Interfaith Council Annual Meeting: Moving the Ethics Education for Children Agenda Forward

As in previous years, the Interfaith Council on Ethics Education for Children held its annual meeting to help strategize and provide recommendations for the next period. This time, the meeting took place from 10 to 14 August 2017 in Coimbatore, India where the headquarters of Shanti Ashram, a long-time partner of Arigatou International Geneva, is located.

At the meeting, members of the Interfaith Council had the opportunity to review achievements and challenges of Arigatou International Geneva during the last year, reflect on relevant topics regarding Ethics Education for Children, and exchange views on the strategic plan for the next three years, providing technical recommendations as well as rationale-related inputs.

The Role of Children and Youth in the Prevention of Exclusion, Hatred, and Violence

In its constant efforts to promote children and youth participation in topics that affect them, Arigatou International Geneva, in collaboration with the Permanent Mission of Morocco and the Permanent Mission of Sweden to the United Nations in Geneva, UNICEF, and the Kofi Annan Foundation organized an event titled: “Learning to Live Together: Enhancing Children and Youth Participation to Prevent Exclusion, Hatred and Violence”.

Panel Discussion on the Role of Ethics Education in Strengthening Families and Nurturing Spirituality in Children

More than 100 attendants participated in a panel discussion held in Panama City on 11 May 2017, during the third day of the Global Network of Religions for Children (GNRC) Fifth Forum. In this occasion, participants were invited to reflect on the role of ethics education to nurture spirituality in early childhood through family engagement.

Child and Youth Participation in the GNRC Fifth Forum

From 6 to 8 May 2017, 64 children and youth from 21 countries in Africa, Asia, Europe, North and South America and the Caribbean, gathered in Panama City to learn from one another and to get prepared for an active participation in the discussions, working groups and plenary sessions of the Global Network of Religions for Children (GNRC) Fifth Forum. Arigatou International Geneva was commissioned to plan, organize and run the Pre-Meeting, support the consultations with children that took place before the event in several countries, and the activities that will follow after the Forum.

Participate in the 2017 Global NGO Technology Survey!

The report, by Nonprofit Tech for Good in partnership with iWith.org, is a ground-breaking study that aims to discover how NGOs use the Internet to engage donors and new collaborators.

The 2017 Global NGO Technology Survey  is a global research published in Arabic, English, French, Portuguese, and Spanish that aims to better understand how non-profits use technology to raise funds and find new partners. Researched by Nonprofit Tech for Good and sponsored by the Public Interest Registry, the survey is a ground-breaking study that seeks to find out which methods are used for fundraising, what use they give email as a tool or what is their presence in social networks.  

In the 2017 edition, iWith.org has signed a partnership agreement for conducting and disseminating the survey with NGOs from Romania, Hungary, Spain, Bulgaria, Greece, and Poland. The third edition of the report will be published on 29 January 2018. However, the research has already been done in previous years and, in particular, last year collected responses from 4,908 entities from 153 different countries. Among its conclusions, the report highlighted that 92% of entities worldwide had a website and 67% accepted online donations. 

For its part, iWith.org has always had a dedication to research. Proof of this is the "Solidarity and I" survey conducted in 2011 that asked more than 2,500 Internet users in Spain about their preferences for donating online.

In 2018, iWith.org will carry out the TURN ONline project to disseminate practices and tools of digital transformation and online activism with the cooperation of NGOs from Romania, Hungary, Spain, Bulgaria, Greece and Poland. Partner countries will also be able to assist in the development of this research and the results will be useful in preparing iWith.org project meetings.

The survey is 100% anonymous and will not ask questions that reveal personal or identifiable information. To participate, you can click on the following link.