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- Environment/Sustainable development
The Alliance for Global Development is a network of four organizations working in the area of
global development. The Alliance seeks to harmonize the working of each of the organization
embedded in the system in a manner that enables each unit's values offering to actualize the United
Nations' sustainable goals and thereby contribute meaningfully to reducing the plight of the most
vulnerable, impact social inclusion especially the difficulty of illegal migration and displacement of
people from third world countries. The Alliance uses the multicultural teaching approach to
educate leaders of non-governmental organizations and engages stakeholders in a multi-level dialogue
to bridge the gap of economic and social development through learning and sharing of best practices
with each other. A group of 9 energetic volunteers team manages AGD learned and dedicated mid-aged professionals comprising governance and human rights expert, engineers, architects, social inclusion experts, and international relations experts who design and manage projects in several areas including Technical and Vocation Education Training, Leadership and Entrepreneurship development. The team syncs every minor detail mandatory to achieve the desired objective in the life cycle of our programs – thereby advancing the concept of
social behavior value of life for all participating in our events as we drill to bridge the widening gap
of social inequality. Our member's organization is NGO Nest Berlin, Intercultural Youth Dialogue Association, Institute for Sustainable Education and Development (ISEDE e.V), Association IMPRESS, Croatia , HELLENIC YOUTH PARTICIPATION, ASSOCIAZIONE MULTIETNICA DEI MEDIATOR INTERCULTURAL,
Association STRIM, Youth BCN, UNGDOMSFRONTEN, AKDENIZ EGITIM VE ISTIHDAM DERNEGI, MV INTERNATIONAL, SYSTEM & G FINLAND RY.
The currently budgetary provisions for 2020 are about 375, 000 Euros for staffers and administrative related expenses including specific project-based funding. The sources of funding come from the European Union and partnership in youth mobility and strategic partnership project management.
Our overall vision is to create a new generation with the concept of global citizenship promoting the elements of economic democracy which we are sure will enhance the promotion of world peace, limit hate speech, discrimination, and racism amongst people of the world.
Our Objectives:
- Establish, promote and support social awareness of the importance of sustainable action and contribute to the implementation of international sustainability strategies,
- Promote a better understanding of different nations and cultures,
-Promote peace among the key competencies of other countries in terms of intercultural understanding through the participation of young people and civic education,
- Seek to affirm the value of each human being with their own origins and cultures,
- Seek to enhance its fundamental principles in each of its programs: dignity, respect for differences, understanding, and tolerance.
AGD's objectives are notably achieved by the following activities:
• International education, youth and cultural exchanges on sustainability issues, in particular in the field of environmental protection and development cooperation,
• Institutional support to organizations working on the SDGs (sustainable development goals), namely sustainable/global development,
•Promotion of science and research as well as art and culture by supporting the art-science dialogue as a means and expression of a sustainable transfer of knowledge,
•Reinforcement of positive discourses on sustainability issues, in particular education and environmental protection, through the participation and organization of events and conferences.
Main Projects in 2020:
1-AGD participated this year in a TRAINING OF TRAINERS project: Facilitating "hot potato" topics with multicultural groups as part of Erasmus + KA1 - Learning mobility of individuals Mobility of Youth Workers. The aim of this project is to support the capacity building of partner organizations through the professional development of youth workers, youth leaders, and trainers in the field of dialogue facilitation with multicultural groups.
2- Entrepreneurship to Empower project: This project started in February 2020. The aim of this project is to address the identification of existing best practices and the development of support schemes for the
transmission of attitudes, skills, and competences of Social Entrepreneurship to disadvantaged young people (NEETs) in partner countries and at the European level.
Project in 2021:
"Erasmus Me" project: this project aims to answer and satisfy identified needs of our partner organizations and colleagues youth workers, leaders and trainers and support them in development of competencies needed for the development of high-quality inclusive projects under the Erasmus+ program, first of all, activities within Key Action 1 (training and youth exchanges). the purpose of this project is to support capacity building of partner organizations and provide needed knowledge and support the development of competences of youth workers/leaders/trainers related to project management within theErasmus+ program, with the accent of development of inclusive projects and providing more mobility and learning opportunities for young people.
The filed experience of our team can be mainly used as a co-ordination channel between the ALF's NGO members. Our aim is to build up and exchange our local and international expertise, improving the developing activities service, and being more competitive.
As a new umbrella organization, we aim to work with other network partners to help young people to gain skills such as leadership, project management, NGO work, application writing, and fundraising. As a hub for 4 NGOs working in different domains, we are specialized in developing skills for young and future leaders.
1- Networks provide environments conducive to innovation,
2-Network realize Participative Communication for Development,
3-Use and exchange the knowledge accumulated by each ALF member,
4-ALF will allow us to reach out as closely as possible to the actors (individuals and organizations) likely to join our Alliance and participate/collaborate in our projects.