Areas of expertise & Fields of activity:
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Economic and Social:
Agriculture
Biodiversity
Business and Industry
Citizenship and Governance
Climate Change
Culture
Development
Drug Control
Economics and Finance
Education
Energy
Environment
Extreme poverty
Financing for Development
Food
Governance
Habitat
Humanitarian Affairs
Industrial Development
Information
International Security
Labour
Migration
Peace and Security
Population
Private Sector
Science and Technology
Social Development
Sustainable Development
Trade and Development
Water
Women
Women/gender Equality
Youth
Financing for Development:
Addressing systemic issues
External debt
Increasing financial and technical cooperation for development
International Cooperation in Tax Matters
International Trade as an engine for development
Mobilizing domestic financial resources for development
Mobilizing international resources for development
Population:
International migration
Morbidity and mortality
Population distribution and internal migration
Population growth
Population structure
Social Development:
Employment
Information and Communications Technologies
Poverty
Social policy
Technical cooperation
Youth
Sustainable Development:
Agriculture
Biodiversity
Biotechnology
Capacity-building
Climate change
Consumption and production patterns
Demographics
Desertification and Drought
Disaster management and vulnerability
Education
Energy
Finance
Forests
Freshwater
Gender equality
Health
Industrial development
Integrated decision-making
International cooperation for an enabling environment
International law
Land management
Marine Resources
Means of Implementation (Trade, Finance, Technology, Tranfer, etc.)
Mining
Oceans and seas
Partnerships
Poverty
Protecting and managing the natural resources
Rural Development
Sanitation
Science
Sustainable Tourism
Sustainable development of SIDS
Technology
Trade and environment
Transport
Waste Management
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| Geographic scope: |
International
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| Country of activity: |
Dominican Republic
United States of America
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| Millennium Development Goals: |
Combat HIV/AIDS, malaria and other diseases
Eradicate extreme poverty and hunger
Achieve universal primary education
Promote gender equality and empower women
Reduce child mortality
Improve maternal health
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: |
2002 |
| Organizational structure: |
The Board of Directors of Global Foundation for Democracy and Development (GFDD) makes decisions in meetings chaired by the Executive Director of GFDD, Ms. Natasha Despotovic. The Board of Directors votes to elect new members each year and meets every three months in order to evaluate the work of the institution. The Board of Directors also forms ad hoc committees to address issues that arise as a result of additional funding, interest in projects and partnerships with other institutions. Additional members are added based on the changing needs of GFDD. |
| Number and type of members: |
Global Foundation for Democracy and Development (GFDD) is not a membership organization in the sense of dues-paying members. However, many individuals either participate actively in the organization and its activities or support its purpose with in-kind and/or financial donations. |
| Affiliation with NGO networks: |
GFDD is affiliated with DPI (2013), the NGO Committee on Financing for Development, Conference of NGOs in Consultative Relationship with the United Nations, Ubuntu World Forum of Civil Society Networks |
| Funding structure: |
Fees for education and training services
Product sales and business services
Donations and grants from domestic sources
Foreign and international grants
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