„Global Poverty Project“ – Versionsunterschied

The Global Poverty Project is an international education and advocacy organisation working to catalyse the movement to end extreme poverty. The Project was founded by Hugh Evans and Simon Moss^{[1][2][3][4][5]} and aims to increase the number and effectiveness of people taking action to end extreme poverty.^[6]

The Global Poverty Project’s vision is a world without extreme poverty, within a generation. To reach this end the Project utilises the power of education, communications, advocacy, campaigning and the media to try and advance the movement to end extreme poverty.

They focus on building a global movement for change: mobilising people to make a difference now, and changing the systems and policies that keep people in poverty.^[7]

They do this in two ways:

• Campaigning for government, business and consumer action that will create important systemic change for the world’s extreme poor,^[8] and

• Building a movement that engages and educates people, and supports them to take simple but effective individual actions for change.^[9]

Since launching in 2008 the Project has:

• Developed 1.4 Billion Reasons – a multimedia presentation that explains the issues that contribute to extreme poverty, and what everyday people can do about them,^[10]

• Spoken to more than 100,000 people on three continents about the simple actions they can take to help tackle extreme poverty,^[11][12]

• Helped launch the international advocacy and fundraising campaign Live Below the Line – engaging more than 24,000 people with the lack of choice inherent in extreme poverty, and raising more than $5 million for anti-poverty initiatives.^[13]

• Grown political support for polio eradication and raised more than $118 million for critical vaccination programs through The End of Polio campaign.^[14][15]

• Launched the Global Citizen platform - a tool to help people take action to fight extreme poverty.

• Held the Global Citizen Festival - a massive advocacy concert held in Central Park, New York to coincide with the 2011 General Assembly. The event brought together 60,000 change makers, and artists like Neil Young with Crazy Horse, the Foo Fighters, The Black Keys, John Legend, Band of Horses and K’NAAN. Run in partnership with top charities, the event helped secure $1.3 billion in commitments for projects helping fight extreme poverty.^[16][17][18]

1.4 Billion Reasons presentation is a live multimedia presentation designed to explain why an end to extreme poverty is possible, and the simple actions that every person can take to help bring it about.

Designed in consultation with development and economics advisors, the presentation explores:

• What it means to live in extreme poverty,

• Why the world can end extreme poverty,

• The barriers to overcoming extreme poverty,

• Practical actions any person can take to help tackle extreme poverty.

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Patterned after Al Gore's An Inconvenient Truth,^[20][21] the Presentation is delivered by volunteer presenters across the United States, United Kingdom, Australia and New Zealand.^[22]

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Live Below the Line is an awareness and fundraising campaign that challenges people to feed themselves with the equivalent of the extreme poverty line. It aims to give participants personal insights into the lack of opportunity and choice available to people living in extreme poverty, and to open a window onto the challenges faced by those living in extreme poverty.^[23][24]

The Global Poverty Project launched the campaign with partner The Oaktree Foundation in Australia in 2010, and have since taken the campaign to the United Kingdom, United States and New Zealand – partnering with international development organisations to raise funds for a variety of poverty tackling initiatives.^[25]

The campaign has involved more than 24,000 participants, has ‘started more than 400,000 conversations’ and raised more than $5 million for partner organisations working to fight poverty.^[26] Hugh Jackman signed on as a Global Advisor to the Global Poverty Project,^[27][28] and is a public face for the Live Below the Line campaign.^{[29][30][31][32][33][34]}

Since July 2011, the Global Poverty Project has worked with partners to run The End of Polio campaign. This campaign focuses on sharing the story of progress towards polio eradication, while aiming to build public support and momentum required to close the funding gap that is limiting global eradication efforts.

Since launch the campaign has gained signatures from more than 25,000 people and secured an additional $118 million in pledges for polio eradication.^[35]

In October 2011 the campaign brought 4,000 people together at The End of Polio campaign in Perth, where artists, local celebrities, polio survivors and former Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd spoke about the importance of polio eradication. The next day 4 Governments and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation committed an additional $118 million to global polio eradication efforts.

