The Commission for Africa was launched by the British Prime Minister Tony Blair in February 2004. The aim of the Commission was to take a fresh look at Africa's past and present and the international community's role in its development path.

To provide leadership and encourage partnership in caring for the environment by inspiring, informing, and enabling nations and peoples to improve their quality of life without compromising that of future generations.

UNDP - United Nations Development Programme

UNDP is the UN's global development network, advocating for change and connecting countries to knowledge, experience and resources to help people build a better life. We are on the ground in 166 countries, working with them on their own solutions to global and national development challenges.

UNECE strives to foster sustainable economic growth among its 56 member countries .To that end UNECE provides a forum for communication among States; brokers international legal instruments addressing trade, transport and the environment; and supplies statistics and economic and environmental analysis.

UN Habitat - United Nations Human Settlement Programme Land and Tenure Section

Implementation of land, housing and property rights, particularly women's secure tenure , Affordable land management systems and pro-poor flexible tenure types.

UNPFII - United Nations Permanent Forum on Indigenous Peoples -

The Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues is a part of the Division for Social Policy and Development in the Department of Economic and Social Affairs of the United Nations Secretariat.

The International Development Department's programmes are designed to meet the evolving needs of the contemporary development sector, and are sensitive to specific country situations.

CELP conducts interdisciplinary research on the environment. The aim is to integrate the disciplines of ecology, law and policy in order to reach a better understanding of how society and the environment interact.

We believe that we, together with others, can create a world free from hunger and poverty, while at the same time taking care of the natural environment.

The idea behind the Development Fund was a somewhat different way of thinking about development. Since the beginning in 1978, the Development Fund has been in the vanguard of progressive thinking, with what was then the radical vision that poverty is best fought by aiming to enable people to help themselves.