Areas of expertise & Fields of activity:
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Financing for Development:
Addressing systemic issues
Increasing financial and technical cooperation for development
Social Development:
Indigenous issues
Poverty
Youth
Sustainable Development:
Biodiversity
Climate change
Desertification and Drought
Education
Poverty
Protecting and managing the natural resources
Science
Sustainable development in a globalizing world
Technology
Toxic chemicals
Trade and environment
Waste (hazardous)
Waste (radioactive)
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Geographic scope: |
International
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Country of activity: |
Colombia
Spain
Switzerland
India
Italy
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
Canada
France
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Millennium Development Goals: |
Eradicate extreme poverty and hunger
Ensure environmental sustainability
Develop global partnership for development
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Mission statement: |
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Year established: |
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Year of registration: |
1988 |
Organizational structure: |
The Foundation is made up of a Board of maximum 12 Trustees of which one is appointed Chair of the Board and another Treasurer. Each member of the Board is chosen because of his/her expertise that relates to the mandate of the organisation, which is environmental in its scope. Most Members on the Board were already active in the environmental movement in the 1980s and have thus many years experience. This is being treasured though there is an awareness of needing to draw in a younger generation to continue the work that has been expanding. The Board meets whenever is necessary. However, as technology has evolved, they might meet through teleconferencing and decisions are also taken through e-mails. The Chair will make an effort to meet up with each member of the Board at least once a year. Decisions are taken democratically either by consensus or by vote with two-thirds being a majority. Most of the decisions are related to the projects the Foundation chooses to support or get involved in. Each Member of the Board can propose one project per year. Projects are evaluated by those with the most expertise on the subject and then proposed to the group. Project evaluation is also based on the fact if a Member of the Board can visit and follow it up over time. The Foundation will therefore often enter into a partnership with another organization known directly by any of the Board Members. This has proven a very successful route and beneficial to all the actors. Over time partnerships have evolved with whom we still collaborate. None of the Board members get paid and all offer their time and advise voluntarily. |
Number and type of members: |
The Foundation is made up of a Board of maximum 12 Members/Trustees. Each Member/Trustee is Director/Trustee of an NGO (mostly environmental) which gives us much expertise. However, if with members you mean partnership-members then we have 50-60 |
Affiliation with NGO networks: |
Mrs Vita de Waal, the Foundation's chief executive, has been representing the Planetary Association for Clean Energy at the UN since 2004, GCAP, UN MDGs, UNFFD, IUCN (+WCPA, CSVPA, Delos Initiative) |
Funding structure: |
Donations and grants from domestic sources
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Funding structure other: |
One big donor allowed us to start and socially responsible investments covered our yearly expenses. Due to the financial crisis this has changde now. All work is done on a volunteer basis and we have strengthened our collaborative partnership base |