE HEALTH CAMPAIGNS
ELIMINATING MALARIA DEATHS
Malaria can be prevented. A single long-lasting insecticide-treated bed net can protect a family of four. Malaria can be treated. Medicine exists to help people recover from the infection. Malaria deaths can be eliminated. Diverse partnerships—in coordination with key UN agencies—are looking at different strategies to do this by the next generation. We combat malaria through:
-Nothing But Nets Campaign
-Roll Back Malaria
-UN Foundation Malaria Partnership
REDUCING MEASLES MORTALITY
Despite recent outbreaks in the United States and the United Kingdom, measles has all but been eliminated in parts of the world. But it still kills more than 242,000 people globally each year, mainly children under 5. One solution is integrated, countrywide measles campaigns carried out by country governments with support from the Measles Initiative. These large-scale, coordinated efforts, organized by the Measles Initiative, are aimed at reducing measles deaths by 90 percent.
ERADICATING POLIO
Polio can be eradicated; less than 1,500 new cases are reported each year. As we get closer to wiping this disease off the map, literally, the work only gets harder. Most of the children who are infected aren’t located in one place but instead are spread across dozens of remote communities in India and Nigeria. It takes a global effort to end this disease forever, which is why we support the Global Polio Eradication Initiative.
CLIMATE CHANGE AND SUSTAINABLE ENERGY
TACKLING THE GLOBAL CLIMATE CHALLENGE
The Copenhagen climate change negotiations provide a new basis for countries to collectively tackle climate change. We are working with the UN Secretary-General and his Climate Team, government, business, and non-profit leaders to carry forward the progress made in Copenhagen.
IMPROVING ENERGY EFFICIENCY
Energy efficiency is the cheapest, fastest and smartest strategy available for saving money and resources and reducing greenhouse gas emissions around the world. The UN Foundation is building support among UN, government and business leaders for a strategy to double the annual rate of global energy efficiency improvement.
ACHIEVING UNIVERSAL ENERGY ACCESS
Access to clean and affordable modern energy is critical to fostering lasting social and economic development and to achieving the Millennium Development Goals. We are working with UN-Energy on a campaign to achieve universal energy access by 2030.
CONSERVATION & LIVELIHOODS
PROMOTING SUSTAINABLE TOURISM
Tourism is the world’s largest industry, and constantly growing. One in every 12 jobs is tourism related, and tourism-related activities generate more than $3.6 trillion a year. Yet, all the impacts of tourism aren’t positive. Blatant disregard for the environmental and cultural impacts of travel on World Heritage sites has led to site degradation, and unless we act quickly many of the sites will not recover. Promoting sustainable travel is a way to encourage responsible travel and help protect World Heritage sites.
COMMUNITY-BASED ENTERPRISES
Fostering small, local businesses and helping them better promote their goods and services is a tangible way to have a positive impact on the communities around World Heritage sites. By doing this, we have helped ensure that local customs and cultures are maintained, jobs are created and communities grow, sustainably.
PROMOTING MARKET ACCESS
Local producers and manufacturers are an important source of products for businesses around World Heritage sites. Working with governments, corporations and other partners, we have explored how these local-based entrepreneurs are ensured fair and equal access to the global marketplace.
MOBILE TECHNOLOGY
DISASTER RELIEF COMMUNICATIONS
Natural and humanitarian disasters are increasingly occurring around the world. Through our partnerships with Télécoms Sans Frontières and the World Food Programme, we have supported many emergency deployments to help reestablish communications, provide equipment and help support humanitarian response.
THOUGHT LEADERSHIP & INNOVATION
Technology in the developing world is helping to close the digital divide, creating unprecedented opportunities to meet long-standing challenges to international development goals. We commission rigorous research analyzing how technology—especially mobile technology—helps support efforts to improve well-being and save lives in the developing world.
MOBILE HEALTH FOR DEVELOPMENT
The rapid expansion of mobile technologies in the developing world can radically improve health systems and the delivery of healthcare in those countries that need it most. We are working with the World Health Organization, national governments, and DataDyne.org to strengthen public health in the developing world.
