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Implementation of ecoMundus is by in large based on networking and the development of partnership with International, Regional and National Institutions and Organisations. This section provides general of current ecoMundus partners
| Regional Centre for Mapping of Resources for Development | |
| URL: http://www.rcmrd.org/ | |
| The Regional Centre for Mapping of Resources for Development (RCMRD), previously known as Regional Centre for Services in Surveying, Mapping and Remote Sensing (RCSSMRS) was established in Nairobi, Kenya in 1975 under the auspices of the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa (UNECA) and the then Organization of African Unity (OAU). Its founder members are Kenya, Uganda, Somalia, Tanzania and Malawi and the Government of the Republic of Kenya hosts it. It is a non-profit intergovernmental organization and currently has 14 contracting member States, namely: Botswana, Comoros, Ethiopia, Kenya, Lesotho, Malawi, Mauritius, Namibia, Somalia, Sudan, Swaziland, Tanzania, Uganda and Zambia. more ... | |
| United Nations World Food Programme | |
| URL: http://www.wfp.org/ | |
| FREEING THE WORLD OF HUNGER Among the Millennium Development Goals which the United Nations has set for the 21st century, halving the proportion of hungry people in the world is top of the list. Click through this section to learn more about hunger and how WFP food aid, which reached 87.8 million people in 78 countries in 2006, is leading the fight against the number one risk to global health. more ... | |
| Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory | |
| URL: http://www.lbl.gov/ | |
| Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) has been a leader in science and engineering research for more than 70 years. Berkeley Lab conducts unclassified research across a wide range of scientific disciplines with key efforts in fundamental studies of the universe; quantitative biology; nanoscience; new energy systems and environmental solutions; and the use of integrated computing as a tool for discovery. more ... | |
| Government Employees Medical Scheme -Water | |
| URL: http://www.gemswater.org/ | |
| The United Nations GEMS/Water Programme provides scientifically-sound data and information on the state and trends of global inland water quality required as a basis for the sustainable management of the world's freshwater to support global environmental assessments and decision- making processes. more ... | |
| International Center for Tropical Agriculture | |
| URL: http://www.ciat.cgiar.org/ | |
| CIAT is a not-for-profit organization that conducts socially and environmentally progressive research aimed at reducing hunger and poverty and preserving natural resources in developing countries. CIAT is one of the 15 centers that make up the Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research. more ... | |
| Rainforest Alliance | |
| URL: http://www.rainforest-alliance.org | |
| The mission of the Rainforest Alliance is to protect ecosystems and the people and wildlife that depend on them by transforming land-use practices, business practices and consumer behavior. more ... | |
| GRID Arendal | |
| URL: http://www.grida.no | |
| GRID-Arendal is an official United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) centre located in Southern Norway, with out posted offices in Geneva, Ottawa and Stockholm. more ... | |
| International Groundwater Resources Assessment Centre | |
| URL: http://www.igrac.nl | |
| IGRAC is a non-commercial centre that facilitates and promotes global sharing of information and knowledge required for sustainable groundwater resources development and management. In 1999 UNESCO and WMO took an initiative set up an international groundwater centre that resulted in launching of IGRAC in March 2003. IGRAC is hosted by the Netherlands Institute of Applied Geoscience TNO in Utrecht, The Netherlands. For the initial years IGRAC receives financial support from the Dutch government more ... | |
| Scientific Committee on Problems of the Environment | |
| URL: www.icsu-scope.org | |
| SCOPE is an international organization with a long tradition of developing authoritative syntheses and reviews of the current state of our understanding of key environmental issues through a unique inter-disciplinary and international approach. Over the past four decades SCOPE has provided informed guidance on the way forward, addressing many critical problems of the environment. SCOPE works closely with closely major intergovernmental agencies such as UNESCO and UNEP, and contributes to the design of research agendas on environmental change and sustainability. more ... | |
| International Atomic Energy Agency | |
| URL: http://www.iaea.org/ | |
| The IAEA is the world´s center of cooperation in the nuclear field. It was set up as the world´s "Atoms for Peace" organization in 1957 within the United Nations family. The Agency works with its Member States and multiple partners worldwide to promote safe, secure and peaceful nuclear technologies. more ... | |
| United States Geological Survey | |
| URL: http://www.usgs.gov/ | |
| As the Nation's largest water, earth, and biological science and civilian mapping agency, the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) collects, monitors, analyzes, and provides scientific understanding about natural resource conditions, issues, and problems. The diversity of our scientific expertise enables us to carry out large-scale, multi-disciplinary investigations and provide impartial scientific information to resource managers, planners, and other customers. more ... | |
| National Biological Information Infrastructure | |
| URL: http://www.nbii.gov/ | |
| The National Biological Information Infrastructure (NBII) is a broad, collaborative program to provide increased access to data and information on the nation's biological resources. The NBII links diverse, high-quality biological databases, information products, and analytical tools maintained by NBII partners and other contributors in government agencies, academic institutions, non-government organizations, and private industry. NBII partners and collaborators also work on new standards, tools, and technologies that make it easier to find, integrate, and apply biological resources information. Resource managers, scientists, educators, and the general public use the NBII to answer a wide range of questions related to the management, use, or conservation of this nation's biological resources. more ... | |
