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Sarah-Jo Dawson
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[Poll] Young Professionals and The Millennium Development Goals
June 27, 2007 - 04:24 AM
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At the core of IYPS2008 will be the question "How can we, as young professionals, help to achieve the Millennium Development Goals?"
I am interested to hear some initial views on this topic and am setting up a poll to try to collect the preliminary feedback of people planning to attend IYPS2008.
Please answer the poll questions, and if you want to elaborate on your answers you can do so as a reply to this discussion board thread.
If you do not know much about the Millennium Development Goals at this stage, do not worry, as we will be talking about them a lot more over the coming year before IYPS2008.
Sarah-Jo Dawson
IYPF President and IYPS2008 Project Manager
How can we, as young professionals, help to achieve the Millennium Development Goals?
By sharing our professional knowledge and expertise with others
(2 votes for 16.67%)
By moving into professional jobs which have a positive impact in the MDG areas
(2 votes for 16.67%)
By acting as advocates for change using our professional status
(0 votes for 0%)
By setting up practical projects relating to the achievement of the MDG’s
(4 votes for 33.33%)
All the above ways, and more
(4 votes for 33.33%)
I can't say now, I don't know enough about the Millennium Development Goals
(0 votes for 0%)
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Re: [Poll] Young Professionals and The Millennium Development Goals
June 30, 2007 - 09:37 PM
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thanks SJ. yes there is much we can do - and it all helps!
- advocacy in our work places to ensure our companies / organisations are doing what they can towards achieving the MGDs
- awareness raising in our work places, networks, etc. so people know what the MDGs are and what they can do
- starting and supporting projects that contribute to the MDGs with our expertise, skills, finances, etc.
i think something many of us in developed countries forget is that achieving the MDGs requires policy, cultural and social changes in our countries - so we need to push for that on our governments and in our communities!
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Re: [Poll] Young Professionals and The Millennium Development Goals
July 1, 2007 - 06:05 PM
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Thanks Cam.
I'd be really interested to hear about what different people's organisations / companies are doing to help the MDGs.
Sometimes the big companies can really help by their Corporate Social Responsibility efforts. For example, I know my company supports a lot of AIDs / HIV programmes in Africa.
I'd also be interested to hear if anyone on the blog in a developing country has had experience of working on projects with the big multinationals, and if their view of it is as rosie as ours?
SJ
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Re: [Poll] Young Professionals and The Millennium Development Goals
July 2, 2007 - 09:02 PM
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If you do not know much about the Millennium Development Goals at this stage, do not worry, as we will be talking about them a lot more over the coming year before IYPS2008.
I actually think awareness of the MDG's is a valid issue in achieving the Millennium Development Goals. Communicating what they are, but also providing examples of what other people are doing to make a difference can give people much needed a frame of reference so as to give them a starting point for their thinking about action.
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Re: [Poll] Young Professionals and The Millennium Development Goals
July 3, 2007 - 11:15 AM
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The UN has just released a report on the progress towards the Millennium Development Goals at the mid point from 2000 to 2015
http://www.un.org/millenniumgoals/pdf/mdg2007.pdf
This is a really good starting point for people wanting to know more about the MDG's.
It's not pleasant reading though... there have been some improvements but there is still a long, long way to go.
Sarah-Jo
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Re: [Poll] Young Professionals and The Millennium Development Goals
July 7, 2007 - 05:51 AM
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The following are great sources of information about the Millennium Development Goals:
http://www.un.org/millenniumgoals/ is the UN’s website which gives a good outline of the MDGs
http://www.un.org/millenniumgoals/pdf/mdg2007.pdf is a halfway to 2015 progress report on the MDGs
http://www.millenniumcampaign.org is the campaign site for people wanting to support the MDGs
http://www.mdgyouthpaper.org/mdgyouthpaper.pdf is the paper on Youth and the Millennium Development Goals contributed to by IYPF members
http://www.takingitglobal.org/themes/mdg/ is a TIG Blog on the MDGs
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Re: [Poll] Young Professionals and The Millennium Development Goals
July 7, 2007 - 10:56 PM
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Interesting what you were saying Cam about promoting CSR within our workplaces...
There is an article in the Australian HR Monthly magazine this month about how HR needs to take the lead in promoting CSR within organisations (well, we all know it's everyone's job but as an HR professional I'm willing to do my bit). Unfortunately the article was very vague and didn't give any guidance about the types of things that I could promote within my company to make change.
What would be great (and it may already exist) is a website or resource titled "things you can do in your workplace to make a difference" (or something along those lines). Anyone know of anything like this?
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Re: [Poll] Young Professionals and The Millennium Development Goals
July 9, 2007 - 07:26 PM
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Britt,
The Business in the Community site has loads of good case studies about CSR projects from UK businesses, and which can be searched by project category
http://www.bitc.org.uk/resources/case_studies/index.html
SJ
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Re: [Poll] Young Professionals and The Millennium Development Goals
July 9, 2007 - 09:49 PM
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Cheers, thanks SJ.
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