Partners in Europe and North America
Agri-ProFocus | Agriterra | Akvo | Altran | APC | Atos Origin | BCO | Bellanet | Close the Gap | Cordaid | CTA | DGIS | Development Gateway | D-groups | ESA | FAO | Genardis | GKP | Hivos | ICCO | IDRC | INASP | Inter Access | KIT | KPN | Motorola Foundation | NComputing | Oneworld.net | Oneworld.nl | Ordina | Partos | PSO | SDC | SNV | SPIDER | Telecentre.org | TNO | Unesco | War Child | Worldbank
Agri-ProFocus is an alliance between Dutch agriculture
organisations, banks, NGOs and the Dutch government. It helps producers
in developing countries to improve their production and trade capacity.
IICD is a member of this alliance.
The Dutcch agri-agency Agriterra stimulates, supports
and finances the international cooperation between rural people’s
organisations in the Netherlands and those in developing countries.
They assist IICD in a number of agricultural projects.
Dutch organisation Akvo works together with IICD on
water and sanitation projects. In return IICD is identifying and
introducing relevant projects to the Akvo matchmaking system and
provides usability insight and feedback to the development team.
The French-Dutch IT company Altran offers consultancy
to various local partners in Zambia and Tanzania. In Zambia they have
helped the Zambian National Blood Transfusion Service (ZNBTS) to set up
a reliable information system for blood donors.
The Association for Progressive Communications (APC)
is a partner of IICD in the BCO alliance. In its first four years the alliance
was coordinated successively by IICD and APC. Furthermore IICD and APC
are partners in the ItrainOnline initiative that provides a selection
of the best and most relevant computer and Internet training resources
for development and social change.
Dutch IT company Atos Origin Learning Solutions
developed an online learning tool to help local partners use the online
Monitoring and Evaluation system. This system is vital for both IICD
and local partners as it helps to gather feedback on the success and
failures of ICT-enabled activities.
The Building Communication Opportunities (BCO)
Alliance is a partnership of eleven development agencies working
on information, communications and development. All of BCO Alliance
partners believe that information and communications are of crucial
importance in poverty reduction - in enabling the poor to have their
say and to get better access to knowledge and other resources. IICD is
a partner in this alliance.
IICD and Bellanet are sharing knowledge and
experiences by building on their respective strengths: IICD's country
partnerships and capacity development, Bellanet's collaboration tools
and knowledge management approaches. IICD and Bellanet cooperate in two
thematic networks. Bellanet has also supported IICD in
its strategic support to the Bridging the Digital Divide initiative and
the DGIS ICT Action Planning process. Bellanet also hosts
and develops online knowledge-sharing platforms like iConnect and ItrainOnline.
The Belgian Close the Gap Foundation donates
refurbished computers to IICD partners and, if needed, provides them
with training on technical maintenance too. In autumn 2008, a
Memorandum of Understanding was signed with IICD to ship computers to a
select number of our partner organisations in Africa. The first
shipment of 257 computers was sent to the Ugandan Institute for
Information and Communication Technology (UICT) in September 2008. In
2009 Close the Gap and IICD reached another agreement to cooperate to
prevent e-waste in Uganda. More than 3000 cost-efficient high-quality
used computers from the Netherlands and other European countries are
sent to schools in Uganda and computers that are too slow or
malfunctioning will be dismantled or recycled.
Dutch development organisation Cordaid has been a
partner of IICD since 2002. Cordaid and IICD cooperate in Zambia in
Ghana in the livelihoods and health sector. One of the projects Cordaid
and IICD cooperate in is a project to develop and implement a computer
based Blood Donor Tracking System developed for the staff of the
Zambian Blood Transfusion Services (ZBTS). His system will reduce the
risks of incorrectly identifying donors and blood units.
The Technical Centre for Agricultural and Rural Cooperation
(CTA)and IICD’s partnership emphasises on conducting of
workshops, conferences and training seminars in African, Caribbean and
Pacific (ACP) countries, as well as the joint production and
dissemination of publications relating to the use of ICT within
agricultural and rural development. IICD and CTA also collaborate in
innovative tools and writing practical manuals together.
The Development Gateway Foundation set up the
Accessible Information on Development Activities (AIDA) platform. AIDA is the largest online directory
of development activities. This inventory offers a quick overview of
who is doing what in international development, where they are doing
it, and with what funds. IICD is a knowledge partner is this
platform.
