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About SNVSNV is an independent development organisation that alleviates poverty in some of the world’s poorest countries. Using our local expertise and knowledge, we help to increase people’s income and employment opportunities. We also help improve access to basic services like water and sanitation, education, and renewable energy. SNV was established in 1965. Today, we receive our core financial support from the Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs, and additional funding through partnerships with leading international donors.
Through our Making a Difference initiative, we are raising awareness of our work in these areas, and are looking for like-minded partners to work with us in the future.
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Biogas in Cambodia |
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Half the world’s population lacks access to clean and safe cooking fuel. Household bio-digesters can produce clean cooking energy by converting animal manure and toilet waste into biogas. SNV advisors train and advise government, private sector and civil society partners, enabling them to establish commercially-viable biogas markets.
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Water, sanitation and hygiene in Tanzania
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The effects of inadequate water, sanitation and hygiene go far beyond thirst and dirty hands. They also have a direct impact on people’s livelihood, education and economic development in general. Our approach is to bring a range of parties together from across the sector, to generate and share knowledge, to identify opportunities for intervention, and foster learning and joint action. For example, rather than only investing in new water pumps, we focus on the operation and maintenance of existing water facilities.
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Food and Livestock crisis in Kenya
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Most small-scale producers in developing countries struggle to make ends meet. Reasons for this include their living in remote areas and having limited equipment. SNV assists them in many ways, including encouraging small producers to work together, providing training and helping them acquire financing. As a result, these small producers’ opportunities and incomes increase.
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Inclusive business in Ecuador
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Large companies traditionally buy from established suppliers, and target middle- and high-income consumers. As a result, poor people find many essential goods and services too expensive and producers struggle to sell enough to make a living. SNV creates mutually-beneficial links between businesses and low-income communities. We give companies access to a wider pool of quality producers, while enabling poor people to become employees, suppliers and small investors, as well as consumers.
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The financial crisis and aid |
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The financial crisis has prompted many to question the effectiveness of traditional development aid. Yet rather than dismissing aid altogether, we should focus on what we know works. By enabling people to create their own route out of poverty with small, scalable solutions, we can actually make traditional development aid redundant. From biogas generators that create energy from cow dung, to livestock markets that cut out exploitative middlemen, it’s the small-scale solutions that have the biggest impact on poverty.
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