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Posted On: Feb 24, 2010
Background Reporting to the UNDP Administrator in her capacity as UNDG Chair, the Director has the overall responsibility to lead and manage the global UN Millennium Campaign in realizing its mandate from 2010-15. The UN Millennium Campaign is an inter-agency initiative created by the UN Secretary-General in 2002. The mandate of the Campaign is to create the political will required for the achievement of the Millennium Development Goals, within the broader remit of the Millennium De...
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Posted On: Feb 22, 2010
Position Summary The Development Department of the World Resources Institute (WRI) is seeking a dynamic, energetic, highly motivated person to fill the position of Development Coordinator. This position will provide programmatic and administrative support to staff managing government sector partnerships and funding (including U.S. government, foreign aid agencies, and multilateral organizations). This position provides a valuable growth opportunity to learn about environment and devel...
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Posted On: Jan 28, 2010
Michael Edwards, who many community members may recognize from his work with the Ford Foundation's Governance and Civil Society Program, has published a book refuting the notion that a market approach will fix social problems. In Small Change: Why Buisness Won't Save the World, Edwards argues that the "operating values" of business are inadquate to address the root causes of major social ills. See the attached flyer for more details.
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Posted On: Jan 12, 2010
Supervisor: The Executive Director is hired and supervised by the Jubilee USA Board of Directors. Location: Washington, D.C. Summary of Responsibilities: This is a key leadership position overseeing an organization of six staff. The organization is an alliance of more than 75 religious denominations and faith communities, human rights, international-development, environmental, labor, and community groups, and more than 20,000 individuals, working for the definitive cancellation of crushi...
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Posted On: Jan 06, 2010
DATE: MONDAY, DECEMBER 14, 2009 MR. LYNN: Thanks very much, Nancy. Nancy had a way of working with Senator Kennedy. As you know, he had an unforgettable speaking style. Face reddened and fist pounding-that Boston Brahmin accent. You might think that all came naturally, and usually it did. But occasionally, on one topic or another, he might lag a bit. And Nancy would anticipate that. You have to remember, on the Senate floor, there's nobody there, so there's no excitement. So...
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Posted On: Jan 05, 2010
Untitled documentGlobal Washington announces a position opening for Communications and Administrative Coordinator.Organizational DescriptionGlobal Washington is a membership organization serving the global development sector. Global Washington has become a catalyst for strengthening the global development sector and its member organizations by leveraging resources, increasing visibility, sharing best practices, convening the sector by country, issue and organization type, and advocating...
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Posted On: Jan 05, 2010
Citizens for Global Solutions (CGS) is seeking to appoint an Edward Rawson Government Relations Fellow to work out of its headquarters in Washington, D.C. Citizens for Global Solutions embraces a vision of a world in which nations work together to abolish war, protect our rights and freedoms, and solve the problems facing humanity that no nation alone can solve. To this end, Citizens for Global Solutions educates Americans about our global interdependence, communicates global concerns to...
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Posted On: Jan 05, 2010
A December 2009 report from the Charity and Security Network describes how U.S. nonprofits are hindered from being an ally against violent extremism due to burdensome CTMs.
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Posted On: Dec 23, 2009
by Doug Bandow, a senior fellow at the Cato Institute. Afghanistan is the sort of country which humanitarian-minded people understandably want to "fix." It has become a target of aggressive pro-war activists ranging from neoconservatives who believe in remaking other societies at gunpoint to feminists who believe in waging war to improve the status of women.The latter group belies the common assumption that the Left opposes war. While the Right traditionally resisted imperialistic social engi...
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Posted On: Dec 16, 2009
This report from the European Climate Foundation describes how "Special Drawing Rights (SDRs) could be used as a financing mechanism for climate change mitigation and adaptation for least developed countries (LDCs)." The idea was announced by George Soros at a press conference at COP15 in Copenhagen on 10 December 2009. The document provides ackground information on SDRs, details how such an SDR based mechanism might function, and highlights some open questions and challenges.