WOMEN’S HEALTH & RIGHTS
PROMOTING SEXUAL & REPRODUCTIVE HEALTH
Every minute, in the developing world, a woman dies in childbirth. Twenty or more women experience serious complications and many are left with infections and severe disabilities. Every day, 6,800 people are newly infected with HIV/AIDS—half are under the age of 25 and 60 percent of those are women or girls. Helping provide family planning information, consistent sexual and reproductive health services and access to quality maternal health care will help save millions of lives each year.
INVESTING IN ADOLESCENT GIRLS
The situation of adolescent girls is particularly complex. Deep-rooted traditions of patriarchy and the subordination of women and girls make it difficult for adolescent girls to realize their rights in many parts of the world. But by redirecting investments to programs specific to adolescent girls and young women, we can make a real difference. Numerous studies show that investments in adolescent girls’ development translate into significant, long-term benefits for entire societies. For example, a year of schooling increases a woman’s income by 10 to 20 percent during her lifetime.
STRENGTHENING UN CAPACITY
The United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) and the United Nations Development Fund for Women (UNIFEM) are two of the UN’s key agencies that help promote gender equality, empower women and improve maternal health care (Millennium Development Goals #3 and #5). We work with them on a number of key campaigns and initiatives to raise awareness of the work that the agencies are doing to combat violence against women, provide better maternal health care and promote education and literacy.
U.N. ADVOCACY
U.S. FUNDING FOR THE UN
The U.S. is the largest contributor to the UN and is responsible for 22 percent of the UN’s regular budget and 26 percent of the UN’s peacekeeping budget. As of March 2008, the U.S. was $1.6 billion behind in its treaty obligations to the United Nations. The U.S.’s failure to pay its bills on time and in full could have a negative impact on key UN operations, including jeopardizing the 19 peacekeeping missions around the world.
BUILDING PUBLIC SUPPORT FOR THE UN
Through our sister organization, the Better World Campaign, we educate the public on the role the UN plays in addressing key global challenges so that no country has to pay all the bills or take all the risks in promoting global peace and progress.
SUPPORTING UN COMMUNICATIONS
We work closely with the UN to communicate effectively with governments about the UN’s work and challenges the organization faces. Our work supports UN crisis communications and adoption of new information strategies that help to better tell the UN story.
World Health Organization (WHO)
Funding AgenciesStaff size: 5001-10,000WHO (World Health Organisation) is the directing and coordinating authority for health within the United Nations system. It is responsible for providing leadership on global health matters,...
WHO (World Health Organisation) is the directing and coordinating authority for health within the United Nations system. It is responsible for providing leadership on global health matters, shaping the health research agenda, setting norms and standards, articulating evidence-based policy options, providing technical support to countries and monitoring and assessing health trends. WHO was founded in 1948.
193 countries and two associate members are WHO’s membership. They meet every year at the World Health Assembly in Geneva to set policy for the Organization, approve the Organization’s budget.
Over 8000 public health experts including doctors, epidemiologists, scientists, managers, administrators and other professionals from all over the world work for WHO in 147 country offices, six regional offices and at the headquarters in Geneva, Switzerland.
The WHO agenda
WHO operates in an increasingly complex and rapidly changing landscape. The boundaries of public health action have become blurred, extending into other sectors that influence health opportunities and outcomes. WHO responds to these challenges using a six-point agenda. The six points address two health objectives, two strategic needs, and two operational approaches. The overall performance of WHO will be measured by the impact of its work on women's health and health in Africa.
