City Montessori School

Organization's name: City Montessori School
Organization's acronym: CMS
Headquarters address  
Address: 12, Station Road
Lucknow

India
Phone: 00915222638738
Fax: 00915222638008
Email: info@cmseducation.org
Web site: http://www.cmseducation.org
Organization type: Non-governmental organization
Languages:
  • Hindi
  • English

Activities

Areas of expertise & Fields of activity:
Economic and Social:
  • Children
  • Citizenship and Governance
  • Climate Change
  • Crime Prevention
  • Development
  • Disarmament
  • Education
  • Environment
  • Governance
  • Human Rights
  • International Law
  • International Security
  • Peace and Security
  • Religion
  • Sustainable Development
  • United Nations Reform
  • Women/gender Equality

Gender Issues and Advancement of Women:
  • Education and training of women
  • Human rights of women
  • Millennium Development Goals
  • The girl child
  • Violence against women
  • Women and health
  • Women and the media

Social Development:
  • Conflict
  • Youth

Sustainable Development:
  • Climate change
  • Education
  • Gender equality
  • International cooperation for an enabling environment
  • International law
  • Sustainable development in a globalizing world
Geographic scope: International
Country of activity:
  • India
  • United States of America
Millennium Development Goals:
  • Achieve universal primary education
  • Promote gender equality and empower women
  • Ensure environmental sustainability
  • Develop global partnership for development
Mission statement:
Year established (YYYY): 1959
Year of registration (YYYY): 1963
Organizational structure: The institution is headed by the Founder Manager and Founder Director who look after the overall management of the institution. Under them is the President and Chief Operating Officer of the institution who is the overall head of operations. Under the President is the Head of the Quality Assurance and Innovations Department who looks after the academic requirements and is the Human Resource Department of the institution too. Under the Head of the Quality Assurance Department are 21 Principals of all campuses of the institution. The Principal is the head of all teaching and non-teaching staff in her campus. Also under the President and Chief Operating Officer are various Heads of the Department at the Head Office like that of Accounts, Purchase, Computer and IT department. All the clerical and official staff at the Head Office come under the Heads of Departments.
Number and type of members: Number of Members: 19. Type of Members: Founder Manager, Founder Director, Life Member, Member, Advisor Member, General Secretary, Treasurer, Vice President and President
Affiliation with NGO networks: Associated with UNDPI as an NGO
Funding structure:
  • Fees for education and training services

Additional Information

Sustainable Development

Major group affiliation:
  • Children and youth
  • Women
  • Non-governmental organization
Involvement in UN Partnerships: Yes
If yes, explain in detail: City Montessori School actively collaborates with the United Nations Information Centre for India and Bhutan at New Delhi in scores of national and international events that it organises to further the objective of United Nations and uphold the ideals laid down in the UN Charter. Recently, the school also got associated with the UNDPI for its multifarious activities in the support of United Nations. The school is working towards Sustainable Development Goals in the following way. It is working for Goal 4 which is to ensure inclusive and Equitable Quality Education and Promote Lifelong Learning Opportunities for all by providing quality and balanced education to nearly 50,000 students on its rolls. The school is also striving to organise a conference at the UN Headquarters in collaboration with UNICEF, UNESCO and Indian Permanent Mission to the United Nations on 'Content of Education for the 21st Century' with a view to make the educational institutions and policy makers come to a consensus and work towards redefining the content of education which is balanced and globalised in nature and not just aims towards total literacy and numeracy but also guides in making every child a global citizen with a global outlook. The school regularly organises seminars and international conferences in collaboration with UNESCO on raising awareness towards environment protection and appealing to nations to tackle climate change with a view to work towards Goal 13 which is to take urgent action to combat Climate Change and its impacts. The school regularly organises international conferences for educators and Non Governmental Organisations on sustainable development issues in its pursuance of Goal 17 which is to strengthen the means of implementation and revitalize the global partnership for sustainable development.
Affiliation with other organizations: Member of the World Peace Prayer Society, Member of Goi Peace Foundation, Associated with the United Nations Department of Public Information
Publications: Title: CMS Personality Development bulletin, Year: Every Year, Frequency: Monthly Title: CMS This Week, Year: Every Year, Frequency: Weekly Title: Human Rights Violations, Year: 2014, Frequency: Updated Every Year Title: How the World Treats Children, Year: 2006, Frequency: Updated Every Year Title: Content of Education for the 21st Century, Year: 2014, Frequency: Once Title: Facts about Global Warming and Climate Change, Year: 2014 Frequency: Updated every year
Statements or documents submitted
Commission on Sustainable Development:
http://www.cmseducation.org/bulletin http://www.cmseducation.org/aaodostikarein/ http://www.cmseducation.org/media/ http://www.cmseducation.org/environment/index.htm http://www.cmseducation.org/cmsthisweek/index.htm http://www.cmseducation.org/interfaith/index.htm http://www.cmseducation.org/worldcitizen/cisv.htm http://www.cmsfilms.org/icff/ http://www.cmseducation.org/saarc http://www.cmseducation.org/i-plea http://www.cmseducation.org/cmseduimpact/int_acc.htm

Advancement of Women

Publications: Title: Report of International Media Conference on Violence against the Girl Child, Year: 2014, Frequency: Yearly
Statements or documents submitted
to the Commission on the Status of Women:
http://www.cmseducation.org/media

Informal regional network of NGOs

UN-NGO-IRENE Newsletter: Yes

Other UN Entities

Accreditation with other UN Entities:
  • DPI