Southern Voice is pleased to announce the official appointment of its new Executive Director, Margarita Gómez.
1 for 8 Billion welcomes partners from the Southern Voice network
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2025-02-18T14:34:14+00:00February 18, 2025|
This news item was originally published by 1 for 8 Billion on February 10th, 2025.
The 1 for 8 Billion Campaign is proud to welcome five new campaign partners from the Global South, namely from Argentina, Bangladesh, Pakistan, Tanzania and Tunisia. Our partner organisations bring a diverse range of expertise and are crucial to advancing our campaign goals by mobilizing stakeholders and facilitating local and regional discussions. Their collaboration is vital for ensuring that voices from across the globe can contribute to shaping the UN Secretary-General’s selection process in 2026.
All five organisations are members of the Southern Voice network. They were approached as a result of our partnership with Southern Voice and due to their work on governance issues, excellent advocacy experience and because they work in states that are yet to announce their position on a feminist woman UN Secretary-General candidate.
You can learn more about them here:
Solidar Tunisia is a non-profit, non-partisan think-tank that supports its partners to improve public policy-making by analysing, evaluating, and designing these policies with capacity building for all its stakeholders. Solidar was founded in 2015 by a team of trade unions, parliamentarians, academics, economists, sociologists, business leaders, young graduates and human rights activists. Since then it has been working with political decision-makers, experts, parliamentarians and international organizations in various fields: human rights, democracy, socioeconomic development, sustainable development, research and innovation.
The Economic and Social Research Foundation (ESRF)
The Economic and Social Research Foundation (ESRF) is an independent policy research think tank in Tanzania devoted to social and economic research, promoting understanding of public policy issues, and capacity building for stakeholders in Tanzania and beyond. It was established in 1994 to respond to the growing need for a think tank with a mandate to conduct research for policy analysis and capacity building.
The Centro de Implementación de Políticas Públicas para la Equidad y el Crecimiento (CIPPEC) is an independent nonprofit organisation based in Argentina. It works to build better public policies. They promote policies that will make Argentina more developed and equal, with equal opportunities for all and solid and efficient public institutions. Their aim is a fair, democratic and inclusive society where everyone can grow.
Centre for Policy Dialogue (CPD) seeks to be the leading institution for in-depth research and dialogue to promote inclusive policymaking in Bangladesh, and works to strengthen regional and global economic integration. Established in 1993, CPD aims to contribute towards building an inclusive society in Bangladesh based on equity, justice, fairness and good governance. CPD undertakes research and analysis, organises dialogues, brings out publications and supports capacity building of relevant stakeholders.
SDPI:
The Sustainable Development Policy Institute (SDPI) in Pakistan produces knowledge that can enhance the capacity of government to make informed policy decisions, and to engage civil society on issues of public interest. The Institute generates original research on sustainable development issues and serves as an information resource for individuals and institutions concerned. SDPI’s function is thus two-fold: an advisory role fulfilled through research, policy advice, and advocacy, and an enabling role realized by providing other individuals and organizations with resource materials and training.