| World Conservation Union | |
| URL: http://www.iucn.org/ | |
| The World Conservation Union is the world’s largest and most important conservation network. The Union brings together 82 States, 111 government agencies, more than 800 non-governmental organizations (NGOs), and some 10,000 scientists and experts from 181 countries in a unique worldwide partnership. The Union’s mission is to influence, encourage and assist societies throughout the world to conserve the integrity and diversity of nature and to ensure that any use of natural resources is equitable and ecologically sustainable. more ... | |
| United Nations Economic Commission for Europe | |
| URL: http://www.unece.org/ | |
| UNECE strives to foster sustainable economic growth among its 56 member countries. To that end UNECE provides a forum for communication among States; brokers international legal instruments addressing trade, transport and the environment; and supplies statistics and economic and environmental analysis. more ... | |
| Regional Environmental Center | |
| URL: http://www.rec.org/ | |
| The Regional Environmental Center for Central and Eastern Europe (REC) is a non-partisan, non-advocacy, not-for-profit international organisation with a mission to assist in solving environmental problems in Central and Eastern Europe (CEE). The center fulfils this mission by promoting cooperation among non-governmental organisations, governments, businesses and other environmental stakeholders, and by supporting the free exchange of information and public participation in environmental decision making. The REC was established in 1990 by the United States, the European Commission and Hungary. more ... | |
| The Global Mechanism | |
| URL: http://www.gm-unccd.org/ | |
| As part of the solution to the problem of desertification, a Global Mechanism (GM) was established under the authority of the Conference of the Parties (COP) of the UNCCD. The GM acts as a hub for a dynamic network of partners, committed to focusing their energies, resources and knowledge on combating desertification. The GM not only mobilises financial resources, but also channels their flow, thereby guaranteeing increased financial effectiveness and efficiency and ensuring a holistic and equitable approach to resource distribution. more ... | |
| World Conservation Monitoring Centre | |
| URL: http://www.unep-wcmc.org/ | |
| The Centre has a mandate from the UNEP Governing Council to provide a range of biodiversity-related services to UNEP, the biodiversity-related conventions and their constituent party-states and other bodies in the non-governmental and private sectors (Decision GC 22/1/III). UNEP-WCMC aims to be an internationally recognised Centre of Excellence for the synthesis, analysis and dissemination of global biodiversity knowledge, providing authoritative, strategic and timely information for conventions, countries, organizations and companies to use in the development and implementation of their policies and decisions. more ... | |
| National Aeronautics and Space Administration | |
| URL: http://www.nasa.gov/ | |
| NASA explores.NASA discovers.NASA seeks to understand NASA Headquarters, in Washington, provides overall guidance and direction to the Agency, under the leadership of Administrator Michael Griffin. Ten field centers and a variety of installations conduct the day-to-day work, in laboratories, on air fields, in wind tunnels and in control rooms. more ... | |
| Development Gateway Foundation | |
| URL: http://www.developmentgateway.org/ | |
| The Development Gateway Foundation provides Web-based tools to make aid and development efforts more effective. It offers innovative solutions that increase access to critical information, building local capacity, and bringing partners together for positive change. More than half a billion Internet users today are in developing countries, and their numbers continue to grow. The foundation harnesses the power of information and communications technologies to improve the lives of people around the world. more ... | |
| Center for International Forestry Research | |
| URL: http://www.cifor.cgiar.org | |
| CIFOR is an international research and global knowledge institution committed to conserving forests and improving the livelihoods of people in the tropics. CIFOR's high impact research helps local communities and small farmers gain their rightful share of forest resources, while increasing the production and value of forest products. more ... | |
| International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics | |
| URL: http://www.icrisat.org/ | |
| ICRISAT is a non-profit and non-political research organization that serves the poorest of the poor in the semi-arid areas of the developing world. We use science as a means to serve the poor, not as an end in itself. This is the human face of science and agricultural research that we do with our partners. more ... | |
| International Plant Genetic Resources Institute | |
| URL: http://www.bioversityinternational.org | |
| Bioversity is the world's largest international research organization dedicated solely to the conservation and use of agricultural biodiversity. It is non-profit and independently operated. more ... | |
| International Food Policy Research Institute | |
| URL: http://www.ifpri.org | |
| IFPRI's vision is a world free of hunger and malnutrition. The vision is based on the human right to adequate food and nutrition and recognition of the inherent dignity of all members of the human family. It is a world where every person has secure access to sufficient and safe food to sustain a healthy and productive life and where decisions related to food are made transparently and with the participation of consumers and producers. more ... | |
| Worldfish Centre | |
| URL: http://www.worldfishcenter.org/cms/default.aspx | |
| The WorldFish Center is a non-profit organization that focuses on alleviating poverty and hunger by improving fisheries and aquaculture. WorldFish is one of 15 international research centers supported by the Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research (CGIAR), a strategic alliance of countries, international and regional organizations, and private foundations. WorldFish produces new syntheses and insights that integrate ecological, social, economic, and policy perspectives. more ... | |
