United Nations (UN) Foundation
Organisation O0136
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| Contact details | United Nations Foundation 1225 Connecticut Avenue, NW, 4th Floor Washington, D.C. 20036 USA Phone: +1 202.887.9040 Fax: +1 202.887.9021 |
| Type of organisation | Development organisation |
| Organisation's interest | Other |
| Location | United States of America |
| Learning Group member? | No |
Description
The UN Foundation was created in 1998 with entrepreneur and philanthropist Ted Turner’s historic $1 billion gift to support UN causes and activities. The UN Foundation builds and implements public-private partnerships to address the world’s most pressing problems, and also works to broaden support for the UN through advocacy and public outreach. The UN Foundation is a public charity.
Projects
1. World Heritage Program for India
The UN Foundation is working to protect India’s five natural World Heritage Sites, which are home to many unique animals in danger of extinction. The program aims to conserve the sites by encouraging local residents to reduce the use of limited natural resources, curb the poaching of animals, and manage national parks more efficiently.
2. Promoting Ecotourism around Kamchatka World Heritage Sites
The UN Foundation is supporting a UNDP-GEF project that will conserve salmon stocks around the Kamchatka World Heritage sites in Russia. Implemented in partnership with the Wild Rivers Research Support Center, the project promotes ecotourism as a means of generating revenue for local communities and builds a local constituency of support for salmon conservation. The partnership is the first phase of a larger effort to build ecotourism as a sustainable development model for the region.
3. World Heritage Program for Brazil
The UN Foundation supports the management of Brazil's protected areas to World Heritage standards. The effort will capitalize on the global prestige of the World Heritage designation to promote better management, improve local awareness, and encourage ecotourism.
4. Community-Based Commercial Enterprise Development
The UN Foundation supports a plan to develop a series of community-based forest enterprises in Uganda and in China. In an effort to protect both areas, the plans provide the resource-dependent community living near park boundaries with alternative enterprises that harvest non-wood natural resources and promote ecotourism.
Geographic coverage
India
Russian Federation
Brazil
Uganda
China
Web URL
http://www.unfoundation.org/
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