Development Cooporation Ireland
(www.gov.ie/iveagh/)

Development Corporation Ireland is the Government’s Official Development Cooperation programme. It provides long-term and emergency support to developing countries. The programme works in partnership with governments NGOs and communities in the developing world to support their attempts to alleviate poverty through helping them meet basic needs and through strengthening their capacity to help themselves.  Preventing the spread of HIV/AIDS and mitigating its impact on development is a key priority of the Development Cooporation Ireland programme response. In addition, it also has a special focus on the fostering of human rights and democracy.

SIDA
(www.sida.se)

A world without poverty and oppression will be better for everybody.

In order to solve the major challenges of our era - poverty, environmental degradation, and conflicts - great co-operative efforts are necessary. International development co-operation is an investment in ensuring poor people a better life, in environmental conservation and peace, in democracy and equality. It should pave the way for equal relations and make itself redundant.

Sweden participates in this co-operation, in this global assumption of responsibility. Development co-operation mobilises Swedish society and contributes to an internationalisation of the country. Sida’s task is to create conditions conductive to change and to socially, economically and environmentally sustainable development.

Department for International Development (DFID)
(www.dfid.gov.uk)

The Department for International Development (DFID) is the UK Government department responsible for promoting sustainable development and reducing poverty. The central focus of the Government’s policy, based on the 1997 and 2000 White Papers on International Development, is a commitment to the internationally agreed Millennium Development Goals, to be achieved by 2015. These seek to:

• Eradicate extreme poverty and hunger
• Achieve universal primary education
• Promote gender equality and empower women
• Reduce child mortality
• Improve maternal health
• Combat HIV/AIDS, malaria and other diseases
• Ensure environmental sustainability
• Develop a global partnership for development

United States Agency for International Development (USAID)
(www.usaid.gov)

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. USAID works around the world to achieve these goals. USAID is an independent federal government agency that receives overall foreign policy guidance from the Secretary of State.

Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA)
(http://www.acdi-cida.gc.ca/index-e.htm)

CIDA supports sustainable development in developing countries in order to reduce poverty and to contribute to a more secure, equitable and prosperous world.

Development is a complex, long-term process that involves all of the world’s people, governments and organizations at all levels. Working with partners in the private and public sectors in Canada and in developing countries, and with international organizations and agencies, we support foreign aid projects in more than 100 of the poorest countries of the world. The objective: to work with developing countries and countries in transition to develop the tools to eventually meet their own needs.