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Shortlist Profiles 2005

Aga Khan Planning and Building Services, Pakistan
The Aga Khan Planning and Building Services (AKPBS) works to improve the built environment, particularly housing design and construction, village planning, natural hazard mitigation, environmental sanitation, water supplies, and other living conditions.





Bioplaneta, Mexico
Bioplaneta is founded on the principle that people from different cultures, towns and beliefs should work and live together in harmony.




Ecotrust, Canada
Ecotrust is a group of non-profit organizations whose aim is to build a Conservation Economy in coastal regions on the North American west coast from San Francisco to the Aleutian Islands.




Global Nature Fund, Germany
The Global Nature Fund (GNF) has the objective of protecting nature and the environment as well as the wildlife and people who live on or near them.



Magic Bus, India
Magic Bus aims to deliver personal and social development to the most marginalized children in India so they can access their rights and build sustainable communities.




Oasis, South Africa
The Oasis Association aims to enable people with intellectual disability to realise their fullest potential and become as independent and productive as possible within the community.



Practical Action, UK
Practical Action combines participatory approaches with an underlying concern for sustainability – or, how to fight poverty without it costing the earth.




Rainforest Alliance, USA
The Rainforest Alliance works to conserve biodiversity and ensure sustainable livelihoods by transforming land-use practices, business practices and consumer behavior.




PlayPumps International, South Africa
PlayPumps International is a non-profit organization whose mission is to provide rural communities throughout sub-Saharan Africa with a uniquely sustainable, free supply of clean drinking water.








Voluntary Service Overseas, UK
Voluntary Service Overseas (VSO) has the vision of a world without poverty in which people work together to fulfil their potential.


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