The Dutch Directorate-General for International Cooperation
(DGIS) is IICD’s founder and principal financier. For nearly
fifteen years DGIS has been cooperating with IICD to make a change in
Development by using Information and Communication Technology.
D-groups is an online platform that offers tools and
services that allows individuals and organisations in the international
development community to share information and hold discussions on
online groups IICD is a member of the D-groups partnership.
With the support of the European Space Agency (ESA),
ActNow Alliance and Avanti Communications, IICD and the Dutch research
institute TNO are developing a model for affordable satellite solutions
that can be of use in a number of different contexts. The model will be
tested by rural hospitals in Mali to improve communication with medical
specialists in the academic hospital in Bamako, the capital of
Mali.
The Food and Agriculture Organisation of the United Nations
(FAO) and IICD are cooperating in the ItrainOnline initiative,
an online service tackling challenges faced by the developing world in
ICT. A wide range of links are provided through the ItrainOnline portal
to guide ICT users in various activities - retrieving information,
efficient use of email, development of web pages, building online
communities, strategic use of the Internet - designed to overcome
knowledge and skills gaps and to bring together people and expertise
for development and social change.
In recognition of the dilemma between a potentially powerful set of
tools - ICTs - and their failure to reach the majority of the poor in
in African, Caribbean and Pacific (ACP) countries - rural women - CTA,
IDRC, IICD and Hivos invite proposals to the GenARDIS
Small Grants Fund to support innovative activities that contribute to
the understanding of gender issues in ICTs and to the gender-sensitive
application of ICTs in ACP agricultural and rural development .
IICD is a member of the Global Knowledge Partnership
(GKP). GKP brings together organisations from the Public
Sector, Private Sector and Civil Society organisations with the goal of
Knowledge Sharing and building partnerships. Aim of the GKP is to
realise the transformative potential of knowledge, communication and
information technologies to improve lives, reduce poverty and empower
people.
The Dutch Humanist Institute for Development Cooperation (Hivos) and IICD mainly work together in Ecuador and Uganda but also in The Netherlands. The programme in Uganda is aimed towards developing and implementing an e-society model in which local non-governmental organisations and local governments are able to cooperate with one another more efficiently. The programme in Ecuador is aimed at enhancing and increasing the use of ICT among the local partners of Hivos and IICD. The programme in The Netherlands is mainly about organising events and lobbying for integrating ICT in Dutch Development Organisations.
Coming soon.
The International Development Research Centre (IDRC)
was created by the Parliament of Canada in 1970 to help developing
countries to use science and technology to find practical, long-term
solutions to the social, economic, and environmental problems they
face. Together with CTA, IDRC and IICD set up the GenARDIS small
grants to support work on gender-related issues in ICTs for ACP
agricultural and rural development. IICD and IDRC are also joined in
Dgroups, an online development community portal.
The International Network for the Availability of Scientific
Publications (INASP) and IICD are partners in ItrainOnline the
online knowledge sharing platform that is IICD’s main platform for
capacity development.
Dutch IT service provider Inter Access assists
e-governance projects in Burkina Faso, Ghana, Tanzania, Uganda and
Zambia to make governmental information accessible to the
public.
The Johan Kooij Fellowship Foundation, supported by Dutch telecom company KPN supports the Global Teenager Project, a project connecting over 8,000 pupils from 32 countries in Africa, the Caribbean, Europe, Latin America and the Middle East enabling classroom discussions in a safe and structured environment on global issues like HIV / AIDS, climate change and freedom. Every year the Johan Kooij Fellowship meeting is held. This annual meeting brings together GTP coordinators from various countries to look back on the achievements of the past year.
Launched in December 2008 by the Dutch Royal Tropical Institute
(KIT), Search4Dev is the online library for digital
publications of Dutch organisations in the international development
cooperation sector. KIT invited IICD to join this digital repository as
one of the pilot organisations.
The Motorola Foundation, the philanthropic arm of Motorola, Inc, helps support the use of ICT to
improve efficiency and quality of the education and business
development sectors in seven rural and impoverished urban regions in
Zambia. Motorola Ltd. in UK plays a crucial role in the coordination of
the partnership.
