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The ILO has estimated that some 165 million children between the ages of 5 and 14 are involved in child labour. Many of these children work long hours, often in dangerous conditions. More
MDGs
Goal 1: Eradicate extreme poverty and hunger
Goal 2: Achieve universal primary education
Goal 3: Promote gender equality and empower women
Goal 4: Reduce child mortality
Goal 5: Improve maternal health
Goal 6: Combat HIV/AIDS, malaria and other diseases
Goal 7: Ensure environmental sustainability
Goal 8: Develop a global partnership for development
In today’s interdependent global economy, it makes good business sense for companies to address the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). The MDGs aim to develop secure, stable and prosperous societies, in which business can flourish. The private sector benefits from the participation of a healthy, educated workforce, and the presence of a solid base of consumers and investors. Also, many of the problems addressed by the MDGs, such as poor health and education, conflict and instability, environmental degradation, and global climate change, can directly increase the costs and risks of undertaking business in developing communities. Failure to address these issues can also lead to short-term and long-term financial risks, market risks, litigation risks and reputation risks. Search this section of the website to learn more about the MDGs and about specific partnerships undertaken by business and the UN to advance work toward these goals.
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Join Caring for Climate
Caring for Climate is a voluntary and complementary action platform for UN Global Compact participants who seek to demonstrate leadership on the issue of climate change. It provides a framework for business leaders to advance practical solutions and help shape public policy as well as public... More
ICT-Equipment for Young Volunteers connecting Rural Youth and Women Micro-Entrepreneurs to Markets in Darfur and Eastern Sudan
UNDP and UNV Sudan are interested in in-kind or cash sponsoring of one or more of the following ICT-equipment and connectivity items for up to 600 Young Sudanese Volunteers (year 1):
- 600 laptops / netbooks with Arabic keyboard (by international company)
- 600 protection covers for laptops /...
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Making Cities Resilient-Campaign: "My city is getting ready!"
Cities and local governments need to get ready, reduce the risks and become resilient to disasters. For the next two years and beyond, the United Nations International Strategy for Disaster Reduction (UNISDR) will campaign together with its partners for this to happen.
The 2010-2011 World Disaster...
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"My city is getting ready" - UN International Day for Disaster Reduction, 13 Oct 2010 in Bangkok, TH and Port Vila, VU
United Nations’ International Day for Disaster Reduction
October 13 each year marks the United Nations’ International Day for Disaster Reduction (IDDR). The day forms part of ISDR’s global awareness campaign to raise awareness of disaster risk reduction, aiming to spark public interest and...
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Women’s Empowerment Principles: Equality Means Business – UNIFEM and UN Global Compact
Mission: The Women's Empowerment Principles are a set of seven principles offering practical guidance to business on how to empower women in the workplace, marketplace and community. A joint initiative of UNIFEM and the UN Global Compact, the Principles are informed by real-life business practices... More
Millennium Villages
The Millennium Villages project offers a unique, holistic, innovative model for empowering rural communities to lift themselves out of extreme poverty. With the help of new advances in science and technology, local staff members work with villages to create and implement low cost, sustainable,... More
Business Call to Action
Launched in 2008, the Business Call to Action (BCtA) is a global membership network of companies, governments, and development organizations working to identify and promote business models that contribute to long-term commercial and development goals. By challenging companies to adapt business... More
Community Technology Access (CTA)
UNHCR seeks partners for the Community Technology Access program which aims to promote education and livelihood opportunities of refugees and other UNHCR persons of concern through enhanced access to technology, computer literacy and vocational training. UNHCR and Microsoft initiated the CTA... More
Give children a chance of a better future through school meals
WFP is an investor in the future of poor nations through food-for-education programmes that give children the food they need to develop their physical and mental potential. WFP school meal programmes help improve the health and nutrition of students, and encourages parents to send girls to school.
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Food science expertise needed to tackle malnutrition
WFP’s work is not just about filling bellies, but providing our beneficiaries with the right combination of food that they need to develop into healthy, physically and mentally fit human beings. By enhancing WFP food with nutrients geared toward different populations, WFP is entering a new age in... More