Organizacje międzynarodowe II
Problematyka gospodarcza w działalności INGOs:
Prywatna Filantropia: (http://www.csmonitor.com/USA/2008/0512/p02s05-usgn.html)
1) The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation http://www.gatesfoundation.org/Pages/home.aspx
The foundation is organized into three main program areas, each with a specific focus. Visit the Global Development, Global Health, and United States Program pages to learn about their work.
We work with a range of partners to achieve our goals as the scale of the problems we are trying to solve is large. Our partners include the nonprofits, businesses, and governments to whom we make grants. Other partners may co-fund work or help us bring together multiple players working toward a common goal.
Fundacja Rodziny Kulczyków
Organizacje:
Consumers International (CI) http://www.consumersinternational.org
is the world federation of consumer groups that serves as the only independent and authoritative global voice for consumers.
Founded on April 1, 1960, currently with over 220 member organisations in 115 countries around the world, the organisation continues to build a powerful international movement to empower and protect consumers everywhere.
In campaigning for the rights of consumers across the world, CI seeks to hold corporations to account and acts as a global watchdog against any behaviour that threatens, ignores or abuses the principles of consumer protection
The organisation was first established in 1960 as the International Organisation of Consumers Unions (IOCU) by national consumer organisations. The original members recognised that they could build upon their individual strengths by working across national borders.
The organisation then rapidly grew and soon became established as the voice of the international consumer movement on issues such as: product and food standards, health and patients' rights, the environment and sustainable consumption, and the regulation of international trade and public utilities.
There are eight basic consumer rights which include the rights to:
satisfaction of basic needs - to have access to basic, essential goods and services: adequate food, clothing, shelter, health care, education, public utilities, water and sanitation
safety - to be protected against products, production processes and services which are hazardous to health or life
information - to be given the facts needed to make an informed choice, and to be protected against dishonest or misleading advertising and labelling.
choice - to be able to select from a range of products and services, offered at competitive prices with an assurance of satisfactory quality
be heard - to have consumer interests represented in the making and execution of government policy, and in the development of products and services.
redress - to receive a fair settlement of just claims, including compensation for misrepresentation, shoddy goods or unsatisfactory services.
consumer education - to acquire knowledge and skills needed to make informed, confident choices about goods and services, while being aware of basic consumer rights and responsibilities and how to act on them.
a healthy environment -to live and work in an environment that is non-threatening to the well being of present and future generations
CI supports and represents over 220 member organisations in 115 countries around the world.
About two-thirds of member organisations are in developing countries, the other third in industrialised countries.
These members include a wide range of different independent consumer organisations and government organisations. Some independent member organisations are long-established, with hundreds of staff and millions of their own members, whilst others are semi-voluntary associations providing information and advice about basic services in some of the world's poorest countries.
CI also works with and hosts the Transatlantic Consumer Dialogue (TACD) - a forum of US and EU consumer organisations that develops and agrees on joint consumer policy recommendations to the US government and European Union to promote the consumer interest in EU and US policy making - at its office in London.
World Consumer Rights Day (WCRD) first took place on 15 March 1983 and has since become an important occasion for mobilising citizen action, celebrating its 25th anniversary in 2008 with the launch of the Junk Food Generation campaign.
It is an annual occasion for celebration and solidarity within the international consumer movement:
promoting the basic rights of all consumers
demanding that those rights are respected and protected
protesting about the market abuses and social injustices which undermine them.
CI campaigns seek to achieve real changes in government policy and corporate behaviour, whilst raising awareness of consumer rights and responsibilities
Current campaigns, projects and key issues include:
Junk Food Generation
The campaign against the marketing of unhealthy food to children. Campaign highlights and publications include: Left wanting more; New media, same old tricks; Cereal offences; The junk food trap; International Code on the marketing of food and non-alcoholic beverages to children; World Consumer Rights Day 2008 and 2009
Marketing Overdose
The campaign against the unethical promotion of drugs. Campaign highlights and publications include: Drugs, doctors and dinners, Branding the cure, World Consumer Rights Day 2007
Access to knowledge (A2K)
This project facilitates the global consumer dialogue and education network about Access to Knowledge (A2K). Project highlights and publications include:
Launch of the Intellectually Property (IP) Watch List - a global snapshot of how IP and copyright laws serve or subvert consumer interests
Financial crisis - Consumer solutions to the financial fix
Issue progress includes:
Submission of a position paper to the OECD Committee for Consumer Policy for its discussion on the strategic response to the global financial and economic crisis.
Submission to the UN General Assembly on Reforms of International Monetary and Financial system.
Corporate social responsibility and standards
CI has represented consumers on many committees of the International Organisation for Standardisation (ISO) through the years. Current participation at the ISO includes:
Working towards ISO 26000 - a new standard that is very important because it will set out how organisations, which claim they are socially responsible in their working practices, give feedback to consumers.
The Real Deal
This series of features highlight unethical and unsustainable behaviour by corporations and governments, as part of CI's ongoing work on sustainable consumption. Features include: unethical behaviour of international hotel chains; e-waste: West Africa continues to drown in the rich world's obsolete electronics; The hidden cost of mobile phones; Just coffee
CARE International http://www.care.org/
CARE is a leading relief and development non-governmental organization fighting global poverty. Non-political and non-sectarian, we operate each year in more than 70 countries in Africa, Asia, Latin America, the Middle East and Eastern Europe, reaching almost 60 million people in poor communities.