1. Promoting development
2. Fostering health security
3. Strengthening health systems
4. Harnessing research, information and evidence
5. Enhancing partnerships
6. Improving performance
The role of WHO in public health
WHO fulfils its objectives through its core functions:
- providing leadership on matters critical to health and engaging in partnerships where joint action is needed;
- shaping the research agenda and stimulating the generation, translation and dissemination of valuable knowledge;
- setting norms and standards and promoting and monitoring their implementation;
- articulating ethical and evidence-based policy options;
- providing technical support, catalysing change, and building sustainable institutional capacity; and
- monitoring the health situation and assessing health trends
Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation (B&MGF)
FoundationUnited States | Staff size: 1001-5000Guided by the belief that every life has equal value, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation works to help all people lead healthy, productive...Guided by the belief that every life has equal value, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation works to help all people lead healthy, productive lives. In developing countries, it focuses on improving people's health and giving them the chance to lift themselves out of hunger and extreme poverty. In the United States, it seeks to ensure that all people—especially those with the fewest resources—have access to the opportunities they need to succeed in school and life. Based in Seattle, Washington, the foundation is led by CEO Dr. Susan Desmond-Hellmann and Co-chair William H. Gates Sr., under the direction of Bill and Melinda Gates and Warren Buffett. They work with governments and private partners to foster greater public awareness of urgent global issues. Every year, millions of people find ways to transition out of poverty—by adopting new farming technologies, investing in new business opportunities, or finding new jobs. B&MGF believes women and girls have a unique power to reshape societies. One of their focuses is also on global health goals: they provide effective vaccines, drugs, and diagnostics and to develop innovative approaches to deliver health services to those who need it most.Ford Foundation
Foundation, Advocacy NGOUnited States | Staff size: 251-500The Ford Foundation supports visionary leaders and organizations on the frontlines of social change worldwide. They believe all people should have the opportunity to reach their full potential,...
The Ford Foundation supports visionary leaders and organizations on the frontlines of social change worldwide. They believe all people should have the opportunity to reach their full potential, contribute to society, and have voice in the decisions that affect them.
Headquartered in New York City, they make grants in all 50 states, and through 10 regional offices around the world, they support programs in more than 50 countries.
The foundation was created with gifts and bequests by Edsel and Henry Ford. It is an independent, nonprofit, nongovernmental organization, with its own board, and is entirely separate from the Ford Motor Company.
Mission
They believe in the inherent dignity of all people. But around the world, too many people are excluded from the political, economic, and social institutions that shape their lives.
In addressing this reality, they are guided by a vision of social justice—a world in which all individuals, communities, and peoples work toward the protection and full expression of their human rights; are active participants in the decisions that affect them; share equitably in the knowledge, wealth, and resources of society; and are free to achieve their full potential.Across eight decades, their mission has been to reduce poverty and injustice, strengthen democratic values, promote international cooperation, and advance human achievement.
Their Approaches
They believe that social movements are built upon individual leadership, strong institutions, and innovative, often high-risk ideas. While the specifics of what they work on have evolved over the years, investments in these three areas have remained the touchstones of everything they do and are central to their theory of how change happens in the world. These approaches have long distinguished the Ford Foundation, and they have had a profound cumulative impact.
MacArthur Foundation
FoundationUnited States | Staff size: UnknownThe John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation supports creative people, effective institutions, and influential networks building a more just, verdant, and peaceful world. MacArthur is...
The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation supports creative people, effective institutions, and influential networks building a more just, verdant, and peaceful world. MacArthur is placing a few big bets that truly significant progress is possible on some of the world’s most pressing social challenges, including over-incarceration, global climate change, nuclear risk, and significantly increasing financial capital for the social sector. In addition to the MacArthur Fellows Program, the Foundation continues its historic commitments to the role of journalism in a responsible and responsive democracy, as well as the strength and vitality of their headquarters city, Chicago.
MacArthur is one of the nation's largest independent foundations. Organizations supported by the Foundation work in about 50 countries. In addition to Chicago, MacArthur has offices in India, Mexico, and Nigeria.
History:
John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur were quiet philanthropists in their lifetime, giving primarily to organizations in cities where they lived: Chicago and Palm Beach. Their business interests, including the immensely successful Bankers Life and Casualty insurance company and real estate holdings concentrated in Florida, New York City, and Chicago, consumed most of their time and energy.
On October 18, 1970 – after John’s longtime friend and attorney William T. Kirby convinced him that a foundation would allow his money to go to good use long after he was gone – the documents for the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation were completed.
