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Muslim Hands

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Areas of expertise & Fields of activity:

Economic and Social:
  • Children
  • Culture
  • Development
  • Disabled Persons
  • Education
  • Environment
  • Extreme poverty
  • Family
  • Financing for Development
  • Food
  • Governance
  • HIV/AIDS
  • Habitat
  • Human Rights
  • Humanitarian Affairs
  • Indigenous Peoples
  • Information
  • International Security
  • Justice
  • Labour
  • Least Developed Countries
  • Media
  • Micro-Credit
  • Migration
  • Minority Rights
  • New Global Institutions
  • Peace and Security
  • Population
  • Private Sector
  • Refugees
  • Safety
  • Social Development
  • Sports for Peace and Development
  • Sustainable Development
  • Technical Cooperation
  • Values
  • Violence
  • Volunteerism
  • Water
  • Women
  • Women/gender Equality
  • Youth

  • Financing for Development:
  • Addressing systemic issues
  • Mobilizing domestic financial resources for development
  • Mobilizing international resources for development

  • Gender Issues and Advancement of Women:
  • Advocacy and outreach
  • Capacity building
  • Education and training of women
  • Human rights of women
  • Indigenous women
  • Information and communication technologies
  • Institutional mechanisms for the advancement of women
  • Men and boys
  • Millennium Development Goals
  • Policy advice
  • Research
  • Service provision
  • The girl child
  • Women and HIV/AIDS
  • Women and health
  • Women and poverty
  • Women and the economy
  • Women and the environment

  • Population:
  • Morbidity and mortality
  • Population distribution and internal migration

  • Public Administration:
  • Ethics, Transparency and Accountability
  • Governance and Public Administration
  • Public Financial Management
  • Public Service and Management Innovation
  • Socio-Economic Governance and Management

  • Social Development:
  • Aging
  • Conflict
  • Cooperative
  • Disabled persons
  • Employment
  • Indigenous issues
  • Information and Communications Technologies
  • Poverty
  • Social policy
  • Technical cooperation
  • Youth

  • Statistics:
  • Development indicators
  • Household Statistics
  • Poverty statistics

  • Sustainable Development:
  • Agriculture
  • Biodiversity
  • Capacity-building
  • Climate change
  • Desertification and Drought
  • Disaster management and vulnerability
  • Education
  • Energy
  • Finance
  • Freshwater
  • Gender equality
  • Health
  • Human settlements
  • Institutional arrangements
  • Major Groups
  • Partnerships
  • Poverty
  • Protecting and managing the natural resources
  • Rural Development
  • Sanitation
  • Sustainable development for Africa
  • Sustainable development in a globalizing world
  • Geographic scope: International
    Country of activity:
  • Ethiopia
  • Libya
  • Mauritania
  • Mali
  • India
  • Malawi
  • Jordan
  • Lebanon
  • United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
  • Sudan
  • South Africa
  • Syrian Arab Republic
  • Gambia
  • Afghanistan
  • Indonesia
  • Türkiye
  • Somalia
  • Sri Lanka
  • Niger
  • Yemen
  • Bangladesh
  • State of Palestine
  • Morocco
  • Pakistan
  • Senegal
  • Millennium Development Goals:
  • Combat HIV/AIDS, malaria and other diseases
  • Eradicate extreme poverty and hunger
  • Achieve universal primary education
  • Promote gender equality and empower women
  • Reduce child mortality
  • Improve maternal health
  • Ensure environmental sustainability
  • Develop global partnership for development
  • Mission statement:
    Year established:
    Year of registration: 2004
    Organizational structure: Day-to-day management is by the Executive Council which implements the decisions of the Executive Committee. Trustees are the governing body responsible for policy decisions that are passed to the management committee which consists of: Administration, Fundraising, Projects and Systems. Management committee implements programmes through Operations department headed by project manager. Operations personnel based in UK and overseas are responsible for Monitoring and Evaluation. Progress reports are prepared by Operations team and presented to Board of Trustees. Trustees have powers vested in them by UK Charity Commission and are legally responsible for all activities of the organisation.
    Number and type of members: We are not a membership organisation but Muslim Hands works with partners and through country offices in 30+ countries.
    Affiliation with NGO networks: Yes (Christian Aid, Bond, BAAG, CHS Alliance)
    Funding structure:
  • Fees for education and training services
  • Donations and grants from domestic sources
  • Foreign and international grants
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