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United Methodist Church - General Board of Church and Society

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Areas of expertise & Fields of activity:
Economic and Social:
  • Aging
  • Agriculture
  • Biodiversity
  • Business and Industry
  • Children
  • Citizenship and Governance
  • Climate Change
  • Coorporate Accountability
  • Criminal Justice
  • Culture
  • De-mining
  • Debt Relief
  • Decolonization
  • Development
  • Disabled Persons
  • Disarmament
  • Drug Control
  • Economics and Finance
  • Education
  • Energy
  • Environment
  • Extreme poverty
  • Family
  • Financing for Development
  • Food
  • Governance
  • Habitat
  • Human Rights
  • Humanitarian Affairs
  • Indigenous Peoples
  • 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
  • Peace and Security
  • Population
  • Private Sector
  • Refugees
  • Religion
  • Safety
  • Science and Technology
  • Social Development
  • Statistics
  • Sustainable Development
  • Technical Cooperation
  • Torture
  • Trade and Development
  • United Nations Funding
  • United Nations Reform
  • Values
  • Violence
  • Volunteerism
  • Water
  • Women
  • Youth

    • Financing for Development:
  • Addressing systemic issues
  • External debt
  • International Trade as an engine for development
  • Mobilizing domestic financial resources for development
  • Mobilizing international resources for development

    • Gender Issues and Advancement of Women:
  • Capacity building
  • Education and training of women
  • Human rights of women
  • Information and communication technologies
  • Institutional mechanisms for the advancement of women
  • Men and boys
  • Millennium Development Goals
  • Policy advice
  • Research
  • The girl child
  • Trafficking in women and girls
  • Violence against women
  • Women and HIV/AIDS
  • Women and armed conflict
  • Women and health
  • Women and poverty
  • Women and the economy
  • Women and the environment
  • Women and the media
  • Women and the media
  • Women in power and decision-making

    • Population:
  • Morbidity and mortality
  • Population distribution and internal migration
  • Population growth
  • Population structure

    • Public Administration:
  • Socio-Economic Governance and Management

    • Social Development:
  • Disabled persons
  • Employment
  • Social policy
  • Youth

    • Sustainable Development:
  • Agriculture
  • Biodiversity
  • Biotechnology
  • Consumption and production patterns
  • Desertification and Drought
  • Education
  • Energy
  • Finance
  • Health
  • Human settlements
  • Information for decision-making and participation
  • International cooperation for an enabling environment
  • International law
  • Partnerships
  • Rural Development
  • Sustainable development for Africa
  • Sustainable development in a globalizing world
  • Sustainable development of SIDS
  • Toxic chemicals
  • Trade and environment

    • Peace and Development in Africa:
  • Development in Africa
  • Peace in Africa

    • Conflict Resolution in Africa:
  • Conflicts Resolution
    • Geographic scope: International
    Country of activity:
  • Mozambique
  • Congo
  • Romania
  • Algeria
  • Senegal
  • Cambodia
  • Democratic Republic of the Congo
  • Russian Federation
  • Austria
  • Zambia
  • Philippines
  • Poland
  • Nigeria
  • Uganda
  • Finland
  • Czechia
  • Estonia
  • Germany
  • North Macedonia
  • South Africa
  • Angola
  • Sierra Leone
  • Norway
  • Kenya
  • Bulgaria
  • Republic of Korea
  • Lithuania
  • Ghana
  • India
  • Zimbabwe
  • United States of America
  • Slovakia
  • Liberia
  • France
  • Denmark
  • Ukraine
  • Brazil
  • Indonesia
  • Sweden
  • Hungary
  • Côte D'Ivoire
  • Micronesia (Federated States of)
  • Switzerland
  • Italy
  • Marshall Islands
    • 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
  • Improve maternal health
  • Ensure environmental sustainability
  • Develop global partnership for development
    • Mission statement:
    Year established:
    Year of registration: 1968
    Organizational structure: The General Board of Church and Society is the international public policy and social action arm of worldwide United Methodist Church. It is one of several international boards. It is governed by a Board of Directors, headed by a President with a General Secretary who also acts as CEO. The Board has staff based in Wash., Dc and its United Nations Office in New York.
    Number and type of members: The United Methodist Church worldwide has over 11 million members.
    Affiliation with NGO networks: CoNGO--the Conference of NGOs in Consultative Relationship with the United Nations; UNA-USA Council of Organizations; Churches Witnessing With Migrants
    Funding structure:
  • Donations and grants from domestic sources
    • Funding structure other: Primary source of funding comes from Sunday church offering.
     
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