Global Citizen is a website and mobile application designed to help interested members of the general public find effective and relevant ways to take action on extreme poverty. It is designed as a platform to learn more about the issues that trap people in extreme poverty, to support organizations working to create change on the ground, and to campaign for systemic, lasting change.

It was launched in 2012, alongside the Global Citizen Festival, and was the tool through which interested people had to earn tickets to this event.^[36]

In September, as the world’s leaders gathered in New York for the UN General Assembly, the Global Citizen Festival brought top artists and 60,000 change makers together on the Great Lawn of Central Park to urge leaders and citizens to do more to help end extreme poverty.

The Festival celebrated the progress already made in fighting extreme poverty, secured financial commitments for tackling extreme poverty and disease, totaling 1.3 billion USD, and called on thousands of ambassadors to take action for change.

The event featured Neil Young with Crazy Horse, Foo Fighters, The Black Keys, Band of Horses and K'Naan - with a special appearance by John Legend.^[37][38][39]

Many development practitioners and theorists question the motives and methods of flash in the pan style activist groups like The Global Poverty Project or Invisible Children or Falling Whistles. They argue that these groups spend money on flashy events, marketing, and advocacy efforts, but they have little evidence to show that they get any return on the money spent in terms of increased foreign aid, legislation, or better outcomes for those they claim to be helping.

Others feel these groups momentarily engage audiences, but are only promoting "viral slacktivism" or a form of activism that makes people feel they are engaged in development and ending poverty by attending a concert, liking a page, or watching a video.

Another critique of these groups is that they further an existing autocratic and paternalistic 'ideology of development.' Development expert, William Easterly, speaking at Columbia University in August 2011, said: "What must we do to end world poverty? ... It's the wrong question… This question only makes sense for autocrats with unlimited powers who are going to be the 'we' that imposes some answer on 'them', the poor. The aid system as a whole is an autocratic paternalistic system with no serious opportunity for a voice or feedback from the intended beneficiaries of this system." The Global Poverty Project is seen as an instrument of this approach to development that further perpetuates out of date top-down colonial ways of "helping the impoverished" when the very objectives they pursue, like the Millennium Development Goals, can perpetuate poverty.^[40]

