On global ethic vs. national interest

The problems we have cannot be solved by one nations or UNs alone.
There is a moral sense across all religions and countries that not only do we share the pain of others, but we need to act when we see things that are wrong need to be righted and problems that need to be rectified.
It is not abolishing the rich, but the poor.

Internet Age
The power of our moral sense allied with the power of communications and our ability to organize internationally. It would be the first opportunity to change the world.
In the last 50 60 years, fascism, anti-semitism, racism, apartheid, discrimination against sex and gender; all these come under pressure because of the campaigns have been run by people to change the world.

Challenges
The problems are global in nature. A truly global society.
  

Dan Pallotta: The way we think about charity is dead wrong

Philanthropy is the market for love, the market for whom there is no market coming
Poverty remain stock at 12% in US for 40 years.
We have a rule book for the economic world. Investing half a million in malaria, you're considered a parasite yourself. This system of ethic has a powerful side effect, which is, it gives a stark, mutually exclusive choice between doing very well for your family or doing for the world. Lifelong economic sacrifice?

Advertising and Marketing
It brings in dramatically sums of money to serve the needy.

Charitable giving remain stock at 2% of GDP in US since 1970s.
NGO does not dare to attempt a giant-scale new fundraising endeavors.
If you can't grow, you can't solve larger social problems. We are dealing with massive social problems, but we cannot generate any scale of NPOs.

1. Overhead is a part of the CAUSE.
2. We seem almost not to care if more money is going to those that need it, but care very deeply how much of our particular dollar did.
3. We are all inherently greedy. Some more, some less, some who mostly forego personal gain in order to help others-which is amazing but there aren't really enough of these type of people to implement huge change.
4. People need to be incentivized. If we want the most productive people running these organisations, then we should pay them something at least comparable to what the open market would. If these organisations end up being on a scale where they employ hundreds of people who go to work everyday to help people is that such a bad thing?

Ending Widespread Violence Against Women

...as many as one in every three women has been beaten, coerced into sex, or abused in some other way - most often by someone she knows, including by her husband or another male family member; one woman in four has been abused during pregnancy.

"Violence against women both violates and impairs or nullifies the enjoyment by women of their human rights and fundamental freedoms... In all societies, to a greater or lesser degree, women and girls are subjected to physical, sexual and psychological abuse that cuts across lines of income, class and culture."

—Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action, paragraph 112

Gender-based violence both reflects and reinforces inequities between men and women and compromises the health, dignity, security and autonomy of its victims. It encompasses a wide range of human rights violations, including sexual abuse of children, rape, domestic violence, sexual assault and harassment, trafficking of women and girls and several harmful traditional practices. Any one of these abuses can leave deep psychological scars, damage the health of women and girls in general, including their reproductive and sexual health, and in some instances, results in death. 

Gender-based violence also serves – by intention or effect – to perpetuate male power and control. It is sustained by a culture of silence and denial of the seriousness of the health consequences of abuse. In addition to the harm they exact on the individual level, these consequences also exact a social toll and place a heavy and unnecessary burden on health services.

MDG

Advocacy by UNOCHA

advocacy activities (press releases, written material, web sites) and comparative organizations
advocacy mandate – to raise awareness of humanitarian issues

• Raising the profile of humanitarian issues and principles in the political organs of the UN, and striving to ensure humanitarian requirements are given due priority by other bodies, such as the Department of Political Affairs and the Peacekeeping Department
• Undertaking advocacy initiatives to promote adherence to humanitarian principles and international humanitarian law (IHL) in aid delivery.   OCHA leads the development of codes of conduct or minimal operational standards that set ground rules for humanitarian action for all stakeholders, including the government and parties to conflict
• Advocating increased support and commitment of resources for humanitarian initiatives and interventions, reaching out to donor governments and beyond – to tax payers and the public at large 
• Highlighting humanitarian crises through media and public information campaigns to ensure that the voices of victims of conflict, the weak and the vulnerable are heard by policy and decision-makers at national, regional and global levels

 the strategy as it relates to key stakeholders:  donors and staff.

It should be noted that one reason for this lack of shared understanding probably relates to the extremely complicated structure of OCHA itself.  OCHA was set up as part of the Secretariat not as an agency in its own right; with a mandate to fulfill more than one role for the UN, to act as a coordinator rather than an operational agency and to represent the collective views of the Humanitarian community rather than being the voice for one set of victims – unlike the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) or the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR).  Another unusual feature of the structure is that the Head of OCHA, the Under-Secretary General has another role, as Emergency Relief Coordinator in relation to the member agencies of the Inter-agency Standing Committee (IASC). 

Summary analysis of OCHA’s current advocacy work

OCHA does a tremendous amount of advocacy of different kinds through many parts of the organization. 

There is evidence that the amount and (probably) the impact of OCHA’s advocacy is increasing in some areas as these examples show:

·         Increased involvement on humanitarian issues by the Security Council

·         Increased media coverage of the Under-Secretary General’s (USG) comments and visits to the field

·         Expansion of IRIN into other locations and local radio

·         Development of an comprehensive communications package by the field, IRIN and AERS to attract world attention to a “forgotten emergency” in Northern Uganda, (plus plans to replicate a similar approach in other places)

·         Field workshops on advocacy training plus the creation of Advocacy (and PI) handbooks