Follow 40 years NCDO via Livestream

 

Forty years ago NCDO was founded and commissioned by the Netherlands government
to promote the awareness of the Dutch population of its responsibilities to combat global
poverty and to contribute to the development of the nations in the South.
Recently the Netherlands Government renovated the mandate of our Foundation and asked us to change and broaden it in favour of promoting the awareness of global citizenship under the Dutch population. Although the agenda of combating hunger and alleviating poverty has not been finished, there is in our opinion the need for a shift of the points from responsibility and solidarity for the South to the conviction that none of the major problems and challenges in our countries is solvable without taking into account their global dimension. Security, migration, sustainability, economic growth and so many other dimensions have become indivisible in their broad approach.

A global outlook
Considerable segments of the European populations are currently inclined to turn their back towards these processes of globalisation and to flight into all kinds of neo-isolationism.
It will be our mission via a new knowledge centre and extension programmes to foster the
awareness of the Netherlands population that our answers and our engagements should go into the other direction of justice, solidarity, a global outlook and mutual interdependence.

Follow the event via Livestream on www.ncdo.nl and listen to our key-note speakers:

- Dr. Pascal Lamy, director general of the WTO , will discuss the factual unavoidability of global citizenship in a world that is already economically and politically interconnected.

- Dr. Sri Mulyani Indrawati, managing director of the Worldbank states that countries and regions should look for shared values, and issues that connect rather than clash

- Juma Mwapachu LL.B, former chair of the East African Union and President of SID, reflects on Western discussions about global public goods, shared values and the green economy.