The Association of Artists and Artisans of Binza is a structure born from a nucleus of artists of the Site Météo in the commune of Ngaliema, a small group of artists having become aware of the need to organize themselves, after a report of the limits that presented the individuality in the production or the manufacture and the sale of their works or products of art and craft.

The NDOMBA Foundation is a non-profit association under Congolese law, born of the compassion and love its members have for orphaned children, so-called street children and women victims of violence and abuse. Its purpose is to support disadvantaged groups, particularly abandoned children and women victims of violence.

FUTURA Envir 4Ward is an association evolving in the field of the environment. It pursues the following objectives;

• Educate on the environment and sustainable development;
• Implementing Integrated Water Resources Management;
• Monitor and defend the environment (monitoring of waterways and soils and the surrounding environment);
• Provide efficient management of the production of goods and services in the field of environment and sanitation; etc.  
   

The FMP is an umbrella organization of 5 organizations with nearly 39,000 members. Its mission is to defend and promote the rights and socio-economic interests of rural workers and the informal sector. It develops training, awareness and information activities throughout the country, as well as support for the socio-economic initiatives of grassroots groups. FMP works to increase the income of more than 150 groups (more than 1,850 individuals and households) through training in agro-breeding and beekeeping, as well as through technical and financial support. It also helps its members to improve their income by granting and supervising microcredits from their own funds.

COTRAF is a trade union with nearly 10,000 members from the formal and informal sectors, including tea farmers and tea factory workers. It includes unions in agriculture, livestock and construction, industry, banking, hotels, various private and public services, education, media and others. COTRAF has helped 800 households and 1,500 workers in the informal sector in the north of the country to improve their incomes, through the creation or strengthening of savings and credit banks, the creation of social bakeries, and appropriate training and coaching.

CEFOTRAR is a project initiated in 1987 with the Belgian Development Cooperation. It deals with the training of young people who have dropped out of school or who have left school prematurely. It offers more than 350 young people training in carpentry, masonry, welding, sewing, shoemaking and hairdressing and beauty care, which gives them, in the face of oversaturated agricultural jobs, other alternatives for access to the job market. After their training, CEFOTRAR accompanies the young people trained for a successful insertion in the world of work. It also works on its progressive self-financing.

In its action for the benefit of young people without a diploma or other certificate, Solidarjob (solidarity and work) puts forward the values of work and solidarity. It starts from the principle that young people often have difficulties because they come from families without sufficient resources. It helps these young people to take charge of their lives so that they can in turn help their families. It teaches young people various trades, including hotel management, bakery, cooking and food, modern agriculture and animal husbandry for more production while protecting the environment. Based in the North of the country, Solidarjob has a particularity of taking care, within its means and in the context of the country, of street children for their reintegration in the dignified social life. 

COSYLI is one of the three trade union confederations in Rwanda. It was created in 1993 and groups 10 professional unions. It is very active in defending and promoting the rights and interests of workers, especially those in the informal economy. Its main strategies are awareness raising, training, legal assistance to workers and political advocacy.

The Agakura association was born from the ambition of its charismatic founder and coordinator, Brother Déo, to get children off the streets. Several centers are active in the country in order to allow young people in difficulty (street children, orphans, school drop-outs, family drop-outs) to learn a trade in different fields: pig breeding, artisanal tile making, market gardening, fish farming, etc. All projects are implemented with a view to sustainable development: the techniques used avoid soil erosion and are shared by development agents. The objective is to enable beneficiaries to launch their own income-generating activities, while respecting the environment.

Munasa is a mutual health organization that aims to provide its members with quality health care at an affordable price, based on several strategies: awakening a spirit of mutual aid and solidarity, collaborating with health care providers in improving the quality of care, strengthening existing chapters, creating new chapters and strengthening the members' capacity for self-development

It is an umbrella organization of trade unions and federations representing all professional sectors of the country's socio-economic life.  Created in 1995, it now has 35 trade unions and 5 functional federations representing the public and parapublic sectors, the private sector and the so-called informal economy.  It is the most representative with over 264,465 members.

 The FNTT was born in 2006 and is the result of the merger of two trade unions, including the Syndicat des Travailleurs des Transports and the Syndicat Professionnel des Taxi-Vélos du Burundi, as well as four associations. It has eighty-seven thousand four hundred and sixty-seven members (87,467) and its vision is to strengthen the organisations of workers in the informal economy with a view to making a more substantial contribution to the system and mechanisms of social dialogue within the framework of the decent work and social protection agenda.

CSTT is a trade union confederation of workers in Togo created in 1949, dissolved in December 1972 and resurrected on 9 May 1991. It has set up production and marketing cooperatives and created a vocational training centre for young people. It also supports mutual health insurance schemes and workers in the free trade zone so that they can benefit from social protection.