John intentionally left the business of what to fund to the Foundation’s first board of directors, which included Catherine; Kirby; his son, Roderick; radio commentator Paul Harvey, a friend from Chicago whose popular program carried ads for Bankers Life; and Louis Feil, a business associate from New York. “I made the money; you guys will have to figure out what to do with it,” MacArthur told the board. This direction presented the Foundation’s first board with two challenges: how to divest responsibly the assets and how to shape a forward-looking organization that could change with society’s evolving challenges.
When John died of cancer on January 6, 1978, the Foundation assumed his assets, estimated at $1 billion, and made its first two grants of $50,000 each to Amnesty International and the California League of Cities. Since 1978, the Foundation has made grants totaling more than $6 billion in the United States and about 50 countries around the world.The Foundation’s first decade was challenging: assets to dispose of in a way that realized good value responsibly, tensions over grantmaking strategies, the task of assembling a staff and working out its relationship with directors who had also served as staff in the early days.
A seminal figure of this period was the Foundation's first president, John Corbally, who, with his colleagues James Furman and William Kirby, helped the directors fashion the Foundation's early program: the MacArthur Fellows, support for public radio, investment in peace and security, mental health, and the environment among them.
The second decade saw rapid expansion and experimentation, fueled by growing assets as Mr. MacArthur's real estate holdings were liquidated. New ventures included a leadership role in Chicago school reform and support for vigorous neighborhood development efforts in Chicago.
The Foundation launched the Population Program, with field offices in Mexico, Nigeria, Brazil, and India. Shortly after the collapse of the Soviet Union, the Foundation opened an office in Moscow in support of its work to strengthen universities and policy institutes in the sciences and social sciences.
Under Adele Simmons' creative leadership, the Foundation was reorganized to emphasize cross-cutting themes that illuminated the interconnectedness of problems it confronted and the complexity of their solutions.
The third decade found the MacArthur Foundation in early adulthood: clear about its values, its mission, and areas of work in which it sought to make a difference. Under Jonathan Fanton’s leadership, the Foundation deepened investment in some of the Foundation’s most promising areas of work including human rights and international justice, juvenile justice, affordable housing, and community and economic development. He sought out and supported major new ideas, such as the Encyclopedia of Life and the Law and Neuroscience Project, and emphasized fewer grants but for larger amounts and longer periods of time to increase the impact of MacArthur’s grantmaking.From 2009 to 2014, Robert L. Gallucci changed the Foundation's culture and practices, embedding assessment in all programs to ensure their impact and giving the professional staff the freedom to apply their talents. He initiated a new area of grantmaking to strengthen American democracy at a critical and challenging time for the nation, and he launched the discovery grants process to spur innovative new ideas.
Now led by President Julia Stasch, MacArthur is one of the nation’s largest independent foundations with assets of approximately $6.2 billion and annual giving of approximately $250 million.
The MacArthur Foundation supports creative people, effective institutions, and influential networks building a more just, verdant, and peaceful world. MacArthur is placing a few big bets that truly significant progress is possible on some of the world’s most pressing social challenges, including over-incarceration, global climate change, nuclear risk, and significantly increasing financial capital for the social sector. In addition to the MacArthur Fellows Program, the Foundation continues its historic commitments to the role of journalism in a responsible and responsive democracy as well as the strength and vitality of their headquarters city, Chicago.
MacArthur is one of the nation's largest independent foundations. Organizations supported by the Foundation work in about 50 countries. In addition to Chicago, MacArthur has offices in India, Mexico, and Nigeria.
The Global Fund for Women
FoundationUnited States | Staff size: 51-100The Global Fund for Women is a publicly supported grantmaking foundation that advances human rights by investing in women-led organizations worldwide. Their international network of women and...
The Global Fund for Women is a publicly supported grantmaking foundation that advances human rights by investing in women-led organizations worldwide. Their international network of women and men mobilizes financial resources to support women’s contributions to social justice, equality and peace. They raise funds from a variety of sources and make grants to women-led organizations that promote the economic security, health, safety, education and leadership of women and girls in 171 countires.
