BORDA

“Facilitating Basic-Needs-Services -
thinking long-term, acting now !”

The Bremen Overseas Research & Development Association, BORDA, was founded as non-for-profit organization in Bremen, Germany, in 1977. Since 2001 we are focusing on development co-operations to provide Basic-Need-Services to the poor in rural and urban areas in Asia and subsahara Africa.

Actual development programs in the framework of improvement of social structure: 

• Decentralized Water Supply in rural mountain regions
• Decentralized Power Supply in rural mountain regions (DERES)
• Decentralized Wastewater Management in poor communities and public institutions (DEWATS)
• Community Based Sanitation in poor urban settings (DEWATS/CBS)
• Decentralized Solid Waste Management in poor urban settings (densely populated urban districts (DESWAM)
• Quality- and Knowledge Management
  

Characteristics of work:

• Immediate verifiable impact of measures
• High rate of sustainability of project implementations and services
• Demand-oriented, bottom-up, multi-stakeholder approach
• Application of proven environmentally friendly technologies
• Applied Quality- and Knowledge Management
• Building of local capacity, competence and expertise
• Active networking and co-operation with policy makers, civil society
  organizations, research institutes and private sector
• Supporting MDG‘s and Agenda 21
• Immediate verifiable impact of measures

„What cannot be sustained should not be done“

 

Contact:
Bremer Arbeitsgemeinschaft für Überseeforschung und Entwicklung
(BORDA e.V.)
28359 Bremen, Fahrenheitstr. 9
Tel: ++49-421-13 7 18
Email: office@BORDA.de