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How do you see development? - Launching the Global Photography Campaign on Humanizing Developmen
How do you see development? How can you portrait the human face of the development processes? How do you show that development initiatives and programmes improve the lives of people?
The Global
Photography Campaign on Humanizing
Development launched on 1 June 2009 aims to
promote and showcase visual examples of people winning the
battle against poverty, social exclusion and marginalization by
bringing light and life into the above questions.
Development is
often portrayed through images of desolation and despair despite the
immense number of initiatives, programmes, ideas and partnerships that
are changing the lives of millions of people throughout our developing
and transitional world. To raise the awareness of
these global successes in the development process and share innovative
and successful actions, the International Policy Centre for Inclusive
Growth (IPC-IG) launches the Global Photography Campaign on Humanizing
Development. Partners from all continents are supporting the campaign –
from Brazil to Kazakhstan; New York to Abuja; Sri Lanka to Haiti; the
São Paulo Metro Company to the Calvary School in Singapore. United
Nations Online Volunteers are supporting IPC-IG in the organisation of
this campaign.
Everyone can
and is strongly encouraged to participate in this global effort and
contribute with a photograph. All photographs
should fit into one of the campaign’s fourteen different thematic areas
related to the Millennium Development Goals, such as eradicating extreme poverty and hunger, expanding access to
food, clean water, sanitation, education and health services for the
poor, and promoting women's leadership and
equal opportunity in education and employment. It is very simple to
upload your photograph onto the campaign’s website.
Some of the key
outcomes of the campaign will includea photography gallery to be
permanently displayed prominently at the IPC-IG office and open for
public viewing; a series of photography exhibitions in several
cities around the world; and a photography database that will be
shared with the campaign partners and several United Nations agencies
and departments.
Join
us now in showing development through
a different lens! Let’s promote and share successful development
initiatives! Contribute!
Participate!
Visit the
campaign website in all United Nations languages and Portuguese
at:
Download the
campaign logo and add it to your website or blog: http://www.ipc-undp.org/photo/logo/
You can also download the posters in all UN languages
and Portuguese!
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Communications,
Outreach and Advocacy Unit
International Policy
Centre for Inclusive Growth (IPC-IG)
Poverty Practice, Bureau for
Development Policy, UNDP
Esplanada dos Ministérios,
Bloco O, 7º andar
70052-900 Brasilia-DF,
Brazil Phone:
(+ 55 61) 2105 5036
http://www.ipc-undp.org
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