SIMAVI
| Simavi | |
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| Location: | Haarlem, The Netherlands |
| Type: | Funding Company |
| Class: | Development Bank |
| Key work: | sustainable investments, promotion of constructive business |
| Website: www.simavi.org | |
Simavi is a Dutch non-governmental organisation, committed to working for a world without poverty where people share responsibility towards achieving optimum health for everyone through supporting healthy solutions by local communities.
Simavi stimulates and supports projects aimed at improving the health of the poorest populations of rural Africa and Asia, without regard to race, religion or political creed. Simavi supports initiatives in the field of primary healthcare, with particular concern for water and sanitation. Simavi for example established the successful School Sanitation Fund. Other cross-cutting issues of concern include HIV/AIDS, gender, capacity building, and to a limited extent, eye-care. Simavi operates as a liaison between people in developing countries and its support base in the Netherlands within an evolving social context. Simavi has a well developed strategic plan that gives the organization and its environment a clear focus. Its strategies and working methods enhance its role as a facilitating organisation both in the Netherlands and in developing countries and serve as a guide towards achieving its set goals.