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GFDD/Funglode President Gives Keynote Speech at EU-CELAC Conference “The Caribbean in the Strategic Partnership EU-CELAC”
Dr. Leonel Fernández, participated in the meeting, held at the Palais du Luxembourg in Paris, France, through video projection. He pointed out the Caribbean’s cultural and linguistic wealth and the region’s unique geographic location, as well as the origins of the relationship between Europe and the Caribbean
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ReCrearte and Recicla 360 Join Forces to Promote Recycling Art with Three Workshops for Little Children
GFDD’s recycling art program, ReCrearte, will participate in the fourth edition of Recicla 360, in Santo Domingo, with three children’s workshops. In commemoration of World Recycling Day and World Environment Day, Recicla 360, which will be held at the Galería 360 shopping center, includes the participation of specialized presenters and artists who bring a fresh and creative vision to the environment, sustainable development and best practices, so that the whole family can take care
of the planet.
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50 Dominican Leaders Visit the GFDD Offices in Washington DC to Discuss the Environment and Sustainable Development
A group of 50 Dominican leaders participated in an event organized by the Global Foundation for Democracy and Development (GFDD) as part of the Dominican Embassy in the United States’ Leaders Program in Washington, DC. The group participated in a screening of the GFDD award-winning film, “Value of Life” and in a subsequent discussion about the environment, sustainable development and environmental film.
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GFDD Meets with UNESCO Director and UN Ambassadors for Small Island Developing States
GFDD conducted official visits to UN missions in May to meet with heads of delegations and discuss future opportunities for collaboration. Yamile Eusebio, GFDD’s Acting Co-Executive Director, and Marc Jourdan, GFDD’s UN Programs & Outreach Manager met with Ambassador Uludong of the Permanent Mission of Palau to the United Nations, Ambassador Odo Tevi of Vanuatu, Ambassador Webson of Antigua and Barbuda and Ambassador Sareer of the Maldives over the course of the last few
weeks.
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UNA-DR, GFDD/Funglode and GlobalMuners Announce the Launch of CILA 2017 and NYMUNLAC 2018
The United Nations Association of Dominican Republic (UNA-DR), Fundación Global Democracia y Desarrollo (Funglode) and the latter organization’s sister institution in the United States, the Global Foundation for Democracy and Development (GFDD) announced on Tuesday, May 30, alongside the Mexican association GlobalMuners, the celebration of the International Conference of the Americas (CILA, for its acronym in Spanish) from Sunday, October 29 until Thursday, November 2, 2017 and the
New York-Model United Nations Conference for Latin America and the Caribbean (NYMUNLAC), which will take place from Sunday, April 1 until Thursday, April 5, 2018.
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GFDD Global Roundtable: Interview with Mexico’s Permanent Representative to the Organization of American States, Ambassador Luis Alfonso de Alba Góngora
In the last edition of the GFDD Global Roundtables, Angie Martinez, diplomat and contributor to that organization, interviews Ambassador Luis Alfonso de Alba Góngora, Mexico’s permanent representative to the Organization of American States (OAS), at the GFDD offices in Washington, DC. Among many other topics, the two speak about the Sustainable Development Goals and to what extent the OAS has promoted the development of the 2030 Agenda; about climate change and the transition toward
a more green economy; about the next OAS General Assembly that will take place in Cancun, Mexico in June and regarding the Ministerial Meeting on May 31 which will address the crisis in Venezuela.
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“GDP in Latin American and Caribbean Countries is Expected to Grow in 2017-2018”, Explains Daniel Titelman, Chief of the Development Studies Section UN-ECLAC
GFDD hosted a meeting entitled “Short and Medium-Term Growth Prospects in Latin America and the Caribbean” at GFDD’s New York Office on Wednesday, June 24th, 2017. The discussion was led by Daniel Titelman, Chief of the Economic Development Division of the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC). Titelman is an expert on monetary and financial policies, and has substantive experience in macroeconomic and financial issues, a topic on which he has
published numerous papers.
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GFDD/Funglode President Presents Certificates to Global Dominican Academic Exchange (GDAE) Participants
The group of Dominican students that participated in the last Global Dominican Academic Exchange (GDAE) at the University of Pennsylvania (UPENN) from April 9 to 16, 2017 received their participation certificates from Dr. Leonel Fernández yesterday. Also present at the event, which was held at Fundación Global Democracia y Desarrollo (Funglode) headquarters in Santo Domingo, were Marco Herrera, executive director of Funglode; Yamile Eusebio, interim co-executive director of Global
Foundation for Democracy and Development (GFDD); Rocío Billini, director of academic exchanges at UASD and Tomiris Silfa, assistant administrator for academic exchanges at UASD.
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Register Now For the 2017 “Youth Speak Forum” and Make an Impact on Dominican Society
The Global Foundation for Democracy and Development (GFDD)/Fundación Global Democracia y Desarrollo (Funglode) will be one of the organizing institutions and the host of the 2017 Dominican Republic Youth Speak Forum taking place on June 10 in Santo Domingo. The Youth Speak Forum, which will be held at Funglode headquarters, is a conference and competition for young people to present social proposals or projects that have the potential to benefit Dominican society.
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The Dominican Republic Must Enhance Sustainable Tourism to Reduce Costs and Achieve Greater Social Development
The need for the Dominican Republic to develop sustainable tourism beyond the successes that have already been achieved, such as those by the Puntacana Group, was presented in the panel “Sustainable Tourism in the Dominican Republic” on Friday, May 19.