Their Vision
Every woman and girl is strong, safe, powerful, and heard. No exceptions.Their Mission
They are a global champion for the human rights of women and girls. They use their powerful networks to find, fund, and amplify the courageous work of women who are building social movements and challenging the status quo. By shining a spotlight on critical issues, we rally communities of advocates who take action and invest money to empower women.History
Global Fund for Women was founded in 1987 in Palo Alto, California, by four bold women: Anne Firth Murray, Frances Kissling, Laura Lederer, and Nita Barrow. They were convinced that women’s human rights were essential to social, economic, and political change around the world, for the benefit of us all. Frustrated by a lack of interest in funding women’s human rights, they founded an organization to fund grass-roots women-led movements directly. They knew that by trusting their grantee partners to tackle the problems they were uniquely qualified to solve, permanent change would happen. They were right.Founding member Anne Firth Murray served as our Founding President from 1986 to 1996. Anne established Global Fund for Women as a leader in women’s rights funding and expertise.
From the start, Global Fund for Women was a public foundation, relying on the generosity of donors to support its critical work. The work caught the public’s attention. The first grants in 1988 totaled $30,000, but by 1996 grantmaking had grown to $1.2 million.
Kavita Ramdas became CEO in 1996, serving until 2010. Under Kavita’s leadership, Global Fund for Women experienced unprecedented growth, with assets increasing from $6 million to $21 million. Her powerful advocacy and thought leadership won hearts and minds, and mobilized resources and attention for women’s rights.
Musimbi Kanyoro joined the organization in 2011. Under her leadership, Global Fund for Women celebrated a major milestone – surpassing $100 million in total grantmaking. Musimbi focused the organization’s program areas and added more comprehensive learning, monitoring, and evaluation.
In March 2014, Global Fund for Women and the International Museum of Women (IMOW) merged. The merger brought together Global Fund for Women’s powerful grantmaking and advocacy expertise with IMOW’s skills in awareness raising, online campaigns, and digital storytelling.
IMOW was founded in 1997, led by Founding President Elizabeth Colton, and evolved into an innovative online museum inspiring creativity, awareness, and action on vital global issues for women. Elizabeth joins the lineage of founders of the merged organization.
Though Global Fund for Women has changed with the times, the philosophy of our founders has remained: trust women. Women are the best agents of change in their communities, and giving them resources and voice can change the world.
CARE USA
Implementing NGOUnited States | Staff size: 10,000+CARE is a leading humanitarian organization fighting global poverty. They place special focus on working alongside poor women because, equipped with the proper resources, women have the power to...
CARE is a leading humanitarian organization fighting global poverty. They place special focus on working alongside poor women because, equipped with the proper resources, women have the power to help whole families and entire communities escape poverty. Women are at the heart of CARE's community-based efforts to improve basic education, prevent the spread of HIV, increase access to clean water and sanitation, expand economic opportunity and protect natural resources. CARE also delivers emergency aid to survivors of war and natural disasters, and helps people rebuild their lives.
CARE tackles underlying causes of poverty so that people can become self-sufficient. Recognizing that women and children suffer disproportionately from poverty, CARE places special emphasis on working with women to create permanent social change. Women are at the heart of CARE's community-based efforts to improve basic education, prevent the spread of HIV, increase access to clean water and sanitation, expand economic opportunity and protect natural resources. CARE also delivers emergency aid to survivors of war and natural disasters, and helps people rebuild their lives.
Who They Are
CARE is a global leader within a worldwide movement dedicated to ending poverty. They are known everywhere for their unshakeable commitment to the dignity of people.Mission
CARE works around the globe to save lives, defeat poverty and achieve social justice.Vision
They seek a world of hope, tolerance and social justice, where poverty has been overcome and all people live with dignity and security.Focus
They put women and girls in the center because they know that they cannot overcome poverty until all people have equal rights and opportunities.Values
Transformation
They believe in urgent action, innovation, and the necessity of transformation—within the world and their own organization.Integrity
They are accountable to the people and partners they humbly serve, transparently sharing their results, stories and lessons.Diversity
They know that by embracing differences, actively including a variety of voices, and joining together they can solve the world’s most complex problems.Excellence
They challenge themselves to the highest level of learning and performance, tapping the best of the human spirit to create impact.Equality
They believe in the equal value of every human being and the importance of respecting and honoring each individual; they know that change happens through people.Core Values Commitment
This Core Values Commitment describes who they are, what they do, and how they do it. It reflects their Core Values of TRANSFORMATION, INTEGRITY, DIVERSITY, EXCELLENCE, and EQUALITY, which serve as a foundation for all that they do.WHAT THEY DO
Agriculture and Natural Resources. CARE helps families produce more food and increase their income while managing their natural resources and preserving the environment for future generations.
