GFDD Celebrates “Peace on Earth: In the Spirit of Giving” With NGO CSD

In Its capacity as a member of the NGO Committee on Sustainable Development (CSD) since 2017, the Global Foundation for Democracy and Development (GFDD) attended a meeting titled: ”Peace on Earth: In the Spirit of Giving” held by the CSD on Wednesday, December 20th from 2:00-4:00 p.m.

The meeting served as a forum for attendees to hear special declarations of appreciation from high-level United Nations (UN)
administrators and youth activists, such as Lakshmi Puri, Assistant Secretary-General of the UN and Deputy Executive Director of UN Women; Bruce Knotts, Director of the Unitarian Universalist Association, UN Office; Meredith O’Connor, Anti-Bullying Icon and Celebrity Youth Activist; and Dali & Finn Schonfelder, Founders & Co-Creators of Nalu: Dress to Give.

Marking the second full year of the UN’s 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development
and the implementation of the 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), 2017 has certainly been a busy year for the CSD. Through its 2017 activities, the NGO CSD has promoted UN programs working towards these goals and worked closely with affiliated UN commissions and agencies to foster collaboration and achieve lasting results.

Following the declarations, a brief holiday celebration was held.

About the NGO Committee on Sustainable
Development:
The purpose of the NGO Committee on Sustainable Development (CSD)-NY is to monitor and influence the implementation of the commitments and agreements adopted by the United Nations that pertain to sustainable development as defined by the UN Conference on Environment and Development, the Earth Summit, the MDGs, the SDGs, Rio+20 and the Post-2015 Agenda. The NGO CSD promotes and facilitates the exchange of knowledge and the dissemination of information on
sustainable development issues within the NGO community and to the general public to raise awareness toward an action agenda. It works with Ambassadors and Permanent Missions to the United Nations, members of civil society, academia, women, youth, people with disabilities, indigenous leaders, members of the private sector and sustainable development experts in energy, water, climate change, and infrastructure to bring about partnerships and collaborations that foster innovative solutions
for sustainable development, social impact initiatives and gender equality issues.

About Global Foundation for Democracy and Development (GFDD):
The Global Foundation for Democracy and Development (GFDD), sister organization of Funglode in the United States, is a non-partisan and non-profit organization dedicated to the promotion of collaboration between organizations in the United States and the Dominican Republic in order to conduct
research, enhance public debate, design public policy, propose strategies and provide training to facilitate change in crucial areas of the social, economic and democratic development of the Dominican Republic, the Caribbean and Latin America.

More Information:
http://ngocsd-ny.org/