Founded in 1926 in Norway, Jotun is a leading global manufacturer of paints and coatings, specializing in marine, protective, powder, and decorative segments. With over 10,000 employees and a presence in 100+ countries, the company is renowned for protecting iconic buildings and ships, with revenues exceeding NOK 34 billion.
WMO is the United Nations system's authoritative voice on the state and behaviour of the Earth's atmosphere, its interaction with the land and oceans, the weather and climate it produces and the resulting distribution of water resources.
As weather, climate and the water cycle know no national boundaries, international cooperation at a global scale is essential for the development of meteorology and operational hydrology as well as to reap the benefits from their application. WMO provides the framework for such international cooperation for its 193 Member States and Territories.
WMO’s mandate relates to the areas of meteorology (weather and climate), operational hydrology and related geophysical sciences. WMO has a powerful role in contributing to the safety and welfare of humanity by fostering collaboration between its Members' National Meteorological and Hydrological Services (NMHSs) and advancing the application of meteorology and hydrology in many societal and economic areas.
WMO regulates and facilitates free and unrestricted exchange of data and information, products, and services in real- or near-real time. This is critical for applications relating to the safety and security of society, social and economic welfare, and the protection of the environment. WMO standards and policies contribute to policy formulation in these areas at national and regional levels.
The Organization plays a leading role in international efforts to monitor and protect the climate and the environment. In collaboration with other UN agencies and NMHSs, WMO supports the implementation of UNFCCC and a number of environmental conventions and is instrumental in providing advice and assessments to governments on related matters. These activities contribute towards ensuring the sustainable development and well-being of nations.
An independent scientific research institute dedicated to improving the human condition RTI International is an independent scientific research institute dedicated to improving the human condition. Our vision is to address the world's most critical problems with technical and science-based solutions in pursuit of a better future. Clients rely on us to answer questions that demand an objective and multidisciplinary approach—one that integrates expertise across social, statistical, data, and laboratory sciences, engineering, and other technical disciplines to solve the world’s most challenging problems.
Combining scientific rigor and technical proficiency, we deliver reliable data, thorough analysis, innovative methods, novel technologies, and sustainable programs that help clients inform public policy and ground practice in evidence. We scale our approach to fit the demands of each project, delivering the power of a global leader and the passion of a local partner.
We believe in the promise of science and technical solutions, and we push ourselves every day to deliver on that promise for the good of people, communities, and businesses in the US and around the world.
Our experts hold degrees in more than 250 scientific, technical, and professional disciplines across the social and laboratory sciences, engineering, and international development fields. Our staff tackles hundreds of projects each year to address complex social and scientific challenges on behalf of governments, businesses, foundations, universities, and other clients and partners. And our separate business operations—including RTI Health Solutions—serve commercial clients across a wide range of industries around the world.
Our research institute maintains offices on four continents, with our headquarters in Research Triangle Park, North Carolina, reflecting our roots in the area’s distinguished universities. Founded in 1958 with support from North Carolina government, education, and business leaders, we maintain close ties with North Carolina State University, Duke University, North Carolina Central University, and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Our dedication to innovative, objective research and technical services makes RTI an outstanding partner for clients around the world whose greatest challenges demand rigorous approaches and science-based solutions. It also makes RTI a great working environment for people who share our mission to improve the human condition.
To catalyse an enriched future for all.
Palladium is in the business of making the world a better place, and we believe that systemic approaches involving local knowledge and global expertise is the way to achieve progress and success.
We’re problem-solvers, working side by side with our partners to tackle some of the world’s most intractable challenges. We bring governments, communities and the private sector together to collaborate on critical programmes regarding people, infrastructure, energy, agriculture and resource extraction.
For over 60 years, we’ve been helping our clients to see the world as interconnected – by formulating strategies, building partnerships, mobilising capital, and implementing programs that have a lasting social and financial impact. The future demands new thinking, new approaches, and new solutions. With a global network operating in over 70 countries, we believe in a better world, and we work to make it possible.
