Areas of expertise & Fields of activity:
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Economic and Social:
Aging
Agriculture
Atomic Energy
Biodiversity
Business and Industry
Citizenship and Governance
Climate Change
Coorporate Accountability
Crime Prevention
Criminal Justice
Culture
De-mining
Debt Relief
Decolonization
Development
Disabled Persons
Disarmament
Drug Control
Economics and Finance
Education
Energy
Environment
Family
Financing for Development
Food
Governance
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
Least Developed Countries
Media
Micro-Credit
Migration
Minority Rights
New Global Institutions
Outer Space
Peace and Security
Population
Private Sector
Refugees
Religion
Safety
Science and Technology
Social Development
Sports for Peace and Development
Statistics
Taxation Policy
Technical Cooperation
Torture
Trade and Development
United Nations Funding
United Nations Reform
Values
Violence
Volunteerism
Water
Women/gender Equality
Gender Issues and Advancement of Women:
Capacity building
Human rights of women
Men and boys
Millennium Development Goals
Policy advice
Service provision
Trafficking in women and girls
Violence against women
Social Development:
Aging
Conflict
Cooperative
Disabled persons
Employment
Indigenous issues
Social policy
Technical cooperation
Sustainable Development:
Agriculture
Atmosphere
Biodiversity
Capacity-building
Consumption and production patterns
Demographics
Desertification and Drought
Disaster management and vulnerability
Energy
Finance
Forests
Freshwater
Gender equality
Health
Human settlements
Indicators
Industrial development
Information for decision-making and participation
Institutional arrangements
Integrated decision-making
International cooperation for an enabling environment
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
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| Geographic scope: |
International
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| Country of activity: |
Afghanistan
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| Millennium Development Goals: |
Combat HIV/AIDS, malaria and other diseases
Eradicate extreme poverty and hunger
Achieve universal primary education
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: |
1991 |
| Organizational structure: |
A Swiss Foundation registered as an international NGO serving the implementation of women and children's rights and the UN development agenda via its various initiatives, world days, awards and campaigns. |
| Number and type of members: |
The WWSF women's section has a network of over 6000 contacts who are contacted 3 to 4 times per year and invited to nominate candidates for the WWSF Prize for women's creativity in rural life, as well as to join our international coalition for the Empowerment of rural women and their communities 1-17 October. The WWSF Children's section has a network of over 10'000 contacts who are contacted 3 to 4 times per year, inviting them to register in the coalition to mark the World Day for prevention of child abuse - 19 November and the annual 19 Days campaign for Activism to prevent violence against children and youth 1-19 November. The WWSF Swiss White Ribbon campaign for the Elimination of violence against women and youth in Switzerland by 2030 is a regular national campaign to invite citizens, men and women, to pledge not to commit, condone or remain silent about violence against women and youth. |
| Affiliation with NGO networks: |
WWSF is member of a number of NGO networks and working groups in Switzerland and abroad. |
| Funding structure: |
Fees for education and training services
Fundraising campaigns
Fees for providing consulting or research services
Donations and grants from domestic sources
Foreign and international grants
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| Funding structure other: |
An annual fundraising campaign solicits support for the programs of the year |
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