| Africa Rice Center | |
| URL: http://www.warda.org/ | |
| Africa Rice Center (WARDA) is the premier research Center for rice development in sub-Saharan Africa. It also serves as a hub for rice-related R&D networks in the region. more ... | |
| International Water Management Institute | |
| URL: http://www.iwmi.cgiar.org/ | |
| The International Water Management Institute is a nonprofit scientific research organization focusing on the sustainable use of water and land resources in agriculture and on the water needs of developing countries. IWMI works with partners in the South to develop tools and methods to help these countries eradicate poverty through more effective management of their water and land resources. more ... | |
| International Potato Center | |
| URL: http://www.cipotato.org/ | |
| The International Potato Center (known by its Spanish acronym, CIP) seeks to reduce poverty and achieve food security on a sustained basis in developing countries through scientific research and related activities on potato, sweetpotato, other root and tuber crops, and on the improved management of natural resources in the Andes and other mountain areas. more ... | |
| International Livestock Research Institute | |
| URL: http://www.ilri.org | |
| The International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI) works at the crossroads of livestock and poverty, bringing high-quality science and capacity-building to bear on poverty reduction and sustainable development. ILRI works in Africa, Asia and Latin America and the Caribbean, with offices in East and West Africa, South and Southeast Asia, China and Central America. more ... | |
| International Centre for Research in Agroforestry | |
| URL: http://www.icraf.org | |
| The International Council for Research in Agroforestry (ICRAF) was created in response to a visionary study in the mid-1970s led by forester John Bene of Canada’s International Development Research Centre (IDRC). The study coined the term 'agroforestry' and called for global recognition of the key role trees play on farms. This led to the establishment of ICRAF in 1978 to promote agroforestry research in developing countries. more ... | |
| Food and Agriculture Organization | |
| URL: http://www.fao.org/geonetwork | |
| In 2001, the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United nations (FAO) set up FAO GeoNetwork (www.fao.org/geonetwork), a facility that provides various services, such as a global library for geospatial data; a metadata catalogue; a system for searching, editing and publishing geospatial information; as well as information on how to integrate geospatial data from various sources on the Internet. The United Nations World Food Program's Vulnerability Analysis & Mapping branch (WFP-VAM) soon joined FAO in the further development of GeoNetwork through formulation of additional requirements and through co-funding. Early 2004 the United Nations Environment Program (UNEP) joined FAO and WFP in the development, further strengthening the GeoNetwork open source software and improving standardized access to spatial data and information. more ... | |
| Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research | |
| URL: http://www.cgiar.org/ | |
| The CGIAR is a strategic alliance of members, partners and international agricultural centers that mobilizes science to benefit the poor. more ... | |
| UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs | |
| URL: http://ochaonline.un.org/rocea | |
| OCHA first created a regional structure in Nairobi in 1996 to support the UN Regional Humanitarian Coordinator for the Great Lakes Region. With the continuation and extension of the complex emergency in this region and the deepening of its humanitarian consequences, OCHA established offices in a number of countries in the region and the role of the regional structure was developed to both enhance strategic coordination and information exchange with regional partners, as well as to support the work of the OCHA country offices. In January 2002, the regional coverage of the office was extended to include the Horn of Africa also. Currently, the ROCEA covers 14 countries in the Central and East Africa Region: Burundi, Central African Republic (CAR), Chad, Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), Djibouti, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Kenya, Republic of Congo (RoC), Rwanda, Somalia, Sudan, Tanzania and Uganda. more ... | |
| Southern African Development Community | |
| URL: http://www.sadc.int/ | |
| The Southern African Development Co-ordination Conference, SADCC, the forerunner of the SADC, the Community, was established in April 1980 by Governments of the nine Southern African countries of Angola, Botswana, Lesotho, Malawi, Mozambique, Swaziland, Tanzania, Zambia and Zimbabwe. The formation of SADC was the culmination of a long process of consultations by the leaders of Southern Africa. Towards the end of the 1970's, it became clear to the leaders of the region that just having a national flag and a national anthem would not meet the needs of the people for improved living standards. more ... | |
| United Nations Spatial Data Infrastructure | |
| URL: http://www.unsdi.nl | |
| The NCO (Netherlands Coordination Office) is the national link between the United Nations and Netherlands parties involved in the United Nations Spatial Data Infrastructure (UNSDI) programme. The NCO cooperates closely with the UN and in the Netherlands with relevant ministries, research and development institutes, universities, NGOs, SMEs and (multi-national) enterprises. The purpose of the NCO is to disclose high-quality geo-information, knowledge and capabilities from Netherlands parties to the international UNSDI community in order to contribute to the realization of the Millennium Development Goals. The NCO manages the national UNSDI-GeoNetwork portal, making information available from all linked UN bodies and national UNSDI geo-information suppliers. The geo-information includes unique thematic information, among others derived from satellite images, to support policy development and sustainable management. The methods used, knowledge of the various application areas and the available education and training infrastructure all contribute to sustainable capacity development in developing countries. more ... | |
| Ministério do Meio Ambiente do Brazil | |
| URL: http://www.mma.gov.br | |
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