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