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• Official website

1. ↑ Australia to launch global anti-poverty campaign, West Australian, May 18, 2009.
2. ↑ Obeng-Odoom, Franklin 2010. "Promoting Human Development Through the Global Poverty Project", Development, Volume 53(1):120-126.
3. ↑ Australia to launch anti-poverty push, The Age, May 18, 2009.
4. ↑ Global Poverty Project Launches, The Tab, February 27, 2010
5. ↑ Gen Y-not tackles world poverty, ABC News (Australia), June 25, 2009.
6. ↑ Tumby group to live on $2 a day, Port Lincoln Times, May 10, 2011.
7. ↑ Steve Smith: Extreme-poverty warrior Hugh Evans brings the rock to Central Park In: Time Out, New York, 27 September 2012. Abgerufen im 24 October 2012 
8. ↑ The Global Poverty Project: About. The Global Poverty Project, abgerufen am 24. Oktober 2012. 
9. ↑ The Global Poverty Project: About. The Global Poverty Project, abgerufen am 24. Oktober 2012. 
10. ↑ Australia to launch global anti-poverty campaign In: The West Australian, 18 May 2009. Abgerufen im 24 October 2012 
11. ↑ Julie Ulbricht: "Like" if you want to end global poverty In: The Global Mail, 28 September 2012. Abgerufen im 24 October 2012 
12. ↑ Hugh Evans: Global Poverty Project Annual Review 2011. Global Poverty Project, abgerufen am 24. Oktober 2012. 
13. ↑ Global Poverty Project: What we've achieved. Global Poverty Project, abgerufen am 24. Oktober 2012. 
14. ↑ Closing the gap on polio. Girl with a Satchel, abgerufen am 24. Oktober 2012. 
15. ↑ AAP $50m pledge to stamp out polio In: The Age, 29 October 2011. Abgerufen im 24 October 2012  Fehler beim Aufruf der Vorlage:Cite news: Der Parameter Vorname wurde angegeben, aber Nachname fehlt.
16. ↑ Steve Smith: Extreme-poverty warrior Hugh Evans brings the rock to Central Park In: Time Out, New York, 27 September 2012. Abgerufen im 24 October 2012 
17. ↑ Neil Young, Foo Fighters Concert Nets $1.3 Billion in Pledges In: Rolling Stone, 9 October 2012. Abgerufen im 24 October 2012 
18. ↑ James McKinley: Pop stars join growing effort to aid the poor In: The New York Times, 22 August 2012. Abgerufen im 24 October 2012 
19. ↑ 1.4 Billion Reasons - The Presentation. The Global Poverty Project, abgerufen am 26. Oktober 2012. 
20. ↑ Edinburgh to launch UK's role in world poverty project, The Guardian, September 30, 2010.
21. ↑ Young and ready to change world, The Australian, September 17, 2008.
22. ↑ Join former young Australian of the Year Hugh Evans' fight against poverty, The Daily Telegraph, December 2, 2009.
23. ↑ Live Below the Line. Abgerufen im 26 October 2012 
24. ↑ Michelle Griffin: Eat for $2 a day? You don't have to be lentil as anything to make a meal of it In: The Age. Abgerufen im 26 October 2012 
25. ↑ Charlotte Dando: Live Below the Line: An Interfaith Approach to Tackling Extreme Poverty and Malaria In: The Huffington Post, 27 April 2012. Abgerufen im 26 October 2012 
26. ↑ The Global Poverty Project: What we've achieved. The Global Poverty Project, abgerufen am 26. Oktober 2012. 
27. ↑ Hugh Jackman goes to UN to join fight against poverty, Herald Sun, July 2, 2009.
28. ↑ Australian-made campaign urges global action on poverty, ABC News Radio, July 7, 2009.
29. ↑ Jackman Fronts 'Live On £1 A Day' Campaign, Sky News, April 24, 2011.
30. ↑ Hugh Jackman urges UK to live off £1 a day, TNT (magazine), April 27, 2011.
31. ↑ Hugh Jackman flexes his muscle, Television New Zealand, April 21, 2011.
32. ↑ The Global Poverty Project Presents "1.4 Billion Reasons", LIFE, December 14, 2009.
33. ↑ Can you eat for £1 a day? X-Men actor Hugh Jackman calls on Brits to take on the challenge and raise poverty awareness, Daily Mirror, 4/5/2011.
34. ↑ Eating for £1 a day, The Guardian, April 28, 2011.
35. ↑ $50m pledge to stamp out polio In: The Age, 29 October 2011. Abgerufen im 26 October 2012 
36. ↑ Thousands attend NYC concert highlighting poverty In: CBS News, 29 September 2012. Abgerufen im 26 October 2012 
37. ↑ Jon Pareles: Turning up the volume on Global Poverty In: The New York Times, 30 September 2012. Abgerufen im 26 October 2012 
38. ↑ Neil Young, Black Keys and Foo Fighters rock the Global Citizen Festival In: Rolling Stone Music. Abgerufen im 26 October 2012 
39. ↑ Neil Young and Crazy Horse throttle Central Park crowd in free concert also featuring Foo Fighters, Black Keys In: Fox News. Abgerufen im 26 October 2012 
40. ↑ Julie Ulbricht: ? In: The Global Mail, 28 September 2012. Abgerufen im 28 November 2013 Fehler bei Vorlage * Pflichtparameter fehlt (Vorlage:Cite news): title