GFDD and FUNGLODE to Exhibit Work from the ReCrearte Program during 65th Annual NGO DPI Conference

On Wednesday Thursday August 27th 2014, the Global Foundation for Democracy and Development (GFDD) and Fundación Global Democracia y Desarrollo (FUNGLODE) will exhibit the work of the ReCrearte Program as part of the 65th Annual UN Department of Public Information/Non-Governmental Organization Conference (the Conference).

The exhibit will be located on a panel in the Curved Wall in the corridor on the first floor of the Conference Building of the United
Nations Headquarters in New York. The exhibit will be displayed throughout the duration of the conference from Wednesday August 27th to Friday August 29th 2014.

About the ReCrearte Exhibit
The ReCrearte program is a practical education initiative, launched by GFDD in 2012, which offers women, youth and children workshops in art recycling. The program demonstrates how recycling waste into art can empower individuals and
communities alike while raising environmental awareness for the protection of the planet and its resources.

Through this exhibit, the Global Foundation for Democracy and Development (GFDD) will seek to demonstrate the social and economic benefits of environmental sustainability to the participants of the 65th Annual NGO DPI Conference. Indeed, by engaging Dominican communities into reformulating the way they think about trash, the program promotes the three golden rules
of proper waste management: Reduce, Reuse and Recycle, while enriching these communities with new skills that can potentially generate income for personal use and for support of their families.

The exhibit will display a selection of objects produced by the 2014 workshop participants, which are made from household items such as discarded clothing, cardboard and plastic bottles. The objects will include among others, hair accessories inspired by flowers, bags and
purses.

About the 65th Annual NGO DPI Conference
The title of the Conference is “2015 and Beyond: Our Action Agenda” and will provide an opportunity for civil society, international networks and activists to develop an action agenda to mobilize messaging, advocacy strategies, partnerships and accountability frameworks in the lead up to the assemble for the adoption fo the post-2015 development agenda, due to culminate at a
summit in September 2015. The Conference will also be an important milestone ahead of the Secretary General’s September 2014 Climate Summit and UN General Assembly, finalization of the Secretary General’s Synthesis Report on the post-2015 development agenda, and the Lima (2014) and Paris (2015) UNFCCC COPs.

The Conference will take place at a critical time in the
post-2015 process. As the international community strives to achieve the Millennium Development Goals while formulating the post-2015 development agenda including the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), 2015 is recognized to be a once-in-a-generation opportunity for transformational change.

The UNFCCC COP 21 in
Paris and the launch of the post-2015 agenda will culminate within months of each other in the second half of 2015, with the potential to shape the future of our peoples and our planet for the better.

Purpose of the NGO DPI Conference
The purpose
of this Conference is therefore to harness the strategies, expertise and resources across the broadest spectrum of civil society to move poverty eradication, sustainability, human rights and climate justice into the mainstream discourse, and spark sustained public demand for lasting political action in support of an ambitious outcome from the post-2015 sustainable development process. A Conference Declaration, designed to frame an ambitious “Action
Agenda” for civil society, shall be produced.

Related Links
http://outreach.un.org/ngorelations/2014/04/15/65th-dpingo-conference/
http://www.r3crearte.org/