FTBC-TOGO is a federation of wood and construction workers in Togo created on 13/02/2001. It is involved in the protection and defence of the trade union/human rights of workers in the timber and construction sector. It offers trade union training, vocational training for young people in the sector, and social protection for workers in the informal sector via the MUPROSI/FTBC health insurance scheme.

The Movimiento de los Trabajadores y Campesinos was created in 1997, initially to defend coffee producers in the San Marcos region, one of the poorest in Guatemala. The MTC also pays special attention to migrants, youth and women. Its fields of action are decent work, training, social protection, labour rights and indigenous rights. The MTC fights for the rights of peasants to improve their livelihoods and well-being by means of training and education, and by promoting cooperatives for access to credit and land. 

This movement takes in street children and young people, mainly in marginalised areas of the capital. The organisation has existed since 1994 and was founded by 4 women who lived on the streets. MOJOCA provides support to about 400 girls, boys and children, and has helped hundreds of them to leave the streets and integrate into society, promoting and defending the human and labour rights of young people in precarious conditions, providing training and/or skills training to facilitate their insertion into society and accessing real opportunities for decent work.

The CSP is an independent trade union covering many sectors and based on respect for differences. The CSP works for and with workers to improve living and working conditions. It offers many services to its members: medical consultations at affordable prices, marketing of food products at affordable prices, training in labour rights, contribution to the creation of a labour code in specific sectors, access for all to social benefits, etc. 

GRESP is a national network for the promotion of the social and solidarity economy, made up of producer associations, social organisations, non-governmental development organisations, religious organisations and individuals. Since 1997, it has contributed to a solidarity economy, in particular through the creation of Solidarity Economy Initiative Groups (GIES), the development of a Peruvian Network for fair trade and ethical consumption, the establishment of farmers' and artisans' markets based on agroecology and fair trade, etc. GRESP also collaborated in the formation of the parliamentary groups "Cooperatives and solidarity economy" in the Congress of the Republic of Peru.

It is a non-profit organisation founded in 1980 by women domestic workers. Their mission is to improve the quality of life of domestic workers in Peru, empowering them through training, job placement, labour rights, social protection and recognition of their contribution to the care economy. Their advocacy work has led them to push for the ratification of ILO Convention C189 and the enactment of Law No. 31047, whereby 30 March is considered a non-working holiday with pay for domestic workers. They provide care services through their crèches for the care and stimulation of caregivers' children; they welcome the most vulnerable domestic workers, including migrants.

It is a trade union organisation, which offers training and carries out actions in various fields such as education or the public sector. Its mission is to study, defend, develop and protect the labour rights, freedom of association and decent working conditions of workers. It offers its members a wide range of services: savings and credit cooperatives, pharmacies, legal advice, insurance and even funeral savings. The INFAS training institute offers vocational training to thousands of workers (cookery, computer training, etc.).

CONAMUCA was founded in November 1986. It mainly assists women living in the countryside or in municipalities on the outskirts of the provinces (peasant women, small producers, students, unemployed or housewives), with a view to improving their situation, in particular through health, training, culture and the protection of human rights.

The Confederation of Christian Trade Unions, or CSC (in Dutch: Algemeen Christelijk Vakverbond, or ACV), is the majority trade union in Belgium, a position further confirmed by the results of the 2008 social elections. The union is national. For the CSC, international solidarity is an essential element of trade union action. In the global economy, the interests of workers in our country cannot be dissociated from those in other countries.

Throughout the world, the CSC supports representative, autonomous and free trade unions in their fight for social justice and decent work.

Gonoshasthaya Kendra (GK) or “Peoples Health Centre” is an NGO with the motto “Grame Cholo-Gram Goro” which means “Let’s go to the Village and Build the Village” founded by progressive doctors in 1972. Vision is “Fate of the Country Depends on the Fate of the Poor” and “Development of the Country Depends on the Development of the Woman”.

Over the decades GK has brought healthcare to over 1 million – mostly poor and rural – people by setting up 43 health centers and seven hospitals. GK also trains and employs local people as health workers, of which there are now over 2,200. GK’s work achieved drastic reductions in infant mortality. GK also organizes income generating activities to help people with an income. GK introduced health insurance in Bangladesh and is actively involved in policy making.

NGWF strives for fair wages, better and safer working conditions in the garment sector and emphasizes equal rights for men and women. It is the largest national trade union of garment workers in Bangladesh and currently has about 60,000 members in over 1,200 factory committees. NGWF is active through 10 branch offices in 8 regions. Involving NGWF in the Clean Clothes Campaign also allows to sensitize consumers and brands manufacturing in Bangladesh to enforce safe working conditions and living wages.

AREDS works towards one Humanity, believing that small people with conscious and collective numbers can create another world. AREDS is organizing people and building strong movements that can provide economic, social, cultural and political alternatives. They focus on women, dalits, young people and adolescent. Their action includes non-formal education, vocational training and income generating activities, alternative and ecological sustainable agriculture, education on better health and hygiene practices. Advocacy on better social protection, at the local and the national level, is an important part of their work too.