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Areas of expertise & Fields of activity:	Economic and Social: Agriculture Atomic Energy Citizenship and Governance Climate Change Debt Relief Development Disarmament Economics and Finance Education Energy Environment Extreme poverty Financing for Development Governance Information New Global Institutions Outer Space Peace and Security Science and Technology Statistics Taxation Policy Trade and Development United Nations Reform Women/gender Equality Financing for Development: External debt Increasing financial and technical cooperation for development International Trade as an engine for development Mobilizing domestic financial resources for development Social Development: Poverty Statistics: Demographic and social surveys Development indicators Environmental Accounts Official statistics, principles and practices Sustainable Development: Climate change Education Finance Gender equality Indicators Poverty Sustainable development in a globalizing world
Geographic scope:	International
Country of activity:	Belgium Togo Iceland Comoros Norway Thailand Bolivia (Plurinational State of) Malawi Saudi Arabia Kiribati Slovenia Côte D'Ivoire Niger Honduras Nauru Luxembourg Finland Gabon Bhutan Tajikistan Viet Nam Indonesia Kyrgyzstan Malta Qatar Singapore Paraguay Greece Mauritius India Serbia Iran (Islamic Republic of) Maldives Papua New Guinea Angola China Somalia El Salvador Malaysia Micronesia (Federated States of) Oman Cuba Palau Georgia Ghana Turkmenistan Antigua and Barbuda Netherlands Lebanon Benin Argentina Saint Vincent and the Grenadines Mexico Israel Cameroon Japan Kenya Central African Republic Afghanistan Mozambique Bosnia and Herzegovina State of Palestine Yemen Panama Guyana Ethiopia Jordan Dominican Republic Guinea Bangladesh Ukraine Azerbaijan United States of America Madagascar Congo Andorra Bahrain Kuwait Chile Croatia Barbados Canada Italy Eswatini Zimbabwe Tuvalu Monaco Latvia Pakistan Suriname Türkiye Egypt Myanmar Trinidad and Tobago Brazil Guinea Bissau Australia Burundi Namibia Timor-Leste Marshall Islands New Zealand Belize Algeria Samoa Armenia United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland Democratic People's Republic of Korea Chad Bulgaria Brunei Darussalam Iraq San Marino Sri Lanka Tonga Sweden Grenada Nigeria Cape Verde North Macedonia Holy See Portugal Sierra Leone Tunisia Belarus Cambodia Uruguay Uzbekistan Sao Tome and Principe Romania Mongolia Democratic Republic of the Congo Sudan Venezuela (Bolivarian Republic of) Lao People's Democratic Republic Mali Botswana Uganda Ireland Libya Gambia Denmark Fiji Liechtenstein Vanuatu Philippines Saint Lucia Germany Syrian Arab Republic Montenegro Equatorial Guinea Lesotho Liberia Russian Federation Lithuania Costa Rica Hungary Kazakhstan Republic of Moldova Switzerland Spain Nicaragua Poland United Republic of Tanzania Rwanda Burkina Faso Czechia Morocco Republic of Korea Seychelles Solomon Islands Peru Dominica Senegal Zambia Estonia France Nepal Austria Mauritania Albania Saint Kitts and Nevis Bahamas Colombia United Arab Emirates Eritrea Guatemala Cyprus Slovakia South Africa Jamaica Djibouti Ecuador Haiti
Millennium Development Goals:	Eradicate extreme poverty and hunger Promote gender equality and empower women Develop global partnership for development
Mission statement:	The aim of UBUNTU is, given the particular seriousness of the current problems, to promote the construction of a world that is more human, just, peaceful, diverse and sustainable, thus contributing to bring about a transition from a culture based on force and imposition towards a culture of peace, dialogue, justice, equity, and solidarity. In order to achieve this, it will be necessary to be equipped with new procedures and institutions of democratic worldwide governance on every scale which, with other actors, and always taking into account the active participation of civil society, would guarantee:? more representative, participatory and democratic processes of decision-making that guarantee the legitimacy of political decisions ? limited and responsible exercise of power on regional, national and worldwide scales ? coherence between policies in the macroeconomic, commercial, cooperation and environmental spheres that will enable a truly social human and environmentally sustainable development throughout the planet oriented by the principles established in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights ? public conception and management of global common goods and of the scientific and technological knowledge and powers of humanity, the development of which should be in accordance with the general interests of society ? preservation and development of cultural diversity in opposition to globalization With tendencies towards homogenization ? promotion of a development model based on education and health, incorporating the viewpoint of gender, in defense of life, and against violence and the proliferation of arms
Year established:	2000
Year of registration:	2006
Organizational structure:	Ubuntu is a forum of debate and action permanent in its virtual form and periodical in its physical manifestations. 1. Participants in the forum are all those organizations and/or people who accept the essence of the founding documents and wish to participate. The sovereignty of the UBUNTU Forum resides in its participants.2. The UBUNTU Forum functions in accordance with the following procedures:a) The Meeting of the forum: this is held every one or two years. The agenda and main documents are to be debated in a prior participatory process. The virtual Meeting of the forum is that which permits the permanent forum and will be carried out in the forum's virtual space. b) The Coordinating Committee (and where necessary, the Working Groups): this is the body of work and general motor which guarantees appropriate functioning, procedures and activities of the forum.c) The Ad Hoc Secretariat: this constitutes the professional management of the forum, an entity with its headquarters at the Technical University of Catalonia (UPC), Barcelonad) Decisions are taken by consensus whenever possible, and otherwise by simple majority of the participants. The decisions taken are never binding for a minority opinion. Any decision and/or public manifestation of the initiative must be accompanied by a list consisting exclusively of the participants who have voted in favour or expressed their support for it.
Number and type of members:	UBUNTU counts with about 110 participants. The type of members range from: a) intellectuals, b) international networks of NGOs and c) academia and media.
Funding structure:	Donations and grants from domestic sources Foreign and international grants

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