Areas of expertise & Fields of activity:
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Economic and Social:
Aging
Agriculture
Biodiversity
Business and Industry
Children
Citizenship and Governance
Climate Change
Culture
Development
Disabled Persons
Economics and Finance
Education
Energy
Environment
Extreme poverty
Family
Financing for Development
Food
Governance
HIV/AIDS
Habitat
Human Rights
Humanitarian Affairs
Indigenous Peoples
Industrial Development
Information
Justice
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
Sports for Peace and Development
Statistics
Sustainable Development
Technical Cooperation
Trade and Development
United Nations Funding
United Nations Reform
Values
Violence
Volunteerism
Water
Women
Women/gender Equality
Youth
Financing for Development:
Increasing financial and technical cooperation for development
Mobilizing domestic financial resources for development
Gender Issues and Advancement of Women:
Advocacy and outreach
Capacity building
Education and training of women
Human rights of women
Indigenous women
Information and communication technologies
Institutional mechanisms for the advancement of women
Men and boys
Millennium Development Goals
Policy advice
Research
Service provision
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:
Population distribution and internal migration
Reproduction, family formation and the status of women
Public Administration:
Ethics, Transparency and Accountability
Governance and Public Administration
Knowledge Systems and E-government
Socio-Economic Governance and Management
Social Development:
Aging
Conflict
Cooperative
Disabled persons
Employment
Indigenous issues
Information and Communications Technologies
Poverty
Social policy
Technical cooperation
Youth
Sustainable Development:
Agriculture
Atmosphere
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
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: |
Congo
Japan
France
Kenya
Benin
South Africa
Burkina Faso
Kuwait
Canada
Ghana
Côte D'Ivoire
Togo
Egypt
Senegal
Cameroon
Netherlands
Germany
China
Ethiopia
Norway
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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: |
2010 |
| Organizational structure: |
The General Assembly is the highest decision making body of the organisation
The Board of directors - govern the affairs of the organisation. These are elected at the General Assembly
the Executive Board are responsible for the day to day operations of the organisation recruited by the Board of Directors
Volunteers and technical staff undertake research, projects identification, placement of specialist in communities
Members are responsible for assisting in hosting volunteers and assisting in mobilisation and undertaking project activities at the local and national level |
| Number and type of members: |
276 (two hundred and seventy six members) Members are made up of tertiary youth as well as graduates who are specialist interested in developing community based initiatives for sustainable development as well as engaging in policy development in their countries. Mostly based in Ghana with focal representatives begining initiatives in other parts of the world as VSD intends from 2011 to become an international organisation by 2015 |
| Affiliation with NGO networks: |
Ghana National Civil Society organisation network, Global Ecovillage Network, Ghana Permaculture Network, Ghana Agroforestry Network, Ghana Youth Environmental Movement, African Youth Initiative on climate Change (AYICC) |
| Funding structure: |
Membership fees or dues
Fees for education and training services
Fees for providing consulting or research services
Donations and grants from domestic sources
Foreign and international grants
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