Monthly Archives: May 2015
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New York Screening Premiere of Lago Enriquillo: A Prelude to Climate Change at the United Nations Event on Climate Change
The Global Foundation for Democracy and Development and its sister organization Fundación Global Democracia y Desarollo (Funglode) are delighted to announce the participation of Dominican filmmaker Mr. Fernando Baez for the New York Screening Premiere of Lago Enriquillo: A Prelude to Climate Change at the United Nations on June 29, 2015. The event, which will follow the UN General Assembly’s High-Level Event on Climate Change, is being organized by the Global
Foundation for Democracy and Development (GFDD) and its sister organization Fundación Global Democracia y Desarollo (Funglode) in partnership with the Permanent Mission of the Dominican Republic to the United Nations.
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GFDD partners with the Conference of NGOs to Celebrate the 70th Anniversary of the United Nations and the importance of Civil Society Relationships
The Conference of NGOs in consultative relationship with the United Nations (CoNGO) and the Global Foundation for Democracy and Development (GFDD) will partner on May 7th to hold a commemorative panel discussion in the presence of H.E Ambassador Martin Sajdik, as well as several representatives of UN Agencies and NGOs, to celebrate the 70th Anniversary of the United Nations.
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GFDD/Funglode Call for Greater Cooperation in Technology Transfer and Innovative Financing for Development Mechanisms at ECOSOC Civil Society Hearing
The Global Foundation for Democracy and Development (GFDD) and Fundación Global Democracia y Desarrollo (Funglode) submitted a joint written statement to ECOSOC on April 28th, as part of the civil society hearing on the longer-term positioning of the United Nations development system. The written statement is one of six interventions that have been accepted for publication on the ECOSOC website. Focusing on ways the UN may adapt to the new requirements of the Post-2015 Development
Agenda, the document calls for the need to strengthen technology transfer in developing countries and highlights the importance of innovative partnerships to free up new sources of development finance.