CARE helps tackle underlying causes of poverty so that people can become self-sufficient. CARE is often one of the first to deliver emergency aid to survivors of natural disasters and war and, once the immediate crisis is over, we help people rebuild their lives. While CARE is a large international organisation with 12,000 employees worldwide, we have a strong local presence: 97% of our staff are nationals of the countries where our programmes are run.
Our Vision
All of CARE International's member organizations share a common vision to fight against worldwide poverty and to protect and enhance human dignity:
"We seek a world of hope, tolerance and social justice, where poverty has been overcome and people live in dignity and security. CARE will be a global force and partner of choice within a worldwide movement dedicated to ending poverty. We will be known everywhere for our unshakeable commitment to the dignity of people."
In this context, emergency relief is an important part of CARE's mandate since natural and manmade disasters can drive otherwise self-sustaining populations into poverty and can often eradicate years of development work. CARE pays particular attention to the marginalized members of society and those least able to defend themselves, especially women and children.
Our Mission
CARE's mission is to serve individuals and families in the poorest communities in the world. Drawing strength from our global diversity, resources and experience, we promote innovative solutions and are advocates for global responsibility. We promote lasting change by:
Strengthening capacity for self-help
Providing economic opportunity
Delivering relief in emergencies
Influencing policy decisions at all levels
Addressing discrimination in all its forms
Guided by the aspirations of local communities, we pursue our mission with both excellence and compassion because the people whom we serve deserve nothing less.
Our Core Values
Respect We affirm the dignity, potential and contribution of participants, donors, partners and staff.
Integrity We act consistently with CARE's mission, being honest and transparent in what we do and say, and accept responsibility for our collective and individual actions.
Commitment We work together effectively to serve the larger community.
Excellence We constantly challenge ourselves to the highest levels of learning and performance to achieve greater impact.
We hold ourselves accountable for being consistent with these principles, and ask others to help us do so, not only in our programming, but in all that we do.
CARE was founded right after World War II, on November 27th, 1945. Originally known as the Cooperative for American Remittances to Europe, it aimed at sending food aid and basic supplies to war-torn Europe, in the form of “CARE packages”. At the time, such goods were hard to find or rationed, and millions of people were at risk of suffering from hunger. The first 20,000 packages reached the port of Le Havre, France, on May 11, 1946.
Some 100 million more CARE packages reached people in need during the next two decades, first in Europe and later in Asia and other parts of the developing world.
As the economies of the former wartime nations developed and improved, the focus of CARE's work shifted from Europe to the problems of the developing world. In the 1950s, CARE expanded into emerging nations. In the 1960s, CARE pioneered primary health care programs. In the 1970s, CARE responded to massive famines in Africa with both emergency relief and long-term agroforestry projects. CARE is now a proven leader among international humanitarian organizations, striving to bring about lasting, meaningful change in the of the world's poorest communities.
3) CorpWatch Community: http://community.corpwatch.org/
Non-profit investigative research and journalism to expose corporate malfeasance and to advocate for multinational corporate accountability and transparency. We work to foster global justice, independent media activism and democratic control over corporations. We seek to expose multinational corporations that profit from war, fraud, environmental, human rights and other abuses, and to provide critical information to foster a more informed public and an effective democracy. - promote human, environmental, social and worker rights at the local, national and global levels by making corporate practices more transparent and holding corporations accountable for their actions. As independent investigative researchers and journalists, we provide critical information to foster a more informed public and an effective democracy. We believe the actions, decisions, and policies undertaken and pursued by private corporations have very real impact on public life - from individuals to communities around the world. Yet few mechanisms currently exist to hold them accountable for those actions. As a result, it falls to the public sphere to protect the public interest.
In many cases, corporate power and influence eclipses even the democratic Guiding Principles
CorpWatch is part of a diverse global movement for human rights, social justice, environmental sustainability, peace, corporate transparency and accountability.
We oppose:
We support the right of people, communities and countries to be compensated for human rights violations, and environmental and economic impacts caused by damaging corporate, government or multi-lateral institutional behavior. Corporations must abide by international law and be directly accountable to those directly impacted, whether a local community or a national government to redress damage.
In September 2007, we launched the Wiki project Crocodyl.org, in partnership with the Center for Corporate Policy and the Corporate Research Project - it puts the power of public oversight into the hands of the people themselves. As a public platform for change and accountability, it serves as a global resource to aggregate research among NGOs, journalists, activists, unions, whistleblowers and academics from from around the world in order to develop publicly available profiles of the world's most powerful corporations, particularly multinationals.
The result is an evolving compendium of critical research, posted to the public domain as an aid to activist campaigns and anyone working to hold corporations increasingly accountable. Historical Highlights
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4) Third World Network is an international network of organizations and individuals involved in issues relating to environment, development and the Third World and North-South issues. It has its international secretariat in Penang, Malaysia. Its flagship magazine, Third World Resurgence, covers a wide range of topics including environment, economics, biotechnology, north-south relations etc. The network conducts research on various issues pertaining to the third world countries; It publishes books and magazines, organizes seminars. Directed by Martin Khor, (Malaysia) it has offices in Accra (Ghana), Geneva, Goa (India) and Montevideo (Uruguay). It also has affiliated organizations in a number of third world countries, including Bangladesh, Brazil, Ethiopia, Ghana, India, Malaysia, Mexico, Peru, the Philippines, Senegal, South Africa, Thailand, and Uruguay.