Areas of expertise & Fields of activity:
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Economic and Social:
Aging
Children
Citizenship and Governance
Development
Disabled Persons
Education
Extreme poverty
Financing for Development
Human Rights
International Law
Micro-Credit
New Global Institutions
Science and Technology
Social Development
Sustainable Development
Technical Cooperation
Women/gender Equality
Youth
Financing for Development:
Increasing financial and technical cooperation for development
Mobilizing international resources for development
Gender Issues and Advancement of Women:
Advocacy and outreach
Capacity building
Education and training of women
Human rights of women
Information and communication technologies
Millennium Development Goals
Policy advice
Service provision
Women and health
Women and poverty
Women and the economy
Women and the media
Women in power and decision-making
Public Administration:
Governance and Public Administration
Knowledge Systems and E-government
Public Service and Management Innovation
Social Development:
Aging
Cooperative
Disabled persons
Information and Communications Technologies
Poverty
Social policy
Technical cooperation
Youth
Statistics:
Development indicators
Disability Statistics
International Economic and Social Classifications
Services Statistics
Sustainable Development:
Capacity-building
Disaster management and vulnerability
Education
Gender equality
Health
Integrated decision-making
International cooperation for an enabling environment
Partnerships
Poverty
Sustainable development for Africa
Sustainable development in a globalizing world
Technology
Peace and Development in Africa:
Development in Africa
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| Country of activity: |
Belarus
Jordan
Bangladesh
United States of America
India
Ethiopia
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| Millennium Development Goals: |
Eradicate extreme poverty and hunger
Achieve universal primary education
Promote gender equality and empower women
Reduce child mortality
Improve maternal health
Develop global partnership for development
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| Mission statement: |
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| Year established: |
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| Year of registration: |
2008 |
| Organizational structure: |
GPU has formed public-private partnerships with academics, the satellite industry association (GVF), ICT for development companies, global telehealth and e-/m-health experts (India, Africa, UK, US); NGOs, DPOs, and subject experts in MCH, early childhood development, identification and intervention, disability and noncommunicable disease, rehabilitation service delivery, mental health, rights-based governance, and entrepreneurship for persons with disabilities, women and youth. GPU/GtRI strives to engage a diverse workforce and partnerships with experts’ and stakeholders' input, involvement, and project-specific engagement. CEO/Founder Evelyn Cherow has extensive executive and senior management experience in nationally- and internationally-scoped healthcare settings, US Congressionally-funded demonstration education agencies, and academia. Her professional roles include facilitating and leading expert panels' consensus around evidence-based healthcare, education and disability preferred practices and policy; training and mentoring in leadership, negotiations, consensus and coalition building for advocacy; advising federal government's and international agencies; authored/edited professional publications and federal testimony; led projects to strengthen health, early childhood and education systems to reach underserved and unserved children and families; and develops on site, virtual, and distance education and Communities of Practice. Ms. Cherow holds a Master’s in Public Administration from Harvard University’s Kennedy School of Government (2002) with concentration in leadership/advocacy and international development studies; a Master of Arts in Audiology/Hearing Science from Northwestern University in Audiology and B.A. degree in Speech-language Pathology, minor in Psychology. She has assembled chairs of cross-sectoral academic graduate school departments (e.g,, disability, early childhood, teacher training), Maternal and Child Health, monitoring and evaluation, telehealth experts in Asia, Africa, and the US, satellite and ICT industry leaders and association, mental health, women's rights, disability rights, civic education, and entrepreneurship partners primed to engage for LMIC projects. She has served as an advisor in the US to CDC, NIH, OSHA, SSA, FDA, EPA and on UNICEF Task Forces for GPCWD. |
| Number and type of members: |
GlobalPartnersUnited (GPU) is currently structured as a pubic-private partnership (PPP), and as such, is not a membership organization; however, our intent and planning includes creation of GPU's Global teleRehabilitation Institute higher education student chapter organizations focused on LMIC practicum experience and development specific coursework, fundraising for capacity building support, and youth education exchanges. |
| Affiliation with NGO networks: |
US International Council on Disabilities, Global Health Council, International Health Section/American Public Health Association, Disability Section/American Public Health Association, International & Telerehab SIGs/American Telemedicine Association |
| Funding structure: |
Fees for education and training services
Other sources
Donations and grants from domestic sources
Grants from Governments
Foreign and international grants
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| Funding structure other: |
Government, Private and Foundation revenue sources are sought |
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