Cross-Cutting Initiatives. CARE's cross-cutting initiatives span across the breadth of their program sectors to tackle the underlying causes of poverty, and place special emphasis on working with women and girls to create lasting social change.
Economic Development. CARE's economic development programs assist impoverished families by supporting moneymaking activities, especially those operated by women.
Education. They work alongside communities, governments and partner organizations at many levels to address all aspects of basic education. Their inclusive approaches include training teachers and other school personnel to improve the quality of education; linking education programs to interventions in health, nutrition and livelihoods to better address reasons why children are out of school; involving communities in assessing and overcoming their unique barriers to learning; and conducting broad campaigns that promote the right to education for all people.
Emergency Relief. Their projects directly assist survivors of natural disasters and conflict through both immediate relief and longer-term community rehabilitation, including food, temporary shelter, clean water, sanitation services, medical care, family planning and reproductive health services, and seeds and tools.
Health. CARE's health projects focus on mothers and children, who often are the most vulnerable to disease and malnutrition. They are particularly interested in increasing the capacity of their local partners to deliver quality health services.
HIV/AIDS. CARE's HIV/AIDS programs link with their other sectors, including health, education and economic development. Through their HIV/AIDS programs, they help communities care for children orphaned and made vulnerable by HIV/AIDS; develop peer education and outreach in communities; and increase access to services such as condoms, voluntary counseling and testing, anti-retroviral treatment, and STI prevention and treatment.
Nutrition. CARE places a special focus on infant and young child feeding and related maternal nutrition practices and care. Their projects focus on teaching techniques and practices that help prevent malnutrition, including proper breastfeeding techniques, educating families and communities about how to cultivate and prepare nutritious complementary food and strengthening local health systems.
Water. CARE helps communities build and maintain clean water systems and latrines. Both directly and through local organizations, CARE provides training and subsidizes construction, but communities make significant contributions in cash and labor, and pay the cost of operation and maintenance.
FHI 360
Implementing NGOUnited States | Staff size: 1001-5000FHI 360 is a nonprofit human development organization dedicated to improving lives in lasting ways by advancing integrated, locally driven...
FHI 360 is a nonprofit human development organization dedicated to improving lives in lasting ways by advancing integrated, locally driven solutions.
Vision
FHI 360 envisions a world in which all individuals and communities have the opportunity to reach their highest potential.
Mission
To improve lives in lasting ways by advancing integrated, locally driven solutions for human development.
Partnerships
They work closely with a wide range of funders and partners:
- Private sector
- Foundations
- Nonprofit organizations
- Educational institutions
- Multilateral organizations
- U.S. government agencies
- Host-country governments
- Bilateral agencies
Practice Areas
Civil Society
FHI 360’s civil society programs enable citizens to solve their own problems and influence policy. They strengthen the leadership capacity of national and community organizations and increase the transparency of government agencies. Their peacebuilding programs use locally owned and sustainable tolls to bridge differences and bring peace to divided communities.
Communication and social marketing
FHI 360’s experts use innovative communication and social marketing to promote positive social and behavior change among individuals, systems and communities. They develop strategies that address the interests of the people they are trying to reach, the obstacles to taking action and the many forces that influence behavior and choice.
Economic development
FHI 360’s economic development programs help women and men create a sound economic future for themselves and their families. Their work focuses on increasing productivity, employment and household incomes.
Education
FHI 360 works in the United States and throughout the world to create education systems that respond to the needs of the people they serve.
Environment
FHI 360 is committed to developing sustainable solutions to environmental protection, community-based natural resource management, biodiversity conservation, agricultural production and energy conservation challenges. Their projects and programs address the social, environmental and economic impacts of climate change.
