Areas of expertise & Fields of activity:
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Economic and Social:
Aging
Children
Culture
Disabled Persons
Education
Family
HIV/AIDS
Media
Women
Women/gender Equality
Youth
Gender Issues and Advancement of Women:
Advocacy and outreach
Capacity building
Education and training of women
Human rights of women
Information and communication technologies
Institutional mechanisms for the advancement of women
Millennium Development Goals
Research
The girl child
Women and HIV/AIDS
Women and health
Women and the environment
Women and the media
Social Development:
Aging
Disabled persons
Information and Communications Technologies
Social policy
Technical cooperation
Youth
Sustainable Development:
Capacity-building
Education
Gender equality
Health
Rural Development
Sustainable development in a globalizing world
Technology
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| Geographic scope: |
International
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| Millennium Development Goals: |
Combat HIV/AIDS, malaria and other diseases
Achieve universal primary education
Promote gender equality and empower women
Reduce child mortality
Improve maternal health
Develop global partnership for development
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| Mission statement: |
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| Year established: |
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| Year of registration: |
2008 |
| Organizational structure: |
NIGH World — the Canadian-based NGO applying for ECOSOC Consultative Status — and its affiliate NIGH USA Inc, are the two interrelated NGOs — together representing the ‘Nightingale Initiative for Global Health’ — each closely overseen by a small board of directors, three of whom serve on both boards in voluntary executive capacities. 1/. Our boards use a ‘Co-Operative Model’ with a decision-making structure using ‘peer management’ and ‘collective management.’ All responsibility is shared and there is no one Chief Executive Officer. Our decision-making is by consensus and no individual has power over another. Our two affiliated organizations comprise a single managing/governing body composed of official board members, named advisors and other volunteers, including our all-volunteer team of current and former UN DPI-NGO Representatives and Youth Representatives based in New York City. 2/. We agree with many advocates that this ‘Co-Operative Model’ approach is the most democratic style of board management. Working together, now for nearly a decade, we understand and appreciate that this governance structure requires and sustains a shared sense of purpose, an exceptional level of commitment by all group members, a willingness to accept personal responsibility for the work of others and an ability to compromise. 3/. We believe that — with our two interrelated organizations — and the ‘Nightingale Initiative for Global Health’ we are collectively in charge of overseeing — all benefit from this governance approach — with direct involvement of front-line workers in decision-making and the synergy and camaraderie created by the direct interactions between our boards, advisors and volunteers. |
| Number and type of members: |
NIGH World does not maintain a membership or dues-paying roster since most nurses in under-resourced countries would be unable able to afford membership dues and would thus seem excluded from this initiative that seeks to be as inclusive and worldwide as possible. We are continuing to develop innovative, contemporary approaches to grass roots, inclusive membership by participation. We consider our constituencies of nurses and concerned citizens to be in regions, nations and territories, everywhere. We estimate our numbers of individual constituents by measuring NIGH World's record-highest hit-rate of unique online visitors recorded in March, 2013 — when 61,919 people accessed NIGH's website 436,868 times. |
| Affiliation with NGO networks: |
Associate Member of CoNGO |
| Funding structure: |
Fundraising campaigns
Fees for education and training services
Donations and grants from domestic sources
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