The Coalition of Ethiopian Civil Society Organizations for Elections (CECOE) was established in 2019 with the aim of augmenting and coordinating the role of Ethiopian CSOs in election observation – monitoring, voter education and preventing post-electoral conflicts. Following its establishment, the CECOE opened a new chapter in the country’s CSO sector by systematically observing the Sidama referendum which took place in the same year of the coalition’s establishment. Building upon this experience, during the 6th Ethiopian general elections the coalition had implemented several seminal projects that tectonically shifted the role of Ethiopian CSOs in electoral processes.
During the Sixth National and Regional Elections of Ethiopia, CECOE recruited and deployed over 3,500 long-term and short-term observers to nine regional states and two city administrations which participated in the June and September 2021 elections as well as the South West Ethiopia referendum for a status of statehood. Furthermore, the Coalition implemented a media monitoring initiative which monitored election related information on seven selected mass media outlets, 40 political party social media accounts and 40 CSO organisations. In addition, the coalition also reached over 25 million online users and several million citizens using mainstream media outlets in its voter information and education program.CECOE also coordinated the financing of voter education campaigns implemented by its members, securing over ETB 1,200,000.00 for VE activities in different regions.
CECOE has also successfully observed the referendum that was held in the six zones and five special woredas of the Southern Nations, Nationalities, and People’s Region (SNNPR) in February 2023. In a bid to systematically observe this referendum, the CECOE recruited, trained and deployed 434 stationary and 76 mobile observers.
Based on its elections and referendum observation findings and studies.., CECOE engages stakeholders in the public and CSO sectors in several electoral reform and advocacy activities. . To that end, the Coalition has organised several consultation forums, validation workshops, published policy briefs and commentaries, produced and aired tv advertsisments.
Currently, CECOE is working on a wide array of short-term and long-term programs related to elections, good governance, peacebuilding. One of the projects that comes at the forefront in this regard is the “Women Political Participation” project which CECOE co-implemented with Netherlands Institute for Multiparty Democracy (NIMD) with a fund secured from the European Union.
Why Farm Africa?
In rural communities across eastern Africa the challenges of poverty, food insecurity and biodiversity loss are being intensified by climate change and global economic instability.
The key to addressing each of these challenges lies in sustainable and effective agriculture.
Farm Africa works in partnership with smallholder farmers and small businesses to improve the quality, quantity and value of their produce, so that they can support their families with more resilient livelihoods.
We support farmers to gain access to finance and markets, so that they can strengthen their businesses and revitalise communities by expanding employment.
Established in 2019, the Deborah Foundation is an Ethiopian non-profit dedicated to improving the lives of children and youth with Down syndrome and intellectual disabilities. Based at Deborah Village in Lege Tafo, it provides integrated education, health, and advocacy services to promote inclusion and reduce stigma, notes Debora Foundation | MHIN.
The Ethiopian Civil Society Organizations Forum (ECSF) is a nonpartisan, independent, inclusive and voluntary national platform established in May 2013 in view of solving the common concerns and challenges of the Civil Societies Organizations (CSOs) in Ethiopia. It was re-registered by the ACSO with Reg. No 4414 in 2019. Ethiopian Civil Society Organization Forum (ECSF) - is a network of network that embraces more than 54 consortiums in the country, which comprise more than 1,500 members under the 54 consortia. The Forum has peculiar experience in bringing several networks and engages them for the common national agendas. For instance the forum able to influence the government to revised the CSOs Law, centrally facilitate for input gathering of the new CSOs formulation, and familiarization the new law to the public at national level. The Forum also able to play a central role in the establishment of the Ethiopian CSOs’ Council and still serving as Secretariat of the same. Moreover, the forum has reach experience in formation of CSOs coalition and design a national project and serving as lead applicant and successfully implement.
Stichting Wageningen Research (SWR) Ethiopia is an international NGO and legal entity of Wageningen University & Research (WUR), established in March 2021 to promote resilient, inclusive, and sustainable food systems in Ethiopia. Acting as a hub for WUR projects, it focuses on food security, seed sector transformation, and agricultural productivity via projects like RAISE-FS and ENSP.
Africa CDC strengthens the capacity and capability of Africa’s public health institutions as well as partnerships to detect and respond quickly and effectively to disease threats and outbreaks, based on data-driven interventions and programmes.