Gender
FHI 360 integrates a gender perspective into development programs to improve outcomes and increase equality among girls, boys, women and men. Effective gender strategies transform unequal norms and behaviors, empower women and girls, and engage men and boys as partners and agents of positive social change.
Health
For FHI 360, improving the health of the world's women, men and children is core to their mission. Good health provides the foundation for community and economic development. They seek to understand what people need to be healthy and to generate the evidence needed to address their health challenges.
Nutrition
Good nutrition is essential for maximizing human potential and national development. FHI 360 partners with country-level stakeholders, international organizations and funders to design strategies, policies, programs and systems that address nutrition emergencies and create sustainable change.
Research
FHI 360’s tagline, "The Science of Improving Lives," underscores their long history of placing evidence and research at the center of their work. At FHI 360, they use research to respond to a wide variety of human development issues, including health, education, economic development and gender.
Technology
FHI 360's experts use the multiplying effect of innovative and basic technology to further the impact of everything they do. Information and communication technology helps us make and expand connections to build and sustain relationships. They use technology to increase access to information, to improve practice and to facilitate interaction among many stakeholders.
Youth
FHI 360’s projects create opportunities for youth to complete a quality education, live healthy lives, be able to support themselves and their families, and become fully active citizens.
Global Reach
- Serves more than 70 countries, including the U.S.
- Representatives of 137 countries traveled to the U.S. in 2014 as part of their international exchange program
Nestlé
Service ProvidersSwitzerland | Staff size: 10,000+As the leading nutrition, health and wellness company, we are committed to enhancing people’s lives, everywhere, every day. We strive to make our brands tastier and healthier choices that...
As the leading nutrition, health and wellness company, we are committed to enhancing people’s lives, everywhere, every day. We strive to make our brands tastier and healthier choices that help consumers care for themselves and their families, thus earning their trust and recommendations to others. Delivering on this commitment enables us to create long-term sustainable value for our consumers and customers, for our communities, for our shareholders and for our employees.
We believe that leadership is about behavior, and we recognize that trust is earned over a long period of time by consistently delivering on our promises. Nestlé believes that it is only possible to create long-term sustainable value for our shareholders if our behavior, strategies and operations also create value for the communities where we operate, for our business partners, our employees and of course, for our consumers. We call this 'creating shared value'.
Nestlé can trace its origins back to 1866, when the first European condensed milk factory was opened in Cham, Switzerland, by the Anglo-Swiss Condensed Milk Company. One year later, Henri Nestlé, a trained pharmacist, launched one of the world’s first prepared infant cereals ‘Farine lactée’ in Vevey, Switzerland. Today, with our headquarters still based in the Swiss town of Vevey, we had sales of almost CHF 110 bn. in 2010. We employ over 320,000 people and have factories or operations in almost every country in the world.Johnson & Johnson
Goods Supplier, Service ProvidersUnited States | Staff size: 10,000+Caring for the world, one person at a time... inspires and unites the people of Johnson & Johnson. They embrace research and science - bringing innovative ideas, products and services to...
Caring for the world, one person at a time... inspires and unites the people of Johnson & Johnson. They embrace research and science - bringing innovative ideas, products and services to advance the health and well-being of people.
Employees of the Johnson & Johnson Family of Companies work with partners in health care to touch the lives of over a billion people every day, throughout the world.
Their Family of Companies comprises:
-The world’s premier consumer health company.
-The world’s largest and most diverse medical devices company.
-The world’s third-largest biologics company.
-And the world’s sixth-largest pharmaceuticals company.They have more than 250 operating companies in 57 countries employing 120,200 people. Their worldwide headquarters is in New Brunswick, New Jersey, USA.
At Johnson & Johnson they are committed to:
-Building healthy communities through innovative and impactful healthcare solutions and partnerships.
-Uniting Janssen’s scientific capabilities and innovative access models to address unmet health needs across the world within a dedicated Global Public Health group.
-Prioritizing maternal and newborn survival and health, infectious and neglected tropical diseases, and strengthening healthcare systems across the Johnson and Johnson family of companies.
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Key Information
| Location | Worldwide |
| Status | Active
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| Value | USD 40 Billion |
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