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Crown Agents Ltd is an international development company with head office in the United Kingdom. Its main focus is to help governments around the world to increase prosperity, reduce poverty and improve health by providing consultancy, supply chain, financial services and training.〔(Crown Agents website )〕 Incorporated as a private limited company Crown Agents Ltd has only one shareholder - the Crown Agents Foundation, a not-for-profit company.〔(Group structure shown at Duedil )〕 Crown Agents Ltd's registered office is in Sutton in Surrey, 11 miles southwest of central London.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Companies House Webcheck )〕 ==International development work== Crown Agents is an international development company that helps countries to grow their economies, strengthen health systems and improve financial management, through consultancy, supply chain management and financial services. Crown Agents works with clients in more than 100 countries, major multilateral agencies, such as the World Bank,〔(Crown Agents Newsletter Managing Debt (World Bank website) )〕 European Commission, United Nations agencies and bilateral donors such as DFID, KfW, SIDA, CIDA and the Danish, Japanese and U.S. governments. It has provided governmental services as large as the Customs system of Angola,〔(Customs reform and modernisation in Angola (Kenya Revenue Authority website ))〕 transforming the central medical stores in Zambia 〔(MSL website )〕 and the Value added tax (VAT) system of Lesotho. It works on sustainable development supporting more effective trade and transit corridors,〔(Linking Dar to Durban (This is Africa, FT magazine ))〕 food security and health systems strengthening. Projects include improving the livelihood of poor and vulnerable people in South East Asia ((SEACAP )) and addressing the challenges of providing reliable access for poor communities in Africa.〔(AFCAP )〕 Crown Agents is active in the environmental change arena〔(Crown Agents to install Japan-funded $8.6m solar plant in Uruguay )〕 and is using emerging technologies to contribute to aid effectiveness and value for money in various projects.〔(Crown Agents ensuring safety and speed with mobile money transfer technology )〕 Helping governments to overcome corruption is another important development task addressed by Crown Agents, including in the collection of tax and customs revenue.〔(Honesty for Hire (Hoover Institute) )〕 Crown Agents Bank is one of the UK's leading banks for disbursement of development aid. Crown Agents is a member of the Partnership for Supply Chain Management, a partnership of 13 private sector, nongovernmental and faith-based organizations that implements the SCMS project, providing a reliable, cost-effective and secure supply of products for HIV/AIDS programs.〔(SCMS website )〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Crown Agents for Oversea Governments and Administrations Ltd」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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