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Safety improvement
Reduce Loss Time Injury Frequency Rate to 1.0 per million hours worked by 2013.
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Organisation(s): ArcelorMittal
Cooking for Life
WLPGA commits to launch “Cooking for Life”, a long-term program to demonstrate the health benefits of switching communities from biomass and other traditional fuels to LPG for cooking.
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Organisation(s): World LP Gas Association
Pioneering a sustainable business model to protect forests, produce food and deliver clean energy
Pioneering a sustainable business model where rural smallholders engage in agro-forestry to provide inputs for the production of food and ethanol-based cooking fuel for urban consumers.
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Organisation(s): CleanStar Ventures, Novozymes A/S
Unilever Sustainable Living Plan: improving health and well-being
By 2020 we will help more than a billion people take action to improve their health and well-being
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Organisation(s): Unilever
VHI - Africa Technical Research Centre (VHI-ATRC)
A new African Technical Centre will be built with 3 main labs (Vector, Agronomy and Analytic). More than USD$1.5 million will be invested to build and staff this facility. Global research conducted
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Organisation(s): Sumitomo Chemical Company
Increase Pacte Mondial France Membership and Increase Progress and Quality of Engagement
The Pacte Mondial France commits to increasing its membership along with progress made by its members and the quality of their engagement with the Local Network and the overall Global Compact
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Organisation(s): French Global Compact Network
"Urban Community Resilient Through Community Based Total Sanitation" in Jakarta
Improve access to clean water, sanitation and hygiene practices through community based sanitation in urban context to increase community resilience toward disasters.
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Organisation(s): Global Compact Network Indonesia, Wahana Visi Indonesia (World Vision Indonesia)
Blue, Bitter, Burdensome? Developing an Identity and Brand for Tuberculosis
By: Daniela Mohaupt, Stop TB Partnership Secretariat
There were 1.4 million reasons last year why global Tuberculosis (TB) advocacy needs a 'refresh'. This human toll of this curable disease seems out of proportion to the attention and funding put into fighting the spread of this disease. There...
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Unite for Children Unite Against AIDS
UNICEF's response to the global HIV/AIDS epidemic extends from high government offices to small, remove villages in the developing world.
Our HIV/AIDS Section provides expertise, support, logistical coordination and innovation toward a single objective: ending the epidemic for children and their...
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Oct 2010 - Haiti: Cholera Outbreak
Thank you for your interest in helping. The international humanitarian community is requesting $164 million to assist the Government of Haiti in limiting the impact of the Cholera outbreak. *To make a donation to a project listed in the Cholera Inter-Sector Response Strategy, please dowload the... More