The Youth Climate Leaders aims to provide a unique experience: one trip around the world to learn more about climate change in theory, understand it in practice, and work on hands-on projects with other young people to start their careers as climate leaders. We want to shift the image of young people as “leaders of … Continued
WBA benchmarks translate business commitments and activities into measurable rankings and provide an accountability mechanism to measure progress. By showing where companies stand on system transformations, the benchmarks accelerate sustainable development and encourage a race to the top. The Alliance of 250+ organizations brings together a broad, balanced group of stakeholders that supports WBA in … Continued
Everybody needs health, everybody fears diseases. Conflict fuels the spread of disease and deprives people of health. Across conflict lines and political rivalries, health can become the best neutral avenue for peace, mediation and dialogue. Health, has a significant role to play in the agenda for sustaining peace. The World Health Organization is aiming to … Continued
As members of a United Nations-World Bank team, we have developed a policy instrument aimed to help governments and international organizations assess the financial sustainability of defense, police, and courts in conflict-affected and fragile states. The security sector public expenditure review (PER) applies standard macroeconomic and public finance analysis to defense, policing, and criminal justice … Continued
Environmental conventions are created to address global environmental problems. Assessments of the achievement of environmental goals, however, indicate that there is room for progress and for stronger collective action. There are, however, no systematic empirical instruments to measure implementation and to determine the factors behind countries’ results. It is therefore necessary to expand existing analytical … Continued
UNDP supports countries spanning a wide range of development and fragility contexts to help them (re)build responsive, accountable, efficient and inclusive institutions. Strengthening the basic functionality of core institutions to deliver essential services and support sustainable development and peacebuilding processes is critical for countries to achieve the 2030 Agenda. Responding to the commitments of the … Continued
The Stimson Center, in collaboration with governments, civil society groups, businesses, and international organizations, has initiated Just Security 2020 to advance the recommendations of the Commission on Global Security, Justice & Governance. Co-chaired by Madeleine Albright (former U.S. Secretary of State) and Ibrahim Gambari (former Foreign Minister of Nigeria and UN USG), the Commission released … Continued
The Natural Capital Project (NatCap) aims to incorporate the values of nature’s benefits into all decisions affecting land, air, and water. With a global hub at Stanford University, we have direct engagements in over 50 countries with hundreds of partner institutions. We are working to accelerate, standardize, and scale up our approaches with global environmental … Continued
The Global Commission on the Stability of Cyberspace was launched at the 2017 Munich Security Conference by the Foreign Minister of the Netherlands. It engages the full range of stakeholders to develop proposals for norms and policies to enhance international security and stability, and guide responsible state and non-state behavior in cyberspace. Chaired by Marina … Continued
The Taekwondo Humanitarian Foundation (THF) and its mother organization World Taekwondo (WT) have been striving for a better, more peaceful World inclusive of global children, youth and minorities through the sport and martial art of taekwondo. Acknowledging its responsibility as international sports leader, World Taekwondo created THF in early 2016 as separate non-profit organisation, with … Continued
