Ban Ki-Moon: the secretary general strikes back. The wait is finally over.
Yesterday, Thursday 4 December, United Nations secretary general (SG), Ban Ki-moon, delivered his verdict on the draft sustainable development goals, set to replace the millennium development goals when they expire in September 2015. There was some concern about what the SG’s synthesis report, The Road to Dignity by 2030 (pdf), would say. Some feared Ban would throw out the proposed 17 goals and 169 targets, amid complaints that there were too many moving parts and too little finance to deliver such an ambitious agenda. But this is the United Nations. No one is that obtuse. But what is a synthesis report, what should you know about its contents and how can we expect governments to respond? What is the synthesis report? The synthesis report is the SG’s attempt, at the request of member states, to bring together various negotiations, consultations and expert contributions to the post-2015 process.
Is its timing significant? 10YAP_Concept_zerodraft180814.pdf. Working Paper Series - FXB Center for Health & Human Rights. London's TransferWise aims to disrupt banking.
Partnerships and Collaborations. Funding for Development. Network of Individuals. Stakeholder engagement. UNV facilitates post-2015-related stakeholder engagement as a means to support the development of a sustainable post-2015 agenda that recognizes and includes volunteer work.
This means advocating for civil society to participate in decision-making and UN processes. At the stakeholder meeting organized by UNV in September 2013, a Task Force of volunteer groups was established to scale up efforts to make volunteering more visible. This should ultimately translate in integrating volunteerism more systematically in the discussion about enabling factors for the implementation of the next set of internationally agreed development goals, including through related indicators to measure the achievements of some of the goals.
This section is a common space hosting relevant materials from global and national ViOs and from the Task Force. 5 December, International Volunteer Day (IVD): join the Volunteering Task Force #proud2volunteer social media campaign! Key documents. Www.volunteeractioncounts.org/images/post2015/partners/Integrating volunteerism in the zero draft of the SDGs.pdf. NGOs and the shock of the new. The aid juggernaut: slow and inefficient LONDON, 16 June 2014 (IRIN) - The big international aid agencies have been hugely successful.
Organizations that were once small civil society operations - groups of friends with a passion to make the world a better place - now have thousands of staff members, multi-storey headquarters buildings and multi-million dollar budgets. But insiders fret that they have become too big and have lost the flexibility and responsiveness they once had. They also worry about the future, and whether big international agencies are still the best way of doing things. It's hard to imagine a world without Oxfam or Save the Children, but 20 years ago it would have been hard to imagine a world without Kodak film and cameras, or multi-volume editions of the Encyclopaedia Britannica.
It's also very slow. Olivia Maehler, START's business manager, said they aim to consider proposals and release funds within 72 hours of receiving an alert. NASA's Earth Day Global Selfie 2014. More Than 100 Countries, Tens of Thousands of Photos: The Making of a Global Selfie On Earth Day this year, NASA asked people all around the world a simple question – “Where are you on Earth Right Now?”
We asked people to answer the question on social media, with a selfie. The goal was to use each picture as a pixel in the creation of a “Global Selfie” – a mosaic image that would look like Earth appeared from space on Earth Day. This image was built using 36,422 individual photos that were posted on social media and tagged #globalselfie on or around April 22, 2014. People on every continent – 113 countries and regions in all – posted selfies. The result is this zoomable 3.2-gigapixel image that people can scan and explore to take a closer look at the variety of pictures. The year 2014 is a significant one for NASA Earth science. NASA scientists have helped identify thousands of new planets in recent years, but the space agency studies no planet more closely than our own.
Employee Volunteering in Humanitarian Aid: The 2013 preparatory Action for the EU Aid Volunteers. United Nations Volunteers: Strategy. Research and Publications. NVPC seeks to provide thought leadership through our research reports and publications on volunteerism and philanthropy.
Our publications on best practices, and research reports on volunteerism and philanthropy will be useful to individuals, non-profit organisations and corporate givers. If you find a broken link, sorry! Please email (a) the link you clicked which is broken and (b) the webpage address which contains the broken link, to research@nvpc.org.sg. Thanks! Volunteer Coordinator Pilot (2013) Volunteer Coordinator (VC) Pilot is a one-off, 2-year programme to improve volunteer management in 10 organisations. Supply Chain Management for Humanitarian Relief - Aidmatrix.org. NFG_eGuide_EmployeeEngagement_FINAL_Web. The IATI Standard. Two important volunteering policy developments » Center for Civil Society Studies.