Enterprise Development International
After nearly two decades of work in more than 50 countries, Enterprise Development International understands that poor people in virtually every country have skills that they want to use to lift their families out of poverty. Instead of a handout in the form of aid, many thousands of poor clients have received a hand up through training and small business loans.
Enterprise Development International was our very first partner in launching the “Micro-Enterprise Development Program for Women at Risk” in Romania. Their first grant helped us serve hundreds of women during the life of the program (2000 – 2002) and beyond. Even after the official end of the program EDI continued to support our efforts in the community with several small grants.
We provide training and loans for aspiring entrepreneurs in Central and Eastern Europe and Russia. More than 70 staff work in Slovakia, Romania, Bulgaria, Serbia, and Russia, providing business training seminars, one-on-one mentoring, and counsel on marketing, sales, inventory management, and finance.
Shell Foundation inspires, develops and takes to scale sustainable solutions to social problems arising from the links between energy, poverty and the environment – as well as the impact of globalization on vulnerable communities. It aims to invest in activities that advance its charitable objectives. Since its launch in 2000, it provided grants and other forms of support to more than 80 initiatives in 28 countries.
Shell Foundation has supported our activities through two generous grants. The first came in 2001-2004 when we shared a grant with Integra Slovakia for the “Micro-Enterprise Development for at Risk in Slovakia and Romania” program. The second grant for the “Market Access” program started in 2004 and will go thru the end of 2007.
Working with a global network of Citigroup colleagues and nonprofits in the community, the Foundation supports programs in three areas: Financial Education, Educating the Next Generation, and Building Communities and Entrepreneurs. Within these areas, the Foundation provides grants and technical expertise to organizations that help people improve their lives, businesses grow, and communities prosper.
Citigroup Foundation has been our partner and donor in the “Micro Enterprise Development” program for women at risk for two periods of time: 2000-2003 and 2003-2006. In addition they have supported the opening of our branch office in Brasov, Central Romania.
The Department for International Development (DFID) is the part of the UK Government that manages Britain's aid to poor countries and works to get rid of extreme poverty. When we talk about international development we are referring to efforts, by developed and developing countries, to bring people out of poverty and so reduce how much their country relies on overseas aid.
DFID partnered with us in “Poverty Alleviation through Entrepreneurial Development of Two Underprivileged Groups: Poor Rural Population and Women at Risk”, a program that ran from October 2002 to April 2004.
The United States has a long history of extending a helping hand to those people overseas struggling to make a better life, recover from a disaster or striving to live in a free and democratic country. It is this caring that stands as a hallmark of the United States around the world -- and shows the world our true character as a nation. U.S. foreign assistance has always had the twofold purpose of furthering America's foreign policy interests in expanding democracy and free markets while improving the lives of the citizens of the developing world. Spending less than one-half of 1 percent of the federal budget, USAID works around the world to achieve these goals.
USAID was one of the very first partners, together with Enterprise. Their grant helped us start our programs and run it for the first three years. Later on, USAID’s office from Romania in collaboration with Development Alternatives (below) supported our “Self Assessment and Job Orientation for Women at Risk” project from October 2003 to September 2004.
Founded in 1961, AED is an independent, nonprofit organization committed to solving critical social problems and building the capacity of individuals, communities, and institutions to become more self-sufficient. AED works in all the major areas of human development, with a focus on improving education, health, and economic opportunities for the least advantaged in the United States and developing countries throughout the world.
Canadian International Development Agency
The Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA) is Canada’s lead agency for development assistance. It has a mandate to support sustainable development in developing countries in order to reduce poverty and to contribute to a more secure, equitable, and prosperous world.
CIDA and UNDP partnered with Integra in the implementation of the “Self Assessment and Job Orientation for Women at Risk” project from April to September 2003.
For 36 years, Development Alternatives built a diverse body of work comparable in scope and impact with any development firm in the world. But for all the momentum they've gained as an experienced firm with proven procedures and deep-rooted client relationships, DAI remains today what it was as a fledging company in the 1970s: innovative, alert, self-critical, and forward-looking. DAI provides social and economic development solutions to business, government, and civil society in developing and transitioning countries.
DAI was involved, together with USAID, in the implementation of our project “Self Assessment and Job Orientation for Women at Risk” from October 2003 to September 2004.
National Agency for Community Programs in Education and Professional Development (ANPCDEFP) was incorporated in January 2005 as a public institution under the Minister of Education and Research.
The vision of the agency is Integration through Education and Education for Integration. Education is an important step towards a unified Europe which cultivates in the same time difference and intercultural.
The GRUNDTVIG Program aims to offer educational alternatives and to improve the access of those, regardless their age, want to accomplish new competencies through adult education tools. GRUNDTVIG meets the learning needs of the adults and addresses the organizations which ensure their education.
The Agency supports Integra’s „Financial education for vulnerable adults” Program from October 2007 to June 2009.
Ministry of Labor, Family and Equality of Chances
Partner and main applicant in the project SOCIAL ECONOMY - an innovative model for the promotion of the active inclusion of vulnerable groups.
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