Areas of expertise & Fields of activity:
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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
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| Geographic scope: |
International
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| Country of activity: |
- Belgium
- Tuvalu
- Holy See
- Nepal
- Solomon Islands
- Comoros
- Bolivia (Plurinational State of)
- Italy
- Libya
- Mexico
- Estonia
- Ireland
- United Arab Emirates
- Thailand
- Zimbabwe
- Saint Kitts and Nevis
- New Zealand
- Bhutan
- Jordan
- Ukraine
- Trinidad and Tobago
- Japan
- Costa Rica
- Madagascar
- Myanmar
- Liechtenstein
- Angola
- China
- Singapore
- Panama
- Gambia
- Timor-Leste
- Malaysia
- Iran (Islamic Republic of)
- Portugal
- Djibouti
- South Africa
- Antigua and Barbuda
- Lesotho
- Seychelles
- Guyana
- Mongolia
- Czechia
- Democratic People's Republic of Korea
- Benin
- Argentina
- Saudi Arabia
- Tunisia
- Cameroon
- Central African Republic
- Afghanistan
- Sudan
- Philippines
- Bosnia and Herzegovina
- Serbia
- Romania
- India
- Luxembourg
- Somalia
- Senegal
- Maldives
- Bangladesh
- Azerbaijan
- El Salvador
- Viet Nam
- France
- Congo
- Andorra
- Norway
- Hungary
- Venezuela (Bolivarian Republic of)
- Bahrain
- Mauritania
- Papua New Guinea
- Chile
- Barbados
- Côte D'Ivoire
- Canada
- Guatemala
- Mali
- North Macedonia
- Cyprus
- Mozambique
- Nicaragua
- Uruguay
- Denmark
- Samoa
- Kenya
- Namibia
- Russian Federation
- Guinea
- Nauru
- Republic of Moldova
- Nigeria
- Qatar
- Brazil
- Australia
- Eritrea
- Sri Lanka
- Burundi
- Belize
- Algeria
- Saint Lucia
- Peru
- Armenia
- Jamaica
- Lao People's Democratic Republic
- Kazakhstan
- Latvia
- Ecuador
- Oman
- Chad
- Guinea Bissau
- Georgia
- Pakistan
- Bulgaria
- Lebanon
- Equatorial Guinea
- Croatia
- Slovakia
- Brunei Darussalam
- Malta
- Republic of Korea
- Honduras
- Saint Vincent and the Grenadines
- Cape Verde
- United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
- Rwanda
- Democratic Republic of the Congo
- Haiti
- Ghana
- Marshall Islands
- Iraq
- Kuwait
- Belarus
- Grenada
- Cambodia
- Slovenia
- Lithuania
- Eswatini
- Sierra Leone
- Kiribati
- Germany
- State of Palestine
- Montenegro
- Botswana
- Spain
- Kyrgyzstan
- Paraguay
- Dominica
- Malawi
- Netherlands
- Yemen
- Sao Tome and Principe
- Turkmenistan
- Micronesia (Federated States of)
- Tonga
- Tajikistan
- Syrian Arab Republic
- Morocco
- Palau
- Cuba
- Iceland
- United Republic of Tanzania
- Dominican Republic
- Uganda
- Egypt
- Ethiopia
- San Marino
- Sweden
- Indonesia
- Mauritius
- Burkina Faso
- Greece
- Switzerland
- Finland
- Turkey
- Austria
- Albania
- Bahamas
- Colombia
- United States of America
- Israel
- Zambia
- Gabon
- Liberia
- Togo
- Uzbekistan
- Fiji
- Suriname
- Niger
- Vanuatu
- Monaco
- Poland
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| Millennium Development Goals: |
- Eradicate extreme poverty and hunger
- Promote gender equality and empower women
- Develop global partnership for development
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| Mission statement: |
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| Year established (YYYY): |
2000 |
| Year of registration (YYYY): |
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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