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- Contact: Eva-Maria Hanfstaengl - DESA - ngosurvey@un.org
UN
Survey on the Impact of the Global Crises on
Civil
Society Organizations and their Constituencies
Introduction
In
2009, the Commission for Social Development of the United Nations discussed the
global crises and requested an analysis of the impact of the current crises on
social development goals. Under the supervision of the Civil Society and
Outreach Unit of the UN Division for Social Policy and Development and assisted
by a Steering Committee, with representatives from the UN Non-Governmental
Liaison Service (NGLS), the Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung and the UN NGO Committee
for Social Development, a study is being conducted of the impact of the global
food and economic crises as well as climate change on civil society
organizations (CSOs) and the people they serve.
A central part of that study will be this survey of the current situation that
local, national and international CSOs are facing as a result of the global
crises. In order to get a clearer overview of the impact on CSOs working in
different regions and areas, we ask you to fill out this questionnaire.
On the basis of your responses, we will compile the data and make a cautious
projection of the future situation of affected CSOs. Finally, strategies will
be proposed to ameliorate the impact of the crises on the population groups
targeted by these CSOs.
The results of the study will be published for advocacy use of CSOs and also
made available at the next session of the UN Commission in February 2010. The
UN Commission's priority theme for the following two years will be
"Poverty Eradication".
All responses to this questionnaire will be kept totally confidential!
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