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Areas of expertise & Fields of activity:
Economic and Social:
  • Aging
  • Atomic Energy
  • Children
  • Criminal Justice
  • Culture
  • De-mining
  • Debt Relief
  • Disabled Persons
  • Drug Control
  • Economics and Finance
  • Education
  • Energy
  • Extreme poverty
  • Family
  • Financing for Development
  • Food
  • HIV/AIDS
  • Habitat
  • Human Rights
  • Humanitarian Affairs
  • Indigenous Peoples
  • Industrial Development
  • Information
  • Intellectual Property
  • International Law
  • International Security
  • Justice
  • Labour
  • Law of the Sea and Antarctica
  • Media
  • Micro-Credit
  • Migration
  • New Global Institutions
  • Outer Space
  • Private Sector
  • Refugees
  • Religion
  • Safety
  • Science and Technology
  • Sports for Peace and Development
  • Statistics
  • Sustainable Development
  • Taxation Policy
  • Technical Cooperation
  • Torture
  • Trade and Development
  • United Nations Funding
  • United Nations Reform
  • Values
  • Violence
  • Volunteerism
  • Water
  • Women
  • Women/gender Equality
  • Youth

    • Social Development:
  • Aging
  • Conflict
  • Employment
  • Indigenous issues
  • Poverty
  • Social policy
  • Youth

    • Sustainable Development:
  • Atmosphere
  • 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
  • Human settlements
  • Indicators
  • Industrial development
  • Information for decision-making and participation
  • Institutional arrangements
  • Integrated decision-making
  • International law
  • Land management
  • Major Groups
  • Marine Resources
  • Means of Implementation (Trade, Finance, Technology, Tranfer, etc.)
  • Mining
  • Mountains
  • Oceans and seas
  • Partnerships
  • Poverty
  • Protecting and managing the natural resources
  • Rural Development
  • Sanitation
  • Science
  • Sustainable Tourism
  • Sustainable development for Africa
  • Sustainable development in a globalizing world
  • Sustainable development of SIDS
  • Technology
  • Toxic chemicals
  • Trade and environment
  • Transport
  • Waste (hazardous)
  • Waste (radioactive)
  • Waste (solid)
  • Waste Management
    • Geographic scope: International
    Country of activity:
  • Cameroon
  • Liberia
  • Nigeria
  • South Africa
    • Millennium Development Goals:
  • Eradicate extreme poverty and hunger
  • Ensure environmental sustainability
  • Develop global partnership for development
    • Mission statement:
    Year established:
    Year of registration: 2011
    Organizational structure: GARBS is an NGO with branches spreading through Africa. With an international co-ordinator, it's activities are being harmonised throughout it's offices in johanesburg, South Africa, Lagos, Nigeria,Abidjan, Cote d'Ivoire,and in Rwanda. Its national competences covers the whole country where they operate. At this national levethe executive power is in the hands of the secretary General who works in very close collaboration with the international co-ordinator. The branches function with semi automy, each branch takes charge of it's day to day' running and only gives account to the International co-ordination bureau that meets twice a year. Major decisions come from the General Assembly which meets on a rotative basis and comprises of members who are elected at the various branches The over seer of the implementation of it's resolution is is the Secretaries of the branches. Decision making is unanimous through a democratic process of oneman one vote.
    Number and type of members: In GARBS,our membership range from very active members. These ones are the members that make up the Organisation and enforce it's resolution on a day to day basis. They are charged with the smooth existence of the Organisation. The second group of members are the observers. This are members who sympathise with the organisations and on whom the organisation can count on in case of emergency based on any subject matter. They contribute to most of our projects but do not have a right to vote, but can be granted the right to vote if they so wish. Then we have the honarary members whose role is tro advise on major questions. The contribute to elaborate an annual plan of action and serve as an advisory body to the organisation
    Affiliation with NGO networks: No yet
    Funding structure:
  • Membership fees or dues
  • Fees for education and training services
  • Fees for providing consulting or research services
  • Product sales and business services
    • Funding structure other: Fund Raising schemes
     
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