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Posted On: Dec 14, 2009
AS PREPARED SECRETARY OF STATE HILLARY RODHAM CLINTONTHE HUMAN RIGHTS AGENDA FOR THE 21ST CENTURYGEORGETOWN UNIVERSITYWASHINGTON, DCDECEMBER 14, 2009 Thank you Jasdeep, Dean Lancaster, and President DeGioia for that kind introduction and thank you for having me here today. There is no better place than Georgetown University to talk about human rights. President DeGioia, the administration, and the faculty embody the university's long tradition of supporting free expression and free inq...
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Posted On: Dec 02, 2009
Book Forum Wednesday, December 9, 12:00 p.m. Featuring the author, Carlos Alberto Montaner; with comments by Alvaro Vargas Llosa, Senior Fellow, Independent Institute. Moderated by Ian Vásquez, Director, Center for Global Liberty and Prosperity, Cato InstituteAbout the event - Latin America, though poor, is a part of the West. The institutions, pastimes, intellectual history, languages, and belief systems of the vast majority of Latin Americans are ...
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Posted On: Dec 01, 2009
BackgroundUnder the guidance and direct supervision of the Director of the Washington Liaison Office (LO), the Communications Specialist supports the corporate communications strategy; provides strategic/operational advice to the LO outreach, communications and publication strategies to inform key Washington, D.C. (WDC) constituencies about UNDP's role in global development, and promote support for UNDP's mission and programs; as well as develops and ensures the implementation of the LO's c...
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Posted On: Nov 24, 2009
A joint letter to President Obama from the Connect U.S. Fund, InterAction, USCAN and 1Sky. The letter calls on the President to build on his initiative at the G20 to end fossil fuel subsidies by initiating the phase out of those subsidies in the U.S., and to redirect those subsidies to international climate finance efforts.
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Posted On: Nov 05, 2009
The Global Fairness Initiative Job Title: Program Manager Location: Washington D.C. Position Description: The Global Fairness Initiative (GFI), an International non-profit based in Washington DC is currently recruiting for the position of Program Manager for the Washington D.C. office. Designed as a small NGO with a broad impact at the local and international level, the Global Fairness Initiative was founded on the premise that economic globalization must work to improve t...
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Posted On: Nov 05, 2009
About Publish What You Pay:The United States Publish What You Pay (PWYP) coalition promotes transparency in the extractive industries to ensure that oil, gas and mineral wealth contributes to development and poverty alleviation. PWYP US is a coalition of nearly thirty human rights, development, environmental and faith-based organizations.PWYP US is part of a global coalition of over 350 NGOs in 50 countries promoting the public disclosure of revenues, contracts, and other financial transacti...
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Posted On: Oct 30, 2009
Philantropia invites your NGO to participate in a survey that plans to determine if international fundraising provides good opportunities for funding NGO's. The results of the study will be published in December of 2009, and will be made available through Philantropia.org, various list servs, and e-mailed to participants. The survey results will remain anonymous and no personal information will be released. The link to the survey is: http://www.esurveyspro.com/Survey.aspx?id=56c30d2b-aaff-48...
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Posted On: Oct 15, 2009
The two-decade-old conflict in Somalia has entered a new phase, which presents both a challenge and an opportunity for the United States. To best encourage peace in the devastated country, Washington needs a new strategy that takes into account hard-learned lessons from multiple failed U.S. interventions.In a new study, author David Axe argues that Washington should err on the side of nonintervention, and recommends:The Obama administration should work to build a regional framework for reconc...
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Posted On: Oct 01, 2009
A letter to Mr. Stern from Ambassador Nancy Soderberg, President of the Connect U.S. Fund and former Deputy Assistant to the President for National Security Affairs, which calls on the Obama Administration to break the deadlock and lead in international negotiations, in order to avoid failure in Copenhagen. The letter highlights this objective as a "financially responsible, moral, and national security imperative for the United States." The details of the letter are informed by key members of...
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Posted On: Sep 28, 2009
This report from Oxfam stresses the importance of financing adaptation assistance to developing countries with "adequate, new, and additional funds," and through a streamlined international process.
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