NComputing Inc., worldwide leader in low-cost
computing, supports IICD’s partners, such as youth centres, ministries
and indigenous organisations in Burkina Faso, Bolivia and Zambia. It
also has provided set ups for the IICD office in the Netherlands. The
innovative virtual desktops are also low-energy, allowing multiple
people to simultaneously share a single computer.
Oneworld.net is a network organisation working for
sustainable development through information and communication
technologies. One world is a knowledge sharing partner of IICD and
promotes the work of IICD by frequently placing articles about IICD on
its website.
OneWorld.nl is the Dutch branch of a network organisation working for sustainable development through information and communication technologies. Together with IICD and Hivos, Oneworld organises Fill The Gap, a free annual network event for ICT and telecom companies, NGOs and everyone with an interest in ICT and development cooperation. Furthermore, IICD and Oneworld work together by promoting each other’s work and sharing knowledge.
Dutch IT-company Ordina provided train-the-trainer
courses on Open Source Software together with IICD and the East-African
Center for Open Source Software in Uganda.
Partos is the umbrella association for Dutch NGOs in
the international development cooperation sector. Its objectives
include influencing policy, gaining and distributing information and
knowledge, and consolidating a broad range of support among the Dutch
public arena. IICD is a member of Partos.
PSO, the Dutch association for capacity development of
Dutch NGOs and IICD have a long-standing working relationship. This
resulted in an official partnership in 2007 whereby PSO works together
with IICD to develop capacity in Education projects in Zambia,
governance projects in Ecuador, and health and gender projects in Mali.
New in the partnership agreement between PSO and IICD is the allocation
of funds for the Learn-Work trajectory. This trajectory strengthens
IICD’s capacity to better measure and define the capacity that local
partners need in different phases of the project.
The Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC)
and IICD cooperate in projects in Tanzania, Bolivia, Burkina Faso, Mali
and Ecuador. A good example of a cooperation of IICD and SDC is in the
Fruilema project in Mali. In this project an information and
communication system to identify producers, parcels of land, and
product quantities and quality is set up for Malian fruit and vegetable
producers. The system helps to meet the stringent requirements
(Eurepgap certification) for exporting Malian farm products to
international markets.
IICD and SNV Netherlands Development Organisation work
together on a Market Access Programme in Uganda called Rural
Information Systems. The objective is to contribute to the increase of
national incomes by empowering organised farmer groups to access
relevant markets and marketing information that will enable them to
make informed pricing and bulking decisions as well as providing timely
information to the various value chain actors to strengthen the
different segments of the selected value chains.
The Swedish Program for ICT in Developing Regions
(SPIDER) cooperates with IICD in the E-governance
programme in Uganda. The programme, DistrictNet, tries to provide
transparency at the local government level and to improve the provision
of public information through the implementation of Information and
Communication Technology (ICT).
In Burkina Faso, IICD is working closely with
telecentre.org and Burkina NTIC,
the national ICT for development network, to support the creation of a
national telecentre network. Providing farmers with information on how
to improve their crops, parents with information on how to prevent
diseases, and teachers with access to badly needed educational
materials are just some of the practical ways in which Burkinabe
telecentres have been helping the rural communities they serve. IICD
and Telecentre.org are also partners in the online knowledge sharing
platform ItrainOnline.
TNO, The Netherlands Organisation for Applied
Scientific Research, and IICD are developing a model for affordable
satellite solutions with support of the European Space Agency (ESA)
ActNow Alliance and Avanti Communications. The model can be of use in a
number of different contexts. It will be tested by rural hospitals in
Mali to improve communication with medical specialists in the academic
hospital in Bamako, the capital of Mali.
The United Nations Educational Scientific and Cultural
Organisation (UNESCO) is a partner of IICD in the ItrainOnline
initiative, an online service tackling challenges faced by the
developing world in ICT. This initiative was created to help Internet
and computer users sharpen their individual skills and play a key role
in bridging the knowledge gap. A wide range of links are provided
through the ItrainOnline portal to guide ICT users in various
activities - retrieving information, efficient use of email,
development of web pages, building online communities, strategic use of
the Internet - designed to overcome knowledge and skills gaps and to
bring together people and expertise for development and social
change.
Dutch organisation Warchild invests in the peaceful future of children
affected by war. Since the end of 2006 IICD is cooperating with
War Child to formulate and (partly) implement the
pilot project “ICT in governance in war affected districts”. This
project covers three districts in Northern Uganda: Gulu, Kitgum and
Lira.
Coming soon.
