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Here at ASSIST, a leading international capacity building organization, we hope to promote sustainable practices to address social problems in the developing world, with focus on Asia and Africa.

We take pride in our process-oriented approach to capacity building towards social improvement and sustainable transformation. Our goal is to empower our target groups to make them resilient to the social, economic and environmental challenges.

Please browse around to know more about our initiatives in people empowerment as well as our involvements in social entrepreneurship. We also invite you to become one of our partners in working towards the progress of the people and the planet. Together, let's communicate, collaborate and capacitate.

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PRO-FIT initiative opens with a multi-stakeholder forum

Food safety practitioners gathered for the multi-stakeholder forum of PRO-FIT (Promoting Food Industry Competitiveness Training Program) last January 12, 2011 at the Marriott Hotel in Pasay.

ASSIST India inspires environmental awareness among the youth

True to its thrust towards raising environmental consciousness, Asia Society for Social Improvement and Sustainable Transformation (ASSIST) India joined the inauguration of the Eco Club in Dominic Savio Higher Secondary School in Santhome, Chennai last January 12, 2012.

ASSIST Managing Director speaks at Vietnam’s Green Business Forum

ASSIST Managing Director Sreeni Narayanan spoke on Innovative Partnership for Greening the Business at the Forum organized by the Vietnam Chamber of Commerce and Industry in collaboration with WWF-Vietnam, Institute of Tropical Biology on December 28, 2011 at the Majestic Hotel in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam.

Dubbed “Green Business Forum responds to Climate Change in the Mekong Delta, the event addresses the calls of the Government to mobilize all sectors on the climate change advocacy. It also served as a venue for the sharing of initiatives and plans to develop green businesses, encouraging the corporations in the campaign and building a long-term operational mechanism to address climate change in the region.

ASSIST hosts research team from Hand in Hand Micro Finance

ASSIST is proud to have hosted the visit of Hand in Hand India's team who sought to conduct a scoping research of the micro-finance situation in the Philippines.

ASSIST is proud to have hosted the visit of Hand in Hand India's team who sought to conduct a scoping research of the micro-finance situation in the Philippines last December 19 to 23, 2011.

Together with partner Association of Development Financing Institutions in Asia Pacific (ADFIAP), ASSIST facilitated the research schedule of the team, to meet with leading microfinance and small enterprise organizations in the country:

ASSIST energy efficiency project in China holds culmination activities

Partners Asia Society for Social Improvement and Sustainable Transformation (ASSIST) and TUV Rheinland launched a series of activities to cap the 14-month initiative Solutions to Energy Efficiency application and Knowledge (SEEK) in China.